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Description: bronze, black patina

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Dimensions: measurements height 15 in. alternate measurements 38 cm.

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Provenance: Acquired from the artist
(Sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, March 16, 1978, lot 52, illustrated)
Tullah Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania
Acquired by the father of the present owner from the above

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Published: Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 147, no. 111 (illustration of another cast)

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Notes: model executed in 1920
At the time he created this vigorous self-portrait, Epstein was considered by many to be the greatest modern sculptor in Britain; his output of portraiture increased as other types of commissions eluded him, due to the hostile reactions to his avant-garde design proposals.