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An Art Deco bronze relief in the style Swedish Graze by an unknown artist inspired by Carl Milles modern classicism. The concept of Swedish Grace was introduced by the English archi...

Beautiful original bronze sculpture of a female nude dancer in the Art Deco period. Circa 1930. The artist is the well known American sculptor, Allan Clark. Signed in the base by th...

An original carved wood sculpture of an Art Deco standing nude . German sculptor (1871 Berlin to 1942 ibid), studied at the Dresden Academy, took part in exhibitions in Munich, Düsse...

Two Figures (Mother and son) 9" x 17" terracotta sculpture, signed lower left mounted to wood panel, 15 1/2" x 23 1/2" George Aarons (born Gregory Podubisky, in St. Petersburg, Russ...

Wonderful Italian sculpture representing a seated maiden. The artwork rests on a square marble base Signed on the base “Gaetano Martinez Roma” According a written opinion by Prof. Al...

Birdhouse - city gate - on oak stele oxidized 20x20x100 cm Delight your garden birds with an aesthetically pleasing feeding tower. Designed in detail, with different sized windows,...

An official artist of the Nazi regime, trained in Montparnasse in the 1930s, Arno Breker continued to sculpt after the fall of the Third Reich, producing large-scale public commissions in Germany and portraits of prominent figures. The two small bronzes presented here, dated around 1978, are part of a long tradition of prancing horses dating back to antiquity. The asymmetrical treatment of the two front legs and the inclination of the head make these two copies of the same artwork a highly decorative pair. 1. Arno Breker, a prolific sculptor, from the Bohemia of Montparnasse to the commissions from the Third Reich ... and from the Federal Republic of Germany The son of a stone carver, Arno Breker studied fine art and anatomy in his native Elberfeld. At the age of 20, he entered the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. He moved to Paris in 1926, where he continued his training in the studio of Maillol, who dubbed him "the German Michelangelo of the twentieth century". He shared a studio with Alexandre Calder and frequented Jean Cocteau, Foujita, Brancusi, Pablo Picasso and other artists of the bohemian Paris of the time. It was also in Paris in 1933 that he met Demetra Messala, the daughter of a Greek diplomat who posed for Maillol and Picasso, whom he married in 1937. Having won the Prussian Prix de Rome in 1932, he left Paris to stay at the Villa Massimo, the German Academy in Rome. Returning to Germany in 1934, his style evolved towards a more marked imitation of ancient sculpture. He created two monumental statues for Berlin's Olympic Stadium, before being appointed professor at the Berlin College of Fine Arts in 1937. He came to the attention of the Reich Propaganda Ministry, which awarded him several commissions and provided him with three large studios in which Breker produced many monumental sculptures to the glory of the regime. On June 23, 1940, Breker accompanied Adolf Hitler during a visit to Paris. During the Occupation, his political connections enabled him to intervene on behalf of many artists pursued by the Nazis: for example, he protected Pablo Picasso (then a Communist) from Kommandantur officers. Most of Arno Breker's work was destroyed in Berlin at the end of the war in 1945 by bombing and intentional destruction perpetrated by soldiers of the victorious powers. After the fall of the Nazi regime, however, Arno Breker was never prosecuted. He opened a new studio in Düsseldorf, where he sculpted until his death in 1991. He then carried out several public commissions in Germany (Bayreuth, Wuppertal), as well as portraits of numerous personalities, including King Mohammed V of Morocco, Léopold Sedar Senghor (commissioned by the Académie Française in 1978) and the two chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard. The Arno Breker Museum in Nörvenich is now exhibiting some of his artworks. 2. Related artworks: from the Wild Horses of the Quirinal to the Horses of Marly The prancing horse is a major iconographic theme, found in a series of sculptures from Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Classical Age. Various photos from Arno Breker's studio in Berlin confirm the predominant place of equine representations in his work (alongside male nude statues), and confirm that this reduced version created in 1978 is part of the artist's preferred repertoire. Prancing horses are generally associated with a male figure in a group that, through a reference drawn from Antiquity, symbolizes man's domination over nature. In this respect, it is very interesting to compare our small bronzes with the horse forming part of a large sculpture by Arno Breker (made in 1936 and probably destroyed in 1945) depicting Alexander taming Bucephalus. This statue is itself directly inspired by one of the best-known works of 18th-century French sculpture...

Reddish Studio Naama Steinbock and Idan Friedman Candlestick United 2008 Handmade and limited edition menorah colored cast iron frame, found candlesticks Each one off (these are each unique) Limited Edition Chanukah Menorah Dimensions: 28 x 49 x 8.5 cm (11 x 19 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.); weight: 6.450 kg, Hand signed underneath base Provenance: Tiroche, Herzliya, Israel, July 7, 2012, lot 137 (it sold for 4140$) A Hanukah Menorah from the series was sold on May 2010 at Dorotheum, Vienna, for 5,381 EUR. Exhibited: Reinventing rituals, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, April- Oct, 2010 Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, 2009 Judaica Twist, Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2009 LITERATURE 500 Judaica: Innovative Contemporary Ritual Art, (Asheville: Lark Books, 2010), illustrated inside and on verso. A pair of Shabbat candlesticks from the series was bought for the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. A pair of Shabbat candlesticks from the series was given as a prize of "comprehension and tolerance" to the Chancellor of Germany Angela Markel by the Jewish Museum in Berlin. A Hanukah Menorah from the series was bought for the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum in New-York Reddish Studio, Modern Israeli design, Contemporary Judaica, Menorah, Conceptual design, Minimalist Judaica, Hanukkah lamp, Studio Reddish menorah, Collectible Judaica. There has been a resurgence of fine artists making Judaica, There was initial generation of the Bezalel School in Jerusalem and later Ludwig Wolpert, whose spare, geometric, functionalist style was influenced by the Bauhaus school in particular and modernism in general, Moshe Zabari, Maxwell Chayat, in New York, Menachem Berman...

American sculptor Joseph Martinek was born in Chicago in 1915. He was a second generation apprentice to Auguste Rodin. He studied sculpture at the State Industrial School of Art, Pra...

"Mercury" NYC 1931 Bronze 5th Ave Traffic Light Sculpture American Art Deco WPA In the late 1920s, Joseph Freedlander was asked by the City of New York ...

"La Comete" Iconic French Art Deco Silvered Bronze 1920s Female Nude Maurice Guirard-Riviere (1881 - 1947) La Comete Silvered bronze 23 inches wide x 19 3/4 inches high x 5 1/2 inc...

Mireia Serra creates sensuous bronze and iron sculptures showing the beauty of snapshots caught in life which are full of emotions and feelings along the life journey. Her metal artw...