Skippings Fine Arts has dated this Terracotta Bull Sculpture to the 1940s.
Joseph Constant was born in 1892 in Jaffa (then Palestine) as Joseph Constantinovsky. He grew up in Odessa.
As a teenager, he helped his father during the revolutionary movements of 1905. In 1914, he entered the Odessa Academy of Fine Arts. In 1919, his father and brother were killed in a pogrom. That same year, Joseph Constant and his wife decided to leave Russia for Palestine. After only a short time in Tel Aviv, where he founded an art group with Yitzhak Frenkel, Constant traveled to Egypt , Turkey , and Romania , before settling in Paris in 1923 .
There, he frequented the artistic circles of Montparnasse , which he described in his book "La Cité des peintres" . Under the pseudonym "Michel Matveev", Constant began to write, directly in French . His first book, published in 1928, was about the 1905 revolution. As a sculptor and painter, He exhibited in 1928 at the Salon d'Automne as well as at the Salon des Indépendants.
After World War II , he became increasingly recognized as a sculptor in France and abroad. He specialised in animalier subjects, and the Bull presented here is very representative of his work. Works by the artist are in the Museum of the Art and History of Judaism in Paris and the Museum of the 1930s in Boulogne Billancourt. His studio in Ramat Gan, where he spent much of his time in the 1950s and 60s, became a museum after his death.
Our Bull, hand modelled in plaster, is signed to the back of the animal.
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this Terracotta Bull Sculpture to the 1940s.
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Taurus, the Bull, Ca 1946: Hand Modelled Animalier Sculpture by French Russian Joseph Constant B 1892
