Dimensions: 59 x 15 x 14.5 cm
Signed and numbered on the base: 'Ch.Orloff 2/8'
Foundry stamp on the base: "SUSSE FP"
edition: 2/8
Provenance
Collection of the artist's heirs
Artcurial, Paris, October 2013
private collection, Europe
Exhibited
Masters of the School of Paris from the collection of the Żerlicyns and Żarskis, State Art Gallery, Sopot, 6.10.2017-28.01.2018.
Tamara Lempicka: a woman on a journey, National Museum in Lublin,18.05.2022-14.08.2022
Tamara Lempicka a art déco, Museum Villa la Fleur, Konstancin, 17.09-17.12.2022
Literature
Masters of the School of Paris from the Żerlicyn and Żarski collection, exhibition catalog, State Art Gallery, Sopot 2018, p. 198 (il.).
compare:
Haim Gamzu, Chana Orloff, Tel Aviv 1949, il. 5
Gabriel Talphir, Chana Orloff, Tel Aviv 1971, il. 4, 5
Felix Marcilhac, Chana Orloff, Paris 1991, cat. no. 32, p. 209 (ill.)
Biography
Sculptor, representative of the École de Paris. In 1905 she emigrated with her family from Ukraine to Palestine.There she began to take an interest in sewing and weaving. In 1910 she went to France to develop her talent. In 1911, she entered the Ecole Nationale des Arts décoratifs. She also studied sculpture at the Académie Russe, a private studio run by Russian artist Marie Vassilieff. She thus became a member of Montparnasse's bohemian art scene, and was friends with Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, among others. She practiced sculpture in the spirit of primitivist modernism and cubism, and also created portfolios of woodcuts in the 1920s. At that time, her style evolved towards more personal and expressive forms. In the 1920s she became a portraitist of the Parisian elite, entering the social circle of Nathalie Clifford Barney. She exhibited many times in Parisian salons, as well as in exhibitions abroad. She spent the beginning of the occupation of France in Paris, creating "sculpture de poche" - pocket sculptures. In 1942, she fled to Switzerland, where she lived in Geneva. After the war, she completed numerous sculpture commissions in Israel.
