Zadkine, Ossip. Poster for the exhibition dedicated to the release of the book: Portrait de L’Oiseau-Qui-N’Existe-Pas. [Portrait of the Bird-That-Does-Not-Exist]. [In French.] Paris: Galerie René Kieffer, 1966.

Zadkine, Ossip. Poster for the exhibition dedicated to the release of the book: Portrait de L’Oiseau-Qui-N’Existe-Pas. [Portrait of the Bird-That-Does-Not-Exist]. [In French.] Paris: Galerie René Kieffer, 1966. 1 sheet. 48.5×64.5 cm. Ossip Alekseevich Zadkine (Ossip Zadkine; 1890–1967) was a sculptor, graphic artist, and applied arts painter; a representative of the Paris School. He studied at a trade school in Vitebsk and took drawing lessons from Y.M. Pen. In 1909, he went to Paris, where he settled in the La Ruche (“The Beehive”) quarter in Montparnasse. In 1912–1914, he was a regular visitor to the salon of Baroness Ettingen and the café “Rotonde,” where he met many figures of Parisian artistic life. His early work is characterized by a fascination with primitive art, a stage many masters of the Paris School went through. In the late 1910s and 1920s, he turned to Cubism. Later, not being affiliated with any artistic groups or movements, he successfully used techniques of Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism in his work, combined with various historical styles.