Ossip Zadkine is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Ossip Zadkine as French sculptor and painter of Russian origin (1888–1967).
Ossip Zadkine was born at Vitebsk in 1888. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris and Chelsea College of Art and Design.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
He worked as sculptor, painter and printmaker.
His recorded movement is cubism.
Among his best-known works are François Mauriac, La Force atomique and Le Poète. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Ossip Zadkine died in 1967, aged 79. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: François Mauriac
- Notable work: La Force atomique
- Notable work: Le Poète
- Movement: cubism
