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Period: 1940s
Tête de faune, Picasso, 1940's, Multiples, Face, Ceramic, Design, Plate
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête de faune
Ed. 29/300 pcs
1948
White earthenware, partially polychromed and glazed
39 x 32 x 4.5 cm
Numbered and stamped on the back : Madoura Plein Feu, Edition Picasso, 29/300
P...
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Post-Modern 1940s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Early 1940s Abstract Pottery Vase #2 after George Ohr
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful rendition of a "Mad Potter of Biloxi George Ohr" style vase by Hamilton Achille Wolf (American, 1883 - 1967). Size: 6" H x 4" W.
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Large, Cast Bronze Doe
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Substantial, sensitively molded, graceful circa 1940, hand-cast, bronze sculpture of a doe.
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1940s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Carved Horse Head, " Bas-relief Mahogany Wall Sculpture by Marshall Shields
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carved Horse Head" is a bas relief sculpture hand-carved from mahogany by Marshall "Buster" Shields. In features two horses in profile, one behind the other, rearing back with their...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Sculptures
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Mahogany
Early Murano Glass Free Form Abstract Blown, Cut, Glass Sculpture in Bronze Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
This piece appears unsigned and unmarked. It came from an important estate in the Palm Beach area.
It is an abstract flame or torch in a bronze vase.
Venetian glass (Italian: vetro ...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modernist Face
By Itzhak Sankowsky
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ITZHAK SANKOWSKY
"MODERNIST FACE"
WOOD, SIGNED
ROMANIAN-AMERICAN, C.1940
24.5 INCHES
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Vintage American Modernist Abstract Mixed Media Sculpture Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist mixed media sculpture painting by Duayne Hatchett
(1925 - 2015) . Mixed media metal sculpture . Signed on verso.
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"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty, " Wood, Ivory, & Cowry Shells created c. 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty" is a sculpture by thr Senufo peoples of Gabon. It is wood, mixed fiber, textiles, and cowry shells.
14" x 8" x 3"
The...
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"Bobo Mask Burkina Fasso-Upper Volta, " Carved & Painted Wood created c. 1945
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bobo Mask Burkina Fasso-Upper Volta" is a wood carved sculpture with painted details. It features the image of an abstracted face with a large almost elepha...
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Tribal 1940s Abstract Sculptures
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Wood
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