Inscription
on underside of sculpture: C. BRANCUSI 1927
Provenance
Purchased from the artist c. 1932 by Helena Rubinstein [1870-1965]; (her estate sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 20 April 1966, no. 13); purchased by (Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York) for Mr. and Mrs. Taft B. Schreiber, Beverly Hills; gift in 1989 of Mrs. Schreiber to the National Gallery of Art.
Exhibition History
- 1928
- Possibly Salon des Tuileries, Palais des Bois, Paris, 1928, no. 390.
- 1956
- Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris, 1956, no. 44.
- 1957
- Paris 09-29: Fastes et décors de la via parisienne de 1909 à 1929, Musée Galliéra, Paris, 1957, no. 42.
- 1959
- Foire de Paris, Section "Prestige de l'art dans l'industrie," Paris, 1959.
- 1994
- Brancusi: Photographs and Sculpture, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1994, no cat. entry (exhibition shown at 6 venues prior to Washington).
- 1995
- Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995, no. 92, repro.
- 1997
- The Age of Modernism: Art in the Twentieth Century, Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Hayward Gallery, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997-1998, no. 154, repro. (shown only in Berlin).
Bibliography
- 1968
- Huyghe, Rene. "L'Energie moteur de l'art du vingtième Siècle." Studies in the History of Art (1967-68):44-66.
- 1994
- Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 33, repro.
- 2014
- Klein, Mason. Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power. Exh. cat. The Jewish Museum, New York; Boca Raton Museum of Art. New York, 2014: repro. 37, 143.
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