The Studio

Prints and Drawings

1917/20

Constantin Brâncusi
Romanian, active in France, 1876-1957

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Constantin Brancusi
Title: The Studio
Place: Romania (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1917–1920
Medium: Pen and black ink on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream wove card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower center, in pen and black ink: "C. Brancusi"
Dimensions: 43 × 35.4 cm (16 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
Reference Number: 1981.149
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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.

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.
Paris, Centre Pompidou, “Brancusi”, March 27 - July 1, 2024.

Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago [label]. Elizabeth F. Chapman (née Fuller, later Goodspeed; 1893-1980), New York, by 1950 [according to AIC permanent receipt RX137 dated Nov. 17, 1950]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1981.

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