Jacob Epstein

Leicester Galleries, Sydney
Artarmon Galleries, Sydney
David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney
The late Dr and Mrs D. R. Sheumack; purchased from the above in 1976; thence by descent

The Sculpture of Jacob Epstein, Leicester Galleries, London, February - March 1917, cat. 1-6 (as 'Nan - study')
Jacob Epstein: portraits in bronze, David Jones' Gallery, Sydney, 10 - 29 May 1976, cat. 2
Jacob Epstein Sculpture and drawings, The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery, 16 April - 21 June 1987; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 3 July - 13 September 1987, cat. 17 (another cast)

R. Black, The art of Jacob Epstein, New York and Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1942
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1963, pp. 84-85 (illus.)
Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D.R. Sheumack Collection, Eighty Years of Australian Paintings, Sotheby's Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1988, pl. 122 (illus.)
H. S. Ede, Savage Messiah, London: Heinemann, 1931, pp. 206 - 207
Jacob Epstein, Let there be sculpture, London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1940, p. 56
Arnold Haskell, The sculptor speaks: Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell, a series of conversations on Art, London: Heinemann, 1931, p. 167
Evelyn Silber and Terry Friedman (eds.), Jacob Epstein Sculpture and drawings, W. S. Maney and Son in association with the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, 1989, p. 116 (another cast, illus.), 120
E. P. and B. A. Schinman (eds.), Jacob Epstein: A catalogue of the collection of Edward P. Schinman, Madison, New Jersey: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970, p. 39 (illus.)
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, with a complete catalogue, Oxford: Phaidon, 1986, pp. 16, 19, 57, 130 (illus.), cat. 38

This sculpture is in good original condition.
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