I have said it before and will probably say it again: the Musée Zadkine is one of my favorite museums in Paris, with its small light-filled house and studio set in a garden, the whole charming ensemble cut off from … Read More
The Musée Zadkine, one of my favorite places in Paris, is tucked away at the end of an alley near the Luxembourg Garden. The small museum, the former home and studio of sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967), is a peaceful haven … Read More
The work of Russian-born artist Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967) displays an unusually diverse range of influences: brutal Russian modernism, dramatic Cubist angularity, African tribal art and classical Greek sculpture. After emigrating to France in 1910, Zadkine spent the years of World … Read More
So It Was in Old Russia Photo © Procoudine-Gorsky/Bibliothèque du Congrès Washington The current exhibition at Paris’s Musée Zadkine, “Voyage dans L’Ancienne Russie,” reminded me of a passage by Roland Barthes in La Chambre Claire. He wrote that the sadness, … Read More
