Lot 44
  • 44

Sir Jacob Epstein 1880-1959

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Sir Jacob Epstein
  • second portrait of annabel freud (with curls)
  • signed
  • bronze with gold patina
  • height: 21cm.; 8 1/2 in.

Provenance

Bequeathed by the Artist to the present owner

Exhibited

London, Arts Council of Britain at the Tate Gallery, Epstein, 25th September – 9th November 1952, p. 32, no.55., illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (another cast);
London, Leicester Galleries, Recent Portraits by Jacob Epstein, June 1953, no.6 (another cast).

Literature

Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein: Sculptor, Faber & Faber, London, 1963, p.362, illustrated plate 569 (another cast).
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, no.462, illustrated (another cast).

Catalogue Note

Conceived in 1953 and cast in an edition of 7, the original plaster is in the collection of Phoenix Art Museum.