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Period: 1940s
The Three Skunks of WWII, Carved Wooden Figures of Hitler, Mussolini & Tojo
Located in Beachwood, OH
Three Skunks of WWII
c. 1940s
Carved and painted wood
Unsigned
8 x 10 in. h. each
These skunks are depicted as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo.
Condition: There ...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
"In Freiheit (In Freedom)", White Porcelain Horses
Located in Detroit, MI
This gorgeous porcelain sculpture from Hutschenreuther porcelain is of two galloping horses, sculpted in exquisite detail and signed by the sculptor, Max Hermann Fritz...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Horse
Located in Greenwich, CT
Figure of a horse , French 1940's , on a marble base
appears unsigned
finely carved, beautiful rendering, nice patina
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,380
"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
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Ceramic Sculpture of a Seated Female, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Walter Sinz (American, 1881-1966)
Seated Female, c. 1940
Ceramic
6 x 3.5 x 3.5 inches
Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 13, 1881. Sinz’s fathe...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pablo Picasso, Service Poisson (Ramié, 26), Original Ceramic, signed, 1947
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso
Service Poisson (Ramié, 26), 1947
White earthenware ceramic plate, with coloured
9 2/5 in diameter 24 cm diameter
Edition of 300
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Deer battle
By Thomas Francois-Cartier
Located in Riga, LV
Deer battle
France, bronze, marble, h 29.5 x 66.5 x 18 cm
base size 64x20 cm
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$3,126 Sale Price
20% Off
Rosenthal Porcelain Ballerina Sybille Spalinger Figurine Model 1772
Located in Firenze, IT
Ballet Dancer. Rosenthal Selb Porcelain Manufactory. Model 1772
Porcelain figurine representing the ballet dancer Sybille Spalinger, made by the Rosenthal Art Department (Kunstabtei...
Category
Art Nouveau 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$666 Sale Price
25% Off
Lapin, by Sandoz, Animal, sculpture, rabbit, bronze, 1940's, brown patina
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin, modèle 6, circa 1944-1949
Edition Leblanc-Barbedienne
Bronze with a brown patina
7.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
Sandoz : Sculpteur Figuriste et Animalier 1881-1971, Catalogue Raisonné de l...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Colombe sur lit de paille, Ceramic Plate by Pablo Picasso 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973)
Title: Colombe sur lit de paille, (Dove on a Straw Bed) [Ramie 79 variant]
Year: 1949
Medium: White earthenware clay, white enamel brushe...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pablo Picasso, Visage Brun-Bleu (Ramie 2), White Earthenware Clay Plate 1947
Located in Long Island City, NY
Created in 1947, this early Picasso ceramic is the second that artist ever produced. It is in wonderful condition and presented in a fine black wood fra...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glaze
"Poodles: Nora and Sheila" Herbert Haseltine, Bronze Dogs Animals Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Herbert Haseltine
Poodles: Nora and Sheila, 1944, cast 1945
Signed and dated on base
Bronze with green patina
11 inches high x 17 inches wide x 6 inc...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of Suzanne Vérité
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of Suzanne Vérité
by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
Bronze sculpture with a nuanced green patina
signed on the neck "M. Gimond"
cast by "Bisceglia, cire perdue" (with the foundr...
Category
French School 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 3. A sweeping blue back and a orange belly make up the...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Glaze
Pou Pou
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful cement sculpture cast of the artist’s Persian cat Pou Pou by American artist Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1970). Harriet was born in Philadelphia, PA, and, as a teenager , she studied sculpture in Paris classes (with critiques by Auguste Rodin) and later enrolled at the Academie Colarossi there. On her return to the United States she studied with Gutzon Borglum at the Art Students League, served an apprenticeship with Karl Bitter...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
20th Century Plaster French Art Deco Style Sailor Sculpture, 1940s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
French sculpture from the mid-20th century. Plaster work depicting a Sailor in Art Deco style, copy of the famous Meurice ceramic, Ideal Man scanning the...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Chalk
Homage to Bela Bartok, Composer
Located in New York, NY
Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer and pianist, is considered to be one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Conceived in 1947 while Wein was in Rome after having been a...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
2 Sculptures: "The Power" & "The Glory" WPA Depression WWII era mid 20th century
Located in New York, NY
2 Sculptures: "The Power" & "The Glory" WPA Depression WWII era mid 20th century by Agnes Yarnall circa 1940s.
Sculptor, painter, poet and artistic historian, Agnes Yarnall has, since the age of six been breathing life into her art.
