Ossip Zadkine : Personnage à la lyre, 1966 (Black felt-tip pen)

By ZADKINE Ossip (1890-1967)

Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967)
Personnage à la lyre, 8 December 1966
Black felt-tip pen
Signed and inscribed by hand

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.)

Condition: good condition, unframed

Note: Zadkine did not always sign his works, so the signature here is favourable; given his market, an authentication by a recognised Zadkine expert/committee is recommended before sale and would consolidate value.

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance; the dedications place the collector in the Riviera and Dinard casino milieu).

Description: A figure holding a lyre — an evocation of Orpheus, one of the recurrent mythological themes running through Zadkine’s sculpture and works on paper. A Russian-born French sculptor and a major figure of the École de Paris and Cubism, Zadkine is celebrated for “The Destroyed City” in Rotterdam and won the Grand Prix at the 1950 Venice Biennale; his rue d’Assas studio in Paris is now the Musée Zadkine. Drawn and signed by hand in late 1966, about a year before the artist’s death.

Price : 600,00 € ( 683.00 USD )