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Art For Sale
Style: Minimalist
Color:  Gold
Ruth Bloch, Couple in a window, bronze wall sculpture
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Ruth Bloch, Couple in a window, wall sculpture, Bronze sculpture, two nude figures with a book, classic figures, couple in love, Israeli art , Israeli artist, art
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Bronze

Minimalist Abstract Bronze Sculpture
By Ruth Vollmer
Located in Surfside, FL
In this abstract sculpture by Ruth Vollmer, the fusion between contrasting concepts: mathematical precision and natural "organicism", materials in both raw and manipulated states are evident. Signed by the artist. Ruth Vollmer (1903 - 1982 New York City), was a German artist born in Munich. She was born in 1903 and named Ruth Landshoff. Her father, Ludwig Landshoff, was a musicologist and conductor and her mother, Phillipine Landshoff, was an opera singer. Their family was Jewish. At age 19 she began to work as an artist and took the advice of her father to draw every day. She also had many connections to the teachers and students at the Bauhaus. In 1930 she married a pediatrician named Hermann Vollmer, whom she met in Berlin. Ruth and Hermann move from Germany to New York in 1935. Ruth begins work designing window displays for Bonwit Teller, Tiffany's, Lord & Taylor, and other department stores. Her displays experimented with wire, steel, and copper mesh to create figural forms. In 1943, Vollmer becomes a U.S. citizen. In 1944 she receives a commission from the Museum of Modern Art for its fifteenth anniversary exhibition, "Art in Progress." Vollumer continues to work with wire mesh and shows her work Composition in Space at the Museum of Modern Art's 1948 exhibition "Elements of Stage Design." In 1950, she was commissioned to create a mural for the lobby of 575 Madison, where Vollmer created a large wall relief that used wire rods and wire mesh to play with light, texture, and transparency. Vollumer visits Giacometti for a second time during the summer of 1951. During the 1950s she begins to works with clay as well. Additionally, in 1954 she begins to teach at the Children's Art Center at the Fieldston School in Riverdale and continued to teach until the mid-sixties. In 1960, Vollmer participates in the NYU discussion series "Artists on Art" with her friend Robert Motherwell. 1960 is an important year because she also has her first one-person exhibition at Betty Parson's Section Eleven gallery space. Throughout the 1960s Vollmer works with bronze and as well as showing at Betty Parson's gallery several times. In 1963, she joins the group American Abstract Artists (AAA) and includes her work in their exhibitions from 1963 on. By 1970 Vollmer's art is working with complex geometrical forms and mathematical concepts, particularly spirals and platonic solids. Sol LeWitt wrote a short essay on Vollmer's work for Studio International titled "Ruth Vollmer: Mathematical Forms." Vollmer protests the cancellation of the Hans Haacke at The Solomon R. Guggenheim exhibition by writing a letter to the director, Thomas Messer, in 1971. In 1976, she had a large one-person exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art. In 1982, Ruth Vollmer dies after a long battle with Alzheimer's. A majority of her large personal art collection of over one hundred sculptures, paintings, and drawings is donated to MoMA. Her art collection included works by Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, Agnes Martin, and Vardea Chryssa. Exhibitions 1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery. Mino Argento...
Category

20th Century Minimalist Art

Materials

Bronze

Turquoise blue and white capsule -line drawing figure with gold disk and stripes
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The diptych were done with oil, gold leaf pen 18 kt in turquoise blue and gold color on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 11 by 14 inches in size, frame...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Ruth Bloch, Kiss, romantic bronze sculpture, minimalist sculpture
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Ruth Bloch, Bronze sculpture, Kiss, 2 figures, classic theme , romantic sculpture, minimalist sculpture
Category

Early 2000s Minimalist Art

Materials

Bronze

Bomba Blanca 4. Ceramic mural sculpture with gold and copper details.
By Jaime Avila Ferrer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jaime Avila Ferrer Bomba Blanca 4. Capitolio de Washington DC - Capitolio De la Habana Measure: 20.5" x 5" x 5" Wall ceramic sculpture with gold and copper intervention 2006 Jaime Avila Ferrer is a world-renowned artist whose work combines painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography. He uses mixed media in some pieces such as Dust, in which dots of white paint are applied to a darkened Plexiglas surface to form pictures of urban landscapes from the granulations. Outline for Dust is an artwork in which he connects the cityscape of Bogota with the JFK airport in New York. He uses traditional approaches to examine social, political, and environmental topics. Avila studied civil engineering at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota (1983–1987) and received his degree in Fine arts from the same university (1988–1991). He has presented solo shows such as Talento Pirata, Jaime Ávila (Pirate talent, Jaime Ávila), at the Nueveochenta Gallery in Bogota (2013). His first shows in the United States were Life is a Catwalk at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and 4th World – Five Cubic Meters at the Boston Arts Academy (2005). Ávila represented Colombia at the XXVI Sao Paolo Biennial in Brazil (2004), the III Liverpool Biennial in the United Kingdom (2004), the II Mercosul Biennial in Brazil, (2000), and the FIAC in Paris, France (1999). He has participated in exhibitions such as ¡No más chicha!, at Alcuadrado Variable in Bogota (2009), the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, and the Casa de las Américas in Madrid, Spain (2004), Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography (1990–2005), at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, United States (2010), Resurfaced: Contemporary Colombian Art...
Category

