Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915
Old Man Kneeling to the Left of Prometheus, 1910
Charcoal on paper
30 1/2 x 12 3/8 in
77.5 x 31.5 cm
77.5 x 31.5 cm
Signed H Gaudier and inscribed vieillard agenouillé à la gauche du Prométhée (old man kneeling to the left of Prometheus)
While in Paris in 1910 Gaudier-Brzeska produced a series of drawings for an ambitious sculptural project based on the ancient Greek tragedy of Prometheus. The theme of Prometheus had proven...
While in Paris in 1910 Gaudier-Brzeska produced a series of drawings for an ambitious sculptural project based on the ancient Greek tragedy of Prometheus. The theme of Prometheus had proven popular among sculptors since the 17th Century. Gaudier sketched several designs for his imagined sculpture, both for a Prometheus surrounded by Oceanides as well as a Prometheus surrounded by a group of figures representing humanity, of which this is one. All the drawings are in charcoal and red chalk on the same Ingres/Viladon paper, and are held in the Musée des Beaux-Arts Orléans, France – Gaudier’s birthplace.
Examples
of Gaudier-Brzeska’s work are held in public collections including Ben Uri
Gallery & Museum, London; Tate, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; National
Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Ingram
Collection, London; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
Provenance
H. S. (Jim) EdeExhibitions
Wolseley Fine Art, Cork Street, London, Gill, Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, 2009Literature
E. Silber and D. Finn, Gaudier-Brzeska (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), pp. 74-75.
I. Klinka-Ballesteros and P. Brullé, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Dessins, Centre Pompidou, Paris & Musée des Beaux-Arts Orléans (Lyon: Fage, 2009), pp. 96-98.