Head of a Woman

Prints and Drawings

before 1930

Constantin Brâncusi
Romanian, active in France, 1876-1957

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Constantin Brancusi
Title: Head 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.: 1896–1957
Medium: Pen and reddish-brown ink on light gray wove paper, laid down on brown woodpulp board
Inscriptions: 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"
Dimensions: 43 × 27.2 cm (16 15/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. C. J. and Jack Bulliet in Memory of C. J. Bulliet
Reference Number: 1954.1103
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Ionel Jianou, Brancusi (New York, 1963), pp.114, fig. 90 (ill.).
Ionel Jianu, Constantin Brancusi: Vita si Opera (Bucharest, 1983), p. 95 (ill.).

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.

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.

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