Live Auction 21951Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale
HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)
Lot 167

HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)

Garden Ornament III

Closed19 October 2023

Estimate

GBP 15,000–25,000

Considering selling a similar item?

Discover its value with a complimentary estimate from our specialists.

More Information

How to sell

HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)
Garden Ornament III
bronze with a dark green patina
13 5⁄8 in. (34.6 cm.) high
Conceived in 1914.
Cast in bronze in 1964 by Fiorini Foundry, London, in an edition of 6 and patinated by Henry Moore.
3 later casts in bronze by Richard Rome circa 1965.
1 earlier cast in lead by H.S. (Jim) Ede, pre-1943.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1996, lot 45, where purchased by Lucy Ferry, and by descent.

Specialist note

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.

This is one of two works commissioned by General Sir Ian and Lady Hamilton through the Omega Workshops in Spring 1914, following Gaudier-Brzeska’s modelling of a bird-bath for Roger Fry’s garden at Durbins, near Guildford, in the same year. Roger Cole comments that this model displays ‘direct influences from Gaudier’s study of primitive sculpture’ (R. Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, p. 114).