SIR JACOB EPSTEIN | BUST OF JOSEPH CONRAD

Stanley J. Seeger

His sale, Sotheby's London, The Joseph Conrad Collection from the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10th July 2013, lot 117, where acquired by the present owner

Hubert Wellington, Jacob Epstein, Benn, London, 1925, p.27, illustrated pl.35 (another cast);

Arnold Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks: Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell: A Series of Conversations on Art, Heinemann, 1931, pp.69, 182;

L.B. Powell, Jacob Epstein, Chapman and Hall, London, 1932, pp.67, 93;

Jacob Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture, Michael Joseph, London, 1940, pp.89-94, illustrated (another cast);

Robert Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland, 1942, cat. no.109, illustrated pl.19 (another cast);

Jacob Epstein, An Autobiography, Hulton, London, 1955, pp.73-77, illustrated (another cast);

Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber and Faber, London, 1963, pp.130-1, illustrated fig.202-3 (another cast);

Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, cat. no.148, p.156, illustrated pl.15 (another cast);

Jeffrey Meyers, Joseph Conrad: A Biography, Cooper Square Press, New York, 2001, p.356;

June Rose, Daemons and Angels, A Life of Jacob Epstein, Constable, London, 2002, p.153.

London, Leicester Galleries, Carvings and Bronzes by Jacob Epstein, May 1933, cat. no.2 (another cast);

Leeds, Temple Newsam, Exhibition of Sculpture and Paintings by Jacob Epstein and Matthew Smith, 12th July – 14th September 1942, cat. no.33, illustrated (another cast, where lent by Muirhead Bone);

London, Arts Council of Britain at the Tate, Epstein, 25th September – 9th November 1952, cat. no.23, illustrated (another cast, where lent by Muirhead Bone);

London, Arts Council Memorial Exhibition, Epstein, 1961, cat. no.25 (another cast, where lent by the Artist’s estate);

Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Twentieth Century British Art, 1962, cat. no.79 (another cast);

Birmingham, Midland Area Service, Epstein: An Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings, 1962-3, cat. no.9 (another cast);

Folkestone, New Metropole Arts Centre, Jacob Epstein: Sculpture and Painting, 1965, cat. no.61 (another cast);

New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, Exhibition of Sir Jacob Epstein work from the Collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, 19th February - 1st April 1967, illustrated (another cast);

Iowa, Des Moines Art Centre, Selections from the B. Gerald Cantor Collection, 9th December 1970 – 10th January 1971, with tour to Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; University Art Museum, Albuquerque; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; and Fort Worth Art Centre, Texas (another cast);

Bucharest, British Council, English Portraits, 1972-3, (details untraced, another cast);

Folkestone, Edwardian Festival (details untraced, another cast);

Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Rebel Angel: Sculpture and Watercolours by Sir Jacob Epstein 1880-1959, 16th October – 30th November 1980, cat. no.13, illustrated (another cast);

Leeds, City Art Galleries Jacob Epstein Sculpture and Drawings, 16th April – 21st June 1987, cat. no.93, illustrated, with tour to Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (another cast);

London, National Portrait Gallery, Jacob Epstein: Portrait Sculptor, 30th March – 24th November 2013 (another cast).

We are grateful to Evelyn Silber for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.