LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Size Notes:

height: 40cm.; 15¾in.

Edition:

7 of 7, signed, titled, dated 1913, numbered 7/7 and stamped with foundry stamp, Conceived in 1913 and cast in 1990, the present work is number 7 from the edition of 7.

Markings:

signed, titled, dated 1913, numbered 7/7 and stamped with foundry stamp

Exhibited:

London, Whitechapel Gallery, Twentieth Century British Art, 1914, cat. no.155 (stone version);; London, Mercury Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: An Exhibition of Sculpture and Works on Paper to Mark the Centenary of the Artist's Birth, 25th September - 26th October 1991, cat. no.1, illustrated (stone version);; London, Mercury Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculpture and Drawing, 21st October - 21st November 1992, cat. no.9 (another cast).

Literature:

Roger Cole, 'A Gaudier-Brzeska Sculpture Rediscovered', in Burlington Magazine, September 1990, No.1050, Vol. CXXXII, 1990, p.874 (stone version);; Evelyn Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska, Life & Art, With a Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, cat. no.53, illustrated pls.60-62 (stone version).

Provenance:

Private Collection, Canada, from whom acquired by the present owner in the early 1990s; ;