Constantin Brancusi
Study for Baroness R.F., 1908
Silver gelatin print
16.5 x 12.1 cm
6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in
Description
This is the only known contact print
The glass plate negative (PH 207) and six prints are in the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris (PH207 (a)-(f)), the sculpture is lost. Baroness Renée-Irana Franchon was the daughter of the French writer, René Maizeroy. She met Brancusi in 1907 and was the model for Brancusi’ s Sleeping Muses.
Provenance
Private collection, Germany
Literature
A Study of the Sculpture, Sidney Geist, Studio Vista, London, 1968 (repro. p.33, fig. 53)
Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings, Sidney Geist, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1975 (repro. p.177, no. 64)
Brancusi in Romania, Barbu Brezianu, Editura Academiei Republicii, Socialiste Romania, Bucharest, 1976 (repro. p.230, fig. 267)[revised and updated edition of Opera Lui: Constantin Brancusi in Romania, Bucharest, 1974 (repro. p.252)]
Constantin Brancusi. Metamorphosen Plasticher. Form, Friedrich Teja Bach, DuMont, Cologne, 1987 (repro. p.427, no.88)
Constantin Brancusi: Shifting Bases of Art, Anna C. Chave, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993, (repro. p.[48], fig. 1.25)
Constantin Brancusi, exh. cat., Friedrich Teja Bach, Margit Rowell and Ann Tempkin, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995 (repro. p.102, fig.10) [French edition, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1995]
Constantin Brancusi: A Survey of his Work, Sandra Miller, Clarendon Press,
Oxford, 1995 (repro. p.[121], pl.78)
‘ Le portrait ou l’ anti-mimétisme chez Brancusi’ , Cristian-Robert Velescu, in Le portait?, exh.cat., Les carnets de l’ Atelier Brancusi, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2002, pp.[53]-64 (repro. p.59, no. 57)
