Art

Interpreting reality with skill and expertise is Margherita Leoni's principal value. She has been studying botany for decades and has an incredible hand that allows her to make water...

"Old Bitch" figures the female cow in posture that could be interpreted as either playful and canine-like, or troublingly docile and submissive. Relying on traditional skills of repr...

Pomme Bouche, Brooch, Claude Lalanne, French, Design, 1990's, Bronze, Jewels Brooch Pomme Bouche 1990 Edition Arthus-bertrand, Paris Bronze with a golden...

A Connection and a Bond by Lélia Pissarro Mixed media on canvas 65 x 54 cm (25 ⅝ x 21 ¼ inches) Signed Executed in 2008 Literature: Lélia Pissarro, The Colours of Silence, London, 2...

DOB 2020 Pearl Gold White is a hand-crafted lithograph on paper, 14.5 x 14.5 inches image size, signed and numbered 42/100 lower right. Framed in a contemporary white frame.

Canadian artist Richard Tosczak captures the beauty and elegance of the human form in his sculptures. This piece shows a nude female in a strong pose, arms raised above her head. Mas...

Margherita Leoni's small and precious painting presents all the fullness of thriving nature offering its fruits. As in sacred art, gold has always evoked the divine, the choice of th...

Erté is largely credited with creating the look of the Jazz Age. The 'Roaring Twenties' is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, but also in London and P...

The Rue Faubourg St. Honoré is a famous street in Paris's 8th District. While narrow compared to the Champs Elysées, it is considered the capital of Haute Couture due to the presence...

Whether in the draping of a silk gown worn by an opera diva, or in the sparkle of an intricately beaded headdress worn by a woman of society, Erté had an exceptionally acute visual memory of every detail of his early design creations. It was no wonder then that his fashion designs were so adeptly applied to the sculpture format. In Mermaid, we have a fine example of how Erté carried the technical possibilities of the sculpture medium to a new level. This attention to detail added to his legend as one of the Twentieth Century’s foremost artist-designers, with work represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Paris Opera House, the Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Through Mermaid, Erté takes us beyond the female form by choosing the intriguing legendary sea creature whose upper body is that of a woman, and whose lower body is that of an aquatic creature. In quintessential Erté style...

The inspiration for this sculpture comes from Erté's original costume design entitled "Texas," for the 1917 New York stage production of "The American Millionaires." This spectacular...

Chinchilla Sleeves is based on a 1924 fashion design for Harper's Bazaar that showcased Erté's stunning new wraps and gowns for the upcoming season. A velvet gown edged with chinchil...

On the Avenue was created originally as a gouache and presents a female figure wearing a typical 1920's flapper outfit. During the 1920s, fashion for young women focused less on the ...

Sisters was inspired by a gouache painting from 1921 entitled 'Les baisers pervers ou la brune et la blonde' and is a wonderful example of an invention of Erté's from the early 1920s...

L’Orientale à la Mandoline by GEORGES MANZANA PISSARRO (1871-1961) Mixed media with gold on paper 31.5 x 41.5 cm (12 ⅜ x 16 ⅜ inches) Signed lower right, Manzana Executed in 1910 T...

Cabaret, so evocative of cabaret-style shows, was a costume design for a 1940 production entitled 'Dream Waltz' by Oscar Strauss, based on a novella from 1905 by Hans Müller-Einingen...

Originally executed as a fashion illustration for Harper's Bazaar, The Wave presents an anthropomorphic vision of feminine beauty borne from the sea while paying homage to Hokusai’s ...

Erté, considered by many as the “Father of Art Deco,” often acknowledged that his love for the theater was a great source of creativity and inspiration. He conveyed in his art a drama with which he lived his life – a dream that came from the very innermost expression of his soul. Just like theater has two faces - comedy and tragedy - Erté was a brilliant showman, as well as a quiet man who sometimes would prefer to be left alone. From a young age, he was immersed in the world of opera, ballet, and theater. When he designed costumes and sets for theatrical productions, it was a lifelong desire that he was fulfilling. “Broadway’s in Fashion” is a fitting tribute to the legendary Broadway from a man who pursued the theatrical in everything he did. In 1978, Erté was honored by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation at a gala celebration in New York entitled “Broadway’s in Fashion” for which Erté designed the poster. This led to a CBS-TV film on Erté narrated by the legendary Diana Vreeland, and an exhibition of his costume designs at the Boston Center of the Arts. This sculpture, in scarlet and black, with white gold embellishments, incorporates the elements for which Broadway is best known. Her elegant and confident posture reveals her costume, which is itself an homage to Broadway – the scarlet robe with gold tassels evokes the stage curtain as it rises to reveal the first act, the male and female dancers, energetically giving their all for each performance, and the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy...

My Child by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Oil, gold paint, glitter and pencil on paper 13 x 15 cm (5 ¹/₈ x 5 ⁷/₈ inches) Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist. Artist biography: Born in Paris in 1963, Lélia is the third and youngest child of Hugues-Claude and Katia Pissarro...

