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Bird Pluming Itself
Details
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
Bird Pluming Itself
pencil
14¾ x 9¾ in. (37.5 x 25 cm.)
Executed in 1914.
Bird Pluming Itself
pencil
14¾ x 9¾ in. (37.5 x 25 cm.)
Executed in 1914.
Provenance
Ezra Pound.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 May 1988, lot 62.
Private collection, New York, where purchased by the present owner in 2002.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 May 1988, lot 62.
Private collection, New York, where purchased by the present owner in 2002.
Literature
E. Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska, Life and Art, with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, London, 1996, pp. 126, 298, no. 95, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915, London, Browse & Darby, 2008, no. 22, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915, London, Browse & Darby, 2008, no. 22, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Drawings and Pastel Works from the Collection of Ezra Pound, September - October 1980, no. 36.
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Arts Council of Great Britain, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Sculptor 1891-1915, October - November 1983, no. 108, as 'Drawing for sculpture': this exhibition travelled to Bristol, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, November - January 1984; and York, City Art Gallery, January - February 1984.
London, Browse & Darby, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915, June - July 2008, no. 22.
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Arts Council of Great Britain, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Sculptor 1891-1915, October - November 1983, no. 108, as 'Drawing for sculpture': this exhibition travelled to Bristol, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, November - January 1984; and York, City Art Gallery, January - February 1984.
London, Browse & Darby, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915, June - July 2008, no. 22.