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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

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.

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ARTWORKS

Sculpture

Bird Swallowing a Fish, 1914

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Bird Swallowing a Fish Find out more

Relief

Wrestlers relief, 1913 (posthumous cast, 1965)

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

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Sculpture

Dancer, 1913 (posthumous cast, 1967)

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

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Sculpture

Mermaid, 1913

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

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