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Handmade Paper Collage Sculpture Art Assemblage with String Nancy Genn Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Nancy Genn, American (b. 1929) Marshfield 25 (1977) Handmade paper collage Hand signed verso Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 22 inches Utilizing what is now known as the 'Genn Method,' Nancy Genn created three-dimensional abstract works of handmade paper, gaining international recognition in the 1970s Nancy Genn is an American artist living and working in Berkeley, California known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition. Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions. Nancy Genn was born in 1929 in San Francisco, California. She recognized early that she would pursue a career as an artist. Her mother, Ruth Wetmore Thompson Whitehouse, was a painter and UC Berkeley alumna who played a leadership role in the San Francisco Women Artists organization. Genn studied at San Francisco Art Institute (then California School of Fine Arts) with painter Hassel Smith, and at the Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley (1948–49) with Professors Margaret Peterson and John Haley, and fellow students Sam Francis and Sonya Rapoport. In 1949 she married Vernon “Tom” Genn, an engineer raised in Japan, with whom she had three children. Career Genn's first noted solo exhibition was in 1955 at Gump's Gallery in San Francisco. She received international recognition through her inclusion in French art critic Michel Tapié’s seminal text Morphologie Autre (1960), which cited her as one of the most important exponents of post-war informal art. In 1961, Genn began creating bronze sculptures using the lost-wax casting method. Influenced by noted sculptor and family friend Claire Falkenstein, who used open-formed structures in her work, Genn cast forms woven from long grape vine cuttings, and produced vessels, fountains, fire screens, a menorah, a lectern, and, notably, the Cowell Fountain (1966) at UC Santa Cruz. In 1963 her sculptural work was exhibited with Berkeley artists Peter Voulkos and Harold Paris in the influential exhibition Creative Casting curated by Paul J. Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York. Genn was one of the first American artists to express herself through handmade paper, first receiving wide recognition via exhibitions at Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, beginning in 1977, and in traveling exhibitions with Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. In 1978-1979, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, she studied papermaking in Japan, visiting local paper craftspeople, working in Shikenjo studio in Saitama Prefecture, and exhibiting her work in Tokyo. She also learned techniques from Donald Farnsworth...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Mixed Media, Handmade Paper

Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes. David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor.. These Form Studi...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Polystyrene, Plaster, Acrylic

The Test, Assembled Kinetic Modernist Sculpture Puzzle Construction
Located in Surfside, FL
"The Test," 1970 Aluminum sculpture in 5 parts. Artist's cipher and AP stamped into male figure, front, 20 5/16" x 12 1/2" x 6 5/7" (approx.) American sculptor King is most noted for his long-limbed figurative public art sculptures depicting people engaged in everyday activities such as reading or conversing. He created his busts and figures in a variety of materials, including clay, wood, metal, and textiles. William Dickey King was born in Jacksonville, Florida. As a boy, William made model airplanes and helped his father and older brother build furniture and boats. He came to New York, where he attended the Cooper Union and began selling his early sculptures even before he graduated. He later studied with the sculptor Milton Hebald and traveled to Italy on a Fulbright grant. Mr. King worked in clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces depicting familiar human poses — a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking men walking in lock step. Mr. King’s work often reflected the times, taking on fashions and occasional politics. In the 1960s and 1970s, his work featuring African-American figures (including the activist Angela Davis, with hands cuffed behind her back) evoked his interest in civil rights. But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer’s arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment. His subjects included tennis players and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners. His first solo exhibit took place in 1954 at the Alan Gallery in New York City. King was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003, and in 2007 the International Sculpture Center honored him with the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Mr. King’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Hirshorn Museum at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious, displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder and Elie Nadelman. The New York Times critic Holland Cotter once described Mr. King’s sculpture as “comical-tragical-maniacal,” and “like Giacomettis conceived by John Cheever.”
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American Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

