About This Artwork
Constantin Brâncusi
French, born Romania, 1876-1957
Three Children, n.d.
Pen and black ink on cream wove card, discolored to tan
476 x 321 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "C Brancusi"
Gift of Robert Allerton, 1924.930
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, "Exhibition of Pure Line Drawing: from the Greek to the Modern," February 16–March 7, 1933, n.p.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Modern Drawings," 1944, p. 88.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 9, cat. 4, pl. XXX.
Vancouver Art Gallery, "The Nude in Art," November 3–29, 1964, n.p. (ill.), cat. 87.
Chicago, Arts Club, "Drawings 1916/1966: An Exhibition on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Arts Club of Chicago," February 28–March 11, 1966, n.p., cat. 7.
Bucharest, Museum of Art of the Socialist Republic of Romania, "Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957," June 1970, pp. 94 (ill.), 95, cat. 20, as "Muza Adormita"; traveled to The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, September 19–November 29, 1970, pp. 114, 120 (ill.), cat. 52.
Publication History
Eduard Trier, Zeichner des XX. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1956), pp. 38, 39, fig. 25,
David Lewis, Constantin Brancusi (New York, 1957), n.p. (ill.), cat. 60, as Three Infants.
Ionel Jianou, Brancusi (New York, 1963), pp. 114, fig. 87 (ill.), as Three Infants.
Gemeentemuseum, Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957 exh. cat. (The Hague, 1970), pp. 114, 120 (ill.), cat. 52, as Drie kinderen.
Dan Grigorescu, Brancusi (Bucharest, 1980), p. 11 (ill.), as Trei copii.
Grigorescu, Dan, Brancusi and the Romanian Roots of His Art (Bucharest: Editura Meridiane, 1984), p. 30 (ill.),
Ownership History
Given by Robert Allerton, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1924.