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

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Description: Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Visitation
bronze with a gold and brown patina
66 in. (167.6 cm.) high, excluding wooden base
Conceived in 1926 and cast in 1941.

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Provenance: Samuels Collection, Liverpool; Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1977, lot 66, where purchased by the present owner.

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Published: J. Epstein, Let there be Sculpture, London, 1940, pp. 133-4, 184, another cast illustrated.
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, pp. 145, 153, 174, pls. 220-22, another cast illustrated.
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Jacob Epstein, Oxford, 1986, p. 158, no. 162, illustrated.