Lot 10
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Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1978)
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Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1978)

First Portrait of Isobel

Details
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1978)
First Portrait of Isobel
bronze with dark brown patina
13¼in (33.5cm.) high, excluding base
Cast in 1932
Provenance
Sefton Delmer and thence by decent.
Literature
E.Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p.171, no.221
Special notice
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Lot Essay

'..a long necked girl with thick hair falling to her bare shoulders, a pouting almost negroid mouth, high cheekbones, and those slanting Nefertiti eyes. They have always moved me, whether in life or in bronze, ever since I first fell in love with a pair of them as an undergraduate at Oxford..... "You", I said to the bust "are the girl I am going to marry" (Sefton Delmer, Trail Sinister, London, 1961, p.241) In 1934 Sefton Delmer did indeed meet and later marry Isobel Nicholas.