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Medium: Marble
After Fernando Botero "Cat" Bronze Sculpture, Edition of 50
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
After Fernando Botero – CAT
Bronze Sculpture Edition of 50
This beautifully executed bronze sculpture is an After Fernando Botero work, cr...
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20th Century Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
After Botero Bronze Sculpture of Man on Horse, Dark Patina, Edition 50
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
This AFTER BOTERO sculpture is a very beautiful, faithful reproduction in the style of BOTERO'S work that has sold very well here on 1st Dibs.
The edition is 50 in Roman numerals. ...
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20th Century Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$910 Sale Price
35% Off
Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century
Porphyry marble & gilt bronze
20 x 4.25 x 4.25 inches
Porphyry is an igneous rock, not marble, known for its...
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19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Century Italian Finely Finished Bust of Renaissance Lady w/ Pedestal
Located in Beachwood, OH
Italian, Late 19th Century
Finely Finished Bust of Renaissance Lady
White marble, garment in veined buff colored marble on fitted green marble pedestal
Bust: 22 x 18 x 9 inches
Pedes...
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Late 19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Botero Bronze Bull Sculpture, Contemporary Edition of 50, 20th Century
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
After Fernando Botero – Bull
Bronze Sculpture Edition of 50
This beautifully executed bronze sculpture is an After Fernando Botero work, created in faithful homage to the artist’s...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Early 20th Century Modern Bronze Scorpion Fish on Marble Base
Located in Beachwood, OH
Bruno Tornati (Italian, 1893-1987)
Modern Scorpion Fish, Early 20th Century
Bronze on marble base
23 x 22 x 10 inches
Bruno Tornati was an Italian sculptor known for his Art Deco te...
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Early 20th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
After Botero - Horizontal Nude Woman Bronze Sculpture
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
After Fernando Botero – RECLINING NUDE
Bronze Sculpture Edition of 50
This beautifully executed bronze sculpture is an After Fernando Botero work, created in faithful homage to th...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$912 Sale Price
52% Off
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, Large Marble Sculpture after Canova, 19th C.
Located in Beachwood, OH
After Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822)
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
Marble
24 x 19 x 16 inches
135 lb.
The love affair between Cupid and Psyche is one of the best known classic...
Category
19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Grand Tour Bronze Figure of Seated Hermes, Early 19th Century After the Antique
Located in Beachwood, OH
Large Figure of Seated Hermes, Grand Tour Bronze, Early 19th Century
19th Century Continental School After the Antique
The large size figure well cast, with brownish green patination...
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Early 19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
20th Century Reclining Female Nude Marble Sculpture, Cleveland School Artist
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945)
Reclining Nude
Marble
Signed on base
9 x 20.5 inches
Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894,...
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Mid-20th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
After Botero Bull Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary, 20th Century, Ed. 50
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
After Fernando Botero – Bull
Bronze Sculpture Edition of 50
This beautifully executed bronze sculpture is an After Fernando Botero work, created in fait...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$790 Sale Price
59% Off
Polychrome Marble Sculpture Portrait Emperor Marcus Aurelius Italian 20th
Located in Roma, IT
A portrait head of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, carved in Carrara marble, with deeply cut curls and detailed classical roman accents in the hair and in the shave; the carefull...
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20th Century Other Art Style Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$6,347 Sale Price
30% Off
Dancer Bronze Sculpture After Botero, Contemporary, Ed. 50
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
After Fernando Botero – DANCER BRONZE
Bronze Sculpture Edition of 50
This beautifully executed bronze sculpture is an After Fernando Botero work, created in faithful homage to the...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$798 Sale Price
40% Off
Antonio Canova Ebe Aprés Ebe White Marble Sculpture 19th Century Italian
Located in Roma, IT
An important grand tour Antonio Canova Ebe (Aprés), carved in white marble by an Italian sculptor artist in the 19th century from a block of white marble.
The work depicts the go...
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19th Century Other Art Style Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$29,622 Sale Price
30% Off
Aquila- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Realistic Sculpture of a Nude Boy
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Aquila
Bronze Sculpture on pedestal of marble
Hight bronze 57 cm with pedestal of marble (included) 68 cm
Wim van der Kant's sculptures are in bronze...
