Who is the great Epstein?

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If wrtten in 1939, it almost certainly refers to the scuptor Jacob Epstein.

There was a limerick popular around then:

There’s a notable family named Stein,

There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein.

Gert’s prose is all bunk,

Ep’s sculpture’s just junk

And nobody understands Ein.

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