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OSSIP ZADKINE (1890-1967)
OSSIP ZADKINE (1890-1967)
OSSIP ZADKINE (1890-1967)
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SOLD WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART TO BENEFIT ACQUISITION FUNDS
OSSIP ZADKINE (1890-1967)

Le Discobole

Details
OSSIP ZADKINE (1890-1967)
Le Discobole
signed 'O. ZADKINE' (on the top of the base)
carved pear-tree wood on concrete base
Height (including base): 99 ¾ in. (253.3 cm.)
Carved in 1928; unique
Provenance
La France Art Institute (Bernard Davis), Philadelphia (acquired from the artist, circa 1938-1939).
Bequest from the above to the present owner, 1945.
Literature
A. de Ridder, Zadkine, Paris, 1929, no. 28 (illustrated in situ in the artist's studio, pl. 28).
Ossip Zadkine, exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1933 (illustrated in situ in the artist's studio).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Sculpture Checklist of the 19th & 20th Centuries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art" in Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, spring 1961, vol. LVI, p. 83, no. 236 (dated circa 1925).
O. Zadkine, Le maillet et le ciseau: Souvenirs de ma vie, Paris, 1968, p. 109.
I. Jianou, Zadkine, Paris, 1979, pp. 11 and 70, no. 160 (illustrated, pl. 20).
C. Lichtenstern, Ossip Zadkine: der Bildhauer und seine Ikonographie, Berlin, 1980, pp. 76, 90, 96 and 230, no. 64 (illustrated, pl. 30).
Musée Zadkine, ed., Sculptures, Paris, 1989, p. 13 (illustrated in situ in the artist's studio).
S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine: L'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, pp. 204 and 248, no. 204 (illustrated in situ in the artist's studio, pp. 209 and 249).
Exhibited
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Living Artists: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, November 1931-January 1932.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, International Exhibition of Sculpture, May-September 1933, no. 357.

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Lot Essay

“When I think of Niobé, Discobole and many other sculptures of mine from that period … all in wood, I smile: it’s the greenness that still appeals to me in these things.”
-Ossip Zadkine

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