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Monday, August 23, 2010
Princess X. @ 12:25 AM
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I titled this piece "Princess X".
I completed this in 1916, from polished bronze, mounted on a limestone block.

Blogs have a wider audience it seems, and I hope this piece will be better received with this new medium of exhibition. It is such a simple, modest, uncomplicated scuplture, with a clean design, an exemplary piece of art I must say! And yet the Salon de Independants dared to remove it from their exhibition in 1920 on grounds of obscenity!My sculpture is a portrayal of a feminine ideal, nothing more, nothing less. They say Picasso was the first one to declare it a phallus. How dare he make such a comparison. Any readings that characterize it as a sign of his desire for its model or for a formulation of sexual duality are outrageous! I thank my loyal friends who signed a manifesto protesting against the authorities' decision, but I have never been so insulted!

Hmph. Thinking of this incident makes me infuriated again. I am in no more state of mind to type.
Goodbye.

Brancusi.