Wood Mixed Media

This sumptuous engraved wooden panel depicting panthers in the bush was created by N.R. Brunet (France, 20th Century). Art Deco design typical of the period, N.R. Brunet is known for...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Eagle" with burner insert on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden, is available in 3 different sizes, in the overall sizes 105 cm, 125 cm an...

This captivating piece truly stands out as an extraordinarily distinctive and exquisitely decorative example of Art Deco craftsmanship, bearing the signature 'D Edwards 21'. Despite ...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. The included bur...

2022, Mixed media on wood

2023, Mixed media on wood

2022, Mixed media on wood

2023, Mixed media on wood

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. If the spot is set up outside, she develops a gray patina. There are already individual lava stones in th...

"Bird of Fayoum" Mixed media work on wood 29.5" x 33.5" inch by Alfons Louis ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art (painting) Alexandria. In 1982 – Member of plastic art Egypt, member of Atelier Alexandria And member of Alexandria Work shop center...

"Eternity" Mixed media work on wood 18.5" x 71" inch by Alfons Louis Wooden works with Mixed Media (Bronze) ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art (painting) Alexandria. In 1982 – Member of plastic art Egypt, member of Atelier Alexandria And member of Alexandria Work shop center...

"Confluence" Mixed media work on wood 102" x 3" x 10" inch by Alfons Louis ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art (painting) Alexandria. In 1982 – M...

Extraordinary wire sculpture "Horse" on a quadratic oxidised oak pedestal for your garden. The mane is made of stainless steel. We produce this object in our own locksmith's shop, ...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Deer" with burner insert on an oxidised oak pedestal for our garden. In the included burner there are already single lava stones, so this burner...

Polygon dragon on oak stele oxidized Unique polygon sculpture with burner insert on an oxidized oak stele. The body of the dragon is made of rusty steel, whereas the wings are made...

This extraordinary garden torch "Horse" on oxidised oak pedestal is a real eye-catcher for your house or garden. The included burner already contains individual lava stones, so this...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Eagle" with burner insert on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden, is available in 3 different sizes, in the overall sizes 105 cm, 125 cm an...

Shipping costs on request The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Mask II" on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden, is available in 3 different sizes, in the overall sizes 97 cm, 117 cm and 147 cm. The burner already contains matching lava stones, so that it can easily be filled with liquid bioethanol and ignited decoratively. Of course, the oak stele also looks very decorative when operated with a candle. With the included lid, you can easily extinguish the flame, and it also protects the burner and its contents from the weather. Pure bioethanol is also called bioalcohol and burns residue-free, thus clean and soot-free, which is why it is often and gladly used...

"Disciples II" Mixed media work on wood 10" x 58" x 1" inch by Alfons Louis ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art (painting) Alexandria. In 1982 – Member of plastic art Egypt, member of Atelier Alexandria And member of Alexandria Work shop center...

This French Art-Deco hand-carved wooden panel or wall-mounted sculpture features a stunning Venetian mask. This high-dimensional panel is made of natural wood with a warm tone and re...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Mask I" on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden, is available in 2 different sizes, in the overall sizes 110 cm and 130 cm. The burner alre...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Eagle" with burner insert on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden, is available in 3 different sizes, in the overall sizes 105 cm, 125 cm an...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. The included bur...

Polygon dragon on oak stele oxidized Unique polygon sculpture with burner insert on an oxidized oak stele. The body of the dragon is made of rusty steel, whereas the wings are made...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Deer" with burner insert on an oxidised oak pedestal for our garden. In the included burner there are already single lava stones, so this burner...

