Sleeping Muse

1. The artist, Paris; sold to Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859–1920), Chicago, July 1913 [Eddy 1914 and Barnett 2022]; by descent to his wife, Lucy O. Eddy (1863–1931) and son, Jerome O. Eddy (1891–1951), Chicago, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Allied Artists Association, Royal Albert Hall, Sixth London Salon, July 1913, cat. 1167.
• New York, Gallery of the Photo-Secession, Constantine [sic] Brancusi, March 12–April 1, 1914, n.p., (cat. 4), as Sleeping Muse.
• Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection, September 19–October 22, 1922, n.p. (cat. 8), as Sleeping Muse.
• Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, December 22, 1931–January 17, 1932, p. 28 (cat. 21), 30, as Sleeping Muse, 1910.
• Chicago, Renaissance Society, A Selection of Works by Twentieth-Century Artists, June 20–August 20, 1934, n.p. (cat. 4), as Sleeping Muse, 1909.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cubism and Abstract Art, March 2–April 19, 1936, p. 205 (cat. 16), as Sleeping Muse, 1910.
• Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Pictures for Peace: A Retrospective Exhibition Organized from the Armory Show of 1913, March 18–April 16, 1944, n.p. (cat. 3), as Sleeping Muse.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (organizer), Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957: A Retrospective Exhibition, p. 44 (ill.), as Sleeping Muse, 1910; 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.
• Bucharest, Museum of Art of the Socialist Republic of Romania, Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957, June 1970, pp. 34, 94 (ill.), 95 (cat. 20), as Muza Adormita, 1910; traveled to The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, September 19–November 29, 1970, pp. 50 (cat. 11), 81 (ill.), as Slapende muze, 1910.
• Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Constantin Brancusi, April 11–August 21, 1995, p. 105 (cat. 17, ill), as Muse endormie, 1910; 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.
• Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray - Framing Sculpture, Feb. 8, 2014– May 25, 2014.

• Fry, Roger, The Nation, London, (Aug. 2, 1913).
• Constantine [sic] Brancusi (New York: Gallery of the Photo-Secession, 1914), n.p. (cat. 4,) as Sleeping Muse.
• Eddy, Arthur Jerome, Cubists and Post Impressionism (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1914), 182–83, as Sleeping Muse.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), n.p. (cat. 8), as Sleeping Muse.
• Rich, Daniel Catton, Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1931), 28 (cat. 21), 30, as Sleeping Muse, 1910.
• Barr, Alfred H., Jr., Cubism and Abstract Art exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936), 205 (cat. 16), as Sleeping Muse, 1910.
• Siple, Walter H., Pictures for Peace: A Retrospective Exhibition Organized from the Armory Show of 1913 exh. cat. (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1944), n.p. (cat. 3), as Sleeping Muse.
• St. Louis Art Museum Bulletin, no. 4 (1961).
• Jianou, Ionel, Brancusi (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1963), 93 (no. VII), 143 (ill., fig. 25), as Sleeping Muse (VII), 1910.
• de Micheli, Mario, Constantin Brancusi (Milan, 1966), pl. 1 (ill.).
• Spear, Athena Tacha, “A Contribution to Brancusi Chronology,” The Art Bulletin, 48, 1 (March 1966): 47, 53 (cat. 34c), as Sleeping Muse, 1910.
• Spear, Athena Tacha, “Letters to the Editor,” The Art Bulletin, 48, nos. 3/4 (September–December, 1966): 465 (cat. 34c), as Sleeping Muse.

Golden Bird

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Leda

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Suffering

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White Negress II

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Two Penguins

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Wisdom

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The First Step

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Portrait of a Woman

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