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HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA | STANDING FEMALE FIGURE

Auction Closed

September 10, 03:41 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA

1891-1915

STANDING FEMALE FIGURE


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

bronze

height: 40cm.; 15¾in.

Conceived in 1913 and cast in 1990, the present work is number 7 from the edition of 7. 

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

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).

We are grateful to Roger Cole, whose publication on Henri Gaudier-Brzeska entitled No Stone Unturned will be published later this year with a newly revised catalogue raisonné, for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.