Ossip Zadkine

The sculptor Ossip Zadkine was born in Vitsyebsk (in contemporary Belarus), the son of a Jewish father and a Scottish mother and received his early training at Yehudah Pen’s art school there. From 1905 to 1909, he lived in England. He then went to Paris, where he remained for most of his life (except for the war years, when he found refuge in the United States). Until the mid-1920s, Zadkine worked in the cubist idiom, afterward, he developed a style of his own, drawing on African and Greek influences.