Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Anna Neagle; Jacob Epstein NPG x136756

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

The leading modernist sculptor of his day, Epstein was born in New York to Polish-Jewish parents, studying in Paris before moving to London in 1905. He quickly became known as a great sculptor, but his controversial work perhaps cost him an appointment as war artist and an RCA professorship. His nude figures for London's British Medical Association building (1908) shocked Edwardian sensibilities, yet he continued to regularly exhibit life-size bronzes and portraits at the Leicester Galleries. Works include the influential The Rock Drill (1913-14), the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.