Ossip Zadkine - Castor - 1953

Castor

1953

Bronze

99 x 29 x 31 cm

Foundry: Susse Fondeur, Paris

Castor and Pollux were the offspring of Leda and the Swan, under which disguise Jupiter had concealed himself. Leda gave, birth to an egg from which sprang the twins. Helen, so famous afterwards as the cause of the Trojan war, was their sister.

 


Works created in 1953 Related works: Bronze