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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Danseurs et Joueur de Diaule (Dancers and Diaulos Player), 1956
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Danseurs et Joueur de Diaule (Dancers and Diaulos Player), A.R. 341 can be compared to several other white earthenware pieces created by Picasso in 1956. Each depicts the carefree imagery of dancers, musicians, and fauns to which the artist returns time and again. Framed under a sloping mountain, two figures dance with arms raised above their heads, hands clasped in a spontaneous gesture. Leafy trees and flowers mark...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Ceramic
Monumental Marble Italian Rationalist Figurative Nude Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athlete of Discobolo and the Hercules figure with a lion pelt, on a cylindrical base...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Mother and Child, Abstract Patinaed Resin Sculpture by Manuel Carbonell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Manuel Carbonell was a Cuban Contemporary and Modern artist. "Mother and Child" was produced by Austin Productions in 1968. Austin Productions started...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Large Gilt Bronze Sculpture of Leopard
Located in Rome, IT
Fantastic gilt grass leopard sculpture . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
"Eternal Recurrence #16", DEiNERI Acrylic Glass Stand Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Eternal Recurrence #16 by Natasha Zupan
Measure: 73" x 20" x 8"
Edition of 10 in collaboration with deiNERI
Limited edition prints on Acrylic glass with stand
This work is signed and...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
First Love
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ITZAK BENSHALOM
"FIRST LOVE"
SIGNED, NUMBERED 12/50
ISRAEL, DATED 1979
28 X 10 INCHES
ARTIST TITLED
Itzak Benshalom
1945-2018
Born in Hadera, Isr...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Standing Bear (Blue Edition) - Sculpture in original box with artist certificate
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI
StandingBear (Blue)
Sculpture in resin
Metallic Blue
About 13.5 x 8 cm (c. 5.5 x 3.5 in)
Presented in original box with certificate
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Victor Salmones Signed Bronze Bust of a Young Child
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An untitled signed bronze sculpture by the Mexican artist, Victor Salmones (1937 - 1989) from an edition of 10. Numbered 1 of 10. Signature "Victor Salmones. 1/10" in cast. In excellent original condition.
Victor Salmones (1937-1989) was the most widely known sculptor living and working in Mexico during his lifetime. His sculptures won him universal acclaim and are held in the collections of museums, corporations, cities, universities and private collectors in some 30 countries. During his career, he was highly sought after and increasingly involved in the execution of commissions for major public works around the world.
Salmones developed his love and talent for creating sculpture by working with clay in high school. He attended the Instituto de Bellas Artes (Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts), where he was an apprentice to the Bauhaus master, Otto Hoffman. He was trained to use the exacting, age-old lost wax method of casting and worked principally in bronze. Hoffman's encouragement led to the opening of Victor's own sculpture workshop in Cuernavaca in 1966.
In 1967, Salmones’ fluid bronze “Adam” won first prize at the Biennale Exposition of the National Museum of Modern Art. His work continued to win the highest critical acclaim at subsequent Biennale expositions, and in 1971, over hundreds of entries, his life-size bronze Narcissus...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Coming Home, Porcelain Sculptural Jar with Underglaze Sgraffito Detailing.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Coming Home
Porcelain sculptural jar with underglaze Sgraffito detailing
This sculptural jar features two women gazing at one another in a domestic setting, which is signaled by the seated figure...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Acrylic
Halston at the Olympic Tower. NYC. Sculpture From the Heroes Tour.
