Two Penguins

Modern Art

1911/14

Constantin Brancusi
Romanian, active France, 1876–1957

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Constantin Brancusi
Title: Two Penguins
Place: France (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.: 1911–1914
Medium: Marble
Inscriptions: Signed: "CB"
Dimensions: 54 × 28.3 × 30.8 cm (21 1/4 × 11 1/8 × 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
Reference Number: 1961.1115
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Gallery Guggenheim Jeune, Contemporary Sculpture: Brancusi, Laurens, Pevsner, Henry Moore, Duchamp-Villon, Hans Arp, Calder, Taeuber-Arp exh. cat. (London: Gallery Guggenheim Jeune, 1938), n.p. (cat. 8), as Les Pingouins.
Paleolog, V. G., C. Brancusi: atteindre un nouveau plan de las realite (Standerd Graphica, 1947), p. 49.
Musée national d’art moderne, Le Cubisme 1907–1914 exh. cat. (Paris, 1953), p. 55 (cat. 158), n.p. (ill., pl. XL), as Deux pingouins, 1914.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Constantin Brancusi exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1956), n.p, as Two Penguins, 1914.
Roché, H. P., “Souvenirs sur Brancusi,” L’Oeil, n. 29 (May 1957), p.16, as Les Deux Pingouins.
Kuh, Katherine, Signposts of Twentieth Century Art exh. cat. (Dallas: Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, 1959), pp. 22 (ill.), 23, as Two Penguins, 1914.
Giedion-Welcker, Carola, Constantin Brancusi, trans. by Maria Jolas and Anne Leroy (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1959), p. 15, as Penguins, 1914.
“Coming Auctions,”Art News 59, n. 6 (October 1960), pp. 20 (ill.), 57, as Two Penguins.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Paintings and Drawings from the Gladys Lloyd Robinson Collection sale cat. (October 26, 1960), lot 43, pp. 24, 25 (ill.), as Two Penguins, 1914.
Staempfli Gallery, Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957: Sculpture, Drawings, Gouaches (New York: Staempfli Gallery, 1960), pp. 3–4 (cat. 4, ill.), as Deux Pingouins, 1914.
Speyer, A. James, “New Forms in the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 56, 2 (June 1962), p. 34 (ill.), as Two Penguins, 1914.
Jianou, Ionel, Brancusi (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1963), pp. 47, 99, 156 (ill., fig. 36), 157, as Two Pingoins, 1914.
Geist, Sidney, “Letters to the Editor,” The Art Bulletin, 48, nos. 3/4 (September–December 1966), p. 463, as Two Penguins.
Geist, Sidney, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968), pp. 46 (ill., fig. 81), 221 (cat. 81), as Two Penguins, 1914.
Geist, Sidney, Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957: A Retrospective Exhibition exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1969), p. 68 (ill.), as Two Penguins, 1914.
Geist, Sidney, Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975), pp. 74 (ill.), 180 (cat. 95), 195, as Penguins II, after 1914 and Penguins, after 1914.
Brancusi, Constantin, Omagiu lui Brancusi (Sibiu: Rivista Tribuna, 1976), n.p., as Doi Pinguini, 1914.
Paleolog, V. G., Brancusi–Brancusi vol. 1 (Craiova: Scrisul Romanesc, 1976), n.p. (cat. 199), as Doi Pinguini, 1914?.
Geist, Sidney, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1983), pp. 46 (ill., fig. 81), 221 (cat. 81), 261 (cat. 95), as Two Penguins, 1914 and Penguins II, after 1914.
Jianu, Ionel, Constantin Brancusi: Vita si opera (Bucharest: Editura stiintifica si enciclopedica, 1983), n.p. (ill., fig. 35), as Doi pinguini, 1914.
Grigorescu, Dan, Brancusi and the Romanian Roots of His Art (Bucharest: Meridiane Publishing House, 1984), p. 110 (ill.), as Two Penguins, after 1914.
Hulten, Pontus, Natalia Dumitresco, and Alexandre Istrati, Brancusi (Paris: Flammarion, 1986), p. 288 (cat. 79, ill.), as Deux pingouins, 1914.
Varia, Radu, Brancusi (New York: Rizzoli, 1986), p. 205 (ill.), as Two Penguins, 1914.
Bach, Friedrich Teja, Constantin Brancusi: Metamorphosen Plasticher Form (Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1987), p. 441 (cat. 118, ill.), as Zwei Pinquine (Les deux Pingouins), 1911–14?.
Mocioi, Ion, Estetica Operei Lui Constantin Brancusi (Craiova: Scrisul Romanesc, 1987), p. 61 (ill.), fig. 26 (S. 180), as Doi pinguini, 1914(-?).
Shanes, Eric, Modern Masters Series: Constantin Brancusi (New York: Abbeville Press, 1989), pp. 122 (ill., fig. 124), 123, as Two Penguins, 1914.
Andreotti, Margherita, “Brancusi’s Golden Bird: A New Species of Modern Sculpture,” Museum Studies 19, 2 (1993), pp. 138, 198 (n. 1), as Two Penguins, 1914.
Rowell, Margit, and Ann Temkin, Constantin Brancusi exh. cat. (Paris: Musée National d’Art Moderne, 1995), pp. 114, 115 (cat. 23, ill.), as Deux pingouins, 1911–1914?.
Faerna, Jose Maria, ed., Brancusi (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997), p. 47, as Two Penguins, 1914.

London, Gallery Guggenheim Jeune, Contemporary Sculpture: Brancusi, Laurens, Pevsner, Henry Moore, Duchamp-Villon, Hans Arp, Calder, Taeuber-Arp, Summer 1938, n.p., cat. 8, as Les Pingouins.
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Le Cubisme 1907–1914, January 30–April 9, 1953, p. 55 (cat. 158), n.p. (ill., pl. XL), as Deux pingouins, 1914.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Constantin Brancusi, October 26, 1955–January 8, 1956, n.p., as Two Penguins, 1914; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 27–February 26, 1956.
Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Signposts of Twentieth Century Art, October 28–December 7, 1959, pp. 22 (ill.), 23, as Two Penguins, 1914.
New York, Staempfli Gallery, Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957: Sculpture, Drawings, Gouaches, November 29–December 31, 1960, pp. 3 (cat. 4), 4 (ill.), as Deux Pingouins, 1914.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (organizer), Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957: A Retrospective Exhibition, p. 68 (ill.), as Two Penguins, 1914; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 23–November 15, 1969; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, November 21, 1969–February 15, 1970; Art Institute of Chicago, March 14–April 26, 1970.
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Constantin Brancusi, April 14-August 21, 1995, pp. 114, 115 (cat. 23, ill.), as Deux pingouins, 1911–1914?; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 8–December 31, 1995.
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no.

Charles Vignier (died 1934), Paris, 1919 [Paris 1995]. Henri Pierre Roché (died 1959), Paris and Sèvres, by 1953 [Paris 1953; Bach 1987]. Sold through Marcel Duchamp to Gladys L. Robinson, 1959 [Paris 1995]; sold Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 26, 1960, lot 43 [1960 sale cat.]. Ileana Bulova, New York, by Nov. 29, 1960 [New York 1960]. Otto Gerson, New York, by Nov. 1961; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

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