May
Created by Jacob Epstein
Date: 1931
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: bust
Material: metal - bronze
Description: Could be work illustrated in Leicester galleries catalogue; photograph shows young woman with full mouth and large out-set eyes. Bridge of nose particularly pronounced. Thick, wavy, bobbed hair, parted to the left. Narrow shoulders, bare, slightly rounded. Edge of drape around chest visible.
Notes: Fields in this entry are completed to comply with illustrated work, though the image may be of the other 'May' shown in the 1931 exhibition, which would make this invalid.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of New Sculpture by Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1931
Citing this record
'May', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib2_1214402362, accessed 13 Jul 2020]
