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STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, U.K. — A bronze bust that unites two titans of British 20th-century art — the sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) and the painter Lucien Freud (1922-2011) — will be offered at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
Epstein’s 2ft 3in (68cm) high portrait of Freud is estimated at £50,000-£70,000 ($60,500-$84,700) as part of an auction of Modern British and Contemporary Art on Tuesday, October 17.
Epstein’s full-bust portrait of Freud was created in 1947, the same year the young artist married Epstein’s daughter, Kitty Garman. Epstein’s focus on the eyes and the intensity of the gaze echoes Freud’s own portraits of Kitty at that time. The plaster version is in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio, but this is thought to be a unique cast in gilded bronze.
The Sworders seller, who bought the bronze in 2012, reunited it with another Epstein bronze of Kitty from the same period. Offered with an estimate of £6,000-£7,000 ($7,260-$8,470), this represents an opportunity to purchase both Kitty and Lucian together.
Both pieces were consigned as part of the contents of Colne Priory in the Essex area of England. The £7 million ($8.5 million) Georgian red-brick country house built on the grounds of a medieval priory, set in 24 acres of immaculate gardens, was recently judged one of the region’s best addresses by Country Life magazine.
Works by Ed Ruscha (b. 1937-), a giant of the international contemporary art market, are rarely offered for sale outside of London. However, one is included in the October 17 Sworders auction. The five-fold lacquered wood standing screen is from an edition created in 1986. Depicting the beauty of a Los Angeles sunset on one side and a cloudscape on the other, the words ‘Remember and Forget’ in Ruscha’s familiar upper-case font are ones he used in other works done in the 1980s. The phrase is thought to be a deliberate misquote from the Elvis Presley song I Forgot to Remember to Forget.
The work was proposed as an edition of 12 with two artist’s proofs, but Ruscha closed the edition at seven works and two artist’s proofs. It has an estimate of £80,000-£120,000 ($96,800-$145,200).
The sale includes 16 lots by Edward Bawden (1903-1989) from different periods in his career. Estimated at £5,000-£8,000 ($6,050-$9,680) is a second edition impression of his famous linocut of Brighton Pier. Some 20 years apart, in 1958 and in 1977, the artist produced two editions of the distinctive scene, which shows the seaside town framed by the domes of the Royal Pavilion. Measuring 22in by 4ft 9in (55cm by 1.47cm), the prints were too large for a studio press, so Bawden made them on the floor, using his feet. In 2011, Bonhams sold a well-preserved first edition Brighton Pier for £13,000 ($15,730), which set the auction record for a Bawden print.
Certain to appeal to collectors are a series of original watercolors made by Bawden towards the end of his career as part of an abortive project to make textiles with the Dovecot Tapestry Works in Edinburgh. These six watercolors over pencil depicting Middle Eastern subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1986 and come for sale directly from the artist’s family. They are estimated at £3,000-£5,000 ($3,630-$6,050) each.
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Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud bronze, estimated at £50,000-£70,000 ($60,500-$84,700) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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Jacob Epstein, first portrait of Kitty (with curls) bronze with a gold-brown patina, estimated at £6,000-£7,000 ($7,260-$8,470) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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Edward Bawden, ‘Brighton Pier,’ estimated at £5,000-£8,000 ($6,050-$9,680) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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Edward Bawden, ‘Project for Tapestry III – Abydos,’ estimated at £3,000-£5,000 ($3,630-$6,050) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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Ed Ruscha, ‘Remember and Forget,’ estimated at £80,000-£120,000 ($96,800-$145,200) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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