ZADKINE, OSSIP
1890 Smolensk/Russland - 1967 Paris

Title: Projet du monument à Van Gogh, Auvers-Sur-Oise.
Date: 1956 (design).
Technique: Bronze, dark green patinated.
Measurement: 78,5 x 33 x 19cm.
Notation: Signed and numbered verso on the plinth: ZADKINE 2/5. Here also with the foundry mark Susse Fond. Paris.
Number: 2/5.


This work is a cast from 1958. In addition to the edition of 5 copies, 4 artist's proofs were cast.

Enclosed with the work is an expertise by the Ossip Zadkine Foundation, Brussels, dated 14 March 2009. We would like to thank Mr Richard Oudenhuysen, Zadkine Research Centre, for the kind scientific support.

Provenance:
- Pierre Bourut Collection, France
- Galerie Borzo, Amsterdam
- Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the previous in 2009)
- Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (received from previous owner)


- Powerful depiction in Zadkine's expressive-abstract formal language
- Rare artist's proof of outstanding quality
- Project for the grand, life-size Monument à Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise.