Head of a Young Man

Details

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
Head of a Young Man
cast stone composite
12½ in. (31.7 cm.) high
Conceived and cast in Germany in 1912 an edition of 12

Literature

R. Cole, Burning to Speak, The life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, no. 9, p. 56 (another cast illustrated).
E. Silber and D. Finn, Gaudier-Brzeska Life and Art, London, 1996, p. 260, no. 44, pl. 41 (another cast illustrated).

Special notice

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Sale room notice

Please note that this work was cast during the 1960s, and not in 1912, as stated in the catalogue entry.

Lot Essay

R. Cole (loc. cit.) identifies this carving with the early months of Gaudier's friendship with Epstein: 'At last Gaudier had found someone who not only held similar attitudes to his own but was developing those ideas in his sculpture. Epstein was to be admired, almost revered, and certainly for a period after their first meeting Gaudier aspired to be a real sculptor in stone like Epstein'.

For a drawing by Harold Gilman of Head of a Young Man, see British Art on Paper, Christie's, London, 21 November 2001, lot 123.

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