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Period: 1920s
Large Blanc de Chine Figure Of Guanyin
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Large 35" tall, fine detail porcelain Dehua Blanc de Chine figure of Kwan Yin, early 20th Century. The goddess is clothed in a voluminous flowing robe which is open at the chest to r...
Category
Qing 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Patinated Stucco Italian Signed Vestal With Amphora Sculpture, 1920s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Rare Italian statue in patinated stucco from the first half of the 20th century. The work depicts a vestal with an amphora, probably Hebe, Goddess of youth and handmaiden of the deit...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Chalk
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...
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Art Deco 1920s 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...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Torso of a woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Torso of a woman
by Auguste HENG (1891-1968)
Sculpture in pink marble stone
Signed on the base " A. Heng "
Presented on an olive-wood base
France
circa 1925
height 34,5 cm
height ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Owl
Located in PARIS, FR
Edouard Marcel SANDOZ (1881-1971)
Owl
A bronze sculpture with a silvered patina
Signed on the base " Ed. M. Sandoz "
Cast by " Susse Frs Edts Paris " (with the foundry mark used for...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Austrian Art Deco Cold Painted Bronze Serving Girl Japanese Geisha 1920
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique Art Deco cold painted orientalist bronze by Richard Thuss (1881-1945), Austrian, circa 1920.
From 1918 to 1930 Thuss was the chief sculptor for the Bergmann Foundry in...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Juggler / - Artistic naturalness -
Located in Berlin, DE
Claire Jeanne Robertine Colinet (1880 Brussels - 1950 Asnières-sur-Seine), Juggler, around 1920. Brownish patinated bronze with gilded balls on a round, multi-profiled stone base (10...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Head of Man - Bronze Sculpture by Amedeo Bocchi - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Head of Man is an original artwork realized by Amedeo Bocchi in 1920 ca.
This little sculpture is made in gilded bronze.
The original wax model is published on the artist's monogra...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hoop Dancer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Demetre Haralamb Chiparus (also known as Dumitru Chiparus) (16 September 1886 in Dorohoi, Romania - 22 January 1947 in Paris, France) was a Romanian Art Deco* era sculptor who lived and worked in Paris.
He was born in Romania, the son of Haralamb and Saveta. In 1909 he went to Italy, where he attended the classes of Italian sculptor Raffaello Romanelli. In 1912 he traveled to Paris to attend the Ecole des Beaux Arts* to pursue his art at the classes of Antonin Mercie and Jean Boucher.
Demetre Chiparus died in 1947 and was buried in Bagneux cemetery, just south of Paris.
The first sculptures of Chiparus were created in the realistic style and were exhibited at the Salon of 1914. He employed the combination of bronze and ivory, called chryselephantine*, to great effect. Most of his renowned works were made between 1914 and 1933. The first series of sculptures manufactured by Chiparus were the series of the children.
The mature style of Chiparus took shape beginning in the 1920s. His sculptures are remarkable for their bright and outstanding decorative effect. Dancers of the Russian Ballet, French theatre, and early motion pictures were among his more notable subjects and were typified by a long, slender, stylized appearance. His work was influenced by an interest in Egypt, after Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb was excavated.
He worked primarily with the Edmond Etling and Cie Foundry in Paris administrated by Julien Dreyfus. Les Neveux de J. Lehmann was the second foundry which constantly worked with Chiparus and produced the sculptures of his models.
Chiparus rarely exhibited at the Salon. In 1923 he showed his Javelin Thrower, and in 1928 exhibited his Ta-Keo dancer. During the period of Nazi persecution and the World War II, the foundries discontinued production of work by Chiparus. The economic situation of that time was not favorable to the development of decorative arts and circumstances for many sculptors worsened.
Since the early 1940s almost no works of Chiparus were sold, but he continued sculpting for his own pleasure, depicting animals in the Art Deco style. At the 1942 Paris Salon, the plaster sculptures Polar Bear and American Bison were exhibited, and in 1943 he showed a marble Polar Bear and plaster Pelican.
Sculptures of Dimitri Chiparus represent the classical manifestation of Art Deco style in decorative bronze ivory sculpture. Traditionally, four factors of influence over the creative activity of the artist can be distinguished: Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, ancient Egyptian art, and French theatre. Early motion pictures were among his more notable subjects and were typified by figures with a long, slender, stylized appearance. Some of his sculptures were directly inspired by Russian dancers.
