Fourth Portrait of Peggy Jean (asleep)

Details

Sir Jacob Epstein (American/British, 1880-1959)
Fourth Portrait of Peggy Jean (asleep)
bronze with a brown patina
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
Conceived circa 1920.

Literature

E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 147, no. 110 (another cast illustrated).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Peggy Jean was Epstein's daughter and one of his favourite subjects, especially when very young, as she is in as this intimate portrait of her at eighteen months. An identical bronze, from Epstein's own collection, is now in the Hepworth Collection, Wakefield.

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