Drawing after Epstein, Bird Pluming Itself - Henri Gaudier-Brzeska - 1891-1915
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Year: 1914
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 38.1 x 25.4 cms
Description:
his remarkably sensitive drawing shows Gaudier at his most economical and reductive; his familiarity with the actions and postures of animals and birds, gained from his extensive experience of drawing them from nature, is used here to simplify and abstract their essential forms.
Provenance:
Ex collection Ezra Pound; private collection, New York.
Literature:
Evelyn Silber (David Finn, photography), Gaudier-Brzeska, Life and Art. With a catalogue raisonne of the sculpture. Thames & Hudson, London 1996, Illlustrated Pl.95, p.126.
Exhibition History:
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Drawings and Pastel Works from the Collection of Ezra Pound, Anthony dOffay Gallery, London, 1980, no. 36; Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Sculptor, 1891-1915, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 1983, no. 108.
