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Henri Gaudier-Brzeskayoung Frenchman who, at the age of 18, exiled himself in London with a Polish woman more than twice his age. Four years later he was dead. He died on active service in his native France in June 1915. He arrived in London in January 1911 with nothing ? but between January 1912 and September 1914, when he went to war, he had created over 100 pieces of sculpture and placed himself at the centre of the London art world. That he chose to carve stone spontaneously as stand-alone artwork marked it out from the academic monuments of the Victorians, and placed him alongside Jacob Epstein, Brancusi and Modigliani as a revolutionary. In some quarters he was hailed as a genius. In January 1914, at the age of 22, he was appointed chairman of the Artists' Committee of the Allied Artists' Association, the British equivalent of the Societe des Artistes Independants in Paris and by far the largest art society in the UK. The spring of 1914 saw him in close contact with the artists of the London and Camden Town Groups and in his final months in London he played a defining role in the Vorticist movement of Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: The London Years, 1911-1914 is not a full biography, but it does place thirty-three months of the artist's life under close scrutiny. Thirty-three short months only, any one of which might bear comparison to at least a year in anyone else's life. By placing events chronologically, previously unexplored consequences emerge that challenge accepted understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Gaudier's friendships and they, in turn, allow a better understanding of the timing of his work.
Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Doina LemmyIntroduction1911 A Year of Uncertainties 1912January A Life-changing Meeting February An Unexpected CommissionMarch Haldane Macfall: The First Portrait Head April Portrait Head of Major Smythies May Portrait Head of Enid Bagnold June A Flurry of Introductions July Portrait Head of John Middleton Murry August An Unfortunate Misunderstanding September A Month of Mixed Emotions October A Turbulent Month: Threats and Opportunities November A Settled Life and The Prospect of a StudioDecember Wrestling and Other Distractions 1913January 454A Fulham Road February Anxiety over Sophie's Return March Portrait Bust of Frank Harris April Portrait Bust of Horace Brodsky May Portrait Bust of Alfred WolmarkJune Alfred Wolmark: Portrait of Gaudier-BrzeskaJuly The Watershed August Nina Hamnett September Another Disconcerting Month October Omega Workshops: Penury versus Promise November Arch 25 and Redstone Dancer December Ezra Pound 1914January Peer Group Recognition February Portrait Head of Ezra Pound March The London Group April Those Damned Greeks May The Cumberland Market Group June Allied Artists vs. The Vortex July Full Circle to Tommy and ApplegarthAugust The Great Escape September New Paths blocked by WarPostscript Richard Aldington's Only MasterpieceNotesBibliography Index
