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Tucan Majestuoso - Toucan Alebrije - Mexican Folk Art Cactus Fine Art
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
Tucan Majestuoso - Toucan Alebrije
This Mexican Tucan - Toucan Alebrije made with Copal wood, wood carving technique gouges, machete and sandpaper, decorated with acrylic paintings with Zapotec symbols.
At Cactus Fine Art...
Category
2010s Folk Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Victory - Athletic Young Man in Classical Pose, ( Female Sculptor )
By Evelyn Beatrice Longman
Located in Miami, FL
Evelyn Beatrice Longman was a trailblazing female artist getting major commissions at the very begining of the 20th century.
Having lived in New York City, I used to walk by the life size version of this in Philip Johnson's ATT Building and it left me breathless every time. This classical bronze statue of a victorious and handsome young man is called "Victory...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mujer Agachada (Crouching Woman), 1972, (III/VI)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Felipe Castañeda
Mujer Agachada (Crouching Woman), 1972
Bronze, wood base
12 x 9.5 x 11.5 inches
Edition III/VI
Most recent owners acquired this limited-edition bronze sculpture fro...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Balloon Dogs (mixed edition numbers) - Jeff Koons, Porcelain, Contemporary, Art
By Jeff Koons
Located in Zug, CH
Balloon Dogs Set of 3 (mixed edition numbers) - Jeff Koons, Contemporary, 21st Century, Sculpture, Decor, Limited Edition
Limoges porcelain with chromatic metalized coating
Edition ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Face Jar
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Artist Statement
I absolutely love working with clay. Creating forms with a chunk of moist earth is a tangible way to cultivate beauty and delight. Through my work, I hope to touch ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Standing ballerina
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sculpture from the Ballet series. The series is dedicated to classical ballet and includes over 30 sculptur...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Large Mahogany Relief of Prometheus, The Giver of Fire in Style of Peterpaul Ott
Located in Soquel, CA
Large Scale Mahogany Wood Relief Sculpture of Prometheus, The Giver of Fire In the Style of WPA artist Peterpaul Ott
Wonderfully executed wood r...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
$6,112 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Red Chilli Pepper Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Red Chilli Pepper
Artist signed, patinated bronze with black marble (base 8"x8")
Randi Grantham was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and now lives in South Florida. He is a sel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Outdoor Italian Stone Garden Sculptures of Mythological subject of Hercules
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in Vicenza limestone of Hercules in excellent condition from an estate of Veneto. Timeless decoration for your interior or garden.
Measurements: ...
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
"Clara" Bronze Sculpture 13" x 9" x 6" inch by Sarkis Tossonian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Clara" Bronze Sculpture 13" x 9" x 6" inch by Sarkis Tossonian
Sarkis Tossoonian was born in Alexandria in 1953. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts/Sculpture in 1979. He st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Polish Gilt Bronze Statue Sculpture Figure Sword Bladesmith 1890
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique French gilt bronze sculpture of a swordsmith, by the French- Polish artist & sculptor Henryk II Kossowski (1855-1921), the bronze dating to 1890.
The bronze depicts a ...
Category
1890s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
Echoes of Stillness, Aged Iron Skin over Stone Composite Granite Base "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Divyendu Anand - Echoes of Stillness
Aged Iron Skin over Stone Composite Granite Base, Edition of 9
H 24.5 x W 12 x D 8.5 inches, 2025
Growing up with the thoughts of altruism, idea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Granite, Iron
Wood Fairy, Bronze Sculpture by Volodymyr Mykytenko, 2011
Located in Zofingen, AG
Volodymyr Mykytenko - Wood Fairy (2011)
The forest fairy is the image of a beautiful girl, woven into all mythologies and cultures. Women's beauty and natu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sir Winston Churchill Memorial By Ivor Roberts-Jones
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ivor Roberts-Jones
1916-1996 British
Sir Winston Churchill Memorial
Bronze
This exceptional and iconic sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill is the original maquette for the renowne...
