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Period: 20th Century
Abstract Sculpture by Edmondo Cirillo Stele
Located in Brescia, IT
This engagind artwork was create in 1980 by the Italian artist Edmondo Cirillo. It was forged in bronze and then nickel plated. The title of this piece is "Stele". Translate in "Stel...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Simbiosi
Located in Brescia, IT
Urano Palma is an Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana.
He specially worked to the sculptured furniture, inventing a casting tec...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Brutalist Mexican Sculpture Pendant Necklace Signed Bronze Pal Kepenyes
By Pal Kepenyes
Located in Surfside, FL
Chain measures 19.5 inches in length
Pendant measures 2.4 X 1.5 X .5 inches
Pal Kepenyes is a sculptor and researcher of Hungarian art, whose artistic production includes sculptures of small and medium format, jewelry and miniature decorative pieces, all made by hand, without any machinery.
Wearable art. Sculptural pendant on matching chain cast in polished bronze or brass. Reminiscent of Harry Bertoia. Organic Modernism. Mod, space age, handmade artisan, studio jewelry.
Pal Kepenyes, wearable art pioneer. sculptor, goldsmith, jeweler, artist, was born in 1926 in Hungary. His creative talent, specifically in creating sculpted works, was evident early on. He moved to Budapest, where he first studied at the University of Arts and Crafts and later at the Academy of Fine Arts. His professor, Beni Ferenczy was one of Hungary's most influential sculptors. Pal Kepenyes (20/21st century) is active/lives in Hungary, Mexico. Pal Kepenyes is known for sculpture, jewelry making, miniature decorative pieces especially influenced by Mexican folk art and folklore. His work also includes animals, lions, tigers, fish, nude figures and milagros.
He began his studies at the School of Decorative Arts in Budapest, and then was a prisoner of war during the Stalinist regime. In 1956, at the end of the Hungarian Revolution, he finally was released and left the country for Paris, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts.
In 1956, he also traveled to Mexico, a country to which he has been devoted for the rest of his life because of his attraction pre-hispanic cultures. Along with Pedro Friedeberg, Arnold Coen, Vladimir Cora, Byron Galvez, Mathias Goeritz, Leonardo Nierman, Gabriel Orozco...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Walter Valentini Big Tracks Tracce
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hommage à Nadar
By Arman
Located in New York, NY
Arman
Hommage à Nadar, 1986
Bronze with black patina, sliced movie camera
22 x 9 x 12.63 inches
AP from edition of 75
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Handmade Paper Collage Sculpture Art Assemblage with String Nancy Genn Modernist
By Nancy Genn
Located in Surfside, FL
Nancy Genn, American (b. 1929)
Marshfield 25 (1977)
Handmade paper collage
Hand signed verso
Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 22 inches
Utilizing what is now known as the 'Genn Method,' Nancy Genn created three-dimensional abstract works of handmade paper, gaining international recognition in the 1970s
Nancy Genn is an American artist living and working in Berkeley, California known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition. Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions.
Nancy Genn was born in 1929 in San Francisco, California. She recognized early that she would pursue a career as an artist. Her mother, Ruth Wetmore Thompson Whitehouse, was a painter and UC Berkeley alumna who played a leadership role in the San Francisco Women Artists organization. Genn studied at San Francisco Art Institute (then California School of Fine Arts) with painter Hassel Smith, and at the Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley (1948–49) with Professors Margaret Peterson and John Haley, and fellow students Sam Francis and Sonya Rapoport. In 1949 she married Vernon “Tom” Genn, an engineer raised in Japan, with whom she had three children.
Career
Genn's first noted solo exhibition was in 1955 at Gump's Gallery in San Francisco. She received international recognition through her inclusion in French art critic Michel Tapié’s seminal text Morphologie Autre (1960), which cited her as one of the most important exponents of post-war informal art.
In 1961, Genn began creating bronze sculptures using the lost-wax casting method. Influenced by noted sculptor and family friend Claire Falkenstein, who used open-formed structures in her work, Genn cast forms woven from long grape vine cuttings, and produced vessels, fountains, fire screens, a menorah, a lectern, and, notably, the Cowell Fountain (1966) at UC Santa Cruz. In 1963 her sculptural work was exhibited with Berkeley artists Peter Voulkos and Harold Paris in the influential exhibition Creative Casting curated by Paul J. Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York.
