Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Head of a Child

c.1912–13

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Artist
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891–1915
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Support: 387 x 254 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by C. Frank Stoop through the Contemporary Art Society 1930
Reference
N04518

Catalogue entry

N04518 HEAD OF A CHILD c. 1912–13
 
Inscr. ‘H Gaudier-Brzeska’ b.l. and ‘Mojemu Zosikowi’ (‘To my Zozik’) b.r.
Pen and blue ink, 15 1/4×10 (39×25·5).
Presented by C. Frank Stoop through the Contemporary Art Society 1930.
Coll: As for No.4514.
Exh: Temple Newsam, Leeds, June–August 1943 (91), as ‘Head of a Boy’; Arts Council, 1956–7 (79), as ‘Head of a Boy’.

‘Zozik’ is a Polish diminutive for Sophie.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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