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Figurative Sculptures For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Feminist
An Evening in 1922, Erté
By Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990)
Title: An Evening in 1922
Year: 1982
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 61/250 Numbered, 12 AP, 9 HC
Size: 17 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Faubourg St. Honoré
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Rue Faubourg St. Honoré is a famous street in Paris's 8th District. While narrow compared to the Champs Elysées, it is considered the capital of Haute Couture due to the presence...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sisters
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sisters was inspired by a gouache painting from 1921 entitled 'Les baisers pervers ou la brune et la blonde' and is a wonderful example of an invention of Erté's from the early 1920s...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chinchilla Sleeves
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Chinchilla Sleeves is based on a 1924 fashion design for Harper's Bazaar that showcased Erté's stunning new wraps and gowns for the upcoming season. A velvet gown edged with chinchil...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rigoletto, Erté
By Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990)
Title: Rigoletto
Year: 1988
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 145/375
Size: 19.75 x 18.13 x 5.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Incised wi...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Wave
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Originally executed as a fashion illustration for Harper's Bazaar, The Wave presents an anthropomorphic vision of feminine beauty borne from the sea while paying homage to Hokusai’s ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
On the Avenue
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
On the Avenue was created originally as a gouache and presents a female figure wearing a typical 1920's flapper outfit. During the 1920s, fashion for young women focused less on the ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cabaret
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cabaret, so evocative of cabaret-style shows, was a costume design for a 1940 production entitled 'Dream Waltz' by Oscar Strauss, based on a novella from 1905 by Hans Müller-Einingen...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Broadway's in Fashion
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté, considered by many as the “Father of Art Deco,” often acknowledged that his love for the theater was a great source of creativity and inspiration. He conveyed in his art a drama with which he lived his life – a dream that came from the very innermost expression of his soul. Just like theater has two faces - comedy and tragedy - Erté was a brilliant showman, as well as a quiet man who sometimes would prefer to be left alone. From a young age, he was immersed in the world of opera, ballet, and theater. When he designed costumes and sets for theatrical productions, it was a lifelong desire that he was fulfilling.
“Broadway’s in Fashion” is a fitting tribute to the legendary Broadway from a man who pursued the theatrical in everything he did. In 1978, Erté was honored by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation at a gala celebration in New York entitled “Broadway’s in Fashion” for which Erté designed the poster. This led to a CBS-TV film on Erté narrated by the legendary Diana Vreeland, and an exhibition of his costume designs at the Boston Center of the Arts. This sculpture, in scarlet and black, with white gold embellishments, incorporates the elements for which Broadway is best known. Her elegant and confident posture reveals her costume, which is itself an homage to Broadway – the scarlet robe with gold tassels evokes the stage curtain as it rises to reveal the first act, the male and female dancers, energetically giving their all for each performance, and the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lovers and Idol
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lovers and Idol was featured on the cover of Harper’s Bazar in August, 1917, a very early work in Erte’s collaboration with the magazine. In his sculpt...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La Mystérieuse
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
La Mystérieuse was inspired by Erté’s design for a wedding gown published in Harper’s Bazar in 1923. Erté wrote, “The name comes from the effect of mystery of this exquisite outfit. ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Golden Fleece
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté designed Golden Fleece for a Folies-Bergére scene entirtled "The Golden Fleece" and a 1926 George White's Scandals scene entitled "La Toison d'or." Erté, whose artistic style was influenced in part by a childhood admiration of classic Greek art, was always drawn to a good story with a sense of drama – typified by Greek tragedy.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 115, 207).
From the total edition of 462; numbered 215/375 (there were also 50 Roman and 37 AP).
Referring to the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, the Golden Fleece sculpture depicts an elegant woman in a classic Greek garment. The curled horns of the ram style her headdress, elegant in appearance and yet fierce in battle. Descending from these horns is the golden fleece itself, its curly mane covering the woman to her toes. Her gown, a gracefully draped toga, is designed to leave one breast bared, in the folkloric tradition of the Amazon tribe of women warriors...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Starfish
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté originally created this image as a costume design for the "Fonds de la Mer," a presentation of the Folies Bergere in 1919.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 108, 2...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
WILLOW TREE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"Willow Tree" (Bronze)
by
Erte
Type: Sculpture
Media: Patina on Bronze
Image Dimensions: 24 3/4" x 12" x 5 1/2"
Year Produced: 1989
Edition Size: 375 Numbered, I-L Roman Numerals, 37...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
KISS OF FIRE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"Kiss of Fire" (Bronze)
by
Erte
Type: Sculpture
Media: Patina on Bronze
Image Dimensions: 21" High
Year Produced: 1984
Edition Size: 300 Numbered, 30 AP, 9 HC
Condition: Excellent
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Arabian Nights
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
In 1919, Erté began work with the greatest French music-hall star of her day, Gaby Deslys. It was for Ms. Deslys’ appearance in the production of Les Rois des Legendes that Erté crea...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Masquerade
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Masquerade is based on an image Erté originally created as a fashion drawing for Harper’s Bazar in 1922.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 119, 207).
