Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967) - Maternité

Circa 1913

81 cm. high

Gold and black painted elm wood sculpture

 

About Zadkine's Maternité sculpture

This early sculpture by Ossip Zadkine, made just after his arrival in Paris, clearly shows the Russian influence of his education. This elm wood sculpture with partial polychromy was probably exhibited at the Salon des indépendants in 1914.