Brancusi made three somewhat similar sculptures entitled Torso of a Young Girl in 1921, 1923, and 1925. All of them are more abstract and symbolic than the previous works on the same theme. Their silhouettes--slightly tipped on their bases, broadened and rounded in the lower portion, delicately compressed above--show a further development of the stylized sensuousness he had seen in Khmer sculpture. The three versions of the 1920s are carved from a crystalline, luminous white marble--a perfect vehicle for Brancusi's idealized images of virginal femininity. Neither this Torso of a Young Girl nor any of the others was ever cast in bronze. Margit Rowell, from Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957 (1995), p. 200.