By Doug Meyer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Halston (1932-1990)
Heroes Tour
Olympic Tower, 2016
cardboard, paint, pencil, screw, and bolt
12 in. H x 9 in. W x 3 in. D
Doug Meyer Studio is located...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Paint, Cardboard
Joie de Vivre (Joy of Living), A.R. 346
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1956, this oval dish of white earthenware clay is numbered from the edition of 100. This work is stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO' ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Earthenware
Joseph Kosuth American Artist Original Hand Signed engraving, lithograph
Located in Miami, FL
Joseph Kosuth (United States, 1945)
'El mapa de Miranda y la disciplina de Nietzsche', 2004
engraving, lithograph on stone
19.7 x 27.6 in. (50 x 70...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Personnage en Mouvement
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy
Personnage en mouvement
1976
Bronze
25 x 12 x 12 in, 63 x 30 x 30 cm
Dated and signed "Ipoustéguy"
Edition 5/8
Private Collection of Didier Marien
...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pac-Man (Orange edition) - Mini Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI
Pac Man (Orange edition)
Sculpture in resin
Metallic Orange
About 10 cm (c. 3.9 in)
Presented in original box
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Hommage to Brancusi
Located in Washington, DC
German Romanian artist, Otto Scherer, pays homage to one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Brancusi.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Platinum
Hippo Spirit (Water green edition) - Sculpture in original box with artist coa
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI
Hippo Spirit (Water green Edition)
Sculpture in resin
Metallic Green
About 15 x11 x 6 cm (c. 6 x 4.3 x 2.4 in)
Presented in original box ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Grois Oiseau Corrida (Large Corrida Bird), 1953
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A rare ceramic work, Pablo Picasso ceramic Large Corrida Bird, 1953 captures the entirety of a bullfight- or corrida - as you travel around the vase. Starting in the front, below the...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Ceramic
Pac-Man (Yellow edition) - Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI
Pac Man (Yellow edition)
Sculpture in resin
Metallic Yellow
About 18 cm (c. 7 in)
Presented in original box
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Archer and Centaur
Located in New York, NY
Pierre Traverse
Archer and Centaur
c. 1969
Bronze
17 x 16 x 7 in, 45 x 41 x 17 cm
It is signed by the artist and is an "Epreuve d'artiste" (EA) 3/4
Edition 3/4
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Holocaust Memorial Polish Sculpture Burnt Wood Metal Judaica Jewish Memorial Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a large sculpture in 2 parts it lifts off the base.
Born in 1923, alumnus of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Student of the Warsaw University of Technology, is an extraord...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Double Torso
By René Coutelle
Located in New York, NY
René Coutelle
Double Torso
2000
Balkan Onyx
18 x 11 x 7 in, 47 x 28 x 17 cm
Unique Piece
Private Collection of Didier Marien
René Coutelle re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Harmony, 20th century bronze & green marble base, nude man and woman with lyre
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945)
Harmony, c. 1930
Bronze with green marble base
Incised signature on right upper side of base
14 x 9 x 5 inches, excluding base
17 x 10 x 8 inches, including base
Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894, his family settling in Ohio. A talented youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen. Kalish went to New York City following graduation, studying with Isidore Konti...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pac-Man (Yellow edition) - Mini Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI
Pac Man (Yellow edition)
Sculpture in resin
Metallic Yellow
About 10 cm (c. 3.9 in)
Presented in original box
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Honami
Located in Kansas City, MO
Yukio Yamamoto
Honami
Ceramic, Wood Fired in Noborigama Kiln
1990
Approx. 27 x 9 x 9 in
COA provided
Comes with original papers
Ref.: 924802-1012
Yukio Yamamoto was born in the Ako district of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in 1925.
In 1953, he spent a year as a research student at the Tanabe class of the Department of Ceramics at Kyoto Institute of Technology. Yukio studied the history of pottery of the past centuries of this well-known Hemiji Castle domain. He would also research kiln designs through fieldwork as his thesis project.
By 1954, he built his first Noborigama chambered climbing kiln in Tenjin-Cho, Himeji City, teaching the old-world firing process classes. This would become the first step in Yamamoto’s revival of the Tozan style of Anagama and Noborigama down-draft style wood-fired kilns. In 1600, the kiln process had been at its height and had mainly provided wares to Himeji Castle.
