Lot Essay
The present work is a study for the large Madonna and Child sculpture commissioned for the Convent of the Holy Child, Cavendish Square, London, which dates from 1950.
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Maquette for Madonna and Child
Details
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Maquette for Madonna and Child
signed 'Epstein' (on the reverse lower edge)
lead with a bronze halo
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high
Conceived in 1950.
Maquette for Madonna and Child
signed 'Epstein' (on the reverse lower edge)
lead with a bronze halo
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high
Conceived in 1950.
Provenance
Thelma Cazalet-Keir, and by descent.
Literature
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculpture, London, 1963, p. 343, pl. 534, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Jacob Epstein, Rye, Art Gallery, 1965, n.p., no. 19, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein from the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1967, pp. 95, 103, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, pp. 208-209, no. 437, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Jacob Epstein, Rye, Art Gallery, 1965, n.p., no. 19, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein from the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1967, pp. 95, 103, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, pp. 208-209, no. 437, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Fifty Years of Bronzes and Drawings by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), June - July 1960, no. 50, dated '1952', another cast exhibited.
Rye, Art Gallery, Jacob Epstein, September - October 1965, no. 19, another cast exhibited.
New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein from the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, 1967, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Rye, Art Gallery, Jacob Epstein, September - October 1965, no. 19, another cast exhibited.
New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein from the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, 1967, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
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The present work is a study for the large Madonna and Child sculpture commissioned for the Convent of the Holy Child, Cavendish Square, London, which dates from 1950.