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Lot 359
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Ossip Zadkine

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Ossip Zadkine
  • Fumeur de Pipe
  • Inscribed O. Zadkine and numbered 1/5

  • bronze relief

  • 83 by 55cm., 32 1/8 by 21 5/8 in.

Provenance

Acquired in 1965 by the family of the present owners probably at the Kunsthaus Zürich exhibition

Exhibited

Knokke-le-Zoute, Casino Communal, Ossip Zadkine, 1963, no. 43
Frankfurt, Galerie am Dom, Ossip Zadkine, 1963, no. 20
Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Ossip Zadkine, Skulpturen, Tapisserien, Zeichnungen, 1965, no. 46

Literature

Ionel Jianou, Zadkine, Paris, 1964, no. 93, illustration of the plaster n.p.
Musée Zadkine, Sculptures, Paris, 1989, no. 103, illustration of another cast p. 114
Sylvain Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, L'Œuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, no. 368, illustration of the plaster p. 401

Condition

Bronze relief. Apart from some light surface dirt in the crevices and some light surface scratches, consistent with age and handling, this work is in overall very good condition.
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