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Gaudier-Brzeska
/ ɡodjebʒɛska /
noun
- Gaudier-BrzeskaHenri18911915MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier . 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
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The one depicting Pound, who served as Yeats’s secretary and translated Noh dramas, is all white and angular, repurposing the bust of the poet sculpted by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska in 1914.
Ede's own collection ranged widely, from Constantin Brâncusi, Joan Miró and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska to Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth – not to mention a remarkable array of carefully displayed pebbles and stones.
As I picked my way around the gallery, the wan East Anglian light cast a silver-grey hue that suited the simply furnished rooms housing gently placed works by such modernists as Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
He wrote the screenplay for Mr. Russell’s “Savage Messiah,” a film about the life of the French primitive sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, which Vincent Canby, writing in The New York Times, called one of the 10 worst movies of 1972.
A centrepiece to this small exhibition is the manuscript of HS Ede's Savage Messiah, a 1929 biographical novel that charts the extraordinary, short career of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska before the sculptor was killed in the trenches in 1915.
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