Lot 78
  • 78

Jacob Epstein

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jacob Epstein
  • Portrait of Sholem Asch
  • inscribed Epstein
  • bronze
  • h: 14¾ in.
  • h: 37.5 cm.
  • Executed in 1953.

Provenance

Private Collector, London
Sale: Sotheby's Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, April 15, 1959, lot 23
Acquired from the above sale by the father of the present owner
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Artists of Fame and Promise, 1070, 1955, no. 143

Literature

Ricahard Buckle, Jacob Epstein: Sculptor, London, 1963, pl. 565, illustration of another cast p. 360.
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, no. 466 illustration of another cast p. 216.