Live Auction 9762Modern British & Irish Art
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Lot 48

Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)

Drawing for Nan (The Dreamer)

Closed12 December 2013

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GBP 3,250

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Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Drawing for Nan (The Dreamer)
pencil
9 x 13 in. (24.1 x 34.3 cm.)
Executed in 1911. There is a study for a standing female nude by the artist on the reverse of the sheet.

with Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, where purchased by Edward P. Schinman, and by descent.

Specialist note

In 1909 and 1911 Epstein made three bronze sculptures of Nan Coudron, a 'lanky gipsy model' (E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 19). The present work is a direct study for the 11 in. high bronze sculpture, Nan (The Dreamer), 1911 (see Silber, loc. cit., p. 129, no. 36). Silber writes 'In Nan (The Dreamer) (no. 36) and Nan Seated (no. 38), he defers to his model's native, angular grace, implicitly rejecting any fictional ideal of beauty' (ibid, p. 19).