Genn was one of the first American artists to express herself through handmade paper, first receiving wide recognition via exhibitions at Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, beginning in 1977, and in traveling exhibitions with Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. In 1978-1979, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, she studied papermaking in Japan, visiting local paper craftspeople, working in Shikenjo studio in Saitama Prefecture, and exhibiting her work in Tokyo. She also learned techniques from Donald Farnsworth...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Girl Tribute To Picasso Murano Glass Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Girl Omaggio a Picasso (Tribute to Picasso) Murano glass sculpture 15.5" H x 12" W x 5" D
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Signed, tit...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Paintbrushes II, Accumulation Sculpture by Arman
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005)
Title: Paintbrushes II
Year: 1991
Medium: Paintbrushes and Oil Paint in Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed
Edition: 20...
Category
Dada 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
Aubrey Penny Original Collage "Mind-Line" Sussex Series, Signed and Dated
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aubrey Penny Original Collage "Mind-Line" Sussex Series 10-5557, Signed and dated 1980
Size: 19" x 24"
Aubrey Penny (American 1917-2000) was an innovative California abstract artis...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Archival Paper
Textured Scandinavian Ruda Glasbruk mid-century brown glass candlesticks
Located in East Quogue, NY
Pair of Ruda Glasbruk brown brutalist textured candlesticks designed by Göte Augustsson c.1960s Sweden. Pristine vintage condition.
Mid-century modern, ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
The Sun
Located in LELYSTAD, NL
"The Sun" is a Modern Art and contemporary sculpture.
"The Sun" is a unique and one of a kind, since there are no other copies available besides this original....
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
American Modern Abstract Bronze Sculpture on Granite Stand, Edward Chavez
Located in Denver, CO
Abstract bronze sculpture mounted on granite base by Edward (Eduardo) Arcenio Chavez (1917-1995). Measures 7 ½ x 6 x 2 inches, including stand.
Sculpture is in very good to excellent condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report.
About the Artist:
Born 1917
Died 1995
Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Original Card Construction by Eduardo Paolozzi
Located in London, GB
Original Card Construction sculpture made by Eduardo Paolozzi and acquired directly from the artist's studio in 2006. (With supporting provenanc...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic Polymer
Untitled XIII : abstract steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Abstract steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working in large scale with steel in the ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Abstract Expressionist Bronze Sculpture Signed by Joan Strauss Carl
Located in Pasadena, CA
The artwork is a patinated bronze on a marble base. It features a dancing couple. The bronze itself is 10"25 H. It is signed in the cast: S. Carl
Overall excellent condition with minor scuffs and oxidation to bronze commensurate with age.
Joan Strauss Carl...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid Century C. Jere Wall Sculpture
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mid Century C. Jere brass over door or wall art with a chic pleaded design reminiscent of a sunrise with Art Deco influences. Signed C. Jere 1984.
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Grand Kabuki Stainless Steel Abstract Brutalist Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Alfred Van Loen 1978 (1968 in casting?) signed 18 1/2" x 5 1/2" abstract stainless steel sculpture "Grand Kabucki", mounted on wood base, overall size 21 1/2" x 7"
If there are any ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
F. Soriano Women "HERA" original iron sculpture 1995
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
steel sculpture by the Spanish artist Ferran SORIANO.
Ferran Soriano - Sculptor (Barcelona, 1944)
Ferran Soriano has been exhibiting his works of art since 1970 around the world (in...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Iron
Wuthering Heights Contemporary Abstract Hand Made Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Montreal, QC
This piece is mage of terracotta and glazed in cone 5.
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Glaze
Geometrical Clouds. White Cloud
Located in Henderson, NV
Clifford Singer's Geometrical Clouds Series has evolved since 1974.
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Acrylic
Geometrical Clouds (Black Cloud)
Located in Henderson, NV
Black Cloud is hand cut polystyrene with acrylic by Clifford Singer.
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Contemporary Metal Assemblage Racing Motorcycle Sculpture
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
The sculpture is attributed to Swedish artist Bob Pasterkamp (1952-) who has created similar pieces during the 1990s and early 2000s.
An inspirational contemporary sculpture is composed of various metal objects such as an old bicycle...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Geometrical Clouds. Silver Cloud
Located in Henderson, NV
Clifford Singer's Geometrical Clouds Series has evolved since 1974.
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Acrylic
Circle + Square Surrounding the Negative Pyramid
Located in Columbia, MO
Aluminum
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Circle + Square Surrounding the Positive Pyramid
Located in Columbia, MO
Aluminum
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Jupiter. Lincoln Center
Located in Henderson, NV
Clifford Singer's Lincoln Center Sculpture.
