Ossip Zadkine

Guitar Player - Lithograph by Ossip Zadkine - mid-20th Century

Mid-20th Century

Guitar Player is an original etching and aquatint, realized 1962 by Ossip Zadkine. Hand signed in pencil on lower right margin. Artist's proof (hand written on the lower left margi...

Rare and beautiful etching on lithographic base by Ossip Zadkine, realized in 1966. Hand signed. One of 100 numbered copies on a global edition of 135 which includes also 10 artist'...

"Femme à la guitare" is an print realized by Ossip Zadkine (Vitebsk 1890 - Paris 1967) in 1962 Color etching - artist's proof. Hand-signed and dated...

Le jouer de luth is a modern artwork realized by Ossip Zadkine in 1965. Black and white lithograph. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Artist's proof. Includes frame

Etching and aquatint on paper, nicely matted and framed. Edition 28 of 90, signed and dated in pencil lower right. Cubist work featuring a girl and her guitar. Ossip Zadkine 1888...

Rendered in neutral hues and light blue, the guitar accompanied by the column and table are comprised of geometric shapes often found in Pablo Picasso's Cubist work. A lithograph from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Gueridon et guitare". The original painting was completed in 1920. In the 1970's after Picasso's death, Marina Picasso, his granddaughter, authorized the creation of this lithograph by Laurent Marcel Salinas, who worked closely with Picasso during his lifetime. The limited edition print run was completed and published by Marina Picasso in conjunction with Jackie Fine Arts in 1982. The lithograph is printed on French Arches paper, ink-stamped by the Estate verso, and hand-signed by Marina Picasso on the recto. The embossed seal of the Estate is lower right and the printer's chop, lower left. Gueridon et guitare Pablo Picasso (After), Spanish (1881–1973) Portfolio: Marina Picasso Estate Lithograph Collection...

Etching monogrammed in the plate. Illustration for a Robert Ganzo's poem "Lespugue" Editions Marcel Sautier, Paris, 1966. Conditions: Good Conditions Dimensions: 25,5 x 16,5 cm. Vellum paper Référence Czwiklitzer n°55. 1890 Zadkine was born on the 14th of July in Vitebsk, a city in Belarussia, on the Dvina. His father Ephime teaches classical languages at the local seminar. His mother Sophie Lester descended from Scots, who emigrated at the time of Peter the Great. 1905 His parents send him to Sunderland, in the North of England, where his mother’s family lives. He studies English and attends modelling courses at the local Art School. 1905-1909 He travels to London without his parents permission where he attends courses at the Regent Street Polytechnicum. In order to earn his living, he plans to work with a stonecutter. He visits the British Museum and studies classical sculpture there. Returns to Smolensk where he produces his first sculpture. Goes back to London. 1909-1910 Zadkine settles in Paris and studies in the ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Finds a workshop in a building called La Ruche, in the XVe arrondissement. 1911 Zadkine presents statues and drawings at the annual Salon d’Automne and at the Salon des Indépendants. It is the ‘cubists’ who draw his attention in Paris. Is essentially close to Russian students who get together in a cafe of the ‘Quartier Latin’. Has himself called Joe Zadkine until 1914. 1912-1913 Finds a room in the neighbourhood of Montparnasse, in the rue de Vaugirard. Studies Roman sculpture. Zadkine is immortalized by his neighbour, photographer Marc Vaux, in his new workshop. Meets Brancusi, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jacques Lipchitz, Pablo Picasso, Antoine Bourdelle, Leopold Survage and Robert Delaunay. Henri Matisse visits Zadkine’s workshop. 1914-1915 Exhibition at the Freie Sezession in Berlin, at De Onafhankelijken in Amsterdam (Holland) and at the Allied Artists Association in London. Thanks to collector Paul Rodocanachi, he can settle in a workshop in the rue Rousselet. Becomes friends with Modigliani. 1916-1917 Works as a stretcher-bearer on the front. Produces drawings and watercolours dealing with war. Zadkine is discharged in 1917. He says he is ‘bodily and spiritually’ ruined by the war. After his stay in the Epernay hospital he recovers in Bruniquel, in the southwest of France. 1918-1919 Makes a series of 20 war etchings...

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