Torso of a Young Man is a sculpture created by Constantin Brâncuși between 1917 and 1922. It depicts the male torso as a simple cylinder mounted on vestigial cylindrical legs, cut off at mid-thigh.[1] Sidney Geist has pointed out that the sculpture, without genitalia, is itself a phallus with testes.[2] There are several versions. Torso of a Young Man I was carved from a fork in a maple branch wood mounted on a limestone block. It is now in the Brodsky Gallery of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A similar sculpture, dated 1923 and carved in walnut, is in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.[3] Brancusi also cast the torso in highly polished brass. The two examples of this version are held in the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[4][5]
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