Renowned as a sculptor, whose commissioned portrayals of contemporary celebrities are prized. She has sculpted Judith Anderson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Large Art Nouveau Terracotta Bust Sculpture Goldscheider 19th
Located in Gavere, BE
Terracotta bust of a young girl, the color mimicking the shadow of bronze sculptures,
a feature that established the fame of the Friederich Goldscheider ceramic manufactory in Vienna...
Category
Art Nouveau 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Terracotta
"Dan Mask Ivory Coast, " Wood, Hair, & Mud created in African in c. 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dan Mask Ivory Coast" is a mask sculpted out of wood with hair and mud. Slit eyes and an opened mouth with a heart shaped face.
6" x 9" x 2"
Da...
Category
Tribal 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Symbole
Located in PARIS, FR
Horse "Symbole"
by René PARIS (1881-1970)
Animal sculpture in bronze with a nuanced light brown patina
signed on the base "René Paris"
and dated "1942"
Cast by "A. Valsuani" (with f...
Category
French School 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$10,657
"Bambara Queen, Rep. Mali, " Wood created in Africa in c. 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bambara Queen, Rep. Mali" is a carved wood sculpture with abstracted human and animal figures.
20" x 6" x 3"
The Bambara are a Mande ethnic group native to West Africa, primarily ...
Category
Tribal 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Quatre Poissons Polychromes (Four Polychrome Fishes)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Picasso Quatre Poissons Polychromes (Four Polychrome Fishes), 1947 is a wondrous mixture of color and charm. In the center of the dish are three fish, e...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Glaze
Taureau gravé, Pablo Picasso, 1940's, plate, Sculpture, Design, Bull
Located in Geneva, CH
Taureau gravé, Pablo Picasso, 1940's, plate, Sculpture, Design, Bull
Taureau gravé
Ed. 84/200 pcs
1947
White earthenware clay, engobe decoration, engrav...
Category
Post-War 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
20th Century Wood Oriental Sculpture, 1940
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Oriental sculpture from the mid-20th century. Finely carved and crafted exotic wooden object depicting a warrior on horseback and a character (behind him), of good quality. Sculpture...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Motherhood
Located in PARIS, FR
Motherhood
by Baltasar LOBO (1910-1993)
A bronze group with a nuanced greenish dark brown patina
Signed " Lobo "
Cast by " Susse Fondeur Paris " (with the foundry mark)
Artist's cas...
Category
French School 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Abstract Figure with Face" Louise Nevelson, American Female, Anthropomorphic
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson
Abstract Figure with Face, circa 1945
Incised "LN" on the reverse
Tattistone
6 inches high x 14 inches wide x 5 1/4 inches deep
Provenance
The artist
The artist's ni...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Coty Award
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Created C. 1943, award presented in 1965 to Gertrude Seperack for her design work in the fashion induustry.
The bronze portion measures 14 x 8.5 inches.
The Coty American Fashion Cri...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mother and Child, Mid-20th Century sculpture, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Walter Sinz (American, 1881-1966)
Mother and Child, 1949
Plaster
Signed and dated on base
23.5 x 6 x 9 inches
Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor born in Cleveland, Ohio on Jul...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Two Figures
By Robert Chester Thomas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Two Figures, 1949, ebony wood, 24 x 7 x 5 inches, unsigned, but comes from Thomas' daughters and includes a copy of a 1949 photo of this work listing the artist's name, title of work and date
Robert Chester Thomas was a California sculptor. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Thomas moved with his family to Southern California as a child. During World War II, he joined the army and served for a time in the European theater. When he returned to California, he studied sculpture with David Green in Pasadena in 1946 and 1947, before taking advantage of the GI Bill in 1948 to study with Ossip Zadkine in Paris. He first exhibited at Galerie St. Placide as part of an exhibition of American artists working in late 1940s Paris...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Ebony
French Modernist Bronze Abstract Figural Sculpture on Mahogany Wood Base
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
9-410 Abstract figural bronzesculpture set on a wood base
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Princeton Tiger
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: The artist; thence by descent to his granddaughter:
Rhoda Knight Kalt; from whom acquired by:
Private Collection, Pennsylvania, 1995–2025.
