Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Miss Pogany II seen in pro - Lot 7

Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Miss Pogany II seen in profile, veined marble, ca. 1919, Sculpture in veined marble made in 1919. Photograph. Vintage silver print. Another print of this image is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Height 24 - Width 17.5 cm Slight silvering. 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 : - Carola Giedion-Weckler, Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957, ed. du Griffon, New York, 1959, pl. 28. - John Coplans, "Brancusi as Photographer", Agrinde Publication, New York, 1979, p. 64. - Pontus Hultén, "Brancusi Photographe", Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1982, p. 64. - Friedrich Tejah Bach, "Brancusi, Photo Reflection", Didier Imbert Fine Art, Paris, 1991, pl. 43. - Exhibition catalog, "Constantin Brancusi", Philadelphia Museum of Art / Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995, p. 176. - Dorothy Kosinski, "The Artist and the Camera, Degas to Picasso", Dallas Museum of Art, 2000, pl. 431. - Marielle Tabart, "Les carnets de l'atelier Brancusi, la série et l'oeuvre unique. Le portrait, Paris", Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002, p. 93. - " C. Brancusi photographe", Galerie Hopkins - Custot, Paris, 2003, p. 51. - "Brancusi, La Sublimation de la forme", Snoeck Publishers, Brussels, 2019, pl. 141. "For this 1919 variant, he very curiously chose a veined marble, which gives it a theatrical accent, absent from Miss Pogany's perfectly serene marble of 1912 and, above all, from his Danaïde, far removed from Rodin's highly tormented one. It returns to certain characteristics of the first Mlle Pogany: it elongates the oval of the head, accentuating the protrusion of the eyebrows, linked, on one side, to the brace that outlines the small ear, and, on the other, to the sole support of the head, the hand resulting from the fusion of the two arms. The chignon is no more than a curl at the base of the hair, which spreads across the nape of the neck in a cascade of spirals." Doïna Lemny, Brancusi, La chose vraie, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2022.