$1,422
Sir Jacob Epstein (British/American, 1880-1959) Cherub's Head Unsigned. Oval bronze, 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (10.5 x 7.9 cm). Condition: Minor surface grime. Provenance: Purchased from Lady Kathleen (Garman) Epstein; New England private collection. Literature: Noszlopy, George T. Public sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry, and Solihull. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003, pg. 143-4; Silber, Evelyn, et al. Jacob Epstein: Sculpture and Drawings. Leeds: U.S. Maney and Son, 1989, pg. 259, 261; Epstein , Edinburgh Festival Society Memorial Exhibition: Waverley Market, August 19-September 18, 1963 (exh. cat.), no. 152. N.B. The architect Louis Osman commissioned Epstein to create a series of door handles for the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, Cavendish Square, London in 1952. The present work depicts a cherub from this series, and was modeled after his grandson Ian Hornstein, the son of his daughter Peggy Jean Hornstein. The is some surface grime (primarily to the interstices). Some plaster residue on the back side.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-11-14
