Eight wood and stone sculptures by famous Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi will be exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York from March 17, 2017 to January 3, 2018.

The Romanian Culture Institute (ICR) in New York announced on Thursday that the New York museum would showcase its rich holdings of the work of Constantin Brancusi in a gallery space devoted to the permanent collection.

The eight sculptures are The Sorceress / La sorcière (1916-1924), King of Kings / Le roi des rois (ca. 1938), Muse / La muse (1912), Adam and Eve / Adam et Eve (1921), The Miracle (Seal [I]) / Le Miracle (1930-1932), Flying Turtle (1940-1945), Watchdog / Chien de garde (1916), and Oak base (1920) - see pictures below.

Moreover, the exhibition will also include a number of photographs of Brancusi's studio in Paris and works in situ, taken by Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Wayne F. Miller, and the artist himself.

“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum began collecting Brancusi’s work in-depth in the mid-1950s under the leadership of its second director, James Johnson Sweeney. When Sweeney began his tenure at the museum, the collection was focused on non-objective painting. Sweeney significantly expanded the scope of the institution’s holdings, bringing in other styles and mediums, particularly sculpture. The Guggenheim’s commitment to Brancusi during these years extended beyond its collecting priorities, and in 1955 the museum held the first major exhibition of the artist’s work,” according to the Guggenheim Museum website.

The project is part of ICR New York’s strategy to celebrate this year 141 years since the birth of Constantin Brancusi, as well as commemorate 60 years since his death.

The Guggenheim Museum’s website registers some six million virtual visitors every year. Moreover, some one million people visit the museum every year (an average of 80,000 people per day).

Constantin Brancusi was born in 1876 in Hobita, southern Romania. Known as “the father of modern sculpture,” he was a painter, architect and a master of “abstract art.” He died in 1957, aged 81. Read more about him here.

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Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(Photos: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)