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Sleeping Muse

sculpture by Brancusi

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  • Constantin Brancusi
    In Constantin Brancusi: Early life and works

    …the first version of the Sleeping Muse, a sculpture of a woman’s face in which the features suggest an unformed block of marble. Also in 1908 Brancusi executed his first truly original work, The Kiss, in which the vertical figures of two entwined adolescents form a closed volume with symmetrical…

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