Bronze Modernist Biomorphic Sculpture Horse, Stand Colin Webster Watson Art Deco
Located in Surfside, FL
Colin Webster Watson (1926-2007, New Zealand), sleeping horse, sculpture, bronze, supported on wooden base, signed, AP Sculpture Of A Suspended Horse Colin Webster-Watson (1926, Pa...
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1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Suzanne Benton, 1974, Pelvic Woman, Copper, Coated Steel
Located in Darien, CT
In 1972, the women’s movement was in full flower. Suzanne Benton had been an early activist, a founder and organizer of NOW Chapters, CT Feminists in the Arts, Women, Metamorphosis 1 (in New Haven, CT, the first women’s art festival in the USA). She'd already been creating metal sculpted masks and working with them in mask tale performances of Women of Myth and Heritage. Her inaugural performance of Sarah and Hagar n 1972 took place at Lincoln Center in NYC. Benton then became the artistic director and producer of an evening on Broadway, Four Chosen Women (performers included herself as mask tale performer, author Anais Nin, actress Vinie Burroughs and dancer Joan Stone). The evening took place at the Edison Theatre, November 22, 1972. While developing the evening on Broadway, Benton met renowned Swedish actress and Hollywood star, Viveca Lindfors. Viveca was then working on her solo performance, I AM A WOMAN, and was looking for a unique theatre set for the show. The happenstance that brought Viveca and Suzanne together. At that same time, recent travel to Macchu Picchu inspired her with the mountain’s great stones sitting on the edge of precipices. These vast stones led her to create welded steel Seated Sculpture Works. Viveca was intrigued by the concept and let her own imagination fly. Imagining a set of welded steel sculpture, she took the leap in commissioning Suzanne with complete faith in artist's ability to fulfill her mandate. Benton created groups of welded sculptures for two theater sets. Protection is one of three sculptures in first set created in 1973. Mother and Child, Pelvic Woman, Facing Each Other are three of five works from the 1974 second set. The first toured with her shows throughout the East Coast and into Toronto, Canada. The second set, created to nest together could travel as checked baggage for international and domestic airline travel. They flew to Denmark in 1980 for her performance at the UN sponsored 1980 Women’s International Conference, Copenhagen. In addition to creating the theatre sets, Benton mounted exhibitions of her masks and sculptures in the lobbies of theatres where she performed (NYC and Northampton). Continuing on with this theme, Becoming is her 1975 Seated Sculpture Work. The theatre sets were returned at the final end of its long run. These Seated Sculpture Works have often been featured in exhibitions, including both the 2003 and 2005 retrospectives. They are part of an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. What attracted her to welded sculpture? This excerpt from her book, The Art of Welded Sculpture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975 speaks of its lure: "Early in my life, when I had decided to become an artist, I had had an inner vision of being able to hold the physical material of my art in such a way as to bring it into existence with my hands. In welding, I wear a mask, a heavy apron, and gloves. I heat the metal and make it bend so smoothly and gracefully; I cut the metal, rigid metal, into endless shapes; I join the pieces by causing them to flow together with the heat of the flame. Welding was a return to my adolescent vision. It was fulfillment. At that beginning time I felt that even if I went no further, this experience in itself gave me astounding satisfaction. It was as thrilling as the moment of birth. It was my birth." (Pelvic Woman and Protection are illustrated in the book): What began in 1965 became by 2017 an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. The magic of the welding mask...
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Feminist 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Copper, Steel

