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Artist or Maker: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)

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Description: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915)
Head of an Idiot/Head of a Jew (Self-Portrait)
bronze with a dark brown patina
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high, excluding the base
Conceived in plaster in October 1912 and cast in 1939 in an edition of 7 by Anton Zwemmer.

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Provenance: with Zwemmer Gallery, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 13 June 1986, lot 291.
with Mercury Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner.

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Exhibited: Leeds, Temple Newsam, Roy de Maistre and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , June - August 1943, no. 59, another cast exhibited.

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Notes: THE PROPERTY OF A LONDON COLLECTOR


The artist's friend, Horace Brodsky, described this work as a satirical self-portrait.