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Period: Mid-20th Century
Yves Klein Small IKB Venus Brooch Sculpture Jewel in International Klein Blue
By Yves Klein
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Klein, Small IKB Venus Brooch
Bronze multiple, painted with International Klein Blue (IKB).
From a model created in 1956.
Edition of 500 copies + 100...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Young woman seated with drapery
Located in PARIS, FR
Young woman seated with drapery
by Pierre-Marie POISSON (1876-1953)
Bronze sculpture with nuanced green patina
signed on the base "P. Poisson"
old cast
France
circa 1935-40
height...
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French School Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Comedy
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre-Marie POISSON (1876-1953)
The Comedy
Bronze sculpture with black patina
signed on the base "P. Poisson"
Cast by Valsuani (with the foundry stamp)
Raised on a stone base
Fra...
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French School Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kneeling Nude
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sculptor, engraver and medallist. Serge Zelikson received his secondary artistic education in his native country. In 1914 he arrived in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Maternitè allongee (petite)
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
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Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Egee debout h cm 50
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
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Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Egèe assise h cm 140
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Vestale debout d'après Volti
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 1 copy ( 1/1 )
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: b...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Maternité Allongée cm 90
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Femme Fleur
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 12 copies ( 8 + 4 P.A)
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculp...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Femme chiffonnée monumentale
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Petite Femme Chiffonnèe
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
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Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Egee assise h cm 70
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Monumental Italian Rationalist Marble Sculptures of Hercules and Discobolo
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athlete of Discobolo and the Hercules figure with a lion pelt, on a cylindrical base . Exaltation of the male...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Female torso
Located in Täby, SE
Gunnar Knut Nilsson, born 1904 in Karlskrona, died 1995 in Versailles in France, was a Swedish sculptor. Gunnar Nilsson studied watercolor painting and modeling at the Technical Vocational School in Karlskrona in 1918-19 and on his own in addition to working as a clerk at Finspångs Metallwerk. His debut exhibition was in Finspång in 1927. With the help of a local fundraiser, and after the encouragement of Carl Eldh, he traveled to Paris in 1928 to study sculpture for, among others, Charles Despiau and Paul Niclausse. In Paris he socialized with Bror Hjorth, whose former studio he also rented, Carl Frisendahl and Alberto Giacometti. He came to belong to "Le groupe des Neuf'' with Paul Cornet...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hombre Colorado II
By Manuel Neri
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Hombre Colorado II" is a papier-mâché sculpture made by Manuel Neri in 1958. The total dimensions of the piece are 65.5 x 27 x 10 inches.
This work is a good representation of the ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Papier Mâché
Dame Elisabeth Frink. Bronze Maquette for Man and Eagle in Relief.Numbered 1/7.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Dame Elisabeth Frink.
English ( b.1930 - d.1993 ).
Maquette for Man and Eagle.
Bronze with gold brown patina
Signed and numbered 1/7 lower left
Size 8.7 inches x 10.2 inches ( 22cm x 26cm ).
Depth 2.8 inches ( 7cm )
Weight 7.1lb ( 3.24KG)
Available for sale; this original bronze plaque with raised relief is by Dame Elisabeth Frink and was conceived and cast in 1967.
The maquette is presented and supplied unmounted. There is the option to hang the plaque from 2 rings applied to the rear when in previous ownership.
