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Medium: Bronze
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The Messenger 2/5 - male dancer, contemporary, bronze outdoor sculpture
By W.W. Hung
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In William Hung’s dramatic contemporary bronze sculpture called "The Messenger" a male figure dancer is elegantly balanced on a gently curved arc, one arm extended overhead and the o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Spirit of Gravity - emotive, nude, female, figurative, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this thoughtful sculpture by Canadian artist Richard Tosczak, the gestures of a female figure, head bent, arms wrapped, are captured in bronze. Known for his beautiful figurative ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Young Elephant - bronze table top sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This delightful bronze sculpture of a walking baby elephant is highly textured and finished with an elegant sepia patina. Canadian sculptor Richard Tosczak begins his pieces with rap...
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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Old Bitch 2/8 - small, rustic, figurative, female cow, bronze interior sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
"Old Bitch" figures the female cow in posture that could be interpreted as either playful and canine-like, or troublingly docile and submissive. Relying on traditional skills of repr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Yearning 2/9 - male, nude, figurative, statuette, bronze sculpture
By W.W. Hung
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once expressive, and elegant, William Hung creates dynamic sculptures that explore the human condition. With this intimate piece, cast in a rich bronze, an athlete balances on one...
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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
They were authentic Vespa riders in Rome 65/100 - figurative, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Australia’s Gillie and Marc, the contemporary artist duo continue to create their popular, humourous dogman, rabbit-woman hybrid imagery in this new bronze sculpture. The playful hum...
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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
They drank coffee all day and all night 7/100 - figurative, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Reprising their popular hybrid sculptures, Gillie and Marc have created this whimsical tabletop piece cast in bronze. Designed to represent the spiritual connection humans share with animals, a rabbit...
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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
They loved breaking the speed limit 31/100 - figurative, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Gillie and Marc have become renowned for their charming tabletop sculptures of a hybrid couple—a rabbitwoman and a dogman who’ve ridden scooters, dined and in this piece can be seen ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled Standing Figure No. 3
By Manuel Neri
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled Standing Figure No. 3" is a bronze sculpture made by Manuel Neri in 1992. The work is number 1 from an edition of 4. The piece is stamped on base, "Manuel Neri 1/4 1980 C"....
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Pleiades-Electra 4/12 - emotive, nude, female, figurative, bronze statuette
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian artist Richard Tosczak captures the beauty and elegance of the human form in his sculptures. This piece shows a nude female in a strong pose, arms raised above her head. Mas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Zaliatou 3/8 - female, figurative, nude, expressive, modern, bronze sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A voluptuous female figure is rendered in this compelling modern tabletop bronze sculpture by Paul Duval. The Quebec artist is best known for creating uniquely expressive figures in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Benediction - figurative, face, hands, mask, tribal, cast bronze sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This intriguing mask cast in bronze by Dale Dunning is reminiscent in form of ancient tabletop sculptures designed as objects used in worship. Titled Benediction (meaning ‘blessing’)...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Copacabana
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Copacabana presents Erté's vision of fantasy, splendor, and femininity in a statuesque model wearing a cabaret costume. The gown is noted for its luxuriant richness and design. Softe...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roaring Twenties
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté is largely credited with creating the look of the Jazz Age. The 'Roaring Twenties' is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, but also in London and P...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Bronze 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 Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mermaid
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Whether in the draping of a silk gown worn by an opera diva, or in the sparkle of an intricately beaded headdress worn by a woman of society, Erté had an exceptionally acute visual memory of every detail of his early design creations. It was no wonder then that his fashion designs were so adeptly applied to the sculpture format.
In Mermaid, we have a fine example of how Erté carried the technical possibilities of the sculpture medium to a new level. This attention to detail added to his legend as one of the Twentieth Century’s foremost artist-designers, with work represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Paris Opera House, the Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Through Mermaid, Erté takes us beyond the female form by choosing the intriguing legendary sea creature whose upper body is that of a woman, and whose lower body is that of an aquatic creature. In quintessential Erté style...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
American Millionairess
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The inspiration for this sculpture comes from Erté's original costume design entitled "Texas," for the 1917 New York stage production of "The American Millionaires." This spectacular...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze 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 Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Homebody
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Greenwich, CT
Homebody is a sculpture in bronze, signed and dated ‘KOSTABI 2022,’ and numbered 4/8 from the edition of ten on the side of the main figure (there were also 2 AP).
Mark Kostabi is widely known for his paintings, but the artist has also worked in bronze since the 1980s. Two of his sculptures are permanently installed in Italy – one in the central square of San Benedetto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bronze 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 Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Edge of Forever
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Edge of Forever is a sculpture in bronze, signed and dated ‘KOSTABI 2023,’ and numbered 3/8 from the edition of nine on one of the angel’s wings (there was also 1 AP).
