Leda

1. The artist, until at least spring 1925 [Tabart 1998]; Katherine S. Dreier (died 1952), Milford, CT, probably acquired directly from the artist, 1926 [Brooklyn 1926; Varia 2003]; by descent to the estate of Katherine S. Dreier, Milford, CT, 1952; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Brooklyn Museum, An International Exhibition of Modern Art Assembled by the Société Anonyme, November 19, 1926–January 1, 1927, n.p., cat. 164.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art, April 1936, pp. 108 (ill.), 205, fig. 108, cat. 19.
• New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, 1946, cat. 8.
• New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery, Memorial Exhibition, December 15, 1952–February 1, 1953, cat. 4.
• New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Constantin Brancusi, October 26, 1955–January 8, 1956; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 27–February 26, 1956.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957: A Retrospective Exhibition, September 23–October 30, 1969, p. 101 (ill.); traveled to New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, November 25, 1969–February 15, 1970; Chicago, Art Institute, March 11–April 26, 1970.
• Paris, Centre Pompidou, Brancusi, Mar. 27, 2024-July 1, 2024, no cat. no.

• Pound, Ezra, “Brancusi,” The Little Review 8 (Autumn 1921), n.p. (ill., pl. 14).
• M. M., “Constantin Brancusi: A Summary of Many Conversations,” The Arts (July 1923), p. 14 (ill.).
• Brancusi, Constantin, “Art Supplement: Five Drawings, Forty-One Reproductions,” This Quarter 1, 1 (1925), n.p. (ills.), as Léda, 1922.
• Brooklyn Museum, Catalogue of An International Exhibition of Modern Art Assembled by the Société Anonyme exh. cat. ([Brooklyn]: Brooklyn Museum, 1926), n.p. (cat. 164), as Leda.
• Dreier, Katherine S., Modern Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1926), p. 68 (ill.).
• Cahiers d’Etoile, 1929, (ill.).
• Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936), pp. 108 (ill., fig. 108), 205 (cat. 19), as Leda, 1920.
• Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (1946), cat. 8.
• Yale University Art Gallery, In Memory of Katherine S. Dreier, 1877-1952: Her own Collection of Modern Art, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1952), n.p. (cat. 4), as Leda, 1920.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Constantin Brancusi exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1955), n.p., as Leda.
• “New Sculpture at the Art Institute,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly XLVII, 1 (February 1, 1953), pp. 62 (ill.), 63, as Leda, 1924.
• Lewis, David, Constantin Brancusi (New York: George Wittenborn Inc.,1957), p. 7, n.p. (pl. 37), as Leda, 1922

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