Object Information

Constantin Brâncusi
French, born Romania, 1876-1957

Head of a Woman, before 1930

Pen and reddish-brown ink on light gray wove paper, laid down on brown woodpulp board
430 x 272 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in charcoal (or graphite): "C Brancusi"; inscribed, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "a C J Bulliet un bon souvenir"
Gift of Mrs. C. J. and Jack Bulliet in Memory of C. J. Bulliet, 1954.1103

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Drawings and Sculpture Privately Owned by Chicagoans," January 3–17, 1930, n.p., cat. 30, as Head of Girl.

Chicago, Arts Club, "Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Sculptors Privately Owned by Chicagoans," May 10–May 30, 1932, n.p., cat. 7, as Head of Girl.

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "Constantin Brancusi," October 26, 1955–January 8, 1956, p. 141; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 27–February 26, 1956.

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, p. 113, cat. 41, as Vrouwenkop.

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture," November 7, 1981–January 3, 1982, pp. 136–137 (ill.), cat. 60 (ill.).

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, "Constantin Brancusi," April 14-August 21, 1995, p. 303 (ill.), cat. 136, as Portrait de Femme; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 8–December 31, 1995.

Publication History

Ionel Jianou, Brancusi (New York, 1963), pp.114, fig. 90 (ill.).

Ionel Jianu, Constantin Brancusi: Vita si Opera (Bucharest, 1983), p. 95 (ill.).

Ownership History

Given by the artist to Clarence Joseph (C. J.) Bulliet (died 1952), Rockford, Ill., [inscription]; to his wife Mrs. C. J. Bulliet (later Mrs. Arthur Ehrenstrom), Rockford, Ill., by 1954; given to the Art Institute, 1954.