"Madamoiselle Pogany". Large ceramic bust of one of Constantin Brancusi's most famous sculptures. Modern female head is glazed with polychrome glaze in a terra cotta color. It is said that some of these heads were surreptitiously manufactured in the U.S. in the 1960's. Back reads Austin Inc. Prod and is copyrighted '61. Measures apprx 16-1/2" H.
Brancusi sculpted five images of Mademoiselle Pogany over two decades-the 1912 original and evolving versions in marble and bronze dating to 1913, 1919, 1931 and 1933. Mademoiselle Pogany I and III (1912 and 1931) are both in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) was born in Romania and spent most of his professional career in France. It was in Paris that Brancusi met Margit Pogany (1879/80-1964), a Hungarian art student who first visited his studio in 1910, and later posed for him in December 1910 and January 1911.
100/200 Sold $350.75
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