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Romanian banknote 500 LEI 1991 with Constantin Brâncuși ,
Constantin Brâncuși : February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain and others. But other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions.
Of his works :
Bust of a boy (1906)
The Prayer (1907)
La Sagesse de la Terre (1908)
Sleeping Muse (1910), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mademoiselle Pogany (1912), Philadelphia Museum of Art
Miss Pogany (1913,) drawing, the Botarro Collection
The Kiss (1916), Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princess X (1916), Philadelphia Museum of Art
Madame L.R. (1914–1918)
A Muse (1917)
Chimera (1918)
Eileen Lane (1922), the Botarro Collection
Bird in Space (1924), Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portrait of Nancy Cunard (also called Sophisticated Young Lady) (1925–1927)
Le Poisson (1926)
Le Coq (1935)
Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu (1935).