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Period: Late 20th Century
Red and Black Vase, Contemporary Blown Glass Sculpture by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Red and Black Vase
David Ruth, American
Blown Glass, Signed
Size: 10 x 3.25 x 3.25 in. (25.4 x 8.26 x 8.26 cm)
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Limited Edition numbered Italian Blue Ceramic Plate for Dallas Texas restaurant
Located in New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois
Limited Edition Ceramic Plate depicting Malloreddus alla Sarda, Dallas Texas, 1998
Ceramic Plate
10 in diameter
Edition 457/1000 (read description; the edition was not completed)
Unframed (Stand shown is not included)
Makes a memorable gift! This striking, rare limited edition, signed and numbered bowl/plate was handmade in southern Italy by master artisans near Vietri sul Mare. It was designed by renowned American artist Louise Bourgeois. From the late 1990s through the millenium, Buon Ricordo...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Screen, Mixed Media
1980 Italy Post-Modern Alessandro Guerriero Abstract Sculpture Goodluck Black
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered.
The set is forged in aluminum an...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Metal Painted Sculpture Nuvolella
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Ceramic Box with Lid" Stoneware Cream Glaze w/ Organic Attachments
By Gawaine Dart
Located in Detroit, MI
ONE WEEK ONLY SALE
The rich tones of the stoneware clay come through the soft creamy glaze that drips over the surface like melted vanilla ice cream over red devil cake. There are i...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze
"Vase" Mary Caroline Richards, Modernist, Hand-made, Black Mountain College
Located in New York, NY
Mary Caroline Richards
Vase, circa 1970s
Glazed earthenware
4 1/2 x 5 inches
Provenance
Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025.
Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards (1916 – 1999) was bo...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Metal Painted Sculpture Caffellatte
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the wellknown International artist Riccardo Dalisi.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed ...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla Black Painted Metal Sculpture Upupa
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble
Brown Vase, Hand-Blown Glass Sculpture by Ira Sapir
Located in Long Island City, NY
Brown Vase
Ira Sapir, American (1955)
Hand-Blown Glass
Size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 in. (13.97 x 8.89 x 8.89 cm)
Opening is 1 inch in diameter
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Kneeling
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Edition 3 of 12, signed "R Holmes 3/12" on back edge of kneeling figure, and "Kneeling 3/12" on underside of base.
Robert Holmes's sculpture has been exhibited over the past thirt...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,600
Gallifa Study XIII by Barry Flanagan
Located in London, GB
Gallifa Study X
By Barry Flanagan
1992
Bronze
27.9 x 13.7 x 9.8 cm
Edition of 8
Provenance: Private UK collection
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Four-Armed Man with Drum, Tribal Figurative Abstract Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative abstract tribal sculpture of a creature with four arms by Nathaniel Sirles (American, b. 1956). Signed and dated "Sirles 1973" on the bottom. Sirles completed this piece ...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Alabaster
$1,200 Sale Price
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Untitled (4 Figures on a Bench)
Located in New York, NY
Unknown/ Unidentified Artist, "Untitled" ( 4 Figures on a Bench), Abstract Figurative Wire Sculpture, Stands 20" Tall and 24" Wide, Late 20th Century
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Italy Northern Tale 1990 Bronze Abstract Sculpture Racconto Del Nord
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an interesting bronze sculpture multiple art work signed by the Italian Artist Beppe Bonetti. Title Northern Tale
This is a multiple of a numbered edition of 500 pieces. The...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mixed Media Painting Sculpture Construction 1980s Brazilian Political Art
By Randolfo Rocha
Located in Surfside, FL
Interesting Latin American art collage/assemblage of images. bears elements of Arte Povera. it is mounted onto a wood construction.
Signed verso and bears label from Stux Gallery.
Well Known Brazilian political artist and collector. Showed at Stux Gallery (they showed Doug Anderson and then Mike and Doug...
Category
Pop Art Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled Sculpture
Located in Kansas City, MO
Yukio Yamamoto
Untitled
Ceramic
1988
Approx. 19 x 22 x 12 in
COA provided
Comes with original papers
Ref.: 924802-1011
Yukio Yamamoto was born in the Ako district of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in 1925.
In 1953, he spent a year as a research student at the Tanabe class of the Department of Ceramics at Kyoto Institute of Technology. Yukio studied the history of pottery of the past centuries of this well-known Hemiji Castle domain. He would also research kiln designs through fieldwork as his thesis project.
By 1954, he built his first Noborigama chambered climbing kiln in Tenjin-Cho, Himeji City, teaching the old-world firing process classes. This would become the first step in Yamamoto’s revival of the Tozan style of Anagama and Noborigama down-draft style wood-fired kilns. In 1600, the kiln process had been at its height and had mainly provided wares to Himeji Castle.