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Wood, Oil
Table and Vase, Large (Life Size) Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
David Kimball Anderson’s work is bold and graceful, respectful and spiritual. A practicing Buddhist and avid surfer as well as a sculptor, Anderson has given way to 4 decades of work that revere beauty in nature and beauty in industry within his signature aesthetic. For Anderson, steel girders, dry leaves, machine parts and distant train lights are equally as compelling as strawberry flowers, begonias, Asian antiquities and the night sky. Editing down to essential form while adding a touch of embellishment allows his work to embody both minimalist formal truth and decorative adornment. Anderson’s art practice is a beauty-driven way of knowing the world.
BIOGRAPHY
1946 Born in Los Angeles
1967-1971 San Francisco Art Institute
Currently lives and works in Santa Cruz, California.
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
1993 John Michael Kohler Art Center Residency
1988 National Endowment for the Arts, individual fellowship
1986 Pollack-Krasner Foundation, individual grant
1981 National Endowment for the Arts, individual fellowship
1974 National Endowment for the Arts, individual fellowship
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Snow Pictures”, Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
2014 “Ranchland”, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“The Manresa Seasons”, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
2013 “Altitude”, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
“to Morris Graves”, The Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA
2012 “Travel: Rome”, Namche, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011 Selections from “to Morris Graves”, Anderson Ranch Art...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Alamo-Yellow
Located in Irvine, CA
This piece by Billy Al Bengston is titled "The Alamo-Yellow". It measures 36" x 34", it is lacquer paint on dented aluminum and was completed in 1969.
Bill...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Lacquer
Sensitiva, Kinetic Sculpture, Abstract Art, Wood, Pastel Colors
By Bruno Munari
Located in Milano, IT
From a series of editioned sculptures by Bruno Munari produced by Plura editions in the Nineties, based on original projects by the artists dating back to the Forties. From an edition of 100. Exemplar 85/100. Signed and numbered by the artist. "Sensitiva" means in Italian sensible, sensitive The work is a light kinetic sculpture, composed of simple materials such as wood and steel, slightly moving in the space.
Exhibition History: “Bruno Munari Artista totale”, Ettore Fico Museum, Turin, 2017
“Omaggio a Bruno Munari”, Fondazione Bandera per l'Arte, Busto Arsizio (VA)
Bruno Munari - Maria Montessori...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Wood, Acrylic
Self-portrait Contemporary Abstract Hand Made Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Montreal, QC
"Self-portrait"
Terracotta, underglazed, and glazed to cone 5
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Glaze, Underglaze
Orchid Castle Contemporary Hand made Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Montreal, QC
"Orchid Castle"
Stoneware, Glazed to cone 6
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Modernist Sculpture Figural Portrait Bust Brutalist Wire Work
Located in Surfside, FL
This piece is unsigned. Irving Lehman (1900-1983) was an American Jewish painter, sculptor, engraver, and designer. Born in Kiev in then Russia, Lehman studied at the Art Students League, Cooper Union and the National Academy of Art and spent much of his working life in New York City. Part of the Abstract Expressionist school, he worked in oil and watercolor as a painter and in metal and steel as a sculptor; his works have been shown in galleries in England, France, Italy, Israel and Japan, and were included in an international traveling exhibition in Europe in 1951. Like many other artists of his generation, he painted for the WPA and then adopted a more abstract style after WWII.
Lehman spent much of his career in NYC. He had his first exhibition at ACA Gallery in 1934. He also exhibited at the Whitney, National Academy, PAFA, Brooklyn Museum, Chicago Art Institute, and others.
This work contains Constructivist elements anticipating the more gestural abstraction of the post-WWII New York Abstract Expressionist School.
Member of American Art Congress, worked near Woodstock and in Columbia County...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Large Aharon Bezalel Israeli Modernist Bronze Brutalist Puzzle Sculpture Figures
Located in Surfside, FL
Aharon Bezalel (Afghani-Israeli, 1925-2012)
1984
Edition 4/9
Family Grouping
Hand signed in Hebrew with initials and in English
Movable figures that fit together like puzzle pieces in solid cast bronze with original patina on a lucite bench base.