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
AURELIE ANGER - AArt's Cubes - Rubik Cube Tribute
Located in PARIS, FR
Information: Aurélie developed a particular sensitivity to the arts at an early age, alongside her father Roger Anger, a visionary architect. Model from an early age, her creations f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
''Sitting Sow'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Sow, Pig
By Ans Zondag
Located in Utrecht, NL
After studying Fine Art in the Netherlands Ans Zondag (1959) spent several years abroad in order to explore different artistic areas and to establish which technique suited her best....
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Francisco Zuniga Bronze Sculpture, 1965, "Juchiteca Sentada"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Francisco Zuniga bronze sculpture. Seated female. Edition: 5.
#467 in the Zuniga catalog raisonne. Titled: "Juchiteca Sentada".
Measures: 8 7/8" H x 10 1/4" L x 10 5/8" W (not including the 1 ½" wood plinth).
Signed Zuniga and numbered 111/V. Created 1965.
A Letter of Authenticity issued by the Zuniga foundation (and son Ariel Zuniga...
Category
1960s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Spirit of Zorba, Bronze Sculpture by Anthony Quinn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anthony Quinn, American (1915 - 2001)
Title: Spirit of Zorba
Year: 1984
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature, date and edition inscribed
Edition: 49, AP
Size: 16.5 x 9.5 x 8....
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$16,000 Sale Price
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Supporting Perspective and Curled Girl Portrait. Porcelain Wall sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
"A TEXAS BREED" G. HARVEY SCULPTURE. BRONZE TEXAS LONGHORN SCULPTURE
By G. Harvey
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones)
(1933-2017)
San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 8 inches tall
Frame Size: 8 inches across
Medium: Bronze Sculpture
"A Texas Bre...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Arch by Yann Guillon - Semi-abstract bronze sculpture, smooth forms, dark
By Yann Guillon
Located in Paris, FR
Large Arch is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 40 × 25 × 15 cm (15.7 × 9.8 × 5.9 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a limi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Piper and Dancers, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture by Franz Bergmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Franz Bergmann, Austrian (1861 -1936) - Piper and Dancers, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Cold painted bronze sculpture, Size: 3.5 x 5 x 3 in. (8.89 x 12.7 x 7.62 cm)
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lucifer Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology Male Figure Wings Angel
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Lucifer Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology Male Figure Wings Angel
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Small Vase with Koi (MADE TO ORDER) (Hand-painted, hand-made, porcelain)
Located in Kansas City, MO
(MADE TO ORDER) (Hand-painted, hand-made, porcelain)
*Lead Time may vary between 1-3 weeks
Melanie Sherman
"Small Vase with Koi"
Year: 2021
Porcelain, Gla...
Category
2010s Rococo Sculptures
Materials
Luster, Porcelain, Glaze
Travertine Skyline Relief of Construction Blocks, 2025 - 'I-XV (travertine)'
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Travertine Alphabet
Created for Timeless Remnants — the collaborative exhibition between Grège Gallery and CWART — this travertine relief captures the essence of Conrad Willems’ scu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Travertine
Diogenes, terracotta sculpture, 1939, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981).
Located in Firenze, IT
**Diogenes.**
**Terracotta sculpture, 1939, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981): Tuscan Sculptor.**
**Material:** Hand-modeled terracotta by the artist.
**Unique piece.**
**Dimensions...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt - Henry Moore, sculpture, modern, british, small
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt
conceived in 1955; cast in 1955
bronze; edition 4 of 6 plus 1 artist’s proof by the Fiorini foundry, London
19 x 9 x 15.5 cm (in...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
UNTITLED (NUDE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture. Incised artist signature with date and edition. Size includes base. Additional images are available upon request. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Please ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$20,300 Sale Price
30% Off
Seated Woman, Nude Bronze Sculpture by Kuno Lange
By Kuno Lange
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kuno Lange, German (1950 - )
Title: Seated Nude Woman
Year: 1996
Medium: Bronze Sculpture with Black Patina, signature and number inscribed
Edition: 3/9
Size: 17 in. x 18 in....
