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Medium: Marble
Madre Terra - hand carved figurative Carrara marble sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
MADRE TERRA (Mother Earth) by Lorenzo Vignoli (2012)
striking hand carved Carrara marble sculpture by contemporary Italian sculptor Lorenzo Vignoli, incorporating classical referenc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble, Carrara Marble
Donna - hand carved Italian Carrara marble + oak wood sculpture ( 30"x 9"x 19" )
Located in San Francisco, CA
Donna by Lorenzo Vignoli
hand carved marble + oak wood sculpture by contemporary Italian sculptor Lorenzo Vignoli
Sculpture dimensions:
30in W x 9 inch H x 19in D
75cm W x 23cm ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Dove Vado - hand carved figurative Carrara marble sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
striking hand carved Carrara marble sculpture by contemporary Italian sculptor Lorenzo Vignoli, incorporating classical references and contemporary Mediterranean influences
DOVE VAD...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble, Carrara Marble
El Torso
Located in Zofingen, AG
The sculpture is dedicated to female beauty and grace. The author portrayed a beautiful girl who is a little shy about her nakedness. Her body is stylized. Polished bronze accentuate...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal, Bronze
Danza ( Dance ) - hand carved figurative Carrara marble frieze relief sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
DANZA (Dance) by Lorenzo Vignoli
striking hand carved Carrara marble frieze relief by contemporary Italian sculptor Lorenzo Vignoli, incorporating mesmer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble
"Bending Figure"
By Chrissy Harris
Located in Southampton, NY
Marble free form sculpture by Chrissy Harris. Composition is cipollino green marble from Greece. Signed on base of marble sculpture. American School....
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$2,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by David Natidze - Black Bird 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Belgian Blue Marble
David Natidze is a Belgium-based sculptor born in 1969 in Georgia known for his refined stone sculptures that blend modernist tradition with minimalist abstract...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Woman with child. Metal, marble, onyx, 39x51x15 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Maxim Geo
Woman with child
Metal, marble, onyx, 39x51x15 cm
small defect
Category
1930s Realist Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
$2,651 Sale Price
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Angel, White Carrara Marble Stone Vertical Figurative Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This figurative sculpture filled with interiority and peaceful presence by Lutfi Romhein is directly sculpted from veined white Carrara marble stone. Its circular independent base me...
Category
2010s Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri 1880
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze and marble bust of Dante Alighieri, circa 1880.
The bronze is most likely Florentine and mod...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Caryatid
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born March 15, 1943 in Szekelyudvarhely, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), Marton Varo studied sculpture at Ion Andreescu Institute of Arts in Cluj, Romania from 1960 to 1966. In...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$20,000
Figurative Marble Sculpture, "Kindred"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind Italian white Carerra marble sculpture by San Diego artist Tony Gangitano. Its dimensions are 10" x 25" x 10". It is on a black granite base. A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
This sculpture is a representation of Mary and Christ...
Category
2010s Italian School Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Marble
"Buste Emporté", Sensual Black Marble Nude Female Bust Figurative Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This figurative sculpture by Lutfi Romhein depicts a female nude bust in Belgian black marble mounted on a grey marble base. It has a very fine grain which provides a really soft tou...
Category
2010s Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by David Natidze - Flying Bird 1
Located in Paris, IDF
White alabaster,
Pedestal - Belgian Blue Marble
David Natidze is a Belgium-based sculptor born in 1969 in Georgia known for his refined stone sculptures that blend modernist tradit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Prince d'Egypt", Figurative Portrait Stone Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Named "Prince d'Égypte", this sculpture was created by artist Lutfi Romhein using locally sourced stone from Aveyron, France.
Dimensions & Weight :
This artwork has a total height o...
Category
2010s Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
26 Cubes
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born March 15, 1943 in Szekelyudvarhely, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), Marton Varo studied sculpture at Ion Andreescu Institute of Arts in Cluj, Romania from 1960 to 1966. In...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$25,000
'Pioneer Woman & Children, ' Bronze and Marble Sculpture by Harold Castor
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Master sculptor Harold Castor created this realistic depiction of the Pioneer Woman seeking new land and opportunity in the American West with her two ch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$7,200 Sale Price
20% Off
L'ABISSO
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Document from the Nashvile Art Association dated 1925. The marble was purchased in Florence, Italy at an exhibit of The Association of of Italian Artists.
