Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967)

Portrait of Ruth Stephan

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Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967)
Portrait of Ruth Stephan
signed with initials and with dedication and dated lower left To Ruth Stephan POET for Hir Bib(?) 21 January 1944 from O.Z.
pen and black ink on paper laid down on board, unframed
61 x 46 cm

Provenance

Selbiger, Hannover
Baron Hodenberg, Berlin

Lot Essay

Mr and Mrs Stephan arranged the escape of Zadkine from the Nazis to New York in 1944. They founded a trust which is dedicated to Zadkine's work

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