The original glass plate negative is lost
PH 209 a Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 23,8 x 17,8 cm
PH 209 b Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 23,8 x 17,8 cm
PH 209 c Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 23,8 x 17,8 cm
PH 209 d Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 25,8 x 18,2 cm
PH 209 e Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 26,6 x 19 cm
PH 209 f Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 27,8 x 19,8 cm
PH 209 g Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 23,8 x 16,4 cm
PH 209 h This print
PH 209 i Kunsthaus Zürich, ex. C.G. Welker, 29,8 x 24 cm
PH 209 j Chrisitie's NYC, 6/10/1998, lot 229, 14,9 x 10,3 cm
PH 209 k Villa Grisebach, ex. Brezniua , 11/2010, 29,2 x 18,4 cm
Provenance
Susanna Coggeshall, Maine .
In 1945 Susanna Perkins accompanied her mother, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet
secretary who was Secretary of Labor under FDR, to the the first post-war labor conference in
Paris. Since Susanna spoke French she would act as a translator for her mother. She had been asked
by sculptor Isamu Noguchi to check on his friend Constantin Brancusi to see how he had endured
the war years since very little had been heard from him. After visiting Brancusi Susanna became
enamored with the man and the work and embarked on a lifelong but unfulfilled project to write a
book about him. This photograph was found among Susanna’s notes and various drafts for her
book on Brancusi.
Exhibitions
Rodin Brancusi Moore, Through the Sculptors Lens, Waddington Custot Gallery, London, 22nd May – 11th July 2015
Number 25 reproduced.
Brancusi, Sublimation of Form, Brussels, Centre of Fine Arts, 2nd October 2019 - 12 January 2020 reproduced page 97, cat. 97
Constantin Brancusi & Magdalene Odundo, Albion Barn Publishing, Oxford, England, 2020, reproduced Page 13
Modigliani, The Primitivist Revolution, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, September 17, 2021 - January 9.2022, Reproduced page 184. catalogue number 119
Brancusi Photographie, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland, November 11, 2022 – February 2023
Brancusi, Romanian Sources and Universal Prospectives, Muzeul Național de Artă Timișoara, 30 September 2023 - 28th January 2024, Number 77 ,Reproduced in the catalogue page 120
Literature
Albert Dreyfus, “Constantin Brancusi”, Der Querschnitt, 111, nos. 3-4, Berlin 1923, ill. p. 117
This Quarter, 1/1, Spring 1925, Paris, ill.
Albert Dreyfus, Constantin Brancusi, Cahiers D’Art,11, Paris 1927, ill. p. 69
Carola Giedion-Welker, Constantin Brancusi, Editions du Griffon, Neuchâtel, 1958, ill. p. 57
Ionel Jianou, Brancusi, Arted, New York, 1963, number 17 ill.
Sidney Geist, Brancusi, a Study of the Sculpture, London, Studio Vista, 1968, nr. 55 ill. p. 33
Barbu Brezianu, Opera Lui, Brancusi in Romania, Ed. Academiei R.S.R. Bucarest, 1974,
nr. 20b, ill. p. 251
Sidney Geist, Brancusi, the Sculpture and the Drawings, Harry H. Abrams, New York, 1975,
nr. 65, ill.
Jurgen Partenheimer, ”Constantin Brancusi: Der Künstler als Fotograf seiner Skulptur”, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1976, nr. 9
Pontus Hulton, Natalia Dumitresco, Alexandre Istrati, “Brancusi”, Paris, Flammarion, 1986,
nr. 61, ill.
F.T. Bach, Constantin Brancusi. Metamorphosen plastischer Form, DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 1987, nr. 91, ill. p.428
Erika Billeter, Brancusi als Fotograf, Benteli Verlag, Bern, 1997, nr. 16, ill.
Le portrait ? Les carnets de l’Atelier Brancusi, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2002,
nr. 59, ill. p. 87
Pierre Cabanne, Brancusi, Editions Terrail, Paris, 2006, ill. p. 76
Doïna Lemny, Brancusi : Au-delà de toutes les frontières, Fage Editions, Lyon, 2012, ill. p. 28
Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray, Framing Sculptur, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2014, ill. p. 132
Doina Lemny, Brancusi La Chose Vrai, Editions Gourcuff Gradenigo, Montrreuill, France, 2022, Illustrated page 195
Doina Lemny, Romanian Sources and Universal Prospectives, Art Encounters, Muzeul Național de Artă Timișoara, 30 September 2023 - 28th January 2024, Number 77 ,Reproduced in the catalogue page 120
Brancusi, L'Art ne fait que commencer, Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, Page 123