This vintage bronze plaque...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1961 Coty Award Plaque Kenneth Hairdresser Jacqueline Onassis Bronze Fashion
Located in New York, NY
1961 Coty Award Plaque Kenneth Hairdresser Jacqueline Onassis Bronze Fashion
Bronze on wood. The wood plaque measures 12 3/4" by 20 3/4 inches. The bronze plaque itself is 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches and the the bronze inscription, which reads "COTY, American Fashion Critics Special Award 1961 to KENNETH of LILY DACHE...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Female Nude Sculpture Modernist, WPA, New York Chelsea Hotel Artist
By Eugenie Gershoy
Located in Surfside, FL
Eugenie Gershoy (January 1, 1901 – May 8, 1986) was an American sculptor and watercolorist. Eugenie Gershoy was born in Krivoy Rog, Russia (Krivoi Rog, Ukraine) and emigrated to New York City in the United States as a child in 1903. Considered somewhat of a child prodigy, Gershoy was copying Old Master drawings at the age of 5. Her interest and talent in art was encouraged from a very young age. Aided by scholarships, she studied at the Art Students League under Alexander Stirling Calder, Leo Lentelli, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Boardman Robinson. Around this time, she created a group of portrait figurines of her fellow artists, including Arnold Blanch, Lucile Blanch, Raphael Soyer, William Zorach, Concetta Scaravaglione, and Emil Ganso, which were exhibited as a group at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At age 17, she was awarded the Saint-Gaudens Medal for fine draughtsmanship. Early in her career she became an active member of the Woodstock art colony. In Woodstock she experimented by sculpting in the profusion of indigenous materials that she found. Working with fieldstone, oak and chestnut, Gershoy created works based on classic formulae. As she became more interested in the dynamism of everyday life, she found that these materials and her idiom were too restrictive. By the time Gershoy came to Woodstock in 1921 her own individual artistic style was already evident in her sculptures. Eugenie Gershoy worked in stone, bronze, terracotta, plaster and papier-mache. Gershoy’s sculptures were mainly figurative in nature and many of her artist peers such as Carl Walters, Raphael and Moses Soyer, William Zorach and Lucille Blanch, became her subjects. Eugenie Gershoy’s works on paper should not be overlooked. She was the winner of the Gaudens Medal for Fine Draughtsmanship at the tender age of 17. Gershoy married Jewish Romanian-born artist Harry Gottlieb. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the pair kept a studio in Woodstock, New York. There, Gershoy was influenced by sculptor John Flanagan, who lived and worked nearby.
From 1936 to 1939, Gershoy worked for the WPA Federal Art Project. She collaborated with Max Spivak on murals for the children's recreation room of the Queens Borough Public Library in Astoria, New York. She developed a mixture of wheat paste, plaster, and egg tempera, which she used in polychrome papier-mâché sculptures; she was the only New York sculptor to work in polychrome at this time. She also designed cement and mosaic sculptures of animals and figures to be placed in New York City playgrounds. Alongside others employed by the FAP, she participated in a sit-down strike in Washington, DC, to advocate for better pay and improved working conditions for the projects' artists.
Gershoy's first solo exhibition was held at the Robinson Gallery in New York in 1940. She moved to San Francisco in 1942, and began teaching ceramics at the California School of Fine Arts in 1946. In 1950, she studied at the artists' colony at Yaddo.
Gershoy traveled extensively throughout her life. She visited England and France in the early 1930s, and worked in Paris in 1951. She traveled to Mexico and Guatemala in the late 1940s, and also toured Africa, India, and the Orient in 1955.
In 1977, Gershoy dedicated a sculpture to Audrey McMahon, who was actively involved in the creation of the Federal Art Project and served as its regional director in New York, in recognition of the work McMahon provided struggling artists in the 1930s.
Gershoy's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her papers are held at Syracuse University Grant Arnold introduced her to lithography in 1930 and Gershoy depicted many scenes of Woodstock artists and their daily activities through this medium. From 1942 to 1966 Gershoy lived and painted in San Francisco where she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. She traveled extensively, filling sketchbooks with scenes of Mexico, France, Spain, Africa and India. During her later years Eugenie Gershoy returned to New York City and concentrated on numerous well received exhibitions. Her last exhibition in at Sid Deutsch Gallery included many of the sculptures that were later exhibited in the Fletcher Gallery.
John Russell, former chief critic of fine arts for the New York Times, writes about the 1986 Sid Deutsch exhibition:
“As Eugenie Gershoy won the Saint-Gaudens Medal for fine draftsmanship as long ago as 1914 and since 1967 has had 15 papier-mache portrait figures suspended from the ceiling of the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea, she must be ranked as a veteran of the New York scene. Her present exhibition includes not only the high-spirited papier-mache sculptures for which she is best known but a group of small portraits of artists, mostly dating from the 30’s, that is strongly evocative.”
Eugenie Gershoy is an artist to take note of for several reasons. She was a woman who received great awards and recognition during a time when most female artists were struggling to hold their own against their male counterparts. As a young girl she won a scholarship to the Arts Student League where she met Hannah Small...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Metamorphosis abstract nude 1960s sculpture by John Robert Murray McCheyne
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Symbiosis" Original Plaster Cast Sculpture by Natalie Krol
Located in Pasadena, CA
This sculpture by Natalie Krol is made of plaster with a beautiful bronze color finish. It is the cast for the bronze.
