Dimensions: 61 x 28.5 x 9.5 cm
Signed on the side of the base: 'J. Lambert-Rucki'
described on the base: '1/8 fonderie | TEP | Grece | 11-01'.
Origin
private collection, Paris
Exhibited
Jean Lambert-Rucki, Bestiaire, Gal Deos, Paris 2012
Literature
Jean Lambert-Rucki: Bestiaire, Jacques De Vos, Éd. Aux Sources du XXème siècle, exhibition catalog, Galerie Jacques De Vos, Paris 2012
Biography
World-renowned designer, painter and sculptor of Polish descent. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1911. He settled permanently in Paris. In the first years of his stay in France, he shared a studio with Modigliani, and was friends with M. Kisling and E. Soutin. In the 1930s, he sold a member of the Union of Modern Artists (UAM) alongside Le Corbusier, among others. In the second half of the 1930s, he produced dozens of masks and a series of sculptures inspired by rural folklore (Moon Figure, Storks, Scarecrow). He was also involved in sacred art, and made, among other things, the Stations of the Cross for the church of St. Therese in Boulogne. "The simplified, slender silhouettes do not lack the melancholy and thoughtfulness of Polish folk saints." - Joanna Sitkowska-Bayle
