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Joseph Mendes da Costa (1863-1939) A portrait of Ghandi signed (in monogram) and dated on the reverse 1930, a unique polychromed sandstone sculpture 34.5 cm high
Literature
Beeldende Kunst, XX, 1933, no. 23 A.M. Hammacher, Mendes da Costa. De geestelijke boodschap der beeldhouwkunst, Rotterdam 1941, p.59 and p.74 (erroneously mentioned under ceramics) F. de Miranda, Mendes da Costa, Jessurun de Mesquita, Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars - Joden in de Verstrooiing, Wassenaar 1978, p.102 (illus.), no. 54