Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (French, 1891-1915) Religious Head inscribed 'Z M/v/P K' (on the reverse) bronze with a dark brown patina 12.5cm (4 15/16in) high Conceived in 1912 and cast in 1965, the present work is from the edition of 12 Fußnoten Provenance Acquired by the family of the present owner circa the 1980s, and thence by descent Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited Orléans, Musée des Beaux Arts, Henri Gaudier, sculpteur orléanais, 17 March-22 April 1956, cat.no.3 (another cast) Literature H. S. Ede, A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1930, p.205 (another cast) Roger Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Phaidon, Oxford, 1978, cat.no.23, (ill. p.72, another cast) Evelyn Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska, Life and Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, cat.no.20, (ill.b&w pl.16, another cast) We are grateful to Dr Roger Cole, whose forthcoming publication No Stone Unturned: The Life and Work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska will be published this year with a newly revised catalogue raisonné, for his assistance in cataloguing this lot and lot 14. The initials inscribed on the reverse are thought to refer to the short-lived but intense friendship between Gaudier (P[ik]) and Sophie (Z[osienka]) with Middleton Murry (M) and Katherine Mansfield (K), which flourished over the summer of 1912 but came to an end in September of the same year.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (French, 1891-1915) Religious Head inscribed 'Z M/v/P K' (on the reverse) bronze with a dark brown patina 12.5cm (4 15/16in) high Conceived in 1912 and cast in 1965, the present work is from the edition of 12 Fußnoten Provenance Acquired by the family of the present owner circa the 1980s, and thence by descent Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited Orléans, Musée des Beaux Arts, Henri Gaudier, sculpteur orléanais, 17 March-22 April 1956, cat.no.3 (another cast) Literature H. S. Ede, A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1930, p.205 (another cast) Roger Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Phaidon, Oxford, 1978, cat.no.23, (ill. p.72, another cast) Evelyn Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska, Life and Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, cat.no.20, (ill.b&w pl.16, another cast) We are grateful to Dr Roger Cole, whose forthcoming publication No Stone Unturned: The Life and Work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska will be published this year with a newly revised catalogue raisonné, for his assistance in cataloguing this lot and lot 14. The initials inscribed on the reverse are thought to refer to the short-lived but intense friendship between Gaudier (P[ik]) and Sophie (Z[osienka]) with Middleton Murry (M) and Katherine Mansfield (K), which flourished over the summer of 1912 but came to an end in September of the same year.
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