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TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER
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If Jacob Epstein had been an actor,
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Holroyd, director of the nie would have gone through life be- National Gallery: "When the scuip- ing booed and cat-called by nine-tor has achieved fame the association tenths of his audiences; only with the will be proud that thy have cm- whe-tenth would he have been what ployed him." is called a strecess.
That was in 1908. Almost at once he received the commission (he 01 £2,000 for it) to do the Oscar Wilde memorial in Pere Lachaise e.metery
MR. JACOB EPSTEIN WA, in Paris, le conceived it as a heat fortunately, born to be of Wilde merging into a great winged sculptor; he is the best-and' with-
mass; not unlike a puge Red Indian out doubt the greatest-sculptor in.athered hat, the world to-day.
He also happens to be the most consistently successful in a material sense; over the past two decades or to h: has been averaging about £3 600 a year,
..
(and
Again to his amazement looking at the design confers to mine, Mr. Smith) the conservateur of the cemetery announced in Parts that it was: "Immoral."
It was what w: might call stream- How did he get to his presemned to-day; many of his designs in eminence in such a precarious call his 1013 exhibldon showed the same influene-a smoothness and economy ing? How does any sculptor, Mi
line: Saith, stort about being a sculptor? Jacob Epstein was born of Polish
parents on New York's East Side, in ibe Jewish quarter.
ot
day.
They would not startle you to
Epstein was then ahead of his time. But he was moulding public taste, just as Diaghileff was just then altering world taste in colours by his al-Russian Ballet designs, and Stravin- re-sky inventing new orchestral sounds.
He was a handsome young man a Jewish way. His family------ though desperately poor, and fugees In the bargain-was a good one. Jacob had a fine head of hair. a straight figure, and a vital way of moving.
HOW docs a
man
are
2,
1987.
Th-n
came "Rima"-the W. 11. Hudson Memorial in the flyde Park a scary-which is possibly the best-known piece of modern
and staluary. Every
tilen now critles tar and feather it.
After that there were "Day" and "Night" on the new Underground building in Londen. People snid I was awful, "the figures were Orien- ut."
"Is it Oriental?" sighed Epstein - I don't know; but if it is inspired by the countries from which we Get our greatest philosophies, religions, and culture, I suppose they may be
don't know. right
"Behold the Man," a figure with
hands tled, came after that, and now the recumbent Azure of Christ, ns le lay on the ground beneath the Cross, is being talked about by every
show,
who is seen it in his present
You may not like the gure, and Perhaps I may cffend your senti- ment, but it is something vital and rather tremendous.
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AND the man who comes in- to the galleries and smiles disapprovingly at everything he sees? He lives in a big, rather untidy house FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI In Hyde Parkt-gale, and is in the telephone back as a "clptr."
Hin red-hcuded wife is a placid and kindly person, and on Sunday and pours the tes out for the stream of callers. It is a vague sort of house- hold. Epstein lives in a world of his own, emerging only when he
work. like starts to
Epstein work?
two He showed early promise as th Well, Mr. Smith, there illustrator, drawing on every plece sides of his work. The portraits thai of paper handy. Such Way his he models in clay and the monu- talent that while still a boy he mental works which he carves oul Illustrated a volume of "Children of of soild blocks of stone and which the Chetto." His work attracted he regards as his real life work. the attention of n rich American It work of a tremendously,
slip woman, and money was provided for physical order. One
with him to go to Paris and study at the elucel and he could spall the work of Ecole des Beaux Arts
a year.
*
Not much money; but you didn't need much money to study art in Purls in those days,
I wonder whether you, Mr. Smith have ever felt the urge to express yourself, Felt it so urgently that nothing else matters; home, family, security health. Unless you feel that way-or know that your
SON
Telephone 28021. feels that way I would not sug-
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1 Body that gives pain to duct.
0 Member of a choir.
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11 He can be ellher in the running,
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13 The ancient land of the blue-
stocking?
15 This body is, of course, ordered
about kit.
17 A thick-skinned siren, mado of
all hido.
19 The height of ambition, meto- phorically (two words-4, 3).
21 It sounds as if the town did not
Finger by the way.
22 A clerle.
24 The Moors are not so rough
here.
27 Revolutionary idea for prisons,
but not a new one.
28 The basis of air-raid warnings.
20 A bak-been whose beginning.
was his end.
80 Put in another way,
DOWN
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* One gels a heathen deliy to net
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• Flower.
4
4 Turns on this go with a swing.
Not In the same camp, but Anally fixed as to altitude,
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9 You must do the end, but your
bath salts will do all of it.
14 This is taken from bad car test.
10 It an airman lost this, he would
naturally come down.
18 Fuling in the solution gives you
practice at it.
20 There was no serious busincas
In father's era.
21 An animal in quest of prey,
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23 May be crusty, but soft-hearted.
23 Nativa cart. Da vat
25 A growing, malsance."
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:st the career of an artist,"
EPSTEIN,
of course, had nothing to lose and every-
#
But he can sweat just as hard modelling his busts, which he docs with little pallets of clay th: size of pebbles. It is straining work in two senses; yet he often works eight the age of Afty- hours a day at
seven,
I is a shy, diffdent man with a pale fuce, a cigarette in his mouth, and confines any violence of opinion to paper. He talks lille.
"A sculptor must think and talk with his hands," he mys. " never try to explain my work; it should ex- plain If,"
AFTER war service during
Whing to gain. He came to London in
he wrote indignant 1903 because he liked it and because there were too many sculptors In letters to the papers as from "A" Paris. He wanted to dovolop his company, Second Baitalion, Royal growing sculptural powers in com-Fusillers he found that the mantle parative obscurity. He worked in u of fame had settled well down on his stable, inodelling and chipping, unt!!
shoulders. In 1907 he received his first big comTM mission.
"Venus," done from a solid block of marble, had fetched 1,000 guineas; and his "Christ" in 1920 was sold at The British Medical Association necded ten igures for its new build- twice the price. Do you remember It, Mr. Smith? He had one hand ing in the Strand. It took Epstein
raised and His other hand was point- fourben months to do the job. his amazement and Indignation theying to the nall-holes in His palm? were halled ne "Indecent," "im- moral," and "decadent,"
To
They were, as you may have noticed, Mr. Smith, quit: ordinary figures, rather in the style of Rodin.
There was a terrife outery. Jesus had always been portrayed in the Italian style. To make Him appear as Semitic seemed sacrilege. People apparently who thought that way forgot that Christ was a Jew,
He has a young daughter called Peggy-Jean, who got married the other day, and there is a general alr of suburban domesticity about the whole establishment,
It you want a head of yourself, Mr. Smith. dare say Mr. Epiteln might fix you up cheap for about 500 guineas. But it he liked your tand he might do Il for nothing- but then you couldn't take it home with you.
1 Epstein's success bard work, onlus, or luck?
No, certainly not luck.
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