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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2024 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale | 737 | $****** - ****** | Niobé |
sculpture
250.9 cm (98.78 in)
carved pear-tree wood on concrete base
signed "O. ZADKINE" (on the top of the base)
La France Art Institute (Bernard Davis), Philadelphia (acquired from the artist, circa 1938-1939).
Bequest from the above to the present owner, 1944.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Living Artists: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture , November 1931-January 1932.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, International Exhibition of Sculpture , May-September 1933, no. 357.
New York, Brummer Gallery, Zadkine , January-March 1937, no. 33.
A. de Ridder, Zadkine , Paris, 1929, no. 26 (illustrated in situ in the artist"s studio, pl. 26; detail illustrated, pl. 27; dated 1928).
V.D. Eeckhout, "Ossip Zadkine" in Wendingen , 1929, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 15 (detail illustrated; dated 1926).
Ossip Zadkine, exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1933 (detail illustrated on the cover).
P. Haesaerts, Ossip Zadkine: La sculpture ail ée, Amsterdam, 1939 (detail illustrated on the cover; dated 1926).
D. Chevalier, Zadkine: Sculptures , Paris, 1949 (detail illustrated; dated 1930).
R. Cogniat, Zadkine , Paris, 1958, pl. 9 (detail illustrated, dated 1930).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Sculpture Checklist of the 19th & 20th Centuries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art" in Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin , spring 1961, vol. LVI, p. 82, no. 235 (dated circa 1925).
J. Langner, Ossip Zadkine: Mahnmal für Rotterdam , Stuttgart, 1963, p. 17 (illustrated, pl. 11; dated 1928).
O. Zadkine, Le maillet et le ciseau: Souvenirs de ma vie , Paris, 1968, p. 109.
I. Jianou, Zadkine , Paris, 1979, pp. 10 and 72, no. 180 (illustrated, pl. 18).
C. Lichtenstern, Ossip Zadkine: der Bildhauer und seine Ikonographie , Berlin, 1980, pp. 56, 77 and 228, no. 27 (illustrated, pl. 13; dated 1926-1928).
S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine: L"oeuvre sculpt é , Paris, 1994, pp. 204 and 250, no. 205 (illustrated in situ in the artist"s studio; dated 1928).
OSSIP ZADKINE (1890-1967)
Niobé
signed "O. ZADKINE" (on the top of the base)
carved pear-tree wood on concrete base
Height (including base): 98 ¾ in. (250.9 cm.)
Carved in 1929
