Bird in Space
1927
Artist, Romanian, 1876 - 1957
East Building Upper Level, Gallery 415-C
Artwork overview
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Medium
brass, limestone, and wood
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Credit Line
Given in loving memory of her husband, Taft Schreiber, by Rita Schreiber
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Dimensions
overall (total height): 287.7 cm (113 1/4 in.)
overall (wood base height): 83.8 cm (33 in.)
overall (brass "bird"): 185.4 x 13.6 x 15.6 cm (73 x 5 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
overall (cast stone base height): 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1989.31.3
Artwork history & notes
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.
Associated Names
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.
Inscriptions
on underside of sculpture: C. BRANCUSI 1927
Wikidata ID
Q63860777