Nude Study

Details

Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Nude Study
bronze with a brown patina
24 in. (61 cm.) long
Conceived circa 1943-1945.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 21 March 1962, lot 39, as 'The Swimmer'.

Literature

E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, pp. 194-195, no. 352, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Jacob Epstein Sculpture and Drawings, Leeds, City Art Galleries, The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, 1987, p. 241, exhibition not numbered, fig. 148, another cast illustrated.
A. Davis, ‘Sutton Place Townhouse’, Architectural Digest, December 1977, pp. 39-46.

Exhibited

Leeds, City Art Galleries, The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Jacob Epstein Sculpture and Drawings, April - June 1987, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, July - September 1987.

Special notice

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