Quite often, Chiparus used the photos of Russian and French dancers, stars and models from fashion magazines of his time.
After the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922, the art of ancient Egypt...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique French Art deco Leaping Stag Bronze Statue Sculpture Bronze marble 1925
By Georges H. Laurent
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & large antique French Art Deco Bronze leaping stag sculpture/statue, by Georges H. Laurent (1880-1940), circa 1925.
Georges H. Laurent was known for his animal subjects and t...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Polar Bear
Located in PARIS, FR
Polar Bear
by François POMPON (1855-1933)
An original edition sculpture made in white enameled porcelain biscuit.
Stamped in the paste "S 1927 DN" (S for "Sèvres" – dated 1927 – DN...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"La Comete" Iconic French Art Deco Silvered Bronze 1920s Female Nude
Located in New York, NY
"La Comete" Iconic French Art Deco Silvered Bronze 1920s Female Nude
Maurice Guirard-Riviere (1881 - 1947)
La Comete
Silvered bronze
23 inches wide x 19 3/4 inches high x 5 1/2 inc...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Harriet Frishmuth Bronze Sculpture, 1925 - "Crest of the Wave"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Beautiful bronze by N.Y./Connecticut artist Harriet Frishmuth (1880-1980).
It depicts a graceful nude, Frishmuth’s best subject, and is titled “Cre...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Expressionist Wood Sculpture 1920's
Located in Berlin, DE
Expressionist completely hand carved wood sculpture ca. 1925-1927, unknown artist. Monogrammed with C Sch on the base. Expressively carved base. Small damage on the hand.
Measuremen...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Oriental Dancer
Located in Miami, FL
Oriental Dancer
Cold-painted Bronze Figure, circa 1925
on a shaped marble plinth inset with bronze medallions
15 in high, signed to base 'Chiparus'
Demetre Chiparus was a Romanian s...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman with Square Umbrella
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture in wood depicting a woman holding an umbrella. "Woman with Square Umbrella" by Post War artist Alexander Calder is signed underneath, "Calder." "Woman with a Square Umbre...
Category
Post-War 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Locomotive Engineer, Early 20th Century Bronze Laborer, Cleveland School
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945)
Locomotive Engineer, 1926
Bronze
Signed and dated on base, foundry mark: Meroni Radice Cire Perdue Paris
15.5 x 6 x 5 inches
Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894, his family settling in Ohio. A talented youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen. Kalish went to New York City following graduation, studying with Isidore Konti and Herbert Adams...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Bronze Statue - Ife, Nigeria, " Bronze Sculpture created circa 1920s
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bronze Statue - Ife, Nigeria" is a bronze sculpture created in circa 1920. This figure has short legs and a short torso, but a large head. They held out their hands with two objects...
Category
Tribal 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Man with Two Dogs, Early 20th Century Wiener Werkstätte Sculpture, Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Susi Singer-Schinnerl (Austrian-American, 1891-1965)
Man with Two Dogs, c. 1925
Ceramic
Manufactured by the Wiener Werkstätte, model number 682
Stamped on bottom
13 x 5.5 x 4 inches...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Life-size Plaster Statue of The Callipygian Venus or Aphrodite 1920'
Located in Rome, IT
Italian life-size plaster sculpture , figure of the Callipygian Venus, after the antique Roman marble statue.
Aphrodite Kallipygos, or Callipygian Venus literally means “Venus of ...
Category
Academic 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Tuscan figurative wood sculpture twentieth century male portrait
Located in Florence, IT
Cornelio Palmerini, born in the heart of Versilia, was a sculptor trained between Tuscany (Pietrasanta, Carrara and Florence) and Rome, the city where he went in 1913 to the studio o...
