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Period: 20th Century
Kusama Pumpkin pumpkin Red and Black (Kusama Naoshima)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Red & Black Pumpkin 2019:
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art piece - this rare, sought-after red Kusama pumpkin sculpture features the universal polka dot patterns and...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Ohne Titel / Untiteled
By Roland Goeschl
Located in Wien, 9
The present work is a rare piece from Roland Goeschl's time at the academy. In the technique of chased copper, which was unusual for him, forms are modelled that are still strongly r...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Arts in Judaism Award signed Judaica
Located in New York, NY
Nathaniel Kaz
Bronze Sculpture to Isaac Bashevis Singer for Arts in Judaism Award, 1966
Bronze, Square wooden base, Metal tag
Signed and dated "66" to back of bronze portion of the w...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Vintage French Modernist Jean Lurcat Glazed Ceramic Art Plate Sant-Vicens France
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage Jean Lurcat glazed fired enamel wall plaque ceramic plate limited edition hand inscribed faience Ceramique Saint Vicens charger. It depicts hig...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
"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
Signed metal pendant (Brooch)
Located in New York, NY
Arnaldo Pomodoro
Signed metal pendant (Brooch), ca. 1989
Sculpted metal brooch.
Incised signature by Arnaldo Pomodoro.
4 4/5 × 4 inches
Elegant sculpte...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Abstract Australian Post Modernist Sculpture Peter D. Cole Metal, Enamel, Marble
Located in Surfside, FL
Peter D. Cole (Australian, b. 1947)
Symbols of Landscape, 1987
Mixed metal, enamel and marble
signed P.D. Cole and dated
21 x 6 1/2 x 6 in (53 x 16.5 x 15cm)
Provenance: Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia, 1987.
Sculptor Peter D. Cole was born in Gawler, South Australia and trained at the South Australian School of Art between 1965 and 1968. Since the 1980’s Cole has been based in the Kyneton District of Victoria, where he has established himself as one of Australia’s senior and most renowned contemporary sculptors, drawing on the landscape as a source of inspiration and recent research trips to Japan and India have added to his rich source material.
As a public artist, Cole has made a significant contribution to the urban landscape and public spaces of Australia receiving the Australian National Trust Heritage Award and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Award of Merit for Foundation Park, a permanent work at The Rocks, Sydney. He is highly sought for commissions and his work is prominent in many public and corporate collections throughout Australia, including Parliament House, Canberra, the National Gallery of Australia, and Brisbane International Airport and recently Windsor Railway Station precinct. He was awarded the H.P. Gill medal for top student and the Contemporary arts Society award for drawing in 1968 and has exhibited regularly since 1969 with exhibitions in Australia and America, with notably a solo exhibition in 1995 at The Carpenter Centre, Harvard University USA.
Peter D. Cole ranks as one of Australia's senior and most renowned contemporary sculptors. Graphic, minimalist and refined, his uncompromising aesthetic vision encompasses both large-scale structures, aerial works, and more intimate, witty ruminations.
An accomplished water-colourist and draughtsman, Cole's vision translates easily into works on paper, valued by collectors for the insight they provide into his practice. Cole's robust materials- brass, bronze, painted steel and aluminium- vibrant colours and precise shapes articulate spatial, intellectual, and philosophical concepts. He is also interested in the notion of 'diagrammatic' landscapes, ones that express the transition between the flat plains of the Australian bush, and a more city-centric urban cacophony. Cole's work observes and recognises the boundaries of modern life without limiting its scale, or its scope.
Cole is the recipient of the Australian National Trust Heritage Award (1996), the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Award of Merit (1995), and is highly sought for commissions. His work is prominent in many public and corporate collections throughout Australia, including Parliament House, Canberra, the National Gallery of Australia, and Brisbane International Airport. Hs work bears similarities to Peter Shire, Charlie Hewitt and Brad Howe.
Cole lectured in sculpture between 1975 and 2001 and has worked continuously on his practice encompassing sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, design and architecture. His work is represented in many collections both private and public throughout Australia, America, Japan and Europe.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 A Modern Narrative, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2016 PLACE AND SPACE, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
2012 Lister Gallery, Perth
2011 New Sculptures, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne
2006 New works, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
2004 Primary Structure, Calder Lister Gallery, Perth
1997 Steele Gallery, New York, USA
1995 Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
1990 William Mora Gallery, Melbourne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 This is Gippsland, with works by Sidney Nolan, John Wolseley, Anne Montgomery Trevor Vickers, Ann Greenwood, Tony Newsom, Peter Cole, Nick Mount, John Woollard, Cheryl Burgess, Kiyoshi Ino and more.
