Mrs Emily Chadbourne

Details

Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Mrs Emily Chadbourne
marble
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high
Carved in 1910.

Provenance

Edward P. Shinman and by descent.

Literature

C.L. Hind, The Post Impressionists, London, 1911, p. 66.
A. Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A series of conversations on Art, London, 1931, p. 167.
R. Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, New York and Cleveland, 1942, p. 228, no. 13.
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, p. 40, no. 54, illustrated, as 'Mrs Chadburn'.
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of Jacob Epstein's Work from the Collection of Mr Edward P. Schinman, New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1967, p. 9, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of Epstein's work from the collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, Trenton, 1968, p. 9, illustrated.
E.P. and B. Schinman (eds.), Jacob Epstein A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman, New Jersey, 1970, p. 87, illustrated, as 'Mrs Chadburn'.
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 126, no. 22, illustrated.

Exhibited

New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Exhibition of Jacob Epstein's Work from the Collection of Mr Edward P. Schinman, February - April 1967.
Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Exhibition of Epstein's work from the collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, September - December 1968.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Mrs Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871 - 1964) was a noted art collector from Chicago who made bequests to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Library of Congress. In 1905 she moved to London. A Chicago newspaper published just after the end of the First World War claimed that 'prior to the war her house in Mayfair was the gathering place for several groups of fashionables, notably those with a literary or artistic bent. All the great literary lions were to be found at her soires and she entertained with great distinction' (quoted in K. Crane-Gartz & M. Craig Sinclair, The Parlor Provocateur, or From Salon to Soap Box: the letters of Kate Crane Gartz, Pasadena, 1923, p. 25).

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