Category
Other Art Style 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Venus, NeoClassical Bronze Sculpture from Alva Studios
By Alva Studios
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alva Studios
Title: Venus
Year: 1928
Medium: Bronze Sculpture
Size: 17 in. x 7 in. x 5 in. (43.18 cm x 17.78 cm x 12.7 cm)
Category
Romantic 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Alhambra Facade Model Plaque", Early 20th Century Polychromed Stucco Plaque
Located in Madrid, ES
UNKNOWN ARTIST
Spanish, Early 20th Century
ALHAMBRA FACADE MODEL PLAQUE
polychromed stucco plaque
11 x 7 inches (28 x 17.8 cm.)
framed: 17-1/2 X 13-1/2...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Gesso
“Adam and Eve”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very rare Art Deco three dimensional terracotta sculpture of Adam and Eve by the Austrian artist, Virgil Rainer. Hand painted by the artist. Signed bott...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Plaster
Lapin bijou sonnette, Sandoz, Ring, Rabbit, Bronze, animal, sculpture, 1920's
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin bijou, sonnette, circa 1920-1930
Fondry Susse, Ed. 1748 pcs
Bronze with a brown patina
H. 6.5 cm
Signed on the side of the base : Ed.m.Sandoz
Sandoz : Sculpteur Figuriste et An...
Category
Modern 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Torso of a Woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Torso of a Woman
by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
A very nuanced brown chamotte sandstone sculpture
raised on a green marble base
signed on the arm with the monogram " MG "
executed at ...
Category
French School 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone
Breton Wrestlers Plaster Figurative Modern Male Sculpture Female Artist LGBT WPA
Located in New York, NY
Breton Wrestlers Plaster Figurative Modern Male Sculpture Female Artist LGBT WPA
Malvina Hoffman (American, 1885 - 1966)
"Breton Wrestlers"
20 inches high
Plaster
Signed and titled BRETON WRESTLERS, PARIS, 1929
Stamped "MPI on the back of the base, likely a museum reproduction of the bronze.
The Sculpture is recorded in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database under the Control Number: IAS 9E260042.
Artist's quote about the subject:
"The wrestlers were done from actual Breton athletes, at St. Guenole – the tip end of Finistere in Brittany, France. After I saw them on the beach there I persuaded them to come to Paris where I could finish the details of the three positions and have them authenticated. This form of wrestling, I am told, is no longer permitted, as there were too many serious accidents, and sometimes broken necks."
-M. Hoffman
April 27, 1962
Born in New York City, Malvina Hoffman was a portrait sculptor of pieces that expressed the fluid movement of dancers and lofty human values. She became especially noted for her hall-of-fame portraits including Paderewski, Pavlova, Wendell Wilkie and Katharine Cornell.
Many of her pieces she carved in stone, and some of them were enormous in scale including war monuments. Her masterpiece is considered to be The Races of Man, done in 1933, commissioned by the Marshall Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. It had one-hundred five separate pieces, cast in bronze, depicting people from diverse cultures.
She grew up in an art-oriented environment in Manhattan where her father was a pianist and music filled the house. She attended the Brearley School and took private art classes, first studying painting with John White Alexander.
Changing to sculpture, she did her first work in 1909, a portrait bust of her father who died that year leaving the family in financial straits. However, his portrait was accepted for the National Academy of Design's annual exhibition and launched her career.
She studied with Herbert Adams...
Category
American Realist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
The Rape of Sabine Iconic Bronze Sculpture 1930
Located in Rome, IT
Fine Group of Sculptures in Bronze after Jean de Boulogne (Giambologna)
The torturously twisting Rape of the Sabine Women is one of the finest and most technically difficult sculpt...
Category
Mannerist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Art Deco Bronze Sculpture Statue Female Nude Dancer Josef Lorenzl 1925
Located in Portland, OR
A very elegant antique Art Deco bronze sculpture, statue by Josef Lorenzl, Austria, 1925.
This beautiful bronze sculpture portrays a beautiful young woman, she is modeled as a nude t...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Rape of Sabine Iconic Bronze Sculpture 1930
Located in Rome, IT
Fine Group of Sculptures in Bronze after Jean de Boulogne (Giambologna)
The torturously twisting Rape of the Sabine Women is one of the finest and most technically difficult sculpt...
Category
Mannerist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Blanc de Chine Figure Of Guanyin
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Large 35" tall, fine detail porcelain Dehua Blanc de Chine figure of Kwan Yin, early 20th Century. The goddess is clothed in a voluminous flowing robe which is open at the chest to r...
