Torso of a Young Man

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.

Torso of a Young Man I was carved from a fork in a maple branch wood mounted on a limestone block.

A similar sculpture, dated 1923 and carved in walnut, is in the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.