Fish

Constantin Brancusi · Paris 1930

This is Fish, carved by Brancusi in blue-grey marble in nineteen thirty and set on a three-part pedestal he made himself. The pedestal is not furniture — Brancusi treated the base as part of the sculpture, and photographed his studio obsessively to control how the pieces stood together.

Medium Blue-gray marble 21 x 71 x 5 1/2" (53.3 x 180.3 x 14 cm), on three-part pedestal of one marble 5 1/8" (13 cm) high, and two limestone cylinders 13" (33 cm) high and 11" (27.9 cm) high x 32 1/8" (81.5 cm) diameter at widest point · Credit Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 508: Young Bird, Maiastra

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Chess Table, Adjustable Table, Extendable Table from E-1027, Untitled, Stool, Bell and Navels

More by Constantin Brancusi here: The Newborn, Young Bird, Maiastra, Endless Column, Socrates, Bird in Space