Sir Jacob Epstein

Garelick's Gallery, Detroit 
Private Collection, Bloomfield Hills
Thence by descent to the present owner

(Probably) Detroit, Garelick's Gallery, Sir Jacob Epstein: Bronzes and Drawings, 1960, no. 14

Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, no. 320, illustration of another cast p. 206
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Oxford, 1986, no. 234, illustration of another cast p. 174

Bronze with a golden brown patina. There are small spots, scattered predominantly at the back of the head in the recessed areas of the hair, where verdigris is beginning to show. There is some minor rubbing to the protruding areas. There is surface dust and dirt throughout, particularly at the back. The work is in good overall condition.
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"Einstein watched my work with a kind of naive wonder, and seemed to sense that I was doing something good of him,...but, as so often happens, the work had to be stopped before I had carried to completion."

(The artist, quoted in Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, London, 1963, p. 206)