
Second Portrait of George Bernard Shaw
Session begins in
March 5, 04:30 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Bid
10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Sir Jacob Epstein
1880 - 1959
Second Portrait of George Bernard Shaw
signed Epstein (on the reverse)
bronze
height (not including base): 40cm.; 15¾in.
height (including base): 53cm.; 21in.
Conceived in 1934.
Acquired directly from the Artist by the grandparents of the previous owner, circa 1938 (most probably by introduction from George Bernard Shaw who was a close family friend)
Their sale, Replica Shoes 's New York, 12 February 2009, lot 179, where acquired by the present owner
London, Boundary Gallery, Jacob Epstein 50th Anniversary Exhibition, October - December 2009 (another cast)
Jacob Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture, Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1940, pp. 99-101, illustrated (another cast)
Jacob Epstein, An Autobiography, Hulton Press, London, 1955, pp. 81-83, illustrated (another cast)
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculpture, Faber and Faber, London, 1963, pp. 210-11, pl. 323, illustrated (another cast)
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Bucknell University Press, London, 1986, no. 253, pp. 178-179, illustrated (another cast)
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