Lydia (aka Second Portrait of Lydia) – (Jacob Epstein) ◄ سابق التالى ►

Artist: Jacob Epstein

تاريخ: 1931

حجم: 48 x 40 cm

متحف: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum (London, United Kingdom)

تقنية: Sculpture

Lydia, a jazz singer and/or dancer, was working as a waitress at Epstein’s favourite Chinese restaurant in London’s Wardour Street when they met. Epstein made three busts of her between 1929 and 1934: the first, head-and-shoulders portrait in bronze with a green patina (1929-30), in which Lydia has bobbed hair; this second, bronze head-and-shoulders portrait (1931) with short hair; and a third bronze (head only) entitled