Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound
1914 · marble
overall: 90.5 × 45.7 × 48.9 cm (35 5/8 × 18 × 19 1/4 in.)
gross weight: 310.26 kg (684 lb.)
National Gallery of Art
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
1891
WA-00013297
PaintingNaive Art
Representation
None documented
16
Institutional Exhibitions
67
Works in Collection
78
Assets Indexed
2
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (2)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Master Prints from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987–1988
No image
A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
No image
British Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
No image
Ways of Looking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
No image
60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1963
No image
100 Drawings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
No image
Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
No image
Works from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952
No image
Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1947
No image
Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946–1954
No image
The Museum Collection of Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
No image
The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945–1946
Field Verification (2 fields)
1 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%
Source Registry (3)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
- Artsy (bulk)Tier 1 · Institutional85%
- Artist IndexTier 3 · Scraped/inferred35%
About
Why this artist matters now
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was a French sculptor who pioneered direct carving, working stone and wood with a deliberately rough, primitive aesthetic that rejected academic refinement. His approach treated the material's inherent qualities as central to form rather than as passive substance to be smoothed and finished. Active in the early twentieth century, he developed a sculptural language rooted in non-Western and archaic sources, creating compact, abstracted figures that influenced modernist sculpture across Europe. His practice was cut short by his death in World War I at age twenty-three.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Movement
Naive Art
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
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Institutional
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Artworks (67)
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Artwork sources (5)
67 published of 73 catalogued · 71 with image
- Tate51 published51 img
- MoMA6 publishedof 12 catalogued12 img
- Art Institute Chicago6 published6 img
- The Met3 published1 img
- Nga1 published1 img
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)
10 entries · 1 sources
- 1913 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1912 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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- 1912 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Record
Images
Relationships
7Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
National Gallery of Art
In collection
Tate
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Record
Selected Credits
16 total
1978A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection — Museum of Modern Artexhibition
1954Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art — Museum of Modern Artexhibition
1936New Acquisitions: The Collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. — Museum of Modern Artexhibition
1935Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan — Museum of Modern Artexhibition
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