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Ossip Zadkine’s work encompasses several practices: sculpture, drawing, watercolour and gouache, as well as printmaking, book illustration and designs for tapestries. Trained in London at the Regent Street Polytechnicum and the École Centrale d’artisanat, he continued his studies in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1909 and 1910.
He took part in the Salon des Indépendants in 1911; a biography by Galerie Hélène Bailly Marcilhac dates his joining the Cubists to the following year. In 1922, the Musée de Grenoble acquired his gilded wood sculpture Le Fauve; the Musée du Petit Palais in Geneva is also among the public collections that hold his work.
During the Second World War, Zadkine stayed in the United States, where he worked in New York, Arizona and North Carolina, before returning to France in September 1945. He subsequently taught at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris from 1946 to 1958. His career was marked by exhibitions and retrospectives, notably at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1933, the Musée national d’Art moderne in Paris in 1949 and in Knokke-le-Zoute in 1963.
This profile brings together identity references for Ossip Zadkine and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Genève Enchères · Germann · Kornfeld · Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Schuler
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Gouache and pencil on paper
Nu dans un intérieur, 1925
Gouache und Bleistift auf Papier
Catalogue period : 2025-06-25
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
View the lot at the auction house ↗Drawing in black chalk
Catalogue period : 2024-09-10
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 4500
View the lot at the auction house ↗Gouache
La famille
gouache
Catalogue period : 2023-12-15
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 2000–3000
View the lot at the auction house ↗Drawing in black chalk
Catalogue period : 2022-06-16
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 6000
View the lot at the auction house ↗chalk drawing
Catalogue period : 2020-09-17
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 8000
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Ink on paper
Personnage alangui
encre sur papier
Catalogue period : 2016-09-22
Published result : 1100 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 600–800
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Pen-and-ink drawing.
Frauenporträt
Tuschfeder-Zeichnung.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Pen-and-ink drawing.
Composition cubiste, 1947
Tuschfeder-Zeichnung.
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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