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Letter from Jacob Epstein to Peggy Jean

04 November [1948]

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Sir Jacob Epstein 1880–1959
Recipient
Peggy Jean Lewis 1918–2010
Date
04 November [1948]
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Created by
Sir Jacob Epstein 1880–1959
Recipient
Peggy Jean Lewis 1918–2010
Title
Letter from Jacob Epstein to Peggy Jean
Date
04 November [1948]
Description
The letter discusses sale of works in Scotland and being 'disregarded by the powers that be'. The letter also mentions Raymond Coxon and his works 'Mrs Mumford' (1948), 'Third Portrait of Jackie (Ragamuffin)' and 'Second Portrait of Pandit Nehru (bust)' (1949).
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Purchased for the Tate Archive from Peggy Jean Lewis in two batches, sixty letters in 1987 and the photographs and three letters in 1989.
Reference
TGA 8716/11
Artists’ International Association Biomorphism Bloomsbury British Surrealism British War Art Camden Town Group Direct carving Futurism London Group Neo-romanticism New English Art Club Seven and Five Society Surrealism Unit One Vorticism

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