Jean Lambert-Rucki, SAINT PETER

patinated bronze, wood

signed on the back: LAMBERT-RUCKI

A sticker from the M. Nobel Art Gallery in Leuven on the bottom.

♣ Droit de suite: ♣ A fee will be added to the purchase price pursuant to the right of the artist and his heirs to receive compensation 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 descent. 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 the field of religious art.