Art: Colossal

Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art proudly put on exhibition its latest acquisition—a huge steatopygous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL (see cut). Dwarfed visitors marveled at its 53-in. bust measurement, its triumphant pose, its defiant backflung elbows, the rhythmic convolutions of its tinted plaster surfaces. Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg, the torso was one more of the vasty works of Gaston Lachaise, whom many a critic rates among the top-notchers in his art.

Like Diego Rivera, Gaston Lachaise somewhat resembles...

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