Category
1920s Art Deco Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Pair of 19th/20th baroque style figure sculptures- Poseidon and Amphitrite
Located in Varmo, IT
Pair of yellow marble vase-holder sculptures - Poseidon and Amphitrite. Italy, 19th-20th century.
44 x 44 x h 90 cm each.
Entirely in yellow marble carved in Baroque style. Depicting Poseidon and Amphitrite holding a horizontal vase...
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Sleeping Owl, Bronze Sculpture by Antonovici - Brancusi's Protege
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Constantin Antonovici, Romanian (1911 - 2002)
Title: Sleeping Owl
Year: 1947
Medium: Bronze with Patina on Marble Base, signature and number inscribed
Edition: 1/9
Size: 29 i...
Category
1940s Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"Bust of a Woman", Figurative Sculpture Black Marble Female Bust
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This Figurative sculpture in black Belgian marble by Lutfi Romhein has a very fine grain which provides a really soft touch.
A graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrare, in ...
Category
2010s Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Altorilievo in Marmo della Montagnola Senese Profilo Siena XIV secolo
Located in Pistoia, IT
Altorilievo in marmo della Montagnola Senese raffigurante un profilo femminile a mezzo busto, Siena, XIV secolo.
L'altorilievo, nella tradizione senese del XIV secolo, si caratter...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Medieval Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Mid Century Carved Marble Flute Player
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century carved marble flute player by Rodney Marshall Winfield (American, b. 1925). Presented in a rustic wooden frame. Unsigned. Image size: 14"H x 10"W. Framed: 20"H x 16"W. Wear to frame and age wear to marble.
A painter in acrylic, designer in stain glass and silver, sculptor and long-time teacher, Rodney Winfield has had a diverse career. He was born in New York City. As a young man, he was artistically inclined and composed music, drew and painted, danced, wrote poetry and created sculpture. Choosing to focus on art, he enrolled in Cooper Union School in New York City.
From 1953 to 1970, he was a stain-glass designer for Emil Frei...
Category
1960s Folk Art Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Man Smoking Cigar, Indoor/Outdoor Marble Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ellen Brenner-Sorensen, American
Title: Man Smoking Cigar
Medium: White Marble Sculpture
Size: 46 in. x 21 in. x 12 in. (116.84 cm x 53.34 cm...
Category
20th Century Abstract Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by David Natidze - Red Bird 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Red travertine
David Natidze is a Belgium-based sculptor born in 1969 in Georgia known for his refined stone sculptures that blend modernist tradition with minimalist abstraction. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
PAIR OF ROMANESQUE MARBLE COLUMNS, Italy, 13th/14th Century
Located in Milan, IT
PAIR OF ROMANESQUE MARBLE COLUMNS
Italy, 13th/14th Century
marble
86 x 16 x 13 cm
33 3/4 x 6 1/4 x 5 in
Category
15th Century and Earlier Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
“Ocean Plenitude”, Green-Veined White Carrara Marble Fish Figurative Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork is a unique-piece sculpture curved directly from green-veined white Carrara marble stone by French artist Cécile de Cock.
Born in an artistic family, with a father who...
Category
2010s Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Arcadia
Located in New York, NY
As a direct carver, Goulet would take her material as-is and begin to work without making any preparatory studies or maquettes. In Arcadia, the artist was able to uncover a loving co...
Category
1970s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Nude - XXI century, Contemporary figurative marble sculpture, Classical, Realism
Located in Warsaw, PL
RYSZARD PIOTROWSKI (born in 1952) Sculptor. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His works include intimate, small forms in marble, bronze and silver. He specializes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Codina Corona Hunt cartridge belt. wood. sculpture original realistic
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
CANANA original realistic wood piece unique sculpture
Josep Maria Codina Corona (Igualada, 1935 - Barcelona, 2006) was a Catalan sculptor. He goes to study at the Escola de la L...
