Brancusi Danaide Pin

$10.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Adorn your cap, backpack or jacket lapel with Brancusi's Danaide. A stylized portrait of Margit Pogany, a Hungarian art student Brancusi met in Paris in 1910. He made a marble head of her from memory, then invited her to his studio. He was delighted when she recognized it. Photographs show that Miss Pogany had a round face with large eyes and strong eyebrows and wore her hair in a smooth chignon. Brancusi has refined her features down to the very purest form. The abstract curves of this piece can be seen as…