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Period: 20th Century
Dancing Girl
Located in London, GB
gilt bronze on marble base
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"Liberty & Sacrifice", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 36x28x22 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Liberty and Sacrifice" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 14/50.
"The figures of Liberty and Sacrifice are used in an allego...
Category
Realist 20th Century 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 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Dancer with platform shoes
Located in PARIS, FR
"Dancer with platform shoes"
by Agathon LÉONARD (1841–1923)
Sculpture made in gilded bronze
Signed on the dress "A. Léonard Sclp"
Cast by Susse Frères (with founder stamp)
Stamped w...
Category
French School 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Visage Solaire, Picasso, Unique work, Design, 1950's, Sun face, Ceramic
Located in Geneva, CH
Visage Solaire, Picasso, Unique work, Design, 1950's, Sun face, Ceramic
Visage Solaire
Unique work
27.01.1956
Painted and partially glazed ceramic
20.4 x 20.4 cm
Dated and stamped o...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Portrait of Lincoln, bronze relief sculpture by Pedro Quesada Sierra
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rendered in bronze, this bas-relief portrait of the 16th president of the United States is from a limited run of only two editions. The wall-mounted artwork is signed in the metal ve...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Picador, 1953 A.R. 200
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Capturing the moment in which the picador stabs the charging bull with his lance, Picasso creates an image of action and suspense in Pablo Picasso ceramic Picador...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
$9,000 Sale Price
35% Off
Sea Lion by Greta van Puyenbroeck (1943- )
Located in Gent, VOV
sea lion
Artist: Greta van Puyenbroeck
Dimensions: 22 h x 44 l x 30 cm w without base with base 29 x 33 x 38 cm
Foundry: Artcasting
Sign
Greta Van Puyenbroeck was born in Antwerp in ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture Wall Relief Judaica Jewish Matriarchs Modernist Leonard Baskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000)
Jewish Matriarchs, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah
with Hebrew calligraphy
Bronze, 1998
9.5 X 9 inches
Judaic biblical bronze of Jewish mothers.
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
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Marc Sijan Hyperrealist Contemporary Plaster Sculpture Woman and Champagne Glass
By Marc Sijan
Located in Surfside, FL
Marc Sijan (American, born 1946)
Hyper realistic wall sculpture. titled and dated on verso
"Champagne Glass"
1986
Limited edition number 14/95. Features a Art Deco style girl in ...
Category
Photorealist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Glass, Plaster
Pair Tiki Ceramic Figures
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of Tiki ceramic figures by artist Howard Pierce (1912-1994). Howard Pierce's artistry is cherished among collectors, a following he gained in over 5...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Omaggio To Picasso Murano Glass Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Omaggio To Picasso Murano Glass Sculpture
Artist signed and titled 16"h15.5wx15d
Walter Furlan was born (1931-2018) in Chioggia, a small town near Venice. He started to work in a f...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Untitled (Roi David)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Marc Chagall Untitled (Roi David), 1954 is a rare and imaginative culmination of the collaboration between Marc Chagall and the Fucina degli Angeli. This work is from the beginning of Chagall’s usage of Murano glass as a means of expression. In 1954, Chagall was invited into the Fucina degli Angeli by Egidio Costantini who was the master glass blower at the time. This stunning and mesmeric sculpture beckons the eyes through the use of vivid, bold colors that blend seamlessly together. Blue, purple, teal and hints of red coalesce in the center of the glass plate, creating the backdrop for a whimsical scene placed in the foreground. A man in a crown kneels in the center of the work, preoccupied with the string instrument delicately constructed in his hands. Gilded flecks of gold are highlighted around the crown and instrument, showing us the depth of the lyrical poet. The transparent glass allows us to follow suite of the man, becoming entranced and lost in thought.
Created in 1954 in the Fucina degli Angeli in Venice, Italy, this Murano glass sculpture was realized by master glass artist Egidio Costantini (Brindisi, 1912- Venice, 1998) in collaboration Marc Chagall, (Vitebsk, 1887 – Saint-Paul, 1985). This work is inscribed ‘M. Chagall E. Costantini 1954 © Fucina degli Angeli’ on verso and is an artist proof.
Catalogue Raisonné:
Marc Chagall Untitled (Roi David), 1954 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).
Egidio Costantini: Il Maestro dei Maestri. Brussels: Espace Kiron and Espace Medicis, 1990. A different Chagall glass...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
$26,250 Sale Price
25% Off
Keeping the Ball Rolling
Located in Greenwich, CT
Life-size sculpture of a bare-footed boy balancing himself atop a ball.
