Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, June – September 1993 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 103). This exhibition travelled to Toulouse, Musée d’Art Moderne, October – December 1993;
London, Pangolin London & Kings Place Gallery, Sculptors’ Drawings & Works On Paper, 31 August – 12 October 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Colourful Lives of Artists, 30 April – 30 June 2013;
Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Drawing On, 21 March – 7 June 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, Bodies! The Ingram Collection, 21 November 2015 – 31 January 2016;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Road to Abstraction, 21 May – 24 July 2016
Born in France, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska began his career working as a sculptor in Paris. He moved to London in 1911 where he became interested in the primitive sculptures of the human form that he saw at the British Museum. He was also inspired by the power and movement of athletes, and in 1912 he visited the London Wrestling Club, resulting in a series of drawings and a carved relief. Gaudier-Brzeska was also one of the original Vorticists, the avant-garde group formed by Percy Wyndham Lewis in 1914, which aimed to create art that expressed the dynamism of the modern world – “The New Vortex plunges to the heart of the Present – we produce a New Living Abstraction.”
