Without Lifting A Finger

Buste de François Mauriac, Ossip Zadkine – Bordeaux, Jardin Public , a photo by Yvette Gauthier on Flickr. Same bust: Mauriac. This time in a garden in Bordeaux.

Buste de François Mauriac, Ossip Zadkine – Malagar , a photo by Yvette Gauthier on Flickr. Another piece by Zadkine: This is apparently "The Bust of Fracois Mauriac." Mauriac was a Catholic-French novelist.

Zadkine , a photo by on1stsite. on Flickr. From Berger's essay "Zadkine": Zadkine's  masterpiece remains his monument to the razed and reborn city of Rotterdam. This is how he wrote about it:  It is striving to embrace the inhuman pain inflicted on a city which had no other desire but to live by the grace of God and to grow naturally like a forest . . . It was also intended as a lesson to future generations.

Ossip Zadkine ( Russian : Осип Цадкин ; July 14, 1890 – November 25, 1967) was a Belarusian-born artist who lived in France . He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs . Early years and career Zadkine was born as Yossel Aronovich Tsadkin ( Russian : Иосель Аронович Цадкин ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in Vitebsk (now Belarus , then part of the Russian Empire ). His father was Jewish and had converted to the Russian Orthodox religion; his mother was of Scottish ancestry. [ 3 ] After attending art school in London , Zadkine settled in Paris about 1910. There he became part of the new Cubist movement (1914-1925). He later developed his own style, one that was strongly influenced by African art. Zadkine served as a stretcher-bearer in the French Army during World War I , and was wounded in action. He spent the World War II years in America . His best-known work is probably the sculpture "The Destroyed City" (1951-1953), represents a man w