Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound

Provenance

The artist; sold to Ford Madox Hueffer [1873-1939, later Ford Madox Ford], London.[1] Ezra Pound [1885-1972], London, and Rapallo, Merano, and Venice, Italy; his estate; purchased 1988 through (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York) by Raymond [1921-2007] and Patsy Nasher [d. 1988], Dallas; RDN & PRN Foundation, Dallas; gift 2009 to NGA. [1] Provenance according to Evelyn Silber, _Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art_, London, 1996: no. 79, 269-270. The sculpture is included in the artist's _List of Works_ as "Ezra Pound, buste," and sold for 2 Pounds, 10 shillings. It stood in the front garden of South Lodge, the residence of Violet Hunt on Campden Hill Road, where Hueffer lived until 1918.

Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri

1914

Accession Number

2009.72.1

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 90.5 × 45.7 × 48.9 cm (35 5/8 × 18 × 19 1/4 in.) | gross weight: 310.26 kg (684 lb.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift from the Collection of Raymond and Patsy Nasher