Impressionist & Modern Art
Impressionist & Modern Art
Property from a Distinguished New York Collection
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October 5, 05:57 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
JACOB EPSTEIN
1880 - 1959
GIRL FROM SENEGAL (MADELEINE BECHET)
Bronze
Height: 22 in. (55.9 cm)
Conceived in 1921.
We are grateful to Evelyn Silber for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York (and sold by the estate: Sotheby's, New York, June 23, 1982, lot 64)
Acquired at the above sale
Recent Sculpture by Jacob Epstein (exhibition catalogue), The Leicester Galleries, London, 1924, no. 13
Hubert Wellington, Jacob Epstein, London, 1925, illustration of another cast pl. 19
Sculpture by Jacob Epstein (exhibition catalogue), Ferargil Gallery, New York, 1927, no. 27
XVII Espozione Internazionale dell'Arte (exhibition catalogue), Venice, Espozione Internazionale dell'Arte, 1930, no. 52
Arnold Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell, A Series of
Conversations on Art, London, 1931, mentioned p. 178
Jacob Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture, London, 1940, mentioned p. 110
Robert Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, New York, 1942, no. 82, illustration of another cast pls. 13-14
Jacob Epstein, An Autobiography, London, 1955, mentioned p. 91
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein, Sculptor, London, 1963, no. 425, illustration of another cast pl. 172
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, no. 122, illustration of another cast p. 149