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Ossip Zadkine (French, born Vitebsk, present–day Belarus (former Russian Empire), 1890–1967). Human Forest (Forêt humaine), 1946. Opaque watercolor, pen, and black ink over graphite on wove paper, sheet: 36 × 22 in. (91.4 × 55.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 47.111. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.47.111.jpg)
Ossip Zadkine (French, born Vitebsk, present–day Belarus (former Russian Empire), 1890–1967). Human Forest (Forêt humaine), 1946. Opaque watercolor, pen, and black ink over graphite on wove paper, sheet: 36 × 22 in. (91.4 × 55.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 47.111. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 47.111_bw_SL1.jpg)
Human Forest (Forêt humaine)
Ossip Zadkine
European Art
Ossip Zadkine, known primarily as a modernist sculptor, made this gouache of metamorphosing, interconnected human-plant figures after he returned to France from New York, where he had fled in 1941 after the Nazis seized Paris. When the Museum purchased it, he described the circumstances around its creation in a letter to the curatorial department: “When I returned back in October 1945 I found France in a pathetic state, to say little. . . . . I was a sculptor with no house, no workshop, a . . . sort of a D.P. [displaced person]. The human forest seemed to me strange and hostile and inhospitable. I went to the country where I have a house, the only one left to me where I did a group of drawings and gouaches representing this flora of today.”
MEDIUM
Opaque watercolor, pen, and black ink over graphite on wove paper
DATES
1946
DIMENSIONS
sheet: 36 × 22 in. (91.4 × 55.9 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed and dated bottom right: "O. ZADKINE 46"
COLLECTIONS
European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
47.111
CREDIT LINE
Museum Collection Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Ossip Zadkine (French, born Vitebsk, present–day Belarus (former Russian Empire), 1890–1967). Human Forest (Forêt humaine), 1946. Opaque watercolor, pen, and black ink over graphite on wove paper, sheet: 36 × 22 in. (91.4 × 55.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 47.111. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.47.111.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.47.111.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2021
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