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2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Swan Baby, 19th Century Bronze & Marble Sculpture of Cherub Riding Swan
Located in Beachwood, OH
Auguste Moreau (French, 1834-1917)
Swan Baby, 19th Century
Bronze with reddish gold patination mounted on verdigris marble base
Signed on base
6 x 9.5 x 5 inches
Auguste Moreau was...
Category
19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Figure of Crouching Venus/Naked Aphrodite, 19th Century Italian School Sculpture
Located in Beachwood, OH
Bronze Figure of Crouching Venus, or The Naked Aphrodite, 19th Century Italian School
Bronze raised on a marble base
21 in. h. x 10 in. w. x 7 in. d., overall
18 in. h. x 8.5 in. w....
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19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Sleeping Ariadne, Large Bronze & Marble Sculpture of Greek Mythology, 19th C.
Located in Beachwood, OH
Pietro Chiapparelli (Italian, 19th Century)
Sleeping Ariadne, c. 1865
Bronze on marble base
Inscribed 'P. Chiapparelli F.I. Roma'
22 x 24 x 10.5 inches
136 lb.
(34 lb. bottom marble,...
Category
1860s Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Grande Gruppo in Marmo "L'Innocenza tormentata dall'Amore" Scultura Francese
Located in Pistoia, IT
Imponente gruppo in marmo bianco raffigurante "Innocenza tormentata da Amore", firmato Luca Madrassi. Scuola francese, fine XIX secolo, periodo Art Nouveau.
Questo splendido grupp...
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
19th Century Bronze of the Borghese Gladiator Sculpture
Located in Beachwood, OH
The Borghese Gladiator, 19th Century
Bronze on marble base
Musée du Louvre signed on base
15 x 12 x 8 inches
Since its discovery in the early seventeenth century, the Borghese Gladi...
Category
19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large Marble Bust of Eros of Centocelle Roman workshop 19th century
Located in Pistoia, IT
Marble bust of Eros known as Eros of Centocelle, white marble, Roman workshop, second half of the 19th century.
The bust resumes from the original discovered in 1770 in Rome near C...
Category
19th Century Italian School Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Large Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Circus Acrobats WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991)
Patinated cast bronze sculpture,
Three Acrobats,
signed
mounted on black marble plinth
24.5"h x 14"w x 7"d (bronze alone)
Chaim Gross (March ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of English Regency Blue John (Derbyshire Spar) Urns, 19th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Pair of English Regency Blue John (Derbyshire Spar) Urns, 19th Century
9.5 x 3 x 3 inches
Obtained from the Derbyshire England, Blue John is a semi-precious mineral, a rare form of ...
Category
19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Venus, Unique Carved Green Onyx Sculpture by Anthony Quinn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Date: circa 1980
Green Onyx sculpture on marble base, signature inscribed at base
Size: 45 x 10 x 10 in. (114.3 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm)
Category
1980s Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Late 19th Century Bronze Bust of Napoleon Sculpture, Italian Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Raphaël Nannini (Italian, 1852-1925)
Napoleon Bust, Late 19th Century
Bronze on marble base
Signed on back
17 x 11 x 8 inches
Raphael Nannini was born in Florence. He exhibited at t...
Category
Late 19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Sculpture of Lion "Marzocco" Green Marble Grand Tour Italian Florence 20th
Located in Roma, IT
Carved in the green marble know as verde prato, by a Florentine sculptor of the XX century this grand tour version of the Leone "Marzocco" is an exquisite example of elegance and her...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Large Neoclassical White Marble Sculpture Venus Italica mid-19th century
Located in Pistoia, IT
Venus Italica, imposing sculpture in white Carrara marble, mid-nineteenth-century Roman atelier.
Antonio Canova made several sculptures depicting Venus. The first was made as compen...
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Mid-19th Century Italian School Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Satyr with Cymbals and Kroupezion, Grand Tour after the Antique, 19th century
Located in Beachwood, OH
19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL SCHOOL
Satyr with Cymbals and Kroupezion, Grand Tour after the Antique
Bronze with marble base
26 in. h. x 15 in. w. x 10 in. d.
This dancing faun is now mo...
Category
19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Magnificent Marble Sculpture of Roman Mythological Subject Minerva 1780'
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological roman subject of Minerva in Marble Travertino . Excellent condition from an estate of Veneto.
Measurements: Statue cm 180 .
Minerva (Pallas Athena in Greek...
