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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915.
Three Monkeys.
Stamped: hGaudierBrzeska and numbered 5/12 underneath the sculpture.
Composite stone, height 18 cm.
Provenance: Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, U.K., acquired by the present owner in 1966.
Literature: Harold Stanley Ede, A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska, London, 1930, p. 204; Roger Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, cat. no. 13, p. 60; Evelyn Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska. Life and Art, London and New York, 1996, cat. no. 103, pp. 274-5 (dated 1914).
Gaudier-Brzeska originally conceived the sculpture between 1912 and 1914 and it was cast in composite stone in an edition of twelve by J.S.Ede at Kettle's Yard in the mid 1960s.
This is number five from that edition with other casts belonging to Cambridge University, the Tate Gallery and the Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Dimensions
Height 18 cmStock number
1306Mon-Fri: 11 am - 6 pm, and by appointment near Burford, Oxfordshire
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