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...image of brutality. I broke the butt off, and with my knife I carved a gentler order of feeling, a mother and child." A few days later, on the afternoon of June 5, 1915, an other German weapon put a bullet through the Frenchman's head. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, not yet 24, was dead...
Until the 50th anniversary of his death last month, Sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska (pronounced Zshairsh-ka) was what the French call "an illustrious unknown." His few working years had been spent mostly in London; his works were rarely shown outside that city. Yet his reputation flourished underground, especially among young sculptors. Ossip Zadkine hailed Gaudier as "one of the men who really invented something in sculpture." British Sculptor Henry Moore names Gaudier, along with Epstein and Brancusi, as among his formative influences: "He made me feel certain that in seeking to create along paths other than those of traditional sculpture...
...would not give her a divorce. Murry felt inferior to Katherine Mansfield, but he did not consider her a genius. (Once, though, he wrote her: "I know this, too, that you and I are geniuses.") Only two real geniuses he has ever met, he says, were Sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and D. H. Lawrence. Gaudier was for a time a close friend, then became a bitter enemy. Because of his threatening letters Murry went in fear of his life, hardly ventured out. Once Gaudier burst into his room, slapped his face. Murry did nothing at the time, "had a good...
...European news service, has four children, a good stable and a pleasant income. The wonder is that she should have written as much as she has. Before the War she was one of a small artistic set which included Painter Lovat Fraser, Poet Ralph Hodgson, Sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska. She met her husband in France, where she drove a car for the French Army and was the first woman in Verdun's fortress after the Armistice. Now she lives with her family in Sussex, is at present on a trip to South Africa with her husband...
...determined to join the French army, and his second attempt was successful. Sophie's last letter to him was bitter, nagging, complaining; she demanded he come back and take her away. Then the news came that Gaudier was dead. Says Ede: "Many people will remember Miss Brzeska in the streets of London, a strange, gaunt woman with short hair, no hat, and shoes cut into the form of sandals." She died in an asylum some few years later...