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                                             copié, faisait le désespoir de son professeur. Du reste, l'élève
                                             était aussi peu enchante du maitre que celui-ci de som disciple.
                                             Dégouaccent circumflex above uté de cet enseignement, Zadkine se decide à fuir; il arrive
                                             à Londres, demuni d'argent, n'ayant meaccent circumflex above eme pas obtenu l'autorisation
                                             paternelle pour ce transfert de domicile et d'activité.  Là, il
                                             déchante bien vite, car au lieu des études dans les écoles d'art
                                             qu'il désirait entreprendre, il est obligé, pour vivre, de tra-
                                             vailler dans les ateliers de sculpture.  Cette vie anecdotique
                                             dure onze mois, après quoi il retourne à Smolensk, avec de longs
                                             cheveux et un volume de Plutarque.
                                                       Chez lui, mangeant à sa faim, il peut, enfin, entreprendre
                                             ses premiers travaux.  Il parvient à convaincre de sa vocation
                                             un père généreux qui l'envoie de nouveau à Londres, mais pourvu
                                             cette fois d'une pension qui lui permet de faire véritablement
                                             de la sculpture.  Il travaille, en tant qu'élève anonyme, perdu
                                             parmi les autres, à l'Ecole polytechnique des Arts et Métiers,
                                             pendant un peu plus d'une année, à la fin de laquelle il retourne
                                             en Russie.

                                                     1909. La grande date de sa vie: Paris. Six mois à l'Ecole
                                              des Beaux-Arts.  Déccedilla under cu, furieux, il quitte ce cenacle où la laaccent circumflex above acheté
                                              des uns et la misère des autres lui apprennent à choisir sa car-
                                              rière.  C'est dans un pauvre petit atelier qu'en 1911 il commence
                                              à tailler ses bois, ses pierres.  Son envoi au Salaon des Indépen-
                                              dants coincide avec la première exposition posthume de Rousseau
                                              et les éclairs annonciateurs de l'orage post-impressionniste.
                                             Lors de la déclaration de guerre, il a connu ses premiers succès;
                                             nous le trouvons installé dans ce grand mais poussiéreux atelier

in pencil in English after each French line he had copied, was the despair of his teacher. But the

                                              pupil was as little taken with his master as
                                              the latter was with his pupil.  Disgusted with
                                              this teaching, Zadkine decided to leave; he
                                              arrived at London without money, without even having
                                              obtained permission from his Father.
                                              There he was quickly disillusioned for instead of studying
                                              at arts schools which he desired, he was obliged in order to
                                              live, to work in studios.  This life lasted eleven
                                              months, after which he returned to Smolensk, with
                                             long hair and a volume of Plutarch.
                                                 At home, having satisfied his hunger, he
                                            could again take up his work. He succeeded in convincingstroked out
                                            his generous fatherstroked out winning his generous father over to his
                                            life-work, and he sent him again to London but this time
                                            with a pension which permitted him to take up sculpture
                                            seriously.  He worked, an anonymous pupil among the
                                            others, at the Polytechnic School for Arts and Sciences,
                                            more than a year, when he returned to Russia.

                                                      1909: the great date of his life: Paris, six
                                            months at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Deceived, furious, he left
                                            the cinnacleunderlined where the cowardice of some and the misery of
                                            the others taught him to choose his career.  It was in a
                                            a little studio that in 1911 he commenced to hew his woods.
                                            his stones. His entrance into the Salon des Independents
                                            coincided with the first posthumous exhibition of Rousseau
                                           and the clear exponents of the post-impressionist tempest.
                                           At the time of the declaration of war, he received
                                           his first success; we find him established in a large but dusty studio