Art Funded
Genesis
© Estate of Jacob Epstein/Tate, London 2006
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959)
Whitworth Art Gallery
1929 - 1930
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.
- Medium: Seravezza marble
- Dimensions: 162 cm
- Art Fund Grant: £14375 ( Total: £230,000)
- ArtFunded in: 1999
- Vendor: Granada Television
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.
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