‘Standing Black Woman of Venice IV, Praxilla (BABA)’ (1969 – 2020) is dedicated to Praxilla, a lyric poet who lived in Greece in the fifth century B.C.E. She was famous for her scolia, short drinking songs sung after dinner, though her work was often pilloried by her male contemporaries. Like Chase-Riboud, Giacometti shared a passion for ancient cultures and a love of poetry, as well as a formal fascination with bronze casting and a desire to explore the limits of verticality in sculpture. Giacometti’s quest to achieve increasingly elongated forms reached its pinnacle in his renowned Woman of Venice sculptures. In ‘Standing Black Woman of Venice V, Praxilla (BABA),’ Chase-Riboud nods to the formal innovation of these figures with a long fissure running up the length of the sculpture, its stele-like shape serving as a subtle acknowledgement of the two artists’ shared passion for Ancient Egypt.