HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)

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HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)
Duck
bronze with a dark brown patina
4 ½ in. (11.4 cm.) wide
Conceived in marble in 1914.
Cast in bronze in 1964-68 by Fiorini Foundry, London, in an edition of 14 for H.S. (Jim) Ede.
1 cast in lead on behalf of H.S. (Jim) Ede.

Private collection, UK.

A.M. Hammacher, Modern English Sculpture, London, 1967, p. 54, another cast illustrated.
R. Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, p. 108, no. 55, another cast illustrated.
R. Cole, Gaudier-Brzeska: Art and Myth, Bristol, 1995, pp. 75, 256, pl. 32, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art, London, 1996, p. 272, no. 90, pl. 132, marble illustrated.
A. Dezeuze, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Paris, 1999, pp. 56-60.
Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2009, pp. 144-145, no. 54, another cast illustrated.

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Gaudier-Brzeska, February 1965, no. 96, another cast exhibited.
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1969, no. 11, another cast exhibited.
Edinburgh, Mercury Gallery, Gaudier-Brzeska: Drawings and Sculpture, March - April 1984, no. 9, another cast exhibited.
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Les Années Cubistes: Collections du Centre Georges Pompidou, March - July 1999, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Lille, Muśee d'art Moderne de Lille Métropole.
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, June - September 2009, no. 54, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, October 2009 - January 2010.

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We are very grateful to Roger Cole and Max Waterhouse for their assistance in preparing this catalogue entry. Roger Cole is preparing a forthcoming catalogue raisonné of works by Gaudier-Brzeska.

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