Not on display
- Artist
- Sir Jacob Epstein 1880–1959
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 476 x 559 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1928
- Reference
- N04424
Catalogue entry
N04424 THE LITTLE NEGRESS 1928
Inscr. ‘Epstein’ b.l.
Pencil, 18 3/4×22 (48×56).
Purchased from Godfrey Phillips (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1928.
Exh: Godfrey Phillips Gallery, October–November 1928 (37).
Repr:
Artwork, No.17, 1929, p.69, as ‘Nude Study’; Hubert Wellington, Jacob Epstein, Seventy-five Drawings, 1929, pl.37, as ‘Little Negress’; Black, 1942, pl.139.
Hubert Wellington (op. cit.) says that all the drawings exhibited at the Godfrey Phillips Gallery in 1928 were done in July and August of that year and describes them as ‘Studies of life rather than studies of form and detail from life’. The models were all Indian women and Negresses. (See also N04425.)
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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