Sir Jacob Epstein

Irving Epstein (the artist's brother)
Dr. Abel Kunin, New York (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students League of New York, 1951, illustrated p. 43

Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, no. 345, illustration of another cast p. 224
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, no. 264, illustration of another cast p. 180

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