Size includes wood mounting. George Aarons (born Gregory Podubisky, in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1896 - died in Gloucester, Massachusetts 1980) was a distinguished sculptor who lived and taught in Gloucester, Massachusetts, for many years until his death in 1980. He had, many students in the area and he designed Gloucester's 350th Anniversary Commemorative Medal. Aarons moved from Russia to the United States when he was ten. His father was a merchant. He began taking drawing classes during evenings at Dearborn Public School in Boston as a teenager and went on to study at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1916. Aarons later moved to New York City to study with Jo Davidson, and other Paris-trained masters at the Beaux-Arts Institute. He eventually returned to the Boston area and established studios in Brookline and Gloucester, Massachusetts. During his lifetime, he was recognized internationally and won several prestigious awards. Aarons had studios in Brookline, Massachusetts and Gloucester, Massachusetts where he produced large bronze and marble figures and wood carvings. He produced several projects for the Works Progress Administration including a group of three figures for the Public Garden (Boston), a longshoreman, fisherman and foundry worker, as well as a large relief (1938) for the South Boston Housing Project and façade of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregational Building (1956). His works are at the Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel; Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, Musée de St. Denis in France; Hilles Library at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Hillel House at Boston University in Massachusetts. He did reliefs for Siefer Hall at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (1950); Edward Filene (the founder of Filene's Department Store and a philanthropist) on the Boston Common; Fireman's Memorial in Beverly, Massachusetts; a memorial to Mitchell Frieman in Boston; the U.S. Post Office in Ripley, Mississippi; and at the Cincinnati Telephone Building; the Combined Jewish Philanthropies building in Boston (1965); and a commemorative medal for the 350th Anniversary of the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts (1972). Characteristic of his era, George Aarons was among the foreign-born American sculptors of the early 20th century who started their careers as academicians and evolved into modernists and increasingly abstract artists. Over thirty pieces spanning the length of this sculptor's career were featured in this exhibition, including work in various medium bronze, wood and original plasters. Like his contemporaries, Aarons experimented with direct carving in wood, and he was one of the few academically trained sculptors who consistently cut his own works in marble. His early work was classically inspired figurative work, along with sensitive portraits. Some of his most powerful sculpture comes from his middle period, when he worked through his emotional pain following the global realization of the Jewish Holocaust. He depicted humanity deep anxiety over this tragedy with figures that are at once symbolically charged and movingly beautiful. Aarons late work consists of radically simplified forms that continue to reference the human form and often are carved directly in wood and stone. Aarons summered and taught classes on Cape Ann for many years before moving to Gloucester full-time with his wife about 1950. While Aarons is best known locally for his domestic-scale works, he also executed numerous monumental, public commissions that can be found throughout the United States in cities such as Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; and Cincinnati, Ohio; as well as in France and Israel. As noted in a Gloucester Daily Times Article, Aarons wanted his sculptures to honor the struggles and nobility of people and rail against the evil done against them. And that was why, even as his work grew more and more abstract, stylized and simplified, he never left behind the form of the human figure that had been his focus from his earliest works. Aarons told the Gloucester Daily Times in September 1954 that he found it hard to remember at just what age he started studying art, but he recalled that the nude model had to partially dress when he was in class because he was so young. He initially studied painting and drawing at the museum school, but he once said he became fascinated by sculpture when he met an established sculptor at the Copley Society in Boston who invited Aarons to his studio and offered him some clay to "play around" with. After he graduated, he apprenticed under sculptors Richard Brooks, Robert Baker and Solon Borglum. He worked as a carpenter, shipbuilder, dishwasher and chimney sweep. He fashioned architectural decorations, including figures for fountains and now and then a few commissioned portraits. He returned to Boston by the early 1920s and began to exhibit his own works and get commissions for portraits, fountains and reliefs. His sculptures from this time are dreamy and romantic in the realistic, academic style of the time. A painted portrait of the young Aarons that is included in the North Shore Arts Association exhibit shows a determined fellow with dark brown hair, a suit and bow tie. However, in 1922, this determined young artist was living with his parents on Calder Street in Dorchester. In the 1930s, Aarons adopted the streamlined, monumental style of the socialist works of the time. Aarons made money, as he would all his life, from commissions, selling his personal work and teaching sculpture, but the Depression of the 1930s was tough for everyone. So Aarons found work though the federal Works Progress Administration, one of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs. He received his first major commission when he was asked to create a public sculpture for the South Boston Harbor Village public housing project around 1937. He was elevated to the position of supervisor for the project and received a corresponding $5 pay increase to make his weekly salary $32. The raise convinced him he was fit to marry and he proposed to Gertrude Band, an attractive brunette dancer whom he had been dating for more than a year. They were married before the Harbor Village project was dedicated on Labor Day 1938. Aarons' design featured a brawny, larger-than-lifesize fisherman, longshoreman and a laborer flanked by a boy and girl at either end to portray the children who would live in the apartments. Aarons elected to do the piece in cast stone to employ carpenters and laborers as well as craftsman for a total of 10 men. In his sculpture, Aarons focused more and more on the theme of oppressed people as he worried about the spread of fascism and Nazism during the 1930s, World War II and after. He had done pieces during the mid-1930s about the oppression of African-Americans, including "Negro Head," which is in the North Shore Art Association retrospective. After the war, he also delved into Jewish themes and became increasingly known as an important Jewish artist, leading to commissions from Jewish organizations across the country and abroad. "He gets into raw emotion. Some people describe him as an expressionist because of the emotion (in his work)," Reynolds says. But Aarons, also sculpted sensual sexual nudes...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. If the spot is set up outside, she develops a gray patina. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Al...

