Live Auction 19024The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Gutfreund 834 Fifth Avenue
SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (AMERICAN/BRITISH, 1880-1959)
Lot 195

SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (AMERICAN/BRITISH, 1880-1959)

Bust of the Honorable Wynne Godley

Closed27 January 2021

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SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (AMERICAN/BRITISH, 1880-1959)
Bust of the Honorable Wynne Godley
bronze with light brown patina
19 in. (58.2 cm.) high
Conceived in 1956.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 February 1971, lot 85.

Specialist note

The Honorable Wynne Godley was the younger son of the Third Lord Kilbracken, second husband of Kitty and the model for the head of St. Michael in St. Michael and the Devil, Coventry Cathedral (see E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 223, no. 503).