Category
1990s Expressionist Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pothos Sculpture Lost Wax Bronze Method Florence Cesello 18 x 6 x 6
Located in Houston, TX
"Pothos is one of the Ancient Greek Erotes dedicated to yearning and desire. He is the son of the West Wind "Zephryos" and "Iris," the rainbow. This is the artist proof of an edit...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sifaka Lemur -original modern wildlife bronze sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Enter the enchanting world of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
He loved being in love 12/30 - playful, figurative bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Celebration of queer love in this bronze Gillie and Marc sculpture. Sculpture weighs approx. 12.5 lbs. The artists' names and edition number, 12/30, are stamped into the sculpture an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Horse Head of Selene - Jos de Wit, 21st Century Contemporary Wooden Sculpture
By Jos de Wit
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Sculpture is made by Dutch artist Jos de Wit.
It is unique and made of mahogany wood. The pedestal is made of mahogany and maple wood. In the not of the fish there is a piece o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Red Pumpkin (Dot Obsession Red) - Original sculpture with original case
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Paris, IDF
Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin red (Dots Obsession Red)
A pumpkin sculpture made of resin
Signed under the base of the sculpture
Diameter: 8 cm
Height: 10.5 cm
Presented in the original edito...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Antique Renaissance Man Carved and Polychromed Plaque
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
A Renaissance man,circa 1930's polychrome painting on a wood plaque .
Artist unknown
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Signed, 3-D American Flag Sculpture of cut, polished and etched glass, Unique
Located in New York, NY
JAN MARES
Jan Mares (Czech, 1953-2005)
Signed 3-D Glass American Flag, 2002
Cut, polished, and etched glass
3 × 5 × 2 inches
incised signature and date
Jan Mares was a celebrated C...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Eugéne Marioton (French, 1854-1933) The Dance of Zephyr and Psyche
Located in New York, NY
BRONZE FIGURAL GROUP “LA DANSE” BY EUGENE MARIOTON (FRENCH, 1857-1933)
This exceptional work by Eugéne Marioton is a dynamic expression of true love. It is presumed to be an allegor...
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Venus Colca Neoclassical Marble Sculpture early 19th century
Located in Pistoia, IT
Crouching Venus, neoclassical Carrara marble sculpture, early 19th century.
An 18th-century English tourist to Florence wrote that of all the Venuses in the Uffizi, "only one grace...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Horse XV by Pierre Yermia - Animal bronze sculpture, elegant, light patina, wild
Located in Paris, FR
Horse XV is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 71 × 60 × 17 cm (28 × 23.6 × 6.7 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Red, White, & Blue Ice Bar
By Peter Anton
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Peter Anton’s (b. 1963, New Haven, Connecticut) primary subject matter is food with an emphasis on chocolates and other sweets. Anton creates giant realistic sculptures and is best known for his bigger-than-life boxed chocolates. Declaring, “I like to create art that can lure, charm, tease, disarm and surprise,” Peter Anton produces oversized, lushly detailed and delicious-looking sculptures of food...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Black Bat (MADE TO ORDER)
By Amy Young
Located in Kansas City, MO
Amy Young
Black Bat
Year: 2021
Material: Stoneware, underglaze
Size: 18 x 11 x 6 inches
Signed
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-794
(MADE TO ORDER - Lead time may ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Underglaze
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Et Tu Dors And You Are Sleeping Bronze Sculpture Portrait Classic Contemporary
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Et Tu Dors And You Are Sleeping Bronze Sculpture Portrait Classic Contemporary
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Eighteenth-century Grand Tour marble bust of Faustina the Younger
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated: ‘F. Harwood Fecit 1764’
Collections:
Probably commissioned by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827);
Probably by descent at Gordon Castle, Banffshire to c.1948;
Possibly acquired by Bert Crowther of Syon Lodge, Middlesex;
Jacques Hollander (1940-2004);
Christie’s, 5 December 2013, lot 101;
Private collection;
Sotheby’s, 2 July 2019, lot 106
Literature:
John Preston Neale, Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales and Scotland, London, 1822, vol.I, unpaginated.
This marble copy of an ancient bust in the Musei Capitolini usually identified as Faustina the Younger, the daughter of Antoninus Pius and future wife of Marcus Aurelius, was made in Florence by Francis Harwood in 1764. Harwood was one of the most prolific suppliers of decorative marbles for the Grand Tour market and this finely worked example demonstrates the quality of luxury goods available to travellers to Italy. So often anonymous, this unusually signed and dated example, raises questions about the status of marble copies in the period and of sculptors such as Harwood who are known principally for ornamental work.
