Creator Bio
Ossip Zadkine
1890–1967
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.
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Rebecca, or The Large Woman Carrying Water
By the mid-1920s, Zadkine had shifted from a purely cubist style to a new approach that drew on African and classical Greek art. His subject matter was often inspired by stories from the Bible and…