It shows a nude, pregnant woman resting. The expression on her ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Nude Walking, Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture, Cleveland School Artist
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945)
Nude Walking, 1930
Bronze
Signed and dated on base
17 x 9 x 4 inches
Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Rudder, Terracotta, 1930s
By Ugo Cipriani
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
French Art Deco terracotta sculpture by Ugo Cipriani (1887-1960), France, 1930s. A man operating a rudder. Measurements : Width : 31"(79cm), Height : 16.7"(42.5cm), Depth : 8.7"(22cm...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Lovers Embrace, Resin Sculpture reproduction after Rodin by Austin Productions
By Austin Productions
Located in Long Island City, NY
Two nude figures hold each other in a tender embrace, their eyes closed and hair spilling over their shoulders and across their backs. Although rendered in resin, a patina was added to recreate the effect of bronze. This piece is similar to a work by Auguste Rodin, often called "The Kiss" or "The Embrace". The production studio's signature is inscribed in the base.
Lovers Embrace...
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Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Monumental Marble Italian Rationalist Figurative Nude Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athlete of Discobolo and the Hercules figure with a lion pelt, on a cylindrical ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Diana the Huntress, French Art Deco Artemis Bronze Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a stunning French Art Deco bronze sculpture figurine. The statue features a stylized freestyle interpretation of Artemis or Diana the Huntress (Diane Chasseresse). The nude f...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Statue Songye, Kneeling Male Figure, Democratic Republic of Congo
Located in Cotignac, FR
A Songye Male Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the male figure resting on one knee, with openwork arms and hands resting by the abdomen which contains various charms a...
Category
Tribal Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Nude Male Acephale Sang de Boeuf Ceramic Sculpture with Marble Base.
By Franta (Frantisek Merte)
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century ceramic figure of a man in Sang de Boeuf, oxblood red, glaze presented on a metal 'tige' and marble base.
The sculpture is not signed but was purchased from ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Vincent Glinsky Alabaster Reclining Nude Sculpture c.1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vincent Glinsky Alabaster Reclining Nude Sculpture c.1950
9" long x 4.5" deep x 7.5" high
Signed at the base
Good vintage condition
Vincent Glins...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Lovers
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract marble sculpture of two lovers, unsigned, in the manner of Lithuanian American artist William Zorach (1887-1966). Zorach was born in Eurberg, Lithuania, was brought t...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Mercury" NYC 1931 Bronze 5th Ave Traffic Light Sculpture American Art Deco WPA
Located in New York, NY
"Mercury" NYC 1931 Bronze 5th Ave Traffic Light Sculpture American Art Deco WPA
In the late 1920s, Joseph Freedlander was asked by the City of New York ...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Three Dancers
Located in Santa Fe, NM
"A beautiful work, full of Hebald's lyrical expression."
To my knowledge, as the representative for the life works of Milton Hebald, (and through extensive research over the past 20...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Replica of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Kneeling Woman
Located in Troy, NY
This sculpture is a small replica of Wilhelm Lehmbuck's Kneeling Woman. The original sculpture is much larger at around 69.5 x 56 x 27", currently at th...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Plaster
TORSO OF YOUNG BRONZE MAN
Located in Nice, FR
Bust of a young man with green bronze patina.
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Apollo
Located in PARIS, FR
"Apollo" by Henri Bouchard (1875-1960)
An Art Deco period masterpiece!
Exceptional bronze sculpture with a golden-brown patina
Signed " H. Bouchard "
Unique piece
This work personifies Apollo, god of the Arts. Represented here as Apollo Musagète, leader of the procession of muses and winner of the serpent Python.
This subject was commissioned to adorn the entrance to the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and whose monumental bronze is still exhibited there.
To participate in the Venice Biennale in 1938, Henri Bouchard had reduced in 1937 the large Apollo of the Palais de Chaillot, which had not yet been installed.
Vintage cast by Bisceglia (cast founder stamp) made during the artist's lifetime.
Incised dedication below signature : " à mon cher ami E. Sandoz "
This is a unique cast made for the sculptor Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881-1971).
This cast was exhibited at the 1938 Venice Biennale.
France
1937
height : 82 cm
width : 45 cm
depth : 30 cm
weight : 31,2 kgs
Stickers under the bronze cast :
- Sticker mentioning that this cast has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 1938 under the number 354 ("Biennale Internaz. d'Arte Venezia – 1938 – XVI – 354").