Harwood’s origins remain obscure. He is documented living in Palazzo Zuccari with Joshua Reynolds and the Irish sculptor Simon Vierpyl at Easter 1752, he had certainly settled permanently in Florence by the following year, when he is recorded working with Joseph Wilton. He was admitted to the Florentine Academy on 12 January 1755 (as pittore Inglese, although he was described as scultore in the matriculation account). After Wilson returned to England in 1755 Harwood appears to have worked in a studio near SS. Annunziata with Giovanni Battista Piamontini who had made life-size copies of The Wrestlers and The Listening Slave for Joseph Leeson in 1754. In 1758 both sculptors were contracted to make a statue and a trophy to complete the decoration of the Porta San Gallo, Harwood completing a statue of Equality, installed the following year.
By 1760 Harwood was on the brink of his most productive period as a sculptor, producing copies of celebrated antiquities for the ever-increasing audience of Grand Tour travellers and for the domestic market in London. In 1761 Harwood met the young architect James Adam who was in Italy specifically to make contact with suppliers for Robert Adam’s burgeoning practice back in Britain. The Adams offered a remarkably cohesive design package to their clients, encompassing not just architecture, but fixtures, fittings and furniture as well. Harwood was able to supply the brothers with marbles for their new interiors. At Syon, for example, Harwood produced a full-size copy of Michelangelo’s Bacchus for the new dining room the Adams had designed for Hugh Smythson, 1st Duke of Northumberland.
Harwood seems to have also specialised in producing sets of library busts. In 1758 Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton, a distinguished traveller commissioned a set of busts which remain in situ at Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire. It is perhaps no coincidence that the Adam brothers were producing designs for new interiors at Castle Ashby at this date. The set included representations of: Cicero, Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Faustina the Younger, Sappho, Seneca and Homer. Each of these busts Harwood seems to have replicated for multiple patrons, another Adam patron, Thomas Dundas...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Chinese Stone Sculpture of Bhudda in Tang And Wei Dynasties In Style Abhayamudrā
Located in Roma, IT
An impressive stone sculpture of Buddha In the style of the Tang and Wei Dynasties hand carved. The figure of Bhudda, in mudra Abhayamudrā carved in standing position as a teacher wi...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Émile Guillemin (French 1841-1907) Bronze Bust of an Algerian Beauty
Located in New York, NY
Bronze bust with brown patina on marble socle base. Red patina detail on head scarf. In beautiful condition, expertly cast and modeled. Perfect for an art collector looking for European work that depicts Black and African people...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Balance AP/7 - figurative, playful, pop-art, bronze, granite, marble sculpture
By Dave Sheridan
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A bronze hand, modelled after the artist’s own, balances on its index finger atop a sphere in this imaginative pop art sculpture by Dave Sheridan. Called...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Marble, Bronze
"Martinet" Bronze Sculpture 11" x 5" x 2" inch by Sarkis Tossonian
Located in Culver City, CA
"Martinet" Bronze Sculpture 11" x 5" x 2" inch by Sarkis Tossonian
Sarkis Tossoonian was born in Alexandria in 1953. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts/Sculpture in 1979. He...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman Dressing, Bronze Sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh 1911
Located in Long Island City, NY
This bronze sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh, from 1911, is a charming rendering of a young woman dressing.
Vonnoh became one of the so-called "White Rabbits", women artists who a...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Duality, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald’s sculpture Duality, Atelier, originally introduced to collectors under the working title of Yin and Yang II, represents a principle that is fundamental to art from...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Furious Demon by Marcelo Martin Burgos - Polished bronze sculpture, golden
Located in Paris, FR
Furious Demon is a polished bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Marcelo Martin Burgos, dimensions are 27 × 29 × 30 cm (10.6 × 11.4 × 11.8 in).
