Jacob Epstein, Professor Samuel Alexander O.M.

Jacob Epstein 1880-1959

Professor Samuel Alexander O.M.

bronze

51 x 57 x 37

1987-89

@Jacob Epstein estate

Photo: Bridgeman images

Samuel Alexander OM, FBA (1859 – 1938) was an Australian-born British philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college. He sat to Epstein for his bust in 1924...

Provenance

presented by Mosheh Oved

Exhibitions

Sir Jacob Epstein: Exhibition of Bronzes

Literature

Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 38.; R. Buckle, Jacob Epstein (London, 1963) p. 142.

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