Untitled (La Jeune Fille Enfleurs)
Constantin Brâncuși
Romanian and French, born Romania. 1876–1957
1921
A gelatin silver print of Constantin Brâncuși’s carved stone figure, made to show how he reduces the female body to monumental, geometric planes that suggest a timeless, essential form.
The close, softly lit photograph emphasizes a block-like torso and a mask-like face, where broad flattened planes and deep shadows make the stone read as both tactile and abstract.
Brâncuși’s stripping away of detail to emphasize pure volume helped inaugurate modernist sculpture’s turn toward abstraction and reshaped how artists and photographers represented form as elemental geometry.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
7 × 5" (17.7 × 12.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Edward Steichen
Accession
155.1964
Palette
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