Dimensions: 27 x 22 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'J. Lambert-Rucki 1924'
described on the reverse: 'ATELIER | J. LAMBERT-RUCKI | "LA RUE"', sticker with inventory number (number repeated twice on frame)
Provenance
private collection, France
institutional collection, Poland
Biography
World-renowned designer, painter and sculptor of Polish descent. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 1911. He settled permanently in Paris. In the first years of his stay in France, he shared a studio with Modigliani, and was friends with M. Kisling and E. Soutin. In the 1930s, he sold a member of the Union of Modern Artists (UAM) alongside Le Corbusier, among others. In the second half of the 1930s, he produced dozens of masks and a series of sculptures inspired by rural folklore (Moon Figure, Storks, Scarecrow). He was also involved in sacred art, and made, among other things, the Stations of the Cross for the church of St. Therese in Boulogne. "The simplified, slender silhouettes do not lack the melancholy and thoughtfulness of Polish folk saints." - Joanna Sitkowska-Bayle
