
Property from a Private Collection, London
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)
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