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Lot 255
HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)
Women Carrying Sacks
Closed22 March 2023
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GBP 12,000–18,000
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HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)
Women Carrying Sacks
signed with monogram (lower right)
bronze with a black patina, relief, mounted on a wooden panel
the bronze 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.); overall 16 x 12 3/4 in. (40.6 x 32.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1912-13.
This is one of the two bronze casts with black patina, taken by Horace Brodzky in the 1930s.
Four further casts were taken by Lady Epstein, 1964.
Women Carrying Sacks
signed with monogram (lower right)
bronze with a black patina, relief, mounted on a wooden panel
the bronze 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.); overall 16 x 12 3/4 in. (40.6 x 32.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1912-13.
This is one of the two bronze casts with black patina, taken by Horace Brodzky in the 1930s.
Four further casts were taken by Lady Epstein, 1964.
HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)
Women Carrying Sacks
signed with monogram (lower right)
bronze with a black patina, relief, mounted on a wooden panel
the bronze 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.); overall 16 x 12 3/4 in. (40.6 x 32.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1912-13.
This is one of the two bronze casts with black patina, taken by Horace Brodzky in the 1930s.
Four further casts were taken by Lady Epstein, 1964.
Women Carrying Sacks
signed with monogram (lower right)
bronze with a black patina, relief, mounted on a wooden panel
the bronze 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.); overall 16 x 12 3/4 in. (40.6 x 32.4 cm.)
Conceived circa 1912-13.
This is one of the two bronze casts with black patina, taken by Horace Brodzky in the 1930s.
Four further casts were taken by Lady Epstein, 1964.
with Alfred Willey, Bradford, where purchased in December 1932, and by descent.
H. Brodzky, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, London, 1932, n.p., another cast illustrated.
M. Levy (intro.), Gaudier-Brzeska: Drawings and Sculpture, New York, 1965, p. 29, no. 74, another cast illustrated.
R. Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, p. 62, no. 15, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art, With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, London, 1996, p. 260, no. 40, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, 'WE the Moderns': Gaudier-Brzeska and the Birth of Modern Sculpture, Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, 2007, p. 49, no. 3, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, London, Browse & Darby, 2008, n.p., no. 11, another cast illustrated.
M. Levy (intro.), Gaudier-Brzeska: Drawings and Sculpture, New York, 1965, p. 29, no. 74, another cast illustrated.
R. Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, p. 62, no. 15, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art, With a Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, London, 1996, p. 260, no. 40, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, 'WE the Moderns': Gaudier-Brzeska and the Birth of Modern Sculpture, Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, 2007, p. 49, no. 3, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, London, Browse & Darby, 2008, n.p., no. 11, another cast illustrated.
Cambridge, 36 Bridge Street, Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by Contemporary Artists, November 1933, no. 4, another cast exhibited, as 'Bronze Plaque'.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculptures, August - September 1972, no. 11, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Leeds, City Art Gallery, September - October 1972; and Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, October - November 1972.
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, 'WE the Moderns': Gaudier-Brzeska and the Birth of Modern Sculpture, January - March 2007, no. 3, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, March - June 2007.
London, Browse & Darby, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, June - July 2008, no. 11, another cast exhibited.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculptures, August - September 1972, no. 11, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Leeds, City Art Gallery, September - October 1972; and Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, October - November 1972.
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, 'WE the Moderns': Gaudier-Brzeska and the Birth of Modern Sculpture, January - March 2007, no. 3, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, March - June 2007.
London, Browse & Darby, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, June - July 2008, no. 11, another cast exhibited.