As an artist, he typically worked in ash-covered high-fired unglazed ceramics...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Mustang, Bronze Sculpture by Arnold Goldstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bronze sculpture of a wild mustang horse created by American artist Arnold Goldstein. This artwork has the signature and numbering inscribed. Numbered...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mother Holding Baby Large Clay Sculpture Pre Columbian Style
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Mother Holding Baby, large terra-cotta and clay sculpture.
Modern Pre Columbian style large sculpture edition 1/30, artist signed.
Walter Bastian...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Terracotta
Face, 1968-1969
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical portrait in vivid colors, this work appeals to our response to color, texture, depth and space. There is a wonderful interplay between ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Glaze, Clay
Buffalo, Silver Sculpture by Arnold Goldstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Silver cast metal sculpture of an American buffalo created by American artist Arnold Goldstein. This artwork has the signature inscribed on the belly.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Unicorn - bronze sculpture - Salvador Aulestia (1915-1994)
Located in Milano, MI
"TERAPHIM"
Salvador Aulestia's Teraphim exhibition and simultaneous video presentation of the Teraphim exhibition held in front of Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" on Corso Magenta...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cactus
Located in Washington, DC
This image of infinity is beautifully deceptive because although it appears to be in steel, it is a ceramic piece embellished in platinum.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Platinum
Mid Century Nude Male Acephale Sculpture in Bronze
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century bronze figure of a man presented on an iron 'tige' and marble base.
The sculpture is not signed but was purchased from Nice, France, in the 1970s as a work b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Iron
Set of 3 Handmade Porcelain Cups with Sgraffito Detailing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Set of 3 Handmade Porcelain Cups with Sgraffito Detailingby Alex Hodge
From the series Fragments of Our Love Story
Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing
Overall size: 4.5 x 9 x 3 inches
Individual size: 4.5 x 3 x 3 inches
1. “When the door closes..” 2018
2. “Some days that’s me...”, 2019
3. “My favorite moment...”, 2019
Pieces can be sold separately.
This cup is one of 48 that make up the installation, “Fragments of Our Love Story.” These cups feature feminine forms which recall the Venus of Willendorf and other historical fertility objects...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint, Underglaze
White Simba (Disneyland Paris Limited edition) - Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI
White Simba (Limited Edition)
Sculpture in resin
White
About 17 x 13 x 8 cm (c. 6.7 x 5 x 3 in)
In collaboration with Disneyland. Limited to 4000 copies.
Excellen...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Horse Rider Modern Bronze Sculpture on Marble Base
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Horse Rider,
Bronze sculpture on marble base, signed, edition 1/6.
Heriberto Juárez (March 16, 1932 – August 26, 2008) was a self-taught Mexican sculptor, ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mickey Spirit ( Disneyland Paris Limited Edition) - Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI x Disneyland Paris
Mickey Spirit
Sculpture in resin
Metallic silver
About 17 x 13 x 8 cm (c. 6 x 5.1 x 3.1 in)
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
"Pioneer Family" WPA American Modernism Plaster Maquette Realism 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Pioneer Family," 23 1/2 x 16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inPlaster. c. 1927. Unsigned. Realism
The Smithsonian has a cast of this sculpture in its collection. Pictured on the cover of “The Sculpt...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
My favorite moment.., Porcelain Cup with Sgraffito Detailing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
My favorite moment, 2019 by Alex Hodge
From the series Fragments of Our Love Story
Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing
4.5 in. x 3 in. W x 3 in.
This cup is one of 48 that make u...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint, Underglaze
Bill Haendel Americana Toy Soldiers Cast Paper Relief Modern Pop Art Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
William Haendel
framed 16.75 X 17 paper 11.5 X 12.5
Bas relief on hand-made molded, cast, paper; Visual statement of modernist society’s role in conformity of the individual and acquiescence to nationalism. Toy Soldiers in tin, lead or plastic, cast into the paper.
Bill Haendel...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Portrait of Giosuè Carducci -Mixed Media by Libero Andreotti Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Giosuè Carducci is an original modern artwork realized by Libero Andreotti in the first half of 20th century.
Relief on copper plate.
Includes frame.
