15929993440001312637261000Standard Recordobject-12317170206257390116796712520001702062267805fitz-onlineadlib-object-12317https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12317d7a247dc-4caa-3675-aae8-79a024e0f07211personreferenceagent-152982adlib-agent-152982da4fef63-c915-3b96-a3df-428d27cfa4b3Einstein, Albertreferenceterm-98228adlib-term-982283d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5csculptureDiametercm18.7Heightcm10.2Widthcm21BaseDiametercm23Heightcm44.5Widthcm28.5Headreferenceterm-98112adlib-term-9811232d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139portraitApplied ArtsSlightly over life-size, facing slightly right, head inclined a little forward. Bare-headed; hair is represented standing on end in an unruly way; moustache. Unfinished.pl. 32referenceexhibition-1077adlib-exhibition-1077a9790b74-5102-3534-9d71-e4f0dc4f89f3Tempus, The Art of TimeM.7-19331accession numberM.7-193312317priref12317external IDCAM_CCF_M_7_1933urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12317https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12317referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumGiven by Lady Jeansreferenceagent-152983adlib-agent-152983070715a5-b40f-3941-b8a0-92b5167f99a1Jeans, Charlotte Tiffany, Lady193319121933-12givenEntry date: 1933-121933CE19331933sculptorreferenceagent-42130adlib-agent-421307a6028cf-3f2c-39a2-b138-4e8ff371f532Epstein, JacobA total of six casts made - see letter in object's file from Epstein, (dated 15 July 1934). The other five are in: Tate, Science Museum (signed), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Public Art Gallery, Huddersfield, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.Albert Einstein (1879-1955), the brilliant theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner was staying at an army camp near Cromer, Norfolk, as a refugee, when he sat for this portrait in September 1933. This six hour modeling session took place in rather extraordinary surroundings - a room almost filled by a grand piano in a beach hut at Roughton Heath, near Cromer. Einstein was the guest of the journalist and MP, Commander Locker-Lampson, who had persuaded him to come to England from Belgium, where he had been living since Hitler came to power in Germany. Epstein stayed at the Royal Cromer Hotel, and for three days went to the hut for a two-hour sitting. Einstein smoked a pipe, and after the sitting played the piano or the violin. Epstein was immediately attracted to his sitter, who had flying hair, casual dress, and a glance which he described as humane, humorous and profound.Although the portrait was modeled in just six hours and left incomplete, it is considered an excellent likeness, having captured Einstein’s humane, humorous and profound glance, and his ‘wild hair floating in the wind’. Epstein’s rugged execution gives it an informality which was equally characteristic of the sitter. Its rich impasto modeling recalls the work of Rembrandt, perhaps deliberately since Epstein believed that Einstein ‘resembled the ageing Rembrandt’.See a letter in the object's file from Lady Jeans regarding its excellent likeness.referenceterm-107749adlib-term-107749e089b122-3c61-3b88-a645-624a4a54e2671930sreferenceterm-120066adlib-term-1200667d68b404-6003-3715-bdce-af5ba4e8f5a320th Century, second quarter#referenceterm-107684adlib-term-107684d54f530a-3bb0-3a32-a207-4cf77fb9ccf8George Vreferenceterm-40365adlib-term-40365d79c75c2-da7b-3187-918e-f7a374e04005bronzereferencemedia-183316adlib-media-183316048277c2-8bd7-3a74-8b59-58031bf764fcjpegaa/aa29/M_7_1933_1_mas.jpg1heightpixels1024widthpixels71716162389621851imagejpegaa/aa29/mid_M_7_1933_1_mas.jpg1heightpixels714widthpixels50016162389621851imagejpegaa/aa29/M_7_1933_1_mas.jpg1heightpixels1024widthpixels71716162389621851imagejpegaa/aa29/preview_M_7_1933_1_mas.jpg1heightpixels357widthpixels25016162389621851image0media
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imagereferenceterm-107683adlib-term-1076839cdf19fa-4af7-3ca3-b180-580dfffebdc0headhistory noteBought from Messrs. A.Tooth & Sons, London by the donorreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreference numberliteralnameSculpture UKSculpture UKPubl. Listed by Silber, p. 174, no. 234,1; 34 others are noted. A plaster is at Israel Museum, Jerusalem.p. 174referencepublication-1075adlib-publication-1075c4a1979f-065c-34c3-b3b2-3faeab400438The Sculpture of Epstein: with a complete cataloguePubl. Illustrated, p. 34, pl. 32p. 34referencepublication-1076adlib-publication-1076acbefc51-07ab-373a-b40f-e69c780f634aTempus, The Art of TimeCf. pl. 320pp. 206-7referencepublication-1074adlib-publication-107436f66685-50e6-321f-8e0c-af3c4b4d9ac9Jacob Epstein Sculptorreferencepublication-2164adlib-publication-216488a3c1b6-2a50-3c53-a657-d27847cbba10Christie's Sale Catalogue, November 3rd 1967referencepublication-2165adlib-publication-2165fab65245-454a-3606-8871-f877313404f3British and Irish Modern Painting and SculptureCf. Another, p. 29, log 223. Estimate £8-12,000p. 29referencepublication-2166adlib-publication-2166fd6f7016-ab16-3a3e-8818-b14327cc92f1British and Irish Modernist and Contemporary Paintings, Watercolours and Sculpturesubjectreferenceterm-1609adlib-term-160984f2e5e2-0de4-3096-98b9-7bb4c12aaffdmaleliteralmalemalereferenceterm-107683adlib-term-1076839cdf19fa-4af7-3ca3-b180-580dfffebdc0headheadbronze, castreferenceterm-26699adlib-term-26699a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8casting (process)Albert Einstein (1879-1955)object
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