1880-1959
Maquette for "Christ in Majesty"
Ref: 2668
Signed to reverse of robe: Epstein
Lead, 65.5 cm high
Mounted on a Portland stone base
Literature: E. Silber, The Scuplture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 217, no. 474, another cast illustrated
Epstein conceived his Christ in Majesty in 1953 as a maquette for his aluminum sculpture of the same subject for Llandaff Cathedral in Wales (1954-5).