Sir Jacob Epstein (British, 1880-1959)The Left Hand of Mlle Mijinska
bronze with a brown patina
25cm (9 13/16in) long
Conceived in 1926, the present work is a posthumous cast from Epstein studio plaster fragments注脚Provenance
Yonty Solomon, by whom bequeathed to the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
Detroit, Gaerlick Gallery, Graphic Arts Associates, Jacob Epstein, Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings, 1968, cat.no.18, (ill., a pair of hands, another cast, as Mlle Nijinska)

Literature
Arnold Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A Series of Conversations on Art, Heinemann, 1931, p.185 (bust, another cast)
Robert Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, World Publishing Company, New York & Cleaveland, 1942, cat.no.129, p.236 (bust, another cast, as Nijinska)
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber & Faber, London, 1963, p.426
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon Press Limited, Oxford, 1986, cat.no.171, p.160 (bust, another cast)

We are grateful to Dr Evelyn Silber for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.