Gold Ring is a lithograph on paper with an image size of 2 x 2 inches, initialed 'FMB' lower right and annotated lower left, framed in a contemporary silver and dark gray frame. Numb...

Thank you, Dotahn by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Tempera, watercolour and gold leaf and powder on paper 26 x 17 cm (10 ¹/₄ x 6 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower left, Lélia Pissarro. Titled and ...

As an artist he has always ‘coloured outside the lines’—Viktor Mitic is known for his provocative, playful and imaginative work. This striking sculpture features a series of stacked ...

"Untitled" is a bronze sculpture by Bill Nebeker. Signed on reverse base "Bill Nebeker CA 6/30". The full size is 23 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Bill Nebeker is an American artist ...

As a sculptor, Roch Smith often interprets the big questions in life in imaginative and playful ways. The Toronto artist is known for his use of toys –familiar childhood images that ...

It is a powerful image—at once compelling and provocative—an old-fashioned rocking horse, collapsed. This is the work of Nicholas Crombach. The Kingston based artist creates sculptu...

Esperanza Lithograph and screen print with gold leaf, 1972-3 Signed and numbered in pencil lower right (see photo) Edition: 11/150 From a portfolio of Ten Lithographs by Ten-Super-Re...

Adriana Marmorek RENDEZVOUS BLOWN, 2020 blown glass, bronze 1.97 x 9.45 x 6.5 in. 5 x 24 x 16.5 cm.

bronze with green patina inscribed 'S. Melani' (inside of hind leg) and inscribed 'S. Melani' (lower right of base) mounted on a marble base PROVENANCE Private collection, UK

Gold plated stainless steel outdoor sculpture. Abstract shapes in glossy red, orange, violet and blue with highlights of gold form a playful column in this outdoor sculpture by Vikto...

bronze with dark brown patina 72 x 69 cm (28⅜ x 27⅛ in.) signed 'L. MIGNON'; with an indistinct foundry inscription PROVENANCE: Private collection, London

gilt bronze on marble base

Yoshinori MIZUTANI (*1987, Japan) Moonlight 07, 2014 Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta paper 84 x 63 cm (33 1/8 x 24 3/4 in.) Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs p...

bronze, dark brown green patina signed 'A. Pina' and stamped 'A. Valsuani Cire Perdue' PROVENANCE Private collection, UK

(Possibly after) THE WORKSHOP OF SEVERO DA RAVENNA (ITALIAN, 1465-1543) Satyr from a Padovan model 18th/early 19th Century bronze 21 x 14 x 16 cm (8¼...

Wow! This large bronze sculpture by Floyd Elzinga is simply a ‘knock-out’ with its bright turquoise patina. The Canadian sculptor is known for using iconic i...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Inflation by David Breuer-Weil (b. 1965) Pencil and gold leaf on paper 43 x 66 cm (16 ⁷/₈ x 26 inches) Signed and...

Poule cayenne - Poule faisanne, 1st proof, 1906 Bronze with a black patina 28 x 22 13 cm Signed on the base : POMPON. Seal of the founder Cire Perdue A.A. Hebrard. Numbered (M) Certi...

This fun and somewhat whimsical sculpture recalls a cherished childhood memory for Roch Smith. The Toronto-based sculptor has hand-forged the bronze figure of a young boy on a bike balancing upright on its back wheel-popping a wheelie. He stands poised to ride off the top of a high, narrow steel track that ends in a loop reminiscent of the popular ‘Hot Wheels’ toy race car...

Sign by Artist in Lower Right The present work was published as an illustration for Elizabeth Goudge's short story "A Crock of Gold" in the August 1938 issue of Woman's Home Companion. The story follows a family of five children on their summer vacation in Scotland. The kids set...

Light Refraction #23, 2015 by Natasha Zupan From the series Light Refraction Oil, fabric, encaustic, 24K Gold, medium, on canvas Size: 9.5 in. H x 7.5 in. W x 3 in D. Canvas on a st...

