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.

This copy was owned by British painter and sculptor David Heathcote with his name to the ffep. Heathcote (b.1931) studied at the Slade School of Art, and worked in Zimbabwe and Nigeria for twenty years, an experience that would contribute significantly to his creative vision.

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