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HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)

Lot 23
21.03.2023 18:00UTC +00:00
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ID 922581
Lot 23 | HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)
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£ 100 000 – 150 000
HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)

Abstract Composition

pastel on paper

18 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (47.6 x 31.1 cm.)

Executed circa 1914.





Provenance

Ezra Pound.

R.A. Bevan, by 1956.

Acquired from the above by Anthony d'Offay, London, by 1969.

with Ivor Braka, London, where purchased by the present owner in November 1988.



Literature

M. Levy (intro.), Gaudier-Brzeska: Drawings and Sculpture, London, 1965, n.p., pl. IV, as 'Composition'.

Exhibition catalogue, Vorticism and its Allies, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, 1974, pp. 69, 74, no. 195, illustrated.

R. Cork, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age: Vol. II: Synthesis and Decline, London, 1976, p. 429, illustrated.

S. Compton, exhibition catalogue, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement, London, Royal Academy, 1987, n.p., exhibition not numbered, illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Orléans, Musée des Beaux Arts, 1993, p. 55, fig. 13.



Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, May - June 1918, no. 36, as 'pastel drawing'.

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Arts Council Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: An Exhibition of Sculpture, Pastels and Drawings, December 1956 - January 1957, no. 41, as 'Composition'.

London, d'Offay Couper Gallery, Abstract Art in England 1913-1915, November - December 1969, no. 26.

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Vorticism and its Allies, March - June 1974, no. 195.

New York, Davis & Long, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age, April 1977, no. 40.

London, Anthony d'Offay, Drawings and Pastels: Works from the Collection of Ezra Pound, September - October 1980, no. 43.

New Haven, Yale Centre for British Art, Blast: The British Answer to Futurism, April - June 1983, no. 13.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement, January - April 1987, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, May - August 1987.



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