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SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)

Lot 192
23.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 728647
Lot 192 | SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)

Maquette for Madonna and Child

signed 'Epstein' (on the reverse)

lead with a bronze halo

13 1⁄8 in. (33.3 cm.) high

Conceived in 1950.







Provenance

with The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1951

Willavene S. Morris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and by descent.

Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 18 December 1985, lot 102, where purchased by the present owner.







Literature

R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculpture, London, 1963, p. 343, pl. 534, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Jacob Epstein, Rye, Art Gallery, 1965, n.p., no. 19, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein from the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1967, pp. 95, 103, another cast illustrated.

E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, pp. 208-209, no. 437, another cast illustrated.





Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Fifty Years of Bronzes and Drawings by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), June - July 1960, no. 50, dated '1952', another cast exhibited.

Rye, Art Gallery, Jacob Epstein, September - October 1965, no. 19, another cast exhibited.

New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein from the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, 1967, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.





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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Artist:Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
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