23 X 19 X 6 base is 24 X 6 X 6
Aharon Bezalel (born Afghanistan 1926) Born in Herat, Afghanistan in 1926 and immigrated to Israel at an early age. His father, Reuven Bezalel, was a rabbi and kabbalist. As a youth Aharon studied gold and silver casting as well as applied arts and worked in these fields as a silversmith and judaica craftsman, and was a student of the sculptor Zev Ben-Zvi at the Bezalel Academy for Art & Design where he also studied with Isidor Ascheim and Mordecai Ardon. There he absorbed the basic concepts of classic and modernist art and interpreted, according to them, ideas based on ancient Hebrew sources. He also studied miniature carving with the artists Martin and Helga Rost applying himself at their workshop. Aharon Bezalel worked and resided in Jerusalem, he taught art for many years. His sculptures - works of wood, bronze, aluminum, Plexiglas - were shown at his studio in Ein Kerem. “I saw myself as part of this region. I wanted to find the contact between my art and my surroundings. Those were the first years of Jean Piro’s excavations at the Beer-Sheba mound. They found there, for example, the Canaanite figurines that I especially liked and that were an element that connected me with the past and with this place.” “…a seed and sperm or male and female. These continue life. The singular, the individual alone, cannot exist; I learned this from my father who dabbled with the Kabbalah.”
(Aharon Bezalel, excerpt from an interview with David Gerstein)
“The singular in Aharon Bezalel’s work is always potentially a couple if not a threesome, the one is also the many: when the individual is revealed within the group he will always seek a huddling, a clinging together.
The principle of modular construction is required by this perception of unity and multiplicity, as modular construction in his work is an act of conception or defense. His work bears a similarity to Berrocal as well as affinities to Henry Moore, Lynne Chadwick and Kenneth Armitage. Two poles of unity, potentially alone, exist in A. Bezalel’s world: From a formal, sculptural sense these are the sphere and pillar, metaphorically these are the female in the final stages of pregnancy and the solitary male individual. Sphere-seed-woman; Pillar-strand-man. The disproportional, small heads in A. Bezalel figures leave humankind in it’s primal physical capacity. The woman as a pregnancy or hips, the man as an aggressive or defensive force, the elongated chest serves as a phallus and weapon simultaneously.
(Gideon Ofrat)
EIN HAROD About the Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt - Henry Moore, sculpture, modern, british, small
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt
conceived in 1955; cast in 1955
bronze; edition 4 of 6 plus 1 artist’s proof by the Fiorini foundry, London
19 x 9 x 15.5 cm (in...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Welded Stainless Steel Reflective Abstract Modernist Sculpture Gary Kahle
Located in Surfside, FL
Gary Kahle (American, 1942- )
Metal abstract sculpture on black base,
Hand signed and dated 1984
25 1/2" H x approximately 18" W x and 12 1/2" D.
Proven...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Untitled VIII : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working i...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
White Night : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working in large scale with steel in...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Reclining Figure (woman)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
William King (1925-2015). Reclining figure, ca. 1965. Cast and welded bronze, 7 x 9.5 x 5 inches. Unsigned.
William King, a sculptor in a variety of materials whose human figures traced social attitudes through the last half of the 20th century, often poking sly and poignant fun at human follies and foibles, died on March 4 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by Scott Chaskey, who is married to Mr. King's stepdaughter, Megan Chaskey.
Mr. King worked in clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces depicting familiar human poses -- a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking men walking in lock step.
But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer's arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment.
His subjects included tennis players and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners.
Mr. King's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. But the comic element of his work probably caused his reputation to suffer.
Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious, displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder. and Elie Nadelman.
The critic Hilton Kramer, one of Mr. King's most ardent advocates, wrote in a 1970 essay accompanying a New York gallery exhibit that he was, "among other things, an amusing artist, and nowadays this can, at times, be almost as much a liability as an asset."
A "preoccupation with gesture is the focus of King's sculptural imagination," Mr. Kramer wrote. "Everything that one admires in his work - the virtuoso carving, the deft handling of a wide variety of materials, the shrewd observation and resourceful invention - all this is secondary to the concentration on gesture. The physical stance of the human animal as it negotiates the social arena, the unconscious gait that the body assumes in making its way in the social medium, the emotion traced by the course of a limb, a torso, a head, the features of a face, a coiffure or a costume - from a keen observation of these materials King has garnered a large stock of sculptural images notable for their wit, empathy, simplicity and psychological precision."
William Dickey King...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled XII : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working i...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Glissard : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working in large scale with steel in the second half of the 20th Century. Press’s art was admired by a well known and respected dealer André Emmerich as well as renowned art critic Clement Greenberg, with whom Press developed a friendship. Greenberg, arguably one of the most influential critics in the second half of the 20th Century, praised her sculptures and encouraged her to work in abstraction. Curators Robert Metzger and Karen Wilkin also wrote about her work. The eminent art historian Edward Lucie-Smith curated her 2011 retrospective in London. Works of Naomi Press are on par with such artists as Beverly Pepper, Claire Falkenstein and Louise Nevlson. Her creations have an imposing presence due to their masterful execution and aesthetic beauty.
