By Ossip Zadkine
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
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...
Category
1960s Modern Ossip Zadkine Art