Brass version in the Cleveland Museum of Art

Torso of a Young Man is a sculpture created by Constantin Brâncuși between 1917 and 1922. It depicts the male torso as a simple cylinder mounted on vestigial cylindrical legs, cut off at mid-thigh.[1] Sidney Geist has pointed out that the sculpture, without genitalia, is itself a phallus with testes.[2] There are several versions. Torso of a Young Man I was carved from a fork in a maple branch wood mounted on a limestone block. It is now in the Brodsky Gallery of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A similar sculpture, dated 1923 and carved in walnut, is in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.[3] Brancusi also cast the torso in highly polished brass. The two examples of this version are held in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Krauss, Rosalind E. (1981). Passages in Modern Sculpture. MIT Press. pp. 85, 100, 279. ISBN 0262610337.
  2. ↑ Geist, Sidney (1967). Brancusi: A Study of the Sculpture. New York: Grossman. p. 59. OCLC 503234056.
  3. ↑ "Torso of a Young Man (I) (with image)". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Male Torso, 1917 with image". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Record Torso of a Young Man". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on December 27, 2023. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
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