Elie Nadelman (1882-1946)

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  ELIE NADELMAN 1882-1946

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  ELIE NADELMAN 1882-1946

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  Elie Nadelman 1882-1946 , Classical Head white marble

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  ELIE NADELMAN 1882-1946

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Elie Nadelman Biography

(b Warsaw, 20 Feb 1882; d Riverdale, NY, 28 Dec 1946). American sculptor, draughtsman and collector of Polish birth. After studying briefly in Warsaw he visited Munich in 1902, where he became interested in the Classical antiquities at the Glyptothek. He lived in Paris from 1904 to 1914 and was closely involved there with the avant-garde, exhibiting at the Salon des Indépendants and at the Salon d’Automne from 1905 to 1908. At his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie Druet, Paris, in 1909 he exhibited a large series of plaster and bronze classical female heads and full-length standing nudes, as well as somewhat mannered Cubist drawings; a number of the latter were purchased by Leo Stein, who had brought Picasso to Nadelman’s studio in 1908. During this period Nadelman also benefited from the patronage of the Natanson brothers. By the time he left Paris for New York at the outbreak of World War I, Nadelman had already produced groups of works in a variety of styles, including generalizations from the Antique, tubular nudes and primitive animals, inspired by a visit to the cave paintings in Dordogne in 1911. For Nadelman, formal considerations took precedence over materials and methods; as he explained in a statement published in 1910: ‘I employ no other line than the curve, which possesses freshness and force. I compose the curves so as to bring them in accord in opposition to each other.’

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