Art Funded
Flenite Relief
© Estate of Jacob Epstein/Tate, London 2008
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880 - 1959)
Leeds Art Gallery
1913
The work has two very different sides to it - recto: Woman Clasping a Phallus/ verso: Birth. The two sides are not meant to be read in terms of the back and front of the same object, but rather as the beginning and end of a story normally separated in time; the onset of desire and its ultimate fruits. It is a daring sculpture, not just in its subject matter, but also in its form and conception. Epstein is showing sexuality and creation on the same object but in such a way that they can never be seen together.
- Medium: Serpentine stone
- Dimensions: 30.5 x 28 x 9cm
- Art Fund Grant: £23764 ( Total: £137,835)
- ArtFunded in: 2006
- Vendor: Dr M J Evans
Provenance
T E Hulme; J Epstein; Mrs G E Rogers; Epstein Estate; E P Schinman; B Dannenberg; V Steele Scott; S F Butterfield; Dr M E Evans.
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