Constantin Brancusi
1876-1957Timidité, Bouquet en surimpression, c. 1928
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Triple exposure
Triple exposure
23,8 x 30 cm
PH 743 a
This is a multiple exposure made by three separate negatives being superimposed. This is the only recorded print made by the artist. The 18 x 13 cm glass plate is...
This is a multiple exposure made by three separate negatives being superimposed.
This is the only recorded print made by the artist.
The 18 x 13 cm glass plate is in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
The Photograph of Timidity on Cat-Caryatid records a comparatively durable combination of solid objects; with Timidity on stone blocks, the combination is ephemeral and exists only for an instant; finally, the photograph of Timidity "in blossom" shows the figure in a context that actually has no existence outside the photograph itself. This last photograph defines and records not a physical but rather a psychic reality: an emotional trace in the realm of memory, longing and imagination.
Bach, 1995.
This is the only recorded print made by the artist.
The 18 x 13 cm glass plate is in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
The Photograph of Timidity on Cat-Caryatid records a comparatively durable combination of solid objects; with Timidity on stone blocks, the combination is ephemeral and exists only for an instant; finally, the photograph of Timidity "in blossom" shows the figure in a context that actually has no existence outside the photograph itself. This last photograph defines and records not a physical but rather a psychic reality: an emotional trace in the realm of memory, longing and imagination.
Bach, 1995.
Provenance
Man Ray (gift of the artist)Private Collection, Paris
James Mayor, London
David Grob, Switzerland
Private Collection, London
Exhibitions
Constantin Brancusi Photographs, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, June- August 2003, ill. Nr. 43Brancusi, Romanian Sources and Universal Prospectives, Muzeul Național de Artă Timișoara, 30 September 2023 - 28th January 2024, Number 63 ,Reproduced in the catalogue page 99
Literature
F.T. Bach, Constantin Brancusi, Metamorphosen Plastischer Form, DuMont, Cologne, 1987, repr. p. 116, fig. 174Beaux Arts Magazine, Special Brancusi Number, Paris, March 1995, repr. p. 61 (posthumous print)
Bach, Rowell and Tempkin, Constantin Brancusi, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1995 and Philadelphia Museum of Art, repr. p. 365, nr. 201 (posthumous print)