Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Danaïde, black and gold pa - Lot 4

Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Danaïde, black and gold patinated bronze, ca. 1913, Bronze sculpture made in 1913. Photograph. Vintage silver print. Another print of this image is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Height 23.8 - Width 17.9 cm Provenance : - Marie-Louise GRAVIER (born 1878), - Gilberte GRAVIER (b. 1898), daughter, - Madeleine A. (b. 1924), her granddaughter, - By descent to the present owners. Bibliography : - Doïna Lemny, Constantin Brancusi. La chose vraie, ed. Gourcuff Gradenigo, Romanian Cultural Institute, 2022, p. 48. "Danaïde is a work that fits into this reflection on beauty and feminine delicacy. It has no known model, apart from the title's evocation of the character from Greek mythology. In the photographs of this black-patinated Danaïde ( ), Brancusi emphasizes the illuminated parts, linking this work with the 1913 bronze of the first Mlle Pogany, seen from three-quarters up. This parallel reveals the discreet tension ( ) between the circle and the oval - an oval that was to become the essential element of subsequent versions of Mlle Pogany." Doïna Lemny, Brancusi, La chose vraie, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2022.