Art Of The Day Weekly
#523 - from 16 July 2018 to 5 September 2018
Constantin Brancusi, Mlle Pogany Version I, 1913 (after a marble of 1912). Bronze with black patina, 43.8 x 21.5 x 31.7 cm, on limestone base, 14.6 x 15.6 x 18.7 cm. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange). © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Brancusi, an American story
NEW YORK – Exactly 105 years ago, in 1913, an unknown sculptor, a native of the depths of Rumania, created a sensation at the Armory Show, next to another great blaster of forms and shapes, Marcel Duchamp. The MoMA has a very rich fund of Brancusi sculptures (11), and it is exhibiting them for the first time, together with a series of documents, to show the impact this simplification of forms had at the time. Brancusi never set foot in the USA, but the MoMA has a boundless admiration for him: this is the 88th time his works are shown in a temporary show, which places him among the museum’s favorite, right behind the untouchables such as Picasso (314), Matisse (235) or Miró (197).
• Constantin Brancusi. Sculpture at the MoMA, from 22 July 2018 to 18 February 2019.