From the total edi...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Hunting
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Hunting is a sculptural interpretation of Autumn, a lithograph from Erté’s The Four Seasons. It represents a beautiful creature – half woman, half animal – wounded by a cruel hun...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Helen of Troy
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté’s image of Helen of Troy also exists as a gouache painting and a serigraph. Known as "the face that launched a thousand ships" and as Zeus' daughter, her story is one that is intricately intertwined with many of the Greek gods and goddesses...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Motherhood
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Motherhood is based on an image originally created as a costume design for Les Idoles at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in 1924.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 179, 207...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Diana the Huntress, French Art Deco Artemis Bronze Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a stunning French Art Deco bronze sculpture figurine. The statue features a stylized freestyle interpretation of Artemis or Diana the Huntress (Diane Chasseresse). The nude f...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Asian Princess
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté created many costumes and artworks inspired by his travels and experiences with the countries and cultures of the Asian world. In addition, the French music halls which were an ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Printemps
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté originally created this delightful image representing the feminine energy of Spring for a scene in “Les Rois des Legendes” at the Folies Bergère.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Wor...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cornucopia
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cornucopia pays homage to the great goddesses of abundance and fortune, with a modern twist – rather than showing the bounty of the earth overflowing from the horn, this Cornucopia o...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Winged Male Figure - Apollo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Winged Male Figure - Apollo, c. 1930s, polychrome bas-relief of cast aggregate, 12 x 26 inches; the...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Black Sculptural Tapestry- Brave Spirits Merged 807
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Brave Spirits Merged 807 - Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Black Sculptural Tapestry
Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2011, in which she combines images from...
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Leather Black Sculptural Tapestry - Power Merged 804
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Power Merged 804 - Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Leather Black Sculptural Tapestry
Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2011, in which she combines images fro...
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
ERTE (ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF) 'THE WEDDING' BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
ERTE
"The Wedding"
Signed/Numbered BRONZE SCULPTURE
Type: Sculpture
Media: Patina on Bronze
Image Dimensions: 16 in X 18 in X 5.5 in.
Year Produced: 1985
Edition Size: 251/375
Condit...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
BAMBOO (SCULPTURE)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture. Incised Erte signature with stamp numbered edition, foundry and date. From the edition of 375.
Certificate of Authenticity is included. Artwork is in excellent co...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Splendor
Located in New York, NY
The Erte sculpture is signed by the artist in an limited edition of 250. It is in "EXCELLENT" condition.
Splendor is one of the top sculptures by Erte, and is in highly in demand.
Th...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Inward
Located in Istanbul, 34
Unique.
(The price is for one piece. If the works are considered to be purchased together, price negotiation and discounts are possible.)
What is the work about: The expressive pow...
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
ERTE "LA DANSEUSE" 1986, BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"Femme de luxe" (Bronze)
by
Erte
Type: Sculpture
Media: Patina on Bronze
Dimensions: 13 3/4" High
Year Produced: 1986
Edition Size: 500 Numbered, 35 AP
Edition Number: 13/500
In Exce...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
ERTE 'RUE DE LA PAIX' SIGNED & NUMBERED BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
ERTE "Rue de La Paix" Signed/Numbered BRONZE SCULPTURE
By
Erte
Type: Sculpture
Media: Patina on Bronze
Image Dimensions: 14 x 6.75 x 3.25 inches
Year Produced: 1987
Edition Size: 241...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Shalwar
Located in Istanbul, 34
Unique.
What is the work about: The expressive power of the shadow and the inner landscapes that emphasize the female identity.
Suzy Hug Levy brings an imaginary movement to the ra...
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Bogota's Glory
Located in PARIS, FR
Bogota's Glory
by Henri Bouchard (1875-1960)
Sculpture in bronze with a nuanced yellow-brown patina
Signed "H. Bouchard" on the base
Cast by "Siot" (stamp)
France
circa 1927
height...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
ERTE "FEMME DE LUXE" 1990, BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"Femme de luxe" (Bronze)
by
Erte
Type: Sculpture
Media: Patina on Bronze
Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 7"
Year Produced: 1990
Edition Size: 500 Numbered, 12 AP, 2 HC
Edition Number: ...
