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Lot 1116 THE PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT DUTCH COLLECTOR
Ossip Zadkine (Russian/French,b. 1890-1967)
Projet de Monument à Guillaume Apollinaire
Closed21 November 2007
Price Realised
EUR 84,250
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In 1939 Ossip Zadkine exhibits four projects for monuments dedicated to poets Apollinaire, Jarry, Lautreamont and Rimbaud in Galerie Montaigne in Paris.
These four works mark a turning point in his oeuvre, influencing a large part of what he produced after 1945. Zadkine himself saw the importance of the poet monuments for his later work, as he writes in Le Maillet & le Ciseau: "I still consider the four projects for monuments for poets as my most prominent works from the period before 1940" (in: Le Maillet & le Ciseau. Souvenirs de ma vie, Paris 1968).
What he wished to represent, is that which is the least representable, the poetical sentiment that inspires man and the sublime, and which he searched for in all his artistic productions. To stay in well defined categories, the poet projects are not abstract, not surrealist, not cubist, not archaic, not neo-classic. Without a doubt Zadkine found his truly own language working on the projects.
The present is lot an enlarged version of the 1938 piece, made in 1948. Zadkine added a pipe to the sculpture.
We kindly thank Tjerk Wiegersma for his help in cataloguing this lot
These four works mark a turning point in his oeuvre, influencing a large part of what he produced after 1945. Zadkine himself saw the importance of the poet monuments for his later work, as he writes in Le Maillet & le Ciseau: "I still consider the four projects for monuments for poets as my most prominent works from the period before 1940" (in: Le Maillet & le Ciseau. Souvenirs de ma vie, Paris 1968).
What he wished to represent, is that which is the least representable, the poetical sentiment that inspires man and the sublime, and which he searched for in all his artistic productions. To stay in well defined categories, the poet projects are not abstract, not surrealist, not cubist, not archaic, not neo-classic. Without a doubt Zadkine found his truly own language working on the projects.
The present is lot an enlarged version of the 1938 piece, made in 1948. Zadkine added a pipe to the sculpture.
We kindly thank Tjerk Wiegersma for his help in cataloguing this lot