"The Wrestlers", Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1914

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915)

Print, linocut in black ink on cream wove paper, 22.5 x 27.9 cm. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, gift of Ruth and Paul Nathan.

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Gaudier-Brzeska's drawing style was influenced by the Chinese calligraphy and poetry which he discovered at the "Ezuversity", Ezra Pound's unofficial locus of teaching. Pound's interaction with Ernest Fenollosa's work on the Chinese brought Gaudier-Brzeska to the galleries of Eastern art, where he studied the ideogram and applied it to his art. He had the ability to imply, with a few deft strokes, the being of a subject. His drawings also show the influence of Cubism.
-Wikipedia

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