Art Funded
Romily John
© Estate of Jacob Epstein/Tate, London 2006
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959)
The New Art Gallery Walsall
1907
A portrait of the head of 2 year old Romily John, son of Epstein's friend, Augustus John. The work departs radically from the fussily decorative headwear favoured by Victorian sculptors. Instead the boy is wearing a burnished hemispherical cap which gives the head a completely abstracted form when viewed from the back. The tension between the abstraction of the cap and the naturalism of the head takes the work beyond that of a conventional portrait study.
- Medium: bronze
- Dimensions: height: 20.3cm
- Art Fund Grant: £8000 ( Total: £16,000)
- ArtFunded in: 2005
- Vendor: Whitford Fine Art
Provenance
Purchased by either J Quinn, 1914; NY, Scott and Fowles, 1924 or EP Schinman; ...; private collection, New York.
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