Rare Aharon Bezalel Israeli Gilt Modernist Bronze Sculpture Suite
Located in Surfside, FL
The width dimensions are variable. the tallest height is 11.5 inches. Family group. A suite of three bronze sculptures. Aharon Bezalel (born Afghanistan 1926) Born in Afghanistan in 1926 and immigrated to Israel at an early age. As a youth was engaged as a silversmith and craftsman, and was a student of the sculptor Zev Ben-Zvi from whom he absorbed the basic concepts of classic and modernist art and interpreted, according to them, ideas based on ancient Hebrew sources. Aharon Bezalel works and resides in Jerusalem, he taught art for many years. “I saw myself as part of this region. I wanted to find the contact between my art and my surroundings. Those were the first years of Jean Piro’s excavations at the Beer-Sheba mound. They found there, for example, the Canaanite figurines that I especially liked and that were an element that connected me with the past and with this place.” “…a seed and sperm or male and female. These continue life. The singular, the individual alone, cannot exist; I learned this from my father who dabbled with the Kabbalah.” (Aharon Bezalel, excerpt from an interview with David Gerstein) “The singular in Aharon Bezalel’s work is always potentially a couple if not a threesome[…] the one is also the many: when the individual is revealed within the group he will always seek a huddling, a clinging together. The principle of modular construction is required by this perception of unity and multiplicity, as modular construction in his work is an act of conception or defense. Two poles of unity, potentially alone, exist in A. Bezalel’s world: From a formal, sculptural sense these are the sphere and pillar, metaphorically these are the female in the final stages of pregnancy and the solitary male individual. Sphere-seed-woman; Pillar-strand-man. The disproportional, small heads in A. Bezalel’s figures leave humankind in it’s primal physical capacity. The woman as a pregnancy or hips, the man as an aggressive or defensive force, the elongated chest serves as a phallus and weapon simultaneously. (Gideon Ofrat) EIN HAROD About the Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman, Mordechai Ardon, Aharon Kahana, Arie Lubin, Yehiel Shemi, Yosl Bergner and others. The graphic arts collection contains drawings and graphic works by Pissaro, Modigliani, Pascin, Chagall (almost all of his graphic work), and numerous other artists. The sculpture collection includes works by Jewish sculptors from all over the world including leading Israeli sculptors; Ben Zvi, Lishansky, David Palombo, Yehiel Shemi, Aharon Bezalel and Igael Tumarkin. Many Jewish sculptors from all parts of the world, beginning with Antokolski, are represented in the collection. In the sculpture courtyard there are works by Chana Orloff, Jacob Epstein (the works he bequeathed to the Museum), Glicenstein, Loutchansky, Constant and Indenbaum from Western Europe; Glid from Yugoslavia; Zorach, Gross and Harkavy from the United States; and most of the outstanding sculptors of Israel : Ben-Zvi, Lishansky, Ziffer, Lehmann, Feigin, Sternschuss, Palombo ( who executed the iron gate...
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Expressionist 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Moving Planes, abstraction
Located in Greenwich, CT
Moving Planes dates from the period in Iommi’s body of work that corresponds to the so-called “Baroque” period of Concrete Art. This is a sophisticated work that picks up exploring i...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Marble, Metal

Suzanne Benton, Facing Each Other, 1974, Copper, Coated Steel
Located in Darien, CT
In 1972, the women’s movement was in full flower. Suzanne Benton had been an early activist, a founder and organizer of NOW Chapters, CT Feminists in the Arts, Women, Metamorphosis 1 (in New Haven, CT, the first women’s art festival in the USA). She'd already been creating metal sculpted masks and working with them in mask tale performances of Women of Myth and Heritage. Her inaugural performance of Sarah and Hagar n 1972 took place at Lincoln Center in NYC. Benton then became the artistic director and producer of an evening on Broadway, Four Chosen Women (performers included herself as mask tale performer, author Anais Nin, actress Vinie Burroughs and dancer Joan Stone). The evening took place at the Edison Theatre, November 22, 1972. While developing the evening on Broadway, Benton met renowned Swedish actress and Hollywood star, Viveca Lindfors. Viveca was then working on her solo performance, I AM A WOMAN, and was looking for a unique theatre set for the show. The happenstance that brought Viveca and Suzanne together. At that same time, recent travel to Macchu Picchu inspired her with the mountain’s great stones sitting on the edge of precipices. These vast stones led her to create welded steel Seated Sculpture Works. Viveca was intrigued by the concept and let her own imagination fly. Imagining a set of welded steel sculpture, she took the leap in commissioning Suzanne with complete faith in artist's ability to fulfill her mandate. Benton created groups of welded sculptures for two theater sets. Protection is one of three sculptures in first set created in 1973. Mother and Child, Pelvic Woman, Facing Each Other are three of five works from the 1974 second set. The first toured with her shows throughout the East Coast and into Toronto, Canada. The second set, created to nest together could travel as checked baggage for international and domestic airline travel. They flew to Denmark in 1980 for her performance at the UN sponsored 1980 Women’s International Conference, Copenhagen. In addition to creating the theatre sets, Benton mounted exhibitions of her masks and sculptures in the lobbies of theatres where she performed (NYC and Northampton). Continuing on with this theme, Becoming is her 1975 Seated Sculpture Work. The theatre sets were returned at the final end of its long run. These Seated Sculpture Works have often been featured in exhibitions, including both the 2003 and 2005 retrospectives. They are part of an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. What attracted her to welded sculpture? This excerpt from her book, The Art of Welded Sculpture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975 speaks of its lure: "Early in my life, when I had decided to become an artist, I had had an inner vision of being able to hold the physical material of my art in such a way as to bring it into existence with my hands. In welding, I wear a mask, a heavy apron, and gloves. I heat the metal and make it bend so smoothly and gracefully; I cut the metal, rigid metal, into endless shapes; I join the pieces by causing them to flow together with the heat of the flame. Welding was a return to my adolescent vision. It was fulfillment. At that beginning time I felt that even if I went no further, this experience in itself gave me astounding satisfaction. It was as thrilling as the moment of birth. It was my birth." (Pelvic Woman and Protection are illustrated in the book): What began in 1965 became by 2017 an oeuvre of 797 sculptures and masks. The magic of the welding mask...
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Feminist 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Copper, Steel