Category
1980s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Female Torso"
Located in Southampton, NY
Rosa Portugal marble torso of a woman. Unsigned. Late 20th century. In excellent condition. American School. 18.5 inches high by 10 wise by 7 inche...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$1,950 Sale Price
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Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by David Natidze - Wounded Little Bird 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Brown alabaster,
Pedestal - white limestone
David Natidze is a Belgium-based sculptor born in 1969 in Georgia known for his refined stone sculptures that blend modernist tradition w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone, Marble
Nefertiti
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anthony Quinn
Title: Nefertiti
Medium: Unique hand-carved black Marble sculpture on marble base, signature inscribed
Size: 34.5 x 8 x 7.5 inches (39 in. with base)
Category
1980s American Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble
$40,000
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by David Natidze - Wounded Bird 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Brown alabaster,
Pedestal - French limestone
David Natidze is a Belgium-based sculptor born in 1969 in Georgia known for his refined stone sculptures that blend modernist tradition ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone, Marble
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by David Natidze - White little Bird 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Brown alabaster,
Pedestal - white limestone
David Natidze is a Belgium-based sculptor born in 1969 in Georgia known for his refined stone sculptures that blend modernist tradition w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone, Marble
Italian Mid 19th century White Carrara Marble bust. Portrait of young male.
Located in Firenze, IT
Italian Portrait White Marble Bust in a Heroic Attitude.
Carrara statuary Marble.
Tuscan school.
Circa 1850.
Bust depicting a young man with bare shoulders.
This model draws inspira...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$3,599 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by David Natidze - Flying Bird 2
Located in Paris, IDF
White alabaster,
Pedestal - Belgian Blue Marble
David Natidze is a Belgium-based sculptor born in 1969 in Georgia known for his refined stone sculptures that blend modernist tradit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by David Natidze - Black Bird 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Belgian Blue Marble
David Natidze is a Belgium-based sculptor born in 1969 in Georgia known for his refined stone sculptures that blend modernist tradition with minimalist abstract...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by David Natidze - Black Bird 1.2
Located in Paris, IDF
Belgian Blue Marble
David Natidze is a Belgium-based sculptor born in 1969 in Georgia known for his refined stone sculptures that blend modernist tradition with minimalist abstract...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Mystical Woodland, Metal Skin Over Composite Stone Glass, Polyester Resin
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Divyendu Anand - Mystical Woodland - H 20.5 x W 28 x D 10 inches
Edition 3/9
Metal Skin Over Composite of Stone Glass and Polyester Resin, White Marble...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble, Metal
Seated Figure
Located in New York, NY
Marble
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Irakli Tsuladze - Universe
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze, glass & corian
Irakli Tsuladze is a Georgian sculptor born in 1973 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His sculptures present a peculiar unity of substance and emotion...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
White Marble Sculpture Statue by Antonio Piazza
Located in New York, NY
ANTONIO PIAZZA
Italian, (Late 19th/Early 20th Century)
signed 'A. Piazza Carrara'
33 1/2 x 14 in. x 13 in.
Notes: A Fine Italian Carrara Marble Figure of a Boy Holding a Hat
Category
Late 19th Century Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Mid Century Carved Figurative Girl and Kitten
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century carved marble figurative girl and kitten by Rodney Marshall Winfield (American, b. 1925). Presented in rustic wood frame. Bio on verso. Image, 14"H x 10"W.
Rodney studied at Cooper Union School in New York and worked as a designer at the Emil Frei...
Category
1960s Folk Art Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Original Marble Sculpture - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This Portrait go Giuseppe Garibaldi is an original decorative marble sculpture realized in Italy by Italian manufacture during the end of the XIX century.
The alabaster marble sta...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Cast Bronze Brutalist Warrior Bust
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A wonderful stylized bust of a warrior. It appears that a dragon like creature sits on his helmet, rather is his helmet. You can't help but draw similarities to Game of Thrones. This...
