EPSTEIN'S LATEST
CHRIST DOWN FROM CROSS RECUMBENT, WOUNDED FIGURE ON A TOMB (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Oct. 21, 10.40 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 21. Epstein’s latest figure, “Consummatum Est” (“It is finished”), is certain to arouse the usual controversy. It is a massive, recumbent figure showing Christ with wounds on hands and feet.
Epstein said: “I was profoundly moved by a passage in Bach’s Mass and tried to translate it into stone. I chose what I feel to be one of the most emotional episodes in the story of Christ—Jesus taken down from the Cross and lying on His tomb. As people look down on the recumbent figure the effect should be of looking down into a tomb.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 251, 22 October 1937, Page 7
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