Constantin Brancusi

circa 1922 (Brancusi: Photographer, pl. 27)

Christie's New York, 18 April 2001, Sale 9618, Lot 50

This early, slightly warm-toned print, on paper with a surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. When examined in raking light, a deposit that appears to be original retouching is visible in the center of the image. The reverse appears to have dry-mounting tissue attached overall.
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A print of this image was also used in Vogue, 15 December 1933, on page 36 to illustrate a review of Brancusi's sculpture at the Brummer Galleries.  It reads in part,

'Brancusi was really the pioneer of all modern sculpture--the first to see beauty in pure form devoid of meaning, in eggs of marble, in shining brass, in wooden convolutions.'