Two Penguins

1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• 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.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, Mar. 29–July 13, 2025, fig. 12.

• 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.

Sleeping Muse

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bird in Space

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Constantin Brancusi

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Self-Portrait in Studio]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mlle. Pogany II

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for the Sculpture "The First Step"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Golden Bird

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woman's Head

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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