Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was a French sculptor who worked in London from 1911 and became a leading figure of Vorticism. He carved directly in stone, drawing on early and non-Western sculpture, and made the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound and animal carvings such as Bird Swallowing Fish. He was killed in action in the First World War at 23. Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and Tate hold major collections of his work.