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Property from a New York Private Collection
Constantin Brancusi
Portrait de femme (Coiffée en turban)
Auction Closed
May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a New York Private Collection
Constantin Brancusi
1876 - 1957
Portrait de femme (Coiffée en turban)
signed C Branc (lower right)
oil and pencil on cardboard
25⅞ by 19 in.
65.8 by 48.4 cm.
Executed in 1914.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Mrs. Margit Rowell.
Dina Vierny, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Jean-Claude Bellier, Paris (acquired in the 1960s)
Luc Bellier, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren, Marino (acquired by 1971 and until the 1990s)
Finarte, Milan, 14 April 1992, lot 248
Private Collection, Italy (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s, Paris, 21 April 2022, lot 32 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Jean-Claude Bellier, Paris (acquired in the 1960s)
Luc Bellier, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren, Marino (acquired by 1971 and until the 1990s)
Finarte, Milan, 14 April 1992, lot 248
Private Collection, Italy (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s, Paris, 21 April 2022, lot 32 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Marcello Venturi, "La casa e la collezione di Carlo Ponti e Sophia Loren,” Bolaffiarte, vol. II, no. 12, Summer 1971, p. 50, illustrated (in a photograph of the collection in situ)
Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum der Stadt, Pariser Begegnungen 1904-1914: Café du Dôme, Académie Matisse, Lehmbrucks Freundeskreis, 1965, no. 417, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier, Autour du cubisme, 1967, no. 1, illustrated (titled Portrait de Mlle Pogany)
Caserta, Palazzo Reale, La Collezione Ponti-Loren al Palazzo Reale di Caserta, 1984, p. 37, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier, Autour du cubisme, 1967, no. 1, illustrated (titled Portrait de Mlle Pogany)
Caserta, Palazzo Reale, La Collezione Ponti-Loren al Palazzo Reale di Caserta, 1984, p. 37, illustrated