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Medium: Metal
Bust of a Man - Sculpture after Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Bust of a man is an original sculpture in bronze realized after Aurelio Mistruzzi in the late 1990s.
Bronze casting.
18 cm height, 24 cm height with wooden base.
Good conditions.
Category
1990s Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pas Seul 3/9 - figurative, female, bronze, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using simplified shapes, artist Frances Semple reveals the emotive essence of movement in this bronze sculpture of a walking woman.
At 60 inches high, the figure is life-size. The sculpture is inscribed by the artist with initials and edition number, 3/9. The concrete base measures 12h x 24w x 42d inches. Together, the sculpture and base...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cloned Bulldog with pet bottle
Located in Malmo, SE
Original sculpture 2/8 ex.
2011 - 2020.
Silver plated bronze.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
William Sweetlove, born in Ostend, Belgium, in 1949, unites...
Category
2010s Pop Art Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Bronze
RIL Warrior by Walter Peter Brenner - Male figure, bronze sculpture, mythology
Located in Paris, FR
RIL Warrior is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Walter Peter Brenner, dimensions are 80 × 80 × 40 cm (31.5 × 31.5 × 15.8 in).
This sculpture is part of a limited edition of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman's Chest - Bronze Sculpture by Aurelio Mistruzzi
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 100 copies numbered and signed by the artist.
Excellent conditions.
Aurelio Mistruzzi was an Italian sculptor and medalist.
He attended the Udine ...
Category
1930s Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$7,054 Sale Price
30% Off
Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century Italian School
Located in Beachwood, OH
19th Century Italian School
Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century
Bronze with black-green patination
24 x 10 x 10 inches
Dionysus, in Greco-Roman religion, a nature ...
Category
19th Century Italian School Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Positive Capability - large, rust, male figure, Corten steel outdoor sculpture
By Jason Kimes
Located in Bloomfield, ON
American artist Jason Kimes is best known for his compelling and beautiful figurative outdoor work. This imposing sculpture (254 cm high) of a nude male in a classic yoga pose–arms c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Sailing Towards You" contemporary figurative bronze wall sculpture love sea
By Mireia Serra
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Sailing Towards You is a wall sculpture. It can also be placed on a flat surface, for example on a shelf.
Edition Size: 18. Sculpture for wall easily hung with 2 screws/nails.
BIOG...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Great Standing Figure II by Pierre Yermia - Contemporary sculpture, human, long
Located in Paris, FR
Great Standing Figure II is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 140 × 26 × 24 cm (55.1 × 10.2 × 9.4 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Greeting - surrealist, abstract, figurative, male, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This indoor figurative bronze sculpture is made by Canadian artist Roch Smith.
The imaginative sculptural work of Roch Smith often takes a playful approach to more serious themes. H...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Art Nouveau Bronze Figure Statue Sculpture "Prise de Corsaire"
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique large French Art Nouveau Bronze Figural Sculpture, titled "Prise de Corsaire" by Emmanuel Villanis (1858-1914), circa 1900.
This very...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Venus
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this work, the author turned to classical mythology and created the image of the goddess Venus. Goddesses of youth, beauty and love. He created the classical female torso on a marble basement. Кeferring to the classical works of antiquity, the sculptor created his own version of the Venus statue...
Category
1980s Realist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,500
Antique Bronze Dog "Whippet with a Butterfly" Arthur Waagen (1833-1898) 1 of 2
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait
“La Levrette au Papillon” or “Whippet (Greyhound) with a Butterfly”
Arthur Waagen (Germany, France 1833-1898)
Circa 1860’s
11 x 8 x 4 inches
(1 of 2. ...
