Clothespin Kiss

April 1973, sold by M. Knoedler & Co. (New York) to Terese and Alvin S. Lane; 2008, deposited on long-term loan to the Chazen Museum of Art; 2012, bequeathed to the Chazen Museum of Art

• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1995. cat. no. 44.12

• Lane Collection, The: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/30/1995–12/3/1995

This print features a large, upright wooden clothespin that spans the height of the print. This central image is a simple drawing outlined in blue-green. Its wooden components are colored a dull yellow-tan, while the metal spring remains uncolored. Near the top, two dark blue-green splotches, resembling paint smudges, suggest clouds. To the lower left of the clothespin, a small black-and-white photograph shows an abstract sculpture of two figures locked in an embrace and kiss, mirroring the clothespin''s form. "Brancusi" is handwritten beneath this photograph. In the lower right corner, "Cpin Kiss" is handwritten. A pale blue-green rectangular background is framed by a thin, linear border in the same blue-green hue as the clothespin.

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• Prints
• Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection
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