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Red Stone Dancer
Presented by C. Frank Stoop through the Contemporary Art Society 1930
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<p>Gaudier-Brzeska gathered and incorporated sculptural ideas from many different cultures in his work. At the British Museum he looked at the ancient Greek and Assyrian rooms and the Ethnographical Gallery in the upper floor. This contained artworks taken – sometimes forcibly – from indigenous peoples around the world. In Red Stone Dancer Gaudier-Brzeska draws on these sources to create his own sculptural language, with geometrical elements such as the triangle and circle imprinted on its face and breast. Its stance suggests a twisting movement compressed into a moment of stillness.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2020</em></p>
sculpture red mansfield stone
25 May 2001 – 28 October 2001
2001-10-28
25 May 2001 – 28 October 2001
2001-10-28
2001-05-25
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, Italy)
http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/
2001-05-25
Gino Severini
Loan-out
15 July 2002 – 16 March 2003
2003-03-16
15 July 2002 – 16 March 2003
2003-03-16
2002-07-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-07-15
Henri Gaudier Brzeska
Collection based display
20 January 2007 – 16 June 2007
2007-06-16
20 January 2007 – 18 March 2007
2007-03-18
2007-01-20
Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge, UK)
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/
30 March 2007 – 16 June 2007
2007-06-16
2007-03-30
Graves Art Gallery (Sheffield, UK)
http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/coresite/html/graves.asp
2007-01-20
We the Moderns: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and his European Contemporaries
Loan-out
15 September 2007 – 31 March 2009
2009-03-31
15 September 2007 – 31 March 2009
2009-03-31
2007-09-15
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2007-09-15
From Nature
Collection based display
7 October 2008 – 6 January 2009
2009-01-06
15 October 2008 – 26 January 2009
2009-01-26
2008-10-15
Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
http://www.centrepompidou.fr
19 February 2009 – 24 May 2009
2009-05-24
2009-02-19
Scuderie del Quirinale (Rome, Italy)
12 June 2009 – 13 September 2009
2009-09-13
2009-06-12
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2008-10-07
Futurism
Loan-out
15 October 2008 – 20 September 2009
2009-09-20
15 October 2008 – 26 January 2009
2009-01-26
2008-10-15
Robert Rubin
19 February 2009 – 24 May 2009
2009-05-24
2009-02-19
Scuderie del Quirinale (Rome, Italy)
12 June 2009 – 20 September 2009
2009-09-20
2009-06-12
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2008-10-15
Futurism
Exhibition
24 October 2009 – 24 January 2010
2010-01-24
24 October 2009 – 24 January 2010
2010-01-24
2009-10-24
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
2009-10-24
WILD THING: Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier Brzeska and Eric Gill
Loan-out
30 September 2010 – 15 May 2011
2011-05-15
30 September 2010 – 9 January 2011
2011-01-09
2010-09-30
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, USA)
5 February 2011 – 15 May 2011
2011-05-15
2011-02-05
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, Italy)
http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/
22 June 2011 – 18 September 2011
2011-09-18
2011-06-22
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-09-30
Vorticism
Loan-out
30 September 2010 – 4 September 2011
2011-09-04
30 September 2010 – 2 January 2011
2011-01-02
2010-09-30
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, USA)
29 January 2011 – 15 May 2011
2011-05-15
2011-01-29
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, Italy)
http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/
14 June 2011 – 4 September 2011
2011-09-04
2011-06-14
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-09-30
The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World
Exhibition
16 October 2010 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
16 October 2010 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
2010-10-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-10-16
Gallery 10
Collection based display
14 March 2015 – 21 June 2015
2015-06-21
14 March 2015 – 21 June 2015
2015-06-21
2015-03-14
Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge, UK)
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/
2015-03-14
Gaudier-Brzeska New Rhythms - Art and Dance in pre-war London
Loan-out
5 November 2016 – 31 August 2025
2025-08-31
5 November 2016 – 5 February 2017
2017-02-05
2016-11-05
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
18 March 2017 – 16 July 2017
2017-07-16
2017-03-18
Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
11 August 2017 – 4 February 2018
2018-02-04
2017-08-11
Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
24 March 2018 – 24 June 2018
2018-06-24
2018-03-24
Yokohama Museum of Art (Yokohama, Japan)
10 November 2023 – 14 April 2024
2024-04-14
2023-11-10
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
2016-11-05
Nude: art from the Tate collection
Tate partnerships & programmes
1 October 2020 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
1 October 2020 – 28 November 2021
2021-11-28
2020-10-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2020-10-01
Vorticism
Collection based display
20 May 2024
20 May 2024
2024-05-20
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2024-05-20
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Collection based display
Red Stone Dancer
object: 432 × 229 × 229 mm
weight: 16.4kgs
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999963" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">C. Frank Stoop</a> through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1930
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<p>Gaudier-Brzeska gathered and incorporated sculptural ideas from many different cultures in his work. At the British Museum he looked at the ancient Greek and Assyrian rooms and the Ethnographical Gallery in the upper floor. This contained artworks taken – sometimes forcibly – from indigenous peoples around the world. In Red Stone Dancer Gaudier-Brzeska draws on these sources to create his own sculptural language, with geometrical elements such as the triangle and circle imprinted on its face and breast. Its stance suggests a twisting movement compressed into a moment of stillness.</p>
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<p><b>N04515</b> RED STONE DANCER <i>c.</i> 1913
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<br/>Inscr. ‘H G B’ (in monogram) at the back of the base.
<br/>Red Mansfield stone, polished and waxed, 17×9×9 (43×23×23).
<br/>Presented by C. Frank Stoop through the Contemporary Art Society 1930.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> As for No.4514.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Grafton Group</i>, Alpine Club Gallery, January 1914 (50); London Group, March 1915 (113); <i>Twentieth Century Art</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, May 1914 (113); <i>Vorticist Exhibition</i>, Doré Galleries, June 1915 (<i>c</i>); Leicester Galleries, May–June 1918 (72); Temple Newsam, Leeds, June–August 1943 (75); Orléans, March–April 1956 (14, repr.); Arts Council, 1956–7 (24).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Pound, 1916, pp.161, 164, repr. pls.5 and 6; Ede, 1930, p.177, repr. pl.38; Gaudier in Ede, 1930, pp.198–9.</p>
<p>Probably carved late in 1913, though Gaudier dated it 1914. According to Ede, Gaudier likened this work to Ezra Pound's poems, while Pound relates the carving to certain <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> such as those reproduced as his pl.25 and Ede, 1931, pls.52 and 56.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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