Category
Qing 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Young girl sitting at her toilet
Located in PARIS, FR
"Young girl sitting at her toilet"
also known as "Young girl with braids"
by Joseph BERNARD (1866-1931)
Sculpture in bronze with a nuanced brownish dark green patina
Signed on the ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Sudbourne Premier: Suffolk Punch Stallion" Herbert Haseltine, 1927 Bronze
Located in New York, NY
Herbert Haseltine
Sudbourne Premier: Suffolk Punch Stallion, 1927
Signed left side: © HASELTINE / MCMXXVII
Bronze, dark brown patina, parcel gilding
...
Category
Realist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Cast Bronze Eagle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large, lost wax cast of an eagle by important Italian artist, Sirio Tofanari (1886-1969). Executed by the Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli in Florence. Mounted on a marble ...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Europa & Zeus
By Bruno Zach
Located in Wien, Wien
Europe & Zeus (divine love)
Europa the daughter of the Phoenician king of Tyre, Agenor and Zeus in love in the shape of the bull.
Bronze, on onyx pedestal
Signed: Bruno Zach
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Les Amie
By Pierre Lardin
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original inlaid marquetry wood tray/sculpture by French artist Pierre Lardin.
Pierre Lardin executed his work in wood, creating ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Pioneer Family" WPA American Modernism Plaster Maquette Realism 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Pioneer Family," 23 1/2 x 16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inPlaster. c. 1927. Unsigned. Realism
The Smithsonian has a cast of this sculpture in its collection. Pictured on the cover of “The Sculpt...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Bedouin Mother with Child
By Céline Lepage
Located in PARIS, FR
Bedouin Mother with Child
by Céline LEPAGE (1882-1928)
Bronze with a dark greenish brown patina
signed on the base "Lepage"
cast by "Alexis Rudier, fondeur, Paris" (with the foundry...
Category
French School 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Kiss
Located in PARIS, FR
The Kiss
by Alfred PINA (1887-1966)
Bronze group with a brownish dark green patina
signed on the base "A. Pina"
cast by "A. Valsuani" (foundry stamp)
France
circa 1927
height 51,5...
Category
French School 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Pair of Russian Wolf Hound/Borzoi Dog Portrait Sculptures circa 1930's
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Pair of Russian Wolfhounds/Borzois Dog Portrait Sculptures
by Scalini (aka Scali; Italian, 20th century)
circa 1930's
Patinated spelter
9 x 14 inches (on bases)
Though rath...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Bronze
Expressionist Wood Sculpture 1920's
Located in Berlin, DE
Expressionist completely hand carved wood sculpture ca. 1925-1927, unknown artist. Monogrammed with C Sch on the base. Expressively carved base. Small damage on the hand.
Measuremen...
Category
Expressionist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Oriental Dancer
Located in Miami, FL
Oriental Dancer
Cold-painted Bronze Figure, circa 1925
on a shaped marble plinth inset with bronze medallions
15 in high, signed to base 'Chiparus'
Demetre Chiparus was a Romanian s...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Torso of a Woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Torso of a Woman
by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
Avery fine nuanced brown chamotte sandstone sculpture
raised on a dark grey marble base
signed on the arm with the monogram "MG" for Marcel Gimond
inscribed with the monogram "GS" for Georges Serré
stamped by the galerie Rouard
France
1927
total height 50 cm
width 20,5 cm
depth 20 cm
After a model by Marcel Gimond, this bust was made in 1927 by Georges Serré at the Manufacture de Sèvres, sold exclusively by the Rouard Gallery, and exhibited the same year at the Paris Fall Fair (Salon d'Automne).
Reproduced in "Sculpteurs nouveaux, Marcel Gimond", Paul Fierens, Nrf, 1930, cover.
Biographies :
Marcel Gimond (1894-1961) was a French sculptor. He studied in Lyon, then at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon where he graduated in 1917. Finally he arrived in Paris the same year and settled in Marly-Le-Roi. Student of Aristide Maillol, he also met Raoul Dufy and Auguste Renoir. Gimond worked with Maillol until 1920, and left him to settle in Paris and regain his independence. He then moved into Renoir's former studio, made available by Jean Renoir. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne in 1922. In 1940, Gimond left Paris to settle in the South zone, in Lyon, then in Aix en Provence; He spent his summers at Saint-Félicien, at the house of poet Charles Forot.
