Ann Freud

Details

Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Ann Freud
bronze with a gold patina
7½ in. (19 cm.) high, excluding composite base
Conceived in 1949-50.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 13 June 1997, lot 412, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 206, no. 418, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Jacob Epstein Sculpture and Drawings, Leeds, City Art Galleries, April - June 1987, p. 259, no. 166, another cast illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Ann was one of Epstein's grand-daughters, the elder daughter of Lucian Freud and Kitty, Epstein and Kathleen's elder daughter. Epstein made several bronzes of the little girl and her sister Annabel, 'In the small, exquisite heads of his grandchildren, Ann and Annabel, youthful innocence is expressed by treating the eye-sockets as deep, dark voids. Epstein believed that in this way the child 'confronts time and [its] destiny ... boldly and trustingly [looking out] upon a world newly born of [its] vision' (see Exhibition catalogue, Leeds City Art Galleries, Jacob Epstein Sculpture and Drawings, 1987, p. 259).

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