Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Danaïde, stone (1907 - 190 - Lot 2

Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Danaïde, stone (1907 - 1909), ca. 1909, Stone sculpture made between 1907 and 1909. Photograph. Vintage silver print. Another print of this image is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Height: 23.9 - Width: 17.8 cm Slightly distressed lower edge. Provenance : - Marie-Louise GRAVIER (born 1878), - Gilberte GRAVIER (b. 1898), her daughter, - Madeleine A. (b. 1924), her granddaughter, - By descent to the present owners. Bibliography: - " C. Brancusi photographe", Galerie Hopkins-Custot catalog, Paris, March 2003, p. 25. - Doïna Lemny, Constantin Brancusi. La chose vraie, ed. Gourcuff Gradenigo, Romanian Cultural Institute, 2022, p. 46. "In 1909, Brancusi carved this work, which he entitled Danaïde, from porous stone. This rough-looking sculpture, in which only a few lines are sketched and the neck is barely suggested, is reminiscent of an archaeological piece. He leaves it in this form as a link between a sculpture found in an excavation and the personalized creation of a modern artist. It is astonishing because it was made at a time when he was seeking to extract its essence through extreme finishing work, through intense polish." Doïna Lemny, Brancusi, La chose vraie, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2022.