Art Institute of Chicago

White Negress II

Constantin Brancusi · 1928

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist, until at least 1929; Helena Rubinstein (died 1965), New York and Paris, by 1933 [memo, July 28, 1966, in curatorial object file; Geist 1983]; by descent to the Estate of Helena Rubinstein, 1965; sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York sale, April 20, 1966, lot 14, to Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Apr. 22, 1966 [memo, April 22, 1966, in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

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.
New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part One: The Collection of Helena Rubinstein, April 13–20, 1966, pp. 22 (ill.), 23 (ill.), lot 14, as La Negresse blanche, c. 1930.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957: A Retrospective Exhibition, September 23–October 30, 1969, pp. 123 (ill.), as White Negress II; traveled to New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, November 25, 1969–February 15, 1970; Art Institute of Chicago, March 11–April 26, 1970.

Literature

Published references

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part One: The Collection of Helena Rubinstein (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1966), pp. 22 (ill.), 23 (lot 14, ill.), as La Negresse blanche, c. 1930.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Acquisitions, July 1, 1965–June 30, 1966,” The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1965–1966 (Chicago: Art Institute, 1966), pp. 26 (ill.), 27, as La Negresse Blanche.
Spear, Athena Tacha, “A Contribution to Brancusi Chronology,” The Art Bulletin, 48, no. 1 (March 1966), n.p., (ill., fig. 9), as White Negress, c. 1930.
“A Brancusi for Chicago,” Burlington Magazine 109. no. 766 (January 1967), pp. 36, 37 (ill., fig. 69), as La Négresse Blanche, 1928.
Geist, Sidney, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968), pp. 102 (ill., fig. 173), 228 (cat. 173), as White Negress II, 1928.
Geist, Sidney, Constantin Brancusi 1876–1957: A Retrospective Exhibition exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1969), p. 123 (ill.), as White Negress II, 1928.
“The Grant J. Pick Collection,” Revue des Beaux Arts (December 1970–January 1971), p. 7, as La Negresse Blanche.
Geist, Sidney, Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975), pp. 135 (ill.), 189 (cat. 189), as White Negress II, 1928.
Tabart, Marielle, and Isabelle Monod Fontaine, Brancusi photographe (Paris: Musée national d'art moderne, 1977), pp. 63 (ill., fig. 47), p. 120 (cat. 47).
Tabart, Marielle, and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Brancusi photographe (Paris: Musée National d’Art Moderne, 1979), pp. 63 (ill., fig. 47), p. 120 (cat. 47).
Geist, Sidney, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1983), pp. 102 (ill., fig. 173), 228 (cat. 173), 273 (cat. 189), as White Negress II, 1928.
Varia, Radu, Brancusi (New York: Rizzoli, 1986), pp. 166 (ill.), 167 (ill.), as White Negress, 1928.

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