2019. Australian Galleries: The Purves Family Business. The First Four Decades, Book Launch and Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2019. papermade, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2017. Painting, sculpture and works on paper – Group exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2017. Sculpture: medium and small scale – Mixed Sculptors, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2016. Impressions, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2014. one of each, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne
2011. large exhibition of small works, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney
2006. Stock Show, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Melbourne
2005. End of Year Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries Painting & Sculpture, Sydney
2003. This was the future: Australian Sculpture of the 1950s, 60s, 70s + Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art,
2002. Tokyo Designers Block Idee, Tokyo, Japan
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Arts Victoria; Shepparton lake sculpture, Shepparton VIC 19 October 2019
Bank of Melbourne; in consultation with Bates Smart McCutcheon; large freestanding sculptural screen, Melbourne
Brisbane International Airport; in consultation with Bligh Voller architects and Jean Battersby Art Consultants; large suspended sculptures...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal, Enamel
Ceramic Sculptural bowl
Located in New York, NY
Peter Voulkos
Ceramic Sculptural Dish, ca. 1985
Sculpted ceramic
Hand-signed by artist, Incised signature on the base.
1.5 x 11.5 inches
This charger plate by Voulkos features a Greek-influenced stylized birds and leaf design. Peter Voulkos is an American artist of Greek descent. The abstraction of animal and nature elements paired with the earthy, mottled gray and brown against brown background make this work beautiful. This work was featured in the exhibition "On Black Mountain: The Bauhaus Legacy in America", at the Sager Braudis Gallery (now Sager Reeves), in Columbia Missouri from April 5, 2019 to April. 27, 2019 and is reproduced in page 53 of the exhibition catalogue.
We will provide a complimentary copy of the exhibition catalogue to the buyer of this work.
Born in 1924 to Greek immigrant parents in the town of Bozeman, Montana, Peter Voulkos is one of America’s most significant sculptors of the 20th century. Voulkos got his start in art in the late 1940s, when he was studying at Montana State College, Bozeman on the G.I. Bill, after being drafted and serving as an airplane armorer-gunner in the Pacific in World War II. In classes with Frances Senska, he discovered ceramics, the medium that would characterize his career. After graduating from Montana State College, Bozeman in 1951, Voulkos moved west and earned his MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.
Returning to Montana after graduation, Voulkos attracted attention “as a prodigious natural potter and a producer of elegantly thrown functional earthenware,” according to Roberta Smith for the New York Times. He also produced dinnerware to sell through high-quality stores, and was noted for his wax-resist method of decoration.Voulkos gained a reputation as a master of ceramics techniques, winning twenty-nine prizes and awards from 1949 through 1955. However, a summer spent teaching at the experimental Black Mountain College (he was invited to teach at BMC by Karen Karnes) near Asheville, North Carolina in 1953 resulted in a dramatic shift in Voulkos’s artistic priorities, as well as his aesthetic. It was at Black Mountain College that Voulkos met Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Charles Olson. He then visited New York City (as a guest of pianist David Tudor and Mary Catherine Richards) and encountered Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline—Abstract Expressionist painters who influenced the new direction Voulkos would go on to pursue.
In 1954, Voulkos was invited to teach at the Los Angeles County Art Institute (now Otis), and he established a new ceramics department and graduate program that attracted other young artists including John Mason, Ken Price, Billy Al Bengston and Paul Soldner. It was here that, inspired by the scale and spontaneity of the New York School, Voulkos began to build progressively larger works that cast aside utility and abandoned ceramic conventions. Decoration became aggressive, as he slashed at and pierced the clay, which he then energetically painted with glaze. Peter Voulkos exhibited these new works in shows at the Landau Gallery in Los Angeles, which announced to the world a new way of approaching ceramics.
Disagreements with the more conservative administrators of the LA County Art Institute led to Voulkos’s departure for the University of California, Berkeley, in 1959. While at Berkeley, Voulkos experimented with bronze and produced large-scale bronze sculpture, while continuing his ceramic work and doing demonstrations of ceramics throughout the U.S. In 1979, a young ceramist named Peter Callas...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Mixed Media, Glaze
Pair Alessandro Guerriero Portabuono Qua
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was create by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, and it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered.
