Museums in Paris: Musée Zadkine (Part 2 of 2)

Our visit to Musée Zadkine continues. 

In the museum's garden is a large collection of Zadkine's sculptures.  The natural setting and Autumn colors made for lovely viewing of artist's works.  

Jean-Claude especially liked the sculpture below because of Zadkine's experimentation with concavity.  The faces of the three figures curve inward instead of outward.

Below, Zadkine pays homage to a mythological painting by Botticelli.

The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1484-1486)

Like Picasso's painting Guernica, Zadkine depicted a German bombing raid.  The anguished figure below reacts to the May 1940 bombing that destoryed the medieval center of Rotterdam.  The final version of the sculpture (also pictured below) stands in Rotterdam.

(1951-1953)

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Orpheus was musician in Greek mythology taught by Apollo.

Jean-Claude's favorite sculpture depicts the Van Gogh brothers.

We enjoyed our visit to Musée Zadkine.  On a different day, we accidentally discovered a monumental Zadkine sculpture while walking along the Seine.  

The Messenger by Ossip Zadkine (1937), also known as the Bearer of Gifts and the Navigator.  The ship possibly represents the City of Paris, whose symbol is a boat.

Thanks for visiting Musée Zadkine with us.

P.S.  You might remember from an earlier post that Zadkine honored Vincent Van Gogh with a bronze statue located in Auvers-sur Oise.  

Vincent Van Gogh by Ossip Zadkine (1961) (in Auvers-sur-Oise)