The home of a sculptor The Zadkine museum opened its doors to the public in 1982 and is housed in the home and studios where the sculptor lived and worked from 1928 until his death in 1967.
The buildings and the works making up the museum’s collection were left to the City of Paris by the sculptor’s widow, the painter Valentine Prax (1897-1981).
From Russia to Montparnasse
Born in Smolensk (Russia) in 1890, Ossip Zadkine moved to Paris in 1910, following a
spell in England. He first exhibited his work in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants
(Independent Artists’ Exhibition) in 1911.
At that time, he worked out of his studio in the famous La Ruche artists’ community,
located in Paris’ 15th arrondissement.
When he moved to rue d’Assas, the site of the present museum, he wrote the
following in a letter to his friend, the Belgian author André de Ridder: “Come and
see my Assas folly and you’ll understand just how much a man’s life can be changed
by a pigeon loft, by a tree”.
Zadkine was one of the most shining examples of this Paris School made up of numerous foreign artists to have chosen to live in the French capital and settle, for the most part, in the city’s Montparnasse district.
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