1950s Art
Period: 1950s
Color: Gold
Yves Klein Small IKB Venus Brooch Sculpture Jewel in International Klein Blue
By Yves Klein
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Klein, Small IKB Venus Brooch
Bronze multiple, painted with International Klein Blue (IKB).
From a model created in 1956.
Edition of 500 copies + 100...
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1950s Art
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Female torso
Located in Täby, SE
Gunnar Knut Nilsson, born 1904 in Karlskrona, died 1995 in Versailles in France, was a Swedish sculptor. Gunnar Nilsson studied watercolor painting and modeling at the Technical Vocational School in Karlskrona in 1918-19 and on his own in addition to working as a clerk at Finspångs Metallwerk. His debut exhibition was in Finspång in 1927. With the help of a local fundraiser, and after the encouragement of Carl Eldh, he traveled to Paris in 1928 to study sculpture for, among others, Charles Despiau and Paul Niclausse. In Paris he socialized with Bror Hjorth, whose former studio he also rented, Carl Frisendahl and Alberto Giacometti. He came to belong to "Le groupe des Neuf'' with Paul Cornet...
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French School 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Nude Oil On Panel "The Pose" By Jacques Van Rooten 20th
Located in Gavere, BE
Jacques van Rooten, is an artist born in Belgium. He was a painter of landscapes and portraits in a realistic style. Regularly exhibited in Belgium. He also made beautiful paintings ...
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Art Deco 1950s Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Bronze Sculpture of a Young Boar ( sculpture of a pig)
Located in Brookville, NY
A lovely bronze sculpture of a Boar, or Pig, nose up. The artist, who died at age 98, worked with some of most notable sculptors of her time. She sculpted along side Elizabeth Frin...
Category
English School 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
David Hostetler Figurative Sculpture Torso Gold Plaster Midcentury Rough Surface
Located in Nantucket, MA
Torso 1955 is a cast plaster with oil paint to resemble a bronze cast. The base is wood, carved, sanded and painted. The base shows slight wear on corners. The sculpture is perfect. ...
Category
Feminist 1950s Art
Materials
Plaster, Oil
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt - Henry Moore, sculpture, modern, british, small
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
"Offering, " Morris Graves, American Modernism, Owl, Bird, Gift, Present
Located in New York, NY
Morris Graves
Offering, 1957
Signed and dated lower right
Sumi ink wash and gold leaf on paper
18 x 13 3/8 inches
Born in Fox Valley, Oregon in 1910, Morris Graves was a leading proponent of the Northwest School...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Italian Modernist Bronze Brutalist Sculpture (Manner of Pomodoro)
Located in Surfside, FL
Large Modern Brutalist bronze sculpture in Manner of Arnaldo or Gio Pomodoro. We cannot locate a signature or any markings. it has an abstract quality to it. heavily textured with or...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
La Boisselune
Located in New York, NY
Émile Gilioli
La Boisselune
1954-59
Bronze
23.6 x 15.4 x 7.9 in, 60 x 39 x 20 cm
Signed, dated and numbered on the back:
“Gilioli, 59, 1/6"
Cast from La Plaine
Edition 1/6
P...
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Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Rhapsody
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Bronze sculpture of a musician by Nathaniel Kaz, signed and dated 1952. Measures 23” x 10” x 19” including the plinth base. Nathan Katz was born in the Br...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Francisco Narváez Forma (BFM-002), 1956, Bronze, Edition of 25, 30 x 8 x 10 cm
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco Narváez
Forma (BFM-002), 1956
Bronze (1970)
Edition of 25
30 x 8 x 10 cm
11.8 x 3.1 x 3.9 in.
LITTERATURE
Registro General de la obra de...
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture Figure with Beast American Modernist Leonard Baskin Museum Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin, American 1922-2000
Homage to the Un-American Activities Committee
Bronze relief sculpture plaque
This is not editioned, nor signed or numbered, on the piece but according to the catalog there was 12 or less.
A number of these are in museum and university art collections and one of them was exhibited at MoMA NY.
This was done to commemorate the communist witch hunts of the Mccarthy era. An important, historic piece.
Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine, small edition, book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960).
The Funeral Cortege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his signed work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin.
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Arman, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover, Edmond Casarella...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Francisco Narváez, Forma, 1956, Bronze, Edition of 25, 30 x 8 x 10 cm
Located in Miami, FL
Francisco Narváez
Forma (BFM-049), 1956
Bronze (1970)
Edition of 25
30 x 8 x 10 cm
11.8 x 3.1 x 3.9 in.
LITTERATURE
Registro General de la obra de...
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Two bronze busts of girls
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Two vintage bronze busts of girls by Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thanh Le. The bronze busts have a shiny black patina and are mounted on a wood plinth painted wi...
Category
Other Art Style 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Crucifixion
By Doris Caesar
Located in Greenwich, CT
signed "Caesar" lower right edge
American, 1892-1971
Doris Porter Caesar was born in 1892 in Brooklyn, New York. Her father’s successful career as a lawyer allowed her to attend Mi...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Fleet Moment
By Doris Caesar
Located in Greenwich, CT
Featured in the Doris Caesar catalog by Martin H. Bush, page 110.
