Live Auction 21949Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale
SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)
Lot 237

SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (1880-1959)

Maquette for Madonna and Child

Closed22 March 2023

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GBP 11,970

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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.

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.

Specialist note

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.