Constantin Brancusi

Alexandre Istrati

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1987)

Mitsukoshi France SA, Paris (acquired from the above on 29 June 1990)

de Sarthe Gallery, USA

Private Collection, USA (acquired from the above in 2004)

Yares Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 2022)

Acquired in 2022 by the present owner

Ezra Pound, “Brancusi,” The Little Review, vol. VIII, no. 1, Autumn 1921, pls. 17 and 24, another cast illustrated

“Brancusi,” This Quarter, vol. I, no. 1, Paris, Spring 1925, pl. 27, another cast illustrated

Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1926, pl. 525, another cast illustrated

Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1931, pl. 618, another cast illustrated

Vasile Georgescu Paleolog, C. Brancusi, Bucharest, 1947, p. 39, another cast illustrated

Robert Payne, “Constantin Brancusi,” World Review, vol. 8, October 1949, p. 64, another cast illustrated

Ionel Jianou, Brancusi, New York, 1963, pl. 46, another cast illustrated

Sidney Geist, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture, New York, 1968, p. 69, other casts illustrated      

Athena T. Spear, Brancusi’s Birds, New York, 1969, pls. 13 and 14, other casts illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1969, p. 95, another cast illustrated

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, no. 125, p. 91, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Brancusi photographe, 1977, pls. 15 and 27, another cast illustrated in photographs of the artist’s studio

Ionel Jianou, Brancusi, Paris, 1982, pl. 46, another cast illustrated  

Pontus Hulten, Natalia Dumitresco and Alexandre Istrati, Brancusi, Paris and Stuttgart, 1986, no. 108d, no. T2, p. 294, listed; p. 294, another cast illustrated

Radu Varia, Brancusi, New York, 1986, p. 45, another cast illustrated in a photograph of an exhibition; pp. 233-35, other casts illustrated in colour

Eric Shanes, Constantin Brancusi, New York, 1989, no. 31, p. 36, another cast illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Brancusi: Photo Reflexion, 1991, fig. 4, another cast illustrated

Margherita Andreotti, “Brancusi’s Golden Bird: A New Species of Modern Sculpture,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1993, another cast illustrated on the cover and pp. 135, 137, 140 and 143; pp. 144-45, 147, 152 and n.p., another cast illustrated in photographs of the artist’s studio and of exhibitions

Dan Grigorescu, Brancusi and his Century, Bucharest, 1994, p. 28; pl 49, another cast illustrated

Sandra Miller, Constantin Brancusi, A Survey of His Work, Oxford, 1995, no. 112, p. 152, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Constantin Brancusi, 1995, p. 172, another cast illustrated in a photograph of the artist’s studio; p. 173, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, L’Atelier Brancusi, 1997, p. 192, another cast illustrated in an exhibition photograph

Friedrich Teja Bach, Constantin Brancusi. Metamorphosen plastischer Form, 2004, p. 397, listed; pp. 456-57, other casts illustrated

Exh. Cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Brancusi: The White Work, 2005, no. 63, p. 113, another cast illustrated in a photograph by the artist

Jérôme Neutres, Brancusi New York, 1913-2013, New York, 2013, pp. 54-55, another cast illustrated in a photograph of the artist’s studio