Naomi Press was born in Poland and later lived in South Africa, England, and USA. This unique blend of cultures informs her art. Ballet is another significant influence in her life and practice. In her youth Press was an award winning ballet dancer and received offers from esteemed institutions such as the Royal Ballet...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Gallant : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working i...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Compass Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin, Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin
Compass, 1988
Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker
12.5 h × 12.5w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 cm)
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others.
Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko.
Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...
Category
Conceptual 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
En Longue : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working i...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Vibron : steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working in large scal...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Summerscale : abstract steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Abstract steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working in large scale with steel in the ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Untitled XI : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working i...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Juno Figurative Outdoor Pop Art sculpture Red Painted Steel Person
Located in Zug, CH
ALLEN JONES (b. 1937)
Juno
2008
Painted steel
275 x 530 x 265 cm
108.27 x 208.66 x 104.33 inches
Unique work in two parts
The Monumental sculpture ‘Juno’ – named after the roman god...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Untitled X : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working i...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Untitled IX : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working i...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Butterfly Girl
By Eric Rhein
Located in New York, NY
Eric Rhein “Butterfly Girl”
1992-1995
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Steel, brass, and gold-filled wire, thread, glue, and found object...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Steel, Wire
The Scream
Located in Los Angeles, CA
JOAN STRAUSS CAROL
"THE SCREAM"
WOOD, SIGNED, TITLED
CALIFORNIA, DATED 1984
1575 X 19 INCHES
Joan Strauss Carl
1926-2021
Joan Strauss Carl was...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Contemporary Geometric Abstract Sculpture Bronze Unique Italian European 1983
By Bruno Romeda
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Geometric Abstract Sculpture Bronze Unique Italian European 1983
Triangle, 1983, bronze. 6 x 12.25 x 2 inches. Signed and dated on both the sculpture and the base
BIO
Bruno Romeda is a complete artist because all his work always begins by a joining of twigs, rods and sticks, keeping tension and balance. Inspired by primitive geometric forms, as circle, square and triangle, Romeda is playing with projected shadows.
As handed-tracks lines, his sculptures and his furniture are casted in bronze in his Italian workshop in Brescia. We find out same figures casted in bronze in bases, retaining structures on which seats, chairs, tables or pedestals are resting. Romeda’s furniture gets perfect shapes from a sort of fossilized nature.
The technical perfection, the harmony of proportions and bronze work, summarize Bruno Romeda’s work.
Romeda was born in 1933 in Italy and died in 2017. He lived in France, New York and Brescia.
The work of Romeda has been exhibited in numerous cities; his first personal exhibition took place in Brussels in 1962, followed by solo shows in Paris, New York, Barcelona, San Francisco, Monte Carlo, Baltimore, berlin, Erbusco (Italy), Venice or Tokyo.
A significant number of museums own pieces of the artist such as the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art in Japan, the Contemporary Art Museum of Nice, or the Robert College...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Photo Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin & Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin
Clock, 1987-94
Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker
13 h × 13 w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 cm)
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others.
Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko.
Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...
Category
Conceptual 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Multicolored Abstract Painted Metal Sculpture by Edward Chavez, American Modern
Located in Denver, CO
Abstract painted metal sculpture by Edward (Eduardo) Arcenio Chavez (1917-1995). Painted in the three primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. Sculpture measures 16 ½ x 7 x 11 inches.
About the Artist:
Born 1917
Died 1995
Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Head
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media and Painted wood, wall sculpture by Rick Prol.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
20th Century Abstract Figural Terra Cotta Ceramic Sculpture, Continuum
By Sushe Felix
Located in Denver, CO
Abstract terra cotta sculpture by Sushe Felix (20th Century) featuring a continuous form with curves, ridges, and multiple circular holes throughout the form. Measures 12 x 14 x 10 i...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Eclipse
Located in Paris, FR
Porcelain
Edition : 397/900
Publisher : Artcurial
Diameter: 29 cm
Inside diameter (in the back): 18 cm
LCD5312
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Modernist Bronze Brutalist Sculpture (Manner of Pomodoro)
Located in Surfside, FL
Large Modern Brutalist bronze sculpture in Manner of Arnaldo or Gio Pomodoro. We cannot locate a signature or any markings. it has an abstract quality to it. heavily textured with or...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze