(Vítebsk, Imperio Russian Empire, 1888 – París, France, 1967)
His early training in England freed him from the anti-plasticism that characterises Slavic art. He pioneered the heroic phase of Cubism in sculpture. Like Picasso and Braque, he fervently adhered to this new aesthetic and could be said to be a champion of it, with a more human and expressive sense than his peers in this avant-garde of art. His work can be found in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Leuvehaven Malecon in Rotterdam, in the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, etc.
«We do not find in his latest work either preconceptions or mannered stylisations. Each sculpture is a creation. In each one there is a different solution appropriate to the representational intention and all of them surprise us because the modelling is radically different, with cuts, hollows, counter-curves, spheres, rhythms, and anxieties that embody different styles of spirit. And what is more brilliant and difficult: different versions of the plastic world.». (José Camón Aznar).