The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires | Henri GAUDIER-BRZESKA

DETAIL : John Singer SARGENT, The fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy 1907, The Art Institute of Chicago, American Art Collection

DETAIL : John Singer SARGENT, Almina, daughter of Asher Wertheimer 1908, Tate, London, presented by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes in 1922

Henri GAUDIER-BRZESKA | L'Oiseau de feu [Firebird]

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GAUDIER-BRZESKA, Henri

France 1891 – France 1915

England from 1907, France 1909-10, and 1914-15

L'Oiseau de feu
[Firebird] 1912

Sculpture

plaster with black paint

three plaster casts were made from the original clay sculpture, one of which was sent to the Parlanti Foundry, Parsons Green, to serve as the mould for the bronze; the location of the other two plaster is not known Raymond Drey had three bronzes cast from

63.6 (h) x 34.0 (w) x 27.0 (d) cm

signed, incised lower right base, "H. Gaudier/ Brzeska";
not dated

Purchased 1981

NGA 1981.727

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Richard Cork, Vorticism and abstract art in the ﬁrst machine age, 2 vols, London: Gordon Fraser, 1976
Roger Cole, Burning to speak: The life and art of Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford: Phaidon, 1978
Michael Lloyd, ‘Twentieth-century sculpture’, Art and Australia, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1982
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