Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sandwiched between "Fine Chippendale'' and "French Books" in the London Times last week was an ad that was enough to make an old sculptor turn in his chisel. The ad: "Epstein's masterpieces. Adam, Jacob and the Angel, Consummatum Est, For Sale. Offers Wanted." The statues were three of Jacob Epstein's most famous works: a hulking, dumbly defiant alabaster giant that makes the first man look scarcely human; a muscle-bound Jacob hugging a brutish-looking angel; and a recumbent, mummy like figure of Christ, with crude but powerfully eloquent hands upturned in protest...
...Sculptor Epstein raged that "Adam and the others should be in a museum." But at week's end the owner of the big three, an ice-cream manufacturer named Tony Crisp, still planned to sell to the highest bidder. What about Eve? She belonged to Crisp's associate, one Walter West, and he was more considerate, said he might lend Eve to London's Tate Museum. "I expect they'll be tickled pink...
Peevish old Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who gets more respectable as the years go by, was not surprised when a committee of distinguished fellow Britons unanimously selected him as the man best qualified to create a memorial to South Africa's late Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts. Said he: "I deserve...
...Manhattan's building code, there must be no overhang beyond the building line, save for 18 inches of ornamentation. One notable exception: a bare-breasted Venus (by Sculptor Wheeler Williams) on the facade of the Parke-Bernet Galleries. Yearly rent to city for the protruding anatomy...
...Smashed by an infuriated spectator was British Sculptor Reg Butler's prizewinning entry in the $32,000 competition for a monument honoring...