Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967)

Les musiciennes

Details
Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967)
Les musiciennes
signed and numbered on the left side 'O ZADKINE 3/OF6', inscribed with foundry mark on the back 'Susse Fondeur Paris'
bronze with gold patina
Height: 26 5/8in. (67.6cm.)
Length: 21 1/8in. (54cm.)
Conceived in 1930; this bronze version cast after 1962, number three in an edition of five with three artist's proofs
Provenance
Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York (acquired by the present owner)
Literature
P. Haesaerts, Ossip Zadkine, La sculpture ailée, Anvers, 1939, pl. XI (another cast illustrated)
A.M. Hammacher, Zadkine, Amsterdam, 1958, pl. 13 (another cast illustrated)
U. Gertz, Ossip Zadkine, Plastik sehen und erleben, Duisburg, 1965, no. 21 (another cast illustrated, p. 23)
C. Lichtenstern, Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), der Bildhauer und seine Ikonographie, Berlin, 1980, no. 113
S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, La sculpture ailée, Paris, 1994, no. 230 (another cast illustrated, p. 275)