Socrates

The Museum of Modern Art in New York (the USA).

The work was created under the direct impression of Eric Satie’s symphonic drama of the same name, which premiered in 1920. Brancusi and Sati were spiritually close; the Romanian master, in love with music all his life, created sculptures of Plato and Socrates, as well as several dozens of varieties of “The Cup of Socrates.” All of them are among the best and most famous creations of Brancusi, and all are openly and secretly dedicated to the great Sati. It is interesting that the composer also found in the famous “Infinite Column” of Brancusi a peculiar key to his opera “Paul and Virginia”.