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Late 18th Century Academic Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
A lady. Contemporary bronze sculpture, Abstract & figurative, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary bronze sculpture on marble base by Polish artist Stan Wysocki. Artwork comes from limited edition of 8. Sculpture depicts female figure filtered through geometric, synth...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Heavy Bronze Sculpture Austrian Israeli judaica Jewish Couple Bench Nicky Imber
By Nicky Imber
Located in Surfside, FL
Large and heavy with magnificent patina. This is the large version of this piece. we cannot find any markings on it and it might be unique.
Nicky Imber (Vienna, Austria, 1920 -1996) was a multidisciplinary Jewish artist best known for his sculptures on Jewish themes. Grand nephew of Naftali Herz Imber, author of the Israeli national anthem 'Hatikva'.
After escaping the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, he pledged to dedicate his art to perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust. Among his more famous works are "The Hope" and "The Love of Torah". His work can be seen around the world, in Northern Israel, the United States, and the Venezuelan Museum of Natural History in Caracas.
Nicky Imber was born in Vienna, Austria. During his studies at the Academy of Arts in Vienna, he drew anti-Nazi caricatures for Jewish student publications. After several thwarted attempts by the family to leave Vienna, in 1938, in the wake of the 'Anschluss', Imber was deported to Dachau. Witnessing the murders of family and friends, he plotted his escape. Using skills he had learned in art school, he made a face mask out of bread and sand, stole a Nazi soldier's uniform and walked out the front gate unnoticed. In 1940, he boarded a ship headed to Haifa. The ship's passengers were refused entry by the British mandatory authorities and imprisoned in a detention camp in Mauritius.
In 1943, Imber worked out a deal with the authorities for his release by joining the British Army, serving as a war artist and a dental assistant in East Africa. After the war, he opened an art school in Nairobi, Kenya, and worked as a photographer and a safari guide.
In 1949 to 1954, he lived in Venezuela, where he was contracted to do an East African Diorama series. The National Museum added an entire wing to display it.
During this period he got married and had a daughter Raquel, who accompanied and assisted him.
In 1959, Imber was commissioned to create sculptures and dioramas for the Haifa Prehistory Museum at Gan Ha-em in Haifa, Israel. In 1960 he returned to Venezuela to restaured the Phelps series of Dioramas for the Museum in Caracas.
Between 1961 and 1971 he travelled extensively around Europe and after establishing an international name for himself, returned to the United States. In New York he became famous for his realistic oil paintings of portraits of Aga Khan, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Sir Richard Burton...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Nude Female Torso Bronze Sculpture, 20th Century Contemporary American Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Alan Cottrill (American, Ohio, b. 1952)
Nude Female Torso, 1994
Bronze mounted to green marble base
Signed, dated and numbered 14/20 verso of leg, with foundry stamp
17. in. h. x 6 i...
Category
1990s Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pear With Leaf Patinated Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Pear with a leaf.
Artist signed, patinated bronze, on black marble base 8"x8"
Randi Grantham was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and now lives in South Florida. He is a self ta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze Abstract Space Age Book Sculpture LA California Modernist Charna Rickey
Located in Surfside, FL
Charna Rickey 1923 - 2000 Mexican-American Jewish Woman artist.
Signed Bronze House of Books, Architecture Bronze sculpture, signed Charna Rickey and on the front "House of the book." It depicts an open Torah. Original patina.
Approx. dimensions: 7 in. H x 9 in. W x 8.5 in. D. Weight: 13.1 lbs.
Modernist Judaica Sculpture
Born Charna Barsky (Charna Ysabel or Isabel Rickey Barsky) in Chihuahua, Mexico, the future artist lived in Hermosillo and immigrated to Los Angeles when she was 11. She was educated at UCLA and Cal State L.A., she married furniture retailer David Rickey and explored art while raising their three daughters. Moving through phases in terra cotta, bronze, marble and aluminum, she found success later in life. Rickey became one of the original art teachers at Everywoman's Village, a pioneering learning center for women established by three housewives in Van Nuys in 1963. She also taught sculpture at the University of Judaism from 1965 to 1981.
As Rickey became more successful, her sculptures were exhibited in such venues as Artspace Gallery in Woodland Hills and the Courtyard of Century Plaza Towers as part of a 1989 Sculpture Walk produced by the Los Angeles Arts Council. Her sculptures have also found their way into the private collections of such celebrities as Sharon Stone.
