The Zadkine Museum is located at 100 bis Assas Street, in the 6th district of the capital.
The establishment was created in the house, the workshop and the gardens where lived and worked the Russian-born sculptor Ossip Zadkine from 1928 to 1967, the year of his death. Born in 1890, the artist settled at Paris in 1910.
The museum was created and opened to the public according to its will in 1982. On the death of his widow Valentine Prax, she herself artist, in 1981, the building, the goods and collections had been bequeathed to the city of Paris.
The museum houses 400 sculptures and 500 works by Zadkine, made from his early youth to his cubist period (during the inter-war period). Some of the sculptures are installed in the garden.
One of the specificities of this museum located near the Luxembourg Gardens is to allow visitors who are poor or blind to "touch" the works, in accordance with the wishes of the artist himself.
In addition to the Zadkine sculptures, the museum, which was renovated in 2012, also hosts temporary exhibitions in the former studio.
Note that there is another museum Zadkine Arques, in the Lot, where the artist had a residence.
Open every day except Monday, January 1st, May 1st and December 25th from 10am to 6pm. Price: 5 and 7 euros. Information on +33 1 40 46 84 27.