- Sticker mentioning that this cast went through Italian customs ("ne – merci – dogana italiana – visitate - 9622")
- Damaged Sticker mentioning the name ("A…") and the address ("25…") of the owner of the cast (maybe for the workshop "Atelier Henri Bouchard", 25 rue d’Yvettes, 75016 Paris).
Provenance :
- Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Paris, according to the dedication.
- Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein (entrepreneur and founder of Sire Records, famous American record label ; and avid collector of 19th and 20th century fine art...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Raul Valdivieso Latin American Erotic Ceramic Sculpture, 1960s
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind ceramic sculpture by Latin American sculptor Raúl Valdivieso (Chilean, 1931-1993). Valdivieso is known for his reinterpretation of classic organic forms and human figures. Sculpture retains the original wood and black laminate base with metal cage. Ceramic is in good original condition. Laminate is in poor condition with a few chips.
Raúl Valdiveso was born September 9, 1931 in Santiago, Chile. In 1952 he began his studies at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile. There he took to sculpture and studied under professors like Marta Colvin...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Femme Echevelée, Picasso, Multiples, Edition, Ceramic, Women, 1960's, Nude
Located in Geneva, CH
Femme Echevelée, Picasso, Multiples, Edition, Ceramic, Women, 1960's, Nude
Ed. 68/100 pcs
1963
White earthenware, decoration with engobes under partial glaze with a brush
D.27 cm
St...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Industrial Machine Age American Scene WPA Mid 20th Century 1939 SF World's Fair
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Machine Age American Scene WPA Mid 20th Century 1939 SF World's Fair
HAIG PATIGIAN (American/Armenian, 1876-1950)
Aeronautics Pediments
Two Plaster Casts, c. 1930s
each 13.25 x 14.75 x 6 inches
It's possible these moquettes were created for the 1939 World's Fair, the Golden Gate International Exhibition in San Francisco.
Provenance: Private Collection of Lois M. Wright, Author of "A Catalogue of the Life Works of Haig Patigian, San Francisco Sculptor, 1876-1950),” 1967
Loan to Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, CA)
BIO
Haig Patigian is noted for his classical works, which are especially numerous in public venues in San Francisco, California. Patigian was born in Van, Armenia, which at that time was under Turkish rule. Haig was the son of Avedis and Marine Patigian, both teachers in the American Mission School there. He and his older brother showed an aptitude for art early on and were encouraged by their parents. Their father himself had taken up the new hobby of photography. The 1880s were harsh times, however, for many Armenians under an oppressive rule by the Turkish government. Many people were fleeing to the safety of the United States. Suspicious Turkish authorities accused his father of photographing city structures for the Russian government, and in 1888 he fled for his life to America.
Haigs father made his way to Fresno, California, and began life anew as a ranch hand. Within two years he sent for his wife, as well as Haig, his three sisters and brother, and in 1891 the Patigians made the journey from Armenia. Haigs father, an industrious man, worked on various farms, and eventually bought his own ranch and vineyard. It was among fertile farmland of Fresno that Haig grew up.
Young Haigs education consisted of teachings by his parents and by intermittent attendance in public schools. Although he had dreams of becoming an artist, he did not have the opportunity for formal study of art, and began working long days in the vineyards around Fresno.
At age seventeen, Haig made a step towards his dreams and apprenticed himself to learn the trade of sign painting. In his spare time he nurtured his interest in art by painting nature and life scenes with watercolors and oil paints. When his sign-painting mentor left Fresno, Haig opened his own shop and made a name for himself in the town. San Francisco, in the meantime, had been attracting artists since the Gold Rush and had become a thriving art center. Within a few years, Haig had put aside several hundred dollars to move to San Francisco, joining his brother who was already working there as an illustrator.
In 1899, when he was twenty-three, Haig had saved enough money to enroll at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco. Like many aspiring artists of his time, Patigian supported himself by working as a staff artist in the art department of a local newspaper, and in the winter of 1900, nearing his 24th birthday, Haig began work for the San Francisco Bulletin, producing cartoons, black and white illustrations, as well as watercolors.
In 1902 tragedy struck Haig and his family. His 29-year-old brother died of pneumonia, and then his frail mother died a short time later. Five months more saw his youngest sister, just out of high school, die too. Saddened and depressed, Haig moved out of the studio he had shared with his brother, and into a dilapidated studio in a poor section of town. During this time of sadness, Haig fed a growing interest in sculpture.
