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HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)

Lot 18
21.03.2023 18:00UTC +00:00
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ID 922550
Lot 18 | HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)

Charm

Irish green marble, unique

4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) high

Carved in 1914.





Provenance

Ezra Pound.

with Anthony d'Offay, London, where purchased by the present owner in October 1989.



Literature

E. Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir, London, 1916, illustrated on the front cover.

E. Pound, exhibition catalogue, A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, London, Leicester Galleries, 1918, p. 129, no. 22.

H.S. Ede, A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska, London, 1930, p. 198, as ''Ornament', relief ajouré'.

H. Brodzky, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, London, 1933, p. 56.

E. Pound, exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Milan, Galleria Apollinaire, 1957, n.p., no. 2, illustrated.

R. Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, London, 1978, p. 111, no. 58.

J. Lewison (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculptor, Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, 1983, p. 58, no. 94.

W. Rubin (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Primitivism in 20th Century Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, p. 447, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1987, p. 81, no. 74, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1993, pp. 66-67, exhibition not numbered, fig. 4.

E. Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art, With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, London, 1996, p. 271, no. 85, pls. XIII, 130.

M. Antliff and V. Greene (eds.), exhibition catalogue, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, 2010, pp. 122, 187, no. 26, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Doré Galleries, Vorticist Exhibition, June 1915, no. c.

London, Leicester Galleries, A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, May - June 1918, no. 22, as 'A green stone charm'.

Milan, Galleria Apollinaire, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Con un Manifesto Vorticista, July - December 1957, no. 2.

Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculptor, October - November 1983, no. 94: this exhibition travelled to Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery, November 1983 - January 1984; and York, City Art Gallery, January - February 1984.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Primitivism in 20th Century Art, September 1984 - January 1985, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Detroit, Institute of Arts, February - May 1985; and Dallas, Museum of Art, June - September 1985.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, British Modernist Art: 1905-1930, November 1987 - January 1988, no. 74.

Bolzano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Beauty is Difficult: Homage à Ezra Pound, May - July 199Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, June - September 1993, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Toulouse, Musée d'Art Moderne, October - December 1993.

Durham, The Nasher Museum of Art, The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, September 2010 - January 2011, no. 26: this exhibition travelled to Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, January - May 2011; and London, Tate Britain, June - September 2011.



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