Tanya

Details

Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Tanya
bronze with a dark brown patina
22 in. (55.9 cm.) high, excluding wooden base

Literature

R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, p. 336, pl. 360, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

'A more voluptuous and catlike model was TANYA, a girl of Belgian and Russian parents, of whom the sculptor made a curl-crowned portrait, which might illustrate T. S. Eliot's lines about Grishkin: 'Uncorseted, her friendly bust gives promise of pneumatic bliss (R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, p. 337).

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