Spiral, Enameled Laser Cut Steel Sculpture by Von Ringelheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Paul von Ringelheim, Austrian/American (1933 - 2003) Title: Spiral 1 Medium: Painted Flame-Cut Steel Sculpture Size: 47 x 52 x 8 in. (119.38 x 132.08 x 20.32 cm)
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Steel

Mixed Media Pop Art Abstract Painting on Vinyl Record LP Wall Sculpture Weege
Located in Surfside, FL
William Weege (b. 1935). American Pop Art Artist. Colorful mixed media on a vintage vinyl LP record Hand signed and dated 1976 recto. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1935, Weege studied printmaking, collage and sculpture at the University of Wisconsin. In the late 60's Vietnam war era his politically charged radical anti war posters...
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Pop Art 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

David Kimball Anderson Large Abstract Zen Steel Modernist Sculpture Flower Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
Contemporary abstract steel standing sculpture, Signed to base "Opera / DA / 87". 1987 Provenance: From the Walden Collection Dimensions: 45 1/2" H; Base: 6 1/2" Diam. Large Abstra...
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Steel

Wave
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Wave" 1975 is a metal and glass sculpture multiple by noted Israeli artist Menashe Kadishman 1932-2015. It is signed, numbered 1/7 and dated under the main metal part. The size assembled as intended by the artist is 21 inches long, 10 inches high and 3 inches wide. The all metal and the glass and metal part disunited are 18 x 10 inches each. The rectangle part at the top is movable and can be oriented in different position (see picture #1 and #7) It is in very good condition. The large version of this sculpture is referenced in the two following publications: Pierre Restany, Kadishman, Tel Aviv, 1996, illustration of the large version pp. 76-77 Jacob Baal-Teshuva (ed.), Menashe Kadishman, Munich, 2007, no. 22, illustration of the large version p. 17 About the artist: Menashe Kadishman (August 21, 1932 - May 8, 2015) was an Israeli sculptor and painter. Menashe Kadishman was born in the British Mandate Palestine in 1932. His father, who was a pioneer, died when Kadishman was 15 years old. The young Menashe left school to help his mother with housework and to earn money. From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem. In 1959, he moved to London, where he attended Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art. During 1959 and 1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro and Reg Butler. He remained there until 1972; he had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery. His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style, On May 8, 2015, Menashe Kadishman died after he was hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. EDUCATION 1947-50 Studies with sculptor Moshe Sternschuss, Avni Institute, Tel Aviv 1954 Studies with sculptor Rudi Lehman, Jerusalem 1959-61 St. Martin's School of Art, London 1961-62 Slade School of Art, University of London PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Bass Museum, Miami, FL Buhsnami Sculpture Garden, Burton, TX Centro d'Arte Contemporaneo, Prato, Italy City of Tel Aviv, Israel City of Breda, The Netherlands City of Kirchheim, West Germany City of Seoul (Olympic Park), South Korea City of Toronto, Canada Columbia University, New York Ein Herod Museum, Yizre'el Valley, Israel Faret Tachikawa, City of Tachikawa, Japan Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Hebrew University, Jerusalem Heichal Hatarbut, Tel Aviv High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Israel Museum, Jerusalem Jewish Museum, New York Lehigh University, Allentown, PA Louisiana Museum, Denmark Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama Museo de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, West Germany Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Munich, West Germany Museum of Modern Art, Skopje, Yugoslavia Open Air Sculpture, Kirchheim, West Germany Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Rabbinical Seminary, Cincinnati, OH Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY Tate Gallery, London Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Wilhelm-Lehmbruk Museum, Duisburg, West Germany PRIZES AND AWARDS 1960 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship 1961 Sainsbury Scholarship, London 1967 First Prize for Sculpture, 5th Paris Biennale 1978 Sandberg Prize, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1981 The Eugen Kolb Prize, The Tel Aviv Museum 1981 Prize of the Jury, Norwegian International Print Biennale, Fredrickstad 1984 The Pundik Prize, The Tel Aviv Museum 1989 King Solomon Award, America-Israel Foundation, New York ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 1965 Harlow Arts Festival, Harlow, England 1970 The Jewish Museum, New York 1972 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, West Germany 1975 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1978 Venice Biennale, Venice 1979 Israel Museum, Jerusalem: The Kadishman Connection 1981 University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel 1981 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv 1983 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 1983 ICC, Antwerp, Belgium 1984 Fabien Booulakia, Paris 1984 The Jewish Museum, New York 1986 De Beyerd, Centre of Contemporary Art, Breda, The Netherlands 1986 Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, The Netherlands: Installation 1987 The Tel Aviv Museum, Myth Transformed: Painting and Monumental 1987 Sculpture of Menashe Kadishman, Tel Aviv 1988 Kammermusiksaal, Menashe Kadishman: Sacrifice of Isaac, Berlin, Germany 1988 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 1988-89 Kniestedter Kirche Stadtmuseum, Salzgitterbad, Germany 1990 Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1994 Giuliano Gori, Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia, Italy SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1980 International Sculpture Symposium, Washington, D.C. 1980 Contemporary Art Meeting, Tel Hai, Israel 1980 The Israel Museum, Borders, Jerusalem 1980 David's Tower, The Jerusalem City Museum, Jerusalem the Israeli 1980 Printmaker, Jerusalem 1981 Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Young Art from Israel...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