Literature: Richard Milner, Ch...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
When the Lights Go On Again, Mid Century Cast Stone, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Walter Sinz (American, 1881-1966)
When the Lights Go On Again, 1943
Cast Stone
10 x 4.5 x 8 inches
Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 13, 1881. ...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
"Untitled" David Hare, Surrealist, Anthropomorphic, Modernist, Ab-Ex Sculpture
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Untitled, circa 1949
Bronze
25 x 8 x 7 inches
Provenance
Kootz Gallery, New York
Collection of Samuel Kootz New York
Estate of the above
Collection of Dr. Joyce Kootz, Ne...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Maternity-Bacongo, Zaire, " created in the Democratic Republic of Congo c. 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Maternity-Bacongo, Zaire," is a carved wood and glass sculpture created in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo circa 1940. The nude, woman figure rests on her knees. In her...
Category
Tribal 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood
Sleeping Owl, Bronze Sculpture by Antonovici - Brancusi's Protege
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Constantin Antonovici, Romanian (1911 - 2002)
Title: Sleeping Owl
Year: 1947
Medium: Bronze with Patina on Marble Base, signature and number inscribed
Edition: 1/9
Size: 29 i...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Modernist Face
By Itzhak Sankowsky
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ITZHAK SANKOWSKY
"MODERNIST FACE"
WOOD, SIGNED
ROMANIAN-AMERICAN, C.1940
24.5 INCHES
Itzhak Sankowsky was born in 1908 in Romania.
He lived and was active in Philadelphia, Penn...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$935 Sale Price
35% Off
Patinated Bronze Sculpture of a Kneeling Woman by Guy Charles Revol '1912-1991'
By Guy Charles Revol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is an exquisite bronze sculpture depicting a kneeling woman by Guy Charles Revol. Possibly another interpretation of Venus Kneeling, this young woman is kneeling on her left kne...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Family
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Lohman studied at John Herron Art Institute, and Cranbrook and Yale for graduate work. Assisted Carl Milles at Cranbrook Academy before becoming Director of Fine Arts there from 1947...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Kossack
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Kossack, c. late 1930s, polychromed cedar and walnut relief sculpture, carved signature under the base of the figure, 15 x 8 x 3 1/2 inches (figure), 10 x 19 inches (board), exhibited at Zeidler's solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art, November - December, 1942 (label verso), label verso reads "Kossack / cedar & walnut / Avis Zeidler"
About the Sculpture
Kossack is typical of Aviz Zeidler’s direct carved wood sculptures of the 1930s. The subject looks directly at the viewer, unfeeling behind a polychromed stare. Seemingly influenced by two of her major teachers, California’s Ralph Stackpole and New York’s William Zorach, Zeidler drew on primitive traditions to create what one critic described as her “gruesome wood sculptures.” Rigid, solid, and unmoving are other words that characterize Zeidler’s statues which often seem to have the deeply rooted ancient power of a totem. Zeidler’s “grimacing artificiality does, indeed, manage to hold a sense of force,” is how The San Francisco Examiner art critic put it in 1938 when describing the artist’s award-winning entry at the San Francisco Art Museum. The same words could have applied to Kossack when it was exhibited at the museum four years later. Perhaps the artist was trying to contain the power of the fearsome Kossacks, the enemy of so many Eastern European peasants, by freezing the image in wood.
About the Artist
Avis Zeidler (Nemkoff) was a California-based artist who is principally known for her sculpture and drawings. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but moved to Northern California by the late 1920s where she majored in art at Berkely and studied with Lucien Labaudt, Ray Boynton...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Senufo Dance Mask - Ivory Coast, " Wood Carved Mask created circa 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This ceremonial mask was created by an unknown Senufo artist from the Ivory Coast. It depicts an abstracted human face with horns and other protrusions. The wood is dark.
13" x 7" ...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Mephistopheles, Modern Bronze by Antonovici 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original bronze sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his portrait series. Referenced in "Antonovici" by Uricariu & Bulat, pg 328
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on February 18, 1911, and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Iasi, Romania, in 1939. In 1940, Antonovici studied in Zagreb with the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovici, until his arrest by Italian fascists. Antonovici himself survived imprisonment in Germany for his refusal to fight on the side of the Nazis. After the war, he continued his studies in Vienna, under the tutelage of Professor Fritz Behn...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fishmonger
By Sally Grosz Bodkin
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Signed above base.
