Jean Lambert-Rucki, THE CRUCIFIX

25.7 x 25.3 cm – gilded bronze, wood

25.7 x 25.3 cm (figure), 49.5 x 32.8 cm (cross)
signed on the side of the robe: Lambert-Rucki 
 

♣ Droit de suite: ♣ An additional fee will be added to the Purchase Price pursuant to the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994, on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite).

Jean Lambert-Rucki—a world-renowned designer, painter, and sculptor of Polish origin. In 1911, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He settled permanently in Paris. During his early years in France, he shared a studio with Amedeo Modigliani and was friends with Mojżesz Kisling and Chaim Soutine. In the 1930s, he was a member of the Union of Modern Artists (UAM) alongside, among others, Le Corbusier. In the second half of the 1930s, he created several dozen masks and a series of sculptures inspired by rural folklore (Moon Figure, Storks, Scarecrow). He also worked in sacred art.