Sans titre (Deux enfants)

Details

CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI (1876-1957)
Sans titre (Deux enfants)
signed 'C Brancusi' (lower right)
pen and India ink on card
18 7⁄8 x 10 in. (48 x 25.3 cm.)
Drawn circa 1924

Provenance

Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, Chicago (acquired from the artist, circa 1927).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

D. Dudley, "Brancusi," The Dial, February 1927 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Brummer Gallery, Constantin Brancusi, November-December 1926.
The Arts Club of Chicago, An Exhibition of Sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, January 1927.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Drawings and Sculpture Privately Owned by Chicagoans, January 1930, no. 32.

Further Details

Margit Rowell has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Conditions of sale

Lot Essay

“Art begins to be born. Once rid of the religions and the philosophies, art is the one thing that can save the world. Art is the plank after the shipwreck, that saves someone... Art must give all at once suddenly the shock of life, the sensation of breathing—the sense of happiness” (C. Brancusi quoted in D. Dudley, op. cit., p. 127).

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