Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967)
Ephèbe
1956
65 x 50 cm
Gouache on paper
The young man depicted here by Ossip Zadkine is Ephebos which is a Greek term for a male adolescent, or for a social status reserved for that age, in the ancient past.
In Greek mythology, an ephebe was a young man around the ages of 17 to 20.