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Sculptures For Sale
Artist: Jim Ritchie
Artist: Sean Henry
At the Beach
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Bronze Edition 3/8 Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism, Abstract figurative work, and modernism, and the human figure is the subject of much of his work. Ritchie had several exhibitions in Montreal before moving to the small town of Vence in Provence, where he lived and worked for over thirty years. The Adelson Galleries...
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2010s Cubist Sculptures

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Bronze

Abstract
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Natural Bronze Signed on left side of bronze base Edition 1/8 Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is...
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20th Century Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Mannequin 85
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Patinated bronze mounted on a marble base. Edition: 7/8 Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is styli...
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1990s Cubist Sculptures

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Bronze

Les Trois Graces
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Bronze mounted on a marble base. Edition: 3/5 Signed verso "Ritchie 3/5" Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculp...
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1990s Cubist Sculptures

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Bronze

La Robe
Located in New York, NY
Medium: White bronze mounted on a marble base. Edition: 1/8 Signed verso "Ritchie 1/8" Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze ...
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1980s Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Cubist Nude 159
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Patinated bronze mounted on a marble base. Edition: 1/8 Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism, Abstract figurative work, and modernism, and the human figure is the subject of much of his work. Ritchie had several exhibitions in Montreal before moving to the small town of Vence in Provence, where he lived and worked for over thirty years. The Adelson Galleries...
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1990s Cubist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Galinea
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Natural bronze mounted on a marble base. Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked...
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20th Century Cubist Sculptures

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Bronze

Virginie
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Rose marble Signed at base: Ritchie 95 Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism, Abstract figurative work, and modernism, and the human figure is the subject of much of his work. Ritchie had several exhibitions in Montreal before moving to the small town of Vence in Provence, where he lived and worked for over thirty years. The Adelson Galleries...
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1990s Cubist Sculptures

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Marble

REPO
Located in London, GB
Edition of 9
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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Standing Man
Located in London, GB
Edition of 6
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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Seated Man
Located in London, GB
Edition of 6
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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Untitled
Located in London, GB
Edition of 9 Figure I (in green): 45 x 19 x 14 cm Figure II: 45 x 16 x 11 cm
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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Reclining Lounge Chair
Located in New York, NY
Edition 1/8 Medium: Patinated bronze Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism...
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1990s Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Reaching Figure
Located in New York, NY
Edition 1/8 Medium: Natural bronze Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism, Abstract figurative work, and modernism, and the human figure is the subject of much of his work. Ritchie had several exhibitions in Montreal before moving to the small town of Vence in Provence, where he lived and worked for over thirty years. The Adelson Galleries...
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1980s Cubist Sculptures

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Bronze

Nude in Motion
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Patinated bronze Edition: 1/8 Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism, Abstract figurative work, and modernism, and the human figure is the subject of much of his work. Ritchie had several exhibitions in Montreal before moving to the small town of Vence in Provence, where he lived and worked for over thirty years. The Adelson Galleries...
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1980s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Mythological Figure (Bone Figure)
Located in New York, NY
Edition 1/8 Medium: Patinated bronze Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism...
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1980s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Isabeau
Located in New York, NY
Edition 1/8 Medium: Patinated bronze Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism...
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1990s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Galinea
Located in New York, NY
Edition 1/8 Medium: Natural bronze on marble base Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linke...
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1990s Contemporary Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Jeune Fille
Located in New York, NY
Edition 1/8 Medium: Natural bronze Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism, ...
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1990s Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Standing and Reclining Figure
Located in New York, NY
Edition 1/8 Medium: Bronze cast of found, assembled bones. Mounted on marble. Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculpture...
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1980s Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Angelique Bis
Located in New York, NY
Edition 1/8 Medium: Natural bronze on a marble base Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically lin...
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1990s Contemporary Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Portrait
Located in New York, NY
A unique brass abstract sculpture mounted on a bronze base. Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism, Abstract figurative work, and modernism, and the human figure is the subject of much of his work. Ritchie had several exhibitions in Montreal before moving to the small town of Vence in Provence, where he lived and worked for over thirty years. The Adelson Galleries...
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1980s Contemporary Sculptures

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Brass

Mediterranean
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Patinated bronze mounted on a marble base. Edition: 2/8 (Signed verso on base "Ritche 2/8") Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawing...
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1990s Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Mother and Daughter, ed. 1/8
Located in New York, NY
Medium: Patinated bronze mounted on a marble base. Edition: 1/8 Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is styli...
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1980s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Isabeau, ed. 2/8
Located in New York, NY
This natural bronze sculpture mounted on a sleek marble base is the 2nd in an edition of 8 works. Jim Ritchie (1929-2017) born in Montreal, Canada, is known for his pastel drawings ...
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1990s Cubist Sculptures

