ZADKINE, Ossip

Vitebsk, Russia 1890 - Paris 1967

Niobé

Niobe

c. 1925

cedar with concrete base

statue

Dimensions (HxWxD): 100 ¹⁄₂ x 38 x 38; base: 1 ¹⁄₂ in.

Acc. No.: 1944-2-1

Credit Line: Gift of Bernard Davis, 1944

© Artist : Fair Use (Section 107, Copyright Act 1976)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art

www.philamuseum.org

Provenance

• by 1929, Purchased from the artist by Bernard Davis, La France Art Institute, Philadelphia (PMA object file: Bernard Davis, owner of La France Industries textile mills in Philadelphia, began forming his extensive collection of modern art around 1919, much of it acquired in Paris. He exhibited it at the galleries of the La France Institute art school, founded 1923, of which he served as president. See American Art Annual, 1923-1927; introduction to Freeman sale catalogue; and R. Sturgis Ingersoll, Henry McCarter, Cambridge, MA, 1944, p. 74)
• 1944, Gift of Bernard Davis

Bibliography

• 1929 Ridder
  André de Ridder, Zadkine, Paris, 1929, ill. pl. 26 and 27 [La France Art Institute, Philadelphia]
• 1933 Brussels
  Zadkine, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1933, ill. on the cover
• 1961 PMA Bulletin
  "Sculpture Checklist", Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 1961, p. 82, no. 235, not ill.
• 1980 Lichtenstein
  Christa Lichtenstein, Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967): der Bildhauer und seine Ikonographie, Berlin, 1980, p. 57 and 77, ill. fig. 27
• 1994 Lecombre
  Sylvain Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine : l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1994, p. 249 (purchase by Davis), 250, no. 205, ill.

Exhibitions

• 1931-1932 Philadelphia
  
  Living Artists: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gallery 284, November 20, 1931-January 1, 1932
  
  
  1933 Phladelphia
  
  International Exhibition of Sculpture, Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Association, Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 15-September 15, 1933, cat. 357 (see photograph in scrapbook; Rare Books, NB198. P44f 1933)

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