Lot 243: Ossip Zadkine (Russian/French, 1890-1967)

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Description: Intimité ou Narcisse
signed and numbered '0/5 O. Zadkine' (on top of the base), and with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (along the edge of the base)
partly polished bronze with a black patina
76 cm. high (incl. the bronze base)
Conceived in 1950 and cast in an edition of 6 plus one artist's proof and two H.C.

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Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, in 1967.

Artist or Maker: Ossip Zadkine (Russian/French, 1890-1967)

Exhibited: Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, Neuen Darmstädter Sezession mit Ossip Zadkine, 6 September - 11 October 1953, no. 18 (another cast)
Osaka, Galerie Fujikawa, 1954, no. 15 (another cast)
Cologne, Galerie Czwiklitzer, 1954 (another cast)
Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, Orpheus Zadkine, 28 November 1954 - 30 January 1955,no. 46 (another cast)
Paris, Maison de la Pensée française, July - October 1958, no. 76 (another cast)
Lyon, Musée Saint-Pierre, March - April 1959, no. 42
Osaka, Galerie Fujikawa, Autumn 1959 - Spring 1960, no. 24 (another cast)
Locarno, Galleria la Palma, June 1959, no. 4 (another cast)
Paris, Gallerie Lucie Weill, 6 June - 10 July 1962, no. 28 (another cast)
Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, Van Rodin tot heden, 22 June - 1 October 1963, no. 93 (another cast)
Knokke, Casino communal, 30 June - 9 Septembre 1963, no. 67 (another cast)
Frankfurt, Galerie am Dom, Karmeliterkloster, 20 October - 7 december 1963, no. 36 (another cast)
Zürich, Kunsthaus, 1 September - 24 October 1965, no. 68 (another cast)
Cologne, Kunsthaus Lempertz, 2 April - 14 Mai 1966, no. 41 (another cast)
Arnhem, Sonsbeek 66, 27 May - 25 September 1966, no. 261 (another cast) Deurne, Museum Dinghuis, 13 January - 31 March 1968, no. 17 (another cast)
Paris, Musée Rodin et musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, October 1972 - January 1973, no. 88 (another cast)
Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Zadkine, Mythologie et poésie, 24 Octobre - 13 December 1992, no. 13 (another cast)

Literature: Exh.cat. Galerie Fujikawa, Osaka 1954, no. 17 (another cast ill.)
Lecombre, S., Ossip Zadkine, l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris 1994, p. 485 no. 426b (another cast ill.)