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Controversy raged. Poor Epstein OME people, Mr. Smith,
was nearly broken by the shock of deliberately woo suc-discovering that what he thought was cess; others win sue-ne work had been hailed as debased. cess by deliberately ignoring
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Body that gives pain to duel. Member of a choir.
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"Rima"--the W. 11. Hudson Memorial in the Hyde Park bird sanctuary-which is possibly of modern the best-known piece
now statuary. Every
and then crities tar and feather it.
After that there were "Day" and Charles "Night" on the new Underground U stepped Sir
Holroyd, director of the building in London. People said it If Jacob Epstein had been an actor, As would have gone through life be- National Gallery: "When the sculp was awful, the figures were Orien ing booed and eat-called by nine-tor has achieved fame the association tal." tenths of his audiences; only will the Will be proud that they have em- one-tenth would he have been what ployed him." is called a success.
MR. JACOB EPSTEIN was, I fortunately, burn to be sculptor; he is the best-and with out doubt the greatest-sculplor in The world to-day,
He also happens to be the most consistently successful in a material sense over the past two decades or so he has been averaging about £3
500 a year.
How did he get to his present eminence in such a precarious cali- ing? How does any sculptor, Mr South, stort about being a sculptor? Jacob Epstein was born of Polish parents on New York's East Side, in the Jewish quarter,
He was
handsome young man in Jewish way. His family - though desperately
re- poor, and fugees in the bargain-wns n good one. Jacob had a ne head of hair. a straight figure, and a vital way of moving.
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"Is it Oriental?" sighed Epstein HANKOW I don't know; but if it is inspiredONGKEW by the countries from which we get ILOILO our greatest philosophiles, religions, IPO and culture, suppose they may be
I don't know.' £2,000 for it) to do the Oscar Wilde | ronald the Man" a Agure with KUALA LUMPUR
That was in 1908. Almost at once he received the commission (he gut memorial in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. He conceived it as a head of Wilde merging into
grent winged mars; not unlike a huge Red Indian feathered hat.
(and
Again to his amazement looking at the design I confess to mine, Mr. Smith) the conservateur of the cemetery announced in Paris that it was: "Immoral."
It was what we might call stream- lined to-day; many of his designs in is 1013 exhibition showed the same influence-a smoothness and economy of line.
י".
They would not startle you to- day. Epstein was then ahend of his time. But he was moulding public taste, just as Diaghileff was just then altering world taste in colours by his Russian Ballet designs, and Stravin- sky inventing new orchestral sounds.
HOW
a
man like
TOW docs
Epstein work? Well, Mr. Smith, there are two sides of his work. The portraits that
He showed early promise no an lustrator, drawing on every piece of paper handy. Such was she models in clay and the monu- talent that while still a boy he mental works which he carves, out Blustrated a volume of "Children of of solid blocks of stone and which the Chello." His work attracted he regards as his real life work. the attention of rich American
tremendously, It is work of 11 15 woman, and money was provided for physical order. One slip with him to go to Parls and study at the chisel and he could spoll the work of
a
Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Not much money; but you didn't need much money to study art in Paris in those days,
I wonder whether you, Mr. Smith, have ever felt the urge to express yourself. Fell it so urgently that nothing else matters: home, family. security,
health. Unless you feel that way-or know that your son feels that way I would not suis-
st the career of an arlist..
EPSTEIN, of course, had
nothing to lose and every- thing to gain. He came to London in, 1903 because he liked it and because there were too many sculptors in Paris. He wanted 10 develop growing sculptural powers in parative obscurity. He worked in a stable, modelling and chipping, until in 1807 he received his first big-com- mission.
com-
a year.
0
But he can sweat just as hard modelling his busts, which he does with Hille pellets of clay the size of pebbles. It is straining work in two senses; yet he often works eight hours a day at the age of fly- seven.
It is a shy, diffident man with a pale face, a cigarette in his mouth, and confines any violence of opinion to paper. He talks little.
"A sculptor must thinlt and talk with his hands," he says. "I never iry to explain my work; it should ex- plain itself."
FTER war service—during which he wrote indignant letters to the papers as from "A" company, Second Battalion, Royal Fusiliers he found that the mantle of fame had settled well down on his shoulders.
"Venus," done from a solid block of marble, hnd fetched 1,000 guineas:
his "Christ" in 1920 was sold and The British Medical Association twice the price. Do you remember needed ten figures for its new build-
had one hand Ing in the Strand. It took Epstein, Mr. Smith? He
To raised and His other hand was point- fourteen months to do the job. his amazement and indignation they ing to the nall-holes in His palm?
There was a terrific outcry, Jesus were halled as
had always been portrayed in the moral," and "decadent."
Italian style. To make Him appear They were, as you may have as Semitic seemed sacrilege. People noticed, Mr. Smith, quite ordinary who thought that way apparently. figures, rather in the style of Rodin. forgot that Christ was a Jew,
**indecent," "Im-
|
hands tied, came after that, and now the recumbent figure of Christ, as He lay on the ground beneath the Cross, is being talked about by every one who has seen it in his present show.
You may not like the figure, and perhaps it may offend your senti ment, but it is something vital and rather tremendous,
ND the man who comes in- to the galleries and smiles disapprovingly at everything he sees? He lives in a big, rather untidy house in Hyde telephone book as a "sclptr."
and is in the Park-gate,
His red-hended wife is a pineld and kindly person, and on Sunday pours the ten out for the stream of callera. IL a vague tort of house- hold. Epstein. lives in a world of his own,
only when be
ris to merging He has a young daughter called Peggy-Jean, who got married the other day, and there is a general nir of suburban domesticity about the whole establishment.
If you want a head of yourself, Mr. Smith. I dare say Mr. Epstem might fix you up cheap for about 500 guincas. But if he ked your head he might do it for nothing- but then you couldn't lake. It home with you
hard work,
success
Is Epstein's Ecnius, er luck?-
No, certainly not luck.
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