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Ceramic
Owl III, Patinated Bronze Sculpture by Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on February 18, 1911, and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Iasi, Romania, in 1939. In 1940, Antonovici studied in Zagreb with the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovici, until his arrest by Italian fascists...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Acrobats, Wood Sculpture by Chaim Gross 1948
By Chaim Gross
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chaim Gross, Austrian (1904 - 1991)
Title: Acrobats
Year: 1948
Medium: Hand-carved wood sculpture, signature and date inscribed
Size: 21 in. (53.34 cm) tall
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Family Carved Sculpture American Scene Modernism Mid 20th Century WPA Realism
Located in New York, NY
Family Carved Sculpture American Scene Modernism Mid 20th Century WPA Realism
Milton Hebald (American, 1917-2015),
Family of Three
13 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches
Carved wood, c. 19...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
STRIDENT MAN Carved Wood Sculpture Hollywood WPA Modernist Puppet Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
This 18 x 9 x 4 inch carved wood sculpture is unsigned and comes directly from the artist's family.
Louis 'Lou' Bunin (28 March 1904 – 17 February 1994) was an American puppeteer, artist, and pioneer of stop-motion animation in the latter half of the twentieth century. While working as a mural artist under Diego Rivera in Mexico City in 1926, Bunin created political puppet shows using marionettes...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Owl on Perch, Modern Bronze by Antonovici 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on February 18, 1911, and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Iasi, Romania, in 1939. In 1940, Antonovici studied in Zagreb with the famous ...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman with Lowered Head
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Goethe was one of our finest American modernist carvers in wood. He loved to use exotic and or beautiful woods to inspire his compositions which ranged from figurative, to an...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany
Rare 1940s Copper Repousse Judaica "Shtetl Cheder Boy" Plaque
By Arieh Merzer
Located in Surfside, FL
Arieh Merzer was a prominent Israeli artist and metal worker.
Arie Merzer, an artist who worked in hand-hammered copper, was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1905, the scion of a large Has...
Category
1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
"Face Mask, " Wood and Cowry Shells created in New Guinea circa 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This mask was created by an unknown artist from New Guinea. It depicts an elongated face with carved wood and cowry shells for eyes.
Mask: 29 x 8 in, incl...
Category
Folk Art 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Ceramic kittens by Tarcisio Tosin, Italy, 1940
Located in Vicenza, VI
Pottery depicting two white kittens made by a Vicentine ceramist, Tarcisio Tosin. Executed circa 1940 with measurements 35x29x18 cm.
He attended the Art Institute in Nove and worked ...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Chouette (Wood-Owl)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
A whimsical work full of glorious artistry, Pablo Picasso Chouette (Wood-Owl), 1948 A.R. 48 stands out as a magnificent ceramic. Verdant, green tendri...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Earthenware, Glaze
"Bobo Mask Burkina Fasso-Upper Volta, " Carved & Painted Wood created c. 1945
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bobo Mask Burkina Fasso-Upper Volta" is a wood carved sculpture with painted details. It features the image of an abstracted face with a large almost elepha...
Category
Tribal 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"BaPende Statue - Zaire, " Carved Wood Sculpture created in Africa circa 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This statue was carved by an unknown Pende artist from Zaire. It depicts a walking man with a disc-shape on his head and large eyes.
25 3/4" x 7" sculpture
The Pende people are an...
Category
Folk Art 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Portrait of Pierre Vérité
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of Pierre Vérité
by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
Bronze sculpture with a dark brown patina
signed on the neck "M. Gimond"
cast by "Bisceglia, cire perdue" (with the foundry st...
Category
French School 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roaring Tiger (circa 1940) by Thierry Van Ryswyck — (1911-1958)
Located in Gent, VOV
A terracotta enameled with a growling tiger. A beautiful high quality model made by Thierry Van Ryswyck (1911-1958). From 1935, Thierry Van Ryswyck became interested in ceramics and ...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Luigi Broggini Catalogued Italian Bronze Sculpture
By Luigi Broggini
Located in Roma, IT
Important bronze sculpture by Luigi Broggini
“Dancer”
Datable to the from the early 1940s.
It is part of the series of Dancers created by the sculptor Broggini in the 1930s.
The wo...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Femmes Fleurs (Women Pitcher)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Ceramic Femmes Fleurs (Women Pitcher), 1948 A.R. 50 is an elegant turned pitcher highlights the graceful form of the female nude. C...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
$32,000 Sale Price
20% Off