The sculpture is signed and number...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Possibility - detailed, inscribed, hand-built, vessel, glass, ceramic sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Striking in form, colour and texture, this is one of a new series of clay vessels created by American ceramicist Heather Allen Hietala. The boat-shaped vessel symbolizes life’s journ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Group of four 18th century Venetian wooden sculptures - Singer and musicians
Located in Varmo, IT
Four table sculptures - Concertino with musicians and singer. Venice, late 18th century.
9 x 7 x h 20 cm each.
Entirely in wood, finely carved and painted in polychrome.
Condition...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
$2,377 Sale Price
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NAOR - 45cm BEAR GUC Tribute
Located in PARIS, FR
About the artist : Naor is a French artist from Lyon born in 1988. Completely anchored in his time, he has always traveled a lot around the world. If travels form youth, Naor was ins...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Jokio by Jacques Owczarek - Animal bronze sculpture of a rabbit, black colour
Located in Paris, FR
Jokio is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Jacques Owczarek, dimensions are 27 × 19 × 19 cm (10.6 × 7.5 × 7.5 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a limit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Head Status - Sculpture of Head of Tristan Barnard (1866 - 1947)
Located in PARIS, FR
A rare work by Swiss sculptor Walter Spaeny
Head of Tristan Bernad (1866 - 1947) , French novelist, journalist and also lawyer.
Terracotta
Signed on the back side
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd Mexican Huichol Beaded Art Horses Sculpture
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
ALTERATION ART . . . is a collaboration process between Rick Wolfryd, fine artist and art dealer with over 40 years experience, and various Mexican Huichol artists and Mexican Huicho...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Quis Mihi Iniuriam Facet Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble In Stock I
Located in Utrecht, NL
Sizes including stone pedestal 97 x 22 x 22 cm
Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher at a high school, he intensively practises his profession as a sculptor. Only when his work would measure up to his own standards, he decided to present it to the rest of the world. In 1995, he exhibited for the first time with Morren Galleries. Van der Kant desires to sculpt young people who still stand uninhibited and curiously in life. The reason he chooses to sculpt boys is, because he is one himself, this way the subject is closer to him. The anatomy of his figures testify of perfectionism. Van der Kant's subjects show similarities with the sculptures from the Greek and Roman antiquity...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Seated Mercury, or Hermes - God of Speed
Located in Greenwich, CT
This Mercury by Montagne has lovely patina and surface and is a pleasingly different depiction of Winged speed as he is seated! It is an arresting pose and elegant and covers all fa...
Category
1860s Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Florentine singer / - The Renaissance of the Renaissance -
By Paul Dubois
Located in Berlin, DE
Paul Dubois (1829 Nogent-sur-Seine - 1905 Paris), Florentine singer, 1865. Light brown patinated bronze with cast round plinth mounted on a square marble base (3.5 cm high). Total height 53 cm. Bronze dimensions: 49.5 cm (height) x 20 cm (length) x 10 cm (width), weight 5.6 kg. Inscribed on the plinth "P.[aul] DUBOIS", dated "1865", with the foundry's mark "F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR" and the signet "REDUCTION MECANIQUE A. COLLAS".
- Patina very occasionally darkened, lute with loss of one tuning peg, otherwise in excellent condition.
- The renaissance of the Renaissance -
The bronze is a precisely executed and masterfully cast contemporary reduction of Paul Dubois 155 cm tall masterpiece "Florentine Singer", which is exhibited in the Musée d'Orsay and for which the artist was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Paris Salon in 1865. The work acted as a beacon, and was followed by a plethora of depictions of juveniles.
Inspired by Donatello and Luca della Robbia, but also by painters such as Piero della Francesca, Benozzo Gozzoli, and Pinturicchio, the "Florentine Singer" is not an epigonal work that pays homage to a vanished era, but a successful attempt to draw vitality from the art of the past and thus give it new life.
