Les combattants ou la terreur ou les guerriers. 1947.
Bronze with black-brown patina.
Base with the monogram and the number and the foundry mark "H. Noack Berlin". From an edition of eight copies. 49.6 x 28 x 24 cm (19.5 x 11 x 9.4 in).
Cast by art foundry Hermann Noack, Berlin 1959. [AW].
• Ossip Zadkine is considered one of the greatest masters of cubist sculpture.
• In Paris in the early 1910s, he was part of artist circles around Picasso, Brancusi, Apollinaire, Sonia Delaunay and Matisse.
• He had numerous exhibitions and retrospectives between 1948 and 1950, among others at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
• In 1950 he received the sculpture prize at the Venice Biennale.

Accompanied by a certificate from the Ossip Zadkine Research Center, Brussels, dated November 7, 2023. The work is registered at the archive with the number S-406-4.

PROVENANCE: Weber Galerie, Düsseldorf (acquired from the artist in 1959).
Galerie Springer, Berlin.
Martin Landmann Collection (1923-2021), Vancouver, Canada (acquired from the above in 1961).
Ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: Zadkine. Œuvres récentes, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, February 1948, cat. no. 48.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, April to June 1948, cat. no. 54.
L'Œuvre de Zadkine, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville Paris, May 1949, cat. no. 60.
Ossip Zadkine, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, December 1949, cat. no. 67.
Zadkine. Plastiken 1910-1953, Wallraff-Richartz Museum, Cologne, 1960.

LITERATURE: Sylvain Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine. L'Œuvre sculpté, Paris 1994, no. 145 (fig.).
Ionel Jianu, Zadkine, Paris 1979, cat. no. 344.
Christa Lichtenstern, Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967). Der Bildhauer und seine Ikonographie, Berlin 1980, cat. no. 253.