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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