Renzo Piano adds onto Art Institute of Chicago May 26, 2009
Piano has provided elegantly proportioned galleries to accommodate special exhibitions and canonical gems of the AIC's modern and contemporary collection, which include Willem de Kooning's "Excavation" (1950), Henri Matisse's "Bathers by a River" (1909-17), a cluster of sculptures by Constantin Brancusi and a 1937 self-portrait by Max Beckmann. The special-exhibition galleries open bracingly with the one-venue show "Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works, 2000-2007" (through Sept. 13). (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
New modern art wing lights Chicago's Art Institute May 16, 2009
The top-floor galleries begin and end with works by Pablo Picasso, demonstrating the steady march toward increasing abstraction by such artists as Piet Mondrian and Constantin Brancusi. The added space also allows display of more of the museum's surrealist collection, some of which were kept in storage. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Monet's 'Water Lilies' coming to the High Apr 15, 2009
In addition to Picasso and Warhol, the exhibit will include Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Fernand L;ger, Henri Matisse, Joan Mir;, Piet Mondrian and Jackson Pollock. The two museums have worked together before. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Art.view: Bull for a night Mar 1, 2009
The auction started off slowly; it wasn t until lot 35 a large, wooden sculpture by Constantin Brancusi that the buying hit bull-market momentum. Guy Bennett, a Christie s rep based in New York, put his arm in the air and kept it there, steamrolling the room and eventually winning the work for a record 29m an astonishing sum to spend on a day when the S&P hit a 12-year-low. (The Economist)
Saint Laurent auction rakes in $500 million Feb 26, 2009
Other top-selling pieces included a wooden sculpture by Romania's Constantin Brancusi that fetched euro26 million, a 1922 painting by Piet Mondrian that had inspired Saint Laurent's iconic 1965 shift dress, and a snake embellished armchair that set a record for a piece of 20th-century furniture, selling at euro21. 9 million. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Auction lots in pictures Feb 26, 2009
This wooden sculpture by Constantin Brancusi entitled Portrait de Mme LR is expected to fetch 20 million euros (18m). Works by Picasso, Cezanne and Lautrec also feature. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
YSL art sale breaks new records Feb 25, 2009
Works by the Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian, Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi and French innovator Marcel Duchamp, also earned record sums, well above estimates. By contrast, a much anticipated Pablo Picasso work, the highest in the collection - Musical Instruments on a Table - flopped. (Ninemsn)
* Records tumble as Yves Saint Laurent art collection sold Feb 25, 2009
Works by other artists, including Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian, Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi and French innovator Marcel Duchamp, earned record sums, well above earlier estimates. CHINA CLAIM. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Matisse sold for record price at Yves Saint Laurent auction Feb 24, 2009
A wood sculpture by Constantin Brancusi entitled "Madame L.R." went for euro26 million ($33. 3 million). (International Herald Tribune)
Record bids for YSL private art Feb 24, 2009
Another record was broken when a sculpture by the Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi was bought for 29m euros (25m), again well above the estimated price, the BBC's Paris correspondent Alasdair Sandford reports. The item expected to fetch the highest price, Picasso's cubist work Instruments de Musique sur un Gueridon (Musical Instruments on a Table), failed to reach a minimum price. (BBC News -- Europe)
Saint Laurent auction breaks world records Feb 24, 2009
Other records included the highest price paid for a 1914-17 sculpture by the Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi, at more than 29-million euros, or 21. 5-million euros for a 1922 abstract composition by the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, Christie's said. (Globe and Mail)
Yves Saint Laurent sale proves art is in fashion Feb 24, 2009
Works by Piet Mondrian, a big influence on Saint Laurent, Constantin Brancusi, the Romanian sculptor and Marcel Duchamp, the experimental artist, earned record sums well above earlier estimates. The 1917 work Madame L. R. by Brancusi went for 29 million, proving to many experts that collectors and investors were ready to put big money into art as a refuge in hard times. (Times Online)
Yves Saint Laurent art sells for €206 million Feb 24, 2009
The first world record price went to an extremely unusual wood sculpture by Constantin Brancusi carved in the years 1914-1917. Despite its title "Portrait de Madame L.R.," the sculpture is handled in an abstract geometrical style derived from African art. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Saint Laurent art auction -'sale of the century' Feb 22, 2009
Highlights include Piet Mondrian's 1922 painting "Composition in Blue, Red, Yellow and Black," whose squares of saturated colors inspired Saint Laurent's legendary 1965 shift dress; a wooden sculpture by Romanian Constantin Brancusi that is expected to sell for euro15 million-euro20 million ($19 million-$25 million); and a pair of bronze animal heads that disappeared from a Beijing palace in 1860 and that China now wants removed from the auction and returned. The lot that's expected to fetch the... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Social engineering Mar 24, 2008
