Muse (la Muse)
1969 posthumous cast from 1912 plaster original
Constantin Brancusi (Romanian, 1876-1957)
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Details

  • Artist Name: Constantin Brancusi (Romanian, 1876-1957)
  • Title: Muse (la Muse)
  • Date: 1969 posthumous cast from 1912 plaster original
  • Medium: Polished bronze
  • Edition: Edition of 5, Cast No. 1
  • Dimensions: 17-1/2 in. (44.5 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
  • Accession Number: M.1969.28.S
  • Copyright: © Succession Brancusi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Object Information

Modern Sculpture from the Norton Simon Inc. Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Foundation

  • Pasadena, Pasadena Museum of Art, 1972-08-01 to 1972-09-15

Twentieth Century Sculpture from Southern California Collections

  • Los Angeles, University of California Los Angeles, Dickson Art Center, Art Galleries, 1972-02-27 to 1972-04-14

Selections from the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art

  • Princeton University Art Museum, 1972-12-03 to 1974-07-17

Impossible Realities: Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealist Tradition

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1991-07-04 to 1992-03-08
  • Hochfield, Sylvia, Art News, p. 26
  • Steadman, David W., Selections from the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art, 1972, no. 83 p. 225
  • Wight, Frederick S., 20th Century Sculpture from Southern California Collections, 1972, p. 14
  • Parigoris, Alexandra, Sculpture and Its Reproductions, 1997, pp. 149-150
  • Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 653 p. 323
  • Anna Louie Sussman, How Dead Artists Continue Producing Work, 2018,

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