Head, conceived 1912 Cast 1939

Conceived in plaster in October 1912 and cast in 1939 in an edition of 7 by Anton Zwemmer.

There are no lifetime bronzes.

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey (y1946-223)

Leicester Museums and Gallery, possibly auctioned Sotheby’s 2011 (L.F52.1953.0.0)

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (1966:9.26)

Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1975.16)

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand (1956/33)

Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (GMA 1668)

Notes from Tate, London:

“According to the catalogue of the exhibition of work by Roy de Maistre and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska held at Temple Newsam, Leeds (June–August 1943), there are two plaster versions of this work; one belonged to Alan Fraser and, before that, to Claud Lovat Fraser as recorded by Cole, and the other one belonged to Haldane McFall. T03730 [Tate, London is the latter.]

According to Cole this work is to be considered as a satirical self-portrait. He states that Fraser’s version was exhibited at Dan Rider’s bookshop in St Martin’s Court, off Charing Cross Road. Wilenski, in 1930, wrote that he thought he could ‘discern the outline of the sculptor’s own features’ in the work, which appears to be one of the earliest references to the notion of the self-portrait. Cole suggests that ‘it was the subject of much ridicule between [Gaudier] and Fraser’. In the catalogue to the exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, Lewison notes the resemblance between T03730 and Rodin’s portrait of Baudelaire of 1898.