1964 — 1st Edition. Original Boards with Original Dust Jacket. 4to. 207 pages ; 28 cm. Includes 97 plates of Zadkines work. In English. Ossip Zadkine (1890 1967) was a Russian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. He was born to a Jewish father and a mother of Scottish origin
His best-known work is probably the sculpture The Destroyed City (1951-1953) , representing a man without a heart, a memorial to the destruction of the center of the Dutch city of Rotterdam in 1940 by the German Luftwaffe. (Wikipedia, 2016) This copy is warmly inscribed by Zadkine in 1965 to the notable Judaica Collector Michael M. Zagayski and his wife. Zagayski began collecting as a youth in Poland and had accumulated an impressive number of valuable items which were looted by the invading Nazis, in 1939, when he was attending a Jewish Agency meeting in Geneva. Only a year later he began a new collection
Mr. Zagayski came to the United States during World War II to serve as a vice-consul of the Polish Government in Exile. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Two items laid in. First, a 1955 catalog from Mr. Zagayskis sale of a 1150 AD eition of Josephus The Jewish War and Volume II of the fist Hebrew Bible printed in Spain. Second, an additional set of photographs of Zadkines sculptures printed in 1958. SUBJECT(S) : Sculpteurs -- France -- Biographies. Zadkine, Ossip. Dust Jacket has a very small tear, but on the whole this is a very beautiful copy. Jacket, book, plates, inscription, and additional laid in materials are all in Very Good Condition. (FR-2-16)