Early 2000s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold, Copper

Green and white capsule - line drawing figure with gold disk and stripes
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The diptych were done with oil, gold leaf pen 18 kt in green and gold color on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold o...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Turquoise and white capsule - line drawing figure with gold disk and stripes
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The diptych were done with oil, gold leaf pen 18 kt in turquoise and gold color on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (go...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Minimalist Figurative Mixed Media, "I was Just Following You"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind minimalist mixed media work by San Diego artist, Stacy Nixon. Its dimensions are 26"x40". It comes in a white frame. A certificate of authenticity will follow...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

The Piramid of the Sun - line drawing figure with gold disk and stripes
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with oil, gold leafing pen 18 kt and ink in gold and turquoise color on watercolor paper 300g. The work are 20 by 15 inches in size, ...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold

Swallowtail Butterfly, Guy Allen, Limited Edition Print, Affordable Animal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Please note the price is for the unframed original etching . Swallowtail Butterfly is an original etching, engraved onto a copper plate, from which Guy Allen creates an impression o...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

The Piramid of the Sun - line drawing figure with gold disk and stripes
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with oil, gold leafing pen 18 kt and ink in gold and turquoise color on watercolor paper 300g. The work are 20 by 15 inches in size, ...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold

Three's Company, Triptych. From the origin series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Three's Company Individual framed size :18" x 18' Overall size: 18 in. H x 54i" n W Framed ed 2/3. The Origins Series They were created as an investigation into the beginnings...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

A Runner, Contemporary Bronze Figurative Original Sculture
Located in Warsaw, PL
MICHAŁ KUBIAK (born in 1946) Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (1967-1972). He received his degree in sculpture in the studio of Olgierd Truszyński. Since 1972 he has p...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Granite, Bronze

A Sitting Nude, Contemporary Bronze Figurative Original Sculture
Located in Warsaw, PL
MICHAŁ KUBIAK (born in 1946) Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (1967-1972). He received his degree in sculpture in the studio of Olgierd Truszyński. Since 1972 he has p...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Granite, Bronze

A Pierrot, Contemporary Bronze Figurative Original Sculture
Located in Warsaw, PL
MICHAŁ KUBIAK (born in 1946) Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (1967-1972). He received his degree in sculpture in the studio of Olgierd Truszyński. Since 1972 he has p...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Granite, Bronze

A Standing One, Contemporary Bronze Figurative Original Sculture
Located in Warsaw, PL
MICHAŁ KUBIAK (born in 1946) Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (1967-1972). He received his degree in sculpture in the studio of Olgierd Truszyński. Since 1972 he has p...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Granite, Bronze

A Wanderer, Contemporary Bronze Figurative Original Sculture
Located in Warsaw, PL
MICHAŁ KUBIAK (born in 1946) Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (1967-1972). He received his degree in sculpture in the studio of Olgierd Truszyński. Since 1972 he has p...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Granite, Bronze

The Flight (wood bronze bird abstract art marble zen sculpture pedestal bird)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The sculpture is entirely made of bronze and forms three stylized birds taking flight. The birds rest on a green marble plate. This work may recall the art of Native Americans in Wes...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art

Materials

Bronze

The Nest (bronze bird abstract native zen sculpture pedestal fine art eggs)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
This sculpture entirely made of bronze. The eggs are patinated with a marble blue color while the nest is patinated with a mix of golden, green and brown colors. Executed through a c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art

Materials

Bronze

"Swing" minimalist bronze sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
"Swing" is a minimalist abstract sculpture in fabricated bronze that was conceived in 1969 and can be considered a Mid-Century Modern artwork. It is finished with Clement Meadmore's ...
Category

1960s Minimalist Art

Materials

Bronze

Spar
Located in New York, NY
Spar, 2021 Bronze 18 x 11 x 18 1/2 inches Signed and dated, lower right
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Bronze

"Nine Forms (Blue), " Acrylic, Gold and Silver Leaf on Canvas - Minimalist
Located in Houston, TX
Similar to Nine Forms (Red), Nine Forms (Blue) relates to good feelings. This painting refers to the love and respect the Thai people have for their King. Artwork Details: Parinya ...
Category

1990s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

"Nine Forms (Red), " Acrylic, Gold and Silver Leaf on Canvas - Minimalist
Located in Houston, TX
The color red and the odd numbers of one, three, five and nine are all considered lucky by many Asians. By presenting these nine triangular forms on red, Parinya communicates good fe...
Category

1990s Minimalist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

"Nine Forms (White), " Acrylic, Gold and Silver Leaf on Canvas - Minimalist
Located in Houston, TX
Similar to Nine Forms (Red), Nine Forms (White) relates to good feelings and purity that is attained by living a spiritual life. Artwork Details: Parinya Tantisuk "Nine Forms (Whit...
Category

1990s Minimalist Art

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Gold Leaf

Black Beauty
Located in New York, NY
Painted bronze 12 (d) x 23.7 (w) x 18.1 (h) in. (30.5 x 60.2 x 46 cm) Edition of 20 Signed, dated and numbered on base
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2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Bronze

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