Mark Kostabi is widely known for his paintings, but the artist has also worked in bronze since the 1980s. Two of his sculptures are permanently installed in Italy – one in the central square of San Benedetto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Power of Source
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Power of Source is a sculpture in bronze, signed and dated ‘KOSTABI 2022,’ and numbered 7/8 from the edition of nine verso (there was also 1 AP).
Mark Kostabi is widely known for his paintings, but the artist has also worked in bronze since the 1980s. Two of his sculptures are permanently installed in Italy – one in the central square of San Benedetto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled
By Bill Nebeker
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a bronze sculpture by Bill Nebeker. Signed on reverse base "Bill Nebeker CA 6/30". The full size is 23 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches.
Bill Nebeker is an American artist ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Contour of Balance - tall, figurative, bronze, steel, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
As a sculptor, Roch Smith often interprets the big questions in life in imaginative and playful ways. The Toronto artist is known for his use of toys –familiar childhood images that ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Bronze
End of the Chase (Dark Version) 1 of 6 - figurative, resin and wood sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
It is a powerful image—at once compelling and provocative—an old-fashioned rocking horse, collapsed. This is the work of Nicholas Crombach.
The Kingston based artist creates sculptu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Oiseau Bleu, Lalanne, 1970's, Multiples, Bronze, Sculpture, Animal, Bird
Located in Geneva, CH
Oiseau bleu
Ed. 21/250 pcs
1979
Bronze
H. 19 cm
Signed and numbered underside : FXL, 21/250
Certificate of authenticity issued by Edition Artcurial.
Category
1970s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
House Hunter 1/3 - small, surrealist, figurative, bronze and wood sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Toronto artist Roch Smith often uses toy figures in clever and fun ways to convey cultural statements that go beyond child’s play. This tabletop figure is bending over, arms extended...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Panther
Located in London, GB
bronze with green patina
inscribed 'S. Melani' (inside of hind leg) and inscribed 'S. Melani' (lower right of base) mounted on a marble base
PROVENANCE
Private collection, UK
Category
20th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pause 1/3 - small, surrealist, canoe, male, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The legendary canoeist and Canadian filmmaker Bill Mason once said, “First God made the canoe then he created a country to go with it.”
Sculptor Roch Smith has embraced the iconic i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lady Godiva
Located in London, GB
bronze with dark brown patina
72 x 69 cm (28⅜ x 27⅛ in.)
signed 'L. MIGNON'; with an indistinct foundry inscription
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, London
Category
19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancing Girl
Located in London, GB
gilt bronze on marble base
Category
20th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Lapin bijou sonnette, Sandoz, Ring, Rabbit, Bronze, animal, sculpture, 1920's
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin bijou, sonnette, circa 1920-1930
Fondry Susse, Ed. 1748 pcs
Bronze with a brown patina
H. 6.5 cm
Signed on the side of the base : Ed.m.Sandoz
Sandoz : Sculpteur Figuriste et An...
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1920s Modern Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lapin, by Sandoz, Animal, sculpture, rabbit, bronze, 1940's, brown patina
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin, modèle 6, circa 1944-1949
Edition Leblanc-Barbedienne
Bronze with a brown patina
7.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
Sandoz : Sculpteur Figuriste et Animalier 1881-1971, Catalogue Raisonné de l...
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1940s Modern Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lapin, by Sandoz, Rabbit, animal, sculpture, bronze, 1910's, brown patina, cast
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin couché, circa 1919-1925
Fondry Susse, Ed. 10 pcs
Bronze with a brown patina
H. 6 cm
Sandoz : Sculpteur Figuriste et Animalier 1881-1971, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Sculpté...
Category
1910s Modern Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lapin, by Sandoz, rabbit, animal, sculpture, bronze, 1910's, swiss artist, cast
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin, modèle 5, circa 1919-1921
Fondeur Susse
Bronze with brown patina
6.5 x 4.9 x 6.5 cm
Inscribed and foundry stamp : Ed.m.Sandoz, Susse Frères Editeurs
Certificate of authentici...
Category
1910s Modern Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lapin assis, tête tournée, Sandoz, 1910's, bronze, animal, rabbits, rare proof
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin assis, tête tournée, circa 1919-1921
Fondry Susse, Ed. 3/5 pcs
circa 1919-1921
Rare bronze proof with a brown patina
8.5 x 5.5 x 6.5 cm
Certificate of authenticity issued by th...
