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Constantin Brancusi
[Romanian Abstract Sculptor, 1876-1957]
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Constantin Brancusi Works Online
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Original works by Constantin Brancusi available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Constantin Brancusi at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Sleeping Child, ca.1906-08
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. 6 works online
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Article on the conservation difficulties presented by Brancusi's The Infinite Column
Constantin Brancusi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History Bird in Space, 1923
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 19 works online when last checked
Constantin Brancusi at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Woman's Head, ca.1910
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2 works by Brancusi
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Nancy Cunard (Sophisticated Young Lady), 1925-27 (Zoom)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Bird in Space, 1932-40
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Maiastra, 1912 Bird in Space, 1932-40
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Maiastra, 1912
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut Yellow Bird
Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French)  Information dossier on the artist
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan The Cock
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "B"
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (in German)  Danaïde, 1913
Constantin Brancusi in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (in Portuguese)  Mlle. Pogany, 1920
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Museum of Art of Romania Nude, pen and ink, 1924
National Museum of Art of Romania The Prayer
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) 18 works by Constantin Brancusi online
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri Mini-site for a 2005 exhibition - Brancusi and Serra: In Dialogue
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (Click the "Modern" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Artcyclopedia Masterscan feature: Sleeping Muse
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  Scroll down for a work from the 2005 exhibition Masterpieces from the Guggenheim
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations Blond Negress, bronze
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works  The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Constantin Brancusi  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Apollo Magazine Article: "Brancusi's women"
ArtWatch International (Free registration required) A Restoration Without End? Brancusi's Column in Târgu-Jiu, Romania
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Deutsche Bank Artmag Brancusi in New York
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) 
The Art Story
The Magazine Antiques Image 3 in the slideshow is Madame L.R., 1914-17
The New York Observer "The sculpture of Constantin Brancusi", article by Hilton Kramer
Time Magazine "Funk and Chic", 1995 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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