Summary
In his book on Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Savage Messiah, H.S. Ede suggested that Amour was based on drawings executed at life-drawing classes attended during the autumn of 1912. On 14 November 1912, Gaudier wrote to Sophie Brzeska, his lover, 'I went to life class. It is kept by four stupid old women. The model - a lovely young boy - wore a tiny little cloth, and the quick sketch wasn't a sketch at all. The model takes his own pose - which is, of course, a good thing - and keeps it for ten or fifteen minutes. I should have liked to have a model who didn't pose at all, but did everything he wanted to, walked, ran, danced, sat, etc.' (Quoted in Ede, p.191.)
The exact chronology of Gaudier's sculpture has yet to be established, but it is generally agreed that he made and painted plaster sculptures during 1912, and began to carve stone in 1913… (read more)
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