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SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)
Maquette for Madonna and Child
signed 'Epstein' (on the reverse)
lead with bronze halos, on a wooden stand
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high, excluding stand
Conceived in 1950.
Provenance
with The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1951.
Willavene S. Morris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and by descent.
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1986, lot 295, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculpture, London, 1963, p. 343, pl. 534, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Jacob Epstein Rye, Art Gallery, 1965, n.p., no. 19, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein from the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1967, pp. 95, 103, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, pp. 208-209, no. 437, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Fifty Years of Bronzes and Drawings by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), June - July 1960, no. 50, dated '1952', another cast exhibited.
Rye, Art Gallery, Jacob Epstein September - October 1965, no. 19, another cast exhibited.
New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein from the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, 1967, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.