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Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

SURREALIST STYLE

In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.

Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.

Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.

Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)

The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.

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Style: Surrealist
Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Pendant Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 5.25 X 3.75 inches. Box is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not know if ...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Gold, 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...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Gold, Bronze

Direction blue - black. 2006, glass, copper, author technique 18x56x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Direction blue - black. 2006, glass, copper, author technique 18x56x50 cm
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Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Copper

"Semaphore IV" by David Hostetler
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Bronze, patinaed 68″h x 12″w x 11″d on bronze base An elegant sculpture for a garden, office or home. She is part of the dream inspired sculptures in which the aspects of femininit...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Bavid Dowie: Collaboration Sculpture by Daniel Richter, Jonathan Meese and Tal R
Located in Hamburg, DE
Daniel Richter (b. 1962), Jonathan Meese (b. 1970) and Tal R (b. 1967) Bavid Dowie (Es gibt sie noch, die Dinge), 2018 Medium: 3-D Print made of thermoplastic polymer and spray paint...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Spray Paint, Polymer

Too Much Tea
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Sharon Brooks, the imaginative creator of the mixed media assemblage sculpture "Too Much Tea," describes it as a whimsical and delightful artwork. The centerpiece of this piece is a silver tray, cleverly supported by pounded silver cones that securely hold a wooden plate in place through drilled holes. This arrangement not only provides stability but also adds a touch of resilience to the sculpture. In her creative manipulation, Brooks has added a playful twist by incorporating the head of a doll sitting atop a teapot. It appears as if the doll is emerging from the teapot, with her arms playfully sticking out of the snout. This unique concept adds a sense of charm and intrigue to the artwork, reinventing the traditional tea-serving experience. The sculpture is further enhanced by the presence of multiple trays...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Found Objects

American Surrealist pipes and playing cards spirit of Magritte abstract Montage
Located in Norwich, GB
I love this extraordinary American surrealist piece - a collage/montage, an assembly of objects in a velvet-clad box/frame - for a number of reasons reasons. I love the fact that it depicts pipes, among the most iconic images of the surrealist movement, rooted in Magritte’s famous 1929 painting which depicts a pipe accompanied by the caption “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe). Marcel Duchamp loved using pipes...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Clay, Glass, Paper, Found Objects, Wood

Daum Montre Molle Sculpture
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali TITLE: Daum Montre Molle Sculpture Designed by Salvador Dali for Daum MEDIUM: pate de verde glass and bronze sculpture. Pate de ve...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Glass

Salvador Dalí, "Triomphale", Daum glass plate, 1970
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Salvador Dalí "Triomphale" Original pâte de verre Salvador Dalí plate Daum Editeur, Nancy, France Inscribed Dalí on lower right, and numbered 1199...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Plate Glass

Loner
Located in New York, NY
Dionisios Fragias is a New York -based artist born on the Greek island of Kefalonia and raised in New York City. He is the protege of the artist Jeff Koons whose years-long mentorshi...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Steel, Stainless Steel

Gutsy
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This vivid and sticking surrealist wall sculpture by artist Megan Dune was created with acrylic, glitter, thread and fabric on canvas and paper mache. Wha...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Fabric, Canvas, Thread, Glitter, Acrylic

Geometrical Clouds
Located in Henderson, NV
Limited Edition of 10 sets. Laser cut steel with powder coat. “Geometrical Clouds” is reimagined as a major theme in my life’s work, with the earliest pieces of that name dating back...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

Serenity
Located in Loveland, CO
Serenity by Gary Alsum Abstract Bronze Deer, limited edition of 50, number 1 available. 9.5x4.5x3.5", includes wood base ABOUT THE ARTIST: Taking the knowledge passed on from artists such as Fritz White, Glenna Goodacre...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Adam Kadmon ("Vision")
Located in New York, NY
Grisha Bruskin Adam Kadmon (dedicated to art historian and collector Jacob Baal Teshuva), 1992 Steel (Signed, Dated & Dedicated) 6 × 6 × 3 inches Edition AP Hand-signed by artist, In...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Steel

