Sir Jacob Epstein

Private Collection, since 1970s

Their Sale, Sotheby's London, 15 November 2011, lot 200, where acquired by the present owner

Robert Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, World Publishing Company, New York, 1942, cat. no. 232, p. 242

Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber & Faber, London, 1963, illustrated pl. 361, p. 231

Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, cat. no. 284, p. 184, illustrated

London, Leicester Galleries, Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, October - December 1937, cat. no. 17 (another cast)

Rita Romilly (1900-1980) was a stage actress whom Epstein met in New York in 1927 and later taught at the American Academy of Dramatic Art. She apparently coached Paul Robeson for his role in Othello.