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Sleeping Muse
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Artist Constantin Brâncuși
Year 1910
Dimensions 15.2 cm × 24.1 cm × 17.1 cm (6 in × 9.5 in × 6.75 in)
Location
Accession 49.70.225

The Sleeping Muse (Romanian: Muza Adormită) is a bronze sculpture created by Constantin Brâncuși in 1910. It was originally carved from marble using Baroness Renée-Irana Frachon as the model. Refining the sculpture, Brâncuși cast several of the sculptures in bronze, which are now in museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. It is a model of a head, without a body, with markings to show features such as hair, nose, lips, and closed eyes. In A History of Western Art, Laurie Adams says that the sculpture has "an abstract, curvilinear quality and a smooth contour that create an impression of elegance." By casting them in metal with a fine finish, these sculptures are "self-sufficient, archetypal modern forms".

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