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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
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