LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Bath stone

Measurements:

11.97 in. (30.40 cm.) (height)

Exhibited:

London, Alpine Club Gallery, Grafton Group, January 1914, no. 47. London, Leicester Galleries, A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, May - June 1918, no. 94. London, J. and E. Bumpus, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. An Exhibition of Drawing and Statues, April - May 1931, no. 39. Birmingham, Museums and Art Gallery, on loan until 2007.

Literature:

E. Pound, Gaudier Brzeska. A Memoir, London and New York, 1916, p. 161, no. 24, pl. 9, as A Faun, crouching. H.S. Ede, A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska, London, 1930, p. 198. H. Brodzky, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, London, 1932, pp. 176, 182. R. Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, p. 100, no. 48, as 'Fawn Crouching'. E. Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska Life and Art, London, 1996, pp. 42, 98, 121, 130, 265, no. 62, pl. 80.

Provenance:

Mrs B. Mayor, by whom purchased at the 1914 exhibition, and by descent to Lady Rothschild, and by descent to the present owner.