Bust of the Honorable Wynne Godley

Details

SIR JACOB EPSTEIN (AMERICAN/BRITISH, 1880-1959)
Bust of the Honorable Wynne Godley
bronze with light brown patina
19 in. (58.2 cm.) high
Conceived in 1956.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 February 1971, lot 85.

Literature

R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, p. 383, pls. 608 & 649, p. 55, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 223, no. 501, another cast illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The Honorable Wynne Godley was the younger son of the Third Lord Kilbracken, second husband of Kitty and the model for the head of St. Michael in St. Michael and the Devil, Coventry Cathedral (see E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 223, no. 503).

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