The nickname for ‘The Beginning of the World’ is ‘the egg of Brancusi’. The artist himself declared this asymmetric form as the most complete type of beauty. The reduced, compact form refers not only to the beginning of the world, but also to the beginning and the mystery of human life. This thought is emphasised by the figurative Head of a Sleeping Child, which he made 16 years earlier.

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