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Period: 20th Century
Brutalist Sailboats Wall-Mounted Mix Metal Art Panel by Jacques Potage
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stunning handcrafted French brutalist metal wall art sculpture panel by Jacques Potage (1931 -). The metal panel is mounted on a wood board covered in textured pewter and features a ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Modern Brutalist Welded Abstract Expressionist Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Neo-Dada Abstract Sculpture: Assemblages
In contrast, abstract sculpture followed a slightly different course. Rather than focusing on non-figurative subject matter, it concentrated...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Vase avec Decoration Pastel (Vase with Pastel Decorations), by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973)
Title: Vase avec decoration pastel (Vase with Pastel Decorations), [Ramie 190]
Year: 1953
Medium: Chamotted red earthenware clay, pastel ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled Carved Abstract Relief Sculpture by Kano
Located in Soquel, CA
Untitled carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). Wood panel has large cut-outs where golden wire is strung between the edges.
This striking pi...
Category
Outsider Art 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"Traces" Mid Century Woven Polish Tapestry, Figurative Textile Wall Sculpture
By Lilla Kulka
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...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Thread
"Framed & Draped: Material Collection" Lia Cook, Contemporary Wall Textile
By Lia Cook
Located in Wilton, CT
"Framed and Draped: Material Collection", acrylic on abaca, dyes on rayon; woven, 63" x 38", 1989.
This contemporary abstract mixed media tapestry was done by California-based Ameri...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Tapestry, Thread, Dye, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Abstract Wall Sculpture "Synopsis" - Early Hologram Effect
By Halvorsen Vever, Elsbeth
Located in Soquel, CA
"Synopsis" by Elsbeth Halvorsen Vever (American, b. 1929). Box sculpture combines aluminum, sand, bone, glass and a magnifier. Signed "Elsbeth Vever 1982" on verso. Image, 24.50"L x 13.75"H x 4"W.
Using bone as the central image Elsbeth has assembled an optical and visual experience. One view is the magnification and juxtaposition of the floating effect of the curvature in the stainless steel background; stand back and it's a hologram effect. The first image shows clearly the hologram effect available to the eye of the viewer.
From a review of her show of box constructions in Providence, Rhode Island: "Viewing her box constructions is a lot like a walk in the moonlight. What we know, or think, to be true in the hard brightness of daytime reality dissolves into an amorphous space of multiple possibilities and perspectives."
Born in Purdys, New York, Elspeth Halvorsen is the daughter, granddaughter, and mother of professional artists. She has studied at prestigious academic and artistic institutions includingthe New School for Social Research, the Art Students League, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1955, she moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, establishing her home and studio in the former residence of Mark Rothko. Provincetown not only remains her home but also acts as a personal, social, and artistic source of inspiration for her work.
Shortly after arriving in Provincetown, Halvorsen and her husband, the late Tony Vevers...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Picasso Madoura Ceramic A.R. 540 Personnage et Cavaliers
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Pablo Picasso A.R. 540
Personnage et Cavaliers
1968
3.9” x 6.3” Edition of 500
Plein Feu/Empreinte originale de Picasso, Partially glazed terracotta plaque.
Ramie 540 is a Madoura ceramic that one rarely sees come on the market.
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The prices of Picasso Madoura Ceramics have been on fire lately (no pun intended). The major auction houses – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips – have now been regularly holding Picasso Madoura Ceramic auctions...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Fenêtre transparente - contemporary modern geometric sculpture painting panel
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Fenêtre transparente is a unique contemporary modern sculpture painting panel by French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. The panel effectively is a flat woode...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Oil
Glossy ceramic popsicle sculpture in a range of colors
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Glossy ceramic popsicle sculpture handmade for wall installation. Available at Variant colorful glaze.
Harmony and grandeur characterize the work of Reli Smith and Osnat Yaffe Zimmerman...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Stony Signs, Mid-Century Modern Abstract Woven Tapestry, Textile Wall Sculpture
Located in Wilton, CT
Stony Signs, wool, sisal, copper, 35" x 90", 1978.