The effect of vitality is the core of Italian Renaissance art theory. In order to fulfill itself as art, art had to appear like nature. This naturalism also characterizes the "Florentine Singer". The young man appears to have been taken from life, which is reinforced by the momentary nature of his action. He has just struck a now fading chord. In addition, the natural appearance is enhanced by the detailed shaping of the figurative details, such as the laces with the slightly curved leather of the shoes, the belt buckle, or the ornamentation on the body of the lute. Even the fingernails are clearly defined. Unlike the Renaissance, however, the effect of liveliness here is not based on the "discovery" of nature and the human body, but primarily on the rediscovery of the art of the Quattrocento. The liveliness of the artwork is therefore at the same time a revitalization of this art, so that we can speak of a Renaissance of the Renaissance, just as the Pre-Raphaelites in England at the same time transferred the Quattrocento to contemporary art.
Dubois takes on the most difficult of all subjects, the depiction of singing through silent sculpture. He was preceded in this by Luca della Robbia and Donatello with their pulpits of singers created in the 1430s in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence. Compared to these works, the physiognomy of Dubois singer is far less animated, yet he also depicts singing in a convincing manner. He uses the whole body. He takes the ancient contrapposto, which was essential to Renaissance sculpture, and transforms the standing leg-playing posture into a late medieval S-swing, giving the body an elegant beauty and at the same time setting it in melodic motion. In the equally elegant finger position, the music is expressed in a much more literal way with the beating of the lute. Finally, the musicality of the sculpture culminates in the face with the mouth open to sing.
Through the act of singing, which is a great challenge to the artistic will to depict perfect beauty, the gracefulness of the classical face is not diminished, but enhanced. Starting from the face with the singing mouth and the gaze absorbed by the sounds, the inner vitality spreads, giving the bronze sculpture an intense aura, enhanced by the music. Dubois transfers the beauty of the Renaissance to the musical, sublimating the visible sculpture to the invisible of music.
He took up the challenge of transcending the Renaissance with the Renaissance, thus responding to the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, which arose at the end of the 17th century around the French Academy and remained virulent into the 19th century, in which antiquity was regarded either as an unattainable ideal or as a standard to be surpassed. With his work, Dubois proved that the Renaissance, which had championed the art of the ancients, could lead to a new renaissance of art.
About the artist
Paul Dubois' great-uncle was the famous French Baroque sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, in whose footsteps the talented great-nephew followed. When he debuted at the Paris Salon in 1858, he signed his work "Dubois-Pigalle". At his father's request, however, he first studied law before devoting himself to sculpture under the tutelage of François Christophe Armand Toussaint in 1856 and entering the École des Beaux-Arts in 1858. From 1859 to 1863, he lived in Rome and traveled to Naples and Florence. Inspired by Florentine art of the quattrocento, Dubois initiated a school-forming neo-Florentine style that combined the elegantly simple forms of youthful grace with a precise wealth of detail.Two purchases by the French state (“envois de Rome”) were made during his stay in Rome, which brought him recognition in Paris. After his return there, he quickly became an internationally sought-after artist.
Dubois was also active as a creator of monuments. His most famous work is the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (1896) on the forecourt of Reims Cathedral. He was also a sought-after portraitist who produced around 50 busts and - Dubois was also a passionate painter - around 100 portraits in oil.
From 1873 to 1878 he was curator of the Museum du Luxembourg, in 1876 he became a member of the Institut de France and from 1878 to 1905 he was director of the École des Beaux-Arts.
In 1865, Dubois was awarded the Paris Salon Medal of Honor for his “Florentine Singer”. In 1867 he became Chevalier, in 1874 Officier, in 1886 Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, which awarded Dubois the Grande Croix in 1896.
Selected Bibliography
Stole, Elmar: Paul Dubois. In: Saur. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 30, Munich - Leipzig 2001, pp. 677-678.
GERMAN VERSION
Paul Dubois (1829 Nogent-sur-Seine - 1905 Paris), Florentinischer Sänger, 1865. Hellbraun patinierte Bronze mit gegossener runder Plinthe auf quadratischem Marmorsockel montiert (3,5 cm Höhe). Gesamthöhe 53 cm. Maße der Bronze: 49,5 cm (Höhe) x 20 cm (Länge) x 10 cm (Breite), Gewicht 5,6 kg. Auf der Plinthe mit „P.[aul] DUBOIS“ bezeichnet, auf „1865“ datiert, mit dem Gießereistempel „F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR“ und dem Signet „REDUCTION MECANIQUE A. COLLAS“ versehen.
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