Condition Report: With handling marks. Matte heavy paper. Blacklight tested, no fluorescence. Trimmed on the right edge (pencil markings visible in places on the front). Right edge approx. 10 cm from the bottom (above of the chin) with a diagonal crease, approx. 7.5 cm long. Lower left corner with two creases, approx. 9 and 3 cm long. Further minor crease marks in the upper corners and sporadically in the margin area. Silvering and fingerprints in places in raking light. Image motif reworked with diluted opaque white and graphite (contours and shading), visible in raking light

From Constantin Brâncusi to Barbu Brezianu, Bucharest, to the current owner

Alfred Stieglitz: The First Great Clinic to Revitalize Art, in: New York American Sunday, 26.1.1913 (there caption: Another Portrait Bust by Brancusi, Carved from Common Stone. Here the Expression of the Face Is Accentuated at the Coast of the Features) / Harriet Monroe: Bedlam in Art. A Show that Clamors, in: The Chicago Sunday Tribune, 16.2.1913, Vol. 72, Issue 7, Part Seven (there titled: Portrait) Julius Krause: Eine Internationale Ausstellung. Die Kunst der Zukunft? - Kubisten, Futuristen u.A. zum ersten Male in New York, in: Sonntagsblatt der "New Yorker Staatszeitung", 15.2.1913 (there titled: Portrait einer Schauspielerin) / M.P.A. [Monsieur Petre Antonescu] (Ed.): La Roumanie en Image, Vol. 1, Paris 1919, p. 195 (there titled: Portrait) / Albert Dreyfus: Constantin Brancusi, in: Der Querschnitt, Berlin, Jg. 3 (1923), Heft 3/4, Bildteil unpaginated, between p. 118 and p. 119 (there titled: Frauenkopf) / Albert Dreyfus: Constantin Brancusi, in: Cahier d'Art, Paris, 2 (1927), No. 1, p. 69 (there titled and dated: Tête de femme, Pierre, 1908) / Carola Giedion-Welcker: Constantin Brancusi. 1876-1957. Neuchâtel 1958, p. 57, pl. 9 (there bigger image section, titled and dated: Tête de femme, 1908, Pierre and note: Diese Abbildung im Katalog ist nach einer Aufnahme von Brancusi reproduziert) / Tribuna, Jg. X, Nr. 8 (24.2.1966), p. 4, ill. 5 (there titled: Portret de femeie (piatră, 1908)) / This Quarter, Vol.I, N°1, Printemps, Paris 1925 (Reprint 1967), picture section unpaginated between p. 237 and p. 247 (there bigger image section, titled and dated: La Baronne R.F. (pierre 1910)) / Barbu Brezianu: Brancusi în România. Bukarest 1976, p. 243, pl. 63, ill. 264 (there titled and dated: Portretul Baroanei, Piatră, 1909) / Friedrich Teja Bach (Hg.): Constantin Brancusi. Metamorphosen Plastischer Form. Köln 1987, p. 428, ill. 91 (there titled and dated: Baronin R.F. (Tête de Femme), 1909) / Exh.cat.: Brancusi als Fotograf. Ein Bildhauer fotografiert sein Werk, Die Schenkung Carola Giedion – Welcker im Kunsthaus Zürich. Vaduz, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung; Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum; Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, 1996/98, pl. 16 (there bigger image section, titled and dated: La Baronne R.F. (Renée Franchon), 1910 / Radu Varia: Brancusi. New York 2002, p. 115 (there titled and dated: Baroness (Renée Irana Frachon), 1909, Stone) / Exh.cat.: Brancusi. Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2024, p. 101 (there bigger image section, titled and dated: Die Baronin R.F., (Frauenkopf), Stein (1909), um 1909)