Sir Jacob Epstein, KBE - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Sir Jacob Epstein, KBE

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The mathematician and physicist originator of the Special Theory of Relativity 1905, Laws of the Photoelectric Effect 1905 and the General Theory of Relativity 1917. Einstein sat for Epstein outside a hut in a refugee camp in Roughton Heath, nr Cromer, Norfolk and left for Princeton University, NJ before Epstein had finished the sculpture.
Other casts of this bust are included in the collections of: Birmingham, The City Art Gallery; Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum; University of Liverpool; London, The Estorick Collection, Tate Gallery, The Science Museum; National Galleries of Scotland and Victoria, The National Gallery.

Provenance: Mary and Jack D. Tarcher Collection, New York;
by family descent to Shari Lewis Collection, Beverly Hills;
by family descent to Judith (née Tarcher) Krantz, Bel Air;
Private collection, USA

Literature: Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber & Faber, London, 1963, pp.206-207, cat.no.320, illus. b.&w. (another cast);
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1986, p.174, cat.no.234, illus. b.&w. (another cast)

Exhibition: London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Watercolours of Epping Forest, December 1933 (another cast);
London, Tate Gallery, 1934 (another cast)

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