print
- Museum number
- 2010,7090.3
- Title
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Object: Brancusi's Symbol of Joyce
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Series: James Joyce in Paris
- Description
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Brancusi's Symbol of Joyce; one of three prints not issued for sale from the 'James Joyce in Paris' project. 1983-84
Etching and sugar-lift aquatint
- Production date
- 1983-1984
- Dimensions
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Height: 179 millimetres
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Width: 129 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Blake's appropriation of Brancusi's curleycue drawing - the circular lines symbolising the exfoliation of Joyce's mind countered by the straight lines of his intellectual rigour - was contested by the Brancusi estate and an embargo placed on its sale. For copyright reasons the same fate befell two other plates: Brancusi's Portrait of Joyce and Joyce's Dance by Desmond Harmsworth.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7090.3