Aharon Bezalel Israeli Modernist Sculpture 2 Parts Minimalist Aluminum or Steel
Located in Surfside, FL
A suite of 2 sculptures. Lovers, man and woman nestled together. sleek minimalist mod sculpture. polished finish on one side. not sure if theese are stell or aluminium. they are cast and signed in Hebrew with initials and numbered 9/9. It is 2 parts that nest together. Aharon Bezalel (born Afghanistan 1926) Born in Afghanistan in 1926 and immigrated to Israel at an early age. As a youth was engaged as a silversmith and craftsman, and was a student of the sculptor Zev Ben-Zvi from whom he absorbed the basic concepts of classic and modernist art and interpreted, according to them, ideas based on ancient Hebrew sources. Aharon Bezalel works and resides in Jerusalem, he taught art for many years. “I saw myself as part of this region. I wanted to find the contact between my art and my surroundings. Those were the first years of Jean Piro’s excavations at the Beer-Sheba mound. They found there, for example, the Canaanite figurines that I especially liked and that were an element that connected me with the past and with this place.” “…a seed and sperm or male and female. These continue life. The singular, the individual alone, cannot exist; I learned this from my father who dabbled with the Kabbalah.” (Aharon Bezalel, excerpt from an interview with David Gerstein) “The singular in Aharon Bezalel’s work is always potentially a couple if not a threesome, the one is also the many: when the individual is revealed within the group he will always seek a huddling, a clinging together. The principle of modular construction is required by this perception of unity and multiplicity, as modular construction in his work is an act of conception or defense. Two poles of unity, potentially alone, exist in Aaron Bezalel’s world: From a formal, sculptural sense these are the sphere and pillar, metaphorically these are the female in the final stages of pregnancy and the solitary male individual. Sphere-seed-woman; Pillar-strand-man. The disproportional, small heads in Aharon Bezalel’s figures leave humankind in it’s primal physical capacity. The woman as a pregnancy or hips, the man as an aggressive or defensive force, the elongated chest serves as a phallus and weapon simultaneously. (Gideon Ofrat) EIN HAROD About the Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman, Mordechai Ardon, Aharon Kahana, Arie Lubin, Yehiel Shemi...
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Minimalist 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

Spinning Sculpture - Steel Sculpture by Pietro Consagra - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Signed and numbered (lower right). Steel and cast iron base (10 x 10 cm). Bibliography: Giuseppe Appella, I Multipli di Consagra, Ed. La Cometa, n. 19. Ver...
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1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Stainless Steel