Another of Rickey's international creations originally stood at Santa Monica College. In 1985, her 12-foot-high musical sculpture shaped like the Hebrew letter "shin" was moved to the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The free standing architectural Judaic aluminum work has strings that vibrate in the wind to produce sounds. Rickey also created art pieces for the city of Brea. They commissioned some amazing art pieces by Laddie John Dill, Walter Dusenbery...
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20th Century American Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Botero Seated Nude Woman Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary 20th Century
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
After Fernando Botero – SEATED NUDE
Bronze Sculpture Edition of 50
This beautifully executed bronze sculpture is an After Fernando Botero work, created in faithful homage to the a...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$800 Sale Price
55% Off
Early 19th century Romantic marble sculpture - Kiss figures
Located in Varmo, IT
White marble sculpture - The Kiss. 19th century.
15 x 20 x h 20 cm including base, 12 x 17 x h 18 cm excluding base.
Entirely in white marble, some small breaks and repairs.
- ...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$1,813 Sale Price
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Large Modernist Bronze Abstract Figural Sculpture "Family" Wolfgang Behl
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a mid 20th century mod abstract large bronze sculpture by Wolfgang Behl (German/American, 1918-1994).
The sculptural group titled "The Family" features a mother and father with two children.
Numbered 20/20. Signed.
21" H x 10 1/4" x 10 1/4
Wolfgang (Johann Wolfgang) Behl (1918 - 1994) was active/lived in Connecticut, Illinois / Germany. Known for Sculpture and as an architectural carver.
A carver,designer, and teacher, Wolfgang Behl was born in Berlin, Germany where he studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. His teacher was otto Hitzberger, sculptor and architecture carver. I have seen some his work, particularly in carved wood compared to Constantin Brancusi although this one seems way more reminiscent of Alberto Giacometti. In 1939, Behl came to the United States and taught briefly in Pennsylvania at the Perkiomen School and in Rhode Island at the Rhode Island School of Design. There in 1943, he won the Joseph N. Eisendrath prize for sculpture. He also became a friend of Louis Mayer, sculptor from Milwaukee. In 1944, Behl took a job as Art Director at the Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, and he also began a one-year teaching assignment at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee.
The last years of his life until his death were in Hartford, Connecticut.
Source: Peter C. Merrill, "German-Immigrant Artists in Early Milwaukee"
Originally from Berlin, Germany, Mr. Behl immigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a citizen in 1947. He studied with Waldemar Raemisch at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, and later at the Rhode Island School of Design.
He began teaching at the Hartford Art School in 1955, retiring in 1983 to devote his time to sculpting. Mr. Behl had exhibitions throughout the United States and Germany. Some of his solo exhibitions include the Arts Exclusive in Simsbury from 1976 to 1981, and the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York City from 1950 to 1973. He showed at the New Britain Museum of American Art, in New Britain, Connecticut in 1969. He also had several retrospectives, including one at the Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center in West Hartford until the end of this month. His works in bronze have a German Expressionist quality to them a pathos found in the works of Kathe Kollwitz and the Expressionist movement. He was known for his classically inspired, but often surrealist sculpture. Among his most-well known pieces are a series of sculptures done for the University of Connecticut Health Center. Several examples of Behl’s work are found on the campus of the University of Hartford. He was included in the show Monumentality in Modern Sculpture at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, 1957. Artists featured in the exhibition: Kenneth Armitage, Hans Arp, Ernst Barlach, Wolfgang Behl, Dorothy Dehner, Edgar Degas, José de Rivera, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Joseph Glasco, Julio González, Paul Granlund...
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20th Century Expressionist Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Song of Zorba, Bronze Sculpture by Anthony Quinn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anthony Quinn
Title: Song of Zorba
Year: 1984
Medium: Bronze sculpture on marble base, signature and year inscribed
Size: 24 in. x 20 in. x 9 in. (60.96 cm x 50.8 cm x 22.86...
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1980s Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Past Lives
Located in BARCELONA, ES
According to reincarnation theory, there are lives previously lived in
different bodies.
Some people say they have memories of their past lives.
May be one of the reason that you fee...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Wire
Bacio (Kiss) - hand carved Italian contemporary figurative rose marble sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Bacio (Kiss) by Lorenzo Vignoli
striking hand carved marble sculpture of rare Portuguese rosa marble by contemporary Italian sculptor Lorenzo Vignoli, incorporating classical refere...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble, Carrara Marble
Carrara Marble Double Janus Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A spectacular, hand-carved Carrara marble double Janus sculpture.