Category
1910s Modern Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Poule Cayenne, by François Pompon, 1900's, sculpture, animal, bronze, chicken
Located in Geneva, CH
Poule cayenne - Poule faisanne, 1st proof, 1906
Bronze with a black patina
28 x 22 13 cm
Signed on the base : POMPON. Seal of the founder Cire Perdue A.A. Hebrard. Numbered (M)
Certi...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Le General Bonaparte en Egypte
By Henri Alfred Marie Jacquemart
Located in Paris, FR
Alfred Jacquemart
1824-1896
Le General Bonaparte en Egypte
Bronze, Barbedienne Foundry
10 1/4" high x 8" wide x 4" depth
Henry Alfred Jacquemart (1824-1896): born the February 22,...
Category
Mid-19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Downhill (Knight Ave) - tall, narrative, figurative, male, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This fun and somewhat whimsical sculpture recalls a cherished childhood memory for Roch Smith. The Toronto-based sculptor has hand-forged the bronze figure of a young boy on a bike balancing upright on its back wheel-popping a wheelie. He stands poised to ride off the top of a high, narrow steel track that ends in a loop reminiscent of the popular ‘Hot Wheels’ toy race car...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
The elephant was just pearfect 2/40 - playful, contemporary, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The noble African giant—the elephant has long been a favourite subject for the delightful art of Gillie and Marc. Gillie grew up in Zambia where she acquired a deep appreciation for ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Story of Joseph from the Second Baptistery Doors, Florence (“The Gates of Pa
Located in New York, NY
Ferdinand Barbedienne (Saint-Martin-de-Fresnay 1810 – 1892 Paris) after Lorenzo Ghiberti (Florence, 1378 – 1455)
Signed at the lower right of the principal relief: F. BARBEDIENNE
Provenance: Private Collection, USA.
Barbedienne’s “Gates of Paradise” reliefs are one of the triumphs of nineteenth-century bronze casting and patination. The nine panels that comprise our example are half-size reductions of the famous originals by Lorenzo Ghiberti, made for the Baptistery of Florence and now housed in the Museo del Opera del Duomo. Mounted in an impressive, mullioned frame surround, our work is an exceptional exemplar of the Renaissance Revival, the broadly influential style and movement that infused architecture, design, and artistic culture in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
The central scene, The Story of Joseph, is perhaps the most celebrated of the entire series depicting as it does seven episodes from the Biblical narrative integrated into a single composition: Joseph cast by his brethren into the well, Joseph sold to the merchants, the merchants delivering Joseph to the pharaoh, Joseph interpreting the pharaoh’s dream, the pharaoh paying him honor, Jacob sending his sons to Egypt, and Joseph recognizes his brothers and returns home. The surrounding reliefs—two vertical figures in niches, two recumbent figures, and four portrait heads in roundels—are as well faithful reductions of Ghiberti’s original bronzes on other parts of the doors.
The maker of these casts was the renowned 19th-century French fondeur Ferdinand Barbedienne. Gary Radke has recently written of this great enterprise:
“The Parisian bronze caster Ferdinand Barbedienne began making half-sized copies of ancient and Renaissance sculpture in the 1830s. His firm benefitted enormously from the collaboration of Achille Collas, whom Meredith Shedd has shown was one of numerous pioneers in the mechanical reproduction of sculpture. Their competitors largely devoted themselves to reproducing relief sculpture, but Collas devised a process for creating fully three-dimensional copies. A tracing needle, powered by a treadle, moved over the surface of a full-sized plaster cast or bronze of the original and triggered a complementary action in a cutting stylus set over a soft plaster blank…He signed an exclusive contract with Barbedienne on November 29, 1838, and won medals for his inventions in 1839 and 1844.
Barbedienne’s half-sized copies of the Gates of Paradise were famous not only for their fidelity to the original, but also for the way their gilding…suggested the glimmering surface that was hidden under centuries of dirt. Some critics even saw Collas’s and Barbedienne’s work as ‘philanthropic, an exemplary adaptation of industry to the requirements of art, the artist, the workers, and the public alike.’
At 25,000 francs, Collas’s and Barbedienne’s reduction of the Gates of Paradise was singularly more expensive than any other item for sale in their shop. All the reliefs, individual statuettes, and busts were cast separately and could be purchased either by the piece or as an ensemble. Fittingly, Barbedienne’s accomplishment earned him the Grand Prix at the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle, along with numerous other medals.”
Three complete examples of the Barbedienne-Ghiberti doors are known. One, first installed in a chapel in the Villa Demidoff of San Donato near Pratolino, was later acquired by William Vanderbilt...
Category
Late 19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cobra, Unknown, 20th century, Bronze, Animal, Snake, Design, art deco, Cast
Located in Geneva, CH
Cobra, Unknown, 20th century, Bronze, Animal, Snake, Design, art deco, Cast
Category
20th Century Art Deco Bronze Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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