Prometheus

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Object Details

Artist
Constantin Brancusi, French, b. Hobitza, Romania, 1876–1957
Date
1911
Medium
Brass
Dimensions
5 3/8 × 6 3/4 × 5 3/8 in. (13.7 × 17.2 × 13.7 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.612

The artist, Paris
Tarsila de Amaral, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1926
Galerie Europe, Paris, to 7 December 1961
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 7 December 1961-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
SOCIEDADE DE ARTES, LETRAS E CIENCIAS, Sao Paulo. "Pro Arte," April-May 1933.
GALERIE EUROPE, Paris. "Klee, Kandinsky, Brancusi," February-March 1961, no. 1.
SVENSK-FRANSKA KONSTGALLERIET, Stockholm. "Fautrier-Brancusi," September 1961, no. 28, ill.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957: A Retrospective Exhibition," 21 November 1969-15 February 1970, p. 48, ill.
HAYWARD GALLERY, London. (The Arts Council of Great Britain, organizers). "Pioneers of Modern Sculpture," 20 July-23 September 1973.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, ill. 199, p. 153, p. 669.
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, London. "Paris: Capital of the Arts, 1900-1968," 26 January-19 April 2002. TOUR: GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO, Spain, 21 May-3 September 2002.
MUSEO THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, Madrid. "Modigliani and His Times," 5 February-18 May 2008, no. 34, ill. p. 80.
MITCHELL-INNESS & NASH, Madison Avenue Gallery, New York. "Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp," March-April 2011.

GELDZAHLER, HENRY. "Taste for Modern Sculpture: The Hirshhorn Collection," Art News 5 (October 1962), p. 30.
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TUCKER, WILLIAM. "Four Sculptors Part 1: Brancusi," Studio International 179 (April 1970), p. 159, no. 7, ill.
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KRAUSS, ROSALIND E. Passages in Modern Sculpture (New York: Viking, 1977), no. 69, ill. p. 93.
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RADU, VARIA. Brancusi (New York: Rizzoli, 1986), p. 148, ill.
BACH, FRIEDRICH TEJA. Constantin Brancusi: Metamorphosen Plastischer Form (Cologne: Dumont Buchverlag, 1987), p. 433-434, no. 105, ill.
CHRISTIE'S. "Constantin Brancusi," sale catalogue (New York: Christie's, 13 May 1999), p. 84, in the essay of lot. 488.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 12, p. 40.

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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