This Mid-Century Modern abstract woven tapestry was done by Postwar and Contemporary Polish textile...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper
Picasso Madoura Ceramic A.R. 417 Pase de Cape
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Pablo Picasso A.R. 417
Pase de Cape
1959
16.5” round Edition of 100
White earthenware clay.
Ramie 417 is a Madoura ceramic that one rarely sees come on the m...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Original Modernist Relief Sculpture by Ron Hitchins
Located in London, GB
A striking and completely unique abstract fibreglass sculpture from the artist's own home.
Year: unknown (Ron was active from the mid 1960s to the early 2000s)
Colour: Concrete
Fram...
Category
Outsider Art 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Fiberglass, Paint, Board
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...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gilt Bronze Sculpture Brooch Wearable Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 3.75 X 3.5 inches. Box is 11 X 11 inches. (Piece is in excellent condition. box frame has some minor wear and piece might need to be remounted, it has been removed and...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Large Handmade Tapestry Textile Wall Hanging Wool Mixed Media Marlene Richard
Located in Surfside, FL
Eclectic, mixed media wall hanging textile tapestry by Marlene (Marlen) Richard featuring abstract embroidery atop free hanging locks of fabric over a black background embellished with gilt fabric accents. Hand made and hand embroidered. This had a paper artists label but it has since become detached. Overall image resembles a colorful pop art sunset over ocean waters. Hanging cords in various fabrics, colors and textures. Her work bears the influence of Sheila Hicks and bears similarities to Latin American, Colombian textile artists Olga de Amaral and Stella Bernal. Hand made, hand woven felt and wool spectacular textile wall hanging fabric sculpture by Miami woman artist Marlene Richard. It consists of long hanging pods...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large Modern Organic Abstract Suspended Wood and Rebar Metal Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Large modern abstract mixed media sculpture featuring a finely sanded piece of wood twisted in coiled rebar. The organic wood entangled in the manmade metal offers subtle commentary ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Yuri Zatarain Ceramic Abstract Sculpture, Contemporary Mexican Anthropomorphism
Located in Dallas, TX
Early 21st century figurative sculpture with abstract glaze design by contemporary Mexican artist Yuri Zatarain.
Monumental in scale. A very simple and engaging work of art that will...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Acid etched Abstract Urn Glass Wall Sculpture Artwork Framed ed. 25 Signed
By Suzan Etkin
Located in Surfside, FL
With the exception of the dark metallic one they are transparent and opaque glass. I have shot the photos on a dark background so you can better see the images. they are signed in ink, dated and numbered from the edition of 25. I am selling them individually. the box from Vincent Fremont Multiples is not included.
Suzan Etkin's passionate involvement with glass began in 1993, when she was invited to design sculptural chandeliers for gallery exhibitions with Giorgio Giuman and master glass blowers in Murano, Italy.
Prior to working with glass as a medium she was the production manager for Andy Warhol Factory (Production Manager, Film & Video), and quickly emerged as a conceptual artist of global recognition. Her work has been shown in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Holly Solomon Gallery, and other museums and galleries around the world.
In 2001, Suzan founded sei studio in SoHo with her husband, Brenden FitzGerald. They have collaborated with some of the industry’s most innovative architects and interior designers to produce custom chandeliers and art features for hundreds of landmark spaces, including the W Hotel Seoul, Mandarin Oriental New York, and Intercontinental Hong Kong. School of Visual Art: Instructor Drawing, Sculpture and Interrelating the Arts
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS:
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
Artist in Residence – Foundation Cartier pour L Art Contemporanian, Jouy-en-Josas, France
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York City
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Phillipe Rizzo Gallery, Paris
The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Earl...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood
Antoine Poncet - Unique Signed Granite Sculpture
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Antoine Poncet
Unique Granite Sculpture.
Black Patina
Signed
Dimensions: 62,5 cm L : 35 cm P : 25 cm
Antoine Poncet, Swiss (1928 - )
Born in 1928
Member of the Institute
Grands...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Minimalist Abstract Bronze Sculpture
By Ruth Vollmer
Located in Surfside, FL
In this abstract sculpture by Ruth Vollmer, the fusion between contrasting concepts: mathematical precision and natural "organicism", materials in both raw and manipulated states are evident. Signed by the artist.
Ruth Vollmer (1903 - 1982 New York City), was a German artist born in Munich. She was born in 1903 and named Ruth Landshoff. Her father, Ludwig Landshoff, was a musicologist and conductor and her mother, Phillipine Landshoff, was an opera singer. Their family was Jewish. At age 19 she began to work as an artist and took the advice of her father to draw every day. She also had many connections to the teachers and students at the Bauhaus. In 1930 she married a pediatrician named Hermann Vollmer, whom she met in Berlin. Ruth and Hermann move from Germany to New York in 1935. Ruth begins work designing window displays for Bonwit Teller, Tiffany's, Lord & Taylor, and other department stores. Her displays experimented with wire, steel, and copper mesh to create figural forms. In 1943, Vollmer becomes a U.S. citizen. In 1944 she receives a commission from the Museum of Modern Art for its fifteenth anniversary exhibition, "Art in Progress." Vollumer continues to work with wire mesh and shows her work Composition in Space at the Museum of Modern Art's 1948 exhibition "Elements of Stage Design." In 1950, she was commissioned to create a mural for the lobby of 575 Madison, where Vollmer created a large wall relief that used wire rods and wire mesh to play with light, texture, and transparency. Vollumer visits Giacometti for a second time during the summer of 1951. During the 1950s she begins to works with clay as well. Additionally, in 1954 she begins to teach at the Children's Art Center at the Fieldston School in Riverdale and continued to teach until the mid-sixties. In 1960, Vollmer participates in the NYU discussion series "Artists on Art" with her friend Robert Motherwell. 1960 is an important year because she also has her first one-person exhibition at Betty Parson's Section Eleven gallery space. Throughout the 1960s Vollmer works with bronze and as well as showing at Betty Parson's gallery several times. In 1963, she joins the group American Abstract Artists (AAA) and includes her work in their exhibitions from 1963 on. By 1970 Vollmer's art is working with complex geometrical forms and mathematical concepts, particularly spirals and platonic solids. Sol LeWitt wrote a short essay on Vollmer's work for Studio International titled "Ruth Vollmer: Mathematical Forms." Vollmer protests the cancellation of the Hans Haacke at The Solomon R. Guggenheim exhibition by writing a letter to the director, Thomas Messer, in 1971. In 1976, she had a large one-person exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art. In 1982, Ruth Vollmer dies after a long battle with Alzheimer's. A majority of her large personal art collection of over one hundred sculptures, paintings, and drawings is donated to MoMA. Her art collection included works by Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, Agnes Martin, and Vardea Chryssa.
Exhibitions
1977, Group Exhibition, Betty Parsons Gallery. Mino Argento...
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sam Jagoda Brutalist Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
1960s Brutalist sculpture by Texas artist Dr. Sam Jagoda. This beautiful abstract work has a plant-like form that also has bird and insect qualities. Perfect for indoors or outdoors....
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Wings, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry, Blue Textile Wall Sculpture
By Jan Hladik
Located in Wilton, CT
Wings, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry, Blue Textile Wall Sculpture, Hand dyed wool hand dyed wool, 73" x 58", (1973) by Czech textile artist, Jan Hladik...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool, Dye
Kroa A
Located in Paris, FR
Victor VASARELY
1906-1997, Hungarian
Kroa A, 1970
Original anodized aluminum sculpture
Published by Editions Denise René in 1970
Signed Vasarely
Certi...
