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SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)
Lot 136PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BRITISH COLLECTION

SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)

Rabindranath Tagore

Fermé24 November 2017

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GBP 11,250

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SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)
Rabindranath Tagore
signed 'Epstein' (on the sitter's left shoulder)
bronze with a dark green patina
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high
Conceived in 1926 and cast in an edition of 16.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 March 1988, lot 135, where purchased by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali writer and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Richard Buckle observes, 'Epstein modelled Tagore's head over life-size with big, bold strokes, so that the poet with his intense stare and flowing beard took on the monumental grandeur of a baroque apostle' (R. Buckle, op.cit., p. 149).

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