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    Constantin Brâncuși: The Endless Column (1938)

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    Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian-born sculptor born in 1876 in Hobita, Romania who worked in the style of modernism. Some of his most famous sculptures include The Kiss, The Gate of the Kiss, Table of Silence, and The Endless Column. His sculptures broke auction records, with one selling for $37.2 million in 2009. Brâncuși used materials like marble, stone, bronze, wood, and metal to create his minimalist forms. He died in 1957 in Paris, leaving behind over 200 sculptures.

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    Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian-born sculptor born in 1876 in Hobita, Romania who worked in the style of modernism. Some of his most famous sculptures include The Kiss, The Gate of the Kiss, Table of Silence, and The Endless Column. His sculptures broke auction records, with one selling for $37.2 million in 2009. Brâncuși used materials like marble, stone, bronze, wood, and metal to create his minimalist forms. He died in 1957 in Paris, leaving behind over 200 sculptures.

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    Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian-born sculptor born in 1876 in Hobita, Romania who worked in the style of modernism. Some of his most famous sculptures include The Kiss, The Gate of the Kiss, Table of Silence, and The Endless Column. His sculptures broke auction records, with one selling for $37.2 million in 2009. Brâncuși used materials like marble, stone, bronze, wood, and metal to create his minimalist forms. He died in 1957 in Paris, leaving behind over 200 sculptures.

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    Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian-born sculptor born in 1876 in Hobita, Romania who worked in the style of modernism. Some of his most famous sculptures include The Kiss, The Gate of the Kiss, Table of Silence, and The Endless Column. His sculptures broke auction records, with one selling for $37.2 million in 2009. Brâncuși used materials like marble, stone, bronze, wood, and metal to create his minimalist forms. He died in 1957 in Paris, leaving behind over 200 sculptures.

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    Constantin Brncui

    The Endless Column (1938)

    Born:February 19, 1876 Hobita, Romania


    Died: March 16, 1957 Paris, France Romanian-born sculptor Movement: Modernism

    Brancusi's Paris studio


    -1933-

    -1920-

    Artwork

    Table of Silence, 1938 The Gate of the Kiss, 1938

    Portrait of Mademoiselle Pogany, 1912

    Sleeping Muse

    Madame L.R. (Portrait de Mme L.R.)


    was sold at Christies auction of the Yves Saint Laurent collection of Art in 2009 for $37.2 million, making it the worlds 7th most expensive sculpture

    The Kiss, 1916

    The materials Brancusi used - primarily marble, stone, bronze, wood, and metal - guided the specific forms he produced. He died on March 16, 1957 at the age of 81 leaving 1200 photographs and 215 sculptures. He was buried in the Cimetire du Montparnasse in Paris.

    In 2002, a sculpture by Brncui named "Danaide" was sold for $18.1 million, the highest that a sculpture piece had ever sold for at auction.In May 2005, a piece from the "Bird in Space" series broke that record, selling for $27.5 million in a Christie's auction. In the Yves Saint Laurent/Pierre Berg sale on February 23, 2009, another sculpture of Brncui, "Madame L.R.", was sold for 29.185 million ($37.2 million), setting a new historical record.
    His works are housed in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the National Museum of Art of Romania (Bucharest), and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), as well as in other major museums around the world. The Philadelphia Museum of Art currently has the largest collection of Brncui sculptures in the United States

    Danaide

    Bird in the sky

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