Plaster conceived in 1928, this example cast in 1952.Provenance:Property of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (deaccessioned for Acquisition Funds).Sotheby’s Arcade, New York, sale of June 26, 1986, lot 219.Acquired directly from the above sale. Exhibition:"Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935, Sculpture and Drawings," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 3, 1963-April 5, 1964; traveled to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, no. 80 (illustrated).Literature:Carolyn Kinder Carr and Margaret C.S. Christman, Gaston Lachaise Portrait Sculpture, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, p. 117 (illustrated).Note:Richard Buhlig, who died in 1952, was a Chicago-born, Vienna-trained pianist. As a memorial, his friends and pupils raised funds after his death to have his head and hand, modeled in 1928 by Lachaise, cast in bronze.