The set is forged in aluminum...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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
Brutalist Forged Iron Circular Menorah Sculpture Israeli Master David Palombo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand Forged Iron Candelabra
Holocaust Memorial Judaic Menorah 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
"Square" Contemporary Geometric Abstract Sculpture Bronze Unique European.
By Bruno Romeda
Located in New York, NY
"Square" Contemporary Geometric Abstract Sculpture Bronze Unique European.
The sculpture measure 10 h x 11 wi inches.
Geometric "Circle"...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Brutalist Mirror with 92 Terracotta Tiles and Metal Frames - Ron Hitchins
Located in London, GB
Stunning original mirror made by the artist, with 92 uniquely handmade terracotta tiles. Signed by the artist in one of the tiles. This large, striking mirror has a great Brutalist and Modernist feel. Another slightly larger mirror of the same style is also available on our page.
Year: unknown (Ron was active from the mid 1960s to the early 2000s)
Colour: Tuscan red...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Untitled" Sidney Gordin, Abstract Metal Steel Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Sidney Gordin
Untitled, 1958
Incised with initials
Welded Steel
15 x 10 1/2 x 6 inches
Provenance:
Eric Firestone Gallery, New York
On October 24, 1918, Sidney Gordin was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He spent his early years in Shanghai, China. At the age of four, he moved with his family to New York. Gordin’s nephew, Eliot Nemzer recalls that when Gordin was a child he attended “a dinner party with his parents. Someone showed him a book of pictures that when thumbed through quickly made the image appear to move. This person then gave him a wad of blank papers and something to write with. Sid created a similar type of moving image with his materials. All the adults at the party became quite excited [and] praised his efforts. Sid told me he thought this was a pivotal experience in guiding him towards his vocation.” During his formative years at Brooklyn Technical High School, he briefly contemplated the idea of becoming an architect; yet, by the time he enrolled at Cooper Union, he was determined to become a professional artist. There, he studied under Morris Kantor (1896-1974) and Leo Katz...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Meeting Yankel Contemporary painting sculpture abstract collage art cross red
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting on wood panel
Unique work
Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Bottle Gourds and Maple Leaves on Vertical Panels
Located in Storrs, CT
Bottle Gourds and Maple Leaves on Vertical Panels. c.1900. White and dark ground Japanese paper stencil on mulberry paper treated with persimmon juice. Reinforced with thread insertion. 7 3/4 x 14. (sheet 14 1/2 x 17). Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat, suitable for framing.
Katagami are Japanese stencil patterns that were used for printing kimono patterns...
Category
Edo 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stencil
Large Brutalist Mirror with 144 Terracotta Tiles and Metal Frames - Ron Hitchins
Located in London, GB
Stunning original mirror made by the artist, with 144 uniquely handmade terracotta tiles. Signed by the artist in one of the tiles. This large, striking mirror has a great Brutalist and Modernist feel. Another slightly smaller mirror of the same style is available on our page.
Year: unknown (Ron was active from the mid 1960s to the early 2000s)
Colour: Tuscan red...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Rare Modernist Judaica Jewish Ritual Besamim Spice Box Sculpture Maxwell Chayat
Located in Surfside, FL
Maxwell M.Chayat maintained a studio in Clinton, New Jersey.
He was a graduate of Columbia University.
He began using stones in jewelry in 1948 while li...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Reclining Figure (woman)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
William King (1925-2015). Reclining figure, ca. 1965. Cast and welded bronze, 7 x 9.5 x 5 inches. Unsigned.
William King, a sculptor in a variety of materials whose human figures traced social attitudes through the last half of the 20th century, often poking sly and poignant fun at human follies and foibles, died on March 4 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by Scott Chaskey, who is married to Mr. King's stepdaughter, Megan Chaskey.
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.
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.
Mr. King's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. But the comic element of his work probably caused his reputation to suffer.
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 critic Hilton Kramer, one of Mr. King's most ardent advocates, wrote in a 1970 essay accompanying a New York gallery exhibit that he was, "among other things, an amusing artist, and nowadays this can, at times, be almost as much a liability as an asset."
A "preoccupation with gesture is the focus of King's sculptural imagination," Mr. Kramer wrote. "Everything that one admires in his work - the virtuoso carving, the deft handling of a wide variety of materials, the shrewd observation and resourceful invention - all this is secondary to the concentration on gesture. The physical stance of the human animal as it negotiates the social arena, the unconscious gait that the body assumes in making its way in the social medium, the emotion traced by the course of a limb, a torso, a head, the features of a face, a coiffure or a costume - from a keen observation of these materials King has garnered a large stock of sculptural images notable for their wit, empathy, simplicity and psychological precision."