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Off Set", Richard Heinrich, Abstract Contemporary Steel Sculpture, Metal
Located in New York, NY
"Off Set" by Richard Heinrich
Abstract, Large-Scale Outdoor Metal Sculpture in steel
Pictured with "Flying Home" at Uncommon Ground IV, Bridge Gardens, Brid...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Waiting to Exhale, Accumulation Cigar Sculpture by Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique sculpture by the French artist, Arman. This collection of world-class cigars encased in clear resin is a quintessential piece from Arman's 'Accumulations' period in which he...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media, Found Objects
Girl Seated a la Japonaise Bronze Sculpture Morris Singer Foundry.
By Helaine Blumenfeld
Located in Surfside, FL
Girl Seated a la Japonaise, 1964, polished bronze. It was exhibited at The Chapman Gallery NYC in 1968. Cast at Morris Singer Foundry and numbered 4/6 signed with the artists monogram.
Helaine Blumenfeld OBE (born, New York 1942) is an American Sculptor working in Britain and Italy, best known as an artist who has pioneered new methods of carving in stone and for her semi-abstract marble, granite and bronze sculptures which are located around the world as Public art. Her forms are often abstractions of human forms and of elements in nature. She is widely recognized as the most significant sculptor of her generation and "the heir apparent to HenryMoore and Barbara Hepworth."
In 1973, Blumenfeld, who had recently moved to England, exhibited at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge England. These early sculptures, which were mostly cast in bronze were largely figurative work in the tradition of sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși, Jacob Epstein, Jean Arp, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore and of course her one time teacher Ossip Zadkine. In 1985, the Alex Rosenberg Gallery in New York showed her sculpture in dialogue with Henry Moore
In 1978, Blumenfeld's first visit to Pietrasanta in Italy marked a turning point in her work as she started carving in marble, mostly at Studio Sem, founded in the 1950s by Sem Ghelardini (1927-1997) who gained international notoriety producing the large scale works of Henry Moore, César Baldaccini, Emile Gilioli, Joan Mirò, Georges Adam and many other celebrated sculptors during the first wave of modern abstract sculpture in the 1960s.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Blumenfeld's sculpture, now less clearly figurative but still often of portraying couples and family units in multiple configurations, was exhibited at the Bonino Gallery in New York and in solo and group shows around the world. A member of the Visual Arts Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain between 1981 and 1988, Blumenfeld was elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1993.
Blumenfeld has created over 80 large scale sculptures in bronze, granite, marble and steel in Europe and the United States for private and public clients, including the British Petroleum headquarters in London, the Lincoln Center in New York the Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood and Family (Blumenfeld) at the Henry Reuss Plaza in Milwaukee and The Lancasters at Lancaster Gate in London. At Cambridge University, her sculpture has been commissioned by Clare Hall (Flame, 2004) and Newnham College...
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sonambient
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Italian-born American artist Harry Bertoia (1915-1978), is a noted sculptor and modern furniture designer. He is arguably one of the most successful creative forces hired by Florence...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper
Untitled (Sounding Sculpture)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (Sounding Sculpture)" is a Post-War abstract sculpture created by Harry Bertoia in circa 1970. This artwork is 48 x 15.75 x 8 inches and weighs 45 lbs.
Bertoia was enthra...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
STEEL ROOM California Minimalist Abstract Sculpture
By Peter Lodato
Located in Surfside, FL
STEEL ROOM, 1989, steel sculpture, 8 x 8 x 8”, signed and dated.
Peter Lodato was born in 1946 in Los Angeles, California, has exhibited extensively and received significant acclai...
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Large Colombian Tapestry Wall Hanging Sculpture Horsehair Wool Fiber Textile Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Marlene Hoffman,
Galleria 70
Handmade in Columbia.
El Clervo y el Torro Tapestry.
Bears gallery label verso and signed with initials on front in weave, MH.
