Two sculptures of LEON INDENBAUM 1890-1981.
1 - "Personnage" 36 inch - 93 cm (1935) sold by Artcurial Paris $ 44,500 (estimate $ 4,200)
2 - "Man standing, hands on hips" 20.9 inch - 53 cm (1936).
Léon Indenbaum, Russian sculptor naturalized French born in Belarus (Russian Empire), he arrived in Paris in 1911 at "La Ruche" in the neighboring workshop of to Marc Chagall.
He participates in the movement "Ecole de Paris" with his friends artists … Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Diego Rivera, Léonard Foujita, Pablo Picasso, Jacob Epstein, Henri Matisse, Antoine Bourdelle, Constantin Brancusi, Ossip Zadkine, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Joseph Csaky, Chana Orloff, Francois Pompon, Alexander Archipenko, Alfred Boucher, Rembrant Bugatti, Alfred Janniot, Joan Miro, Jean Cocteau, Charles Despiau ...
In 1968, Léon Indenbaum received the prestigious "Wildenstein" Award of "Institut de France".
Leon Indenbaum's sculptures can be found in several museums (France, USA, Israel, Switzerland, Belarus ...) as well as in prestigious private collections.