Category
1960s Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Angelic Crystal, Marble Dust, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Intrigued by the stature and carriage of a particular figure, MacDonald pursued Angelic Crystal, the study of a ballerina in the studio. Inspired by a continuing appreciation of danc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Untitled, Figurative, Black Marble by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Pradeep Jogdand - Untitled
Black Marble
H 28 x W 24 x D 14 inches
( Delivered )
Pradeep Jogdand (born 1987) is a young sculptor based in Mumbai. He did his BFA in sculpture from J.J...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Transmuted Leaves, Oxidised Bronze over Stone Composite Granite Base "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Divyendu Anand - Transmuted Leaves
Edition of 8
Oxidised Bronze over Stone Composite Granite Base
H 14 x W 21 x D 9 inches, 2019
Growing up with the thoughts of altruism, idealism a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Granite, Marble, Bronze
Repose
Located in New York, NY
Marble
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Ileana, Bronze and Marble Sculpture by Constantin Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
This Bronze portrait by Constantin Antonovici is laid directly into the surface of a cut slab of white marble. Intense and hollow eyes stare out from a smiling visage, creating an un...
Category
1970s Art Deco Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Rhythmic Movements
Located in New York, NY
Marble
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Alexander the Great Sculpture II /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Joker Bust Head
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Alexander the Great Sculpture II"
Series: Sculpture
*Signed, titled, and dated by Grav...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Marble
Girl Torso, Modern Marble Sculpture by Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original carved marble sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his Torso Series. Referenced in "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls", pg 79
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on February 18, 1911, and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Iasi, Romania, in 1939. In 1940, Antonovici studied in Zagreb with the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovici, until his arrest by Italian fascists. Antonovici himself survived imprisonment in Germany for his refusal to fight on the side of the Nazis. After the war, he continued his studies in Vienna, under the tutelage of Professor Fritz Behn...
Category
1950s Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Calling II
Located in New York, NY
Marble and wood
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Moment
Located in New York, NY
Marble
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Sydney Kumalo Bronze Minimalist African Modernist Sculpture Figural Female Nude
Located in Surfside, FL
Sydney Kumalo. Features a bronze stylized female figural form sculpture fixed to a marble plinth and wood base. Bears signature on base. Measures 9 1/2" x 4 1/4". There is no edition number on the piece.
Sydney Kumalo (1935 - 1988) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, on 13 April 1935. His was one of the families who had to move out of the "white" city to the South Western Townships, or Soweto. Raised in Diepkloof and educated at Madibane High School, he took with him from old Sophiatown the curious and diverse heritage of its heyday. Art classes in the Catholic school, "Sof' town" blues and jazz, the vibrant street culture and growing defiance of its population of various races who were gradually forced out into separate race-group areas. So it was that these various aspects of his early life created for Kumalo a cultural mix of a Zulu family related to the traditional royal house; city schooling, nascent township music and lingo; growing urbanised political defiance and the deep-rooted Zulu pride and respect for the legends and ancient stories of a tribal people. This mix of old and new cultures was reinforced when he began his studies at the Polly Street Art Centre in 1953 where he became a member of Cecil Skotnes group of serious artists who were encouraged to acquire professional skills. Skotnes introduced a basic training programme with modelling as a component, which marked the introduction of sculpting (in brick-clay) at Polly Street.
Kumalo was Skotnes’ assistant at Polly Street from 1957 to 1964, and having recognised his great talent as a sculptor, Skotnes encouraged him to become a professional artist.
After Kumalo’s very successful assistance with a commission to decorate the St Peter Claver church at Seeisoville near Kroonstad, with painting designs, sculpture and relief panels in 1957, Skotnes arranged for Kumalo to continue his art training by working in Edoardo Villa ’s studio from 1958 to 1960. Working with Villa, he received professional guidance and began to familiarize himself with the technical aspects of sculpting and bronze casting. In 1960 he became an instructor at the Polly Street Art Centre.
