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Constantin BRANCUSI

Lettre autographe signée adressée au Ministère roumain des cultes

Paris janvier 1914, 21x28,5 cm, une page sur un feuillet.

Handwritten signed letter addressed to the Romanian Ministry of Worship
 

Very important handwritten letter signed by Constantin Brâncuși addressed to the Romanian Ministry of Worship, written in black ink on a leaf of white paper. Embossed stamp and a trace of a stamp. Transverse folds from having been sent.
 
In this letter dated January 1914 and addressed to the Ministry of Worship, the sculptor requests authorisation to bring some of his sculptures to Romania for the exhibition of the "Tinerimea Artistica" company (Artistic Youth). Brâncuși was then in Paris, as evidenced by his address: « 54 rue du Montparnasse ». A list of works was visibly attached to the letter but, sadly, has disappeared.
This letter testifies to the close links maintained between Brâncuși and the Romanian artists of the "Tinerimea Artistica" who, since 1908, organized exhibitions bringing together paintings and sculptures. In March 1914 Brâncuși presents six works, including La Prière (1907), Le Baiser (1907-08), Mademoiselle Pogany (1913), at the fourteenth exhibition of this important artistic company. He was already a renowned sculptor at that time: the presence of five of his works at the Armory Show in New York (17 February – 15 March 1913), where his sculpture Mademoiselle Pogany caused a scandal due it its modernity at the side of Marcel Duchamp's Nu descendant un escalier and allowed him to become one of the major artists of the second decade of the 20th century.
 

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