As an artist, he typically worked in ash-covered high-fired unglazed ceramics...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$5,750 Sale Price
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"Bronze from Cube" unique sculpture
By Mary Shaffer
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Artist Mary Shaffer used a glass original to cast the long piece of bronze "flowing" from the geometric cube cast for the top.
Mary Shaffer has worked primarily in glass since the 1...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cherubino Red Angel Lacquered Playwood Italy 1985 Bruno Chersicla Wall Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This amazing wall sculpture is an abstract figure in a vibrant hand lacquered red color.
A graphic drawing on the wall like a Pop Art artwork.
Bruno C...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plywood
"Penguin" - Steatite Stone Hand Carved Sculpture, St. Lawrence Island Eskimo Art
Located in Soquel, CA
"Penguin" - Steatite Stone Hand Carved Sculpture, St. Lawrence Island Eskimo Art
Dynamic steatite stone sculpture of a standing penguin. The sculpture prop...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
$2,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Italy 1980 Abstract Sculpture Polished Cast Aluminum by Giacomo Benevelli
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork is made in solid cast polished aluminum. The organic forms recall bodies or souls that fit together.
Giacomo Benevelli is an Italian ar...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Bird and Blossom, Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Joe DiStefano
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bird and Blossom
Joe DiStefano, American (1940–2020)
Ceramic, signed
Size: 5.5 x 9.5 x 6 in. (13.97 x 24.13 x 15.24 cm)
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled ( Male Figure Reading Newspaper - The Village Voice )
Located in New York, NY
Unknown/ Unidentified Artist, "Untitled" ( Male Figure Reading Newspaper), Abstract Figurative Wire Sculpture, Stands 29" Tall and 12" Wide, Late 20th Century
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
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...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Relationships III
Located in New York, NY
Relationships III is part of a series of three sculptures inspired by my personal experiences. When my two sons were growing up I told them the most difficult thing in life are you...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Linen, Wood
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Morris Brose "Roma II" Abstract Bronze Wall Sculptural
Located in Detroit, MI
"Roma II" is an exquisite example of Morris Brose's abstract sculpture that invites numerous imaginative suggestions from architecture to weaponry and armor. No soft edges on this piece and no invitation to caress, the power, strength and beauty of the bronze are front and center and create awe.
Morris Brose, Polish/American was born in Wyszkow, Poland. He became a sculptor and instructor of sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cranbrook was designed by architect and faculty member, Eliel Saarinen who collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames on chair and furniture design. Numerous creative artists who are alumni of Cranbrook include: Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Jack Lenor Larsen, Donald Lipski...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gentleman, Marble and Travertine Conceptual Sculpture
By Maria Dompe
Located in Surfside, FL
MARIA DOMPE, (Italian, b. 1958), Gentleman Sculpture, marble and travertine, 1995, height: 20 in.
One of a pair, (Gentleman and Lady) being sold separately.
Maria Dompe was born in ...
Category
Conceptual Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Travertine, Marble
Red, Purple, and Blue Modernist Abstract Biomorphic Mobile Sculpture
By Jon Krawczyk
Located in Houston, TX
Red, purple, and blue modernist biomorphic mobile sculpture by Jon Jon Krawczyk. Signed by the artist at the bottom of the piece.
Artist Biography: A graduate of Connecticut College, Krawczyk has studied fine art throughout Europe and apprenticed with various acclaimed sculptors. He realizes his biomorphic sculptures by cutting sheet stainless steel or bronze and welding, pounding and shaping with focused heat. Each sculpture is therefore unique, as the works are never cast from a mold.
Krawczyk draws inspiration from artists such as Picasso, Henry Moore and David Smith. He is not only influenced by the obvious masterful techniques of these artists, but also by their philosophies of the sculptural process.
Jon Krawczyk works in stainless steel, either brushed or highly polished, and in bronze, to which he applies intense patinas of earth tones and bright blues and greens. These works appear to have the geological marks of boulders, as sentinels that look comfortable in natural environments, can be abstract tendrils or wispy smoke-like forms that defy gravity, or long, thin, yet powerful lines that seem to jump into the sky. His most recent highly polished stainless steel sculptures...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
Philosopher bronze sculpture
By John Denning
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
A recurring theme in John Denning’s art (both painting and sculpture) has been combining human figures with birds or horses. The bird in the freestanding bronze sculpture "Philosophe...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
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...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"Circles and Waves" abstract bronze sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
"Circle and Waves" is one of renowned artist Hans Van de Bovenkamp's most graphic sculptures, playful and accessible. Fabricated bronze with visible connection points and varied brow...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1980 Abstract Sculpture Polished Cast Aluminum by Giacomo Benevelli
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork is made in solid cast polished aluminum. The organic forms recall bodies or souls that fit together.
