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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
- 07 December [1948]
- Description
- The letter discusses finding two Abyssinian princesses 'and one of them is posing for me soon', either 'Princess Desta' or 'Princess Menen', (1948-1949). The letter also discusses his business with dealers, 'Girl with Gardenias, (Kathleen)' (1943), and 'Mrs Mumford' (1948).
- 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 8716/13
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