OSSIP ZADKINE

                        

‘THE COUPLE’

                        

H - 218.5 cm (85 7/8 in.)


Signed ‘O.ZADKINE’ and numbered 3/6 on the base, with the foundry mark ‘SUSSE
FONDER PARIS’ on the side of the base.


Bronze with brown-green patina.


Conceived in 1966. This bronze was cast at a later date in an edition of 6.

                        

Provenance :


- Private collection, Japan.


- Christie’s Paris, ‘Art Impressionniste et Moderne’ 06/14/2010, Lot 88.
- Private collection, Israel

                        

Literature :


- I. Jianou, "Zadkine, l'artiste et le poète", in Journal Artcurial, Paris, mai 1979,
no. 473.


- S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine: L'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, no. 571 (modèle en
plâtre illustré, p. 625).

                        

S. Lecombre has confirmed the authenticity of the sculpture on
04/02/1991.(Photocopy)