Étude pour Mademoiselle Pogany
1912
A preliminary pencil study for Brâncuși's famous sculptural work, demonstrating the artist's meticulous planning process. This delicate drawing reveals the artist's exploration of form and modernist aesthetics.
- Medium
- pencil on paper
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modernités
October 25, 2022
Estimate: $80,000 to $120,000
Lot 39
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Amedeo Modigliani
Italian · b. 1884
Modigliani created pencil studies of portrait subjects with similarly elongated, simplified forms and modernist reduction of facial features, closely paralleling Brancusi's approach to distilling the human figure into essential shapes.
Pablo Picasso
Spanish · b. 1881
Picasso's early modernist figure studies on paper share the same investigative quality of using delicate pencil lines to explore sculptural volume and simplified facial geometry as preparatory explorations of form.
Umberto Boccioni
Italian · b. 1882
Boccioni produced pencil studies closely linked to his sculptural ambitions, exploring modernist reduction of the human figure with the same deliberate economy of line and formal experimentation seen in this Brancusi preparatory drawing.
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