Saturday 16 January 2010

RA - just in time...




HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA (1891-1915)

Self-portrait | 1913
Pastel | 51.7 x 36.5 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery


Redstone Dancer | c.1913
Red Mansfield stone | 60 x 35 x 40 cm
Tate


Crouching Fawn | 1913
Bath stone | 30.4 x 25.3 cm
Ivor Braka Ltd. London


JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)

Rock Drill | 1913-15
Polyester resin, metal, wood | 205 x 141.5 cm
Birmingham  Museums and Art Gallery
(reconstruction by Ken Cook and Ann Christopher RA,
after the dismantled original, 1973-74)


The unfinished Rock Drill in Epstein's studio | c.1913


Portrait of Iris Beerbohm Tree | 1915
Bronze | 34.8 x 29 x 22.8 cm
Tate

ERIC GILL (1882-1940)

Ecstasy | 1910-11
Portland stone | 137.2 x 45.7 x 22.8 cm
Tate

I think an artist is not a person who makes things beautiful, but simply one who deliberately makes things as well as he can -- whether he is a clock-maker or picture-painter; because machine-made things are very much better when no "designer" has had anything to do with them -- when they are just plain serviceable things. I think that if you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself. ERIC GILL

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