Dimensions: 48.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm
Signed and numbered on the base: 'J. LAMBERT-RUCKI | EA III/IV [artist's bound monogram]' and foundry mark: 'TEP'
contemporary casting
Origin
private collection, Paris
Literature
Jean Lambert-Rucki 1888-1967, cat. exhibition, Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Warsaw 2017, cat. no. 22, p. 64 (il.)
Biography
World-renowned designer, painter and sculptor of Polish descent. In 1911 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. 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
