Evelyn Silber
18th February 2026 @ 10.30am
Gaudier-Brzeska was one of many promising young men lost in WW1. In 1911, the French-born Gaudier and his Polish companion Sophie Brzeska made London their home and in the space of only four years, he emerged as one of the leaders of the London avant-garde, a member of the Vorticist group, admired as a gifted and versatile draughtsman and sculptor of astonishing talent.
Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound and Roger Fry were among his rivals, friends and supporters. A mercurially brilliant outsider and natural rebel, Gaudier comes across as the epitome of the bohemian artist determined to dare all in the face of a stuffy establishment, whatever the personal cost.
Evelyn Silber
Evelyn is the author of major studies on the sculpture of Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and has a special interest in the promotion of modern art in Britain during the early 20th century. A former Director of Leeds Museums and Galleries and of the Hunterian, University of Glasgow, she is an Hon. Senior Fellow and current Vice-Chair of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society.