Note: green marble showing in some detail images is from a pedestal and not...
Category
Early 1800s Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Pair of Italian "Alabaster Stone Lions" after Antonio Canova; Mid 19th Century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Pair Recumbent Stone Lions"
after Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
Italian (possibly Florence)
Mid 19th Century
Alabaster, marble
6 x 9 x 4 inches
This is an exquisite pair of Italian alabaster lions on marble bases based on the monumental lions carved by Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the greatest Italian neoclassical sculptor. Canova sculpted the marble lions for the monumental tomb of Pope Clement XIII in St. Peter’s, Rome in 1792
Canova Lions refers to the pair of copies of lion sculptures by Antonio Canova. When Canova created the sculptures in 1792, he installed them on the tomb of Pope Clement XIII. The marble sculptures are some of the most prominent features in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Given the intricacies of creating the original Canova lions, some artists created molds and replicated them. A good example is the pair of lion sculptures...
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1850s Italian School Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Marble
"Mother and Child" Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture Woman Carrying Harvest Green
Located in Austin, TX
20 inches tall x 11 inches wide at base.
Signed.
Numbered 6/100
A cast bronze sculpture that depicts an adult female, rural worker, mid-stride, holding a large bundle of wood on her...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Marble Figure of a Recumbent Lion, 19th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Figure of Recumbent Lion, 19th Century
Carved gray veined marble
4.5 x 8 x 4.5 inches
Category
19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Pietro Bazzanti, Italian 19th Carved Marble Figure Semi-Nude Young Bather Girl
Located in LA, CA
Pietro Bazzanti - Barzanti (Italian, 1825-1895) "After the Bath" - A very Fine and large carved white Carrara marble figure of a semi-nude young maiden standing by the sea-shore. The smiling and posing young beauty, with bare breasts and back, her right arm juxtaposed over her head, while holding a blanket over her waist with her left hand and standing barefoot by a rocky seawall and wavy shoreline. Signed 'P. Barzanti/Florence' (on reverse) and raised on a cylindrical swiveling carved verde antico solid marble pedestal. circa: Florence, 1880-1890.
Pietro Bazzanti or Barzanti (Italian, 1825-1895) was a 19th Century Italian sculptor born in Florence. Together with his brother, Niccolò Bazzanti (Firenze, 1802-1869) who was also a sculptor, they both worked the sprawling Florentine studio 'Pietro Bazzanti e Figlio' a hugely successful sculpture studio, operated within the family at their gallery on Lungarno Corsini until the mid-twentieth century. The studio was a place where many talented professors and apprentice sculptors specialized in sculpting marble genre scenes and allegorical figures as well as copies of antique and Renaissance sculpture catered to a prominent international clientele which included European and Russian aristocracy, and the Industrial fortunes being made in England and Americas drove considerable export demand. In 1861 the studio was awarded the medal for 'Ercole con cinghiale sulla spalla' (Hercules with boar on shoulder), 'Due Cani' (Two dogs) and 'Cinghiale' (Boar) sculptures at the National Exposition in Florence. In 1874 he exhibits his works in London and in 1876 in Philadelphia.
Bazzanti frequently returned to the subject of 'After the Bath' or 'The Bather' in his works, having carved examples of the bathing Venus after the Antique and in dynamic and dramatic compositions such as the present sculpture. The finely-detailed work relates closely to popular figures produced by Bazzanti’s contemporary, Cesar Lapini, whose La Sopresa depicts a young woman stepping back from approaching waves. The sculptor’s penchant for realism is on full display with the contrasting matte and highly-polished finishes of the gently lapping waves at the figure’s feet, to the jutting rocks and soft skin. Elegant handling of textures is further exemplified in the draped fringe of the cloth. This monumental and Fine work is illustrated in situ at Bazzanti’s studio circa 1900 among other fashionable works of the period.
