Ossip Zadkine

Mythology: Heracles and the Cerberus -Original Lithograph Hand Signed & Numbered

1960

Ossip Zadkine Mythology : Heracles and the Bull 1960 Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered /350 copies On vellum size 69 x 54 cm (c. 27 x 21 in) Excellent condition

Ossip Zadkine Mythology : Heracles and the Stymphalian Bird 1960 Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered /350 copies On vellum size 69 x 5...

Ossip Zadkine Mythology : Heracles and the Augean Stables 1960 Original lithograph Hand signed in pencil Numbered /350 copies On vellum size 69 x 54 cm...

Ossip ZADKINE Man in Yellow and Red, 1965 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) INFORMATION : Edited for the portfolio Les Pe...

Composition is a lithograph, realized by  Ossip Zadkine Stamped in the lower right. Numbered, edition 37/65 Good conditions The artwork represents an abstract composition through...

Composition is a lithograph realized by  Ossip Zadkine stamped on the lower right. Numbered, edition 35/65 The artwork represents an abstract composition through strong strokes in...

Composition is a lithograph, realized by Ossip Zadkine Stamped on the lower right. Numbered, edition 43/65 prints. Not signed. Good conditions. The artwork represents an abstract composition through strong strokes in a well-balanced composition. Ossip Zadkine (Vitebsk, 1890 – Neuilly-sur-Seine 1967) , was a Russian-born French naturalized artist. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. He was born in present-day Belarus, to a Jewish father and mother of Scottish descent. After attending the London art school, Zadkine settled in Paris around 1910. There he joined the Cubist movement (1914-1925), later he developed his own style, strongly influenced by African art. His best-known work is The Destroyed City (1951-1953), a statue commemorating the destruction of the Dutch city...

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...