Ossip Zadkine - Large circa 1930 lithograph on paper - untitled - pencil signed - Sold

• a large monochrome lithography on paper, made around 1930 by the famous French/Russian sculptor and graphic artist Ossip Zadkine. Bottom right of the plate and signed with porcelain. At the bottom left he has numbered the lithograph 73/350.
• The paper is in reasonably good condition. Some tears at the edges and a light fold at the top right.
  

Ossip Zadkine was a French sculptor, painter and lithographer of Russian descent. He was born Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin. His mother was Scottish and in 1905 he was sent to England. Three years later he started taking classes at the Arts and Crafts School in London. In 1909 he settled in Paris, met Archipenko, Chagall and Léger, among others, and became friends with Modigliani.

During the First World War, he was wounded in a gas attack as a soldier and became a French national. His work was strongly influenced by Cubism; It would not be until 1926 that he developed his own style, inspired by primitive art. Zadkine took part in exhibitions at home and abroad in the interwar period.

In 1941, Ossip Zadkine fled to the United States, where he would remain until 1946. He met other French exiles there and gave sculpture lessons in New York. Back in Paris he opened his own studio, which was mainly aimed at American students. He taught at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, to hundreds of students, including Jan Wolkers, in 1957.

Zadkine became famous with the sculpture The Destroyed City in Rotterdam. There is also a statue of him in Zundert, in memory of Vincent van Gogh. It was unveiled by Queen Juliana in the presence of Zadkine. Many museums in the Netherlands have works by Zadkine in their collection, including De Fundatie (Zwolle), Van Abbe (Eindhoven) and Kröller-Müller (Otterlo).