Category
1860s Academic Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Statue of an Athlete
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art movement. He embodies a world that is in many ways lost to us; he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Joel Urruty - Free form #5, Sculpture 2024
By Joel Urruty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: oak
As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the visual language. The figur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
RECLINGING WOMAN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ANTONIUCCI VOLTI
"RECLINGING WOMAN"
BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 2/6
VALSUANI FOUNDRY
ITALiAN, WORKED IN PARIS, C.1960
6.5 X 18.5 X 10.5 INCHES
Antoniucci Volti
1915-1989
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family lived in Italy until 1920 when the family moved to France.
Volti studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice from 1928 to 1920. By 1932 the young artist had won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs before going to Paris, where he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of only fifteen.
After serving in the Second World War, when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Bavaria, he returned in poor health to Paris, only to find his studio destroyed.
From 1947 he showed work at various Paris Salons and, in 1954 and 1955 at the Brussels and Antwerp Biennales. In 1957 a retrospective of his work was organized at the Museum Rodin in Paris.
He died in Paris in 1989 Works by Volti are in leading museums such as the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Antoniucci Volti is one of the most important Late Modern...
Category
1960s Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$23,600 Sale Price
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Bronze Sculpture Relief Rhinoceros with Tree American Modernist Leonard Baskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000)
Fruitfulness From Permanence
signed, edition 3/8
Bronze, 1967
19.5 X 16 X 1.5 inches
The inspiration for this work was a Bernini sculpture Elephant Carrying Obelisk, a 17th century commission outside an ancient temple dedicated to Minerva the goddess of wisdom. It was one of several works from 1967 on a theme of continuity
Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960).
The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin.
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Arman, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...
Category
20th Century Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antelope, Art Deco Bronze Sculpture by Loet Vanderveen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Loet Vanderveen, Dutch (1921 - 2015) - Antelope, Medium: Bronze sculpture, signature and numbering inscribed on bottom, Edition: 408/500, Size: 6 x 7.5 x 3 in. (15.24 x 19.05 x 7...
Category
1920s Art Deco Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
''Tesem'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Tesem, Brown Dog
Located in Utrecht, NL
Nichola Theakston (1967) has established herself as one of the UK’s foremost contemporary sculptors working within the animal genre.
With the ''Tesem'' Nichola shows how exquisite ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Equilibre Carré (Square Balance) - large, figurative, aluminum outdoor sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Quebecois artist Paul Duval’s engaging contemporary sculptures have garnered an international audience. Forged from aluminum, the highly textured figures often strike a dramatic pose...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Couple II" Mid 20th Century Modern Abstract Figurative 1940s European Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"Couple II" Mid 20th Century Modern Abstract Figurative 1940s European Sculpture
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
"Couple II"
Bronze
signed on the base
The sculpture was conceived in 19...
Category
1940s Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Elegance, Erté
By Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990)
Title: Elegance
Year: 1982
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 100/250 Numbered, 12 AP, 9 HC
Size: 15 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Incised...
Category
1980s Art Deco Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$13,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Attitude III by Marine de Soos - Female nude bronze sculpture, contemporary
Located in Paris, FR
Attitude III is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 41.5 × 14 × 18 cm (16.3 × 5.5 × 7.1 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A woman. Contemporary figurative bronze sculpture, Polish art, Limited edition
Located in Warsaw, PL
Limited edition bronze sculpture by Polish artist Olga Prokop-Misniakiewicz. Artist signes her artworks by hand, using engraving tool. Edition of 5. Olga Prokop-Misniakiewicz likes t...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Leslie Fry_Arise_2022_Sculpture_Cast Bronze_Feminist
Located in Darien, CT
Leslie's public projects respond to site, history and the body. Figures are female or hermaphroditic, of imaginary descent, often melded with animal, architecture and plant forms. I ...
Category
2010s Feminist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Female Torso in Free Fall – Expressionist Figurative Sculpture by Zura
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A weightless moment captured in form—Zura’s newest sculpture explores surrender, strength, and the poetry of gravity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Antique French Art Deco Bronze Bust Sculpture Head of Beautiful Young Girl 1920
Located in Portland, OR
Antique French Art Deco Bronze bust sculpture of a beautiful young woman, by Marcel Andre Bouraine (1886-1948), and cast by the Etling foundry, Paris, circa 1920.
