Les Grâces dans le clair de lune

Details

OSSIP ZADKINE (1888-1967)
Les Grâces dans le clair de lune
signed and dated 'O. Zadkine 55' (lower right)
gouache, sgraffito and brush and ink on paper laid down on card
27 x 20 ½ in. (68.6 x 52.1 cm.)
Executed in 1955.

Provenance

with Fujikawa Galleries, Japan.
with Wiegersma Fine Art, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above in 2003.
with Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above for the present collection in March 2005.

Exhibited

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Ossip Zadkine, October 1956; no. 47; this exhibition later travelled to Toronto, Art Gallery, November - December 1956, Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Winnipeg, Art Gallery, Vancouver, Art Gallery, Seattle, Art Museum, May - June 1957 and San Francisco, Museum of Art, June - July 1957.
Osaka, Asahi Press Group, Zadkine, June 1959, no. 3; this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kurashiki, Fukuoka, Fujikawa Galleries, Autumn 1959 - Spring 1960, no. 19.
Kofu, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Ossip Zadkine, October - November 1989, no. 90, p. 140 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Takamatsu, Art Museum, February - March 1990, Takasaki, Gunma Museum of Modern Art, April - May 1990 and Kagoshima, City Museum of Art, July - August 1990.

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Lot Essay

Les Grâces dans le Clair de Lune is a subject Ossip Zadkine often revisited, notably with his earlier 1928 sculpture of the same title, representing the Three Graces from Greek mythology; figures embodying beauty, charm, and joy. While these figures are traditionally depicted as idealised female forms, Zadkine’s interpretation highlights both movement and emotion, merging classical influences with his distinctive modernist style.

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