Constantin Brancusi

Alexandre Istrati and Natalia Dumitersco, Paris

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in June 1974)

Acquired from the above in 1986 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Armory of the 69th Infantry; The Art Institute of Chicago and Boston, Copley Hall, International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913-15, no. 618, p. 45, plaster listed (New York); no. 26, n.p., plaster listed (Chicago); no. 8, plaster listed (Boston)

Exh. Cat., New York, Gallery of the Photo-Secession, Brancusi Exhibition, 1914, no. 8, marble illustrated (titled Naiade-Marble)

Ezra Pound, “Brancusi,” The Little Review, vol. VIII, no. 1, Autumn 1921, fig. 12, p. 48, another cast illustrated in a photograph

Exh. Cat., New York, Sculptor's Gallery, Exhibition of Contemporary French Art, 1922, no. 25, marble listed

M.M. "Constantin Brancusi: A Summary of Many Conversations," The Arts, vol. IV, no. 1, July 1923, p. 24, marble illustrated

Sheldon Cheney, A Primer of Modern Art, New York, 1924, p. 290, marble version illustrated

Paul Marland, "Modern French Sculptures," Vanity Fair, June 1930, plaster mentioned

Exh. Cat., Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Replica Handbags s, Sculpture of Seven Civilizations, 1937, n.p., plaster illustrated

Holger Cahill, "Forty Years After: An Anniversary for the AFA," Magazine of Art, vol. 42, no. 5, May 1949, p. 177, plaster partially illustrated in a photograph

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Constantin Brancusi, 1955-56, no. 5, plaster listed; no. 7, another cast listed

David Lewis, Constantin Brancusi, London, 1957, no. 18, another cast illustrated (titled Head)

Christian Zervos, Constantin Brancusi: sculptures, peintures, fresques, dessins, Paris, 1957, p. 54, another cast illustrated (titled Tête de femme)

Exh. Cat., Amherst College, The 1913 Armory Show in Retrospect, 1958, no. 4, p. 14, plaster listed

James Johnson Sweeney, ed., A Handbook to the S. R. Guggenheim Collection, New York, 1959, p. 181

Exh. Cat., The Arts Club of Chicago, Sculpture and Drawings by Sculptors from The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1960, no. 3, marble listed

Exh. Cat., New York, Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Armory Show: The 50th Anniversary, 1963, no. 618, p. 41, marble illustrated; p. 184

Milton W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show, New York, 1963, no. 618, p. 225, plaster listed

Ionel Jianou, Brancusi, Paris, 1963, no. 26, p. 144, another cast illustrated; no. 27, pp. 94 and 145, marble version illustrated

Athena Tacha Spear, "A Contribution to Brancusi Chronology," The Art Bulletin, XLVIII, no. 1, March 1966, pl. 6, marble illustrated

Sidney Geist, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture, New York, 1968, nos. 102-04, pp. 59-60, other casts illustrated; pp. 61 and 222

Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Constantin Brancusi, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1876-1957, 1969, p. 56, marble version illustrated

Sidney Geist, Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings, New York, 1975, nos. 114a and 114b, p. 83, other casts illustrated in colour; p. 182

Sidney Geist, Brancusi: A Study of Sculpture, New York, 1983, nos. 102-04, pp. 59-60, other casts illustrated; pp. 61 and 222

Radu Varia, Brancusi, New York, 1986, p. 158, plaster illustrated in a photograph; p. 159, another cast illustrated in colour and p. 160, marble version illustrated in colour

Pontus Hulten, Natalia Dumitresco and Alexandre Istrati, Brancusi, New York, 1987, no. 70, pp. 89 and 286, marble version illustrated; p. 90, marble version illustrated in a photograph; nos. 99 and 100, pp. 112 and 292, other casts illustrated; no. 100c, no. T2, p. 292, this cast listed

Friedrich Teja Bach, Constantin Brancusi, Metamorphosen plastischer Form, Cologne, 1987, no. 108, p. 354, marble version illustrated; no. 140, p. 450, another cast illustrated

Anna C. Chave, Constantin Brancusi: Shifting the Bases of Art, New Haven and London, 1993, fig. 4.1, p. 126 and fig. 6.28, p. 235, marble version illustrated; fig. 6.4, p. 207, another cast illustrated; pp. 9, 32, 40, 124, 205-06, 210, 238 and 314

Exh. Cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957, 1995, fig. 2, p. 118, plaster illustrated; no. 25, p. 119, marble version illustrated; no. 50, p. 169, another cast illustrated

Friedrich Teja Bach, Constantin Brancusi. Metamorphosen plastischer Form, 2004, no. 108, p. 435, marble version illustrated; no. 140, p. 450, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler and The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra: A Handbook of Possibilities, 2011, n.p., marble illustrated in colour; n.p., another cast illustrated in colour