Portrait of a Woman

Prints and Drawings

1911

Constantin Brâncusi
French, born Romania, 1876-1957

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Constantin Brancusi
Title: Portrait of a Woman
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.: 1916–1931
Medium: Black crayon and graphite on light gray wove paper, discolored to tan, laid down on cardboard
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "C. Brancusi"; inscribed, lower right, in graphite: "Hommage à Madame Carpenter/Presidente du Arts Club/ C. Brancusi/1917"
Dimensions: Primary support: 62 × 42.9 cm (24 7/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 63.2 × 45 cm (24 15/16 × 17 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Patrick C. Hill in memory of her mother, Rue Winterbotham Carpenter
Reference Number: 1981.302
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition (Chicago, 1986), p. 9, fig. 4, dated 1927.
Margherita Andreotti, “Brancusi’s Golden Bird: A New Species of Modern Sculpture,” Museum Studies 19:2 (1993), pp. 146, 149, 198 n.1, figs. 11 and 14, dated 1926.
Marielle Tabart, and Doïna Lemny, La dation Brancusi: dessins et archives, exh. cat. (Paris, 2003), n.p. (ill.).

New York, Brummer Gallery, “Brancusi Exhibition,” November 17–December 15, 1926; traveled to Chicago, Arts Club, January 4–18, 1927.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Sculptors Privately Owned by Chicagoans,” May 10–May 30, 1932, cat. 10, as Head of a Girl.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Modern Sculpture and Drawings by Sculptors,” 1933, cat. 76, as Head of Girl.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Modern Drawings,” 1944, p. 88.
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. 6 (ill.), as Portrait, c. 1927.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Portrait of an Era: Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and the Arts Club of Chicago 1916–1931: Seventieth Anniversary Exhibition,” September 15–November 1, 1986, n.p. (ill.), cat. 19, as Portrait, c. 1927.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Twentieth Century Collection Reinstalled,” June 7, 1991-February 28, 1992.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition: 1916–1991,” May 11–June 26, 1992, pp. 23 (ill), 101, dated 1927.
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, “Constantin Brancusi,” April 14-August 21, 1995, p. 302 (ill.), cat. 134, dated 1926; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 8–December 31, 1995.

Rue Winterbotham Carpenter (died 1931), Chicago; by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Patrick Hill; given to the Art Institute, 1981.

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