SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)

Lot 237
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Lot 237 | SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)
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SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)

Maquette for Madonna and Child

signed 'Epstein' (on the reverse)

lead with bronze halos, on a wooden stand

13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high, excluding stand

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, 14 May 1986, lot 295, 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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