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Dreweatts

Donnington Priory

Newbury, Berkshire

RG14 2JE

United Kingdom

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λ PAUL MOUNT (BRITISH 1922-2009), MORTAL COIL

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λ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (BRITISH 1880-1959), RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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λ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (BRITISH 1880-1959), SECOND PORTRAIT OF KATHLEEN

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λ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (BRITISH 1880-1959), RISEN CHRIST (HANDS ONLY)

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λ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (BRITISH 1880-1959), EPSTEIN'S LEFT HAND

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HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (FRENCH 1891-1915), FIREBIRD (THE RUSSIAN BALLET)

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HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (FRENCH 1891-1915) FIREBIRD (THE RUSSIAN BALLET) Bronze Signed Height: 62cm (24¼ in.) Cast in an edition of 10. Exhibited: London, Royal Albert Hall, Allied Artist's Association, The London Salon: Sixth Year , July 1913, no. 1212, another cast exhibited London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Twentieth Century Art , May 1914, no. 179, as 'L'oiseau de Feu Ballet', another cast exhibited London, Leicester Galleries, A memorial exhibition of the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , May - June 1918, no. 31, as 'The Russian Ballet', another cast exhibited Leeds, Temple Newsam, Roy de Maistre, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , June - August 1943, no. 62, as 'L'oiseau de Feu', another cast exhibited Leeds, Arts Council of Great Britain, Temple Newsam, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings , June - August 1956, no. 2, as 'Russian Ballet', another cast exhibited Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Sculptures , August - September 1972, no. 10, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Leeds, City Art Gallery, September - October 1972; and Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, October - November 1972 London, Mercury Gallery, Gaudier-Brzeska , May - June 1987, no. 5, as 'L'oiseau de Feu', another cast exhibited Literature : H.S. Ede, Savage Messiah , William Heinemann, London, 1931, pp.156-57 H. Brodzky , Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915 , London, 1933, pp. 36, 175-176, no. 179, as 'L'oiseau de Feu Ballet', another cast illustrated M. Levy, Gaudier-Brzeska Drawings and Sculpture , London, 1965, pp. 17, 29, no. 73, pl. 73, as 'L'oiseau de Feu (Ballet)', another cast illustrated R. Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , Oxford, 1978, pp. 38, 61, no. 14, another cast illustrated London, Mercury Gallery, Exhibition catalogue, Gaudier-Brzeska ,1987, no. 5, another cast illustrated on the front cover E. Silber and D. Finn, Gaudier-Brzeska Life and Art , London, 1996, pp. 34, 39, 43, 84, 104-105, no. 18, pls 11-12, another cast illustrated Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Exhibition catalogue, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska in the collection of the Centre Pompidou , 2009, pp. 176-177, 207, no. 13 and 21, as 'Oiseau de feu', another cast illustrated Evelyn Silber comments, 'Julian Lousada commissioned this group showing Adolph Bolm and Tamara Karsavina in the Ballet Russes production of Stravinsky's The Firebird, which was performed in London for the first time during the Ballet Russes' season from 12 June - 1 August, 1912. The sculpture depicts the moment when Ivan Tsarevitch captures the Firebird. Lousada received a plaster and paid £20 for one bronze cast, the highest price paid for any of his works in his lifetime' (op. cit.). This cast was sadly destroyed by bombing during the Blitz, and ten casts were subsequently produced from the surviving plaster.

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λ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (BRITISH 1880-1959), FOURTH PORTRAIT OF PEGGY JEAN (ASLEEP)

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λ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (BRITISH 1880-1959), OLIVE

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λ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (BRITISH 1880-1959), OLD SMITH

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λ ENZO PLAZZOTTA (ITALIAN 1921-1981), ICARUS

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λ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (BRITISH 1880-1959), LITTLE EILEEN

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λ SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (BRITISH 1880-1959), JOAN GREENWOOD (CHILD)

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λ BENNO SCHOTZ (SCOTTISH 1891-1984), RECLINING NUDE

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λ REG BUTLER (BRITISH 1913-1981), STUDY FOR GIRL WITH VEST

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λ RAOUL UBAC (BELGIAN 1910-1985), ARBRE I

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λ ROWAN GILLESPIE (IRISH B. 1953), THE BUDDHA'S WAY

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ANGELA CONNER (BRITISH B. 1935), COUNTERPOISE

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λ GEOFFREY DASHWOOD (BRITISH B. 1947), RED KITE

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λ GEOFFREY DASHWOOD (BRITISH B. 1947), WOODCOCK

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λ GEOFFREY DASHWOOD (BRITISH B. 1947), LITTLE OWL

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λ LAURENCE BRODERICK (BRITISH 1934-2024), PLAYFUL OTTER

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λ JOHN FARNHAM (BRITISH B. 1942), LIFE FORM

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λ NIC FIDDIAN GREEN (BRITISH B. 1963), HORSE HEAD

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