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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 2022 | L'Oiseau d'or | 1 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
sculpture
bronze
inscribed Brancusi, numbered 1/5, dated 71 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
Estate of the artist
Werner and Nelly Baer, Switzerland (acquired from the above circa 1971)
Private Collection, Germany (acquired by descent from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Ezra Pound, “Brancusi,” The Little Review , vol. VIII, no. 1, Autumn 1921, pls. 17 and 24, illustrations of another cast
“Brancusi,” This Quarter , vol. I, no. 1, Paris, Spring 1925, pl. 27, illustration of another cast
Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts , Berlin, 1926 pl. 525, illustration of another cast
Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts , Berlin, 1931, pl. 618, illustration of another cast
G. Paleolog, C. Brancusi , Bucharest, 1947, p. 39, illustration of another cast
Robert Payne, “Constantin Brancusi,” World Review ¸ vol. 8, London, October 1949, p. 64, illustration of another cast
Ionel Jianou, Brancusi , New York, 1963, pl. 46, illustration of another cast
Sidney Geist, Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture , New York, 1968, p. 69, illustrations of other casts
Athena T. Spear, Brancusi's Birds , New York, 1969, pls. 13 and 14, illustrations of other casts
Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago, Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957, A Retrospective Exhibition , 1969, p. 95, illustration of another cast
Sidney Geist, “The Birds. A Critique of the Catalog of a Recent Brancusi Monograph,” Artforum , November 1970
Sidney Geist, Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings , New York, 1975, p. 91, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Brancusi Photographe , 1977, pls. 15 and 27, illustrations of another cast in photographs of the artist's studio
Ionel Jianou, Brancusi , Paris, 1982, no. 151, p. 109, listed; pl. 46, illustration of another cast
Pontus Hulten, Natalia Dumitresco and Alexandre Istrati, Brancusi , Paris and Stuttgart, 1986, no. 108d, no. T1, p. 294, listed and illustration of another cast
Radu Varia, Brancusi , New York, 1986, pp. 233-35, illustrations in color of another cast; p. 45, illustration of another cast in an exhibition photograph
Eric Shanes, Constantin Brancusi , New York, 1989, p. 36, illustration in color of another cast
Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Brancusi: Photo , 1991, n.p., fig. 4, illustration of another cast
Margherita Andreotti, “Brancusi's Golden Bird: A New Species of Modern Sculpture,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies , vol. 19, no. 2, 1993, illustration of another cast on the cover and pp. 135, 137, 140, and 143; pp. 144, 145, 147, 152 and n.p, illustration of another cast in photographs of the artist's studio and of exhibitions
Dan Grigorescu, Brancusi and his Century , Bucharest, 1994, p. 28; pl 49, illustration of another cast
Sanda Miller, Constantin Brancusi, A Survey of His Work , Oxford, 1995, p. 152, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Constantin Brancusi, 1876-1957 , 1995, pp. 172-73, illustrations of another cast
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, L'Atelier Brancusi , 1997, p. 192, illustration of another cast in an exhibition photograph
Arthur C. Danto, The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World , New York, 2000, pp. 182 and 184
Friedrich Teja Bach, Constantin Brancusi. Metamorphosen plastischer Form , Cologne, 2004, p. 397, listed; pp. 456-57, illustrations of other casts
Exh. Cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Brancusi: The White Work , 2005, p. 113, illustration of another cast in a photograph by the artist
Jérôme Neutres, Brancusi New York, 1913-2013 , New York, 2013, pp. 54-55, illustration of another cast in a photograph of the artist's studio
Property from an Estate
Constantin Brancusi
1876 - 1957
L'Oiseau d'or
inscribed Brancusi, numbered 1/5, dated 71 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
bronze with marble base
height (including base): 50 ¼ in. 127.7 cm.
Conceived in 1919 and cast by Susse Fondeur from the Istrati-Dumitresco plaster in 1971.
Two examples of this model were cast during the artist's lifetime, and a further three were cast beginning in 1971 by the artist's heirs, Alexandre Istrati and Natalia Dumitresco, from a copy of the original plaster.