In 1904 Haig created what he later called his "first finished piece in sculpture". The work, called "The Unquiet Soul", depicted a man thrown back against a rock while waves lash at his feet. The body was tense and twisted, with one hand, in Haig's own words, "searchingly leaning and clutching the rock, while the other masks his troubled head".
The Press Club of San Francisco, which Haig had joined in 1901, put "The Unquiet Soul" on exhibition and local headlines proclaimed "Local Newspaper Artist Embraces Sculptor's Art", and "First Work Predicts Brilliant Future". With the support of friends and community acclaim, the young illustrator left his newspaper job and became a professional sculptor.
The path of his new career was not easy though. Haig had never made much money working for the newspaper and his father needed help with growing debt from funeral expenses and business problems. From time to time Haig sold some artwork, but also occasionally borrowed from friends to pay the rent. He was the classic 'starving artist'.
In the spring of 1905 a white-bearded 81-year-old stranger knocked on Haig's door. It was George Zehndner, from Arcata, California. Zehndner had been born in Bavaria, Germany in 1824, the son of a farmer. In 1849 he had come to America looking for prosperity, settling in Indiana, where he worked on a farm and learned English. He found his way to the West Coast in 1852. Penniless, he worked in various jobs from San Francisco to Sacramento, then found some luck working in the gold fields of Weaverville in Trinity County, and eventually moving to a farm on 188 acres near Arcata. In his 77th year in May of 1901, Zahndner had taken a trip to San Jose, where he stood in a crowd to see a man he thought much of, President William McKinley. McKinley was popular as 'the first modern president' partially because he realized going out to meet the common person increased his support. In September of that year, however, an anarchist assassinated the president while he stood in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York. Soon after, the city of San Jose erected a statue of the slain president in St. James Park. Zehndner took a second trip to San Jose where he visited the McKinley monument. Touched, Zehndner decided that, no matter the cost, his town of Arcata too would memorialize McKinley.
George Zehndner had read about Haig in a newspaper article and asked if Patigian would create a heroic statue of the late President McKinley for Arcata. When asked how much it would cost, Haig responded, despite his borderline poverty, with the fabulous sum of $15,000. Zehndner agreed. The President was to be portrayed standing, wearing an overcoat, with his feet planted squarely on the ground. In the finished statue, one hand is held out before him in a typical posture of speaking, with the other hand holding the speech as his side. The 9-foot statue...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Monumental Italian Rationalist Marble Sculptures of Hercules and Discobolo
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athlete of Discobolo and the Hercules figure with a lion pelt, on a cylindrical base...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Colonial West African Baule Baoule Figure Sculpture Woman wearing loincloth
Located in Norwich, GB
An elegant African sculpture from the West African Baoulé or Baule people, depicting a young woman wearing a loincloth. Smooth black lightly worn patina.
Category
Tribal Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Lovers Bronze Sculpture With Two Figures
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Lovers Bronze Sculpture With Two Figures
Modern Bronze sculpture on wooden base, signed, number 2/3
Sculptor Armando Amaya was born in Mexico City in 1935, He studied at the National...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Signed Bruno Innocenti Female Nude Sculpture Relief 20 century plaster wood
Located in Florence, IT
The bass-relief is made of plaster painted with the warm color tone of the earth in order to represent terracotta. The subject is a juvenile girl, as we can see by the tenderness and...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Plaster, Wood Panel
Quinto Martini Female Nude Sculpture 20 century terracotta signed.
Located in Florence, IT
This small terracotta statue portrays a lady laying on a very sensual and athletic position. Is signed on the base Quinto M. Even if it's not dated, we can premusably suggest a perio...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
LA FEMME ET LE CENTAURE
By Baltasar Lobo
Located in Aventura, FL
Cast in bronze in 1968 in an edition of 8. Wood base. Incised 'Lobo' with edition and foundry. From the edition of 8. Sculpture size not including base 5.25 x 6.25 x 4 inches.
Artw...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Reclining Boy
Located in Boston, MA
Initialed and dated: "DVT 61". From the estate of the artist. In fine condition.
