Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Mercury Gallery, London
Galleria Pieter Coray, Lugano
Private Swiss Collection

London, Leicester Galleries, Memorial Exhibition, May - June 1918, cat. no.101, (plaster, as Bust of Mlle B, 1914);
Leeds, Temple Newsam, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings, 26th June - 29th August 1943, cat. no.79 (bronze cast);
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Sculpture and Drawings by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 9th -28th June 1952, cat. no.9 (bronze cast);
London, Folio Society, Gaudier Brzeska: Sculpture and Drawings, 27th April - 22nd May 1964, cat. no.3, illustrated (bronze cast on marble plinth);
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Sculptures, 12th August - 10th September 1972, cat. no.6 (bronze cast), with tour to Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, and National Museum of Wales, Cardiff;
London, Mercury Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Sculpture, 15th March - 16th April 1977, cat. no.3 (bronze cast), with tour to Middlesborough Art Gallery, Middlesborough, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, and Bradford Museum and Art Gallery, Bradford;
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Arts Council Exhibition, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Sculptor 1891-1915, 15th October - 20th November 1983, cat. no.10 (bronze cast, lent by Mercury Gallery), with tour to City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, and York City Art Gallery, York;
Lugano, Galleria Pieter Coray, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1984, cat. no.36, illustrated;
Edinburgh, Mercury Gallery, Gaudier-Brzeska Drawings and Sculpture, 30th March - 28th April 1984, cat. no.2 (bronze cast); 
London, Mercury Gallery, Gaudier-Brzeska, 4th February - 29th March 1987, cat. no.2 (bronze cast);
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 24th June - 14th September 2009, cat. no.67, illustrated p.162, 163 (another cast), with tour to Museé des beaux-arts d'Orléans, Orleans.

H. S. Ede, A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1930, p.205;
Horace Brodzky, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Faber & Faber Ltd., London, 1932, illustrated (plaster);
Mervyn Levy (ed.), Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Drawings and Sculpture, Cory, Adams & Mackay Ltd, London, 1965, p.29, illustrated pl.72 (another cast);
Roger Cole, Burning to Speak, the Life and Art of Henri Gaudier Brzeska, Phaidon, Oxford, 1978, cat. no.8, illustrated p.55 (another cast);
Roger Cole, Artist and Myth, Sansom & Company, Bristol, 1995, p.88;
Evelyn Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska, Life & Art, With a Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture, Thames & Hudson, London, 1996, cat. no.106, illustrated pls.157, 160 (another cast);
Paul O'Keeffe, Gaudier-Brzeska, An Absolute Case of Genius, Penguin, London, 2004, p.244, 246, illustrated p.247 (another cast);
H. S. Ede, Savage Messiah, Kettle's Yard and the Henry Moore Institute, Cambridge and Leeds, 2011, p.219.

Generally the sculpture appears sound and is in very good condition. The patina is lightly rubbed in places but is generally rich. There is a small scuff on the forehead, a tiny spot of oxidization to the back of the bun and a very minor casting flaw to the underside of the bun. There is some light evidence of dirt and residue in the crevices. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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We are grateful to Dr Roger Cole for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.