Category
1990s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
ERTE "THE MYSTIC" 1984, BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"The Mystic" (Bronze)
by
Erte
Type: Sculpture
Media: Patina on Bronze
Dimensions: 17 x 14 x 9 1/4"
Year Produced: 1989
Edition Size: 375 Numbered, 37 AP
Edition Number: 92/375
In Exc...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Music (attributed)
By Philip Kran Paval
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Music (attributed), brass and wire construction, c. 1936, 28 x 14 x 5 inches; perhaps exhibited at Hollywood Riviera Gallery, 1936 (third prize); provenance includes Estate of Jon Spencer Helfen (Los Angeles, CA
About the Sculpture
In 1935, Philip Paval bought a box of metal in a “blind auction.” Paval, a painter, sculptor, and jeweler, had hoped the box contained silver. To his dismay, it was brass. Seeing an opportunity, Paval started to make sculptures from the brass sheets. His subjects included Cinema, Hollywood, Radio, Dance, Aviation and Music. The works were well-received with the Hollywood crowd and critically acclaimed. Actor and comedian, Ben Bard, purchased four of them for his theater, and novelist and screenwriter, Vicki Baum ordered four more for her drawing room. Movie director King Vidor also purchased them. Los Angeles Times art critic, Arthur Millier, described Paval’s “contraptions” as “ingenious, decorative, different.” Paval exhibited these works for several years in the late 1930s, including at the American Artists’ Congress Gallery in Los Angeles in an exhibition called Formalism and Abstraction in 1938 and at a solo show at Stendahl Galleries in 1939. The appeal of these works must have been irresistible, as a 1936 Los Angeles Times article noted, “Two feet of brass art has been stolen from the Hollywood Riviera Galleries. The work is an abstraction. It portrays the spirit of music and rested on the grand piano in the main hall. The work of Philip Paval, it won third prize in the current gallery exhibition at the gallery.” One can only wonder whether this is the “contraption” which was pilfered from the gallery nearly one hundred years ago. Given the description of the work, its subject matter and size, it seems likely.
About the Artist
Philip Paval was a sculptor, painter, and jeweler. Born in Denmark, Paval was apprenticed to a silversmith and studied art in Denmark. He immigrated to the US in 1919 and first worked as a merchant seaman in New York. The following year, Paval settled in Los Angeles where he later opened his own jewelry shop featuring works he designed and produced. Paval became a favorite in the entertainment world, making a good living selling silver...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Persephone II
Located in Breckenridge, CO
This exquisite sculpture captures the essence of feminine beauty and grace in a breathtaking display of craftsmanship and artistry. Crafted by a local sculptor, this remarkable piece...
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Large George Aarons Terracotta Sculpture Relief Art Deco Plaque WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Two Figures (Mother and son)
9" x 17" terracotta sculpture, signed lower left mounted to wood panel, 15 1/2" x 23 1/2"
George Aarons (born Gregory Podubisky, in St. Petersburg, Russ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Terracotta
Quarrymen rolling a stone.
Located in East Grinstead, GB
Swedish quarrymen carriers rolling a stone. Men at work was a Demanet theme that permeated throughout his career, the physical struggle which was relevant in manual labour in times ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Legal Eagle, Contemporary Bronze Sculpture
Located in WOOLLAHRA, AU
Stephen Glassborow was born in Hammersmith, England and studied sculpture at the Brighton College of Art, before becoming a permanent resident of Australia in 1983. He is now one of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Panthers resting
Located in PARIS, FR
"Panthers resting" by Maximilien FIOT (1886-1953)
Outstanding and rare sculpture in white marble
France
circa 1930
height 40 cm
length 66 cm
Provenance : By Descent of the Boardman, Devitt and Dawkins families, New England and California.