Signature on the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Group of Bronze Skeletons by David W. Dempsey
Located in Rochester, NY
Group of bronze skeleton sculptures having a passionate conversation. Very detailed. The kneeling figure has working jaw. By American sculptor David W...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
The weight of your head.…", Porcelain Cup with Sgraffito Detailing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The weight of your head…", 2019 by Alex Hodge
From the series Fragments of Our Love Story
Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing
4 in. x 3 in. W x 3 in.
This cup is one of 48 that m...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint, Underglaze
Moses, Bronze Sculpture by George Gach 1966
By George Gach
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Gach, Hungarian (1909 - 1996)
Title: Moses
Year: 1966
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and date inscribed
Size: 17 x 11 x 10 in. (43.18 x 27.94 x 25.4 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Bust Of A Young Woman
By Kevin Berlin
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Bust Of A Young Woman
Bronze sculpture signed by the artist inside the cast and dated 1988, 1st cast in London.
Kevin Berlin is an international arti...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Trois Personnages sur Tremplin (Three Figures on a Trampoline), A.R. 375
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1956, this Madoura small convex wall plaque of white earthenware clay with engraving accentuated with oxidized paraffin in a glaze bath (ivory, brown) is from the edition ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Earthenware, Glaze
Big Ibex
Located in Washington, DC
This dramatic ceramic sculpture references the horns of an ibex in an homage to native culture.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Platinum
Vintage Jerusalem Sculpture Wall Plaque 1930's Palestine Israeli Bezalel School
Located in Surfside, FL
Repousse sculptural plaque from the original Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem.
This is marked "Made in Palestine" as it is from the British Mandate period. It is in an Orientalist design of the Tower of David. marked in Hebrew and English.
Jerusalem's Bezalel School
The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, was founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz. In 1903, Schatz met Theodore Herzl and became an ardent Zionist. At the Zionist Congress of 1905, he proposed the idea of an art school in the Yishuv (early Jewish settlements), and in 1906 he moved to Israel and founded the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem. Bezalel, which was a school for crafts as well as for graphic art, became successful very rapidly. Schatz’s vision was to develop useful arts and crafts among Palestinian Jews, thereby decreasing the dependence on charity. At the same time, he sought to inspire his students to create a Jewish national style of the arts, in order to promote the Zionist endeavor. The inhabitants of 19th-century Palestine, both Jewish and non-Jewish, had produced mostly folk art, ritual objects and olive-wood and shell-work souvenirs, as well as oil painting, sculpture, tapestry and mosaics. So the founding of Bezalel provided a professional and ideological framework for the arts and crafts in Jerusalem. The school employed workers and students, of whom there were 450 in 1913, in manufacturing, chiefly for export, decorative articles ranging from cane furniture, inlaid frames and ivory and wood carvings, to damascene and silver filigree and repousse work.
