Footnotes

Provenance
With Zwemmer Gallery, London
With Adams Gallery, London, 1965, where acquired by
Private Collection, U.K.
With Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York, 1987, where acquired by the present owner
Private Collection, U.S.A.

Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, A Memorial Exhibition of 100 works by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, May-June 1918, cat.no.21 (another plaster cast)
London, Zwemmer Gallery, Drawings and Sculpture and Some Contemporary Sculptures, 1930, cat.no.44 (another cast)
Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Roy de Maistre and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, June-August 1943, cat.no.59 (another cast)
London, The Leicester Galleries, Selected Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Late Sir Michael Sadler, 7 January-10 February 1944, cat.no.153 (another cast)
London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Catalogue of Part of a Collection of Oil Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Sculpture Belonging to W. A. Evill, Esw., December 1947-February 1948, cat.no.92 (as The Idiot) (another cast)
London, Arts Council Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: An Exhibition of Sculpture, Pastels and Drawings, 7 December 1955-19 January 1956, cat.no.3 (as The Idiot) (another cast)
London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Water Colours and Sculpture, April-May 1961, cat.no.37 (another cast)
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfred Evill Memorial Exhibition, June-August 1965, cat.no.39 (another cast)
Germany, Bielefeld Kunsthalle, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915, 1969, cat.no.2 (another cast)
Sydney, David Jones Gallery, Drawings and Sculpture by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915, 1981, cat.no.2 (another cast)
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Sculptor 1891-1915, 13 October-20 November 1983, cat.no.13 (another plaster cast); this exhibition travelled to Bristol, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, and York, York City Art Gallery
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, British Modernist Art 1905-1930, 14 November 1987-9 January 1988, cat.no.65 (another cast)

Literature
Harold Stanley Ede, A Life of Gaudier-Brzeska, Will Heinmann Ltd, London, 1930, p.205 (another cast)
Horace Brodzky, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Faber and Faber, London, 1933, p.179 (ill.b&w., another cast)
Mervyn Levy (int.), Gaudier-Brzeska Drawings and Sculpture, Cory, Adams and Mackay, London, 1965, p.29, cat.no.75 (ill., another cast)
Roger Cole, Burning to Speak: The Life and Art of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1978, cat.no.18, p.65 (ill., another cast)
Roger Cole, Gaudier-Brzeska: Artist and Myth, Sanson and Company, Bristol, 1995, pp.59, 63-64 (another cast)
Evelyn Silber, Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1996, p.257 cat.no.30 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Paul O'Keefe, Gaudier-Brzeska: An Absolute Case of Genius, The Penguin Press, London, 2004, pp.168, 296 (ill., another cast)

There are two plaster versions of the present sculpture as recorded in the catalogue of works exhibited by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Roy de Maistre at Temple Newsam, Leeds from June to August 1943. Roger Cole records seven casts of this sculpture made in bronze with six apparently destined for Anton Zwemmer, whose famous gallery of the same name became a mecca for artists and a centre for the modern art movement in Britain. Five the Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand and Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

It has been noted by Roger Cole that the present work should be considered a satirical self-portrait but it has also been referred to as Head of a Jew. Indeed, Cole suggests that the plaster cast, owned by Claud Lovat Fraser, was exhibited under this title at Dan Rider's bookshop in St Martin's Court (off Charing Cross Road). The outline of Gaudier-Brzeska's own features have been noted as well as a resemblance between the present work and Auguste Rodin's portrait of the influential poet, Charles Baudelaire from 1898.