Ossip Zadkine (1890 Smolensk - 1967 Paris), "Euripides, Works of Heracles" (Euripides, Die Arbeiten des Herakles), 1960

Biography
He was born in Vitebsk to a Scottish-Jewish family. He was educated in England, where his parents sent him. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sutherland and later in London. At an exhibition at the British Museum, he was first introduced to modern sculpture, at which time he began to create his own sculptural works. After arriving in Paris, he studied at the Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. His body of work totals more than 400 sculptures and several thousand drawings, watercolors and prints. He has exhibited extensively in France, Italy, Great Britain and even Japan. He created sculptures mainly in metal and wood. Much of his style changed after World War II, when he began to use forms modeled on the Baroque style; the sculpture "Orpheus" from this period was purchased by the French Government for the Little Palace, where it can be admired. In 1962, the first exhibition of his textiles was held in Paris.