OSSIP ZADKINE
TÊTE D'HOMME, 1927-1928
Black-patinated bronze, cast in 1987 by the Susse Foundry after the original wooden model.
This Head of a Man exemplifies Zadkine’s exploration of the simplification and geometrization of forms. The facial features, reduced to their essential lines, are deliberately emphasized or omitted, lending the sculpture a powerful expressiveness. The frontal composition, rigorous volumes, and stylized features give the work a hieratic and monumental presence, characteristic of Zadkine’s sculptural investigations in the late 1920s.
This bronze was cast in 1987 by the Susse Foundry for an exhibition held at the Fuji Kawa Gallery in Tokyo in 1988.
This Head of a Man exemplifies Zadkine’s exploration of the simplification and geometrization of forms. The facial features, reduced to their essential lines, are deliberately emphasized or omitted, lending the sculpture a powerful expressiveness. The frontal composition, rigorous volumes, and stylized features give the work a hieratic and monumental presence, characteristic of Zadkine’s sculptural investigations in the late 1920s.
This bronze was cast in 1987 by the Susse Foundry for an exhibition held at the Fuji Kawa Gallery in Tokyo in 1988.
H 36 - W 25 - L 23 cm.
H 13 3/4 - W 9 7/8 - L 9 in.
With base: H 50 cm. (19 3/4 in.)
H 13 3/4 - W 9 7/8 - L 9 in.
With base: H 50 cm. (19 3/4 in.)
Monogrammed and numbered on the left side of the neck 'O.Z. 4/5.' Foundry mark on the back of the neck 'Susse fondeur, Paris.'
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'Ossip Zadkine' exhibition, Fuji Kawa Gallery, Tokyo, 1988Bibliographie
'Ossip Zadkine' exhibition, Fuji Kawa Gallery, Tokyo, 1988, exhibition catalog, this sculpture represented on page 45.Sylvain Lecombre, ‘Ossip Zadkine. L'oeuvre Sculpté’, Editions du Rouergue, 1992, p. 229 for the same model in wood.