Finding 11: Brancusi Studio Contact Sheet

The Constantin Brancusi retrospective exhibition opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on October 26, 1955. This contact sheet illustrates Brancusi’s sculptures in his Paris studio. An inscription on the back of the photograph reads “Alex Liberman” in pencil, suggesting that he was the photographer. Alexander Liberman appears elsewhere in the records, corresponding with James Johnson Sweeney about images taken at Brancusi’s studio.

Alexander Liberman, a mid-century photographer who bridged art and fashion, was also Art Director at Vogue and then Editorial Director at Condé Nast. He photographed artists such as Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, and Brancusi in their studios for the book, The Artist in His Studio.

—Martha Horan, archives assistant