Princess X - RADIVON NFT - BRÂNCUȘI X

*Princess X is a sculpture by the artist Constantin Brâncuși depicting the Princess Marie Bonaparte, a psychoanalyst in her own right and great supporter of Freud. A polished bronze atop a limestone block stands a little over two and a half feet tall, the piece was created between 1915 and 1916, and is now part of the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work was originally part of a "notorious scandal" when the Salon des Indépendants removed Princess X from display for its apparent obscene content, after some objected to the sculpture's phallic resemblance. Brâncuși was reportedly shocked and declared the incident a misunderstanding; he had created Princess X to evok...View all