Lot Essay
The present work is a maquette for the large Madonna and Child sculpture commissioned for the Convent of the Holy Child, Cavendish Square, London, in 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)
lead with bronze halos, on a wooden stand
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high, excluding stand
Conceived in 1950.
Maquette for Madonna and Child
signed 'Epstein' (on the reverse)
lead with bronze halos, on a wooden stand
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high, excluding stand
Conceived in 1950.
Provenance
with The Downtown Gallery, New York, 1951.
Willavene S. Morris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and by descent.
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1986, lot 295, where purchased by the present owner.
Willavene S. Morris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and by descent.
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1986, lot 295, where purchased by the present owner.
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.
Special Notice
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