Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1890-1960
Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1890-1960
PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
Sir Jacob Epstein
Third Portrait of Oriel Ross
Lot Closed
March 5, 03:57 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Jacob Epstein
1880 - 1959
Third Portrait of Oriel Ross
bronze
height: 36 ¾ in.
67.9 cm.
Conceived in 1931, the present work is number 2 from the edition of 5.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Montserrat Palacios at Montserrat.Palacios@sothebys.com
Leicester Galleries, England
Edward M.M. Warburg, New York (acquired by 1933)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 1933 to the present owner
A. Haskell, The Sculpture Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A series of conversations on Art, London 1931, p. 191
Carvings and Bronzes by Jacob Epstein, London 1933, no. 5
“Accessions June 1933, to October 1, 1934,” The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, 1934, vol. 2.2, p. 3
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1942, no. 193, p. 193
R. Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, New York, 1942, no. 66, pl. 40, illustration of another cast
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1948, no. 234, p. 252, illustrated
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Masters of Modern Art, New York 1954, p. 107
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1958
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1963, no. 295, p. 194-5, illustrated p. 195 (another cast)
R. J. Coldwater, What is Modern Sculpture?, New York 1969, p. 28
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art (1929–1967), New York 1977, p. 115, illustrated
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, no. 210, pl. 26, illustration of another cast
London, Leicester Galleries, 1993, no. 5, illustration of another cast
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Time: 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, May 10 – September 30, 1939, no. 283
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, January 12 – March 3, 1940
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, October 23, 1940 – January 12, 1941
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, May 6 – March 13, 1942
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth Century Portraits, December 9, 1942 – January 24, 1943
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection, November 15, 1944 – May 30, 1945
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture, June 20, 1945 – February 13, 1946
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum Collection of Sculpture, February 19 – May 5, 1946
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection, July 2, 1946 – November 26, 1951, January 28, 1952 – August 15, 1954, September 4, 1954 – February 17, 1958, March 24 – April 15, 1958
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Portraits from the Museum Collection, May 4 – July 5, 1960
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, July 2, 1964 – April 14, 1967
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