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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.