Head of a Young Man

細節

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

出版

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).

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍場告示

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

拍品專文

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.