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Period: 1920s
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
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
Veiled Dancer
Located in PARIS, FR
Veiled Dancer
by Joseph BERNARD (1866-1931)
Bronze with nuanced green patina
signed on the base "J. Bernard"
cast by "A.A. Hébrard, cire perdue" (with the foundry mark)
France
circ...
Category
French School 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 ...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
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
Apollo
Located in PARIS, FR
Apollo
by Pierre-Marie POISSON (1876-1953)
Sculpture with a dark old gold patina
signed on the base "P. Poisson"
Cast by Bisceglia (with the foundry stamp)
France
circa 1927
heig...
Category
French School 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
Terpsichore, Muse of Dance
Located in PARIS, FR
Terpsichore, Muse of Dance
by Pierre-Marie POISSON (1876-1953)
Sculpture with a dark old gold patina
signed on the base "P. Poisson"
Cast by Bisceglia (with the foundry stamp)
Fra...
Category
French School 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
Pointer / - The elegance of the hunting dog -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anton Büschelberger (1869 Eger - 1934 Dresden), Pointer, around 1930, made by the Karl Ens porcelain manufactory in Volkstedt (Thuringia), model number 2478, 6. Porcelain with underg...
Category
Realist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Figure Girl in Bornholm costume / - Only the braid -
Located in Berlin, DE
Lotte Benter, Girl in Bornholm costume, design around 1925, execution 1967, model number 1323, First choice. Porcelain with underglaze painting. 21 cm (height) x 12 cm (length) x 10 ...
Category
Realist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bing & Grondahl Figure Playing Girl / - Seriousness of the game -
Located in Berlin, DE
Adda Bonfils (1883-1914), Playing Girl, designed c. 1920, made between 1966 and 1969, model number 1995, first choice. Porcelain with underglaze painting. 13.5 cm (height) x 9 cm (le...
Category
Realist 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
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
Group of bears on a tree / - The nature of the bears -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anton Büschelberger (1869 Eger - 1934 Dresden), Group of bears on a tree, c. 1925. Black-green patinated bronze with terrain plinth mounted on a green marble base (4 cm high). 46 cm ...
Category
Art Nouveau 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
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
Nubian Water Boy
Located in Greenwich, CT
This wonderful bronze speaks to an important movement in the 1920's toward expression in exotic cultures and to explore not only ethnicities but celebration of that through artistic ...
Category
Art Nouveau 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
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
Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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
Large Cast Bronze Eagle
Located in Newport Beach, 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
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
"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
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
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
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
Spanish Art Nouveau Silvered Bronze by Gustavo Obiols
Located in Dallas, TX
Gustavo Obiols Delgado (1858-1910) – Spanish sculptor
Signed in the cast ‘G. Obiols’
Spanish Dancer with Castanetas; Silvered bronze and finely carved bone
No damage or repairs.
H...
Category
Art Nouveau 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...
Category
Art Deco 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...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Miner Bookends
By Max Kalish
Located in Greenwich, CT
Max Kalish was an important and highly collected American sculptor desired for his depictions of the working man. Here we see a miner taking a break. Kalish was adept at conveying ...
Category
Academic 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maximilien Louis Fiot 'Fr 1886 - 1953' Combat Des Aigles
Located in Dallas, TX
Maximilien Louis Fiot (French, 1886 - 1953)
A very large bronze animalier sculpture of combatant eagles in flight above an outcropping or rocks. The Eagles are fighting for their li...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Charles Paillet "Medaille D'or" Bronze of Two Playful Goats
By Charles Paillet
Located in Dallas, TX
A large Charles Paillet French (1871-1937) bronze of two playful goats "Medaille D'or"
Here we have a fun and whimsical statue sculpture of two young goats playing in the grass. One...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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...
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Art Deco 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Lion Tamer, 20th century European bronze female figure, Hungarian artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Jenő Kerényi (Hungarian, 1908-1975)
The Lion Tamer, 1929
Bronze on two-tiered marble base
Signed and dated on bronze base
15.5 x 6 x 6 inches
Jenő Kerényi was a Hungarian sculptor. ...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"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...
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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
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
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
"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
African Dancer
Located in PARIS, FR
African Dancer
by Gaston Broquet (1880-1947)
Bronze with brown patina nuanced
cast by Susse
France
circa 1920
Height 15 cm
Biography
Gaston Broquet (1880-1947) is a French sculptor. He spent his childhood in Void where his parents hold a butchery. In 1901, he received the competition of the School of Decorative Arts of Paris in the modeling section. In Paris, he studied with sculptors Jean-Antoine Injalbert and Gabriel-Jules Thomas. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes français in 1912 and obtained a medal and a travel grant. He is also awarded by the Society of French Artists at the Salon of 1920 a silver medal in the section Sculpture and etching in medals and gemstones. During the First World War, he was a soldier and then stretcher on the front and wounded in 1915. In this trench experience, he will find inspiration for his war memorials that made him famous. He also collaborates with the faience house of Quimper...
Category
Other Art Style 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Art Déco Représentant Une Oie, Les Ailes Déployées
Located in ROUEN, FR
Bronze Art Déco représentant une oie, les ailes déployées. Il est à fine patine brune. Socle en marbre vert. Signé de LUC. H.31 L.21.
Category
French School 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bogota's Glory
Located in PARIS, FR
Bogota's Glory
by Henri Bouchard (1875-1960)
Sculpture in bronze with a nuanced yellow-brown patina
Signed "H. Bouchard" on the base
Cast by "Siot" (stamp)
France
circa 1927
height...
Category
Art Deco 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
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
Signed, Life-Sized, Abstract Figurative, Bronze Sculpture
By Joseph Csaky
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A chic, signed and dated, 1928, cubist style cast bronze sculpture, "L' Etudiente" by highly regarded Austria-Hungarian born artist, József Csáky (1888-1971), who was among the most ...
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1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Life-Sized, Abstract Figurative Sculpture
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Remarkable, large, hand-carved, tribal-type, teak sculpture of an abstract, female form featuring a mix of refined and rough finishes.
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pan and Maidens
By Ary Bitter
Located in London, GB
Silvered bronze with marble base
Category
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
"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
'The Kiss', Two Young Lovers Embracing, French Lost Wax Bronze Figural Group
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed 'G. Flamand' for Georges Flamand (French, 1895-1925) and created circa 1920.
Standing on a later striated, jade-green marble base. Base dimensions: 1.25 H x 4.25 D x 7.5 W Inc...
Category
Rococo 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Sculpture - Art Deco Bronze, Nude Venus doves grapes
Located in Miami, FL
This Art Deco bronze Nude Venus doves and grapes are a perfect artistic statement depicted in a wonderfully stunning deep rich green patina.
This appears to...
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Art Deco 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
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
"A Girl Climbed on a Stool Holding a Doll", 20th Century Bronze by Juan Clará
Located in Madrid, ES
JUAN CLARÁ AYATS
Spanish, 1878 - 1958
A GIRL CLIMBED ON A STOOL HOLDING A DOLL
signed "Juan Clara" (on the stool seat)
bronze figure
12-1/4 x 3-1/2 X 3-3/8 inches (31 X 9 X 8.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, France
Art Nouveau bronze sculpture depicting a young girl standing on a stool with a doll in her right hand, and a shovel on the left hand, the bucket dropped on the stool seat.
José Clará...
Category
Art Nouveau 1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
“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