Background
Henri Gaudier was born on January 4, 1891, in St. Jean de Braye, Orleans, France.
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1939
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Dust jacket notes: "This collection of drawings done in various media, ink, pencil, charcoal and pastel, reveal Henri Gaudier-Brzeska as a superb draughtsman. Their range of subject matter is wide, showing his interest in primitive pottery, in Chinese calligraphy, in the somber atmosphere of Whitechapel and the fascination he felt for wild birds and animals. These drawings were sometimes the inspiration for works in bronze and stone, but they were all done in the first instance for their own sake, and every line proclaims the sensitive and serious artist.
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1946
Henri Gaudier was born on January 4, 1891, in St. Jean de Braye, Orleans, France.
He was mainly self-taught in England and Germany.
Gaudier showed exceptional precocity in his draftsmanship, animal figures, and abstract works such as The Dancer.
Once in England Gaudier-Brzeska fell in with the Vorticism movement of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis, becoming a founding member of the London Group.
After coming under the influence of Jacob Epstein in 1912, he began to believe that sculpture should leave behind the highly finished, polished style of ancient Greece and embrace a more earthy direct carving, in which the tool marks are left visible on the final work as a fingerprint of the artist.
In 1913, he assisted with the illustrations of Haldane Macfall's book The Splendid Wayfaring along with Claud Lovat Fraser and Edward Gordon Craig. In 1913 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska met Alfred Wolmark, the Jewish artist and modeled a bronze bust of the young artist, and the two remained close friends.
Despite the fact that he had only four years to develop his art, Gaudier-Brzeska has had a surprisingly strong influence on 20th-century modernist sculpture in England and France. His work can be seen at the Tate Gallery, Kettle's Yard, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans.
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1946Gaudier met and loved Sophie Brzeska, a Polish ex-governess twice his age when he was only 18. Gaudier was an artist and Brzeska a novelist. Returning to France in 1910, he added the name of his Polish companion Sophie Brzeska to his own.
