A Rare Group of ten bronze figures of prominent Artists including Pablo Picasso, full figure, H. 18 in.; Maurice Utrillo, full figure, H. 18 in.; Aristide Maillol, full figure, H. 17 3/8 in.; Jacques Lipschitz full figure, H. 16 3/8 in.; Maurice de Vlaminck, full figure, H. 16 in.; Ossip Zadkine, torso, H. 11 in.; Alberto Giacometti, head/bust, H. 7 1/2 in.; Chaim Soutine, full figure, H. 14 in.; Mane Katz, full figure, H. 17 1/8 in.; and a Cellist, seated, full figure, H. 12 in.

Note: Born in [Kaunas, Lithuania] on 19 November 1908, Arbit Blatas was a precocious talent who began exhibiting in his native country at the age of 15. He left for Paris and, at the age of 21, became the youngest member of the School of Paris. When Blatas was 24, the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris first acquired some of his paintings; he had already become a colleague and friend of many of the great figures of the Paris art world, such as Vlaminck, Soutine, Picasso, Utrillo, Braque, Zadkine, Léger and Derain. He was to paint and sculpt them all, as well as Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Dufy, van Dongen, Cocteau, Marquet and many others. His 30 portraits in oil and bronzes are considered a unique document of the painters and sculptors of that dynamic period in 20th-century French painting.

Various sizes.

Provenance: Regina Resnik - Arbit Blatas Gallery, Purchased from the Artist by Mac and Adele Siegel in 1982
By descent to the present owner.