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Property formerly in the Estate of Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh

Sir Jacob Epstein

Maquette for Madonna and Child, former Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, Cavendish Square, London

Session begins in

March 5, 04:30 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Bid

4,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sir Jacob Epstein

1880 - 1959

Maquette for Madonna and Child, former Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, Cavendish Square, London


signed Epstein (on the reverse)

lead with bronze halos

height: 35cm.; 13¾in.

Conceived in 1950.

Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh, Ottawa and Boston 

Then by descent to the present owner

Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculpture, London, 1963, p. 343, pl. 534-5, illustrated (another cast)

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

Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, pp. 208 - 209, no. 437, illustrated (another cast)