Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Lot 82

Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)

Rabindranath Tagore

Closed16 October 2013

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GBP 16,250

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Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)
Rabindranath Tagore
bronze with a dark brown patina
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high
Conceived in 1926.

Acquired by Edward P. Schinman between 1960 and 1967, and by descent.

Specialist note

Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali writer and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Richard Buckle observes, 'Epstein modelled Tagore's head over life-size with big, bold strokes, so that the poet with his intense stare and flowing beard took on the monumental grandeur of a baroque apostle' (R. Buckle, op.cit., p. 149).