Kneeling Woman
Artist/Culture
Ossip Zadkine
(Russian, active in France, 1890–1967)
Date1931
Mediumbronze
Dimensions30.5 cm (12 in.)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineManuel K. and Ina R. Berman Collection
Terms
Object number2015.52
DescriptionNude woman, on bended knee, balanced on a block. Figure extends her right hand, with the other arm falling between her legs. Thing, flat base is part of the cast. Dark patina. Body has a rough, matte surface, emulating stone, while the base is much more smoothly finished.ProvenanceManuel and Ina Berman, purchased from an unknown Paris gallery, probably in the early 1960s; bequeathed to the Worcester Art Museum in 2006.
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