Biography :
Louis-Maximilien Fiot, known as Maximilien Fiot (1886-1953) was a French sculptor. Student of the sculptor Prosper Lecourtier, he exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1910 to 1914. Member of the Salon of French Artists, Fiot obtained a third medal in 1911, then a second medal in 1913. As an animal artist, he also participated during the period between the two World Wars, like many of his confreres, in the production of war memorials. In 1930, he realized for the city of La Ferté-Alais, where his mother lived, "The Lion watching...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Golf (Wall Plaque)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Golf (Wall Plaque)
Polychromed ceramic, c. 1930-1
Signed with the artist's initials: VS recto
Very rare, only a few produced prior to the closure of Cowan Pottery
Format: Round ceramic plate, 11 1/4 inches
Designed by the artist while working for Cowan Pottery in 1930. One of Cowan's clients, an interior designer, requested plates decorated with different outdoor activities. Others in the series included "Swimming," "Tennis," "Polo," and "The Hunt."
According to Henry Adams, the number of examples created was very limited due to the closing of Cowan Pottery in 1931. Very rare
Condition: Good, with the usual craquelure of the glazes used.
Note: Industrial design democratizes high style, and Mr. Schreckengost was widely considered among the most democratic industrial designers. He made, quite literally, the stuff of life — things found routinely in homes, backyards and garages in this country and around the world. He designed bicycles for Sears and everyday china for American Limoges. He designed children’s toys and pedal cars; flashlights, furniture and fans; lawn chairs, lawn mowers and golf carts; baby walkers and artificial limbs.
In 2006 Mr. Schreckengost was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the country’s highest cultural honor. His work is in the permanent collection of major museums, including the Renwick Gallery, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Mr. Schreckengost belonged to the first great generation of American industrial designers, which included luminaries like Russel Wright, Norman Bel Geddes and Raymond Loewy.
The lights of New York...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Large Antique Vienna Bronze Orientalist Camel Rider Statue Sculpture Carl Kauba
By Carl Kauba
Located in Portland, OR
A large cast Vienna bronze in the Orientalist style by the Austrian sculptor Carl Kauba (1865-1922).
The bronze finely modeled as an Arabian dromedary camel...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lady with a book
Located in PARIS, FR
"Lady with a book"
also known as "St. Suzanne"
by Jan & Joël MARTEL (1896-1966)
Sculpture in stone from Euville
France
circa 1935
height of the sculpture : 125 cm
width of base : 25,4 x 21,2 cm
total height with wooden base : 141 cm
width of the wooden socle : 31 x 26 cm
A similar model is reproduced in "Joël et Jan Martel, sculpteurs, 1896-1966", Ed. Gallimard Electa, 1996, page 150.
Biography :
The twins Jan and Joël Martel, born March 5, 1896 in Nantes and died respectively on March 16 and September 25, 1966 in Bois-de-Céné, were both of them French sculptors and decorators. As Parisian artists, they spent long moments in Vendée region, in their Mollin property, or in Saint-Jean-de-Monts, city in which one can see their last monumental work: "The Sea Birds". Their works were sculptures, monuments or fountains of Art Deco or Cubist inspiration. They also realized around 1920 interior fittings for villas.
Jan and Joel Martel shared the same workshop and their work to the point of signing their compositions only by "Martel". The Martel brothers...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Limoges French Hand Painted Porcelain Powder Box
Located in Troy, NY
This lovely powder box in an art deco style features a woman in a black and yellow patterned dress. The box is French porcelain, made and hand painted in ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
"Mercury" NYC 1931 Bronze 5th Ave Traffic Light Sculpture American Art Deco WPA
Located in New York, NY
"Mercury" NYC 1931 Bronze 5th Ave Traffic Light Sculpture American Art Deco WPA
In the late 1920s, Joseph Freedlander was asked by the City of New York ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kneeling Female Nude, Bronze By Mario Korbel
Located in Norwood, NJ
Joseph Mario Korbel (Czech/American, 1882-1954). Period fine example bronze, dark brown patina, modeled as a nude female kneeling and tying her sandal, raised on a stepped black marb...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century Pair of Bronze Atlas Sculptures with Globe & Armillary Sphere
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This pair of bronze sculptures of Atlas with Globe & Armillary Sphere are of high cast quality. Pairs have sold for over 700,000 Euro. Their condition is excellent for age and has ve...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative 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...
Category
1970s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Jean Debut Gladiator Bronze
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jean Didier Debut: 1824-1893. Well listed 19th century French sculptor. He has had auction results over $17,000. We believe this fabulous bronze gladiator to be very rare as we could...
Category
19th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vertigo, Contemporary Bronze Sculpture on Granite base
Located in WOOLLAHRA, AU
Stephen Glassborow was born in Hammersmith, England and studied sculpture at the Brighton College of Art, before becoming a permanent resident of Au...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Chameleon, Contemporary Bronze Sculpture
Located in WOOLLAHRA, AU
Stephen Glassborow was born in Hammersmith, England and studied sculpture at the Brighton College of Art, before becoming a permanent resident of Au...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Apollo
Located in PARIS, FR
"Apollo" by Henri Bouchard (1875-1960)
An Art Deco period masterpiece!
