Year 1910 Accession 49.70.225 Media Bronze Period Expressionism | Type Bronze sculpture Created 1909–1910 Genre Kinetic art | |
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Dimensions 15.2 cm × 24.1 cm × 17.1 cm (6 in × 9.5 in × 6.75 in) Location Metropolitan Museum of ArtMusée National d'Art ModerneArt Institute of Chicago Similar Constantin Brâncuși artwork, Bronze, Expressionist artwork | ||
Drawing sleeping muse brancusi s sculpture 3d trick art
The Sleeping Muse is a bronze sculpture created by Constantin Brâncuși in 1910. It was originally carved from marble using Baroness Renée Irana Franchon as the model. Refining the sculpture, Brâncuși cast several of the sculptures in bronze, which are now in museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. It is a model of a head, without a body, with markings to show features such as hair, nose, lips, and closed eyes. In A History of Western Art, Laurie Adams says that the sculpture has “an abstract, curvilinear quality and a smooth contour that create an impression of elegance.” By casting them in metal with a fine finish, these sculptures are "self-sufficient, archetypal modern forms".
