Etching on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper size: 15 x 11 inches. Excellent condition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Les Peintres mes amis, 1965. Published by Éditions d'art Les Heures Claires, Paris; printed by Manuel Robbe, Paris, May 20, 1965. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), The lithographs of Derain and Van Dongen were shot by Lucien Détruit; those of Dufy, Matisse, Chagall, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cavailles, Terechkovitch and Carzou were shot by Mourlot Frères; those of Picasso and Buffet were shot by P.J. Ballon; Miró's was shot in l'atelier Arte, who also printed, in phototypy, the frontispice. The Villon and Zadkine etchings were shot by Manuel Robbe; Braque's was shot by A. and P. Crommelynck; the illustrations of Vlaminck, Rouault, Pascin and Utrillo were engraved on wood and shot by Raymond Jacquet. André Warnod's texts, collected by his daughter, Jeanine Warod, were composed by hand in De Roos de corps 24 and printed in Paris on the presses of Daragnès. Finished printing on May 20, 1965. Justification of the draw: 3 examples on grand vélin d’Arches with the inked coppers of an illustration in taille-douce; a silk test of two lithographs; the four illustrations engraved on wood, framed; a decomposition of the colors of a lithograph; a complete suite on Arches of the illustrations, numbered 1-3. 16 examples on grand vélin d’Arches with a silk proof of two lithographs; the four illustrations engraved on wood, framed; a decomposition of the colors of a lithography; a complete suite on Arches of illustrations, numbered from 4 to 19. 21 examples on grand vélin d’Arches comprising of a silk proof of two lithographs; the four illustrations engraved on wood, framed; a complete suite on Arches of the illustrations, numbered from 20 to 40. 40 examples on grand vélin d’Arches with a complete suite on Arches of the illustrations, numbered from 41 to 80. 170 examples on grand vélin d’Arches, numbered from 81 to 250 OSSIP ZADKINE (1888-1967) was a Russian-French artist of the School of Paris. He is best known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. In 1921 he obtained French citizenship. Zadkine served as a stretcher-bearer in the French Army during World War I, and was wounded in action. He spent World War II in the US. His best-known work is probably the sculpture The Destroyed City (1951–1953), representing a man without a heart, a memorial to the destruction of the center of the Dutch city of Rotterdam in 1940 by the Nazi-German Luftwaffe. He taught sculpture classes at Académie de la Grande Chaumière until 1958, students of his included artists Geula Dagan (1925–2008), Gunnar Aagaard Andersen and Genevieve Pezet.