A study of the sculptures of Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), with essays, chronology, list of exhibitions, bibliography, and catalogue of Zadkine's works. Zadkine, Arted, Editions d'Art Paris, c. 1964. First edition. 207 pages with b&w photographs.

Ossip Zadkine (1888–1967) was a Belarusian-born French artist. One of the first sculptors to apply the principles of Cubism to his work, Ossip Zadkine created striking compositions that reduced the human figure to geometric forms and emphasized the dynamic interplay of concave and convex surfaces. Over the course of his lengthy career, Zadkine earned international acclaim for powerful, bold visual statements that addressed, among other topics, twentieth-century atrocities, some of which he had witnessed during military service in World War I. Despite those traumatic experiences, towards the end of his life, Zadkine wrote in his memoir: “But it is in any case very beautiful to end your life with a chisel and mallet in your hands.”

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