Rare 1970 Israeli Abstract Sculpture Steel Menashe Kadishman Suspension
Located in Surfside, FL
Beautiful table top sculpture by renowned Israeli sculptor Menashe Kadishman. Super quality, and visually stunning. There is a large sculpture of his in Rabin Square in the heart of ...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Stainless Steel

Carmen, Washington: Plaster Sculpture with Marble Base by Constantin Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
A minimalist depiction of a woman in a large hat by Constantin Antonovici. This white marble sculpture is composed almost entirely of two colliding ovals, with a few ridges visible o...
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Art Deco 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Marble

Modernist Ceramic Platinum-Plated Crouching Man Sculpture by Jaru, circa 1970
By Jaru
Located in New York, NY
This Modernist ceramic sculptures depicts an abstracted and cubist human form sitting cross legged with his back bent forward and arms outstretched. The sculpture, realized by Jaru o...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Ceramic

"Let's" Modern Abstract Copper Metal Fish Word Art Wall Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract fish sculpture made of copper by Houston, TX artist Frank Dolejska. The work features a rounded fish shape with the word "let's" on the ...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal, Copper

La Escalera Azul, de la serie Sintesis
Located in Miami, FL
La Escalera Azul, de la serie Sintesis 1979 Plexiglas and metal Ed 37 of 110 20 x 14 x 5 in Literature: Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. “Soto. The Fourth dimension”. Catalogue published on...
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Op Art 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

BILLY, 1975 Constructed Mixed Media Painting, Wall Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
BILLY, 1975, epoxy painting on riveted fiberglass and aluminum, titled signed and dated verso . Gallery label from Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA Tom Holland (born 1936 in Seattle, Was...
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

Pony Tail Girl, Bronze Sculpture by Constantin Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
Referenced in Uricariu & Bulat “Antonovici” on page 133, this bronze sculpture by Constantin Antonovici plays on a common shape composition of the artist’s practice. At their core, t...
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Art Deco 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

"Ripple Corner" Corner Wall Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Orange, pink, and blue geometric abstract painting/ wall sculpture by Gary Jurysta titled "Ripple Corner". Meant to be hung in the corner of a room. Acrylic on stretched canvas, cir...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Acrylic

Wall Mounted Sculpture in the style of Stephen Chun
By Stephen Chun
Located in Pasadena, CA
This Brutalist wall sculpture was made in 1970 by assembling and folding patinated and hammered copper and brass sheets mounted on plywood. Stephen Chun...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Brass, Copper

1970s French Brass & Raw Mineral Agate Specimen Sculpture Art Candlesticks Pair
Located in Surfside, FL
Jacques Duval-Brasseur (French, 1934-2021) French (20th C) Pair of Brass and Agate Specimen Stone Candlesticks. Measures 17 inches high x 9 inches wide x 6 inches deep, each candles...
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Arte Povera 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Brass

Pony Tail Girl, Bronze Sculpture by Constantin Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
Referenced in Uricariu & Bulat "Antonovici" on page 134, this bronze sculpture by Constantin Antonovici plays on a common shape composition of the artist's practice. At their core, t...
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Art Deco 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

"Roland, " George Sugarman, Abstract Steel Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
George Sugarman (1912 - 1999) Roland, 1970 Patinated steel 17 3/8 x 16 x 5 1/4 inches Incised with the artist's signature and numbered "15/17" on the underside Manufactured by Lippin...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Steel

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Stainless steel and marble. Signed and numbered from edition of 350.
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Kinetic 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Stainless Steel

Large Abstract White Onyx Sculpture by Leonardo Nierman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leonardo Nierman (1932 - ) Title: Untitled Year: circa 1979 Medium: White Onyx, signature engraved Size: 24 x 43.5 x 7.25 inches Base: 4 x 13.25 x 13.25 inches
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Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Stone, Marble

"Symbiosis" a Kinetic Sculpture by Michael Secter
Located in Dallas, TX
Born in Winnipeg Canada, Michael Sectors work and craftmanship has been praised as remarkable. He brings contemporary techology to serve his art directing the fabrication of his work...
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1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Steel

