SIR JACOB EPSTEIN | SIR JAMES RAMSAY MACDONALD
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July 30, 01:57 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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SIR JACOB EPSTEIN
1880-1959
SIR JAMES RAMSAY MACDONALD
stamped with the Morris Singer Foundry stamp
bronze
height: 47cm.; 18½in.
Conceived in 1926 and cast posthumously circa 1991 with the permission of the Artist's Estate, the present work is aside from the edition of 2.
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The Family of Sir James Ramsay MacDonald
Sale, Bonhams Knightsbridge, Gentleman's Library Sale, 28th January 2014, lot 642, where acquired by the present owner
New York, Ferargil Galleries, Exhibition of Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, November 1927, cat. no.6 (another cast).
Arnold Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks: Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell: A Series of Conversations on Art, Heinemann, London, 1931, p.185 (another cast);
L.B. Powell, Jacob Epstein, Chapman and Hall, London, 1932, cat. no.126, p.117, illustrated, pl.23 (another cast);
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber, London, 1963, pp.148-9, illustrated pl.226 (another cast);
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, cat. no.170, illustrated p.160 (another cast).
We are grateful to Evelyn Silber for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Sir James Ramsay MacDonald was the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The large version of the present bust dated to 1934 is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the present edition was gifted by the family of Sir James to the Houses of Parliament in 1988.