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==Personal life== In August 1920, Zadkine married [[Valentine Prax]] (1897–1981), an Algerian-born painter of Sicilian and [[Northern Catalonia|French-Catalan]] descent.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Birnbaum|first=Paula J.|title=Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities|publisher=Routledge|year=2017|isbn=9781351536714|pages=130}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Wolpert|first1=Martin|title=Modern Figurative Paintings: The Paris Connection|last2=Winter|first2=Jeffrey|publisher=Schiffer Publishing|year=2004|isbn=9780764319624}}</ref> Prax and Zadkine had no children.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Prax |first1=Valentine Henriette|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford Art Online|year = 2011|doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00145672}}</ref> Zadkine was a neighbor in [[Montparnasse]] and a friend of [[Henry Miller]] and was represented by the character "Borowski" in Miller's novel, [[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|''Tropic of Cancer'']] (1934).<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Musée Zadkine|url=http://www.millerwalks.com/content/musee-zadkine|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053830/http://www.millerwalks.com/content/musee-zadkine|archive-date=4 March 2016|work=Walking Paris with Henry Miller}}</ref><ref>Frederick Turner: ''Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer"'', Yale University Press, 2012.</ref> His other neighbors there included [[Chaïm Soutine]], and [[Tsuguharu Foujita]].<ref name=":1" /> While living in Manhattan during wartime from 1942 to 1945, Zadkine had a relationship with American artist [[Carol Janeway]]<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Jenssen|first1=Victoria|title=The Art of Carol Janeway: A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan|publisher=Friesen Press|year=2022|isbn=9781039130869}}</ref> and created several portraits of her.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/334106.html?mulR=935772124%7C2|title=Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Carol Janeway with Zadkine Sculpture|last=Art|first=Philadelphia Museum of|website=philamuseum.org|access-date=13 April 2017}}</ref> The artist's only child, Nicolas Hasle (born 1960), was born after an affair with a Danish woman, Annelise Hasle.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=31 March 2011|title=Paris Must Justify Right To Sculptor Ossip Zadkine's Estate|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/paris-must-justify-right-to-sculptor-ossip-zadkine-s-estate-27892|access-date=12 June 2020|website=Artforum.com|language=en-US}}</ref> Since 2009, Hasle, a psychiatrist, who had been 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.<ref name="estate">{{cite web|title=The Art Newspaper|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Paris-must-justify-its-right-to-Zadkine-s-estate/23413|work=theartnewspaper.com}}</ref><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=3 April 2011|title=Ossip Zadkine: Who Owns the Sculptor's Estate?|url=https://itsartlaw.org/2011/04/03/ossip-zadkine-who-owns-the-sculptors-estate/|access-date=12 June 2020|website=Center for Art Law|language=en-US}}</ref>
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