Ferdinand Barbedienne (Saint-Martin-de-Fresnay 1810 – 1892 Paris) after Lorenzo Ghiberti (Florence, 1378 – 1455) Signed at the lower right of the principal relief: F. BARBEDIENNE Provenance: Private Collection, USA. Barbedienne’s “Gates of Paradise” reliefs are one of the triumphs of nineteenth-century bronze casting and patination. The nine panels that comprise our example are half-size reductions of the famous originals by Lorenzo Ghiberti, made for the Baptistery of Florence and now housed in the Museo del Opera del Duomo. Mounted in an impressive, mullioned frame surround, our work is an exceptional exemplar of the Renaissance Revival, the broadly influential style and movement that infused architecture, design, and artistic culture in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The central scene, The Story of Joseph, is perhaps the most celebrated of the entire series depicting as it does seven episodes from the Biblical narrative integrated into a single composition: Joseph cast by his brethren into the well, Joseph sold to the merchants, the merchants delivering Joseph to the pharaoh, Joseph interpreting the pharaoh’s dream, the pharaoh paying him honor, Jacob sending his sons to Egypt, and Joseph recognizes his brothers and returns home. The surrounding reliefs—two vertical figures in niches, two recumbent figures, and four portrait heads in roundels—are as well faithful reductions of Ghiberti’s original bronzes on other parts of the doors. The maker of these casts was the renowned 19th-century French fondeur Ferdinand Barbedienne. Gary Radke has recently written of this great enterprise: “The Parisian bronze caster Ferdinand Barbedienne began making half-sized copies of ancient and Renaissance sculpture in the 1830s. His firm benefitted enormously from the collaboration of Achille Collas, whom Meredith Shedd has shown was one of numerous pioneers in the mechanical reproduction of sculpture. Their competitors largely devoted themselves to reproducing relief sculpture, but Collas devised a process for creating fully three-dimensional copies. A tracing needle, powered by a treadle, moved over the surface of a full-sized plaster cast or bronze of the original and triggered a complementary action in a cutting stylus set over a soft plaster blank…He signed an exclusive contract with Barbedienne on November 29, 1838, and won medals for his inventions in 1839 and 1844. Barbedienne’s half-sized copies of the Gates of Paradise were famous not only for their fidelity to the original, but also for the way their gilding…suggested the glimmering surface that was hidden under centuries of dirt. Some critics even saw Collas’s and Barbedienne’s work as ‘philanthropic, an exemplary adaptation of industry to the requirements of art, the artist, the workers, and the public alike.’ At 25,000 francs, Collas’s and Barbedienne’s reduction of the Gates of Paradise was singularly more expensive than any other item for sale in their shop. All the reliefs, individual statuettes, and busts were cast separately and could be purchased either by the piece or as an ensemble. Fittingly, Barbedienne’s accomplishment earned him the Grand Prix at the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle, along with numerous other medals.” Three complete examples of the Barbedienne-Ghiberti doors are known. One, first installed in a chapel in the Villa Demidoff of San Donato near Pratolino, was later acquired by William Vanderbilt...

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Artist Marlene Hilton Moore continues to explore the theme of listening with the creation of more beautiful ‘singing bowls.’ Like ancient vessels they are intended to be objects of h...

signed 'A. Rivalta' (on the base)

Silvered bronze with marble base

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...

With cast signature 'A.L.BARYE.' (on the base)

Color Boundaries #34, #35, and #38, (Triptych) 2018 by Natasha Zupan -Color Boundaries #34 and #38 Oil, fabric, medium, on canvas -Color Boundaries #35 Oil, fabric, medium, gold, ...

Light Refraction #23 and Small White Lies, 2013-2015 by Natasha Zupan -Small White Lies, 2013 Oil, fabric, medium, on canvas -Light Refraction #23, 2...

Femmes au Paon by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Mixed media with gouache, gold and silver highlights and charcoal on paper 22.5 x 29.5 cm (8 ⁷/₈ x 11 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed lower ...

Masque de Napoléon sur un Rhinocéros, Sculpture, Dali, Gold, Animals, Bronze Masque mortuaire de Napoléon sur un rhinoceros Ed. 7/8 pcs Bronze with golden patina 32.5 x 30 x 18.5 cm Signed, numbered and foundry's stamp : 7/8 , Valsuani Dalì, Sculpture & Objets, Le dur et le mou, by Robert and Nicolas Descharnes, Eccart, 2004, similar cast illustrated under no.359-361, p.140. Fascinated since his childhood by Vermeer’s painting...

Abstract Composition in Blue & Gold 2 by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963) Acrylic and gold on canvas 61 x 50 cm (24 x 19 ³/₄ inches) Signed and inscribed on the reverse Executed in 2017 Thi...

A sculpture by Herb Alpert. "Arrowhead" is a bronze, abstract, totem sculpture by contemporary artist Herb Alpert.

The Ecstasy of St Teresa One of a kind “This piece is a part of the Historic Jar Collection and references Bernini’s marble sculpture of the same name. Whil...

Untitled #10 (female bust), 2016 from Los Infortunios De La Virtud series Antique porcelain bust with the intervention of oil, gold, silver, lea...

The Spirit of the Dead is Watching 2018 Porcelain and Gold One of a kind This intricate Porcelain and gold piece is part of Alex Hodge’s Historic Jar Collection that celebrates the...

Who washes the feet of Mary Magdalene? This piece recalls the art historical depictions of Mary Magdalene. Though she is often contextualized as the one who washed Jesus’s feet, Hod...

Nest: Black Swallowtails, 2021 Oil painting on gold leaf 16 x 16 in. Signed, titled, and dated on back of frame by Pam Burnley-Schol. "My w...