William Dickey King...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
House in Motion
Located in New York, NY
Buky Schwartz
House in Motion, 1986
Welded steel
10 1/2 × 6 1/4 × 6 1/2 inches
This is a unique work
The sculpture is an upside down house with two human figures. It is ingeniously ...
Category
Constructivist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Large Murano Abstract Hand Blown Arcade Glass Sculpture Marcello Panza Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
Marcello Panza for Arcade Vase (this is for 1 of a pair I have, I am selling them separately). This has an African or Aboriginal tribal pattern to it.
...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Abstract Bronze Sculpture (Unique, signed)
Located in New York, NY
Peter Reginato
Abstract Bronze Sculpture, ca. 1987
Bronze
Signed on the underside
4 × 6 1/2 × 5 1/2 inches
This bronze sculpture is by the American abstract sculptor Peter Reginato. ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled Constructivist sculpture (maquette) - unique
Located in New York, NY
Robert Elkon
Untitled Constructivist Sculpture, 1979 on wood plinth
Steel on wood plinth with Robert Elkon Gallery label verso
5 3/4 × 4 × 1 in 14.6 × 10.2 × 2.5 cm
Bears original Robert Elkon Gallery on the underside, expressly stating the work is unique (see photo)
This is a unique work
This late 1970s work bears the original Robert Elkon Gallery on the underside, expressly stating it is a unique maquette. Elkon first represented William Tucker...
Category
Constructivist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Large, Cast Bronze Doe
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Substantial, sensitively molded, graceful circa 1940, hand-cast, bronze sculpture of a doe.
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italy 1980 Annamaria Gelmi Metal Painted Red Sculpture Piccolo Eden
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the Italian artist Annamaria Gelmi.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certifica...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Hexagone
Located in Miami, FL
Victor Vasarely (9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a grandfather and leader of the Op art movement.
In 1928, he enrolled at Sán...
Category
Op Art 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass
Rare Brutalist Mexican Sculpture Pendant Surrealist Stone Necklace Pal Kepenyes
By Pal Kepenyes
Located in Surfside, FL
Chain is 23.5 inches long.
Pendant is 3.75 X 2 X 1 inches
This piece is not signed. but the chain matches completely with the signed one that I have.
Pal Kepenyes is a sculptor and researcher of Hungarian art, whose artistic production includes sculptures of small and medium format, jewelry and miniature decorative pieces, all made by hand, without any machinery.
Wearable art. Sculptural pendant on matching chain cast in polished bronze or brass. Reminiscent of Harry Bertoia. Organic Modernism. Mod, space age, handmade artisan, studio jewelry.
Pal Kepenyes, wearable art pioneer. sculptor, goldsmith, jeweler, artist, was born in 1926 in Hungary. His creative talent, specifically in creating sculpted works, was evident early on. He moved to Budapest, where he first studied at the University of Arts and Crafts and later at the Academy of Fine Arts. His professor, Beni Ferenczy was one of Hungary's most influential sculptors. Pal Kepenyes (20/21st century) is active/lives in Hungary, Mexico. Pal Kepenyes is known for sculpture, jewelry making, miniature decorative pieces especially influenced by Mexican folk art and folklore. His work also includes animals, lions, tigers, fish, nude figures and milagros.
He began his studies at the School of Decorative Arts in Budapest, and then was a prisoner of war during the Stalinist regime. In 1956, at the end of the Hungarian Revolution, he finally was released and left the country for Paris, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts.
In 1956, he also traveled to Mexico, a country to which he has been devoted for the rest of his life because of his attraction pre-hispanic cultures. Along with Pedro Friedeberg, Arnold Coen, Vladimir Cora, Byron Galvez, Mathias Goeritz, Leonardo Nierman, Gabriel Orozco...
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Tuscan Florentine Figurative Abstract Female Bronze Statue 20th century
Located in Florence, IT
The small bronze statue portrays a lady standing, with the arms lifted up to help her looking far away. It's an single cast.
It can be dated to th...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"The Trap" Hayward Oubre, Painted Wire Sculpture, Black Artist
Located in New York, NY
Hayward Oubre
The Trap, c. 1960
Painted wire sculpture
40 H. x 16 1/2 W. x 21 D. inches
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Deeply attached to his Souther...
