Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

BIRD PLUMING ITSELF

Lot Closed

November 17, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Sense of Form: Property from a Private British Collection

HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA

1891 - 1915

BIRD PLUMING ITSELF

pencil on paper

unframed: 38 by 25.5cm.; 15 by 10in.

framed: 59.5 by 46cm.; 23½ by 18in.

Executed in 1914.

We are grateful to Roger Cole for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Ezra Pound

Sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 May 1988, lot 62, where acquired by a Private Collector, New York

Their sale, Christie's, London, 26 June 2015, lot 233, where acquired by the present owner

Evelyn Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska, Life and Art: with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, no. 95, p. 298, illustrated p. 126

London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Drawings and Pastel Works from the Collection of Ezra Pound, 19 September - 16 October 1980, no. 36

Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Arts Council of Great Britain, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Sculptor 1891-1915, 15 October - 20 November 1983, no. 108, (as Drawing for sculpture), with tour to City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol; and City Art Gallery, York

London, Browse & Darby, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915, 18 June - 25 July 2008, no. 22, illustrated in the catalogue n.p.