Lot 210
  • 210

Ossip Zadkine

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Ossip Zadkine
  • Torse de femme
  • Inscribed O. Zadkine, numbered 7/8 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
  • Bronze
  • Height: 42 7/8 in.; 109.1 cm

Provenance

Fondation Zadkine, Paris
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
Acquired from the above in 2001

Literature

Jack C. Rich, The Materials and Methods of Sculpture, New York, 1947, illustration of another cast pl. 54b
Ionel Jianou, "Zadkine l'artiste et le poète" in Journal Artcurial, Paris, May 1979, no. 323, illustration of another cast n.p.
Christa Lichtenstern, Ossip Zadkine, der bildhauer und seine ikonographie, Berlin, 1980, no. 91, illustration of another cast n.p. 
Sylvain Lecombre, ed., Musée Zadkine, Sculptures, Paris, 1989, no. 116, illustration of another cast p. 123
Sylvain Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, L'Oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, no. 383b, illustration of the wood version p. 417

Condition

Black patina. A few surface stains on the figuer's chest and at the center of the legs on the front, which could easily be cleaned off. The work is affixed to a base. This work is in very good condition.
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