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Cubist sculpture

Cubist sculpture developed in parallel with Cubist painting, beginning in Paris around 1909 with its proto-Cubist phase, and evolving through the early 1920s. Just as Cubist painting, Cubist sculpture is rooted in Paul Cézanne's reduction of painted objects into component planes and geometric solids; cubes, spheres, cylinders, and cones. Presenting fragments and facets of objects that could be visually interpreted in different ways had the effect of 'revealing the structure' of the object. Cubist sculpture essentially is the dynamic rendering of three-dimensional objects in the language of non-Euclidean geometry by shifting viewpoints of volume or mass in terms of spherical, flat and hyperbolic surfaces.

Paul Gauguin, Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses, relief, 97 × 75 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Paul Gauguin, Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses, relief, 97 × 75 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Antoine Bourdelle, 1910–12, La Musique, bas-relief, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

Antoine Bourdelle, 1910–12, La Musique, bas-relief, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

Constantin Brâncuși, 1912, Portrait of Mlle Pogany, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Armory Show postcard

Constantin Brâncuși, 1912, Portrait of Mlle Pogany, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Armory Show postcard

Constantin Brâncuși, 1909, Portrait De Femme (La Baronne Renée Frachon), now lost. Exhibited at 1913 Armory Show, published press clipping

Constantin Brâncuși, 1909, Portrait De Femme (La Baronne Renée Frachon), now lost. Exhibited at 1913 Armory Show, published press clipping

Constantin Brâncuși, Une Muse, 1912, plaster, 45.7 cm (18 in.) Armory Show postcard. Exhibited: New York, Armory of the 69th Infantry (no. 618); The Art Institute of Chicago (no. 26) and Boston, Copley Hall (no. 8), International Exhibition of Modern Art, February–May 1913

Constantin Brâncuși, Une Muse, 1912, plaster, 45.7 cm (18 in.) Armory Show postcard. Exhibited: New York, Armory of the 69th Infantry (no. 618); The Art Institute of Chicago (no. 26) and Boston, Copley Hall (no. 8), International Exhibition of Modern Art, February–May 1913

Alexander Archipenko, 1910, Le baiser (The Kiss)

Alexander Archipenko, 1910, Le baiser (The Kiss)

Alexander Archipenko, Portrait de Mme Kameneff

Alexander Archipenko, Portrait de Mme Kameneff

Alexander Archipenko, 1912, Dancers (Dance) (Der Tanz), 24 in. original plaster. This first version of Dancers was illustrated on the front cover of The Sketch, 29 October 1913, London

Alexander Archipenko, 1912, Dancers (Dance) (Der Tanz), 24 in. original plaster. This first version of Dancers was illustrated on the front cover of The Sketch, 29 October 1913, London

Alexander Archipenko, 1912, Le Repos, Armory Show postcard published in 1913

Alexander Archipenko, 1912, Le Repos, Armory Show postcard published in 1913

August Agero, c.1911-12, Jeune fille à la rose, wood sculpture, Exposició d'Art Cubista, Galeries Dalmau, Barcelona, 1912, catalogue

August Agero, c.1911-12, Jeune fille à la rose, wood sculpture, Exposició d'Art Cubista, Galeries Dalmau, Barcelona, 1912, catalogue

Amedeo Modigliani, c.1912, Female Head

Amedeo Modigliani, c.1912, Female Head

Umberto Boccioni, 1913, Synthèse du dynamisme humain (Synthesis of Human Dynamism), sculpture destroyed

Umberto Boccioni, 1913, Synthèse du dynamisme humain (Synthesis of Human Dynamism), sculpture destroyed

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1910, Torse de jeune homme (Torso of a young man), terracotta, Armory Show postcard, published 1913

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1910, Torse de jeune homme (Torso of a young man), terracotta, Armory Show postcard, published 1913

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1913, Le chat (The Cat), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1913, Le chat (The Cat), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1913, Les amants II, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1913, Les amants II, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1914, Femme assise, plaster, 65.5 cm (25.75 in), photograph by Duchamp-Villon

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1914, Femme assise, plaster, 65.5 cm (25.75 in), photograph by Duchamp-Villon

Joseph Csaky, ca 1920, Tête (front and side view), limestone, 60 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands

Joseph Csaky, ca 1920, Tête (front and side view), limestone, 60 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands

Joseph Csaky, 1920, Deux figures, relief, limestone, polychrome, 80 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands

Joseph Csaky, 1920, Deux figures, relief, limestone, polychrome, 80 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands

Edwin Scharff, Großer Schreitender Mann (Man of the Border), sculpture, before 1920

Edwin Scharff, Großer Schreitender Mann (Man of the Border), sculpture, before 1920

Otto Gutfreund, 1912–13, Cellista (Cello player), Museum Kampa, Prague

Otto Gutfreund, 1912–13, Cellista (Cello player), Museum Kampa, Prague

Proto-Cubism

Crystal Cubism

Modern sculpture

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1912, Art and Curiosity, the Beginning of Cubism, Le Temps

Canudo, Ricciotto, 1914, Montjoie, text by André Salmon, 3rd issue, 18 March

Reveredy, Pierre, 1917, Sur le Cubisme, Nord-Sud (Paris), March 15, 5-7

Apollinaire, Guillaume, Chroniques d'art, 1902–1918

Balas, Edith, 1981, The Art of Egypt as Modigliani's Stylistic Source, Gazette des Beaux-Arts

MIT Press, 1981

Krauss, Rosalind E., Passages in Modern Sculpture