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Birds
Presented by C. Frank Stoop through the Contemporary Art Society 1930
animals: birds
bird - non-specific
paper unique ink
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Collection based display
Studies of Birds
support: 254 × 356 mm
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
<p><b>N04529</b> STUDIES OF BIRDS <i>c.</i> 1912–13
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pen and blue ink, 10×15 (25·5×38).
<br/>Presented by C. Frank Stoop through the Contemporary Art Society 1930.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> As for No.4514.</p>
<p>The stone group of ‘Birds Erect’ (Museum of Modern Art, New York), though one of Gaudier's latest and most <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstract</span></a> carvings, grew out of his numerous studies of birds such as these (see Ede in <i>Le Jardin des Arts</i>, 1955, pp.29–30). See also <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gaudier-brzeska-a-wolf-n03339" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03339</span></a>.</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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animals: birds bird - non-specific