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Animal Bronze: Lying eagle by Alberic Collin (close friend of Rembrandt Bugatti)
Located in Gent, VOV
Numbered 1/8
Cast Fonderie Rocher
A fine cast with a vivid green patina of a bird of prey
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roaring Lionness
Located in Gent, VOV
A fine quality, twentieth-century bronze model of a roaring lioness by Alberic Collin (Belgian 1886-1962). Prior to casting by the Valsuani foundry it w...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Animal Bronze Ewe and Ram by Alberic Collin (close friend of Rembrandt Bugatti)
Located in Gent, VOV
A fine quality, twentieth-century bronze model of a ram and a ewe by Alberic Collin (Belgian 1886-1962). Cast by the Rocher Paris foundry signed, inscri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Monumental Marble Italian Rationalist Figurative Nude Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athlete of Discobolo and the Hercules figure with a lion pelt, on a cylindrical base...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Harmony, 20th century bronze & green marble base, nude man and woman with lyre
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945)
Harmony, c. 1930
Bronze with green marble base
Incised signature on right upper side of base
14 x 9 x 5 inches, excluding base
17 x 10 x 8 inches, including base
Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894, his family settling in Ohio. A talented youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen. Kalish went to New York City following graduation, studying with Isidore Konti...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Leda and the Swan modernist mid century sculpture by French woman artist
Located in Norwich, GB
A unique piece: a hand modelled sculpture by French artist Jeannine Nathan (b.1924). Working in Paris, Jeannine was able to visit Picasso’s studio, and was impressed by the
Master’s ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Large Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Circus Acrobats WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991)
Patinated cast bronze sculpture,
Three Acrobats,
signed
mounted on black marble plinth
24.5"h x 14"w x 7"d (bronze alone)
Chaim Gross (March 17, 1904 – May 5, 1991) was an American modernist sculptor and educator.
Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mezhgorye, Ukraine), in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia (which was annexed into the Ukrainian USSR in 1939 and became part of newly independent Ukraine in 1991). When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest to join their older siblings Sarah and Pinkas. Gross applied to and was accepted by the art academy in Budapest and studied under the painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Austria shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1921. Gross's studies continued in the United States at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League of New York, with Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky, at the same time as Moses Soyer and Peter Blume.
In 1926 Gross began teaching at The Educational Alliance, and continued teaching there for the next 50 years. Louise Nevelson was among his students at the Alliance (in 1934), during the time she was transitioning from painting to sculpture. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1929, Gross experimented with printmaking, and created an important group of 15 linocuts and lithographs of landscapes, New York City streets and parks, women in interiors, the circus, and vaudeville. The entire suite is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gross returned to the medium of printmaking in the 1960s, and produced approximately 200 works in the medium over the next two decades. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes, Judaica, balancing acrobats, cyclists, trapeze artists and mothers and children convey joyfulness, modernism, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Jewish Hasidic heritage, which teaches that only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God.
In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others.
Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick.
In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel.
In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953.
In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work.
Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the MoMA art school, the Art Student's League and the New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with Alexander Dobkin...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Monumental Marble Italian Rationalist Figurative Nude Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athlete of Discobolo and the Hercules figure with a lion pelt, on a cylindrical base...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
2 Sculptures: "The Power" & "The Glory" WPA Depression WWII era mid 20th century
Located in New York, NY
2 Sculptures: "The Power" & "The Glory" WPA Depression WWII era mid 20th century by Agnes Yarnall circa 1940s.
Sculptor, painter, poet and artistic historian, Agnes Yarnall has, since the age of six been breathing life into her art.
Renowned as a sculptor, whose commissioned portrayals of contemporary celebrities are prized. She has sculpted Judith Anderson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Mid Century Nude Male Acephale Sculpture in Bronze
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century bronze figure of a man presented on an iron 'tige' and marble base.
The sculpture is not signed but was purchased from Nice, France, in the 1970s as a work b...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Iron
Fredda Brilliant, 'The Young Atlas' bronze sculpture
Located in London, GB
Fredda Brilliant (1903-1999)
'The Young Atlas'
Bronze
52.5 x 41.5 x 27.5; 16kg
Fredda Brilliant was a Polish sculptor and actress, born in Łódź, Pola...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze , French Nude Girl Dancer Danseuse
By Francois Emile Popineau
Located in Miami, FL
Feminine Nude Bronze with black patina Signed on Base 31 inches Paris Listed in Major Art books Iconic pose of both arms pressed close to the body with ...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kneeling Nude
By Bernard Simon
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Primarily a figure sculptor in marble and wood, he was born in Russia. In New York City, he studied at the Educational Alliance and Art Workshop and was active in numerous art associ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Stone
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