L'Oiseau
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"L'Oiseau" is a sculpture by Surrealist Joan Miró. The bronze sculpture is signed verso, "Miro" and inscribed 'N.3', and with foundry stamp 'Clementi cire perdue (Paris). André Bret...
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Bronze

LIMBO
Located in New York, NY
LIMBO, 2021, cast forton, acrylic paint, cotton threading, 24 x 20 x 16 inches. The ornate and sensual contours of Nora Chavooshian’s sculptures deri...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Cotton, Yarn, Acrylic

Four Earth Signs: Lunette, Bronze Sculpture by Thom Cooney-Crawford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thom Cooney-Crawford, American (1944 - ) Title: Four Earth Signs: Lunette Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and number inscribed Edition: 4/5 Size: 21.5 in. x 7 in. x 3 in....
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Large Salvador Dali Surrealist Bronze Portrait Sculpture Mexican Master Aguilar
Located in Surfside, FL
Carlos Aguilar y Linares, Mexican Sculptor (1945-2010) Sculpture chose him. In his hands and his soul he always had the necessary impulse to create wi...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

1967 Pop Art, May Wilson, Surrealist Feminist Junk Assemblage Painted Sculpture
By May Wilson
Located in Surfside, FL
May Wilson (1905–1986) was an American artist and figure in the 1960s New York City avant-garde art world. A pioneer of the feminist and mail art movement, she is best known for her Surrealist junk assemblages and her "Ridiculous Portrait" photo collages. Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into an underprivileged family. Her father died when she was young. She was reared by her Irish Catholic mother, who sewed piecework at home. Wilson left school after the ninth grade to become a stenographer/secretary to help support her family. When she turned 20, she married a young lawyer, William S. Wilson, Jr., and give birth to her first child. She continued to work until the birth of her second child, after which she devoted her energies primarily to mothering and homemaking. In 1942, the couple had prospered enough to move to Towson, Maryland, where she began to take correspondence courses in art and art history from several schools, including the University of Chicago. In 1948, after the marriage of their daughter, the couple moved to a gentleman's farm north of Towson, where she pursued painting and gave private art lessons to neighbors. She exhibited her paintings, scenes of everyday life painted in a flat, purposefully primitive manner in local galleries and restaurants. In 1952 and 1958, she won awards for work submitted to juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1956, her son, the writer Williams S. Wilson, gave to Ray Johnson, the founder of the New York Correspondence School, his mother's address. This began a friendship and artistic collaboration between Johnson and Wilson, which would last the remainder of her life. Wilson became an integral part of Johnson's mail art circle and was initiated into the New York avant-garde through letters and small works that she exchanged with Robert Watts, George Brecht, Ad Reinhardt, Leonard Cohen, Arman, and many others. When her marriage dissolved, she moved to New York City in the spring of 1966, aged 61, taking up residence first in the Chelsea Hotel and then in a studio next door, where she threw legendary soirées and became known as the "Grandma Moses of the Underground". By the time she arrived, Wilson was already working with photomontage collage...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Kinetic Bronze Expressionist Sculpture Skier or Surfer Modernist Sporting Figure
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage stylized figural sculpture by J James Akston (1898-1983 Poland/New York/Florida) Crafted of cast bronze with a rich dark brown patina. A sports figure, depicting a snow skiing or water surfing figure in a Mid Century Modern Brutalist style. Segmented torso with movable parts. Mounted to a variegated green marble base. Signed with artist signature on edge of ski or surf board. Bronze statue measures 13" x 10 1/2" Overall height with marble base 19 inches. (it is either a surfboard or a snowboard) Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie d'aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business. Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Beautiful and elegant blue painted bronze sculpture "Clio, Musa della Storia"
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Patinated bronze, lost-wax casting. Antonio Nocera - Italian painter and sculptor, born in Caivano (Naples) in 1949. Antonio is currently engaged in the...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Epiphany
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stefan Vladescu, Romanian/American (1952 - ) Title: Epiphany Year: 1994 Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and date inscribed Size: 25 inch diameter x 1.5 wide Base 3 x 8...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Four Earth Signs: Out of the Bronze Tree Lunette, Bronze by Thom Cooney-Crawford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thom Cooney-Crawford, American (1944 - ) Title: Four Earth Signs: Out of the Bronze Tree Lunette Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and number insc...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Four Earth Signs: Each Eye is an Earth, Bronze Sculpture by Thom Cooney-Crawford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thom Cooney-Crawford, American (1944 - ) Title: Four Earth Signs: Each Eye is an Earth Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and number inscribed Edition: 4/5 Size: 21 in. ...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Four Earth Signs: Wingeo, Bronze Sculpture by Thom Cooney-Crawford
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thom Cooney-Crawford, American (1944 - ) Title: Four Earth Signs: Wingeo Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and number inscribed Edition: 4/5 Size: 20.5 in. x 11 in. x 4...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe)
By Carolee Thea
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Carolee Thea Title: Oh, Georgia (Homage to O'Keeffe) Year: 1986 Medium: Unique Wall Sculpture: Oak, Varnished Plywood and Bone Construction, signed and dated verso Size: ...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Oak, Plywood, Found Objects

