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SIR JACOB EPSTEIN

MADONNA AND CHILD

Lot Closed

November 17, 03:54 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

SIR JACOB EPSTEIN

1880 - 1959

MADONNA AND CHILD


signed Epstein (on the lower back)

lead with bronze halos

height (excluding base): 34cm.; 13¼in.

height (including base): 43cm.; 17in.

Conceived in 1950.


We are grateful to Evelyn Silber for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Philip and Lovie Goldberg, from whom gifted to the mother of the present owners circa 1977, and thence by family descent

London, Leicester Galleries, Fifty Years of Bronzes and Drawings by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), 10 June - 7 July 1960, no. 50 (another cast)

Rye, Art Gallery, Jacob Epstein: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, 20 September – 9 October 1965, no. 19, illustrated in the catalogue n.p. (another cast)

Rutherford (NJ), Farleigh Dickinson University, Exhibition of Sir Jacob Epstein's Work: From the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, 19 February - 1 April 1967, illustrated in the catalogue, p. 95 (another cast)

Jacob Epstein, Epstein: An Autobiography, Hulton, London, 1955, pp. 238-9, illustrated (final version)

Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein: Sculpture, Studio Vista, London, 1963, p. 343, illustrated pl. 534 (another cast)

Edward P. Schinman & Barbara Ann Schinman (eds), Jacob Epstein A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, New Jersey, 1970, illustrated p. 84 (another cast)

Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, no. 437, illustrated pp. 208-9 (another cast)