Lot 102
  • 102

Sir Jacob Epstein 1880-1959

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Description

  • Sir Jacob Epstein
  • Second Portrait of Jackie (with curls)
  • bronze with a golden brown patina on a stepped variegated marble base
  • height 25cm., 9 3/4 in.

Provenance

The Artist
Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin
Dr. Ira F. Mensher, Brooklyn, New York, purchased from the above, July 1955
Theo Waddington Fine Art

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, New Sculpture and Drawings of Children by Jacob Epstein, 1939, no.5, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (another cast);
London, Leicester Galleries, Sale of Sculptures from the Epstein Estate, 1968 (another cast).

Literature

Jacob Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture, Michael Joseph, 1940, illustrated opposite p.288 (another cast);
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber & Faber, 1963, p.237, pl.362 (another cast).

Catalogue Note

Conceived in 1937 and cast in an edition of 6.