Jacob Epstein 1880-1959
Gertrude the Bather, 1911
Bronze
37 x 28 x 17 1/4 in
94 x 71 x 44 cm
94 x 71 x 44 cm
Gertrude Williams modelled for several Epstein nude studies, only one of which has survived. She may have posed for the rejected Strand Statue and is probably also the model for...
Gertrude Williams modelled for several Epstein nude studies, only one of which has survived. She may have posed for the rejected Strand Statue and is probably also the model for English Girl (circa 1910). The alternative title of this piece is Gertrude in a Bathing Cap.
Provenance
On long-term loan from a private collectionExhibitions
2024: US: From There to Here - Britain's Gain, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London, 17 April - 14 JuneLiterature
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein, with a complete catalogue (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1986), p. 128, cat. no. 31, ill. 31. (another cast);
R. Buckle, and Lady Epstein, Epstein Drawings (London: Faber and Faber, 1962), pp. 22-23, pls. 16-17;
R. Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein (New York: World Publishing Company, 1942), p.54, pl. 76 (another cast title);
Jacob Epstein, Let there be Sculpture (London: 1940), p. 56;
E A.L. Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, London, 1931, p.168 (uncast).