Kumalo started exhibiting his work with some of the leading commercial Johannesburg galleries in 1958, and had his first solo exhibition with the Egon Guenther Gallery in 1962. He was a leader of the generation who managed to leave behind the forms of African curios, reject the European-held paternalism which encouraged notions of "naive" and "tribal" African art, and yet still hold fast to the core of the old legends and spiritual values of his people. He introduced these subjects into his bronze sculptures and pastel drawings, evolving his own expressive, contemporary African "style".
Together with Skotnes, Villa, Cecily Sash and Giuseppe Cattaneo, Kumalo became part of the Amadlozi group in 1963. This was a group of artists promoted by the African art collector and gallery director Egon Guenther, and characterised by their exploration of an African idiom in their art. Elza Miles writes that Cecil Skotnes’ friendship with Egon Guenther had a seminal influence on the aspirant artists of Polly Street: “Guenther broadened their experience by introducing them to German Expressionism as well as the sculptural traditions of West and Central Africa. He familiarised them with the work of Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Gustav Seitz, Willi Baumeister and Rudolf Sharf.” It is therefore not surprising that some of Kumalo’s sculptures show an affinity with Barlach’s powerful expressionist works. Guenther organised for the Amadlozi group to hold exhibitions around Italy, in Rome, Venice, Milan and Florence, in both 1963 and 1964.
Kumalo’s career took off in the mid 1960s, with his regular participation in exhibitions in Johannesburg, London, New York and Europe. He also represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale in 1966, and in 1967 participated in the São Paulo Biennale.
EJ De Jager (1992) describes Kumalo’s sculpture as retaining much of the “canon and formal aesthetic qualities of classical African sculpture. His work contains the same monumentality and simplicity of form.” His main medium for modelling was terra cotta, which was then cast in bronze, always paying careful attention to the finish of both the model as well as the final cast. He began casting the pieces he modelled in clay or plaster into bronze at the Renzo Vignali Artistic Foundry in Pretoria North. He worked throughout his life with its owners, the Gamberini family, and enjoyed learning the technical aspects of the casting process, refining his surfaces according to what he learned would produce the best results in metal. De Jager further writes that Kumalo’s distinctive texturing of the bronze or terra cotta is reminiscent of traditional carving techniques of various African cultures. “In many respects Kumalo thus innovated a genuine contemporary or modern indigenous South African sculpture”. Kumalo came to admire the works of the Cubists, and of British sculptors Henry Moore and Lynn Chadwick. He became noted for adapting shapes from them into his own figures. The success of his use of the then current monumental simplicity and purely aesthetic abstractions of natural forms has been emulated by many South African sculptors since the 1970s.
He was in many ways the doyen of South African Black art. As such he was an important influence especially on younger African sculptors, by whom he is greatly revered. Through his teaching at Polly Street and at the Jubilee Centre, as well as through his personal example of integrity, dedication and ability, he inspired and guided students who in their own right became outstanding artists, for example, Ezrom Legae, Leonard Matsoso and Louis Maqhubela
From 1969 onward, he allied himself with Linda Givon, founder of The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, where he exhibited regularly until his death in December 1988. Working with Givon also perpetuated his associations with his many friends of strong principles. Skotnes, Villa, Legae and later such peers from the Polly Street era as Leonard Matsoso, Durant Sihlali and David Koloane have all exhibited at The Goodman Gallery. Kumalo, Legae, and later Fikile (Magadlela) and Dumile (Feni) were among the leading exponents of a new Afrocentric art...
Category
20th Century Modern Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Gazelle Antler by KARTEL - unique handcarved marble sculpture -smooth finish
By KARTEL
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a gorgeous hand-carved grey marble object. The marble is polished and with an amazing tactile feel.
KARTEL
Founded, 2014, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
The KARTEL group c...
Category
2010s Pop Art Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Carmen, Washington: Plaster Sculpture with Marble Base by Constantin Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
A minimalist depiction of a woman in a large hat by Constantin Antonovici. This white marble sculpture is composed almost entirely of two colliding ovals, with a few ridges visible o...
Category
1970s Art Deco Marble Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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