Rock Drill comprises a plaster figure perched on top of an actual . The combination of an industrial rock drill and the carved plaster figure makes the artwork an example of a "" created at the same ti. .
Study for Rock Drill (c. 1913) is a 67.5 cm (26.6 in) × 42.5 cm (16.7 in) drawing by Epstein which is part of at . Whilst the exact date of the sketch is u. .
Epstein dismantled the original sculpture: he sold the drill and truncated the figure. When he exhibited the radically transformed Torso in Metal from Rock Drill in 1916, he had evidently turned his back on his 'experi. .
Epstein's dismantling of Rock Drill and truncation of the abstracted male form marks a crucial turning point in his career, signalling the end of his engagement with the machine age. Although Epstein destroyed t.
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