Jacob Epstein, Shulamite Woman (Arab Girl)

Jacob Epstein 1880-1959

Shulamite Woman (Arab Girl)

bronze

51.5 x 38 x 33

1987-90

@Jacob Epstein estate

Photo: Bridgeman images

Sculpted in 1935, Epstein chose to model the bust of his Arab sitter as a female archetype, the bride, known as the Shulamite woman, from the biblical Song of Solomon....

Provenance

presented by Mosheh Oved 1947

Exhibitions

Embracing the Exotic: Jacob Epstein & Dora Gordine

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. 40.

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