Dimensions: Height: 82 inches X Width: 82 inches. (size is approximate label has 2.15 X 2.15 meters)
Hand made, hand woven horse hair and wool spectacular textile wall hanging by pioneering woman artist and art dealer of Latin America art, Marlene Hoffmann. It consists of a horsehair design handwoven onto a wool handmade back. (this is a sort of tapestry, not the Aubusson or Gobelin type but more of a 3D sculptural wall piece.) She is considered a pioneer in the field of Colombian textile art, in company with Olga de Amaral and Stella Bernal. She owned and directed an influential gallery on Bogota Colombia for many years. She is on the Metropolitan Museum in NYC timeline of world art. In the 1960s, Pop Art inspired artists. Gloria Valencia de Castaño invented and that invited designers to show what fashion would be like in the year 2000, inspired by masters of Colombian art, such as Enrique Grau, Alejandro Obregón, Felisa Burstyn, Cecilia Porras, Omar Rayo and David Manzur...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wool, Mixed Media
Ellen Key Oberg Modernist Ceramic Sculpture, Impetuous Person
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Ellen Key Oberg exhibited with all the major artists of her time including
Alexancer Archipenko and William Zorach.
This piece received an honorable mention in one of the many exhibi...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Spirales (from Sotomagie series)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Spirales (from Sotomagie series)" is a Contemporary screenprint on plexiglass sculptural print made by Jesus Rafael Soto in 1967. The artwork is 13 3/8 x 13 3/8 x 7 inches and weigh...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Screen
"Soul Bond" Satirical Bond Paperwork Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
"Soul Bond" Satirical Bond Paperwork Collage
Elaborate collage by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). Soul Bond takes the form of a satirical contract, darkly parodying the...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
Large Panel of 9 Original Modernist Relief Sculptures by Ron Hitchins
Located in London, GB
Stunning original panel made of 9 handmade fibreglass relief sculptures from the artist's own home. Each sculpture is unique, with beautiful rust and copper tones, and several are signed by the artist.
This very large, striking piece has a great Brutalist and Modernist feel. It is particularly notable as an example of Hitchin’s mastery of finishing techniques in simulating aged metal. The relief sculptures were visible outside of Ron’s house and became a Hackney landmark. They were carefully removed by the artist's estate after Ron passed away.
Year: unknown (Ron was active from the mid 1960s to the early 2000s)
Colour: Rust and copper tones
Signature: 5 of the relief sculptures bear the artist's trademark initials “RH”
Framing: The sculptures have been carefully mounted on a cotton covered board with a walnut wood trim and a hidden subrame on the reverse for ease of hanging.
Authenticity: This piece was purchased directly from the Artist's Estate and comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the sole executor of the Ron Hitchins...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Fiberglass, Paint, Board
Mid Century Modern Brutalist Welded Expressionist Sculpture After Paul Evans
Located in Surfside, FL
In this bronze sculpture the artist (unknown) has welded together a group of totems or monuments into a unified piece. T
Neo-Dada Abstract Sculpture: Assemblages
In contrast, abstra...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Homage à Kahnweiler / - The Appearance of Genius-
Located in Berlin, DE
Irmgard Biernath (1905 Waldheim in Saxony - 1998 Mainz), Hommage à Kahnweiler, 1984. Terracotta relief, burnished red body, 43.5 x 38 cm, mounted on support plate, in wooden frame 57 x 49.5 cm, monogrammed "IB" at lower right.
- Isolated patina losses, but overall good condition, frame slightly bumped.
- The Appearance of Genius-
This homage to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler shows the gallerist and art theorist as Pablo Picasso portrayed him in his lithographic portrait of 1957.
As an innovative Parisian gallery owner, Kahnweiler had exclusively represented Picasso since 1911, while Picasso had painted his famous portrait of Kahnweiler the previous year as a major work of Cubism. And it is Picasso who appears at the centre of Irmgard Biernath's image. Here, his face echoes the features of the self-portrait he painted in 1907 in the Prague National Gallery.
His eyes are wide open as he gazes into the distance, surrounded by the works of his artistic vision that have already taken shape. On the right is the bronze "Man with Sheep...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Helios, 1967
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This magnificent work by Victor Vasarely displays an intricate interplay of green optical figures against a clear background in a three-dimensional medium. It offers a fascinating vi...
