Live Auction 12626Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs
Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957)
Lot 44

Constantin Brâncuși (1876-1957)

L'Atelier, c. 1927

Closed18 February 2016

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USD 197,000

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Constantin Brâncusi (1876-1957)
L'Atelier, c. 1927
gelatin silver print, face-mounted to glass
image/sheet/face mount: 23 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (60 x 49.9 cm.)

The artist;
with Jason McCoy Gallery, New York;
with Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, 2011.

Specialist note

Like the light which heightens form in Vermeer interiors, each surface in Brâncuși's studio comes to life. In this place -- light, space, and form are one. Thoughts are alike and interchangeable. Distinctions between architecture, furniture and object, base and sculpture dissolve. Everything in the studio is suffused in the glow of Brâncuși's love and strength.

(Pontus Hultén, Brâncuși, Photographer, Agrinde Publications, New York, 1979, p. 9.)