- Artist/Maker:
- Ossip Zadkine
- Bio:
- French, b. Russia (now Belarus), 1890-1967
- Foundry:
- Susse Fondeur
- Bio:
- Paris
- Title:
- Study for The Prisoner
- Date:
- 1943, cast 1962
- Medium:
- Bronze
- Dimensions:
- 17 3/4 × 7 3/4 × 6 5/8 in. (45.1 × 19.7 × 16.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Iris Cantor (Mrs. B. Gerald Cantor), New York
- Accession Number:
- JM 42-78
Not On View
The artist's "Study for The Prisoner" was created during the Second World War, when Zadkine fled Europe for exile in the United States. The sculptor described this work as inspired by thoughts of those who had remained in France - and who seemed to him as prisoners in a dungeon or birds in a cage. In a journey entry of October 1943, Zadkine described the formal structure as a sinister cage that encloses the figure from all sides and which must be experienced by the viewer in the round.
An example of the complete sculpture ("La Prisonnière," cast in bronze in an edition of five) is in the Musée Zadkine in Paris. The original terracotta of the "study" was cast in bronze in an edition of ten with two artist's proofs in 1962.
An example of the complete sculpture ("La Prisonnière," cast in bronze in an edition of five) is in the Musée Zadkine in Paris. The original terracotta of the "study" was cast in bronze in an edition of ten with two artist's proofs in 1962.
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