Arlequin (socle étroit)

Details

Ossip Zadkine (Russian, 1890-1967)
Arlequin (socle étroit)
signed with initials and numbered 'O.Z. 2/4' (on the base)
bronze with a grey green patina
78 cm. high (incl. bronze base)
Conceived in 1928 and cast in an edition of circa three (socle large) and in an edition of four plus two artist's proofs in 1973, this is number two (socle étroit).

Literature

S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris 1994, p. 252 (ill. of the 'socle large' version)

Exhibited

Paris, Salon des Tuileries, title unknown, June 1928 (another cast)
Philadelphia, Crillon Gallery, Zadkine and Valentine Prax, March 1931, no.12 (another cast)
Venice, XVIIIe Biennale, Italian Pavillion, May - November 1932, no. 12 (another cast)
Prague, Belvedere, Vystava francouzského moderniho soccarstvi, 17 May - 21 July 1935, no. 145 (another cast)
Caracas, Sala de Expociones. De Rodin a nuestros dias. Dibujos de escultores contemporaneos, 1 - 15 October 1961, no. 98 (another cast)

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Further details

Other Properties

Lot Essay

The other version of the present lot is 'Arlequin (socle large)'. Although it has a different base and was cast earlier then the present lot, it is included in the catalogue by Sylvain Lecombre under the same number (208).

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