26 - Léon Zack (1892-1980) | Russian-French

Léon Zack (1892-1980) | Russian-French Seated Woman with Planets, c. 1940's Ink on Paper Signed: Signed ‘Léon Zack’ in ink (lower right). Dimensions: Framed, glazed: 49 × 31.5 cm | 19.3 × 12.4 in Artwork: 41 × 24 cm | 16.1 × 9.4 in Provenance: Private Collection, Alicante, Spain. Condition: Pen and ink and grey wash on cream paper. The sheet is lightly toned with scattered small foxing spots in the margins; framed under glass, not examined out of the frame. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report. Conditions of Sale: All lots are sold as is, in the condition described. The condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. Attributions are governed by our Terms and Conditions. All enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. By placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our Terms and Conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. Shipping: Aurora & Athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. Buyers are equally welcome to collect in Barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. Lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. For shipments outside the EU an export licence may be required and Spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. No export tax applies within the EU. Full shipping and export information is available on request. -- A seated woman, bare to the waist with a cloth over her knees, raises one arm towards a ring of orbits and small planets drawn in the air above her head: an allegory of astronomy, or of the heavens, in the pen-and-wash manner of Zack’s figurative years. The pen line is quick and broken, the grey wash laid in around the figure in loose vertical strokes that leave her lit against the dark. The drawing is the pair of the preceding lot, in a matching frame, and belongs to the same period, the 1930s and 1940s, when Léon Zack (1892–1980) was working as an illustrator and a painter of religious and allegorical subjects in Paris, before he turned to the lyrical abstraction for which he is best known.