拍品专文
Nu belongs to a series of drawings that Margit Rowell terms the ‘Sculpted Drawings’: ‘the technique precisely echoes the sculptor’s working gestures and the tactile nature of his vision. Some of these works are autonomous images; others prefigure or are reminiscent of existing sculptures. Using graphite or coloured pencils with wide, flat leads, Brancusi hollowed and heightened, flattened and rounded out his motif, sculpting his volumes through a fluid juxtaposition of broad planes. […] In comparison with most of Brancusi’s drawings, these works show an uncommon ease and self-assurance. And precisely what could be more natural to the sculptor’s vision than to shun the line and soften the contours? This is the hand of the sculptor at work, squaring, cutting, or polishing his material to bring out its volumes and ensnare the light’ (M. Rowell, exh. cat., Constantin Brancusi, Philadelphia, 1995, pp. 287 & 288).