Details
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.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1996, lot 45, where purchased by Lucy Ferry, and by descent.
Literature
H.S. Ede, A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska, London, 1930, p. 206.
Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1965, n.p., no. 95, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculpture and Drawings, New York, Gruenebaum Gallery, 1977, pp. 33-34, no. 14, another cast illustrated.
R. Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, p. 115, no. 61, another cast illustrated.
B.L. Fauquembergue Bernard, Le Lycée Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Saint-Jean-de-Braye, 1986, pp. 94-95, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1993, pp. 109, 112, no. 32, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art, London, 1996, p. 274, no. 100, pl. 148, plaster illustrated, as 'Maquette for Flower Vase 2 (Garden Ornament 3)'.
Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2009, pp. 130-131, no. 43, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
Cardiff, The Cardiff Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, July - August 1953, no. 6, lead exhibited.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Arts Council Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculpture, Pastels and Drawings, December 1955 - January 1956, no. 21, lead exhibited.
London, Folio Society, Gaudier-Brzeska, April - May 1964, no. 1, another cast exhibited.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, February 1965, no. 95, another cast exhibited.
New York, Gruenebaum Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculpture and Drawings, September - October 1977, no. 15, another cast exhibited.
Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, June - September 1993, no. 32, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Toulouse, Musée d'Art Moderne, October - December 1993.
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, June - September 2009, no. 43, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2009.
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