Exceptional bronze sculpture with a golden-brown patina
Signed " H. Bouchard "
Unique piece
This work personifies Apollo, god of the Arts. Represented here as Apollo Musagète, leader of the procession of muses and winner of the serpent Python.
This subject was commissioned to adorn the entrance to the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and whose monumental bronze is still exhibited there.
To participate in the Venice Biennale in 1938, Henri Bouchard had reduced in 1937 the large Apollo of the Palais de Chaillot, which had not yet been installed.
Vintage cast by Bisceglia (cast founder stamp) made during the artist's lifetime.
Incised dedication below signature : " à mon cher ami E. Sandoz "
This is a unique cast made for the sculptor Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881-1971).
This cast was exhibited at the 1938 Venice Biennale.
France
1937
height : 82 cm
width : 45 cm
depth : 30 cm
weight : 31,2 kgs
Stickers under the bronze cast :
- Sticker mentioning that this cast has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 1938 under the number 354 ("Biennale Internaz. d'Arte Venezia – 1938 – XVI – 354").
- Sticker mentioning that this cast went through Italian customs ("ne – merci – dogana italiana – visitate - 9622")
- Damaged Sticker mentioning the name ("A…") and the address ("25…") of the owner of the cast (maybe for the workshop "Atelier Henri Bouchard", 25 rue d’Yvettes, 75016 Paris).
Provenance :
- Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Paris, according to the dedication.
- Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein (entrepreneur and founder of Sire Records, famous American record label ; and avid collector of 19th and 20th century fine art...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Matisse's spirit Ceramic
Located in CANNES, FR
Isaac Grünewald ( 1889-1946 ) Swedish Expressionist painter .
Rare & unique ceramic work ( 1940's )
Glazed stoneware . signed . decorated with n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Gilbert Ledward - 1930s Watercolour Design for a Decorative Sculptural Frieze
Located in London, GB
GILBERT LEDWARD, RA, PRBS
(1888-1960)
Tennis, Golf, Shooting, Ice-Skating, Dreaming – Proposed Design for Decorative Frieze in the Italian Drawing Room at Eltham Palace, commissioned by Stephen Courtauld
Signed and dated July 9th 1933
Watercolour and pencil
12.5 by 49.5 cm., 5 by 19 ½ in.
(frame size 36 by 67 cm., 14 ¼ by 26 ¼ in.)
Exhibited:
The artist’s daughter;
London, The Fine Art Society, A Centenary Tribute, Feb 1988, no. 43.
Gilbert Ledward was born in London. He was educated at St Mark’s College, Chelsea. In 1905 he entered the Royal College of Art to study sculpture under Edouard Lanteri and in 1910 he entered the Royal Academy Schools. In 1913 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture, the Royal Academy’s travelling award and gold medal, which allowed him to travel in Italy until the outbreak of the Wold War I. During the war he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was appointed as an official war artist in 1918.
Following the war he was largely occupied as a sculptor of war memorials including the Guards Division memorial in St James’s Park and the Household Division’s memorial in Horse Guards Parade. In 1934, supported by Eric Gill and Edwin Lutyens, he established a company called Sculptured Memorials and Headstones, which promoted better design of memorials in English churchyards. His war memorials after World War II include one in Westminster Abbey to the Submarine Service, Commandos and Airborne Forces.
Ledward was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1927-1929) and in 1937 was elected at Royal Academician. He became President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a trustee of the Royal Academy.
The present work is a design for an intended decorative frieze for the Italian Drawing Room of Eltham Palace. In 1935 the remains of the medieval royal palace of Eltham was rescued from decay by Stephen and Virginia Courtald who built an ultra modern Art Deco house to adjoin the existing Great Hall. They employed the architects John Seeley and Paul Edward Paget and the fashionable Mayfair interior designer the Marchese Peter Malacrida to design the strikingly glamorous 1930s interiors of the new house. The dramatic entrance hall was created by the Swedish designer Rolf Engstromer...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Watercolor
Flotilla, Bronze sculpture on Granite base
Located in WOOLLAHRA, AU
A bronze sculpture that depicts a girl sitting with her arms resting on her legs. The sculpture has a conceptual and figurative style, which means that it represents a real-life subj...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
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