© Estate of Jacob Epstein/Tate, London 2006
Genesis
Artist: Sir Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959)
Location: Whitworth Art Gallery
Date: 1929 - 1930
Materials: Seravezza marble
Dimensions: 162 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £14,375 (Total: £230,000)
Vendor: Granada Television
Review number: 4768 (1999)
Provenance:
Leicester Galleries; Alfred Bossom, 1931; William Cartmel (via Sotheby's) on behalf of Louis Tussaud's Waxworks, Blackpool, 1958; Lord Bernstein on behalf of Granada Television, 1962.
Description:
Depicts a woman in later stages of pregnancy. Her face has African mask features and her thighs are sunk into a roughly hewn slab of marble.
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