Live Auction 763720th Century British Art
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
Lot 131

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)

Ornamental Mask

Closed12 December 2008

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GBP 9,750

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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
Ornamental Mask
numbered '3/8' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown and red patina
30 in. (76.2 cm.) high
Conceived in 1912 and cast at a later date by Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva, from the original plaster.

Private collection, Geneva.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 1 October 1997, lot 204.

Specialist note


The original painted and gilded plaster was commissioned by artist and theatre designer Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921) in December 1912 who paid £5 for its casting in plaster by Parlanti. It hung in Fraser's studio until his death.