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Materials:

bronze with marble base

Size Notes:

50

Description:

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Literature:

Ezra Pound, Brancusi,?? The Little Review, vol. VIII, no. 1, Autumn 1921, pls. 17 and 24, illustrations of another cast; Brancusi,?? This Quarter, vol. I, no. 1, Paris, Spring 1925, pl. 27, illustration of another cast; Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1926 pl. 525, illustration of another cast; Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1931, pl. 618, illustration of another cast; G. Paleolog, C. Brancusi, Bucharest, 1947, p. 39, illustration of another cast; Robert Payne, Constantin Brancusi,?? World Review vol. 8, London, October 1949, p. 64, illustration of another cast; Ionel Jianou, Brancusi, New York, 1963, pl. 46, illustration of another cast; Sidney Geist, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture, New York, 1968, p. 69, illustrations of other casts; Athena T. Spear, Brancusis Birds, New York, 1969, pls. 13 and 14, illustrations of other casts; Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago, Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1969, p. 95, illustration of another cast; Sidney Geist, The Birds. A Critique of the Catalog of a Recent Brancusi Monograph,?? Artforum, November 1970; Sidney Geist, Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings, New York, 1975, p. 91, illustration of another cast; Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Brancusi Photographe, 1977, pls. 15 and 27, illustrations of another cast in photographs of the artists studio; Ionel Jianou, Brancusi, Paris, 1982, no. 151, p. 109, listed; pl. 46, illustration of another cast; Pontus Hulten, Natalia Dumitresco and Alexandre Istrati, Brancusi, Paris and Stuttgart, 1986, no. 108d, no. T1, p. 294, listed and illustration of another cast ; Radu Varia, Brancusi, New York, 1986, pp. 233-35, illustrations in color of another cast; p. 45, illustration of another cast in an exhibition photograph; Eric Shanes, Constantin Brancusi, New York, 1989, p. 36, illustration in color of another cast; Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Brancusi: Photo, 1991, n.p., fig. 4, illustration of another cast; Margherita Andreotti, Brancusis Golden Bird: A New Species of Modern Sculpture,?? Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1993, illustration of another cast on the cover and pp. 135, 137, 140, and 143; pp. 144, 145, 147, 152 and n.p, illustration of another cast in photographs of the artists studio and of exhibitions; Dan Grigorescu, Brancusi and his Century, Bucharest, 1994, p. 28; pl 49, illustration of another cast; Sanda Miller, Constantin Brancusi, A Survey of His Work, Oxford, 1995, p. 152, illustration of another cast; Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Constantin Brancusi, 1876-1957, 1995, pp. 172-73, illustrations of another cast; Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, LAtelier Brancusi, 1997, p. 192, illustration of another cast in an exhibition photograph; Arthur C. Danto, The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World, New York, 2000, pp. 182 and 184; Friedrich Teja Bach, Constantin Brancusi. Metamorphosen plastischer Form, Cologne, 2004, p. 397, listed; pp. 456-57, illustrations of other casts; Exh. Cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Brancusi: The White Work, 2005, p. 113, illustration of another cast in a photograph by the artist; Jrme Neutres, Brancusi New York, 1913-2013, New York, 2013, pp. 54-55, illustration of another cast in a photograph of the artists studio

Provenance:

Estate of the artist; Werner and Nelly Baer, Switzerland (acquired from the above circa 1971); Private Collection, Germany (acquired by descent from the above); Thence by descent to the present owner