Made in Britain
Made in Britain
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.