ID 922657
Lot 123 | HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
Knuckle-Duster
cut brass, unique
4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm.) wide
Carved in 1914.
Provenance
A gift from the artist to T.E. Hulme.
Gillian Raffles.
with Ivor Braka, London, where purchased by the present owner in November 1988.
Literature
R. Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, p. 177, no. 65B, illustrated.
R. Cork, Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age: Origins and Development, Vol. 1, London, 1975, p. 160.
Exhibition catalogue, Gaudier-Brzeska et le Primitivisme, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1993, p. 66, fig. 3.
E. Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art, London, 1996, p. 272, no. 88, pl. 165.
J. Wood, exhibition catalogue, Blasting the Future! Vorticism in Britain 1910-1920, London, Estorick Collection of Italian Art, 2004, pp. 42, 46-47.
R. Cork, exhibition catalogue, Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill, London, Royal Academy, 2009, p. 153, fig. 54.
Exhibited
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculptor, October - November 1983, no. 96: this exhibition travelled to Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery, November 1983 - January 1984; and York, City Art Gallery, January - February 1984.
London, Mercury Gallery, Gaudier-Brzeska, May - June 1987, no. 12.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
| Artist: | Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891 - 1915) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Brass |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Artist: | Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891 - 1915) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Brass |
| Art style: | Modern art |
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