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Maquette de la ville détruite
Details
Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967)
Maquette de la ville détruite
signed, dated and numbered 'O. ZADKINE 1947 E.A. II/IV' (on the left side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'SUSSE FONDEUR Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 49 ¾ in. (126.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1947; this bronze version cast in 1987
Maquette de la ville détruite
signed, dated and numbered 'O. ZADKINE 1947 E.A. II/IV' (on the left side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'SUSSE FONDEUR Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 49 ¾ in. (126.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1947; this bronze version cast in 1987
Provenance
Muse´e Zadkine, Paris.
Fujikawa Gallery, Tokyo (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1989.
Fujikawa Gallery, Tokyo (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1989.
Literature
D. Chevalier, Zadkine, Sculptures, Paris, 1949 (detail of plaster version illustrated).
M. Marchant-Lyon, "Zadkine," Arquitectura y Construcción, February 1949, p. 33 (another cast illustrated).
"Boats and Bombs," Time Magazine, 9 October 1950, p. 29.
"Zadkine's Monument voor een Verwoeste Stad," Bulletin Museum Boymans, vol. II, no. 3, December 1951, pp. 64-65 (another cast illustrated, p. 64, fig. 11).
N. Bettex-Cailler, Ossip Zadkine, 1890, Geneva, 1958, p. 12.
R. Cogniat, Zadkine, Paris, 1958 (another cast illustrated, pl. 33; dated 1953-1954).
J. Cassou, Ossip Zadkine, Amriswil, 1962, p. 16 (another cast illustrated on the cover).
R. Maillard, Dictionary of Modern Sculpture, London, 1962, p. 307 (another cast illustrated; titled Commemorative Monument to the Destruction of Rotterdam and dated 1953-1954).
J. Langner, Ossip Zadkine, Mahnmal fu¨r Rotterdam, Stuttgart, 1963, pp. 3 and 16-17 (larger bronze version and details illustrated, pls. 1-9 and again on the cover).
R. Maillard, New Dictionary of Modern Sculpture, New York, 1970, p. 324 (larger bronze version illustrated).
I. Jianou, Zadkine, Paris, 1979, p. 83, no. 343 (larger bronze version illustrated, pl. 72).
M.-C. Dane, Muse´e Zadkine, Sculptures, Paris, 1982, p. 117, no. 139 (another cast illustrated).
S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, L'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, pp. 457-460, no. 403a (larger bronze version illustrated, p. 457; another version illustrated, p. 459).
M. Marchant-Lyon, "Zadkine," Arquitectura y Construcción, February 1949, p. 33 (another cast illustrated).
"Boats and Bombs," Time Magazine, 9 October 1950, p. 29.
"Zadkine's Monument voor een Verwoeste Stad," Bulletin Museum Boymans, vol. II, no. 3, December 1951, pp. 64-65 (another cast illustrated, p. 64, fig. 11).
N. Bettex-Cailler, Ossip Zadkine, 1890, Geneva, 1958, p. 12.
R. Cogniat, Zadkine, Paris, 1958 (another cast illustrated, pl. 33; dated 1953-1954).
J. Cassou, Ossip Zadkine, Amriswil, 1962, p. 16 (another cast illustrated on the cover).
R. Maillard, Dictionary of Modern Sculpture, London, 1962, p. 307 (another cast illustrated; titled Commemorative Monument to the Destruction of Rotterdam and dated 1953-1954).
J. Langner, Ossip Zadkine, Mahnmal fu¨r Rotterdam, Stuttgart, 1963, pp. 3 and 16-17 (larger bronze version and details illustrated, pls. 1-9 and again on the cover).
R. Maillard, New Dictionary of Modern Sculpture, New York, 1970, p. 324 (larger bronze version illustrated).
I. Jianou, Zadkine, Paris, 1979, p. 83, no. 343 (larger bronze version illustrated, pl. 72).
M.-C. Dane, Muse´e Zadkine, Sculptures, Paris, 1982, p. 117, no. 139 (another cast illustrated).
S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, L'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, pp. 457-460, no. 403a (larger bronze version illustrated, p. 457; another version illustrated, p. 459).
Exhibited
Kofu, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art; Takamatsu, City Museum of Art; Gunma, Takasaki, The Museum of Modern Art and Kagoshima, City Museum of Art, Ossip Zadkine, October 1989-August 1990, pp. 80-82, no. 38 (illustrated, p. 81).
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