Lot 64
  • 64

Ossip Zadkine

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Ossip Zadkine
  • Vieille Paysanne
  • Inscribed with the artist's initials OZ, numbered 6/10 and stamped with the foundry mark Bisceglia Cire Perdue
  • Bronze, brown patina
  • Height: 10 1/4 in.
  • 26 cm

Provenance

Toninelli Arte Moderna, Milan, 1964
Estate of Joshua A. Gollin (Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, May 28, 1976, lot 589C)
Sale: Christie's, New York, February 26, 1990, lot 137

Literature

Willem Einzinck, Begegnung mit Ossip Zadkine, 1957, p.4
Ionel Jianou, Zadkine, Paris, 1964, illustration of another cast p. 103 (titled La vieille femme)
Ionel Jianou, Zadkine, Paris, 1979, illustration of another cast p. 85, no. 362 (titled La vieille femme)
Musée Zadkine, Sculptures, Paris, 1989, no. 362, illustration p. 85
Sylvain Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, L'Oeuvre Sculpté, Paris, 1994, no. 416, illustration of another cast p. 473

Condition

Overall good condition. Some rubbing along the folds of the clothing and other protruding areas. Minor dirt in crevices.
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Catalogue Note

This work is recorded in the archives of the Musée Zadkine.