HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (FRENCH 1891-1915)
CHEETAH (JUNGLE CAT), 1912
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Auction: The Gillian Raffles Collection Evening - Lots 1 to 73 - Thursday 01 May at 18:00
Description
signed with monogram and dated (lower left), ink and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
22.7cm x 35cm (8 7/8in x 13 ¾in)
Provenance
H. S. (Jim) Ede;
with The Mercury Gallery, London;
The Gillian Raffles Collection.
Footnote
Exhibited:
Browse & Darby, London, in association with Mercury Gallery, London, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915, 18 June - 25 July 2008, no. 16, illustrated.
Literature:
Silber, Evelyn, Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, p.99, pl.72, illustrated.
Evelyn Silber has explained that this work is one of two watercolours that relate to the lost painted plaster of the same name, that was included in Gaudier's Memorial Exhibition in 1918 (Evelyn Silber, op.cit., no. 26).