Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) The Sleeping Muse, ca. 191 - Lot 3

Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) The Sleeping Muse, ca. 1912, Marble sculpture made in 1911. Photograph. Silver print of the period. Another print of this image is in the collections of MoMA, New York. Height 17.8 - Width 23.8 cm Accents and small tear (0.7 cm). 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 : - Doïna Lemny, Brancusi. La sublimation de la forme, Snoeck, 2019, p. 99. "In his Sleeping Muse, a complex work sublimating the beauty and harmony of the female portrait, far from his model, Baroness Renée Irana Frachon (who doesn't recognize herself in it), Brancusi achieves the supreme balance between a particular form and an ideal form." Doïna Lemny, Brancusi, La chose vraie, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2022.