Two Floating Nude Acrobats is known in two variations, the present bronze is described by Nordland in Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work as "horizontal, juxtaposing the two figures with the lower figure "swimming" opposite to the upper (raised arm) figure. The two acrobats touch only where the upper figure's right leg grazes the lower acrobot's right buttock. The harmonies of the outstretched arms of the lower figure and extended legs of the latter moves away from the counterpoint into negative space. The figures are conceived in Lachaise' mature forms and the movement suggested by the figures is measured and stately though perhaps incompletely solved." (p. 128)