H.S. Ede
Private Collection, Manhattan
Acquired by the present owner in 2014

London, Leicester Galleries, Memorial Exhibition, May - June 1918, cat. no.60 (plaster);
Leeds, Temple Newsam, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings, 26th June - 29th August 1943 cat. no.82 (clay, lead and plaster casts);
Cardiff, 62 St Mary Street, Sculpture, Painting and Drawings, 24th July - 8th August 1953, cat. no.6 (plaster);
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 21st October - 24th November 1954, cat. no.21 (plaster); 
London, Arts Council Gallery, Henri Gaudier Brzeska, 7th December 1955 - 19th January 1956, cat. no.21 (lead cast);
London, Folio Society, Gaudier Brzeska: Sculpture and Drawings, 27th April - 22nd May 1964, cat. no.1 (bronze cast);
London, Marlborough Gallery, Gaudier Brzeska, 1965, cat. no.95 (bronze cast);
London, Mercury Gallery, Henri Gaudier Brzeska Sculpture, 15th March - 16th April 1977 (another cast);
New York, Gruenebaum Gallery, Sculpture and Drawings, 21st September - 29th October 1977, cat. no.15, illustrated p.33 (another cast);
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 15th October - 20th November 1983, cat. no.64 (another cast), with Arts Council Tour. 

Horace Brodzky, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1932, pp.134-37;
Evelyn Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska Life & Art, With a Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture, Thames & Hudson, London, 1996, p.274, cat. no.100, illustrated pl.148 (plaster);
Roger Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Oxford, 1978, p.115, cat. no.61, another cast illustrated.

There are fine cracks to the underside of the basin component with further signs of apparent 'sharding' to the pool of the basin. There are further signs of surface dirt, matter and light rubbing, scuffs, knocks and scratches visible to the metal upon close inspection. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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We are grateful to Dr Roger Cole for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work. 

The present work and Maquette for Flower Vase I were modeled in clay by Gaudier-Brzeska as maquettes for stone carvings. The carvings were commissioned by Lady Ian Hamilton in the spring of 1914 through Roger Fry at the Omega Workshops for the entrance hall of her home at 1 Hyde Park Gardens, London. At the outbreak of the First World War, Gaudier enrolled in the French Army and was killed in action in 1915, leaving the stone for the carvings, which had been acquired by Lady Hamilton and delivered to Gaudier's studio, incomplete.  The clay maquette, together with other sculptures, was inherited by Sophie Brzeska and on her death her estate was declared intestate. After the valuation in January 1925 by Wilenski, the estate was stored in the National Gallery, London, where it was seen by Jim Ede. Ede later acquired Maquette for Flower Vase 2 as well as many of Gaudier’s other sculptures, drawings and letters from the estate. In 1934 Ede cast the present work in lead from the plaster, and bronzes were later cast by Fiorini and patinated by Henry Moore in 1964, by R. Rowe in 1964/1965, and by John Mills in 1977.