Acrylic Table-Top Sculpture Multiple by Yehuda Yordan
By Yehuda Yordan
Located in Long Island City, NY
This acrylic sculpture is a contemporary work in a soft shade of yellow. Yordan's sculpture would add a playful element to any modern space. Signed and numbered. Edition: 100.
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Acrylic Polymer

Resist decorated stoneware bowl.
By Jason Wason
Located in Brecon, Powys
Really lovely bowl by this well collected and exhibited British potter Good condition 17cm high diameter 38cm 1980s
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay

Fractured Series
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Fractured Series Red Abstract Sculpture Aluminum, metal sculpture black base, from the Fractured Series 1978, signed and dated. Paul Sisko has over thirty years of experience as a...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

Chrome-plated brass frame
Located in Como, IT
Joseph Minoretti Chrome-plated brass frame Era: 1972 Size: 16x7 cm - height 35 cm Details: signed and dated "G.M.72" Giuseppe Minoretti was born i...
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1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Brass

“Abstract Bronze” Modern Gold Ribbon Sculpture with Stand
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract bronze ribbon sculpture created by William Robert Stevenson. The sculpture includes a beautiful wooden base that includes a plaque with the artist's name. Artist Biography: William Robert Stevenson was born in 20 May 1925 in Eugene, Oregon. His family moved to Minneapolis, MN but he promptly returned to Oregon and Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was sidetracked when he was drafted into the United States Army at age 17 years old in early 1942. Being a strong swimmer, and having worked at stables as a child, he initially served in the last US Cavalry Corps, and also as a Swimming Instructor for the United States Army. Upon the abolition of the Cavalry Corps, he was trained as a Gunnar and Tank Commander for the M-4 Sherman Tank under General Patton...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Random Harvest" Modern Abstract Copper Metal Fish Word Art Wall Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract fish sculpture made of copper by Houston, TX artist Frank Dolejska. The work features a rounded fish shape with the words "random harves...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Copper

Livre De Pierre - stone book, 1970 - stone sculpture, 40x60x25 cm.
By Ivan Avoscan
Located in Nice, FR
Stone sculpture, certainly travertine of Italy, signed on base Ivan Avoscan, né le 13 mars 1928 à Buxy et mort le 3 janvier 2012 à Chalon-sur-Saône, est un sculpteur français
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stone

"Sweet Eats" Modern Abstract Copper Metal Fish Word Art Wall Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract fish sculpture made of copper by Houston, TX artist Frank Dolejska. The work features an elongated fish shape with the words "sweet eats...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Copper

Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to offer this important sculpture from the Estate of David Hayes. David Vincent Hayes (March 15, 1931 – April 9, 2013) was an American sculptor.. Hayes received a...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

Staplers (1976), Woven Paper Sculpture by Ed Rossbach
Located in Wilton, CT
Ed Rossbach was known for experimenting by using unexpected materials and symbols in his baskets, vessels, and assemblages including plastic, cotton balls,...
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Pop Art 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Paper

Clown Cat - Limited Edition Sculpture 9/10
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
Discover the Essence of Joy: Karel Appel's "Clown Cat" 9/10 Limited Edition Sculpture in Acrylic on wood. Crafted from the finest wood, its playful contours and vibrant hues captiva...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Monolyth
By Luis Ortiz Monasterio
Located in Guadalajara, Jalisco
Monolyth Luis Ortíz Monasterio Lost Wax Bronze 70 x 21 x 10 cm 1971, MX Wood Base Luis Ortiz Monasterio (Mexico City, 1906-1990) was a Mexican sculptor noted for his monumental work...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Untitled
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Victor Vasarely Untitled, c. 1970-79 is a glazed porcelain multiple that is hand-signed by Victor Vasarely (Hungary, 1906 – France, 1997) and is numbered from the edition of 50 on ve...
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Op Art 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Porcelain

Hannover
Located in Miami, FL
Jesus Rafael Soto "Hannover" 1970 Color silkscreen on transparent plexiglass panel, metal rods on nylon threads. It has the original box. 7 x 21 x 5 in Ed. 170 of 200 Provenance: Va...
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Kinetic 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

"Traces" Mid Century Woven Polish Tapestry, Figurative Textile Wall Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
Traces, sisal and hand spun wool, 108" x 42", 1979. This large, figurative, mid-century modern tapestry was done by Polish textile artist, Lilla Kulka...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Thread

