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''Floating Figure'' is a 1927 sculpture by Gaston Lachaise.


Casts

According to the National Gallery of Australia, seven bronze casts were made at
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in
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, New York, and are located at the
Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
, the Society Hill Project in Philadelphia, the Ray Stark Collection in Beverly Hills, California, the Sheldon Museum of Art at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Universit ...
in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Putnam Collection of Sculpture at
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in New Jersey, and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.


See also

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1927 in art Events from the year 1927 in art. Events * May – Stanley Spencer moves to Burghclere (England) to work on the Sandham Memorial Chapel. * May 16 – A pair of oval rooms built at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris as a permanent home for eigh ...


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