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Jacob Epstein

(American/British, 1880-1959)

Self-portrait with a beard

conceived in 1920; probably cast after 1959 

bronze with brown patina

24.5 x 25.5 x 38.1 cm (9⅝ x 10 x 15 in.)

Private collection, Santa Barbara, California

A. Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell, A Series of Conversations on Art, Garden City, 1932, p. 184 (another cast illustrated as a frontispiece)
R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Cleveland, 1963, pl. 164-167 (other casts illustrated pp. 104-105)
B.A. and E.P. Schinman (eds.), Jacob Epstein. A Catalogue of the Collection of Edward P. Schinman, exh. cat., Cranbury, 1971, no. 16 (another cast illustrated p. 24)
E. Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein with a Complete Catalogue, Oxford, 1986, no. 111 (another cast illustrated p. 147)

Our thanks to Evelyn Silber for confirming the authenticity of this work. 

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