Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Leda, ca. 1921, Marble scu - Lot 10

Constantin BRANCUSI (1876 - 1957) Leda, ca. 1921, Marble sculpture made in 1921. Photograph. Vintage silver print. Another print of this image is kept in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and another at MoMA in New York. Height 17.8 - Width 23.8 cm Small defect on the image. 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, pp. 38-39. - Brancusi, Images Film sans fin Photographie", Catalogue Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2011, p. 158, ill. 114. - Brancusi. L'art ne fait que que commencer", Centre Pompidou catalog, Paris, 2024, p. 149. "The ovoid form, a constant in his sculptural work, gives surfaces a continuity that allows light to flow. The fullness of the volume gives the artist the possibility of using the play of light by exhibiting it in certain places in the studio, or by photographing it from different angles. As V. G. Paleolog writes, Brancusi wanted to "sculpt with light": "He can initiate a new age of sculpture - radiant sculpture [......], but with the help of light, this fluid material whose purpose would no longer be to add to the concrete material of metal, but whose mission would be to burst forth impetuously from the very bosom of the material, as if it were freeing itself from it, according to the will of the sculptor, whose creative role would be to regulate this emission of light by means of planes and converging points appropriate to the goal!" Doïna Lemny, Brancusi, La chose vraie, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2022.