Two Abstract Figures Onyx Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Untitled Biomorphic Form Abstract Sculpture Onyx Sculpture on granite base. Artist signature Graham dated 73. Richard D. Graham is a Postwar & Contemporary artist born in 1940 know...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Stone, Granite

"Tropical Parrot with Woman, " Corneille, Carved Wood Sculpture with Bird
Located in New York, NY
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (Corneille) Tropical Parrot with Woman, circa 1970 Signed: Corneille Edition Number: 6 of 8 Constructed and Painted wood 39" high x 40 1/2" wide x 6" ...
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1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint

Guggenheim (White)
Located in New York, NY
Vacuum-formed acrylic and cellulose multiple from an edition of 117, enclosed in a plexiglass case. Signed and numbered "30" in felt-tip pen and black ink on the verso. Produced by t...
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic Polymer

Ode to the Ancient Monarch aluminum sculpture by James C. Myford
Located in Hudson, NY
This work is aluminum on a black slate base, measuring 28.5" x 9" x 6". Myford's interest in aluminum began in 1970 when he attended a workshop sponsored by Alcoa at the Art Center ...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Slate, Metal

Antique Hebrew letters
Located in Jerusalem, IL
The subject of Castel’s early paintings were scenes of Sephardic Jews in the Holy Land. In 1947, Castel helped to found the "New Horizons".In the 1950s Moshe's Castel artwork work was inspired by ancient relief paintings depicting predecessors of the Jewish people...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Ceramic

Gemini
By G. Charpentier
Located in New York, NY
Polished bronze on marble base. Incised with the artist's signature and numbered 6/8 on the verso.
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

'The Calendar Wheel' assemblage in drawer with spheres clock shells cards
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Calendar Wheel' is an original assemblage by the American artist Charles Berg. Within a divided drawer, Berg has assembled a variety of found objects: metal balls, a clock, a sheet of copper punched with the word 'wind,' a Victorian card of a woman, etc. The artwork takes its name, however, from a transparent 1935 calendar in the lower right. Berg here is following the tradition other artists who specialize in assemblage, including Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauchenberg, and Betye Saar...
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

Paul Evans Patchwork Black Slate Top Brutalist Coffee Table circa 1970
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
The Paul Evans slate patchwork coffee table is a notable piece from the mid-century modern era, created by the American designer and sculptor Paul Eva...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Slate, Metal, Copper, Steel

Brutalist Relief Wall Sculpture
Located in London, GB
Original handmade fibreglass relief sculpture from Ron Hitchins' own home. Uniquely handmade and signed by the artist. Part of a series of 3 (see our other listings for the other two...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Fiberglass, Wood

Crystallization of Thoughts, Brushed Steel Wall Hanging by Preston Abernathy
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique wall-hanging steel sculpture by Preston Abernathy (American XXth). The work is a solid panel of brushed, polished and etched stainless steel in a geometric pattern with gre...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Stainless Steel

Armadillo, scrap metal abstract sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Carole Eisner's indoor sculptures, averaging two to four feet tall, are made from a welded collage of drops and cut-out steel pieces from the same series of scrap she found in a Conn...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

Geometrical Clouds (Black Cloud)
Located in Henderson, NV
Black Cloud is hand cut polystyrene with acrylic by Clifford Singer.
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Polystyrene, Acrylic

Iboya, NBC 35 and NBC 36
Located in Palo Alto, CA
NBC 35 and NBC 36 Edition 33/50 and 16/50, respectively Signed to label The Hungarian word, Iboya, meaning a small forest violet, has been chosen by Vasarely to identify his astonis...
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Op Art 1970s Abstract Sculptures

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Polystyrene, Wood

Sculpture A16 Projection and vibration - Medaglini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Sculpture A16 Projection and vibration - Medaglini (1939-2011) Drawn iron and cast iron base H90xW62xD17 Signed on the base Circa 1975 490€
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Large Bronze Modernist Biomorphic Sculpture Abstract Bird Colin Webster Watson
Located in Surfside, FL
Colin Webster Watson (1926-2007). A patinated cast bronze sculpture of a stylized bird with a steel ring. Signed, numbered and dated (1985). With a Tallix foundry mark. Measu...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Stainless Steel

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