The bronze depicts...
Category
1920s Art Deco Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Piano surréaliste, Salvador Dali
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Title: Piano surréaliste
Year: 1984
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 34/350, plus proofs
Size: 26.3 x 15.7 x 12 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Inci...
Category
1980s Surrealist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$28,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Into the barrel- bronze and brass small figurative man surfer mural sculpture
By Mireia Serra
Located in New York, NY
Mireia Serra's little figurative bronze sculptures capture feelings and sensations of day to day lives. She transforms everyday dilemmas into something beautiful that captures the be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Iron
A Monumental Patinated Bronze Bust of Jesus Christ by Clesinger and Barbedienne
Located in Queens, NY
A Monumental and Truly Exceptional French Patinated Bronze Bust of Jesus Christ, Circa 1858, Signed J. Clesinger, Rome 1858 & F. Barbedienne Fondeur
This monumental and extraordinar...
Category
19th Century Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancer VIII- 21st Century Bronze Sculpture of a Male Nude Dancing
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This sculpture is made out of bronze, by Dutch artist Martijn Soontiens.
His male dancing sculptures are about moving and movement. Artist Martijn Soontiens creates special atmospheres with his special bronze male sculptures. His images, from small to life-sized, show bodies in positions and movements that are and remain exciting while you look at them.
The artist himself says about this: "I look for balance, excitement and vitality in my sculptures. I have focused on making bronze sculptures. Human figures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Vigils Echo 4" Contemporary Nude Sculpture of a Woman with Bunny Mask
Located in Utrecht, NL
The mysterious artworks by Rachel Ann Stevenson invite you into a dream world. Rachel Ann sees artists as day dreamers who can show the impossible...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Barok by Ondřej Oliva - Figurative bronze sculpture, mysterious form, golden
By Ondřej Oliva
Located in Paris, FR
Barok is a bronze sculpture by contemporary Czech sculptor Ondřej Oliva, dimensions are 35 × 60 × 35 cm (13.8 × 23.6 × 13.8 in).
This artwork is a unique piece and comes with a certi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Handful of Stars, patinated bronze sculpture with walnut base, signed edition
By Betye Saar
Located in New York, NY
Betye Saar
A Handful of Stars, 2016
Bronze with patina and walnut base
Signed: Incised signature and numbered
7 × 3 × 2 1/2 inches
Unframed
Acquired from the International Sculpture ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
David Slaying Goliath Large Figural Bronze Statue by Antonin Mercie
Located in New York, NY
The base marked "A. Mercie" and "506 F. Barbenienne, Fondeur, Paris" ad "A. Collas" "Reduction Mecanique."
The dazzling David, a prolific subject amongst sculpture artists beginning...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
George by Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze sculpture of a nude male human figure.
Located in Coltishall, GB
George is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
This striking sculpture features a slender, elongated nude female figure, exuding elegance and introspection. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Craftsman ed.1/2 - surrealist, canoe, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This bronze figurative tabletop sculpture by Roch Smith features a canoe.
Canadian sculptor Roch Smith has turned his attention to a cherished national and historic pastime—canoeing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Marie III by Nando Kallweit. Tall, elegant bronze sculpture of human figure.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Marie III is a tall, elegant bronze sculpture of a human figure.
Nando Kallweit is a German sculptor working in bronze and oak. Kallweit carves the original piece from a piece of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Israeli Bronze Sculpture Lovers Embrace Abstract Modernist Ein Hod Israel
By Gedalia Ben Zvi
Located in Surfside, FL
Bronze sculpture signed in Hebrew and numbered from small edition of 6
BIOGRAPHY
"I was born in Czechoslovakia in the year 1925, of traditional parents. I spent my youth partly in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Il Bernini - Sculpture by Ambrogio Borghi - 1884
Located in Roma, IT
The bronze proposed here was initially presented in November 1878 at the Competition for the Encouragement of Brera. It is therefore one of the first celebratory works of the sculptor Ambrogio Borghi...
