Bronze
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-jacob-epstein-1061" aria-label="More by Sir Jacob Epstein" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Jacob Epstein</a>
Nan
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1922
actions: postures and motions
adults
arts and entertainment
body
clothing and personal items
Condron, Nan
earring
ethnicity
eyes closed
gypsy
head / face
individuals: female
model
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
woman
work and occupations
<p>The sitter for this bust was Nan Condron, a professional artist’s model. Epstein first met her at the Café Royal in Regent Street, London and worked with her for several years. Condron was a bohemian and Epstein sought a likeness that was expressive of her character and presence as well as her appearance. Epstein grew up in New York, and studied in Paris before settling in London in 1905, where he became a media celebrity and one of the most controversial artists of his age.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2020</em></p>
sculpture bronze
3 May 2004 – 30 August 2004
2004-08-30
3 May 2004
2004-05-03
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2004-05-03
Turbine Hall (heads)
Collection based display
16 October 2010 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
16 October 2010 – 4 November 2012
2012-11-04
2010-10-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-10-16
Gallery 10
Collection based display
14 December 2012 – 26 September 2022
2022-09-26
10 December 2012 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
2012-12-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-12-14
Gallery 4
Collection based display
Nan
object: 445 × 381 × 229 mm, 15.8 kg
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1922
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<p>The sitter for this bust was Nan Condron, a professional artist’s model. Epstein first met her at the Café Royal in Regent Street, London and worked with her for several years. Condron was a bohemian and Epstein sought a likeness that was expressive of her character and presence as well as her appearance. Epstein grew up in New York, and studied in Paris before settling in London in 1905, where he became a media celebrity and one of the most controversial artists of his age.</p>
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<p><b>N03646</b> NAN 1909
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Bronze, 17 1/2×15×9 (44×38×23).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1922.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, February–March 1917 (8); Arts Council, Tate Gallery, September–November 1952 (3); Edinburgh Festival, August–September 1961 (14, repr. pl.4).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Van Dieren, 1920, p.72, repr. pl.21; Wellington, 1925, p.15, repr. pl.3; Haskell, 1931, p.166; Buckle, 1963, pp.41–2, 59, 88, 424, repr. pls.59, 60.
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
Black, 1942, pl.2; Epstein, 1955, facing p.38.</p>
<p>The sitter was Nan Condron, a gipsy and a professional model. She also posed for Orpen and Rothenstein, but, becoming devoted to Epstein, she gave up working for other artists for several years. He made a number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptures</span></a> of her, including a small sketch for this work; an undraped version of the head only, formerly in the Eumorfopoulos Collection (repr. Van Dieren, <i>op. cit.</i>, pl.49); a nude seated figure ‘Nan Seated’ of 1911, height 19 in. (repr. Buckle, <i>op. cit.</i>, pls.84, 85); and a reclining nude called ‘The Dreamer’, also of 1911 and 11 in. high (repr. Buckle, <i>op. cit.</i>, pls. 83, 86). Three <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of her made in 1909–11 are reproduced in Epstein and Buckle, 1962, pls. 22–4.</p>
<p>The right ear-ring on this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/cast" title="Glossary definition for 'Cast'"><span>cast</span></a> has been broken off.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults arts and entertainment body clothing and personal items Condron, Nan earring ethnicity eyes closed gypsy head / face individuals: female model named individuals objects people portraits woman work and occupations