Skip to main content
University of Cambridge

Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays

Please note the house will be temporarily closed for 4 weeks from 14 March 2024

Book Tickets

Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays

Please note the house will be temporarily closed for 4 weeks from 14 March 2024

Photo: © Kettle's Yard

Sculpture

Dog, 1914 (posthumous cast, 1965)

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Bronze cast
150 x 350 x 80 mm
[HGB 13 a]
Not on display

About the artist

Born 1891 – Died 1915

Henri Gaudier was born in St. Jean de Braye, near Orleans, in France. He first came to Britain in 1908.

Read the full biography

DISCOVER MORE

Gaudier’s marble Dog dates to mid-1914 and was one of his last works. Gaudier compresses the mass of the animal into two main areas of form, the head and the body, in a manner which relates closely to his other works. The carving relates to an early satirical drawing Woman and dog. It humorously undermines the odd appearance of the dog, thought to be a dachshund.

The original marble Dog was accidentally broken at Kettle’s Yard and in 1965 Jim Ede commissioned twelve bronze casts from the Fiorini & Carney Foundry in London. The original aluminium cast is now at the National Museum and Gallery of Wales, Cardiff and the others entered various collections around the world including The Tate Gallery, London.

“It might be thought simple to make a sculpture like ‘Dog’ by H. Gaudier-Brzeska, but so far as I know no one had done so in the whole world of sculpture, nor is it like any other sculptor’s work. It is essentially sculpture and at the same time is deeply realistic. I have known a child take it to bed instead of his ‘Teddy Bear’.” (Jim Ede, A Way of Life, 1984).

RELATED ARTWORKS

Sculpture

Dog, 1914 (posthumous cast, 1965)

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Dog Find out more

Drawing

Woman and dog, 1914

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Woman and dog Find out more

YOU MIGHT LIKE