At the Liberation, in 1944, he returned to Paris and his workshop rue Ordener, he left only a few months before his death. From 1946 to 1960, he directed a workshop at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Marcel Gimond was known for his busts of political and artistic personalities. He also owed two bas-reliefs located in the lobby of the newspaper "L'Humanité", in tribute to Marcel Cachin and Gabriel Péri.
Georges Serré (1889-1956) was a French ceramist. He worked at the Sèvres factory until 1914, when he was mobilized to go to war. He then went to Indochina where he taught ceramics at the art school of Bien-hoa for five years. On his return to France, he moved to Sèvres, rue Brongniart, but encountered difficulties in producing his works, until the intervention of the ceramist Emile Decoeur who obtained him help to build an oven for firing his ceramics. It was Georges Rouard and his gallery located on avenue de l'Opéra in Paris, who had noticed him at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts of 1925, which presented him during his "exhibitions of contemporary French artisans".
Georges Serré's taste for these sandstones came to him, among other things, from Khmer sculptures...
Category
French School 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Le Dresseur De Lion
By Max Le Verrier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare Art Deco patinated metal sculpture modelled as an athletic male walking alongside a stylized lion utlizing cubist elements.
The work is set on a black polished stone base whic...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
"Pioneer Family" WPA American Modernism Plaster Maquette Realism 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Pioneer Family," 23 1/2 x 16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inPlaster. c. 1927. Unsigned. Realism
The Smithsonian has a cast of this sculpture in its collection. Pictured on the cover of “The Sculpt...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"La Comete" Iconic French Art Deco Silvered Bronze 1920s Female Nude
Located in New York, NY
"La Comete" Iconic French Art Deco Silvered Bronze 1920s Female Nude
Maurice Guirard-Riviere (1881 - 1947)
La Comete
Silvered bronze
23 inches wide x 19 3/4 inches high x 5 1/2 inc...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Austrian Art Deco Cold Painted Bronze Serving Girl Japanese Geisha 1920
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique Art Deco cold painted orientalist bronze by Richard Thuss (1881-1945), Austrian, circa 1920.
From 1918 to 1930 Thuss was the chief sculptor for the Bergmann Foundry in...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Rape of Sabine Iconic Bronze Sculpture 1930
Located in Rome, IT
Fine Group of Sculptures in Bronze after Jean de Boulogne (Giambologna)
The torturously twisting Rape of the Sabine Women is one of the finest and most technically difficult sculpt...
Category
Mannerist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Road Builder" 20th Century Modern WPA Labor Bronze WPA Depression-Era Sculpture
By Max Kalish
Located in New York, NY
Max Kalish
The Road Builder
inscribed M. KALISH 23, with Meroni-Radice foundry mark, on top of base bronze with dark brown patina, on an ebonized rectangular plinth
Height: 13 1/8 in. not including base
Provenance: Spanierman Gallery, New York
BIO
Max Kalish (1891 – 1945)
Born in Poland March 1, 1891, figurative sculptor Max Kalish came to the United States in 1894, his family settling in Ohio. A talented youth, Kalish enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a fifteen-year-old, receiving a first-place award for modeling the figure during studies with Herman Matzen. Kalish went to New York City following graduation, studying with Isidore Konti and Herbert Adams...
Category
American Realist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Pair of Ibo (Igbo) Ancestral Figures, " two Wooden Statues from Nigeria
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A pair of African carved wood and cloth ancestral figures from Nigeria. Meant to be sold as a pair, these ancestral figures are meant to convey the achievements of those they represe...
Category
Tribal 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Horticulture, Garden Prize relief wall hanging
Located in Greenwich, CT
A unique wall piece that is a great gift for any avid gardener or lover of horticulture. Sit Hamo Thornycroft would become one of the youngest members of the Royal Academy, achieve the Medal of Honour at the Paris Exhibition in 1900, and be knighted in 1917. Working in a transitional style between that of the neo-classicists of his parent’s generation and the Modernist style of the 20th century, Thornycroft carved out a niche as a figurative sculptor and noted modeler of public monuments in and around London.