Zlatan Vukosavljevic mingles the homemade and the technological in his sculpture 2 Endless Collapsible Columns, which refers, obliquely, both to a great Romanian predecessor among sculptors, Constantin Brancusi, and to the American military presence in Serbia during the late 1990s. Bulbo's installation is cozy. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
From Visigoths to vivid shots Feb 24, 2008
This important retrospective looks at the artist's own work (sculptures and drawings, as well as paintings) alongside the work of those painters and sculptors who influenced and were influenced by him, such as Paul C zanne, Constantin Brancusi, Andr Derain, and Kees van Dongen. The exhibition includes some 140 works, mostly by Modigliani, but also by these artists and numerous others. (Boston Globe)
The yogi is dead, long live the yogi Feb 13, 2008
Constantin Brancusi was the great simplifier of modern sculpture. At one level, his stone version of The Kiss reminds you of thousands of years old Mesopotamian murals. (India Times)
Malibu Seen (1) Feb 10, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Edition. "Museum curator Stephanie Barron has watched the collection grow over the years. "This is a collection that has been built carefully and painstakingly over several decades," Barron says. "Having these works available at LACMA will forever change how future generations of visitors will understand modern art in Los Angeles. (Malibu Times, CA)
Antiques rogue show over as last of forgers convicted Jan 29, 2008
The artists copied included LS Lowry, Henry Moore, Man Ray, Constantin Brancusi and Gauguin. There were purported Roman silver and gold artefacts, Assyrian stone reliefs and Anglo-Saxon jewellery. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
New and old at home (at last) at new MOMA Dec 9, 2007
In this regard, and in its respect for craft, Puryear's art resembles that of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). And for this reason, the open, neighborly installation of Puryear's work at MOMA matters crucially. (San Francisco Chronicle)
For Carl Andre, beauty is in the basics Nov 27, 2007
"I was carving like Brancusi, my master," Andre says of Constantin Brancusi, a Romanian Modernist. "Frank said I could carve in his studio when he wasn't there. But he told me that if he found me painting in his studio, he would cut off my hands. He is Sicilian, so I had to take him seriously. I said, 'Well, couldn't I be a good painter?' He said, 'Yeah, but you are a good sculptor now.' He was absolutely right. I never would have made a go of it as a painter. I just didn't have that... (Los Angeles Times)
Show helps you form a different picture of Matisse Jul 1, 2007
"Painter to Sculptor," the first major U.S. examination of Matisse's sculpture in 40 years, also includes examples of works by some of his peers, including Constantin Brancusi, Paul C. zanne, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Auguste Rodin. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
A master of the canvas who also tried his hand at sculpture Jun 10, 2007
They appear among similarly simplified, but dramatically individual works by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Charles Despiau (1874-1946), Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964). In the background hang two color stencil pieces based on Matisse's late paper cuts, each an abstracted torso whose unity implies -- and seems to inspire in its viewers -- an unseen human wholeness. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Reflecting the here and hereafter May 25, 2007
"Diptych" leaves national issues aside to starkly ponder mortality, with the aid of Michelangelo and Constantin Brancusi. The mixed-media work, "Disburdened Flesh," borrows from the Sistine Chapel's "Last Judgment," in which Michelangelo painted a self-portrait into the flayed, empty human skin carried by Saint Bartholomew. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Seattle Art Museum grabs a lot more room -- with a view May 10, 2007
In addition to important pieces of Asian, African, Oceanic and Native American art, already areas of depth in SAM's holdings, the gifts encompass modern and contemporary artworks that any museum in America would covet, such as Richard Serra's colossal five-part "Wake" (2004), a 1926 bronze "Bird in Space" by Constantin Brancusi, Jasper Johns' "Thermometer" (1959) and John Singleton Copley's 1770s portrait of "Sylvester Gardiner.". The modern and contemporary works and arresting examples of... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Seattle Art Museum gets massive donations Apr 2, 2007
The downtown museum, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with the May unveiling of its massive remodeling effort, said the collectors' gifts include works by Edward Hopper, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Georgia O'Keeffe. "This is a landmark commitment for SAM and our community," said Mimi Gates, SAM director, in a statement. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Nancy Cunard: A troubled heiress with an ideological mission Mar 31, 2007
She played tennis with Ernest Hemingway, received house calls from James Joyce and modeled for Constantin Brancusi. Langston Hughes called her "one of my favorite folks in the world." William Carlos Williams, who kept a picture of her in his study, deemed her "one of the major phenomena of history.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
