Untitled (Animal Sketch)

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Artist/Maker Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (French, 1891 - 1915 (active London))

Datec. 1912-1913

MediumGraphite on paper

DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951

Object number1984.420

Not on view

Description"Gaudier-Brzeska also paid weekly visits to the London zoo, to sketch the animals there. He is renowned as a superb animalist." Mark Antliff, "Drawings by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska," exhibition brochure (New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1987).

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Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.). Work exhibited in second rotation only, Spring 2025 semester.

1992
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 8).

Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound.

Markings Watermark on verso at center: [crown logo] / IMPERIAL STRONG / IIII

Published References David Lewis, ed.,REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK (exh. cat. Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1992), [checklist] 61.