Rabindranath Tagore

Details

Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Rabindranath Tagore
bronze with a dark brown patina
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high
Conceived in 1926.

Provenance

Acquired by Edward P. Schinman between 1960 and 1967, and by descent.

Literature

A. Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A series of conversations on Art, London, 1931, p. 185.
L.P. Powell, Jacob Epstein, London, 1932, another cast illustrated.
J. Epstein, Let There Be Sculpture, London, 1940, pp. 111-112.
R. Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, New York and Cleveland, 1942, p. 236, no. 125.
J. Epstein, An Autobiography, London, 1955, p. 92, another cast illustrated.
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, p. 225, pls. 223-224, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of Jacob Epstein's Work from the Collection of Mr Edward P. Schinman, New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1967, p. 74, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Exhibition of Epstein's work from the collection of Mr. Edward P. Schinman, Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, 1968, p. 74, illustrated.
E.P. and B. Schinman (eds.), Jacob Epstein A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman, New Jersey, 1970, p. 37, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, 'Jacob Epstein: Sculpture, watercolours & drawings from the collection of Edward P. Schinman, Miami, University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum, 1971, p. 31, no. 25, illustrated.
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 160, no. 172, another cast illustrated.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali writer and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Richard Buckle observes, 'Epstein modelled Tagore's head over life-size with big, bold strokes, so that the poet with his intense stare and flowing beard took on the monumental grandeur of a baroque apostle' (R. Buckle, op.cit., p. 149).

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