LEON iNDENBAUM
1914 detail "Musicians and antilopes" by Leon Indenbaum
1914 "Musicians and Antelopes" by LEON INDENBAUM 1890-1981. Commissioned in 1914 by the patron of Leon Indenbaum the famous couturiers Jacques Doucet and Paul Poiret. Sculpture in marble 85x162 cm - 33x63 inch. This French sculptor born in Belarus, arrived in Paris in 1911 in the "La Ruche" and participated in the movement "Ecole de Paris" with his friends Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, Leonard Foujita (Fujita), Chana Orloff, Diego Rivera, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Ossip Zadkine, Alexander Archipenko… In 1968, the "Institut de France" awarded him the prestigious "Georges Wildenstein" sculpture award. This "Musicians and antelopes" sculpture break the world record for 2004 for a 20th century decorative artwork at at Christies - Paris for $ 4,600,000.
1914 detail "Musicians and antilopes" by Leon Indenbaum
1914 "Musicians and Antelopes" by LEON INDENBAUM 1890-1981. Commissioned in 1914 by the patron of Leon Indenbaum the famous couturiers Jacques Doucet and Paul Poiret. Sculpture in marble 85x162 cm - 33x63 inch. This French sculptor born in Belarus, arrived in Paris in 1911 in the "La Ruche" and participated in the movement "Ecole de Paris" with his friends Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani, Leonard Foujita (Fujita), Chana Orloff, Diego Rivera, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Ossip Zadkine, Alexander Archipenko… In 1968, the "Institut de France" awarded him the prestigious "Georges Wildenstein" sculpture award. This "Musicians and antelopes" sculpture break the world record for 2004 for a 20th century decorative artwork at at Christies - Paris for $ 4,600,000.