Tête de femme - Head of a woman

Details

Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967)
Tête de femme - Head of a woman
signed with initials in the neck O.Z.
lavastone
45 cm high
Executed circa 1927-1931, this is a unique piece

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the parents of the present owners

Literature

I. Jianou, Zadkine, Paris 1964, p. 94 and no. 89 (ill. and dated 1937)
I. Jianou, Zadkine, Paris 1979, no. 247 (ill. and dated 1937)
S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, l'oeuvre sculpté, p. 228, no. 176 (ill. and dated 1927)

Exhibited

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Zadkine, October 1956-July 1957, travelling exhibition to Toronto, Montréal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Seattle, and San Francisco.

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

Although Lecombre dates the present lot in 1927, it is stylistically very comparable to a lavastone head from 1931 (op.cit. Lecombre, no.244). Moreover, this lot seems to be inspired by the Greek archaïch style and other sculpture fragments of the antiquity Zadkine must have seen during a trip to Greece in 1931. The firm lines of the nose in combination with a sharp transition to a relief like detailing of the hair are typical for the period around 1931.

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