Polygon dragon on oak stele oxidized 20x20x70 Unique polygon sculpture with burner insert on an oxidized oak stele. The body of the dragon is made of rusty steel, whereas the wings...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. The included bur...

"Disciples I" Mixed media work on wood 13" x 59" inch by Alfons Louis Wooden works with Mixed Media (Bronze) ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art...

Extraordinary wire sculpture "Mask" on a quadratic oxidised oak pedestal for your garden. The eyes are made of stainless steel. We produce this object in our own locksmith's shop, ...

Polygon Dragon on Oak Column oxidized. Extraordinary polygon sculpture Dragon with a burner insert on an oxidised oak column 20 x 20 x 100 cm. There are already individual lava ston...

This extraordinary garden torch "Nature Crown" on oxidised oak pedestal is a real eye-catcher for your house or garden. The included burner already contains individual lava stones, ...

"Encounter" Mixed media work on wood 58" x 14" inch by Alfons Louis "Old Turk Walnut Wood with Bronze using Floral & Animal Elements of Coptic & Andalusian & Islamic Arts...

This extraordinary garden torch "Cube" on oxidised oak pedestal is a real eye-catcher for your house or garden. The included burner already contains individual lava stones, so this ...

This extraordinary garden torch "Horse" on oxidised oak pedestal is a real eye-catcher for your house or garden. The included burner already contains individual lava stones, so this...

This extraordinary garden torch "Flame" on oxidised oak pedestal is a real eye-catcher for your house or garden. The included burner already contains individual lava stones, so this...

This extraordinary garden torch "Nature" on oxidised oak pedestal is a real eye-catcher for your house or garden. The included burner already contains individual lava stones, so thi...

This extraordinary garden torch "Wings" on oxidised oak pedestal is a real eye-catcher for your house or garden. The included burner already contains individual lava stones, so this...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Mask II" on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden, is available in 3 different sizes, in the overall sizes 97 cm, 117 cm and 147 cm. The bur...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Mask I" on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden, is available in 2 different sizes, in the overall sizes 110 cm and 130 cm. The burner alre...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Horse" on a pedestal of oxidised oak for our garden. The mane is made of stainless steel. We manufacture this object in our own locksmith's sho...

Extraordinary wire sculpture "Horse" on a quadratic oxidised oak pedestal for your garden. The mane is made of stainless steel. We produce this object in our own locksmith's shop, ...

Piroque Lamp from Senegal on steel base. Kees has been surfing and sailing his whole life. Water, wind, waves and weather are his passion. In 2011 he moved to Dakar, Senegal and ins...

Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. If the spot is set up outside, she develops a gray patina. There are already individual lava stones in th...

"Alexandria 1" Mixed media and wood Sculpture 39"x18"inch by Alfons Louis Wooden work with elements of Bronze, Glass, and Iron. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art (painting) Alexandria. In 1982 – Member of plastic art Egypt, member of Atelier Alexandria And member of Alexandria Work shop center...

"Calligraphic Beam" Mixed media work on wood 14"x89"inch by Alfons Louis Wooden work with elements of Bronze, Glass, and Iron. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from ...