Toogoods and Sons, Ltd, established in the early nineteenth century, had, by the turn of the century, grown to become the largest seed company...
Category
Realist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman Seated A Bronze Sculpture of a Woman by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
The bronze sculpture of a woman by Charles Rumsey is undated, but was created at a point in his career where he began to transition from realism to more modern, looser depictions of ...
Category
American Modern 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Patinated Stucco Italian Signed Vestal With Amphora Sculpture, 1920s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Rare Italian statue in patinated stucco from the first half of the 20th century. The work depicts a vestal with an amphora, probably Hebe, Goddess of youth and handmaiden of the deit...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Chalk
The Boxer "Hartkopp", 1927
Located in Berlin, DE
Sculpture conceived in 1926 by Renée Sintenis ( 1888-1965 ). Bronze with brown patina. On hind foot monogramed: Renée Sintenis
Dimensions; Height: 3.54 in ( 9 cm ), Width: 5.31 in ( ...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Rape of Sabine Iconic Bronze Sculpture 1930
Located in Rome, IT
Fine Group of Sculptures in Bronze after Jean de Boulogne (Giambologna)
The torturously twisting Rape of the Sabine Women is one of the finest and most technically difficult sculpt...
Category
Mannerist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Victor Heinrich Seifert Bronze "Die Trinkende", 1922
Located in Berlin, DE
Woman nude sculpture, 1922 by Victor Heinrich Seifert ( 1870-1953 ), Vienna. Bronze on marble base.
Signed on the base: Victor H. Seifert. Height: 27.56 in ( 70 cm ), Width: 8.07 in...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Harriet Frishmuth 1923 Bronze Of The Vine
Located in Dallas, TX
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880-1980)
The Vine, 1921
Bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 11.5 inches (29.2 cm) high on a 3/4 inches (1.9 cm) high marble base
Inscrib...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Terracotta French Sculpture Centrepiece Signed Flamand, 1920s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
French centerpiece from the first half of the 20th century. Finely chiseled terracotta object with masks (faces with different expressions, see photo) and figures of lateral cherubs ...
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1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"Alhambra Facade Model", Early 20th Century Polychromed Stucco Plaque by R. Rus
Located in Madrid, ES
RAFAEL RUS ACOSTA
Spanish, Early 20th Century
ALHAMBRA FACADE MODEL PLAQUE
signed "Rafael Rus Acosta" (lower left), and inscribed "Granada" (lower righ...
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1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Gesso
Breton Wrestlers Plaster Figurative Modern Male Sculpture Female Artist LGBT WPA
Located in New York, NY
Breton Wrestlers Plaster Figurative Modern Male Sculpture Female Artist LGBT WPA
Malvina Hoffman (American, 1885 - 1966)
"Breton Wrestlers"
20 inches high
Plaster
Signed and titled BRETON WRESTLERS, PARIS, 1929
Stamped "MPI on the back of the base, likely a museum reproduction of the bronze.
The Sculpture is recorded in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database under the Control Number: IAS 9E260042.
Artist's quote about the subject:
"The wrestlers were done from actual Breton athletes, at St. Guenole – the tip end of Finistere in Brittany, France. After I saw them on the beach there I persuaded them to come to Paris where I could finish the details of the three positions and have them authenticated. This form of wrestling, I am told, is no longer permitted, as there were too many serious accidents, and sometimes broken necks."
-M. Hoffman
April 27, 1962
Born in New York City, Malvina Hoffman was a portrait sculptor of pieces that expressed the fluid movement of dancers and lofty human values. She became especially noted for her hall-of-fame portraits including Paderewski, Pavlova, Wendell Wilkie and Katharine Cornell.
Many of her pieces she carved in stone, and some of them were enormous in scale including war monuments. Her masterpiece is considered to be The Races of Man, done in 1933, commissioned by the Marshall Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. It had one-hundred five separate pieces, cast in bronze, depicting people from diverse cultures.
She grew up in an art-oriented environment in Manhattan where her father was a pianist and music filled the house. She attended the Brearley School and took private art classes, first studying painting with John White Alexander.
Changing to sculpture, she did her first work in 1909, a portrait bust of her father who died that year leaving the family in financial straits. However, his portrait was accepted for the National Academy of Design's annual exhibition and launched her career.
