Live Auction 796720th Century British & Irish Art
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
Lot 171

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)

Maquette for Flower Vase 2 (Garden Ornament 3)

Closed26 May 2011

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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
Maquette for Flower Vase 2 (Garden Ornament 3)
bronze with a green patina
14¼ in. (36.3 cm.) high
Carved in plaster in 1914; cast in lead in an edition of 1 on H.S. (Jim) Ede's instructions pre-1943; and cast in bronze in an edition of 6 by Fiorini and patinated by Henry Moore, 1964, and in an edition of 2 by R. Rowe, circa 1965.

Purchased by the present owners from Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.

Specialist note

This garden ornament was modelled by the artist as a maquette for a stone carving commissioned through the Omega workshops by Lady Hamilton. The sculpture was not completed and the stone for the carvings remained, almost untouched, outside the artist's studio after he left England to fight for France. It shows direct influence from Gaudier's study of primitive sculpture (R. Cole, loc. cit.).

The carved plaster of Maquette for Flower Vase 2 (Garden Ornament 3) (1914), is in the collection of Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.