Jean Lambert-Rucki (1888 Kraków - 1967 Paris), "Confidence" ("Confidence"), ca1923-25

patinated bronze
Dimensions: 36 x 17 x 11 cm
Signed on the side of the base: 'J. Lambert-Rucki'
on the side of the base casting imprint: 'fonderie TEP Grece' and 'EA III/ IV'.
contemporary casting

Origin
private collection, Poland

Literature
Artur Winiarski, Jean Lambert-Rucki, Warsaw 2017, p. nlb, cat. no. 83 (ill.)

Biography
World-renowned designer, painter and sculptor of Polish descent. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow 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