Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Sir Winston Churchill
signed 'Epstein' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with a green patina
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high, excluding slate base
Conceived in 1946.
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Sir Winston Churchill
signed 'Epstein' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with a green patina
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high, excluding slate base
Conceived in 1946.
with Kensington Art Gallery, London. Mrs Hally-Brown. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 May 1988, lot 142. with Chapman Gallery, London, where purchased by the previous owners in 1989. Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 17 July 2001, lot 39, where purchased by the present owner.
J. Epstein, Epstein: An Autobiography, London, 1955, p. 231, another cast illustrated. R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein, Sculptor, London, 1963, p. 302, pls. 463, 464, another cast illustrated. E.P. Schinman and B.A. Schinman (eds.), Jacob Epstein, A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman, Cranbury, 1970, p. 52, another cast illustrated. E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 198, no. 371, another cast illustrated. S. Gardiner, Epstein, London, 1993, pp. 394, 396. J. Rose, Daemons and Angels: A Life of Jacob Epstein, London, 2002, pp. 230-231.
London, Leicester Galleries, Landscapes by Ethelbert White and New Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, February - March 1947, no. 40, another cast exhibited. London, Leicester Galleries, Fifty Years of Bronzes and Drawings by Sir Jacob Epstein, June - July 1960, no. 43, another cast exhibited. Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival Society, Epstein: Memorial Exhibition, August - September 1961, no. 127, another cast exhibited. London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Epstein Memorial Exhibition, November 1961, no. 53, another cast exhibited. Rutherford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein From the Collection of Mr Edward P. Schinman, February - April 1967, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
This Lot is Withdrawn.
Note du spécialiste
The work was commissioned by the War Artist's Advisory Committee in November 1946.
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