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Please note that the Garden Kitchen café at Kettle’s Yard will be closed from Tuesday 21 – Friday 24 April inclusive for essential maintenance.

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© Succession Brancusi - All rights reserved. ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2024

Drawing

Letter with sketches of 'The Kiss', 1933 (22 December)

Constantin Brâncuși
Pen and ink on paper
125 x 195 mm
CB 4
Not on display

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Born 1876 – Died 1957

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The letter reads:

“Mon cher Ede,

Je vous remerci pour la plus belle fleur et d’une autre part je vous dois un mot en reponse a votre charmante lettre a la suit de votre dernier visite – J’explique a Vera que je voulé faire une poeme en reponse – et voila! le montagne a acouché d’une surir [sic (souris)]

Je vous envoyé [sic] par Vera un catalog de mon exposition a New York Il paré [sic (parait)] que c’est un succes apres ce qu’on dit, mais J’ai eu beaucoup du mal pour le faire et de l’avoir fait

Bon noèl aussi et je vous embrasse tous les deux et de tout coeur

Brancusi

Je vous enverai aussi des photos – il me samblé [sic] que vous les avez toutes”