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Black Sun - Unique Black Belgian Marble Moving Sculpture 1971 FEMALE ARTIST
By Carla Lavatelli
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
An exquisite 2-piece movable black Belgian marble sculpture.
"Black Sun is part of a playground series. The grooves represent areas where water flows and the larger openings are wh...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
The Promise, original signed bronze sculpture by renowned British artist
Located in New York, NY
William Tucker
The Promise, ca. 1980
Bronze
Signed and numbered 5/6 - incised on the metal
2 5/8 × 8 5/8 × 1 inch
This abstract sculpture is by the renowne...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cuban Master Florencio Gelabert Sculpture Large Wood Carving Bust Man Portrait
Located in Surfside, FL
Florencio Gelabert Y Perez (Cuban, 1904-1995)
Hand carved, signed; 1979
Materials: Cuban wood (mahogany?)
Dimensions 23 X 4 X 4 inches
Label affixed to underside: National Registry of Cultural Assets of the Republic of Cuba Ministry of Culture.
Provenance: Art Master Collection, Miami, Florida.
Florencio Gelabert, with a style reminiscent of Art Deco and Art Nouveau in a Latin American Expressionist stylization. Carved wood sculpture. Depicts a modernist stylized form of a man in a streamline moderne style.
José Florencio Gelabert Pérez (Caibarien, 1904 - Havana, 1995) Cuban musician, sculptor, draftsman and teacher. He graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He received numerous awards, mentions and recognitions in Fine Arts Halls and Circles. His works are in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Florencio Gelabert is a renowned sculptor, who made more than twenty solo exhibitions beginning in 1929, several in the National Museum of Fine Arts, and participated in more than thirty collectives in Cuba, Spain and Brazil, the latter in the Sao Paulo Biennial. he traveled from Caibarién to Santa Clara in 1928 to audition to enter the famous San Alejandro Fine Arts School in Havana. He obtained one of the five vacancies. Already in the Cuban capital, he combined fine arts and music. When he graduated, he became a professor in San Alejandro and the academy’s principal in 1960.
With a calling common to wood sculptors –which began with his primary school carving carpentry classes and the active life of his home town’s shipyards, his chisels and gouges feverishly turned mahogany, “ácana” and ebony into female heads with black African features dating back to 1930.
In 1938 he used his savings to explore Europe: France (Paris, Marseilles), Italy (Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice), Belgium (Malina). His encounter with the works by Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Ossip Zadkine, Constantin Brancusi and even with Wifredo Lam, who was also born in another Cuban coastal area, Sagua la Grande, and his encounter with the nude marble David sculpture...
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Art Deco 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Rust Angel Italy 1980 Post-Modern Abstract Sculpture Bruno Chersicla
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
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Post-Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Life-Sized, Abstract Figurative Sculpture
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Remarkable, large, hand-carved, tribal-type, teak sculpture of an abstract, female form featuring a mix of refined and rough finishes.
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Red Angel Italy 1980 Iron Abstract Sculpture by Bruno Chersicla
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Slate, Metal
Large Aharon Bezalel Israeli Modernist Bronze Brutalist Puzzle Sculpture Figures
Located in Surfside, FL
Aharon Bezalel (Afghani-Israeli, 1925-2012)
Family Grouping
Hand signed in with initials in English
Figures fit together like puzzle pieces in solid cast bronze with original patina.
Aharon Bezalel (born Afghanistan 1926) Born in Herat, Afghanistan in 1926 and immigrated to Israel at an early age. His father, Reuven Bezalel, was a rabbi and kabbalist. As a youth Aharon studied gold and silver casting as well as applied arts and worked in these fields as a silversmith and judaica craftsman, and was a student of the sculptor Zev Ben-Zvi at the Bezalel Academy for Art & Design where he also studied with Isidor Ascheim and Mordecai Ardon. There he absorbed the basic concepts of classic and modernist art and interpreted, according to them, ideas based on ancient Hebrew sources. He also studied miniature carving with the artists Martin and Helga Rost applying himself at their workshop. Aharon Bezalel worked and resided in Jerusalem, he taught art for many years. His sculptures - works of wood, bronze, aluminum, Plexiglas - were shown at his studio in Ein Kerem. “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. His work bears a similarity to Berrocal as well as affinities to Henry Moore, Lynne Chadwick and Kenneth Armitage. 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 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...
