JACOB EPSTEIN
1880-1959

Savill: The Private and The Public
The Denis Savill Collection of Australian Art

JACOB EPSTEIN

1880-1959
Nan Seated (1911)

bronze
47 x 32.5 x 15 cm

• Lot Sold $15,000 (Hammer Price)
• $18,300 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Leicester Galleries, London
Artarmon Galleries, Sydney
David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney
Dr D. R. Sheumack, Sydney, acquired purchased from the above in 1976
Private Collection, New South Wales, by descent from the above
Important Australian Art, Sotheby's Australia, Melbourne, 23 November 2009, lot 25, illustrated
Savill Galleries, Sydney (stock 209058), (label verso), acquired from the above

Exhibited

The Sculpture of Jacob Epstein, Leicester Galleries, London, February - March 1917, no. 1-6, as 'Nan - study'
Jacob Epstein: Portraits in Bronze, David Jones' Gallery, Sydney, 10-29 May 1976, no. 2
Jacob Epstein Sculpture and Drawings, The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery, 16 April - 21 June 1987, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 3 July - 13 September 1987, no. 17 (another cast)

Literature

H.S. Ede, Savage Messiah, Heinemann, London, 1931, pp. 206-207
Arnold Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks: Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell, a Series of Conversations on Art, Heinemann, London, 1931, p. 167
Jacob Epstein, Let there be Sculpture, Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1940, p. 56
E.P. and B.A. Schinman (eds), Jacob Epstein: A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman, Farleigh Dickinson University Press,Madison, New Jersey 1970, p. 39 (illus.)
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, with a Complete Catalogue, Oxford: Phaidon, 1986, pp. 16, 19, 57, 130 (illus.), cat. 38
Evelyn Silber and Terry Friedman (eds.), Jacob Epstein Sculpture and drawings, W. S. Maney and Son in association with the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, 1989, p. 116 (another cast, illus.), 120
Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D.R. Sheumack Collection: Eighty Years of Australian Paintings, Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 1988, no. 122, illustrated