Category
Op Art 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Screen
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...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Large Billy Lee Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer: Billy Lee (Chinese/British)
Additional Information: Billy Lee is well exhibited worldwide and known for his large abstract minimalist sculptures. He has received nu...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Willow Wave Basket
Located in Wilton, CT
Wood was integral to the artistic practice of the late Markku Kosonen of Finland. An important aspect of his work was the ability to express things; cra...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Organic Material, Wood, Found Objects
The Throne, Unique Enamel Painted Chair Sculpture by Alan Siegel
By Alan Siegel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Siegel, American (1938 - )
Title: The Throne
Year: 1967
Medium: Enamel On Laminated Wood, signed on bottom
Size: 40 x 23.5 x 20 in. (101.6 x 59.69 x 50.8 cm)
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Coiled, abstract copper 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...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Horse and Rider, Bronze Sculpture by Pearl Amsel
By Pearl Amsel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Modern Cubist sculpture by Pearl Amstel of a Horse and Rider.
Artist: Pearl Amsel (1931 - )
Title: Untitled - Horse and Rider
Year: 1974
Me...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La Naissance du Pelican
By Franco Adami
Located in PARIS, FR
Edition : 1 of 4
Created in 1998
20,5 x 13 x 13 cm
Upon his arrival in Paris in 1957, Adami befriended the sculptors Collamarini and Renato Ischia at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Coup de Grace by Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, Abstract Woven Tapestry
Located in Wilton, CT
Coup de Grace, brushed wool, 7’9" x 4’4", 1997.
This contemporary abstract woven tapestry was done by renowned Canadian textile artist, Mariette Rousseau-Vermette (1926 - 2006). Born in Trois-Pistoles, Québec, Mariette Rousseau married painter/ceramicist Claude Vermette...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Wool
Brutalist Hand Forged Iron Mosaic Sculpture Wall Sconce Israeli David Palombo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand Forged Iron Stone Mosaic Pricket Sconce Candelabra
Holocaust Memorial Judaic Wall Sconce Sculpture
David Palombo was an Israeli sculptor and painter. He was born in Turkey to a traditional family and immigrated to the Land of Israel with his parents in 1923. They lived in the Nahalat Shiva neighborhood of Jerusalem. In 1940 he began his studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and from 1942 was a student of sculptor Ze’ev Ben-Zvi. For a period of time, Palombo was an assistant at Ben-Zvi’s studio and also taught at Bezalel. During this period he was also a member of the “Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed” (The General Federation of Students and Young Workers in Israel). In the 1940s he took art lessons at night. In 1948 he went to Paris, where he visited the studio of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi whose work influenced him. Around 1958 he married the artist Shulamit Sirota. In 1960 he quit his job to devote himself to art. In 1964 he married for the second time to the artist Yona Palombo. The two of them went to live in an abandoned home on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. In 1966 he was killed when the motorcycle on which he was riding ran into a chain stretched across the street to prevent the desecration of Shabbat. His widow opened a museum in their home that was active until the year 2000.
Work by Palombo is included in the Judaic collection of the Jewish Museum (a well known Hanukkah menora). Palombo executed the impressive metal gates of the Tent of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem, the memorial to the martyrs of the holocaust, as well as the gates to the Knesset Building the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco award) awarded him a scholarship for study in Japan. He worked in marble, granite, bronze, iron and steel. as well as with glass mosaic tiles. Palombo’s early works, in the 1950s, were influenced by modernist sculptors such as Brancusi. These works were composed of abstract images from nature and were carved out of stone or wood. At the end of the 1950s he began making metal sculptors, using the technique of welding. His work took on a more abstract and expressive character.
Education
1940 Painting with Isidor Ascheim, New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem
1942 Sculpture with Zeev Ben Zvi, Jerusalem
1956 Mosaic, Ravenna, Italy
1958 Welding Course
Awards And Prizes
1966 UNESCO Award
Exhibitions:
Sculpture in Israel, 1948-1958 Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
Artists: Zvi Aldouby, Yitzhak Danziger, Arieh Merzer, Dov Feigin, Aaron Priver, David Palumbo, Menashe Kadishman, Kosso Eloul, Yehiel Shemi, Zahara Schatz.
