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Rock Drill (c. 1913–1915) and the associated Torso in Metal from Rock Drill (c. 1913–1916) are Sir Jacob Epstein’s most radical sculptures. Rock Drill comprises a plaster figure perched on top of an actual rock drill. The combination of an industrial rock drill and the carved plaster figure makes the artwork an example of a Readymade created at the same time as Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (1913).
