Modern Figurative Sculptures
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Garden Angel, 2017
Located in ATLANTA, GA
In life, every time you do or make something you have the opportunity to make something creative and original. Take something, add to it and pass it on; that’s the creative process. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
What's New
By Laure Krug
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Laure Krug. Contemporary French artist
Holder of a license in plastic arts, she naturally turns to sculpture.
Materials: She begins by working the soil and masters the different co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Acrylic
The ancient plastic society
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Room 102
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
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Resin
Cycliste #Tous2024, 2019
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Canto Decimosecondo, 2013
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Nicola Domenici was born in 1969 in Viareggio (Lucca). After the University and several experiences in the fields of jewellery and goldsmithery, he dec...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Estasi Napoletana
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the most eminent and affirmed artist represented by the Frilli Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bilancia
By Hugo Rivas
Located in ATLANTA, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Buste Africaine
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Ballon YO Green
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Ballon YO orange
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Vestige
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Cavalier #Tous2024, 2019
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Tête Lion-Buffle, 2016
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Evasion
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Béatrice Bissara was born in 1972; the visit of museums and the atmosphere of the auction houses marked her childhood. After her studies in history of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Le saut de mouton
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Bronze
Un Monde Bouillonnant
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Béatrice Bissara was born in 1972; the visit of museums and the atmosphere of the auction houses marked her childhood. After her studies in history of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative 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
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Bronze Architectural Model Sculpture Tempio Bretton Architecture Maquette
Located in Surfside, FL
TEMPIO BRETTON: from the catalogue MONUMENTA, 19th International Sculpture Biennale, Antwerp, Belgium.
Tempio Bretton was created in homage to the celebrated English landscapist Capability Brown for the occasion of an exhibition at Bretton Hall in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park , a park in the style of the great master of English garden design. The inclusion in the English garden of a temple ruin, or "eye-catcher," (architectural folly) was used to draw the eye and mind to a focus in time and space, present the beholder with an immediate relationship to an historic past made new within his or her own surroundings, and create a depth of space never before seen in garden design.
I took the idea of the temple ruin eye-catcher and reduced it to a scale at the point where architecture and sculpture merged. Tempio Bretton is not capacious enough to walk into, yet it is considerably larger than a man.
One view of it presents a knot of golden columns clustered together, topped by a dome shape. The only clue from this side to the temple's non-conformity to historic principle is a sharp notch cut into the square base.
Viewed from the opposite side, the cluster of columns capped by an angular top opens up as if to welcome someone in, yet the mysterious core is still impenetrable. These contradictions articulate a confrontation between past and present, and an exciting truth. The past is always at the heart of our constructions in the present.
Walter Dusenbery...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Ray
By Mauro Corda
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
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...
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1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Matt Smith, Sconce Women with Parasol, White Earthenware
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
White Earthenware
49 x 30 x 13 cm
19 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 5 1/8 in
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"Working as a hybrid artist and curator, the core of my practice is unpicking the work of establishment organ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
Torso Verona, Wearable Necklace Art Sculpture by Miguel Ortiz Berrocal
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original wearable sculpture by Berrocal.
Artist: Miguel Berrocal, Spanish (1933 - 2006)
Title: Torso Verona
Year: 1980
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and numbering inscrib...
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1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ole, The Matador
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Bronze sculpture depicting a bull fighter with a single rose at his foot. Signed and dated 66' with the edition number 2 of 11. Measures 29" x 16.5" x 6". Nathan Katz...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Show of Interest
By Brad Rude
Located in Denver, CO
Artist Brad Rude was born in Montana and has lived in Walla Walla, Washington most of his life. His journeys through his grandfather's folk art studio left...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Untitled, Paint on Fiber by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Venkat Bothsa - Untitled
Paint on Fibre, 18 x 18 inches
Born in 1961, Venkat Bothsa did his B.F.A from Andhra University followed by M.F.A from Banaras Hindu University. His brightl...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paint
Uomo Seduto
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
'Woman Standing', Modernist Sculpture, San Francisco Bay Area, de Young Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed on base, 'W.G.' for Wedo Georgetti (American, 1911-2005) and created circa 1950. Acquired directly from the artist and accompanied by certificate of authenticity.
Born in Italy, this California Post-Impressionist came to the United States at the age of one. Georgetti first worked as a merchant seaman to support his art studies and traveled all over the world accumulating sketches, many of which he later worked up into paintings. He made frequent visits to France, where he was influenced by the Post-Impressionists and, particularly, by the Nabis. An innovative theorist, Georgetti was the originator of the style known as California Fauvism. He exhibited widely and with success, both at exhibitions and at one-man shows (Oakland Art Gallery, 1942-44; Society of American Graphic Artists, NYC, 1944; Maxwell Galleries, 1940’s; de Young Museum...
