Property from the Collection of Geoffrey M. and Carol D. Chinn
Jacob Epstein
Mother and Child
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June 7, 03:45 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Property from the Collection of Geoffrey M. and Carol D. Chinn
Sir Jacob Epstein
1880 - 1959
Mother and Child
pencil on paper
unframed (visible sheet): 48.5 by 38cm.; 19 by 15in.
framed: 58 by 69.5cm.; 23 by 27¼in.
We are grateful to Evelyn Silber for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Boundary Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owners prior to 1983
Mother and Child is one of a number of drawings preparatory for the figures of Night and Day on Charles Holden’s 55 Broadway (London Underground Electric Railway HQ and St James’s Park Station, 1928. This is one of the studies for Day. There is a closely related drawing at Leeds Art Gallery (46.3/83) reproduced in Leeds’ Sculpture Collections: Works on Paper, Concise Catalogue, 1999, Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Leeds, p.13, and full page in Evelyn Silber and Terry Friedman, 'Epstein in the Public Eye’, exh. cat., Jacob Epstein. Sculpture and Drawings, Leeds Art Gallery and Whitechapel Art Gallery, Leeds, 1987, no.129, illustrated p.225.
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