Gem
Located in New York, NY
Dionisios Fragias is a New York -based artist born on the Greek island of Kefalonia and raised in New York City. He is the protege of the artist Jeff Koons whose years-long mentorshi...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Steel, Stainless Steel

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 the back taken off for the photograph.) Abstract Surrealist gold gilt cast bronze wearable art pendant sculpture (or silver, it is heavy) with precious or semi precious gem stones set into it. This is most probably from the series done with Mayer Swed Jewelers in Tel Aviv. Similar ones with gold gilding and semi precious gemstones from this series have come up at Tiroche auction in Herzliya with estimates from 2500$-3500$ (sold for 3220$ in 2011). This is from the period of the wearable art movement when artists like Alexander Calder, Ibram Lassaw and Clare Falkenstein amongst many others were turning to jewejry as an expressive medium for their art. Yigal Tumarkin (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an Israeli painter and sculptor. Biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Yigal Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theater actor and director. His mother, Berta Gurevitch and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. Tumarkin served in the Israeli Navy. After completing his military service, he studied sculpture in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel. Johanaan Peter worked there with Hans Jean Arp and Dada artist Marcel Janco pioneering Modernist studio Jewelry in Israel. Tumarkin did some Jewelry as awards for the state of Israel (along with Yaacov Agam, Jacques Lipchitz, Salvador Dali, Samuel Bak, Dani Karavan and others.) This is not from that edition but much more rare studio produced limited edition sculptural pieces. Among Tumarkin's best known works are the Holocaust memorial in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv and his sculptures commemorating fallen soldiers in the Negev. Tumarkin is also a theoretician and stage designer. In the 1950s, Tumarkin worked in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. Tumarkin created assemblages of found objects, generally with violent Expressionist undertones and decidedly unlyrical color. Hebrew. His determination to "be different" influenced his younger Israeli colleagues. The furor generated around Tumarkin's works, such as the old pair of trousers stuck to one of his pictures, intensified the mystique surrounding him.Tumarkin has worked extensively in the medium of printmaking, producing over three hundred prints. He was encouraged by the print studios founded during those years in the USA, where prominent artists such as Jasper Jones...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Gold, Bronze

Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Pendant Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 5.25 X 3.75 inches. Box is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not know if all 10 were produced. they are not numbered. (Piece is in excellent condition. box frame has some minor wear and piece might need to be remounted, it has been removed and the back taken off for the photograph.) Abstract Surrealist gold gilt cast bronze wearable art pendant sculpture (or silver, it is heavy) with precious or semi precious gem stones set into it. This is most probably from the series done with Mayer Swed Jewelers in Tel Aviv. Similar ones with gold gilding and semi precious gemstones from this series have come up at Tiroche auction in Herzliya with estimates from 2500$-3500$ (sold for 3220$ in 2011). This is from the period of the wearable art movement when artists like Alexander Calder, Ibram Lassaw and Clare Falkenstein amongst many others were turning to jewejry as an expressive medium for their art. Yigal Tumarkin (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an Israeli painter and sculptor. Biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Yigal Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theater actor and director. His mother, Berta Gurevitch and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. Tumarkin served in the Israeli Navy. After completing his military service, he studied sculpture in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel. Johanaan Peter worked there with Hans Jean Arp and Dada artist Marcel Janco pioneering Modernist studio...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Gold, Bronze

