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Property from a Private Collection, London

Jacob Epstein

First Portrait of Lydia

Auction Closed

November 15, 03:40 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, London

Jacob Epstein

1880 - 1959

First Portrait of Lydia


signed EPSTEIN (on the reverse)

bronze

height: 52cm.; 20½in.

Conceived in 1929-30, the present work is from the edition of 7.

Acquired by the father of the present owner and thence by descent, circa 1960s

Venice, XVII Esposizione Biennale Internationale dell'Arte, 1930, no. 48 (another cast)

London, Leicester Galleries, New Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, February 1931, no.7 (another cast)

Leeds, Temple Newsham, Exhibition of Sculpture and Paintings: Jacob Epstein, Matthew Smith, 12 July–14 September 1942, no. 45 (another cast)

Leeds, Leeds City Art Galleries, Jacob Epstein: Sculpture and Drawings, 16 April – 21 June 1987, no.137, with tour to Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (another cast)

Arnold Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A Series of Conversations on Art, London, 1931, p. 190, illustrated (another cast)

L.B. Powell, Jacob Epstein, London, 1932, illustrated (another cast)

Jacob Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture: An Autobiography, London, 1940, p. 72, illustrated (another cast)

Robert Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, New York and Cleveland, 1942, p. 238, no. 157, illustrated (another cast)

Jacob Epstein, Epstein; An Autobiography, Hulton Press, London, 1955, p. 119, illustrated (another cast)

Robert Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, p. 174, pl. 268, illustrated (another cast)

Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 166, no. 193, illustrated (another cast)