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1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Combined Effort
By Brad Rude
Located in Denver, CO
Artist Brad Rude was born in Montana and has lived in Walla Walla, Washington most of his life. His journeys through his grandfather's folk art studio left...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Gertrude Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Minna Rothenberg Harkavy (1895-1987) Estonian-American
signed
bronze portrait bust, marble, stone base.
Minna Harkavy (1887 – 1987) (birth occasionally listed as 1895) was a Jewish American sculptor born in Estonia to Yoel and Hannah Rothenberg and immigrated to the United States around 1900.
She studied at the Art Students League, at Hunter College and in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle.
Harkavy was a WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief piece, Industry and Landscape of Winchendon for the post office in Winchendon, Massachusetts.
She was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild and showed a work, My Children are Desolate Because the Enemy Prevailed in the Second Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Negro Head in the 1940-1941 and Woman in Thought in 1941.
Harkavy was an early feminist, a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists. Politically she was known as a leftist and anti-fascist with a strong social consciousness. In 1931 she exhibited a bust of Hall Johnson in the Museum of Western Art in Moscow and the work was purchased for the Pushkin Museum there. Abraham, Walkowitz sat for a portrait by her. In 1932 she represented the John Reed Club at an anti-war conference in Amsterdam.
A bust of Italian- American anti-fascist (and her lover) Carlo Tresca who was assassinated in New York in 1943 was installed in his birthplace of Sulmona, Italy. She showed at Associated American Artists gallery, along with Max
Weber, Waldo Peirce...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Donna in piedi, 2016
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Herons
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant pair of gilt bronze heron sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Monument to mankind
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Frilli Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
The man waiting
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
19th Century Didactic Torso Model by Jozef Steger, designed by Carl E. Bock.
Located in brussel, BE
The German sculpture Franz Josef Steger (1845-1938), under the guidance of Professor Wilhelm His (1831-1904) and based on the designs of anatomist Carl Ernst Bock (1809-1874), revol...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Woman's Head, Decorated with Flowers, Ceramic by Pablo Picasso 1954
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, considered the greatest artist of the 20th Century, was a master of all art mediums. He collaborated with Madoura to produce editions of his painted ceramic works beginning in the 1940’s...
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1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Terracotta Sculpture by Evert Lindfors, Sweden, Similarities with A.Giacometti
Located in Stockholm, SE
Terracotta Sculpture by Swedish artist Evert Lindfors (1927-2016), made in the 1970s.
Evert moved to France in the 1940s where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He wo...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bambina Impaurita
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Untitled, 2017
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Busto
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Intaglio, Found Objects
Texas Artist David Pryor Adickes John F Kennedy Bas Relief Painted Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
David Pryor Adickes American (b. 1927)
John F. Kennedy bas-relief plaster relief sculpture in artists frame incised signature lower center. with gold stars...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paint
Still Life
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Untitled, 2017
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Torso, 2017
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
after, Pablo Picasso Sculpted Wool Tapestry Rug Madoura Ceramic Sculpture Design
Located in Surfside, FL
Modern Sculpted Picasso Tapestry Rug based on a design for a Madoura Vallauris Pottery design.
In a tufted wool pile technique (similar to Edward Fields, not a flat weave Aubusson Go...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wool
Sydney Kumalo Bronze Minimalist African Modernist Sculpture Figural Female Nude
Located in Surfside, FL
Sydney Kumalo. Features a bronze stylized female figural form sculpture fixed to a marble plinth and wood base. Bears signature on base. Measures 9 1/2...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Joubana, Bronze, by Modern Indian Master Artist Lalu Prasad Shaw "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Lalu Prasad Shaw - Joubana - 27 x 21 x 18 inches (unframed size)
Bronze, Edition-5.
Style : Known widely for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali women and couples, Lalu Prasad ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
RECLINGING WOMAN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ANTONIUCCI VOLTI
"RECLINGING WOMAN"
BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 2/6
VALSUANI FOUNDRY
ITALiAN, WORKED IN PARIS, C.1960
6.5 X 18.5 X 10.5 INCHES
Antoniucci Volti
1915-1989
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family lived in Italy until 1920 when the family moved to France.
Volti studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice from 1928 to 1920. By 1932 the young artist had won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs before going to Paris, where he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of only fifteen.
