Noneen (Head of a Girl) bronze with a black patina 35 cm. (13 3/4 in.) high (excluding base) Conceived in 1919
Footnotes
PROVENANCE: A.C.J. Wall Thence by family descent
EXHIBITED: London, Leicester Galleries, Recent Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, 1920, no.9 (as Head of a Girl)
LITERATURE: B. Van Dieren, Epstein, John Lane, London, 1920, (pl.xxII, another cast ill.b&w) (as Head of a Girl) A. Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A series of conversations on Art, Heinemann, London, 1931, p.176 R. Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, World Publishing Company, New York & Cleveland, 1942, no.71, p.232 Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein: Sculptor, Faber and Faber, London, 1963, p.102, pl.158 (another cast ill.b&w) Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, cat.no.106, p.146 (another cast ill.b&w)
A.C.J. Wall was an important industrialist and collector during the early part of last century.
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