Baby Asleep

細節

Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Baby Asleep
bronze with a black patina
4¾ in. (12 cm.), high excluding base

出版

B. Van Dieren Epstein, London, 1920, pl. XIX, (another cast illustrated).
A. Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A Series of Conversations, London, 1931, p. 166.
R. Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, New York, 1942, no. 5, pl. 68, (another cast illustrated).
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculpture, London, 1963, p. 19, pl. 10 (another cast illustrated).
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 119, no. 3 (another cast illustrated).

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拍品專文

Silber contends that the work was conceived circa 1902-1904, although one of the casts was exhibited at the Twenty-One Gallery and was dated 1907. Silber states therefore 'it is possible that Buckle is mistaken in suggesting that these pre-date the sculptor's arrival in London' (E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 199).

Before Epstein left Paris for England in early 1905; 'he appears to have destroyed the contents of the studio. He took with him only a portfolio of drawings in red chalk, pen and wash, and possibly two baby's heads (no's 3, 4), modelled with a delicate naturalism which is strongly reminiscent of Dalou's Head of a Sleeping Infant, circa 1878. The similarity is probably coincidental since the latter was only exhibited in the Salle Dalou at the Petit Palais in July 1905, several months after Epstein had left' (E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, pp. 13-14).