Live Auction 784920th Century British & Irish Art
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
Lot 114

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)

Monkey

Closed27 May 2010

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GBP 58,850

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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
Monkey
signed 'Gaudier' (on the side of the bronze base)
bronze with a green and brown patina
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high, excluding marble base
Plaster conceived in October 1912, presumed lost or destroyed. The present work is one of only two known bronzes and was cast by Parlanti before 1930. The other cast has previously not come to light.

F.C. Johnson, by 1943, and by descent.

Specialist note

In a letter in late October 1912 to Sophie Brzeska, Gaudier reports that he has 'done ... a little statue of a monkey, one of a lynx, one of a puma'. The clay models for the lynx and the pumas were never cast.

A drawing of a monkey by Gaudier-Brzeska is illustrated in a book of 1913 called The Splendid Wayfaring by Gaudier-Brzeska's friend, Haldane MacFall.