Sir Jacob Epstein K.B.E. (British 1880-1959) §
Sixth Portrait of Kathleen, originally conceived 1941
£5,000
Auction: 30 April 2021 from 10:00 BST
Description
bronze with gilded patina
Dimensions
67.5cm high, 48cm across (26.6in high, 18.9in across)
Footnote
Provenance:
Bonhams, London, 22 November 2016, Lot 157;
Private Collection, UK.
Literature:
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber and Faber, London, 1963, p.268, pl.406 (ill.b&w, another cast illustrated)
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, p.189, cat.no.316 (another cast illustrated)
Jacob Epstein first saw Kathleen Garmen at a restaurant and he asked her to sit for him for a portrait immediately. Kathleen became his second wife and he went onto make seven portraits of her.