
Sholem Asch
Auction Closed
November 22, 01:24 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Sir Jacob Epstein
1880 - 1959
Sholem Asch
signed Epstein (on the reverse)
bronze
height (not including base): 39cm.; 15¼in.
height (including base): 50cm.; 19½in.
Conceived and cast by Gaskin Art Foundry in 1953, the present work is from an edition of 6.
Acquired by a private collector, prior to 1993
London, Leicester Galleries, Artists of Fame and Promise, 1955, no. 143 (another cast)
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, 1986, Phaidon, Oxford, no. 466 (4), illustrated p. 216 (another cast)
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber and Faber, London, 1963, illustrated pl. 565, p. 360 (another cast)
Sholem Asch was a Yiddish playwright, novelist and writer of Polish origin who then moved to the United States. His writings were destroyed when the Nazis were in power in 1933.
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