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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...
...sketched feverishly, often with a pen, explaining, "That prevents me from getting sentimental in the lines." Traveling through the Lowlands to Munich, he sold sketches "in the manner of Rembrandt." When the money ran out, he returned to Paris. There he made his most important decision: to be a sculptor. There, too, he met the woman with whom he was to share the rest of his brief life-a Polish-born poetess 20 years his senior named Sophie Brzeska...
...beach to enjoy what's left of freedom. Burton, as the Rev. Mr. Hewitt, follows her, after carefully removing his clerical collar. She is a wild thing who tends wounded birds or casually poses nude-hands to bosom, in deference to a man of the cloth-for a sculptor...
...Marisol's painted wooden beach group and George Segal's plaster Woman in a Restaurant Booth. Giacometti came, stared at Mark di Suvero's jumble of wood beams titled Champion, and exclaimed, "That frightens me!" At the vernissage, César, France's leading sculptor of crushed cars, cast an evil eye on his U.S. competitor, John Chamberlain, but hailed the rest: "We feel much more affinity with America than with the School of Paris...
...Sculptor George Segal, Art Critic Brian O'Doherty, and New York Jewish Museum Board Chairman Mrs. Albert List discuss "Contemporary...