Category
1880s Modern Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Blacksmith of Solingen / - The Double-edged Sword -
Located in Berlin, DE
Wilhelm Albermann (1835 Werden an der Ruhr - 1913 Cologne), The Blacksmith of Solingen, after 1895. Bronze-color patinated zinc cast on plinth, 47 cm (height) x 20 cm (width) x 16 cm (depth), weight 5.5 kg. Signed “Albermann.” on the plinth and identified as a cast by “AKT.[TIEN] GES.[ELLSCHAFT] GLADENBECK BERLIN”. Dedication on the front: “Mr. Ing. F. Kuhlmann to the wedding. Management and officials of the Hannoversche Waggonfabrik. Aircraft construction department".
- The zinc showing through in spots, the patina somewhat stained, the right upper arm under the sleeve retouched in black.
- The Double-edged Sword -
The figure is a reduction of Wilhelm Albermann's 1895 fountain figure of the armourer of Solingen, who has always been identified with the historical blacksmith Peter Hahn. In 1839, Karl Simrock wrote the poem “The Blacksmith of Solingen" and thus coined the legendary figure. The first and penultimate verses read:
A blacksmith spoke to Solingen
With every bayonet,
That came to his diligence:
"Oh, that Fritz had it!"
The war took its course,
Many battles were fought,
Which often made him fearful and anxious
In his soul.
The blacksmith had given up his trade to fight for Frederick the Great. Not least because of his strength and will to fight, the battles were won. With his fountain sculpture, Albermann has given the legendary blacksmith a figurative form and at the same time created a landmark for the city of Solingen, which was once famous for the art of sword forging and today still stands for the production of high-quality knives. During the bombing raid in November 1944, the fountain was destroyed along with the entire old town of Solingen. Only the head remained.
The broad-shouldered blacksmith stands securely behind his anvil, his leather apron tied around him, and has just finished a sword blade with his own "weapon" - the blacksmith's hammer. His entire body shows the strength with which he wields the hammer, but also the strain of this activity, as evidenced by the wide open shirt, the somewhat 'untidy' apron, and especially the furrowed face.
However, the blacksmith does not look at the finished work, but resolutely and at the same time thoughtfully into the distance, in line with the quoted verse from Simrock's poem that the battles "often made him fearful and anxious in his soul". There is certainly something melancholy in his gaze, fed by the knowledge of the necessity of forging swords and taking up arms and their deadly use - experiences Albermann had to make during his own war missions. The flowing full beard gives his gaze into the distance an almost prophetic character.
In keeping with the craft of the perfectly formed art of blacksmithing, the detailed casting reproduces the respective materials depicted in perfect form: the leather apron convincingly conveys the impression of leather and lies - also in the back view - like a second formed layer over the body, while the shirt and trousers illustrate their own textile qualities.
Due to its masterful execution and profound content, the “Blacksmith of Solingen”, which has survived in its cast reproductions, remains Albermann's most famous work to this day.
About the artist
The son of a carpenter, Wilhelm Albermann began an apprenticeship as a joiner, but then followed his artistic calling and trained as a sculptor in Elberfeld. In 1855, at the age of twenty, he was drafted into the army in Berlin, where he served until 1857. Albermann attended the Berlin Art Academy on the side and began regular studies after his service. While still a student, he completed commissioned works for his teachers August Fischer and Hugo Hagen. His first independent commissions followed, enabling him to establish a flourishing sculpture studio in Cologne in 1865. His artistic activities were repeatedly interrupted by military service, and he took part in the German-Danish War in 1864, the war against Austria in 1866, and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71. After his last war service, Albermann, already a respected artist, founded a commercial drawing school at the request of the city government, where he taught the modeling class and served as director until 1896. In 1890 he also worked for the "Society for the Promotion of Sculpture in the Rhineland and Westphalia".
