Sir Jacob Epstein

London, Leicester Galleries, Landscapes by Ethelbert White and New Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, February - March 1947, cat. no.40 (another cast);
London, Leicester Galleries, Fifty Years of Bronzes and Drawings by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), June - July 1960, cat. no.43 (another cast);
London, The Arts Council, Epstein Memorial Exhibition, 1961, cat. no.53;
Rutherford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Works of Sir Jacob Epstein From the Collection of Mr Edward P. Schinman, 1967, illustrated in the catalogue p.91 (another cast).

Jacob Epstein, Epstein: An Autobiography, Hulton, London, 1955, p.230, illustrated (another cast);
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein, Sculptor, Faber and Faber, 1963, p.302, illustrated pls.463 and 464 (another cast);
E.P. Schinman and B.A. Schinman (eds), Jacob Epstein. A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970, p.52, illustrated (another cast);
The Sunday Times, 'The Case of the Multiplying Epsteins', 21st February 1971;
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, cat. no.371, p.198, illustrated (another cast).

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The bust was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee and executed in November 1946. In his Autobiography Epstein wrote that: 'the opportunity came after the war when [Churchill] was living opposite me. After three somewhat restless sittings Churchill decided to stay at Chartwell where he gave me three further sittings.'