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Art Deco bronze silver plated and black patinated sculpture "Leda and the Swan" created in 1925 by the celebrated French painter and sculptor Marcel A. Bouraine. This piece was showe...

Modernist Abstract Bronze Sculpture of a Bull on a Marble Plinth A nicely detailed Charging Bull, top quality bronze bull depicted...

Antique 19th Century French Bronze Eagle on Marble Plinth, Circa 1880.

Claire Colinet signed Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture on marble plinth Claire Colinet was a Belgian-born sculptor, who worked primarily in the early 20th century. She is often re...

The elongated cast bronze sculpture of abstracted figures in a deep patinated brown show jagged figures together but separated in the conversation of life. They look away from each i...

A fine antique Egyptian Revival bronze sculpture. In the form of a male lion. Mounted atop a mottled rouge marble plinth. Simply a lovely Egyptian Revival bronze! Date: ...

A beautiful and extremely high quality Italian 19th century white Carrara marble statue of Leda and the swan. The statue is raised by a square base with a superb ground like design w...

Stunning stoneware sculpture by Stig Lindberg, narrating the mythological story of Queen Leda and the Swan. Beautiful attention to detail and expressiveness in Leda’s face, flowing h...

Mogens Bøggild. Bronze sculpture "Leda and the Swan", 1950-1960. Dark patinated bronze. Signed with monogram 'MB'. Mogens Kruse Bøggild (11 June 1901-25 April 1987) was a Danish ...

Falconet was born to a poor family in Paris. He was at first apprenticed to a marble-cutter, but some of his clay and wood figures, with the making of which he occupied his leisure h...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Leda and the Swan” is by Reuben Nakian (1897 - 1986). He was an American sculptor and teacher of Armenian extraction. His works’ recurring themes are from Greek and Roman mythology. Nakian’s small bronzes achieve majesty and power which are not dependent on size and amplitude. With characteristic freshness, he has reinterpreted the classical subject of Leda and the Swan refining it in the Classical-Renaissance-Baroque tradition in a contemporary way. Dr. Robert P. Metzger gives us his aesthetic interpretation of this work which retells the myth in classical hedonism and freedom of expression showing Leda and the Swann prior to her being ravaged and during their first meeting. “The young virgin is fascinated with her new found friend and accepts him in a spirit of playfulness, contentment and wonder. She is dreamily available and shyly seductive as the deceptively tame swan snuggles up to her with its phallic-like neck.” Leda appears composed, placid yet open and available as compared to her more intense and passionate states in other of Nakian’s depictions on the same theme. This was cast at the "Renaissance Art Foundry" in 1978 and is so marked on the base being #5 of 7. It is believed that “no other sculptor of the twentieth century matched Rueben’s heroic renditions with the grand themes of Western Art. His erotic mythological figures exude a joyous energy of gesture and movement which place them among seminal sculptural achievements of the past one hundred years.” Nakian studied at the Independent School of Art in New York City previously known as the Robert Henri School … with Homer Boss...

Beautiful Art Deco bronze sculpture of female with swan resting on marble base.