After serving in the Second World War, when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Bavaria, he returned in poor health to Paris, only to find his studio destroyed.
From 1947 he showed work at various Paris Salons and, in 1954 and 1955 at the Brussels and Antwerp Biennales. In 1957 a retrospective of his work was organized at the Museum Rodin in Paris.
He died in Paris in 1989 Works by Volti are in leading museums such as the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Antoniucci Volti is one of the most important Late Modern...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled, Paint on Fiber by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Venkat Bothsa - Untitled
Paint on Fibre, 18 x 18 inches
Born in 1961, Venkat Bothsa did his B.F.A from Andhra University followed by M.F.A from Banaras Hindu University. His brightl...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paint
Arch, Sensual White Carrara Statuary Marble Stone Vertical Figurative Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This Carrare statuary marble stone sculpture in a very pure white with slightly colored veins is by Lutfi Romhein.
A graduate from the Academy of Fine A...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Russian French Judaica Jewish Shtetl Wedding Klezmer Musician Bronze Sculpture
By Mane Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Bronze Double Bass Player Klezmer Musician Sculpture signed Mane-Katz at base. Numbered 8/8.
-Katz (1894-1962) was a Litvak painter born in Ukraine best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe. Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew:מאנה כץ), born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (1894–1962), was a Litvak painter born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe. Particularly music figures and Jewish wedding scenes.
Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibiting in Petrograd; following the October revolution, he traveled back to Kremenchuk, where he taught art. In 1921, due to the ongoing fighting in his hometown during the civil war, he moved once again to Paris. There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important French artists, and was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; together with other outstanding Jewish artists of that milieu, he is sometimes considered to be part of a group referred to specifically as the Jewish School of Paris. Includes Russian, Ukrainian and Polish painters Jankel Adler, Arbit Blatas, Marc Chagall, Jacques Chapiro, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Sigmund Menkes, Jules Pascin, Issachar Ryback, Jacques Lipchitz,Chana Orloff, and Ossip Zadkine. Ecole de Paris
In 1931, Mane-Katz's painting The Wailing Wall was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair. Early on, his style was classical and somber, but his palette changed in later years to bright, primary colors, with an emphasis on Jewish themes. His oils feature Judaic Hasidic characters, rabbis, Jewish musicians, beggars, yeshiva students and scenes from the East European shtetl made famous in the west by Sholem Aleichem and Tevye.
Mane-Katz made his first trip to Mandate Palestine in 1928, and thereafter visited the country annually. He said his actual home was Paris, but his spiritual home was Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel. In 1939, as World War II was breaking out, he was drafted by the French and then was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped and went to the United States and remained there until 1945, exhibiting his paintings at Katia Granoff Gallery and Wildenstein Gallery. After the war, he returned to Paris where he had exhibited in the Salons. In Paris to the end of his career, he worked happily, painting hundreds of portraits of rabbis...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
STRIDENT MAN Carved Wood Sculpture Hollywood WPA Modernist Puppet Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
This 18 x 9 x 4 inch carved wood sculpture is unsigned and comes directly from the artist's family.
Louis 'Lou' Bunin (28 March 1904 – 17 February 1994) was an American puppeteer, artist, and pioneer of stop-motion animation in the latter half of the twentieth century. While working as a mural artist under Diego Rivera in Mexico City in 1926, Bunin created political puppet shows using marionettes...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Fantastic Ride", Elm Wood Human-Carved Horse Figurative Abstract Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A very personal piece from this artist. Human figures are carved in this horse sculpture, one of which is in the back of the horse neck and opens its back ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Seahorse - Wooden Sculpture by Ferdinando Codognotto - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Seahorse is an original decorative object realized in the 2010s by Ferdinando Codognotto.
Original wood sculpture realized in swiss pine expert...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Joie De Vivre, bronze figurative dance sculpture
Located in Greenwich, CT
This joyous in the round bronze can turn on its base, making for dramatic presentation and enjoyment that is interactive. It is based on the idea of the Three Graces which is often an allegorical subject in sculpture. Wein has done a contemporary feeling interpretation of this classic theme. Piece itself measure 12 1/2 inches and sits on a 3 1/4 inch base and is attached to its base at two points and it is a revolving or rather turning base. The two points on which the toes touch and are secured are striking for how little of the bronze touches the base. It is Fourth in an edition of 13. Albert Wein...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Buste Emporté", Sensual Black Marble Nude Female Bust Figurative Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This figurative sculpture by Lutfi Romhein depicts a female nude bust in Belgian black marble mounted on a grey marble base. It has a very fine grain which provides a really soft tou...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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