Chana Orloff: Sculpting the Epoch

Chana Orloff: Sculpting the Epoch – Paris exhibition

The Zadkine Museum presents the first monographic Parisian exhibition of Chana Orloff’s works since 1971.

The exhibition of about 100 sculptures – “Chana Orloff: Sculpting the Epoch” – runs from 15 November 2023 to 31 March 2024.

The Zadkine Museum is the studio gallery of sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967) who knew and worked with Chana Orloff (1888-1968) in Paris. Her gallery was on Rue d’Assas nearby.

Ossip and Chana had similar backgrounds. They were both of Jewish origin and Ossip was born in what is now Belarus, while Chana was born in what is now Ukraine. They both fled to Paris in 1910 – in parallel but independently. They met in Paris.

Her plan was to gain a diploma in sewing, but met many artists in Paris and changed her mind. The Chana Orloff exhibition shows her emblematic work beginning from her studies in the School of Paris, and through her contact with artists of the time, such as Amedeo Modigliani and Chaim Soutine. It highlights her major themes – sculpted portrait busts, motherhood, and animals – in which she acquired her economic independence and ‘made the era’ her own.

She gained French nationality in 1926, after receiving the Legion of Honour the previous year. She fled to Geneva, Switzerland, during World War II, and returned to Paris in 1945. She died in 1968, a year after Ossip Zadkine.

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