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First Venus

Jacob Epstein

First Venus

1912-1913

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Jacob Epstein

First Venus

1912-1913

Physical Qualities Marble, 48 1/2 x 16 x 11 3/4 in. (123.2 x 40.6 x 29.8 cm.)
Credit Line Alan and Janet Wurtzburger Collection
Object Number 1966.55.7
Artist estate: 1962, Alan Wurtzburger
Wild Thing: Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Eric Gill

Fin de Race. Between Avant-garde and Decadence
Richard Buckle, "Jacob Epstein Sculptor," Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co,1963, p. 70, 425.
Raquel Gilboa, "... And there was Sculpture: Jacob Epstein's Formative Years (1880-1930)," London: Paul Holberton publishing, 2009, p. 118, no. 63a-b.
Richard Cork and Adrian Locke, "Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brezeska, Gill," London: Royal Academy Publications, 2009; ill. p. 121..
Richard Buckle, "Jacob Epstein Sculptor," World Publishing Co: Cleveland, OH, 1963, p. 70, 425.

Artist

Jacob Epstein

1879–1958

English, 1880-1959
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