Gaudier-Brzeska, Life & Art, with Catalogue Raisonne of the Sculpture

This copy signed by British artist and sculptor David Heathcote

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Printing Details

First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 31 × 23cm, 304pp.

From the library of British artist David Heathcote (b.1931), with his handwritten name to the ffep. He studied at the Canterbury College of Art before completing his training at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under Keith Vaughan and Claude Rogers. Heathcote is a multi-disciplinary artist, including paintings, prints, and sculpture. His artistic style has been shaped by the twenty years which he spent living in Zimbabwe and Nigeria at the beginning of his career (his first solo exhibition was held in Zimbabwe in 1961). Other notable exhibitions and galleries include the Young Contemporaries Exhibition at the RBA Gallery in London in 1958, the Ahmadu Bello University and British Council Galleries in Nigeria, the Beckel Odille Boïcos Gallery in Paris, and at GV Art in London.

Following a short and turbulent life in France, Germany and Britain, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in the trenches at the age of 23. A protege of Ezra Pound and a fellow champion of Vorticism, he was a member of the legendary pre-war London circle that included Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein and Roger Fry. This study of Gaudier-Brzeska includes a catalogue raisonne of his ground-breaking sculpture. The book also sheds light on the politics and dilemmas of British Modernism, providing a reference source for those interested in the origins and development of Modernism and contemporary art.

Condition

Good condition. There is light wear to the wrapper (including some paint marks, it was in David Heathcote's studio!). Light foxing to the pages' top edge and a few inoffensive pencil annotations but otherwise in strong readable condition.

ISBN

9780500092613