Object Information
Constantin Brâncusi
French, born Romania, 1876-1957
The Studio, 1924
Pen and black ink on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wove card
430 x 354 mm
Signed recto, lower center, in pen and black ink: "C. Brancusi"
Bequest of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, 1981.149
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, “Brancusi/Mondrian,” December 2-31, 1982.
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, “Constantin Brancusi,” April 14-August 21, 1995, p. 309, cat. 147 (ill.); traveled to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 8-December 31, 1995.
Publication History
Sidney Geist, Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings (New York, 1975), p. 32, dated c. 1918.
Friedrich Teja Bach, Constantin Brancusi: Metamorphosen Plasticher Form (Cologne, 1987), p. 132, fig. 191, dated c. 1918.
Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1996), p. 157 (ill.), dated c. 1918.
Ownership History
Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago [label]. Bequeathed by Elizabeth F. Chapman, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1981.