Lot 85
  • 85

Sir Jacob Epstein

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Description

  • Sir Jacob Epstein
  • Fifth Portrait of Kathleen
  • Bronze, light green patina
  • Height: 30in.
  • 76cm

Provenance

Magla Productions, Los Angeles (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 20, 1978, lot 38)
Acquired at the above sale

Literature

Jacob Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture, London, 1940, ilustration of another cast
Robert Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, New York and Cleveland, 1942, no. 22, p. 241 (as dating from 1936)
Jacob Epstein, Let There be Sculpture (revised), London, 1955, illustration of the plaster p. 95
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein, Sculptor, 1963, illustrations of other cast pls. 339-41
Edward P. Schinman, Jacob Epstein.  A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman, Teaneck, 1970, ilustration of another cast p. 59
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, London, 1986, no. 262, illustration of another cast p. 180

Catalogue Note

The present sculpture is one of seven portraits of the artist's second wife.