Albermann was one of the most prolific sculptors in Cologne in the second half of the 19th century. He created numerous monuments, fountains, tomb sculptures, architectural ornaments, and domestic statues. At its peak, his workshop employed up to thirty sculptors and stonemasons at a time.
GERMAN VERSION
Wilhelm Albermann (1835 Werden an der Ruhr - 1913 Köln), Der Schmied von Solingen, nach 1895. Bronzefarben patinierter Zinkguss auf gegossener Plinthe, 47 cm (Höhe) x 20 cm (Breite) x 16 cm (Tiefe), Gewicht 5,5 kg. Auf der Plinthe mit „Albermann.“ signiert und als Guss der „AKT.[TIEN] GES.[ELLSCHAFT] GLADENBECK BERLIN“ ausgewiesen. Schauseitige Widmung: „Herrn Ing. F. Kuhlmann zur Vermählung. Direktion und Beamte der Hannoverschen Waggonfabrik. Abt. Flugzeugbau“.
- Punktuelles Durchscheinen des Zinks, Patina etwas fleckig, der rechte Oberarm unter dem Ärmel schwarz retuschiert.
- Die Zweischneidigkeit des Schwertes -
Die Figur ist eine Reduktion von Wilhelm Albermanns 1895 geschaffener Brunnenfigur des Waffenschmieds von Solingen, der seit jeher mit dem historischen Schmied Peter Hahn identifiziert wurde. 1839 hatte Karl Simrock das Gedicht „Der Schmied von Solingen“ verfasst und damit die legendäre Figur geprägt. Die erste und die vorletzte Strophe lauten:
Zu Solingen sprach ein Schmied
Bei jedem Bajonette,
Das seinem Fleiß geriet:
»Ach, daß der Fritz es hätte!«
Der Krieg ging seinen Gang,
Man schlug noch viele Schlachten,
Die oft ihm angst und bang'
In seiner Seele machten.
Der Schmied hatte sein Handwerk ruhen lassen, um selbst für Friedrich den Großen zu kämpfen. Nicht zuletzt durch seine Kraft und seinen Kampfeswillen verliefen die Schlachten siegreich. Dem legendären Schmied verlieht Albermann mit seiner Brunnenskulptur eine bildliche Gestalt und schuf damit zugleich ein Wahrzeichen der Stadt Solingen, die einst für die Kunst des Schwerterschmiedens berühmt war und bis heute für die Herstellung qualitätvoller Messer einsteht. Beim Bombenangriff im November 1944 wurde mit der gesamten Solinger Altstadt auch der Brunnen zerstört. Einzig der Kopf blieb erhalten.
Mit sicherem Stand und umgebundener Lederschürze steht der breitschultrige Schmied hinter seinem Amboss und hat gerade mit seiner eigenen ‚Waffe‘ – dem Schmiedehammer – eine Schwertklinge fertiggestellt. Seinem gesamten Körper ist die Kraft abzulesen, mit der er den Hammer führt, aber auch die Anstrengung dieser Tätigkeit, wovon das weit geöffnete Hemd, die etwas ‚unordentlich‘ arrangierte Schürze und vor allem das zerfurchte Gesicht zeugen.
Der Schmied schaut aber nicht auf das vollendete Werk, sondern entschlossen und zugleich sinnierend in die Ferne, entsprechend der zitierten Zeile von Simrocks Gedicht, dass die Schlachten „oft ihm angst und bang‘ in seiner Seele machten“. Der Blick hat durchaus etwas Melancholisches, dass sich aus dem Wissen um die Notwendigkeit, Schwerter zu schmieden und zu den Waffen zu greifen und deren tödlichem Einsatz speist – Erfahrungen, die Albermann bei seinen eigenen Kriegseinsätze machen musste. Der wallende Vollbart verleiht dem in die Ferne schauenden Blick einen beinahe prophetischen Charakter.
