Lot 637
LESTER EPSTEIN (American, 1919-1963)
AN INTERESTING FOLIO OF THE ARTIST'S WORK
Comprising a total of approximately 170 items: drawings, watercolours, collages, etchings, some monoprints and similar prints (many of the prints duplicated), many items signed, various sizes (folio)
* Epstein studied at the Isaac Delgardo Museum of Art and later served as a registrar there. He was integral to the artistic community in New Orleans and was known by some as the `St Louis Gauguin`. He wrote and published a few books in the late 1950s and met John Skeaping in Mexico (see Skeaping's `The Big Tree of Mexico`, London, 1952, chapter 12). Epstein stayed with the artist and his family in Devon although they briefly shared a house in Arles in 1960. These varied and imaginative works reflect the influence of artists such as Klee, Miro and Wilfredo Lam
Provenance: John Skeaping RA; and thence by descent
