Lot 301: Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967)

Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967)
Pollux
signed and numbered 'ZADKINE 5/8' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with gold patina
Height: 39 1/8 in. (99.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1953-1955

I. Jianou, "Zadkine l'artiste et le poète," Journal Artcurial, May 1979, no. 330 (dated 1944).
"Zadkine jugé par ses pairs, Penalba, César, Lipsi, Etienne-Martin, Arman, Lardera, Cardenas, Schöffer, Barelier, Berrocal," Connaissance des arts, June 1979, p. 84.
S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, L'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, p. 509, no. 449 (another cast illustrated).

Acquired by the present owner in the 1980s.

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR