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In 2025, the Zadkine Museum celebrates the centenary of Art Deco by highlighting the connections sculptor Ossip Zadkine forged with the decorative arts in the 1920s and 1930s. Through more than 90 works\u2014sculptures, objects, and furniture\u2014the exhibition explores, for the first time, Zadkine’s relationships with some of the leading decorators of the Art Deco period, such as Eileen Gray and Marc du Plantier. It also reveals the shared inspiration that unites their creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to numerous loans\u2014from both private collections and prestigious institutions, such as the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the S\u00e8vres porcelain factory, the Mobilier National (National Furniture Collection), and the Mus\u00e9e des Ann\u00e9es 30 (Museum of the 1930s) in Boulogne-Billancourt\u2014the exhibition allows visitors to appreciate the breadth of Zadkine’s talent as a complete artist, passionate about the beauty and variety of materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He who intended to behave “like a 13th and 14th century cabinetmaker who always trusted his instinct,” as he wrote in his memoirs, maintained a constant interest in the skills borrowed from craftsmanship. In the early 1920s, when Zadkine, having returned from Cubism, sought a new path, he experimented with different techniques: he colored, gilded, and lacquered his sculptures, giving birth to some of his masterpieces such as the Golden Bird, a plaster cast gilded with gold leaf, or the Torso of Hermaphrodite, lacquered with the collaboration of the decorator Andr\u00e9 Groult. However, it was his mastery of direct carving that led to his being invited to participate in the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925. Alongside sculptors such as Pompon and the Martel brothers, he contributed to the decoration of the Pergola de la Douce France, a monumental structure erected on the Esplanade des Invalides, intended to revive the ancestral technique of direct stone carving, perceived as more authentic than modeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition, conceived in five sections, first explores the “decorative turn” that took place in Zadkine’s work during the 1920s, a period when the sculptor developed a passion for color in sculpture and experimented with techniques such as gilding and lacquering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A second section highlights Zadkine’s sculptures designed for architecture: Zadkine collaborated on several occasions with architects to decorate monuments, in Paris as well as in Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sections three and four are devoted to the 1925 and 1937 exhibitions, to which Zadkine contributed. In this centenary year, the focus is on the 1925 Exhibition and the Pergola of Douce France, one of the few remaining monuments from 1925. Presented at the Zadkine Museum through a model, sketches, and documents, the Pergola was reassembled in 1935 in \u00c9tampes, where it can still be admired today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition concludes with a tribute to three decorators with whom Zadkine was close: Eileen Gray, Marc du Plantier, and Andr\u00e9 Groult. In the sculptor’s former studio, furniture and objects are displayed alongside Zadkine’s works, presented in the way they were integrated into the Art Deco interiors designed by the renowned creators who recognized his talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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November 15, 2025 – April 12, 2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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MUSEE ZADKINE<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

100 bis rue d\u2019Assas 75006 Paris<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2025, the Zadkine Museum celebrates the centenary of Art Deco by highlighting the connections sculptor Ossip Zadkine forged with the decorative arts in the 1920s and 1930s. 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