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Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Vintage French Modernist Jean Lurcat Glazed Ceramic Art Plate Sant-Vicens France
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage Jean Lurcat glazed fired enamel wall plaque ceramic plate limited edition hand inscribed faience Ceramique Saint Vicens charger. It depicts a h...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Abstract Expressionist Bronze Sculpture Signed by Joan Strauss Carl
Located in Pasadena, CA
The artwork is a patinated bronze on a marble base. It features a dancing couple. The bronze itself is 10"25 H. It is signed in the cast: S. Carl
Overall excellent condition with minor scuffs and oxidation to bronze commensurate with age.
Joan Strauss Carl...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Signed and Dated, Abstract Wall Sculpture
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A solid, 1974 abstract, incised glazed ceramic plaque by listed Italian artist, Marcello Fantoni (1915-2011). Select public collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Bro...
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20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Vintage French Modernist Jean Lurcat Glazed Ceramic Art Plate Sant-Vicens France
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage Jean Lurcat glazed fired enamel wall plaque ceramic plate limited edition hand inscribed faience Ceramique Saint Vicens charger. It depicts a h...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Raul Valdivieso Latin American Erotic Ceramic Sculpture, 1960s
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind ceramic sculpture by Latin American sculptor Raúl Valdivieso (Chilean, 1931-1993). Valdivieso is known for his reinterpretation of classic organic forms and human figures. Sculpture retains the original wood and black laminate base with metal cage. Ceramic is in good original condition. Laminate is in poor condition with a few chips.
Raúl Valdiveso was born September 9, 1931 in Santiago, Chile. In 1952 he began his studies at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile. There he took to sculpture and studied under professors like Marta Colvin...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Acid etched 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
Armchair 47/48 American Minimalist Judd Chair Turquoise blue painted aluminum
By Donald Judd
Located in Zug, CH
DONALD JUDD (1928-1994)
Armchair 47/48
2017
Painted aluminium, Turquoise blue, RAL 5018
75 x 50 x 50 cm
29.53 x 19.69 x 19.69 inches
Signed, inscribed, dated and numbered "Donald Jud...
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Monumental Panel of 15 Brutalist Relief Sculptures by Ron Hitchins
Located in London, GB
Monumental panel of 15 handmade fibreglass relief sculptures from the artist's own home. Each sculpture is signed and unique, with beautiful tarnished...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Paint, Walnut
Modern Abstract Texas Surrealist Carved Wooden Spade Sculpture
By Roy Fridge
Located in Houston, TX
Modern surrealist abstract wooden sculpture by Texas artist Roy Fridge. The work features a prominent spade shape with two open recesses. The top opening exposes a teardrop shape and the bottom shows more machine-like forms. Currently mounted onto a stable, black base.
Artist Biography: A native of Beeville, Fridge was an only child who made his own toys. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he graduated from Baylor University in Waco with a degree in filmmaking. In the 1960s, he and his best friends, sculptors Jim Love and Dave McManaway, became known as the "unholy trio" of Texas contemporary art.
In 1963, Fridge left a career in television advertising and "ran away to the beach." He settled in the sleepy town of Port Aransas...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Abstract Cast Glass Sculpture, 'Lekhoo Beshalom', 1991 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
'Lekhoo Beshalom' is a contemporary abstract cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from his Internal Space series. David fused various colored glass to create a layered, suspended, and...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Italian Marble Box with Dore Bronze from the 1960's
Located in Troy, NY
This elegant Italian box from the 1960's has a wonderful range of color seen in the marble, giving it depth and texture. The colors include light rose, coral, and pink with streaks o...
Category
Renaissance 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
1980 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture Bruno Chersicla Ruota Wheel
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 1000 realized in 1980 by the well known Italian artist Bruno Chersicla.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by ...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Hitch Hiked" Hayward Oubre, Painted Wire Sculpture, Southern Black Artist
Located in New York, NY
Hayward Oubre
Hitch Hiked, 1960
Signed on Base: OUBRE 60
Painted wire sculpture
45 H. x 21 W. x 19 D. inches
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Deeply at...
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Large Abstract Wood Sculpture Colorful Wooden Painting John Okulick Wall Hanging
By John Okulick
Located in Surfside, FL
John Okulick, large colorful wood wall sculpture construction
"Perfect Harmony"
Hand signed and dated, 1999
Dimensions: H: 52 inches:...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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