Born 1891 – Died 1915
Henri Gaudier was born in St. Jean de Braye, near Orleans, in France. He first came to Britain in 1908. He met Sophie Brzeska while working as a student in the evenings at Ste. Genevieve Library in Paris in 1910. In the same year he left France under a cloud of social hostility and settled in England adding the name Brzeska to his own soon after. He worked in isolation until he met Middleton Murray in 1912, whereafter he built up a circle of artists and intellectuals which included Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and T. E. Hulme. He became involved in Pound’s and Lewis’ Vorticist group, contributing to the two issues of their magazine Blast. Gaudier was killed in action during the First World War in Belgium.
Works by this artist in the permanent collection
- Abstract design (pawnbroker’s sign) (displayed)
- Bird (displayed)
- Bird (displayed)
- Bird landing on water (reserve collection)
- Bird Swallowing a Fish (reserve collection)
- Bird Swallowing a Fish (displayed)
- Birds Erect (displayed)
- Black & White poster (aka Boxers) (reserve collection)
- Boats (displayed)
- Boy with uplifted arms (displayed)
- Brahmin Bulls (reserve collection)
- Bristol sketchbook (reserve collection)
- Caricature of Georges Banks (displayed)
- Caritas (reserve collection)
- Caritas (displayed)
- Caritas (displayed)
- Cat (reserve collection)
- Cat (displayed)
- Cock (reserve collection)
- Cock (reserve collection)
- Crouching woman (reserve collection)
- Cubist Cock (displayed)
- Dancer (displayed)
- Design (reserve collection)
- Design for ‘Door-Knocker’ (reserve collection)
- Design for Vorticist Ornament (displayed)
- Dog (reserve collection)
- Dog (displayed)
- Door-Knocker (reserve collection)
- Door-Knocker (displayed)
- Duck (displayed)
- Duck (displayed)
- Duck (reserve collection)
- Eagle (reserve collection)
- Eagle (reserve collection)
- Elephant (displayed)
- Ezra Pound (displayed)
- Female nude (reserve collection)
- Female nude (displayed)
- Female nude, kneeling and flexing right arm (displayed)
- Female torso (displayed)
- Figure (displayed)
- Fox (displayed)
- Garden Ornament (reserve collection)
- Garden Ornament 2 (or Maquette for Flower Vase 1) (displayed)
- Garden Ornament 3 (or Maquette for Flower Vase 2) (reserve collection)
- Garden Ornament 3 (or Maquette for Flower Vase 2) (displayed)
- Girl (displayed)
- Girl with a book (reserve collection)
- Girl with skirt blowing (displayed)
- Grace and Speed, or The Golden Eagle’s Wing (displayed)
- Half-length figure (reserve collection)
- Head (displayed)
- Head (reserve collection)
- Head (reserve collection)
- Head (displayed)
- Head (displayed)
- Head (profile) (reserve collection)
- Head of a boy (reserve collection)
- Head of a girl (reserve collection)
- Head of a horse (displayed)
- Head of a man (reserve collection)
- Head of a man (reserve collection)
- Head of a wrestler (reserve collection)
- Head of Mlle Borne (displayed)
- Horace Brodzky mask (reserve collection)
- Horace Brodzky mask (reserve collection)
- Horace Brodzky mask (displayed)
- Houses (displayed)
- Houses and boats (reserve collection)
- L’agave (displayed)
- Lady Macbeth poster (displayed)
- Large male nude (displayed)
- Madonna (Maria Carmi as the Madonna) (reserve collection)
- Madonna (Maria Carmi as the Madonna) (reserve collection)
- Madonna (Maria Carmi as the Madonna) (reserve collection)
- Madonna (Maria Carmi as the Madonna) (displayed)
- Male and female nude (displayed)
- Male nude (reserve collection)
- Male nude, walking with palms raised (reserve collection)
- Man and Superman poster (reserve collection)
- Man leaning on a pillar (displayed)
- Man on a horse (displayed)
- Man walking away (reserve collection)
- Man with a bowler hat (reserve collection)
- Man with wheelbarrow (displayed)
- Maternity (Mother and Child) (reserve collection)
- Maternity (Mother and Child) (displayed)
- Mermaid (displayed)
- Mermaid (displayed)
- Monkey (displayed)
- Monkey (reserve collection)
- Monkey (reserve collection)
- Mother and child (displayed)
- Nude man and woman (displayed)
- Nuremberg sketchbook (reserve collection)
- Nursemaid and child (displayed)
- Ornamental mask (reserve collection)
- Paris sketchbook (reserve collection)
- Parrot (reserve collection)
- Pik Piękny Brancusi (displayed)
- Portrait (reserve collection)
- Portrait (Devil?) (reserve collection)
- Portrait of a woman (reserve collection)
- Portrait of Horace Brodzky (reserve collection)
- Portrait of Major Smythies (displayed)
- Praying Mantis (displayed)
- Profile head of a woman (reserve collection)
- Profile portrait (reserve collection)
- Red Stone Dancer (displayed)
- Samson and Delilah (Embracers) (displayed)
- Seated Fawn (displayed)
- Seated figure (displayed)
- Seated male nude (displayed)
- Seated male nude (reserve collection)
- Seated monkey (reserve collection)
- Seated Woman (displayed)
- Seated Woman (displayed)
- Self-portrait (displayed)
- Self-portrait (reserve collection)
- Self-portrait with a pipe (1) (displayed)
- Self-portrait with a pipe (2) (displayed)
- Self-portrait with a pipe (3) (displayed)
- Sheet of studies (The Bittern) (reserve collection)
- Sketch for ‘Bird Swallowing a Fish’ (displayed)
- Sketch of ‘Bird Swallowing a Fish’ (displayed)
- Skull (reserve collection)
- Sleeping Fawn (displayed)
- Stag (displayed)
- Standing female nude (reserve collection)
- Standing male nude (reserve collection)
- Standing male nude and seated male nude (displayed)
- Standing man (reserve collection)
- Standing woman (displayed)
- Standing woman, gesticulating (displayed)
- Study for ‘Seated Woman’ (displayed)
- Terracotta mask (reserve collection)
- Three Monkeys (reserve collection)
- Three Monkeys (displayed)
- Torpedo Fish (Toy) (reserve collection)
- Torpedo Fish (Toy) (displayed)
- Torso (displayed)
- Two boats (displayed)
- Two cow heads (displayed)
- Two Men with a Bowl (displayed)
- Two men wrestling (reserve collection)
- Two nude sword fighters (reserve collection)
- Two policemen (displayed)
- Two storks (displayed)
- Two wrestlers (reserve collection)
- Two wrestlers (reserve collection)
- Venus of Cnidos (reserve collection)
- Windmill (displayed)
- Woman and child kissing (displayed)
- Woman and dog (displayed)
- Woman carrying a plate (Sophie Brzeska) (displayed)
- Woman in fur (reserve collection)
- Woman on a horse (reserve collection)
- Woman walking (reserve collection)
- Woman with handbag (reserve collection)
- Women Carrying Sacks (displayed)
- Workman (displayed)
- Wrestlers (reserve collection)
- Wrestlers (reserve collection)
- Wrestlers (displayed)
- Wrestlers relief (reserve collection)
- Wrestlers relief (displayed)