Three Children

Prints and Drawings

n.d.

Constantin Brâncusi
Romanian, active in France, 1876-1957

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Constantin Brancusi
Title: Three Children
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.: 1896–1924
Medium: Pen and black ink on cream wove card, discolored to tan
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "C Brancusi"
Dimensions: 47.6 × 32.1 cm (18 3/4 × 12 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1924.930
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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.),

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.
Paris, Centre Pompidou, “Brancusi”, March 27 - July 1, 2024, p. 99 (ill.).

Given by Robert Allerton, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1924.

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