Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound
1914 · marble
overall: 90.5 × 45.7 × 48.9 cm (35 5/8 × 18 × 19 1/4 in.)
gross weight: 310.26 kg (684 lb.)
National Gallery of Art
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
1891
PaintingNaive Art
Representation
None documented
16
Institutional Exhibitions
67
Works in Collection
78
Assets Indexed
2
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Publications Referenced
90%
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Master Prints from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987–1988
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A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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British Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
No image
Ways of Looking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1963
About
Why this artist matters now
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was a French sculptor who pioneered direct carving, working stone and wood with a deliberately rough, primitive aesthetic that rejected academic refinement. His approach treated the material's inherent qualities as central to form rather than as passive substance to be smoothed and finished. Active in the early twentieth century, he developed a sculptural language rooted in non-Western and archaic sources, creating compact, abstracted figures that influenced modernist sculpture across Europe. His practice was cut short by his death in World War I at age twenty-three.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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National Gallery of Art
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Selected Credits
16 total
1978A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection — Museum of Modern Artexhibition
1954Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art — Museum of Modern Artexhibition
1936New Acquisitions: The Collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. — Museum of Modern Artexhibition
1935Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan — Museum of Modern Artexhibition
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