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Property from a Distinguished New York Collection

JACOB EPSTEIN | GIRL FROM SENEGAL (MADELEINE BECHET)

Lot Closed

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