Lot 325
  • 325

Ossip Zadkine

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ossip Zadkine
  • Sculpture or Formes féminines
  • inscribed Zadkine, numbered I/II E.A. and stamped with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
  • bronze
  • height: 78cm., 30 3/4 in.

Provenance

Musée Zadkine, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2000

Literature

Zadkine (exhibition catalogue), London, Tate Britain (& travelling in England), 1961, no. 4, illustration of the stone version n.p (dated 1918)
Ionel Jianou, Zadkine, Paris, 1964, no. 37, illustration of another cast n.p. (dated 1918)
129 sculptures, 36 gouaches et dessins, 9 tapisseries (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin, Paris & Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris,  Paris, 1972, no. 7, illustration of another cast (dated 1918)
Sylvain Lecombre, ed., Musée Zadkine, Sculptures, Paris, 1989, no. 17b, illustration of another cast p. 38
Sculptures
(exhibition catalogue), Musée Zadkine, Paris, 1989, no. 18, illustration of another cast p. 39
Sylvain Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, L'Œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, no. 120, illustration of the stone version p. 165

Condition

Attractive black patina. Apart from some light wear to the patina in places to the protruding areas, this work is in very good original condition.
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