Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Miss Pogany II, three-quar - Lot 8

Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Miss Pogany II, three-quarter view, polished bronze, ca. 1920. Polished bronze sculpture made in 1920. Photograph. Silver print of the period. Another print of this image is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and another in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Image : Height 23 - Width 17 cm Leaf: Height 24 - Width 18 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: - "Brancusi, Images Film sans fin Photographie", Catalogue Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2011, p. 108, ill. 65. - Center Georges Pompidou, p. 66. Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, pl. 35. Silverstein, pl. 31 "The bronzes that succeeded the marble, particularly the one from 1920, were staged and photographed by Brancusi, who took successive shots of them, like film sequences. The curves and spirals, the roundness crossed by protrusions, the "pearly interlocking" welcome light and shadow in a variety of ways, to spectacular effect." Doïna Lemny, Brancusi, La chose vraie, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2022.