The Prophet
Created by Ossip Zadkine
Date: 1915
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statue
Material: wood
Technique: carved
Description: 'direct sculpture' - upright carved, frontal figure, with palms pressed together across chest, close to torso, as if in prayer; heavily stylised with angular features and hollow eyes
Sources
Catalogue of the Twenty-eighth London Exhibition, 1922, held at the Grafton Galleries, Grafton Street, W.1
1922
p. 37 (216a)
International Society press cuttings, from spring 1921
1921 (Circa)
illustrated in The Daily Mail, spring 1921; favourable review in the Arts Gazette, 29 April 1922
Citing this record
'The Prophet', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib2_1205779451, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
