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Click here to subscribeSir Jacob Epstein Portrait of Ian (Ossian) Bronze Signed verso 44cm highmm x 39cm wide Provenance: Sydney Box (d. 1980) Mote End London a film producer Baroness Muriel Gardiner (previous Mrs. Sidney Box) author of Odd Woman Out Purchased from her descendants by the present owner in 1993. Literature: J. Epstein Epstein: An Autobiography London 1955 p. 155. R. Buckle Jacob Epstein Sculptor London 1963 p. 275 pl. 597. E. P. and B. A. Schinman Jacob Epstein A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman Farleigh Dickinson University Press 1970 p. 100. E. Silber The sculpture of Epstein Oxford 1986 p. 191 no. 326. This portrait of Ian Horstein depicts Epsteins second grandson the son of his daughter Peggy Jean and Norman Hornstein and was conceived and cast in 1942. The only other known full bust of Ian with arms is in the Auckland City Art Gallery New Zealand.
Melanie Le Brocquy, 20th Century Visitation bronze with green patina height 19cm.; 7.5in. including base Executed in 1975. Brian Fallon, The Irish Times, described le Brocquy as 'an important figure in Irish Art, neither avant-guardist nor a conservative, but an independent in the true sense of the word'. Exhibited London, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Melanie le Brocquy Sculpture, 1938-1990, 18 July - 1 September 1990, no.9
B...Riabouchinsky (20th century) Two Deer on a Country Lane in a Winter Landscape Signed with the artist's monogram and partial signature, pencil and watercolour heightened with white, 20.5cm by 28cm (8in by 11in) *Provenance. With J.Davey & Sons Ltd, 70 Bridge Street, Deansgate, Manchester 3 *There is a Nicolas Riabouchinsky who exhibited in Russia in 1933 and a bronze sculpture depicting a Bison was sold by a sculptor with the same name in 1997/1998
Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, SUZON, inscribed A. Rodin and stamped with the foundry mark Cie de bronzes Bruxelles, bronze with brown patina, height (including base): 37cm.; 14.5in. Originally executed in 1872 and subsequently cast by La Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles between 1872 and 1939 in an unknown edition. Literature, Denys Sutton, Triumphant Satyr: The World of Auguste Rodin, London, 1966, p. 28, Robert Descharnes, Auguste Rodin, Geneva, 1967, p. 46, illustration of another cast, Ionel Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 85, Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, London, 1974, p. 206, John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 582, no. 106-2, illustration of another cast, Renee Plouin, Annie Champie & Rodolphe Walter, Auguste Rodin Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre sculpte, vol. I, Paris, 1989, p. 84, no. 64, illustration of another cast, John L. Tancock, Rodin in Mexico, Collection of European Sculpture from the XIX and XX Centuries, Mexico, 1997, pp. 17 & 26, illustration of another cast,
Jonathan Macallan Swan (1847-1910) St John the Baptist, standing with arms raised, on rocky base, silver metal, signed and dated 1899. 64cm high Provenance; Jesmond Towers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where it is listed in an inventory of 1926 in the Billiard Room as 'A bronze figure of a boy'. Literature; Leighton and his Sculptural Legacy: British Sculpture 1875-1930 exhibition catalogue item 28, Joanna Barnes Fine Arts, Duke Street, London 1996. There is a variant of this figure in the Perth Art Gallery.
Honore Daumier, 1808-1879 LE DANDY inscribed h.D., stamped with the foundry mark D. Valsuani, Cire Perdue and numbered 7/30 bronze height: 18.5cm.; 7.25in. Conceived circa 1840 and cast circa 1950 in a numbered edition of 30 plus 4 Artist's proofs, this is a posthumous cast. This sculpture is comparable to the figure of a dandy depicted in Daumier's series of lithographs entitled Les Comediens de Societe.
Jean-Jacques Pradier, (1792-1852). A bronze and parcel gilt sculpture of Sappho at the column, signed 'J.Pradier 1848' and stamped with Victor Paillard foundry initials, also stamped 'Maury' to the underside of the sculpture, raised on a stepped ormolu base, stamped 'L', 17.5in (44.4cm) h, 8in (20.3cm) w.
Cesar, 1921-1998, LE PIED, signed, stamped with the foundry mark Valsuani, Cire Perdue and numbered 5/6, bronze, height 44cm.; 17.25in. Conceived in 1963, this work is from an edition of 6 examples plus 1 HC, cast in 1964. The original iron sculpture of this work was made by Cesar for his friend Roger Vivier, esteemed shoemaker at Christian Dior, and was exhibited outside his shop in the Rue Francois Premier in Paris.
Henry Moore, O.M., C.H., 1898-1986. rock form, signed and inscribed with the number 3/7 on the base, bronze, height (including base): 15cm.; 6in. Literature Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture, Volume 6, Sculpture 1980-86, London 1988, no.861, plate 105 (illustration of another of the same edition).
Henry Moore, O.M., C.H., 1898-1986. tree figure, signed and inscribed with the number 7/9 on the base, bronze, height (including base): 18.5cm.; 7.25in. Literature Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, Volume 5, Sculpture 1974-80, London 1983, no.771 (illustration of another of the same edition).
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959): A Bronze Portrait Head from First Portrait of Delores (La) Bohemienne] Signed "Epstein", 31cm high, upon a canted rectangular and stepped black slate plinth, 39cm overall *Literature: Evelyn Silber: "The Sculpture of Epstein", Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, catalogue No. 131
EDOUARD DROUOT 1859-1945, A LATE 19TH CENTURY BRONZE SCULPTURE, The Love of Labour, depicting a semi-naked youth standing with plough and sword and holding aloft an olive branch, the base inscribed 'Le Conseil d'Etat de la Republique et Canton de Geneve a Mr Henri Juvet Architecte pour ses Services a L'Ecole des Arts Industriels a L'occasion de Exposition Universelle de 1900', 35.5in (90cm) high.