EPSTEIN AND WOMEN’S FASHIONS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 116, 9 February 1929, Page 28

EPSTEIN AND WOMEN’S FASHIONS

ARTIST, NOT PREACHER. In an amusing interview with a Press correspondent, Epstein, the giant sculptor, questioned about women’s fashions, advised the interviewer to consult a fashion artist. “I am not interested in this,” he said. “I cannot be supposed to hflve an opinion on- everything under the sun !” On the question of “bobbed” hair, however, he said: “Look at my drawings of women. Not one of : them shows short hair!” . “But your busts!” interjected the interviewer, ‘‘aren’t many them portraits of ‘bobbed’ heads?” He smiled. “Well, well! Busts! that’s different. And, long or short, it doesn’t really matter, as long as there is a beauty there 1” Asked why he seemed to have a predilection in his choice of models for Indian and Negro women, and how the Eastern type of womanhood,' generally speaking, compared with the Western type in its most salient physical characteristics. Mr. Epstein shrugged his shoulders : "These are ethnological questions.” he said. “I am a sculptor and no ethnologist!” Questioned why there, wns such a strange discrepancy between his sculpture and his drawings—the sculpture hearing throughout the mark of a high spiritual intensity, while the drawings, with few exceptions, tend rather to tepid sensuality—Mr. Epstein snid: .“I have no tendency. Ido not preach anything.”