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

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Provenance: The artist's studio.
H.S. (Jim) Ede, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1990 exhibition.

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Exhibited: London, William Weston Gallery, 20th Century British Art from Sickert to Hockney, 1990, no. 23.

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Literature: Exhibition catalogue, 20th Century British Art 'From Sickert to Hockney', London, William Weston Gallery, 1990, pp. 22-23, no. 23, illustrated.

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Notes: 'This drawing dates from the most important period of Gaudier's work and it is a particularly powerful example of his handling of a cubist approach to form, basically figurative but with the type of simplification and powerful abstraction which is fellow Vorticists found so exciting. Although Gaudier drew extensively few of his Vorticist-style drawings have survived' (see exhibition catalogue, 20th Century British Art 'From Sickert to Hockney', London, William Weston Gallery, 1990, p. 22).

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