44.5 x 10.0cm - patinated bronze, patinated casting, chiseled, wood base, overall height 44.5 cm (figure height 40 cm)
Sign on figure: Lambert-RUCKI
Compare:
- A.Winiarski, Jean Lambert-Rucki 1888-1967 [cat. exhibition], Villa La Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, 21 IX - 31 XII 2017, pp. 204-207, il. p. 206 (cat. no. 68).
♣ A fee will be added to the auctioned price in addition to other costs, based on the right of the creator and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Law of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).
Jean Lambert-Rucki - world-renowned designer, painter and sculptor of Polish origin. In 1911 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He settled permanently in Paris. In the first years of his stay in France, he shared a studio with Amedeo Modigliani, and was friends with Moses Kisling and Chaim Soutin. In the 1930s he was a member of the Union of Modern Artists (UAM) alongside, among others, Le Corbusier. 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.
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