Sir Jacob Epstein

London, Leicester Galleries, Recent Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, February 1920, cat. no.291 (another cast).

Arnold Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A series of conversations on Art, Heinemann, 1931, p.178;
Robert Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland, 1942, cat. no.87, p.233;
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber & Faber, 1963, pl.150, pp.96-9;
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, 1986, cat. no.105, p.146, illustrated.

Dirt has gathered in some of the crevices but the sculpture is in good overall condition. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 5381 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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Executed in 1919.