Lot 20
  • 20

Sir Jacob Epstein

Estimate
4,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • Sir Jacob Epstein
  • 3rd Portrait of Jackie (Laughing)
  • bronze
  • height (including base): 13in.; 33cm.; width: 17.5cm; 7in.; breadth: 15cm; 5¾in.

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Fame and Promise, 1942.

Literature

Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein: Sculptor, Faber & Faber, London, 1963, p.362, illustrated pl.569 (another cast); 
Edward P. Schinman, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein from the Collection of Mr Edward P. Schinman, Fair Leigh Dickinson University Press, 1967, p.85, illustrated; 
Edward P. Schinman, Jacob Epstein: A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman, Fair Leigh Dickinson University Press, 1970, p.107, illustrated;
Evelyn Silber and Terry Friedman, Jacob Epstein: Sculptures and Drawings, The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds City Art Galleries, Leeds, 1987, p.258, illustrated p.255;

Condition

Dirt has gathered in some of the crevices of the bronze, but the work is in good overall condition. Presented on a stone base.
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