”In 1930 Epstein wrote in a letter from Epping Forest ‘It is raining all the time. I have nothing to read except an old Bible. I keep reading Genesis and have made some drawings.’ These were the first of a long series of biblical drawings which were later exhibited at The Redfern Gallery [in 1932]. They were all sold immediately and became so dispersed that when later someone wanted to publish them with the text it was thought too great a task to trace all the owners and collect them again for reproduction, so the idea fell through.”
Quoted from Epstein Drawings with notes by Lady Epstein and an introduction by Richard Buckle, Faber & Faber 1962.