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Margit Pogany, self-portrait |
It turns out, after some investigation,
my creamy egg-like alien bust is that of Margit Pogany, a Hungarian art student. The famed Romanian sculptor, Constantin Brancusi, met her in Paris in 1910 and was his inspiration for his "Mademoiselle Pogany" series.
Over the course of 23 years, he constructed numerous versions of the sculpture, of which he is most famous.
My
Scott Antique Market find is a 1961 plaster copy of Brancusi's Mademoiselle Pogany III.
Constantin Brancusi, (1876-1957) was a central figure of the modern movement and a pioneer of abstraction. His sculpture is noted for its visual elegance and sensitive use of materials. Combining the directness of peasant carving with the sophistication of the Parisian avant-garde, he developed his own unique style by simplifying objects into the geometrical and sparse, for which he gained world-wide fame.
So, there you have it, my friends. Another Willow Manor mystery solved.
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| bronze Mademoiselle Pogany III, 1912 and my plaster Mademoiselle Pogany, 1961 |