Dem Handwerk der formvollendenden Schmiedekunst entsprechend, gibt der detaillierte Guss die jeweils dargestellten Materialien in vollendeter Ausformung wieder: Die Lederschürze vermittelt überzeugend den Eindruck des Leders und liegt – auch in der Rückenansicht – wie eine zweite ausgeformte Schicht über dem Körper, während das Hemd und die Hose...
Category
1890s Realist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$1,327 Sale Price
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Flight in Attitude, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Flight in Attitude, Atelier" by Richard MacDonald captures a dancer mid-ascent, suspended in a moment of pure elevation and grace. The figure’s outstretched limbs and lifted gaze ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Diana the Huntress, 1890 Classical Bronze Sculpture of Nude Woman
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frederick William MacMonnies (American, 1863-1937)
Diana, 1890
Bronze with green verdigris patina
Signed and dated
Copyright 1894 with Jaboeuf & Rouard, Paris foundry mark
31 x 21 x 17 inches
A sculptor of classical figures, American-born Frederick MacMonnies...
Category
1890s Metal 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 Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Balloon Dog ( After ) - Blue
By After Jeff Koons
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
A one time exclusive re-edition of 500 pcs from the highly popular 999 pcs edition of the famous "Balloon Dog".
Cold cast resin, comes with its original box and certificate of authe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large Arms Raised Standing Figure II by Pierre Yermia - Contemporary sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Large Arms Raised Standing Figure II is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 186 × 30 × 32 cm (73.2 × 11.8 × 12.6 in).
The sculpture is sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Circlet Miniature
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This bronze miniature sculpture has a unique patina that fades from a golden bronze to a vibrant metallic green. The Artist's Proof in a planned edition of 40, it is signed "Robert H...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
''Night Owl" Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of an Owl, Barn Owl
Located in Utrecht, NL
British sculptor Anthony Theakston (1965), who draws his inspiration from the shape and movement of birds, simplifies the birds and omits more and more details until only the essence...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Reaching (bronze hand)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Reaching, ca. 1980. Cast bronze. Signed in lower region on wrist.
A rare example from the artist's later period influenced by figurative abstraction with expressionist tendencies.
James Edward Lewis (August 4, 1923 – August 9, 1997) was an African-American artist, art collector, professor, and curator in the city of Baltimore. He is best known for his role as the leading force for the creation of the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, an institution of the HBCU Morgan State University. His work as the chairman of the Morgan Art Department from 1950 to 1986 allowed for the museum to amass a large collection of more than 3,000 works, predominantly of African and African diasporan art.[1] In addition, he is also well known for his role as an interdisciplinary artist, primarily focused on sculpture, though also having notable examples of lithography and illustration. His artistic style throughout the years has developed from an earlier focus on African-American history and historical figures, for which he is most notable as an artist, to a more contemporary style of African-inspired abstract expressionism.
