Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), La famille

Color lithograph, numbered and signed by the artist.
1950s-60s
Dimensions: 43 x 60 cm, 54 x 75 cm (sheet)
Edition - l.d.: 245/300, Handwritten signature in pencil - p.d.: OS. Zadkine
and dry seal of the publisher
Provenance - private collection France

Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967) Considered one of the most important artists of Cubist sculpture, he came from a Jewish-Scottish family. He initially studied at the London Polytechnic and in 1909 went to Paris and entered the École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-arts. In 1911, he presented his works for the first time in Parisian salons, and maintained contacts with Baroness Hélène Oettingen, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso, among others. He was also friends with Simon Mondzain. During World War I, he fought at the front, where he was poisoned by gas. After the war, he created a series of twenty etchings on war themes. In 1920 he married painter Valentine Prax. A year later, the first monograph on the artist was published. In the thirties he participated in numerous exhibitions in Paris, Brussels, Chicago and New York. He spent the time of World War II in the United States, where he continued his artistic activity. Zadkine, like many École de Paris artists, was inspired by African sculpture and primitive art. Auguste Rodin and the experience of Cubism influenced the formation of his style. (Source - Villa La Fleur)