Notes: Pietro Bazzanti was also known as Pietro Barzanti. There are conflicting dates of Pietro Bazzanti/Barzanti's birth/death year. Some auction houses and art galleries have described 'Pietro Barzanti' as Italian, 1842–1881 and Pietro Bazzanti as Italian, 1825-1895. However, according to Alfonso Panzetta – Nuovo Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell’ottocento e del Primo Novecento – 2003 Edition –Page 78, 'Pietro Barzanti' was in fact 'Pietro Bazzanti' one and the same, and it questions his year of his birth/death as "Firenze (?), ?, ?." thus we believe that the Italian, 1825-1895 description is the most plausible.
Literature:
Alfonso Panzetta – Nuovo Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell’ottocento e del Primo Novecento – 2003 Edition –Page 78.
Auctions:
Another example of this sculpture, probably also Pietro Bazzanti but almost a foot shorter (Height 44¾ in. (113.5 cm), unsigned and without its pedestal, was sold at Christie's New York, 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Works of Art and Ceramics Sale...
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19th Century Academic Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Life Size Roman Marble Figure
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautifully hand carved, full size Carrara marble figure of a boy. The robe is elegantly draped with clasps.
Category
19th Century Baroque Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Eo Sine Manibus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Standing Marble Stone
Located in Utrecht, NL
Eo Sine Manibus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Standing Marble Stone
Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher at a hig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Italian 19th-20th Century Life-Size Marble Sculpture Titled "Searching for Love"
Located in LA, CA
A very fine museum quality Italian 19th-20th century life-size marble sculpture titled "Searching for Love" by Vito Pardo (Italian, born in Venice in 1872) Depicting a semi-nude life...
Category
19th Century Romantic Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Willitts Designs International The Drummer Cast Resin Sculpture, Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
An exceptional drummer sculpture by Willitts Designs International and Shen Lung. The sculpture is cold painted and made of hand cast resin. The drumm...
Category
Early 2000s Folk Art Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
19th Century Bronze Bust of Young Napoleon as Caesar
Located in Beachwood, OH
After Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822)
Bust of Young Napoleon as Caesar, 19th Century
Hallow cast bronze with verdigris patina, attached to rouge...
Category
19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Harvester Inkwell
By Bruno Zach
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A dramatic early 20th century Austrian Art Deco bronze Inkwell of a muscular male holding a scythe with one arm and wiping his brow with the other. The bronze has a rich dark brown p...
Category
1910s Art Deco Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Exceptional Pair of Italian Neoclassical Leons Carrara Marble Statues
Located in Rome, IT
Outstanding pair Italian Neoclassical Leons Carrara Marble sculptures.
A timeless piece for your garden or interior decoration.
Good condition, with visible signs of wear and ...
Category
1790s Academic Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
19th Century Bronze & Marble of Boy w/ Lizard and Column
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Kley (French, 1833-1911)
The Lizard, 19th Century
Gilt bronze and marble
Signed to base
6.25 x 4.5 x 3 inches
In Greco-Roman times, the lizard represented good fortune and reg...
Category
19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
ANTINOUS Magnificent Italian Neoclassical Carrara Marble Sculpture
Located in Rome, IT
Outstanding 19th century Italian finely carved Carrara "Statuario" marble sculpture of Antinoo , after the Antique The Capitoline 'Antinous'.
Antinous, a young Bithinius favorite...
Category
19th Century Academic Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Antique Bust of Roman Emperor Vitellius
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Substantial, hand carved, solid marble bust of Roman Emperor Vitellius (24-69 C.E.) on a custom, iron base. Likely a 16th century copy of a 2nd century o...
Category
16th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Panthère à l'affût, Art Deco Bronze Sculpture by Georges Lavroff
By Georges Lavroff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Georges Lavroff, Russian (1895 - 1991) - Panthère à l'affût, Year: circa 1925, Medium: Bronze sculpture on marble base, signature inscribed at base, Size: 4.5 x 21 x 4 in. (11.43 ...
Category
1920s Art Deco Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Suspensus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
Located in Utrecht, NL
Suspensus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Dancer, bronze, 40x46x12 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ferdinand Preiss(1882-1943)
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$2,708 Sale Price
20% Off
Ausum Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Male Figure
Located in Utrecht, NL
Ausum Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Male Figure
Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher at a high scho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Cursus Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Nude Boys Male Figures Marble Stone
Located in Utrecht, NL
Cursus Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Nude Boys Male Figures Marble Stone
Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Marble figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Marble figurative sculptures available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add figurative sculptures created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Wim van der Kant, KARTEL, Léo Caillard, and Irakli Tsuladze. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Modern, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Marble figurative sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available