Studio drawing
Constantin Brâncuși
Romanian and French, born Romania. 1876–1957
n.d.
A pencil-on-paper studio sketch in which Brâncuși records tools, a workbench, and emerging sculptural shapes to study their essential forms.
Spare, incisive lines turn workshop clutter—benches, clamps and rounded forms—into overlapping cylinders, ovals and flat planes that read like three-dimensional notes rather than a finished image.
The drawing reveals Brâncuși’s working method of rapid observation and reduction, showing how such sketches fed his modernist project of distilling objects into the pure, iconic forms that reshaped twentieth-century sculpture.
Medium
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
15 1/4 x 12 3/4" (38.8 x 32.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Sheeler
Accession
701.1980
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