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Mournful Madrigal
Details
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Mournful Madrigal
pencil on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1938.
Mournful Madrigal
pencil on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm.)
Executed in 1938.
Provenance
Literature
J. Laver, Charles Baudelaire: Flowers of Evil, London, 1940, illustrated.
J. Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture, London, 1940, p. 380.
S. Levy and T. Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, p. 146, illustrated.
J. Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture, London, 1940, p. 380.
S. Levy and T. Pirsig-Marshall (ed.), exhibition catalogue, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, Leeds, City Art Gallery, 2009, p. 146, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Arthur Tooth and Sons, An Exhibition of Drawings by Jacob Epstein for ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ of Charles Baudelaire, December 1938, no. 16, as 'Madrigal Triste'.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, July – November 2009, exhibition not numbered.
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, July – November 2009, exhibition not numbered.
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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