She studied with Herbert Adams...
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American Realist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Renée Sintenis Bronze Sculpture Young Elephant, 1926
Located in Berlin, DE
Sculpture conceived in 1926 by Renée Sintenis ( 1888-1965 ). Bronze with brown patina. On hind foot monogramed: RS
Dimensions; Height: 3.54 in ( 9 cm )...
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1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Renée Sintenis Bronze Sculpture Young Elephant, 1926
Located in Berlin, DE
Sculpture conceived in 1926 by Renée Sintenis ( 1888-1965 ). Bronze with brown patina. On hind foot monogramed: RS
Dimensions; Height: 3.54 in ( 9 cm )...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Claude-Levy Cast Iron Sculpture of Flora, Dated 1925
Located in New York, NY
Claude-Lévy, 1895 – 1942
Alice Nikitina in the role of Flora, from the Dukelsky/Braque production of the ballet Zephyr & Flore at the Ballets Russes, 1925
Cast Stone
Signed and dated: Claude-Levy 1925 on rear face of self-base.
The present sculpture is as rare as it is delightful. Mademoiselle Claude-Levy, as the
catalogues of the period list her, was one of the truly original talents of the Art Deco period. Painter, architect, decorator, and sculptor, she was a friend of the Parisian, Modernist sculptors, Chana Orloff, Henri Laurens and the Martel brothers, to whom her work was often compared. The ingenuity of her models brought her great critical acclaim, but she seems to have stopped producing in the early 1930s. Her output, although fine, is rare. Claude-Levy’s gentle Cubism might be better described as Purism in sculpture. It is characterized by simplified surfaces, rounded (as opposed to angular) forms, and smooth, lustrous surfaces. The Purist movement included the painters Léger, Ozenfant and Le Corbusier in its ranks.
Claude-Lévy, along with other artists of the avant- garde living in the Gallic capital (Czaky, Zadkine, Archipenko, Lipchitz, Lambert Rucki Miklos, Nadelman, Vörös, Orloff) helped to develop a collective twentieth century figurative sculptural idiom that exploited the daring and rich possibilities of geometric abstraction.
The present work is Claude-Lévy’s Commedia dell’Arte figures inspired by the Stravinsky/Picasso Ballet...
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1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Julia
Located in Milford, NH
A fine relief cast and mounted bronze portrait profile of a woman titled “Julia” by American artist George H. Borst (1889-1969). Borst was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became known for his presidential portrait reliefs, including Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge...
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1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Rape of Sabine Iconic Bronze Sculpture 1930
Located in Rome, IT
Fine Group of Sculptures in Bronze after Jean de Boulogne (Giambologna)
The torturously twisting Rape of the Sabine Women is one of the finest and most technically difficult sculptures in the world. Three intertwined bodies, two men and a woman, spiral upwards as the woman tries to escape the clutches of the younger man standing over the older one. It is an absolute masterpiece by the Flemish sculptor Giambologna.
After the original in Florence’s Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria...
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Mannerist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Thoroughbred, Art Deco Bronze Sculpture by Loet Vanderveen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Loet Vanderveen, Dutch (1921 - 2015) - Thoroughbred, Medium: Bronze sculpture, signature and numbering inscribed on bottom, Edition: 235/500, Size: 4.75 x 8 x 4 in. (12.07 x 20.3...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nude Girl Venus doves grapes Art Deco Vénus Bronze colombes aux raisins
By Auguste Gilbert Privat
Located in Miami, FL
The present work personifies high-end Art Deco. It has a wonderful deep, rich green patina and commands the eye in any room. It looks better in person and is quite heavy.
signed an...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Magpie
By Jan and Joel Martel
Located in PARIS, FR
Magpie
by Jan and Joël MARTEL (1896-1966)
A rare and genuine bronze sculpture with a dual patina, dark brown and gilded
Signed to the front of the base " J. Martel "
Cast by " Susse...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
" centurion " Dadaist sculpture .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 )
" Centurion " .
" Unic work dadaist "
circa 1928 .
certifié par Madame Annie Guédras en décembre 2004 .
Category
Dada 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Pan and Maidens
By Ary Bitter
Located in London, GB
Silvered bronze with marble base
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
