The primitive soul
Well beyond formal research, the radical nature of his work then testified to a distrust of modern civilization and its values. In the gesture of the craftsman, in the faith of the Romanesque sculptor, in the naivety of the sign-painters of his native Russia, Zadkine saw not a lack of knowledge or technique, but the vanished or threatened example of a genuine link to the world.
It is through the song of this “primitive soul” that Zadkine’s work is in dialogue with those contemporaries of his who claimed to be wild, Fauvist, Neo-Primitivist; but also, so intimately, with those who today are still seeking to give utterance to “the palpitation of human life shattered by the tragic”.
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Museum
Infos Pratiques
Musée Zadkine
100 bis, rue d'Assas
75006 Paris
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday, 10am- 6pm
Regular rate : 9€
Reduced rate : 7 €
Free for visitors under 18, people with disabilities and their companions.
Mandatory booking of a time-stamped ticket at www.billetterie-parismusees. paris.fr
Public
- Enfant / Adolescent
- Famille
- Adulte
CURATORS
Jeanne Brun, directrice du développement culturel et du musée de la BnF
Claire Le Restif, directrice du Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry-le Crédac avec la collaboration de Pauline Créteur, attachée de conservation au musée Zadkine
Ossip Zadkine © Adagp, Paris 2021photo E. Emo/F. Cochennec /MuséeZadkine/Paris Musées
Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967) Les Vendanges, [1918] Orme, 97 × 55 × 40 cm Legs de Valentine Prax, 1981 Paris, musée Zadkine Inv. MZS 158
Ossip Zadkine (1888- 1967),
Tête aux yeux de plomb, [1919]
Pierre calcaire, 50 × 23 × 23 cm
Legs de Valentine Prax, 1981
Paris, musée Zadkine
Inv. MZS 10
Ossip Zadkine © Adagp, Paris 2021
Photo : E. Emo / F. Cochennec / Musée Zadkine / Paris Musées
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (né en 1977)
Le Veilleur de nuit, pour Wilson Harris (2), 2018
Carapace de tortue, gallium, 70 × 58 × 22 cm
Courtesy de l’artiste
© Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Photo : Courtesy XC.HuA
Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967)
Prométhée, 1955-1956
Orme, 300 × 69 × 98 cm
Legs de Valentine Prax, 1981
Paris, musée Zadkine
Inv. MZS 294
Ossip Zadkine © Adagp, Paris 2021
Photo : E. Emo / F. Cochennec / Musée Zadkine / Paris Musées
© Miriam Cahn Photo © Fanny Trichet Carquefou, Frac des Pays de la Loire
Miriam Cahn (née en 1949) Kriegerin [Guerrière], 2012 Huile sur toile, 165 × 100 × 1,5 cm Achat auprès de la galerie Jocelyn Wolff, 2016 Carquefou, Frac des Pays de la Loire
Natalia Gontcharova (1881-1962)
Thème jardin, [1920]
Mine graphite, aquarelle et gouache sur papier,
37,5 × 53,7 cm
Achat, 1976
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre
de création industrielle
Inv. AM 1976-17
Natalia Gontcharova © ADAGP, Paris 2021
Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais
image Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI