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Picasso Madoura Ceramic A.R. 519 Le Verre Sous La Lampe
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Pablo Picasso A.R. 519
Le Verre Sous La Lampe
1964
13” x 10” Edition of 100
Terracotta clay, inscribed 'Edition Picasso' with the Madoura stamp.
Ramie 519 is a Madoura ceramic that one rarely sees come on the market.
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The Certificate of Authenticity comes with this piece.
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The prices of Picasso Madoura Ceramics have been on fire lately (no pun intended). The major auction houses – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips – have now been regularly holding Picasso Madoura Ceramic auctions...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Mid Century Mod Large Brutalist Welded Copper Enamel Sculpture Wood Base
Located in Surfside, FL
Welded, brazed, copper (based on the weight, this might be iron or bronze) with colorful inset enamel plaques on a painted wood base. A studio handmade Brutalist sculpture in a mann...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Metal, Copper
Visage, Picasso, 1950's, Unique work, sculpture, design, Frame, Portrait
Located in Geneva, CH
Visage, Picasso, 1950's, Unique work, sculpture, design, Frame, Portrait
Visage
Unique work
1957
Painted and partially glazed ceramic ; tomette
16.9 x 15.2 cm
Certificate of authent...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile, Terracotta, Design, Sculpture, Unique, Mythology
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile, Terracotta, Design, Sculpture, Unique, Mythology
Tête de faune
Unique work
27.02.1961
Red terracotta tile, painted and glazed white
15 x 15 cm
20 x 15 ...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Mid-Century Metal and Colored Glass Sculpture - Like Stained Glass
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-Century enameled steel, glass sculpture that is visually balanced from 360 degrees. All the positive and negative spaces work in total harmony which is a testament to Samuel Cashwan...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Modern Surrealist Mixed Media Fly & Tree Maze Sculpture with Lucite Case
By Bob Fowler
Located in Houston, TX
Modern surrealist mixed media sculpture by Houston artist Bob Fowler. The work features a pair of metal fly and tree sculptures arranged within a white and r...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Marco, Mid-Century Polish Tapestry by Zofia Butrymowicz
Located in Wilton, CT
Zofia Butrymowicz (1904-1987, Warsaw, Poland) was one in a select group of Polish textile artists who were first introduced in Chicago, USA in the 1970s by legendary dealers Anne and Jacques Baruch. Butrymowicz's body of work continues to influence the fiber art world to this day.
"New experiments in art have always been of interest to me" Butrymowicz once observed, "whether I agree with them or not, and therefore I never pass by and I am never indignant at any expression in art. I strongly believe that in the wide range of experiments there will also be some elements of the development of culture."
During the post-war period, when the countries of Eastern Europe were locked down behind the Iron Curtain, weavers there found materials in short supply. As a result, many of these artists turned to unconventional materials such as metal, paper and reeds. Zofia Butrymowicz, of Poland, recognized for innovative works in 60s and 70s, used heavy, irregular wools, barely spun at all. In 1969, she visited Canadian weaver, Mariette Rousseau-Vermette and her husband, painter and ceramicist, Claude Vermette, outside Montreal where the couple lived and worked. Zofia and Mariette had both been participants in International Tapestry Biennials in Lausane, Switzerland in the 60s and in Wall Hangings at the MoMA in New York in 1969.
Butrymowicz stayed with the Vermettes for several months, using Mariette’s looms to create tapestries that were displayed with Claude’s ceramics at a local gallery. Butrymowicz used wool from Mariette’s source. Mariette was particular about the color and intensity of her wool — she worked with technicians to perfect the spinning and dyeing so that the wool had a silky luster and dyed “more beautifully” than mechanically spun wool. The wool was a marked departure from the material Butrymowicz had access to in Poland. She “painted” her weavings with colors and shadings of yarns, including only a shimmering suggestion of a shape, often a circle, as she had done in the past, but the glisten and sumptuousness of the yarn in these works set them apart from her previous weavings.
Selected exhibitions: Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; National Museum, Poznan, Poland; National Museum, Warsaw, Poland; Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Poland; Exempla, Munich, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, California; Pierre Pauli...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool
Untitled by Yuko Nasaka. Resin and lacquer on board (1984) (abstract sculpture)
By Yuko Nasaka
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yuko Nasaka
(1938)
Untitled
Resin and lacquer on board
45.5 x 45.5 cm (17.9 x 17.9 in) not considering the frame
Executed in 1963
About the Artist:
Born in Osaka in 1938, Yuko Nasak...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Lacquer, Board
"Untitled #2 (Tupperware)" Red, Yellow, & White Realistic Beeswax Cup Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Modern collection of realistically rendered tupperware cups made out of beeswax and pigment by California artist George Stoll. The piece features a set of...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wax, Pigment
Gorham Melrose Vanity Dresser Set
By Gorham Manufacturing Company
Located in Troy, NY
This Gorham Vanity Dresser set is made out of sterling silver. It is in the Melrose pattern. The creation date is in the 1950s. Gorham, founded in P...
Category
Romantic Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile, Ceramic, Sculpture, Design, Postwar, Mythological
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile,Ceramic,Sculpture, Design, Postwar, Mythological
Tête de faune
Unique work
circa 1968
Painted and partially glazed ceramic, square tile
15.2 x 15.2 cm
C...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
"White Construction, " 1960s Modern Abstract Wall Sculpture
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern abstract piece by Stanley Bate is a wood panel sculpture that has been painted white. Three-dimensional that are reminiscent of architectural pieces are tightly stacked w...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oil, Wood
Modern Texas Mixed Media Sculpture of a Mummified Portrait Bust in a Box / Crate
By Roy Fridge
Located in Houston, TX
Modern mixed media sculpture by Texas artist Roy Fridge. The work features a mummified portrait bust encased in a red, white, and blue flag placed in a wooden box or crate.
Artist Biography: A native of Beeville, Fridge was an only child who made his own toys. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he graduated from Baylor University in Waco with a degree in filmmaking. In the 1960s, he and his best friends, sculptors Jim Love and Dave McManaway, became known as the "unholy trio" of Texas contemporary art.
In 1963, Fridge left a career in television advertising and "ran away to the beach." He settled in the sleepy town of Port Aransas...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Image-miroir (Mirror Image), 1965
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1965, this sculpture is hand signed by Victor Vasarely (1906 – 1997) in black ink on one of the aluminum panels in the lower right (nearest to the center cross-section); f...
Category
Op Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By James Guy
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower center): Guy
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Bronze Sculpture "Furnace Flowers"
By Francesco Somaini
Located in Rochester, NY
Bronze sculpture Polished and patinated bronze sculpture. "Furnace Flowers" by mid century modern Italian sculptor Francesco Somaini (Italy 1926-...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled
By Tony Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
This stunning Mid Century Modern welded bronze sculpture was realized by the esteemed 20th Century artist Tony Rosenthal circa 1965. Signed and dated by the artist (and with an inclu...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abstract Fish Sculpture
Located in Rochester, NY
A striking metal sculpture of a fish. Iron with gold gilt decoration. Probably Asian.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Pichet Têtes, Pablo Picasso, 1950's, Sculpture, Ceramic, Pitcher, Design
Located in Geneva, CH
Pichet Têtes, Pablo Picasso, 1950's, Sculpture, Ceramic, Pitcher, Design
Pichet têtes
Ed. 500 pcs
1956
White earthenware clay, oxidized paraffin decorati...
Category
Post-Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Large Hand Painted Abstract Ceramic Platter Stamped Madoura Plein Feu Brutalist
Located in Surfside, FL
Large Madoura Pottery Ceramic Platter
Stamped "MADOURA PLEIN FEU"
This is not marked Picasso. It is an early piece. i am uncertain who the artist is. It app...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Abstract Expressionist Biomorphic Welded Metal Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Welded, brazed sculpture on wooden base
This is not signed or dated
This work is unsigned. We were told it was the work of Seymour Lipton but as there is further documentation we are selling it as attributed and cannot guarantee it as such.
Seymour Lipton (1903 – 1986) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist, like fellow sculptor Herbert Ferber, receiving his degree from Columbia University in 1927. In the late 1920s, he began to explore sculpture, creating clay portraits of family members and friends. His early choices of medium changed from wood to lead and then to bronze, and he is best known for his work in metal. Like his contemporary, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, and Arshile Gorky Lipton was influenced by Carl Jung’s work on the unconscious mind and the regenerative forces of nature. He translated these two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional maquettes that enabled him to revise his ideas before creating the final sculpture. The forms that Lipton produced during this period were often zoomorphic, exemplifying the tension between the souls of nature and the automatism of the machine. He made several technical innovations, including brazing nickel silver rods onto sheets of Monel to create rust resistant forms. Seymour Lipton is best known for his textured torch welded metal sculptures...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
The Throne, Unique Enamel Painted Chair Sculpture by Alan Siegel
By Alan Siegel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Siegel, American (1938 - )
Title: The Throne
Year: 1967
Medium: Enamel On Laminated Wood, signed on bottom
Size: 40 x 23.5 x 20 in. (101.6 x 59.69 x 50.8 cm)
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Walter Midener "Contemplation" Seated Figure Clay Sculpture Mid-Century Modern
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
“Contemplation” is an abstract clay sculpture of a female. The figure has both arms and legs extended, but the dignified pose suggests an intimate rather than a sexual moment. The sculpture is delicately rendered, but monumental in pose and clean composition reminiscent of the English artist Henry Moore. The surface is warm and slightly rough to the touch. This sculpture is in the round and beautifully balanced geometrically with the hands clasped behind the head forming a slightly flattened polygon shape that is echoed in the positioning of the legs and draped fabric of a presumed dress. The figure draws the viewer into her contemplation, peace and confidence. An exceptional piece by Midener.
Walter Midener...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Petit masque central, Pablo Picasso, 1960's, Unique, Design, Plate, Theater
Located in Geneva, CH
Petit masque central, Pablo Picasso, 1960's, Unique, Design, Plate, Theater
Petit masque central
Unique work
16.5.63
Painted and partially glazed ceramic
D. 25.4 cm / 9.8 in.
D. 33 ...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Modern Abstract Rhino Head Metal Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract metal rhino head metal sculpture by Mexican artist and sculptor. Signed and editioned by artist at the left side.
Artist Biography: Sergio Bustam...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Acid-Wave
By Omar Rayo
Located in New York, NY
Striking 3-dimensional acrylic and wood on canvas sculpture by renowned Colombian painter an sculptor, Omar Rayo. Signed, titled, inscribed "New Yo...
Category
Op Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
Carved Wood German Expressionist Sculpture Jewish Woman Refugee Artist Judaica
By Miriam Sommerburg
Located in Surfside, FL
Miriam Sommerburg (American female artist, born Germany, Hamburg, 1900–1980 New York)
Modernist Wood Carved Sculpture, Carving depictin...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Mother and Child Bronze Sculpture
By Rose Van Vranken
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive bronze sculpture of a mother holding an infant by Rose Van Vranken (American, 1918-2013). Signed and numbered "VAN VRANKEN 5/6" on the back of the pedestal. 14.5"H x 5.5"...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Visage, Pablo Picasso, Face, 1950's, Ceramic, Madoura, Sculpture, Earthenware
Located in Geneva, CH
Visage, Pablo Picasso, Face, 1950's, Ceramic, Madoura, Sculpture, Earthenware
Ed. 500 pcs
White earthenware clay, decoration in engobes under glaze
Inscribed on the reverse: Edition...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Clay
Mid Century Oceanic Tribal Shield from Papua New Guinea
Located in New York, NY
This striking shield was realized in Papua New Guinea, circa 1960. The rectangular form in unfinished nubuck hued hardwood has been inscribed with white curvilinear and geometric pat...
Category
Tribal Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Pigment
Outsider artist singular virgin and child art brut sculpture mother and child
Located in Norwich, GB
An extraordinarily moving piece by an outsider artist who must have spent many a day conceiving, cutting, hammering, soldering and welding this stunning metal group made of tin and iron. The result is something completely individualistic, which at the same time recalls early medieval...
Category
Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large Modern Giraffe Sculpture by Manuel Carbonell Latin American
Located in Rochester, NY
A large and early sand cast aluminum modernist sculpture of a giraffe by Cuban American artist Manuel Carbonell. Pedestal included. Measures: Height is 73” with base.
Carbonell’s early sculptures where sand cast and unique. This is an edition of 1/1. Included is the original sketch of the work. Signed, circa 1967. Provenance: Ted Materna. Materna discovered Carbonell in the early 1960s. He produced Carbonell's gallery catalogs and helped promote him through his public relations firm in NYC.
Manuel Carbonell (1918-2011) was regarded as the last of the Cuban Master...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Refleksy (Reflexes), Mid-Century Wool Tapestry, Abstract Textile Wall Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
Refleksy (Reflexes), flax (linen) and wool, 50" x 48" x 2", 1973.
This warm, vivid Mid-Century tapestry, Refleksy (1973) is by Polish textile artist, ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Linen, Thread, Fabric
James Prestini : Grouping of Turned Wooden Bowls
Located in Fresno, CA
Trio of turned wood bowls by the internationally known American Sculptor, Designer and Craftsman, James L. Prestini, (1908-1993). Prestini’s masterfu...
Category
Bauhaus Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Birch
Untitled Figure with X on Chest by Charlie Willeto, Navajo Folk Art, wood, paint
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Untitled Figure with X on Chest by Charlie Willeto, Navajo Folk Art, wood, paint
Vintage
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Modernist Face
By Itzhak Sankowsky
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ITZHAK SANKOWSKY
"MODERNIST FACE"
WOOD, SIGNED
ROMANIAN-AMERICAN, C.1940
24.5 INCHES
Itzhak Sankowsky was born in 1908 in Romania.
He lived and was active in Philadelphia, Penn...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Argentine Modernist Brutalist Abstract Bronze Sculpture Jewish Latin American
By Naum Knop
Located in Surfside, FL
Naum Knop (Ukrainian-Argentinean, 1917-1993) Modernist Brutalist bronze figural sculpture with heavy verdigris green finish. Melted forms in the shape of an ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Vase avec Decoration Pastel (Vase with Pastel Decorations), by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973)
Title: Vase avec decoration pastel (Vase with Pastel Decorations), [Ramie 190]
Year: 1953
Medium: Chamotted red earthenware clay, pastel ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"La Chorale" Sculpture by Paul Ahyi Togolese Clay
Located in Paris, FR
"La Chorale" (The Choir) is a sculpture by Paul Ahyi depicting three women joyfully singing. This beautiful sculpture is made with "L'Argile de Nawaré" which...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Val St. Lambert Raspberry Crystal Vase
Located in Troy, NY
This Val St. Lambert crystal vase is from Belgium and was made in the late 1950s, early 1960s. It is a thick glass with a strong raspberry color. The piece is h...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
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 ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Village of Iseh, Bali (1948)
By Theo Meier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Theo Meier (1908-1982)
View of the Village of Iseh, painted from the house of Theo
Signed and dated 48 Theo Meier lower left
Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 50 cm
In original frame carved by the artist.
Note:
Theo Meier arrived in Bali in 1936 with the intention of going on to Tahiti where he had been before. However Bali turned out to be the paradise he had been searching for in his dreams and he had no desire any more to move elsewhere. Bali at that time was still a very traditional place where society lived according to an acient religious system and in a luscious tropical setting the modern world was ignored. Here he met Walter Spies...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Rosewood, Oil
Homage to Kenneth Noland
Located in Washington, DC
Exceptional wood sculpture by Andrea De Zerega (1916-1990). Titled "Homage to Noland." Signed and dated 1968. Base is weighted for stability. Exhibit...
Category
Color-Field Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Figure with Hat
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract polychromed plaster bust of a figure with hat by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Opus 531
Located in Zug, CH
A unique cast in silver of a Robert Klippel Opus.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Saba's Garden, Mid-Century Modern Woven Textile Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
Saba's Garden, linen, sisal and wool, 84" x 92", 1978. This mid-century modern woven textile wall sculpture was done by fiber artist, Agnieszka Ruszczynska-Szafranska (b. 1929, Warsa...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Fabric, Textile, Wool, Linen
Wings, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry, Blue Textile Wall Sculpture
By Jan Hladik
Located in Wilton, CT
Wings, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry, Blue Textile Wall Sculpture, Hand dyed wool hand dyed wool, 73" x 58", (1973) by Czech textile artist, Jan Hladik...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Dye
Margaret VIII, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry, Textile Wall Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
Margaret VIII, flax, sisal and wool, 57" x 39", 1977.
This Mid-Century Modern abstract woven tapestry was done by Postwar and Contemporary Polish textile...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Tapestry, Wool, Thread, Fabric, Textile
Eclate de Braise, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry
Located in Wilton, CT
Eclate de Braise, wool, 33" x 24", 1966.
This mid-century abstract woven tapestry was done by Canadian textile artist, Mariette Rousseau-Vermet...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool
Israeli Bronze Sculpture Lovers Embrace Abstract Modernist Ein Hod Israel
By Gedalia Ben Zvi
Located in Surfside, FL
Bronze sculpture signed in Hebrew and numbered from small edition of 6
BIOGRAPHY
"I was born in Czechoslovakia in the year 1925, of traditional parents. I spent my youth partly in a little town on the Moravian border, and to a greater part in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
Having been attracted by the arts from early childhood on, I studied functional art at a school in Bratislava, as long as this was still possible under the Nuremberg Laws which, at that time, were also in force in Slovakia.
In 1942 I was taken to a concentration camp in Poland and at the beginning of 1945 I succeeded in escaping together with a friend of mine. Until our liberation by the Russians we were hiding in the forests of Northern Poland. At the end of the War I found myself wandering about Europe, together with thousands of survivors from the Holocaust, until, in 1948 I came to Israel via the Camps of Cyprus.
From 1954 onwards I have been a permanent resident of the Artists Village at Ein-Hod, together with my family. In the course of that time I studied and worked in most of the creative techniques of the arts. During various periods of my life at Ein-Hod I taught painting and handicraft at different schools.
In 1965 I gave up teaching and have since devoted myself exclusively to pure art."
Gedalia Ben Zvi.
Exhibitions
1962-1963
Design Exhibition, Tel Aviv
1964
Middle East Fair, Tel Aviv
1965
Ceramic Mural for school in Kiryat Gat a the Housing Exhibition in Tel Aviv
1966
Israel Fair and Exhibition, Paris
One man show, Ein Hod
International Symposium on “Ceramics in Architecture”
Tel Aviv Ceramic Museum
Museum or Modern Arts, Heavy
Museum of Acre
1968
Painters Israeliens dans I’Art de Gobelins, Jerusalem
Ein Hod Artists Village - Tenths Year Anniversary Exhibition
1963, Artists: Zvi Aldouby, Marcel Janco, Rudi Lehmann, Moshe Mokady, Aviva Margalit Mambush, Yohanan Simon, Dov Feigin, Ovadia Alkara, Mark Tochilkin...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abstract Signed Cubist Bronze Sculpture "Cats" Chicago Bauhaus Woman Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is just for the sculpture. (the picture of the ad is for reference and is not included.)
Marie Zoe Greene-Mercier was an artist, writer and arts activist who worked in t...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Travertine, Bronze
Circle, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry, Textile Wall Sculpture
By Jan Hladik
Located in Wilton, CT
Circle, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry, Textile Wall Sculpture, Hand dyed wool, 87" x 63" (1976) by Czech textile artist, Jan Jladik, (192...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Dye
Liberty vs Slavery Van Loen Bronze Abstract Chess Set Modernist Museum Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Alfred Van Loen signed 32 piece chess set. In heavy solid bronze.
Rare Chess Game: Liberty versus Slavery
Dimensions:
a) Joy-Tenderness H. 6 3/16 in. a...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kinetic Bronze Expressionist Sculpture Skier or Surfer Modernist Sporting Figure
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage stylized figural sculpture by J James Akston (1898-1983 Poland/New York/Florida) Crafted of cast bronze with a rich dark brown patina. A sports figure, depicting a snow skiing or water surfing figure in a Mid Century Modern Brutalist style. Segmented torso with movable parts. Mounted to a variegated green marble base. Signed with artist signature on edge of ski or surf board. Bronze statue measures 13" x 10 1/2" Overall height with marble base 19 inches. (it is either a surfboard or a snowboard)
Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie d'aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business.
Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Latin American Raúl Valdivieso Bronze Organic Abstract Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
Appealing bronze organic sculpture by Latin American sculptor Raúl Valdivieso (Chilean, 1931-1993). Valdivieso is known for his reinterpretation of the...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hollywood
By Philip Paval
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Philip Paval was a sculptor and silversmith who worked primarily in Los Angeles. He was known as a Hollywood Artist, as he affiliated with many of the Hol...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Stony Signs, Mid-Century Modern Abstract Woven Tapestry, Textile Wall Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
Stony Signs, wool, sisal, copper, 35" x 90", 1978.
This Mid-Century Modern abstract woven tapestry was done by Postwar and Contemporary Polish textile...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper
