Dimensions: 29.5 x 7 x 2 cm
Signed on the back: 'Jean Lambert-Rucki'
on the side of the base the foundry's imprint: 'JDV' and foundry stamp: 'BRONZE D'ART | Candide | PARIS 8/8'.
edition 8/8
contemporary casting
Condition
Confirmation of authenticity issued by the artist's daughter, Mara Rucki
Origin
private collection, Paris
Exhibited
Lambert-Rucki, Les Parisiens et les autres , Galerie Jacques De Vos, Paris, May-June 1993
Lambert-Rucki , De Vos & Giraud Gallery, New York, November-December 2006
Literature
J. De Vos, M.A. Ruan et J.P. Tortil, Jean Lembert-Rucki 1888-1967, Editions Galerie Jacques De Vos, 1988, no. 1.
Biography
World-renowned designer, painter and sculptor of Polish origin. In 1911 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. 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
