At 72, Jacob Epstein, one of the greatest living sculptors, is a bullet of a man with an independent eye and a longstanding reputation as one of the bad boys of art. "The man in the street is a fool," he once declared. And the public has usually returned the insult; shocked art lovers once set on Epstein's early Rima, a lumpish, bas-relief nude, and painted it green. But in recent years, both Sculptor Epstein and his critics have mellowed a bit. Last week, after a look at a Tate Gallery show spanning his...
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