Lambert Rucki (1888-1967) Sculpture With Large Bronze Bust

Large 20th century bronze sculpture with polychrome patina depicting the braided bust listed and signed by the artist Jean Lambert Rucki (1888-1967) bearing the stamp of the founder La Plaine and proof of limited edition: 1/8 (perfect quality) note that the work is offered with a certificate of authenticity signed by the rights holders, namely the artist's daughters: Mara and Léona Rucki. Very good condition, dimensions: 58.5 cm high X 18.5 cm wide X 17.5 cm deep. Beautiful Cubist style composition with a dreamlike expression in the form of a poetic totem whose simplified and lustrous volumes instinctively seduce! A work that is expressed in arrangements of simple shapes, with a deceptively naive balance, underlined by a bold polychromy. His collaboration with the lacquerer Jean Dunand is no stranger to this aesthetic research, during the twenty years that their collaboration will last between 1920 and 1940 the two artists will have made the materials speak with remarkable inventiveness. Chinese lacquer has no secrets for him and one easily recognizes the RUCKIEN style (according to the words of his friends) notably in the screens, the portraits of famous people, the cigarette boxes, the jewels, the various precious objects, the vases and decorative panels of the liners Atlantique and Normandie. Lambert Rucki was born in 1888 in Poland, he was trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, then Jean Lambert-Rucki was marked by his discovery in 1909 of the works of Picasso and Negro art. Settled in Paris from 1911, he found there his compatriot Moïse Kisling, he rubbed shoulders with Modigliani and Soutine. In 1920, he married Monique Bickel (born in 1892), a pupil of the sculptor Rodin, that same year he met the art dealer Léonce Rosenberg and befriended Joseph Csaky and Gustave Miklos who would become his daughter's godfather. "Mara" he finds his friend Léopold Survage alongside whom, among others, he participates in the first exhibition of the Section d'Or at the Galerie de la Boétie in Paris. A marginal figure from Cubism, Jean Lambert-Rucki participated in the 1930s in the adventure of the Union of Modern Artists founded in 1929 by dissidents of the Society of Decorative Artists, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Francis Jourdain, René Herbst and Hélène Henry, soon joined by decorators of the modernist trend, such as Pierre Chareau, Jean Prouvé, Le Corbusier or Charlotte Perriand. Until the end of his life, he multiplied the exhibitions of his works, carried out numerous commissions throughout Europe (construction sites in Alsace, Canada, Belgium, the USA, etc.) and for churches (major renovations after the Great War), participated in the great manifestation of Sacred Art or collaborated with Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann and Jean Dunand during the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, a period in which he became one of the pioneers of the Modern Sacred Art. In May 1943, he participated in a group exhibition as part of the artists of the "2nd group" of the Galerie Drouant-David in Paris (Braque, Derain, Dufy, Maurice Denis…). This man with an elegant silhouette is welcoming and humorous. The smiling air and blue eyes of Jean LAMBERT-RUCKI immediately attract him sympathy. He was a frank and solid artist, a true man in the full sense of the term. His spontaneity and natural fantasy do not exclude hard work and a love of craftsmanship that is unusual in execution. Willingly yielding to his impulses, this instinctive is above all dependent on his independence. This refined being likes the candor of the fields, the fresh nature and the light. He offered us a tender and pure world of beauty that fits perfectly into the avant-garde movements in which he was perfectly involved.