Dimensions: 37 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm
signed and numbered on the bottom: '7/8 J. Lambert-Rucki [the artist’s linked monogram] 2022' and foundry mark: 'TEP'
Edition: 7/8
contemporary cast
Provenance
private collection, Paris
Exhibited
“Centenaire de la naissance de Jean Lambert-Rucki,” Galerie Jacques De Vos, Paris, October–November 1988
Bibliography
See also:
Artur Winiarski, Jean Lambert-Rucki, Warsaw 2017, p. nlb, cat. no. 83 (ill.)
Biography
A world-renowned designer, painter, and sculptor of Polish origin. In 1911, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He settled permanently in Paris. During his early years in France, he shared a studio with Modigliani and was friends with M. Kisling and E. Soutine. In the 1930s, he became a member of the Union of Modern Artists (UAM), alongside Le Corbusier, among others. In the second half of the 1930s, he created several dozen masks and a series of sculptures inspired by rural folklore (Moon Figure, Storks, Scarecrow). He also worked in sacred art, creating, among other works, the Stations of the Cross for St. Teresa’s Church in Boulogne. “His simplified, slender figures are imbued with the melancholy and contemplative spirit of Polish folk saints.” — Joanna Sitkowska-Bayle
