SHEELER CHARLES (1883 1965) Brancusi sculpture

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SHEELER, CHARLES (1883-1965)
Brancusi sculpture. Silver print, 9 1/2x5 inches (24.1x12.7 cm.), on period mount, with notations on mount recto. Circa 1940

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The sculpture is an artistic "depiction" of Agnes Meyer, who was a prominent art collector and patron of European avant-garde artists. Meyer's friendship with the Romanian-born Brancusi was longstanding. They were apparently introduced by Edward Steichen around 1912, and within a few years Meyer was among Brancusi's earliest American advocates and collectors. Over their decades-long friendship, Meyer assembled a choice collection of five Brancusi sculptures, including La Negresse Blonde (1926), which she and Elise Haas gifted to SFMOMA shortly after the artist's death.