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Mother and Child, Bronze Sculpture by Chaim Gross
By Chaim Gross
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chaim Gross, Austrian (1904 - 1991)
Title: Mother and Child
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature inscribed
Size: 10 x 5 x 5 in. (25.4 x 12.7 x ...
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Salt Gold Sunset, Saturday Evening Post Story Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post sticker and editorial and production marks on verso.
This is more than just a simple semi-silhouette. It's a carefully crafted and wonderfully composed image. T...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Lovers - Bronze Sculpture by Luciano Minguzzi - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Realized by the Artist in 3 different variants, each with a different central body.
Declaration of authenticity signed by the Artist on rear of photo in 1975.
Provenance: Private Col...
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Esther Williams Poolside, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American actress and former swimming champion, Esther Williams, in a Florida swimming pool, 1955
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary deal...
Category
Realist 1950s Art
Materials
Lambda
Vision
By Doris Caesar
Located in Greenwich, CT
Expressionist figurative sculpture by Doris Caesar
Category
Expressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Rhino
By Roland d'Andlau-Hombourg
Located in Greenwich, CT
Bronze "Rhinoceros' by Roland d' Andlau-Hombourg (1927-2009)
signed, numbered 1/6
with Godard foundry stamp
R. d' Andlau was a gifted 'animalier' sculptor in the grand tradition ...
Category
French School 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Boy & Girl - 20th Century, Bronze, Sculpture by Lynn Chadwick
Located in London, GB
Signed, numbered from the edition of 3 plus artist's cast and inscribed with Susse foundry mark.
The leitmotif for Chadwick's work in the 1950's was the paired figure. From 1953 onwards, Chadwick developed an array of typologies, whose features he inflected and interchanged. The first manifestation was Conjunction, followed by Two Dancing Figures (or simply Dance), then Encounter, Teddy Boy...
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Primavera
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present an original very early bronze, (1958) by American sculptor Robert Russin.
Robert Russin began his career as a WPA sculptor, and received dozens of commission...
Category
Cubist 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Figures in Space - 20th Century, Bronze, Sculpture by Reg Butler
By Reg Butler
Located in London, GB
Signed with monogram and numbered from the edition of 8 (on left leg); stamped with foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris (on right leg).
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Herodias
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed and dated 1952 and numbered 3/10 on the back. This sculpture was included in a 1966 exhibition of Nakian's work at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
Reuben Nakian, born August ...
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
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Pop Art 1950s Art
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Nude, Oil on Canvas by B.Robert, Ca. 1930
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
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Located in New York, NY
Ruth Asawa
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Ruth Asawa's estate is represented by David Zwirner.
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This beautiful, limited edition signed cast bronze flower plaque makes a distinctive and original gift! It bears the artist's incised signature and is uniquely numbered from the limited edition of 2500. In 1979, the Crown Zellerbach Corporation of San Francisco, which had worked closely with her on neighborhood arts programs, commissioned Asawa to make a series of bronze bas-relief plaques, including this beautiful piece, which were cast by the Berkeley Arts Foundry.
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Ruth Asawa Biography
American artist, educator, and arts activist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) is known for her extensive body of wire sculptures that challenge conventional notions of material and form through their emphasis on lightness and transparency. Born in rural California, Asawa was first exposed to professional artists while her family and other Japanese Americans were detained at Santa Anita, California, in 1942. Following her release from an internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas, eighteen months later, she enrolled in 1943 in Milwaukee State Teachers College. Unable to receive her degree due to continued hostility against Japanese Americans, Asawa left Milwaukee in 1946 to study at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, then known for its progressive pedagogical methods and avant-garde aesthetic environment. Asawa's time at Black Mountain proved formative in her development as an artist, and she was particularly influenced by her teachers Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller, and the mathematician Max Dehn. She also met architectural student Albert Lanier, whom she would marry in 1949 and with whom she would raise a large family and build a career in San Francisco. Asawa continued to produce art steadily over the course of more than a half century, creating a cohesive body of sculptures and works on paper that, in their innovative use of material and form, deftly synthesizes a wide range of aesthetic preoccupations at the heart of postwar art in America.
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In 2018 to 2019, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis presented Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work, the first major museum exhibition of the artist’s work in more than a decade. An accompanying catalogue published by Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Yale University Press includes essays by Aruna D’Souza, Helen Molesworth, and Tamara H. Schenkenberg. The two-person exhibition, Lineage: Paul Klee and Ruth Asawa was on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2021. In 2022, Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe was on view at Modern Art Oxford, England, and later traveled to the Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Norway. Opening September 16, 2023 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York is Ruth Asawa: Through Line, a solo presentation which will later travel to the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston.
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Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Evening Shadow, Etruscan Bronze Figure, Museo Guarnacci Volterra
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Mid Century Figures in Bronze, Evening Shadow, Edited by The Museo Guarnacci in the 1950's.
