Sculpture Collection Sir Jacob Epstein Fifth Portrait of Mrs. Jacob Epstein (in a mantilla) British, born USA, 1880-1959 14 7/8 x 17 x 11 inches The artist did several portraits of his first wife, Margaret Dunlop, including this bust, also known as the Fifth Portrait of Mrs. Epstein. Three copies were cast in bronze. “This bust…is the most profound of the three works [studies of Margaret Dunlop], and it has that quiet thoughtfulness that I has unconsciously striven for in the other two; or most likely as I matured my work, I naturally brought into full play my powers of observation and expression, and so made this one of gravest and I think one of my most beautiful busts. This work was unhurried and brooded over, and the drapery was worked with great care, the lines, all running downwards like the rills of a fountain, are essential to the effect of the bust, and help express its innermost meaning. I think of this bust as a crowning piece, and I place it with any work I have done. There is a version of it in New York owned by Stevenson Scott, the dealer in Old Masters, and when I visited his gallery I was pleased to see it, holding its own amongst paintings by Rembrandt and Hals.”- Sir Jacob Epstein, An Autobiography, p.97 (by permission of Studio Vista Ltd., Publishers) - From the catalogue, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Editor Margy P. Sharpe, 1976. |
  
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