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Bronze

The Dinner Table
Located in London, GB
Edition of 5 Bronze figures with painted wood table and chairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

LM
Located in London, GB
Fired clay, oil paint To be cast in a bronze edition of 6
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures

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Clay

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Mexican Art Abstract Brutalist Biomorphic Bronze Sculpture Mathias Goeritz
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Mathias Goeritz (German Mexican, 1915-1990) Bronze sculpture Signed and numbered Dimensions: (approximate) Height: 10 inches, Width: 4 inches, Depth: 2 inches. This is a cast bronze sculpture in an amorphous figure shape, quite heavy. Reminiscent of the biomorphic sculpture of Hans Jean Arp. This came from an estate and bears his signature It is not dated. there is no accompanying documentation. it is priced accordingly. Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner (Danzig, Germany, April 4th, 1915/ now Gdansk, Poland – Mexico City, Mexico; August 4th, 1990). Mathias Goeritz has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and at the Museo Experimental El Eco. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'MENSAJE' sold at Sotheby's New York 'Latin American Modern Art' in 2015 for $466,000. There have been Several articles about Mathias Goeritz, including 'LACMA remaps Latin America' written by Suzanne Muchnic for the Los Angeles Times. Painter, sculptor and Mexican architect associated with the trend of constructive abstraction. He studied medicine at the University of Berlin, but this only lasted a year. The concerns of the young student were aesthetic in nature so he he studied figurative drawing at the Berlin Charlottenburg School of Art. Some of his friends and colleagues were the sculptor Ernst Barlach, painter George Grosz and draughtsman Kaethe Kollwitz. Goeritz studied philosophy and history of art, discipline in which earned a doctorate. He travelled in France, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria and Italy, among other countries. It is known that he left Germany to live in Tetuan, Morocco in 1941 and then Granada, Spain in 1945. In 1946 he had a large exhibition in the Sala Clan in Madrid under the pseudonym "Mago". Two years later, living in Santilla del Mar, Spain he was a founder of the Escuela de Altamira. The following year he married Marianne Gast, writer and his companion for more than fifteen years. In Spain followed his artistic work by important artists of the avant-garde. Of Jewish descent, he found refuge from the Second World War in Mexico where in 1949 he was invited by Ignacio Diaz Morales to be a part of the faculty of the School of Architecture at the Universidad de Jalisco. In 1953 he wrote the "Manifiesto de la Arquitectura Emocional" (The Emotional Architecture Manifesto), where he points out that only achieving true emotions from architecture can it then be considered an art form. In Mexico he entered controversy with the artistic stablishment of that country; in an open letter, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros described him as "an impostor without the most insignificant talent and preparation" to be an artist. Despite this, in 1957 he was elected director of visual design of the National School of architecture This same year he founded the Museo del Eco in Mexico City. In 1961 Goeritz participated at the Galería Antonio Souza in a group exhibition, Los hartos, for which he published another manifesto. Other participants included Jose Luis Cuevas and Pedro Friedeberg, with whom he was instrumental in establishing abstraction and other modern trends in Mexico.His work is included in the Gelman Collection of modern and contemporary Mexican art based in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Established by Jacques and Natasha Gelman in 1943 as a private collection. it includes many iconic works by major Mexican Modernists including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Leonora Carrington, Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo, Lola Alvarez...
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Located in New York, NY
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Amorphic sinuous bronze abstract figural sculpture. Bronze itself is 6 inches in height. Perfect desktop height. Hand signed and numbered 4/8. this one has a Kenny Scharf sort of Pop Art feel to it and is all rounded surfaces. James Edward Ritchie, Jim Ritchie was born in Montreal, Canada in 1929. Ritchie is known for his pastel drawings and bronze sculptures. He is stylistically linked with Cubism, Abstract figurative work, and modernism, and the human figure is the subject of much of his work. The Franco-Canadian born in Montreal moved to Vence in southern France in 1967, to the "Cité des Arts". He lived there together with Rita and Witold Gombrowicz in the "Villa Alexandrine", overlooking the main square of Vence, the "Place du Grand Jardin". His studio was in the tower of the villa and in the garden behind the house. In 1997, he took over a dilapidated farmhouse, the Mas de L'Ormée in the mountains above Vence, overlooking the Matisse chapel . For more than 40 years he worked in the Tuscan city of Pietrasanta , where many of his bronze and marble sculptures were made. The most important works from the various periods of his 60-year creative period are now shown directly in the Mas de L'Ormée. Large marble and bronze works can be seen in the garden of Le Mas. In the middle of the old town of Vence stands Jim Ritchie's monumental bronze sculpture "La Vençoise". It is a Cubist figure of women, which is intended in its allegorical embodiment as a tribute to the city of Vence. Exhibitions James Ritchie...
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Nude, Abstract and Figurative Sculptures for Sale

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