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| Keywords: 'The Visitation' by Jacob Epstein, Tate Britain.JPG Artwork Creator Jacob Epstein 1926 Bronze Size mm 1651 470 457 Institution Tate Britain object history exhibition history credit line Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1927 Not inscribed In 1926 in Epping Forest I modelled a life-size figure which I intended for a group to be called The Visitation I can recall with pleasure how this figure looked in my little hut which I used as a studio I should have liked it to stand amongst trees on a knoll overlooking Monk Wood This figure stands with folded hands and expresses a humility so profound as to shame the beholder who comes to my sculpture expecting rhetoric or splendour of gesture When I exhibited the work at the Leicester Galleries wishing to avoid controversy I called it A Study By this disguise I succeeded for once in evading the critics always ready to bay and snap at a work A subscription was raised to purchase it and I recall that Richard Wyndham gave the proceeds of an exhibition he was holding of his own work towards its purchase for the Tate Gallery Epstein accession number http //www tate org uk/art/artworks/epstein-the-visitation-n04238/text-catalogue-entry N04238 place of creation Self-photographed Wmpearl 2012 Sculptures in Tate Britain Epstein Jacob Epstein FoP-UK Not-free-US-FOP Cc-zero | ||||