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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 the back taken off for the photograph.) Abstract Surrealist gold gilt cast bronze wearable art pendant sculpture (or silver, it is heavy) with precious or semi precious gem stones set into it. This is most probably from the series done with Mayer Swed Jewelers in Tel Aviv. Similar ones with gold gilding and semi precious gemstones from this series have come up at Tiroche auction in Herzliya with estimates from 2500$-3500$ (sold for 3220$ in 2011). This is from the period of the wearable art movement when artists like Alexander Calder, Ibram Lassaw and Clare Falkenstein amongst many others were turning to jewejry as an expressive medium for their art. Yigal Tumarkin (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an Israeli painter and sculptor. Biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Yigal Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theater actor and director. His mother, Berta Gurevitch and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. Tumarkin served in the Israeli Navy. After completing his military service, he studied sculpture in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel. Johanaan Peter worked there with Hans Jean Arp and Dada artist Marcel Janco pioneering Modernist studio Jewelry in Israel. Tumarkin did some Jewelry as awards for the state of Israel (along with Yaacov Agam, Jacques Lipchitz, Salvador Dali, Samuel Bak, Dani Karavan and others.) This is not from that edition but much more rare studio produced limited edition sculptural pieces. Among Tumarkin's best known works are the Holocaust memorial in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv and his sculptures commemorating fallen soldiers in the Negev. Tumarkin is also a theoretician and stage designer. In the 1950s, Tumarkin worked in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. Tumarkin created assemblages of found objects, generally with violent Expressionist undertones and decidedly unlyrical color. Hebrew. His determination to "be different" influenced his younger Israeli colleagues. The furor generated around Tumarkin's works, such as the old pair of trousers stuck to one of his pictures, intensified the mystique surrounding him.Tumarkin has worked extensively in the medium of printmaking, producing over three hundred prints. He was encouraged by the print studios founded during those years in the USA, where prominent artists such as Jasper Jones...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Gold, Bronze

The Ear of Giacometti, 1977, Bronze Sculpture, 20th Century Surrealism
By Meret Oppenheim
Located in Hamburg, DE
Meret Oppenheim (Swiss, 1913-1985) The Ear of Giacometti (Das Ohr von Giacometti), 1977 Medium: Bronze Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 cm (4,1 x 3 x 0,5 in) Edition of 500: Incised mono...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Pendant Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 5.25 X 3.75 inches. Box is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not know if all 10 were produced. they are not numbered. (Piece is in excellent condition. box frame has some minor wear and piece might need to be remounted, it has been removed and the back taken off for the photograph.) Abstract Surrealist gold gilt cast bronze wearable art pendant sculpture (or silver, it is heavy) with precious or semi precious gem stones set into it. This is most probably from the series done with Mayer Swed Jewelers in Tel Aviv. Similar ones with gold gilding and semi precious gemstones from this series have come up at Tiroche auction in Herzliya with estimates from 2500$-3500$ (sold for 3220$ in 2011). This is from the period of the wearable art movement when artists like Alexander Calder, Ibram Lassaw and Clare Falkenstein amongst many others were turning to jewejry as an expressive medium for their art. Yigal Tumarkin (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an Israeli painter and sculptor. Biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Yigal Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theater actor and director. His mother, Berta Gurevitch and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. Tumarkin served in the Israeli Navy. After completing his military service, he studied sculpture in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel. Johanaan Peter worked there with Hans Jean Arp and Dada artist Marcel Janco pioneering Modernist studio...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Gold, Bronze

Unterirdische Schleife, Surrealist Sculpture, 20th Century Modern Art
By Meret Oppenheim
Located in Hamburg, DE
Meret Oppenheim (Swiss, 1913 - 1985) Unterirdische Schleife, 1977 Medium: Bronze sculpture (In original box with title on label) Edition of 100: Underside initialized and dated ‘M.O....
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Surrealist Equine Bronze Sculpture Modernist Etruscan Half Horse Marble Base
Located in Surfside, FL
Contemporary Bronze Horse Bust Sculpture. This does not appear to be signed. We cannot locate a signature Mounted on a modern marble base. Measures ...
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20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

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