Personal Life
Zadkine married, in 1920, Valentine Prax (1899—1991), an Algeria-born painter of Sicilian and French Catalan descent. They had no children.
The artist's only child, Nicolas Hasle (born 1960), was the result his affair with a Danish woman, Annelise Hasle. Since 2009, Hasle, a psychiatrist, who was acknowledged by the artist and had his parentage legally established in France in the 1980s, has been party to a lawsuit with the City of Paris to establish his claim to his father's estate.
Zadkine died in Paris in 1967 at the age of 77 after undergoing abdominal surgery and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse. His former home and studio is now the Musée Zadkine.
There is also a Musee Zadkine in the village of Les Arques in the Mid-Pyrenees region. Zadkine lived in Les Arques for a number of years, and while there, carved an enormous Christ on the Cross and Pieta that are featured in the 12th-century church which stands opposite the museum.
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