Sir Jacob Epstein (British, 1880-1959)Baby Asleep
stamped with Hébrard foundry mark
bronze with a dark brown patina
12.5cm (5 1/8in) high
Conceived circa 1902-4注脚Exhibited
Possibly London, Twenty-One Gallery, Drawings and Sculpture by Jacob Epstein, December 1913-January 1914, cat.no.4 (dated 1907, another cast)
London, Leicester Galleries, The Sculpture of Jacob Epstein, February-March 1917, cat.no.20 (as Babe's Head, another cast)

Literature
Bernard Van Dieren, Epstein, John Lane, 1920, (ill. pl.xix, another cast)
Arnold Haskell, The Sculptor Speaks, Jacob Epstein to Arnold Haskell. A Series of Conversations on Art, Heinemann, 1931, p.166 (dated 1907, another cast)
Robert Black, The Art of Jacob Epstein, World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland, 1942, cat.no.5, pl.68 (dated 1907, another cast)
Richard Buckle, Jacob Epstein Sculptor, Faber & Faber, 1963, p.19, pl.10 (dated 1902-4, another cast)
Evelyn Silber, The Sculpture of Epstein with a Complete Catalogue, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, cat.no.3, (ill.b&w. p.119, another cast)