Brancusi sculpture

John Quinn, New York (1923–d. 1924; purchased from the artist in December 1923 for Fr 25,000; his estate, 1924–26; sold in 1926 through Brummer Gallery, New York to Duchamp and Roché); Marcel Duchamp and Henri-Pierre Roché (1926; sold in 1926, for $1,000, to Levy); Edgar A

Brancusi

Constantin Brancusi sculptures at the Museum of Modern Art #art #sculpture #beauty #modernism

For years, Brancusi made hardly enough money to eat. In 1926, a version of one of his most extraordinary subjects, Bird in Space, was famously held up at the US border because customs officials didn’t think it was art. Sometimes, he even baffled his own cohort. Picasso (or perhaps Matisse) is said to have likened Brancusi’s 1916 Princess X, a glistening bronze torso of Princess Marie Bonaparte, to a large phallus. Yet, by the time of his death in 1957, the increasingly reclusive Romanian was…

Rene Burri - Sculpture 'The Rooster' by Brancusi

Constantin Brancusi | Deadly Ponies

Constantin Brancusi

Mademoiselle Pogany III by Constantin Brancusi 1933 Centre Georges Pompidou The atelier of Constantin Brancusi shows the culmination of the sculptor's work at the forefront of the French avant-guarde, reports Jeanne-Marie Cilento from Paris. "There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things." ~ Constantin Brancusi Hidden away in the narrow streets crowding around Rue…

Constantin Brancusi, Endless Column, 1900's...perpendicular to the centre of the earth

Brancusi - The Beginning of the World - 1924

French-Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi was one of the best sculptors of the 20th century. He explored new forms of abstraction in his modernist sculptures.

1927-1933 4N55602

It's avec plaisir that we introduce you to Constantin Brancusi's atelier, the "Patriarch of Modern Sculpture." Briefly working under Rodin before famously stating, 'Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree,' Brancusi set out to forge his own path in sculpture. In 1956, he left his Parisian studio to the French State with the condition they would preserve it "as is," like a museum piece. Images @designlovefest @jackjunk @brittanybathgate #AtelierBrancusi #ParisArt #ModernSculptur...

Constantin Brancusi