Wisdom

1. M. Alexandre Stoppelaere, 9ter rue d’Alesia, Paris [this and the following according to letter from Albert Loeb, June 19, 1967, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Galerie Pierre, Paris by 1954 [this and the following according to letters from Jane Wade of Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, Dec. 14, 1954 and from Sidney Geist, Jan. 21, 1964; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, summer 1954; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Possibly London, Grafton Galleries, Eighth London Salon of the Allied Artists’ Association, March 1916, p. 23, cat. 19, as La Sagesse.
• New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Closing Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, June 8, 1955, n.p., cat. 9, as Seated Figure, 1906–1908.
• New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Constantin Brancusi, October 16, 1955–January 8, 1956, n.p., no cat. no., as Ancient Figure, 1906–1908 [withdrawn]; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 27–February 26, 1956.

• Grafton Galleries, Eighth London Salon of the Allied Artists’ Association exh. cat. (London: Grafton Galleries, 1916), p. 23 (cat. *19), as La Sagesse.
• Curt Valentin Gallery, Closing Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings exh. cat. (New York: Curt Valentin Gallery, 1955), n.p. (cat. 9), as Seated Figure, 1906-8.
• Gindertael, Roger Van, Brancusi (1956), p. 10.
• Lewis, David, Constantin Brancusi (New York: George Wittenborn Incorporated, 1957), pp. 11–14, 16, n.p. (pl. 5), as Ancient Figure, 1906-8.
• Giedion-Welcker, Carola, Constantin Brancusi trans. by Maria Jolas and Anne Leroy (New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1959) pp. 15 (n. 1), 46 (ill., pl. 2), 235, 237, pl. 2, as Ancient Figure (Figure Ancienne), about 1908.
• Jianou, Ionel, Brancusi, (New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1963), p. 94, as Ancient Figure, 1909.
• Spear, Athena T., “Letter to the Editor,” Art Bulletin, v. 48, nos. 3–4 (September–December 1966), p. 467, as Ancient Figure.
• Paleolog, V. G., Tineretea Lui Brancusi (Bucharest: Editura Tineretului, 1967), n.p. (ill., fig. 54), as Figura Antica, 1908.
• Geist, Sidney, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968) pp. 30, 187 (ill.), 231-2, as Ancient Figure.
• Spear, Athena T., Brancusi’s Birds (New York: New York University Press/College Art Association, 1969), p. 129, as Seated Figure.
• Geist, Sidney, Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975), p. 193, as Ancient Figure.
• Magid, Deborah Menaker, “A Note on Brancusi and the London Salon,” Art Journal, v. 35, no. 2 (Winter 1975/76), pp. 105-6 (ill., fig. 2), as Ancient Figure.

Golden Bird

Art Institute of Chicago

Sleeping Muse

Art Institute of Chicago

Leda

Art Institute of Chicago

Suffering

Art Institute of Chicago

White Negress II

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Penguins

Art Institute of Chicago

The First Step

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of a Woman

Art Institute of Chicago

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