Giacomo Benevelli is an Italian ar...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original nickel plated over brass metal abstract sculpture by Oded Halahmy. Untitled. Signed and dated 1976. Condition is excellent. The sculpture is mounted on a thick mahogany bas...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$2,240 Sale Price
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"Carthage" colorful steel sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Playful and colorful steel pedestal sculpture with acrylic lacquer paint.
Joseph Slusky's sculptures are often described as charismatic and exuberant. The liveliness of the varied s...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Zongo" colorful abstract sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Steel and acrylic lacquer paint.
Joseph Slusky's painted steel sculpture "Zongo" prominently features a circle and exuberant wave form among the angles, but look closer and you'll a...
Category
Constructivist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Balls on the Line" Satirical Wood Panel Original Painting and Carving
Located in Soquel, CA
"Balls on the Line" Satirical Wood Panel Original Painting and Carving
Elaborate collage, painting and carved sculpture by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). Ball's on the...
Category
Outsider Art Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Circle + Square Surrounding the Positive Pyramid
Located in Columbia, MO
Aluminum
Category
Minimalist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large Bronze Modernist Biomorphic Sculpture Sleeping Dog Colin Webster Watson
Located in Surfside, FL
Sculpture Of A Sleeping Dog.
A wonderful and realistic cast bronze signed and numbered.
With beautiful weathered patina
Small edition of 10
Colin Webster-Watson (1926, Palmerston...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Figurative Abstract Tribal Creature Head Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
Evocative figurative abstract sculpture of the head of a tribal creature by Nathaniel Sirles (American, b. 1954). Signed and dated "N. Sirles 1970" on the bottom. Sirles completed th...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
$1,200 Sale Price
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Codina Corona. Boat la barca Original- wood realistic sculpture-
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
sculpture on wood by Spanish artist CODINA CORONA.
Sculpture of one piece of wood
Josep Maria Codina Corona (Igualada, 1935 - Barcelona, 2006) was a Catalan sculptor. He studied at...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Handmade Paper Collage Sculpture Art Assemblage with String Nancy Genn Modernist
By Nancy Genn
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
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...
Category
Minimalist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large Biomorphic Abstract Bronze Sculpture Phoebe Adams Wall Hanging
Located in Surfside, FL
"What Remains"
Cast bronze with patina, 1985.
Cast at Johnson Atelier, Hamilton NJ
Exhibited at Guggenheim Museum 1985
Provenance: Sold through Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NY
The second photo is the picture in the catalogue. I received it from the artist. I do not have the catalogue available.
Studio handcrafted solid cast bronze Biomorphic shell wall sculpture. Abstract exoskeleton theme. This is a corner piece as can be seen in the catalogue photo (we do not have the catalogue). To be mounted on left side wall of corner, piece reached across to right side across corner (as per artists instructions).
Phoebe Adams...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Draped Bar
By Mary Shaffer
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This wall-mounted sculpture is from Mary Shaffer's well known "Tool Wall" series, combining slumped glass and a found metal object. "I take lovingly crafted, hand-forged tools - the ...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$12,000
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...
Category
Feminist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
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)
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Tapisseries du Vent" Sheila Hicks, 1973 Gold Weaving, Textile Tapestry
By Sheila Hicks
Located in New York, NY
Sheila Hicks
Tapisseries du Vent, 1973
Signed on the reverse
Synthetic raffia weaving with Lucite rods
56" high x 34ʺ wide x 6ʺ deep
Sheila Hicks was born in Hastings, Nebraska, an...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Synthetic
"Aim I" Alexander Liberman, Bright Red, Large Modernist Metal Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Liberman
Aim I, 1980
Painted aluminum
83 high x 26 wide x 26 deep inches
Edition of 15
Regarded as a groundbreaking Minimalist artist, Alexander Liberman created pieces t...
Category
Minimalist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Tribute To Picasso Murano Glass Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Girl With Blue Ribbon Tribute To Picasso
Signed near base "Omaggio A Picasso' or as a tribute to Picasso. Measures 16"H x 10"W x 7"D.
Walter Furlan was born in 1931 in Chioggia, a s...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
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...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Acrylic
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
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...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
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...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
John Van Alstine - Crossover, Sculpture 1990
Located in Greenwich, CT
Crossover, John Van Alstine.
Stone and metal, usually granite or slate and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a major focus. On the...
Category
Abstract Geometric Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_plaster coated cut styrofoam_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
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...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Acrylic
Estate of David Hayes_Form Study_carved plaster of paris_1970_abstract sculpture
By David Hayes
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...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Large Modern Abstract Figure Polished Steel Mod Chrome Sculpture Jack Schuyler
Located in Surfside, FL
Jack Schuyler (1912-2002) Polished Metal Sculpture "Abstract Figural Composition" Hand signed and Dated 1982.
Measures 27" x 26-1/2" x 10.5" inches.
There is not much known about t...
Category
Post-Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel