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Posted by ashtonstory on December 7, 2008
From the 1920s to the 1940s Constantin Brancusi was preoccupied by the theme of a bird in flight. He concentrated not on the physical attributes of the bird but on its movement. In Bird in Space wings and feathers are eliminated, the swell of the body is elongated, and the head and beak are reduced to a slanted oval plane. Balanced on a slender conical footing, the figures upward thrust is unfettered. Brancusis inspired abstraction realizes his stated intent to capture the essence of flight. This particular conception of Bird in Space is the first in a series of seven sculptures carved from marble and nine cast in bronze, all of which were painstakingly smoothed and polished.
Bird in Space has broken the world auction record for a sculpture in 2005 by fetching $27,456,000 at Christies New York to an anonymous buyer.
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