The Spring Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
Artists: Palombo, David Bezalel Schatz, Mordechai Levanon, Fima, Ludwig Blum
12 Artists, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
Avraham Ofek, Aviva Uri, Avigdor Arikha, Yosl Bergner, Lea Nikel, Palombo, Ruth Zarfati,
General Exhibition, Art in Israel 1960 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Artists: Naftali Bezem, Nachum Gutman, Shraga Weil, Shraga, Marcel Janco, Ruth Schloss
Category
Arte Povera 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Mixed Media Sculpture Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist mixed media sculpture painting by Duayne Hatchett
(1925 - 2015) . Mixed media metal sculpture . Signed on verso.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Wood
1960s Ceramic Pot by Claude Conover, Abstract Line Etching Design, Venel Artwork
Located in Denver, CO
This exceptional 1960s ceramic pot by acclaimed 20th-century artist Claude Conover (1907-1994) features striking white parallel lines and intricate abstract etchings, making it a sta...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
The Lady maquette, replica of Chicago Picasso sculpture, American Bridge Company
Located in New York, NY
(After) Pablo Picasso
The Lady (Maquette), ca. 1967
Mixed Media Sculpture edition Cor-ten Steel
This maquette is based upon the original Chicago Picasso-a monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso in Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture, dedicated on August 15, 1967, in Daley Plaza in the Chicago Loop...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Steel
Grand Kabuki Stainless Steel Abstract Brutalist Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Alfred Van Loen 1978 (1968 in casting?) signed 18 1/2" x 5 1/2" abstract stainless steel sculpture "Grand Kabucki", mounted on wood base, overall size 21 1/2" x 7"
If there are any ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Modernist Hand Forged Iron Mosaic Sculpture Animal Ram Israeli David Palombo
Located in Surfside, FL
Heavy Hand Forged Brutalist Iron Ram or Goat Sculpture
David Palombo was an Israeli sculptor and painter. He was born in Turkey to a traditional family and immigrated to the Land of Israel with his parents in 1923. They lived in the Nahalat Shiva neighborhood of Jerusalem. In 1940 he began his studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and from 1942 was a student of sculptor Ze’ev Ben-Zvi. For a period of time, Palombo was an assistant at Ben-Zvi’s studio and also taught at Bezalel. During this period he was also a member of the “Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed” (The General Federation of Students and Young Workers in Israel). In the 1940s he took art lessons at night. In 1948 he went to Paris, where he visited the studio of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi whose work influenced him. Around 1958 he married the artist Shulamit Sirota. In 1960 he quit his job to devote himself to art. In 1964 he married for the second time to the artist Yona Palombo. The two of them went to live in an abandoned home on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. In 1966 he was killed when the motorcycle on which he was riding ran into a chain stretched across the street to prevent the desecration of Shabbat. His widow opened a museum in their home that was active until the year 2000.
Work by Palombo is included in the Judaic collection of the Jewish Museum (a well known Hanukkah menora). Palombo executed the impressive metal gates of the Tent of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem, the memorial to the martyrs of the holocaust, as well as the gates to the Knesset Building the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco award) awarded him a scholarship for study in Japan. He worked in marble, granite, bronze, iron and steel. as well as with glass mosaic tiles. Palombo’s early works, in the 1950s, were influenced by modernist sculptors such as Brancusi. These works were composed of abstract images from nature and were carved out of stone or wood. At the end of the 1950s he began making metal sculptors, using the technique of welding. His work took on a more abstract and expressive character.
Education
1940 Painting with Isidor Ascheim, New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem
1942 Sculpture with Zeev Ben Zvi, Jerusalem
1956 Mosaic, Ravenna, Italy
1958 Welding Course
Awards And Prizes
1966 UNESCO Award
Exhibitions:
Sculpture in Israel, 1948-1958 Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
Artists: Zvi Aldouby, Yitzhak Danziger, Arieh Merzer, Dov Feigin, Aaron Priver, David Palumbo, Menashe Kadishman, Kosso Eloul, Yehiel Shemi, Zahara Schatz.
