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Exhibited:

New York, Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment; The Art Institute of Chicago and Boston, Copley Hall, International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show) , February-May 1913, p. 45, no. 617. New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., 1910-1912: The Climactic Years in Cubism , October-November 1946, no. 18. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Constantin Brancusi , October-February 1956

Literature:

R. Vitrac, “Constantin Brancusi” in Cahiers D’Art , 1929, no. 8-9, p. 383 (another plaster illustrated). M.W. Brown, American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression , Princeton, 1955, p. 46 (illustrated in situ ). G. Habasque, “L’Armory Show” in L’Oeil , Paris, 1959, p. 17 (illustrated in situ ). 1913 Armory Show 50 th Anniversary Exhibition, 1963 , exh. cat., Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica and Armory of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment, New York, 1963, p. 184, no. 617 (marble version illustrated, p. 41). S. Geist, Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings , New York, 1975, pp. 177-178 (marble and bronze versions illustrated). F.T. Bach, Constantin Brancusi: Metamorphosen Plasticher Form , Cologne, 1987, pp. 430-431, no. 99 (marble and bronze versions illustrated, p. 430; with incorrect provenance). P. Hulten, N. Dumitresco and A. Istrati, Brancusi , New York, 1987, p. 283, no. 60h (illustrated in situ , p. 90; marble and bronze versions illustrated, pp. 77 and 283). M.W. Brown, The Story of the Armory Show , New York, 1988, p. 249 (illustrated in situ ). M. Dubin, Sleeping Beauty: The Secret of Brancusi’s Janus Muse, The Mary Harriman Rumsey Collection , New York, 1989, pp. 24-25 (illustrated in situ ). F.T. Bach, M. Rowell and A. Temkin, Constantin Brancusi , exh. cat., Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1995, pp. 102-105 (marble, bronze and other plaster versions illustrated, pp. 103-105). R. Varia, Brancusi , New York, 2002, pp. 114 and 116-119 (another plaster and bronze version illustrated in color). O. Wick, ed., Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra , exh. cat., Foundation Beyeler, Basel, 2011, pp. 104-107 (bronze and marble versions illustrated, pp. 105-107). M.S. Kushner and K. Orcutt, eds., The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution , New York, 2013, p. 436 (illustrated, p. 228, fig. 170 and illustrated in situ , p. 31, fig. 10; bronze version illustrated in color, p. 371, fig. 289)

Provenance:

Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, New York (acquired from the artist, 1913). Ida Espen Guggenheimer, New York (acquired via Marcel Duchamp from the above, circa 1933 and until at least 1956). M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York. Benjamin Garber, New York (acquired from the above). Jason McCoy Gallery, New York. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003