Limited Edition, Bronze Medal Patina, Lost Wax, 15" in height with the base in black granite.
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Located in Roma, IT
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Located in Palo Alto, CA
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In the 1950’s and 1960’s Picasso initiated a collaboration with renowned goldsmith François Victor-Hugo. Together, they created a series of medallions all in gold based after original designs from Picasso. Much to Hugo’s dismay, Picasso initially refused to sell these works for profit and instead kept them as private treasures. However Picasso gave in to Hugo’s persistence and in 1967and authorized Hugo to make a small, 'numbered edition’ of each for sale. They were not sold publicly but rather dispatched to their respective buyers and so they attracted almost no publicity, making them quite rare. In fact, few outside of Picasso’s inner circle knew about their existence. Each gold medallion was individually selected, designed and approved by Picasso, revealing the special attachment the artist had towards the medallions.
This image is a splendid adaptation of Picasso’s ceramic work Centaur, 1956. The mythical creature becomes even more fantastical given the lustrous gold coloring of the medallion. Frolicking in the center, the centaur appears to jump, as if greeting its viewers. The carefully rendered lines and dots exaggerate the centaur’s movement. Playful and beguiling, Picasso’s design demonstrates his mastery of a multitude of mediums.
Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
This work is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work) :
1.C. Siaud & P. Hugo, Bijoux d'artistes Hommage à François Hugo...
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Located in Palo Alto, CA
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By Yves Klein
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Klein, Catalogue Raisonné
Plexiglas box with raw blue and pink pigments and gold leaves.
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Profil de Jacqueline, Pablo Picasso, Gold, Medaillon, Jewels, Design, Art
Located in Geneva, CH
Profil de Jacqueline, Pablo Picasso, Gold, Medaillon, Jewels, Design, Art
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1956
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Stamped and numbered on the back : Picasso 4/20, Goldsmith's mark, 1412
Certificate of authenticity issued by Pierre Hugo.
Provenance :
Workshop of François et Pierre Hugo, France
Private collection (acquired from the above)
Only 30 medallions were created after the Picasso?s design. Each of them is numbered out of 20 and made of 23 carats yellow gold.
François Hugo, great-grandson of the famous writer Victor Hugo, found his vocation in designing buttons for Coco Chanel and Christian Dior in the 1940s. His brother and sister-in-law, Jean and Valentine Hugo, were close friends of Picasso, Cocteau, Diaghilev, the Surrealists and many avant-garde artists in Paris, and François became part of their Salon gatherings. Picasso asked for his collaboration on the design and production of silver plates and later designs for gold jewellery too. Others, including Jean Cocteau and Max Ernst, followed his lead shortly after.
In 1972, François' son Pierre joined the goldsmith workshop and added more names to his catalogue of designers, still specialising in limited, hand-made editions. This medallion is an excellent example of the collaboration between these most iconic of 20th Century artists and goldsmiths.
"...In the period between 1956 and 1970 he had commissioned one of the most prominent goldsmiths working in France today, François Victor Hugo to execute a series of dishes, fruit bowls and medallions in gold and silver based on original models and designs? These objects are not posthumous "inventions" with motifs taken from various Picasso works; each was personally chosen, designed, seen, approved and cherished by Picasso himself during his lifetime ... " [1].
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"ROPIN THE WIND" COWBOY WESTERN BRONZE. 1959
By Harry Jackson
Located in San Antonio, TX
Harry Jackson
(1924-2011)
Wyoming / Illinois Artist
Image Size: Length: 17.5 Base to top of Lasso: 17 Width: 4.5
Medium: Bronze
Dated 1959
"Ropin The Wind"
Biography
Harry Jackson (1924-2011)
Harry Andrew Jackson (1924-2011)
Born with the name Harry Shapiro on the South Side of Chicago, Harry Jackson became a well-known 20th-century artists whose wide-ranging work includes painting and sculpture and styles ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Realism.
He was raised in a family where his mother ran a café near the Stockyards, and his father was a drunken, violent man. Jackson was often a truant from school and loved to wander around the Harding Museum looking at Frederic Remington bronzes...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Shoe
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is double-sided.
Ink and gold flake on paper.
Unique.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foun...
Category
Pop Art 1950s Art
Materials
Gold
Clown, Bronze Sculpture by Rube Goldberg
By Rube Lucius Goldberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rube Lucius Goldberg, American (1883 - 1970)
Title: Clown
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Bronze with patina, signature inscribed
Size: 12.25 in. x 3 in. x 6 in. (31.12 cm x 7.62 cm...
Category
Post-Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
Carl Aubock
Located in Washington, DC
Original vintage solid bronze sculpture by Carl Auböck (1900-57), Austria. Stamped signature. Hand made in Austria. Measures 7.5" H x 4.75" W.
Category
Abstract 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze
A Couple Embraced
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Modern Art Foundry NY mark at base. Excellent patina.
Category
Modern 1950s Art
Materials
Bronze