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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Kettle’s Yard will be closed on Thursday 12 March.

Kettle’s Yard will be open on Good Friday (Friday 3 April) and closed on Easter Sunday (Sunday 5 April).

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Sculpture

Portrait of Major Smythies, 1912 (posthumous cast, 1971)

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Bronze cast
440 x 210 x 250 mm
HGB 131
On display

About the artist

Born 1891 – Died 1915

Henri Gaudier was born in Saint-Jean-de-Braye, near Orléans, in France. He first came to Britain in 1908.

Read the full biography

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