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Artist or Maker: Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)

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Description: Girl from Senegal (Madeleine Bechet)
bronze with a dark brown patina
23 1/2 in. (55.9 cm.) high
Conceived in 1921.

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Published: Vanity Fair, 7, 1923, p. 54, another cast illustrated.
H. Wellington, Jacob Epstein, London, 1925, p. 26, pl. 19, another cast illustrated.
A. Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A Series of Conversations on Art, London, 1931, p. 178.
J. Epstein, Let there be Sculpture, London, 1940, pp. 110.
R. Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, New York, 1942, no. 82, pls. 13-14, another cast illustrated.
J. Epstein, An Autobiography, London, 1955, p. 91.
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, pp. 199, 425, pl. 172, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, no. 122, p. 149, another cast illustrated.

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