£3,750
MODERN MADE | Modern Art & Post-War Design | 636
Auction: 30 April 2021 at 11:00 BST
bronze, on a stepped base
Provenance:
Private Collection, USA;
Bonhams, London, 22 November 2016, Lot 160;
Private Collection, UK.
Literature:
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber & Faber, London, 1963, p.94, pl.145 (illustrated another cast);
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, pp.142-3, cat. no.89 (illustrated another cast).
Buckle noted that that the mask of Meum ‘was one of three ‘Masks’ Epstein modelled between 1916 and 1918. The idea of making masks, that is, faces with no backs to them, was probably inspired by African sculpture’. (Buckle, p.94)