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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   NEW!

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!

(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)

Constantin Brancusi at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Sleeping Child, ca.1906-08

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 12 works online

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Article on the conservation difficulties presented by Brancusi's The Infinite Column

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Bird in Space, 1923

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
A Muse, 1917

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

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   NEW!

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Tate Gallery, London, UK

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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "B"

Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (in German)  
Dana�de, 1913

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

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

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Mini-site for a 2005 exhibition - Brancusi and Serra: In Dialogue

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)

Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive

(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive

(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

Pictures from Image Archives:

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

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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

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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:

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

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A Restoration Without End? Brancusi's Column in Târgu-Jiu, Romania

Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies

Deutsche Bank Artmag
Brancusi in New York

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