The Spring Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
Artists: Palombo, David Bezalel Schatz, Mordechai Levanon, Fima, Ludwig Blum
12 Artists, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
Avraham Ofek, Aviva Uri, Avigdor Arikha, Yosl Bergner, Lea Nikel, Palombo, Ruth Zarfati,
General Exhibition, Art in Israel 1960 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Artists: Naftali Bezem, Nachum Gutman, Shraga Weil, Shraga, Marcel Janco, Ruth Schloss
Category
Arte Povera 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of 3 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Set of 3 Pumpkins: Yellow and Black, Red & White and Red & Black
Naoshima:
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures feature the ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Carving William Pellicone
Located in Surfside, FL
William Pellicone (American 1915-2004)
Mixed media, pyrography, oil on wood carving painting. Dated 1958
Title - Enthymeme #14.
Oil painting on carved and burnt distressed wood panel.
Inscribed verso Enthymeme Wm. Pellicone #14, 9-4-58.
Label on reverse with a typed definition for Enthymeme.
Dimensions: 27 inches high, 42.5 inches wide.
Metal wrap frame.
Provenance: from a Shelter Island NY home that was designed by architect Henry J. Gazon - A.I.A. built in 1959.
William Pellicone (1915-2004) was an American painter known for his abstract compositions and use of vibrant colors. He was born in New York City and studied at the Art Students League and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Pellicone's early work was influenced by the Social Realist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, with his paintings often featuring realistic depictions of urban scenes and working-class people. However, in the 1950s he shifted towards abstraction, exploring the interplay of color and form. Pellicone's mature style was characterized by his use of vibrant, saturated colors, often applied in thick layers of paint. His paintings often featured geometric shapes and organic forms, with a strong sense of movement and energy. In addition to his painting, Pellicone was also a respected teacher and arts administrator. He taught at the New York Institute of Technology and the State University of New York, and served as the director of the Islip Art Museum on Long Island. Pellicone's artwork was exhibited widely during his lifetime, and he was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1977. Today, his paintings can be found in the collections of museums and galleries around the world, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
William Pellicone (Born 1915) is active/lives in New York. William Pellicone is known for Abstract expressionist, landscape and non-objective art. An American artist, sculptor, architect. He exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Oil
Large Abstract Landscape Pastel Drawing Painting San Francisco Artist, Megan #6
By Dennis Leon
Located in Surfside, FL
It has a variegated texture to it. It is signed and titled. Large format drawing or painting in pastel or crayon.
Dennis Leon, was a San Francisco Bay Area sculptor and art instructor
Mr. Leon was chairman of the sculpture department at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland from 1972 to 1988. He remained a faculty member until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1993. A vibrant work in pastel with the energy and texture seen in the work of Wolf Kahn. He was born in London, England and emigrated in 1951 to the United States, where he studied at Temple University in Philadelphia. He graduated with art degrees, including a master's degree in fine art.
He served in the U.S. Army and the Army Reserve from 1957 to 1963.
In 1959, Mr. Leon joined the faculty of the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. He also worked as an art critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer until 1962. After coming to the Bay Area, he held his first local one-man show of sculpture in 1973, at the James Willis...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Lady, Marble and Fabric Conceptual Abstract Sculpture Maria Dompe
By Maria Dompe
Located in Surfside, FL
MARIA DOMPE, (Italian, b. 1958), Lady Sculpture, marble and fabric, 1995, height: 14 in.
One of a pair, (Lady and Gentleman) being sold separately.
Maria Dompe was born in Fermo on ...
Category
Conceptual 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Urban Scene" Original Painted Steel Sculpture by: Ralph Wickstrom
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Urban Scene" is a painted steel sculpture by Ralph Wickstrom created in 1997. Deceivingly thin the sculpture is made up of straight lines and right angles...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