Early and personal life
James E. Lewis was born in rural Phenix, Virginia on August 4, 1923 to James T. Lewis and Pearline (Pearlean) Harvey.[5] Lewis' parents were both sharecroppers. Shortly after his birth, his father moved to Baltimore for increased job opportunity; James E. was subsequently raised by his mother until the family was reunited in 1925. They lived for a short time with distant relatives until moving to a four-bedroom house on 1024 North Durham Street in East Baltimore, a predominantly African-American lower-class neighborhood close to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Lewis' primary school, PS 101, was the only public school in East Baltimore that served black children. Lewis grew up in a church-going family, his parents both active members of the Faith Baptist Church, devoting the entirety of their Sundays to church activities. His parents worked a variety of different jobs throughout his youth:[6] his father working as a stevedore for a shipping company, a mechanic, a custodian, a mailroom handler,[6] and an elevator operator.] His mother worked as both a clerk at a drugstore[7] and a laundress for a private family.[4]
Lewis' primary exposure to the arts came from Dr. Leon Winslow, a faculty member at PS 101 who Lewis saw as "providing encouragement and art materials to those who wanted and needed it." In fifth grade, Lewis transferred to PS 102. Here, he was able to receive specialized Art Education in Ms. William's class under the guidance of Winslow. He was considered a standout pupil at PS 102 as a result of his introduction to the connection between the arts and the other studies. His time spent in Ms. Pauline Wharton's class allowed for him to experiment with singing, to which he was considered a talented singer. His involvement in this class challenged his earlier belief that singing was not a masculine artistic pursuit. He was able to study both European classics and negro spirituals, which was one of his earliest introductions to arts specific to American black culture. Under Ms. Wharton's direction, he was also involved in many different musical performances,[6] including some works of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project.[8] Lewis attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, where his love of the arts was heightened through his industrial art class with Lee Davis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,000 Sale Price
40% Off
Bicycle Wheel replica from the Philadelphia Museum (Duchamp Estate authorized)
Located in New York, NY
After Marcel Duchamp
Bicycle Wheel replica from the Philadelphia Museum (estate authorized), 2002
Wheel and painted wood. In original box
11 × 6 1/2 × 3 4/5 inches
In original box pr...
Category
Early 2000s Dada Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Life Size Female Figure Sculpture – Contemporary Figurative Art by Zura
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“Female Figure” (2023) by Zura is a life-size sculpture measuring 39 × 16 × 12 inches (99.1 × 40.6 × 30.5 cm), crafted in plaster with an option for bronze casting. This unique work ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Resting Tiger
Located in Tetbury, GB
Resting Tiger is the partner work to Fred Gordon's Walking Tiger
Gordon sculpts with heated sheets of wax layered quickly by hand; producing a spontaneous,
tactile effect that lends...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 18th century Renaissance style bronze sculptures - Lions
Located in Varmo, IT
Pair of small bronze sculptures - Grotesque lions. Italy, 18th-19th century.
10 x 5 x h 17 cm.
Made entirely of patinated bronze in Renaissance style. Depicting two seated grotesqu...
Category
Late 18th Century Baroque Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Marauder BY ALISON BELL, Bronze Sculptures, Figurative Art, Premium Art
By Alison Bell
Located in Deddington, GB
Marauder- bronze sculpture on ancaster by Alison Bell.
She says “I’m drawn to the times when we lived and played in our own imagination, unobserved, scaling fortresses & standing on ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Ladies’ Table by Cécile Raynal - Smoke-fired stoneware sculptures, bronze
Located in Paris, FR
The Ladies’ Table is an installation by the contemporary French artist Cécile Raynal that brings together portraits of women from the artist’s entourage, friends or people she has in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Limited Edition Bronze Bust Sculpture "Unicorn"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A small, limited edition bronze unicorn bust sculpture on a wooden base. Edition of 12.
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Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancer III by Yann Guillon - Male nude sculpture, figurative, bronze, athlete
By Yann Guillon
Located in Paris, FR
Dancer III is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 100 × 50 × 20 cm (39.4 × 19.7 × 7.9 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a l...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Grand Tour Sandaled Foot of an Antiquity, 19th Century Italian
Located in Beachwood, OH
Grand Tour Italian, 19th Century
Sandaled Foot of an Antiquity
Bronze
5.5 x 12 x 5 inches
Category
19th Century Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Javelin thrower / - Roman present -
By Franz Iffland
Located in Berlin, DE
Franz Iffland (1862 Tempelhof - 1935 Berlin), Javelin thrower, after 1910. Olive-black patinated bronze with cast plinth mounted on a white-veined black marble base (7 cm high). Tota...
Category
1910s Art Deco Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,371 Sale Price
20% Off
Stag V by Pierre Yermia - Contemporary animal sculpture, elegant, slender, grey
Located in Paris, FR
Stag V is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 72 × 34 × 22 cm (28.3 × 13.4 × 8.7 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Metal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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