A major part of Schatz’s school was the workshops, which, starting with rug-making and silversmithing, eventually offered 30 different crafts. Workshops included the "Menorah" workshop where they designed relief and souvenirs made of terra-Cotta, and the Sharar, Stanetsky and Alfred Salzmann workshops where Menorah lamps...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Visage d’homme (Man’s Head), 1968-1969 A.R. 570
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Visage d’homme (Man’s Head), 1968-1969 A.R. 570 showcases the artist’s unrivaled ability to illustrate human nuance. Each aspect of the man’s face, from his furrowed brow to his side gaze is carefully illustrated. The crowding of horizontal lines on his brow and vertical lines on his nose bring a sense of tension to his face, which compounds the furrowed brow.There are only two colors on the plaque, black and red, but the semi circle of hair atop the mans head...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Clay
Pac-Man (Blue edition) - Mini Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI
Pac Man (Blue edition)
Sculpture in resin
Metallic Sky Blue
About 10 cm (c. 3.9 in)
Presented in original box
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Modern Brutalist Metal Sculpture of an Abstract Skeletal Figure in a Locker
By Bob Fowler
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract brutalist metal sculpture by Houston artist Bob Fowler. The work features a skeletal figure welded in a box or locker. Firmly attached to a white and natural wood bas...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Walking Terrier and Running Terrier: A Pair of Bookends
By Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
DESCRIPTION
Bronze with brown patina
4 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 2 7/8 inches
6 x 7 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches
Signed
Kunst Foundry, NY
PROVENANCE
Private collection, New York
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Leopards
Located in Rome, IT
Fantastic pair of gilt bronze leopard sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tête de cariatide Head of Caryatid
By Amedeo Modigliani
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amedeo Modigliani
1884-1920 Italian
Tête de cariatide
Head of Caryatid
Signed “Modigliani” and numbered “1/8” (near base)
Bronze
The figural works of the iconic modernist Amedeo Modigliani are known for their instantly recognizable style, and they are among the most coveted in the world of art collecting, with Modigliani ranking among the world’s ten most valuable artists of all time. This monumental bronze, conceived by the artist in 1910, demonstrates his mastery of sculpture. Sculpting was the artist’s self-proclaimed first and true passion — a fact sometimes overlooked due to the success of his paintings and the overwhelming rarity of his sculptures. His famed Tête series from which this bronze hails stands as his most important sculptural output, with works recognized for their timeless quality and strong, stoic presence. Tête de cariatide reflects these qualities and provides a compelling glimpse into Modigliani’s greatest artistic passion.
This bronze is an enlarged casting of a wooden sculpture — the only known sculpture that Modigliani carved in wood rather than stone. Commissioned posthumously by Modigliani’s daughter Jeanne alongside the Modigliani Institute, the bronze iteration here perfectly captures the rich woodgrain texture of Modigliani’s original carving and retains its careful compositional balance. Soulful and intense, it reflects the exaggerated yet elegant elongation of the artist’s figural paintings, which became his much sought-after signature style.
Modigliani’s interest in African and other non-Western art is well-documented. This bronze is reminiscent of a tribal mask or ancient deity, both due to its exaggerated features and the totemic appearance achieved by the work’s texture, meditative presence and sheer size. Yet the work also alludes to the artist’s Italian heritage and training. A caryatid is a staple of classical architecture, an ornate column...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pac-Man (Red edition) - Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI
Pac Man (Red edition)
Sculpture in resin
Metallic Red
About 18 cm (c. 7 in)
Presented in original box
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Bronze Sculpture Relief Rhinoceros with Tree American Modernist Leonard Baskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000)
Fruitfulness From Permanence
signed, edition 3/8
Bronze, 1967
19.5 X 16 X 1.5 inches
The inspiration for this work was a Bernini sculpture Elephant Carrying Obelisk, a 17th century commission outside an ancient temple dedicated to Minerva the goddess of wisdom. It was one of several works from 1967 on a theme of continuity
Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960).
The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin.
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Arman, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover, Edmond...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Me soaking up the light....", Porcelain Cup with Sgraffito Detailing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Me soaking up the light…", 2019 by Alex Hodge
From the series Fragments of Our Love Story
Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing
4 in. x 3 in. W x 2.75 in.
This cup is one of 48 that make up the installation, “Fragments of Our Love Story.” These cups feature feminine forms which recall the Venus of Willendorf and other historical fertility...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint, Underglaze
Virasat Curved, figurative bronze mantle piece
By Robert Cook
Located in Greenwich, CT
A remarkable and unique format bronze of unique cast that could be great for a mantle or console table.
In Robert Cook's book entitled “Waxing and Waning” he discusses three castings...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Samson, Bronze Sculpture by Arnold Goldstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bronze sculpture of blind Samson collapsing the temple in the ultimate act in the story of Samson and Delilah created by American artist Arnold Goldstein...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Head Of A Warrior Large Clay Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Head of a warrior.
Modern Pre Columbian style clay, terracotta sculpture artist signed on the right bottom.
Walter Bastianetto is an Italian born sculptor who moved to Mexico in the...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Clay
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