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
David Hostetler Polished Bronze Female Form Bust Feminine Shiny Gold Egyptian
Located in Nantucket, MA
This polished bronze bust is sealed with Glasurit- a car finish that is baked on. It prevents the sculpture from tarnishing or yellowing. All you need to do is dust with a soft cloth. This bust is from a full figure wood sculpture...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Plains Drummer medallion bronze by Allan Houser Apache
By Allan Houser
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Plains Drummer medallion bronze by Allan Houser Apache
Bronze medallion by Allan Houser
Plains Indian drummer
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Yterbine
Located in Paris, FR
Dominique Pollès,
1945, French
Yterbine, 1998
Bronze with pink platinium patina
Signed, dated and numbered 4/4
Certificate by the Artist
Dimension...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$190,645
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...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Abstract Fish Sculpture
Located in Rochester, NY
A striking metal sculpture of a fish. Iron with gold gilt decoration. Probably Asian.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
20th Century Solid Bronze Nude Ballet Dancer 'Preparation' by Benson Landes
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Preparation' is a 20th Century Solid Bronze ballet Dancer by Benson Landes.
For Benson Landes, sculpture was most definitely a passion. His oeuvre of cast bronzes is populated wit...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jose Cardona Ferro Bronze Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jose Cardona Ferro: 1878-1923. Well listed Spanish artist also known as just Jose Cardona. He has had auction prices over $4000. This charming bronze of a...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
BELLE DE NUIT (SCULPTURE)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Incised signature by the artist and stamp numbered with foundry and date. Additional images are available upon request. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Please do not hesitat...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,850 Sale Price
30% Off
Petit masque central, Pablo Picasso, 1960's, Unique, Design, Plate, Theater
Located in Geneva, CH
Petit masque central, Pablo Picasso, 1960's, Unique, Design, Plate, Theater
Petit masque central
Unique work
16.5.63
Painted and partially glazed ceramic
D. 25.4 cm / 9.8 in.
D. 33 ...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Sisters
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sisters was inspired by a gouache painting from 1921 entitled 'Les baisers pervers ou la brune et la blonde' and is a wonderful example of an invention of Erté's from the early 1920s...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$12,850
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...
Category
Mannerist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Together by Martine Demal - bronze sculpture, standing human figures, textured
Located in Paris, FR
This work is a bronze sculpture by Martine Demal which dimensions are 88 x 55 x 30 cm (4.6 × 21.7 × 11.8 in). It weighs 20 kg and is part of a limited edition of 8 editions and 4 art...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Howard Finster Signed “Cheetah” Wood Cut-Out Sculpture, 1991
Located in Chattahoochee Hills, GA
A distinctive and visually dynamic cut-out sculpture by American folk art icon Rev. Howard Finster (1916–2001), titled “Cheetah” and numbered 20,000,342. Created in 1991, this hand-p...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Egee assise h cm 70
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, metal, bronze patina
Display: The sc...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
"Middle White Sow (Wharfedale Royal Lady)" Herbert Haseltine, Pig, Farm Animal
Located in New York, NY
Herbert Haseltine
Middle White Sow (Wharfedale Royal Lady), 1925
Polished bronze with opaque ochre patina
4 ⅛ x 8 ⅛ x 3 ⅝ inches
Period speckled Belgian marble base: 1 ½ x 7 x 3 inch...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Four Season Extraordinary Set of Italian Stone Term Figure Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
Four Term Figure sculptures with classically draped figures and their distinguishing symbols in carved Vicenza stone. Autumn, winter, spring and summer. Measures: Height with squar...
Category
Academic 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Melody by Nguyen Tuan
By Nguyen Tuan
Located in Cleveland, OH
Melody by Nguyen Tuan
The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with tradit...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kabuki Dancer Custom Framed Wall Tapestry
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5068 Japanese Kabuki dancer hand made wall tapestry
signed Eva
Set in a custom made frame
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fabric
Sculpture Murale Soleil
Located in PARIS, FR
Soleil mural by French ceramist Roland Zobel
Roland Zobel, a French ceramist born in 1945 in Fort-de-France, is the son of writer Joseph Zobel. He studied at the Beaux-Arts in Bourge...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Howard Finster Wooden Eagle Cut Out Statue With Religious Writing
Located in Chattahoochee Hills, GA
A bold, spiritually and politically charged eagle cut-out sculpture by visionary folk artist and preacher Rev. Howard Finster (1916–2001), dated 1991 and numbered 17,000,610. Crafted...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Married Love by Oscar Nemon
Located in New Orleans, LA
Oscar Nemon
1906 - 1985 Croatian
Married Love
Signed “Nemon” (on reverse)
Bronze resin with green patina
This rousing and sentimental sculpture, commis...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
'Eared Owl with Prey ' Large Bronze Sculpture. circa 1950's.
Located in Frome, Somerset
A Reniassance style piece of Animalier. bronze cast sulpture.
'Eared Owl with Prey'. circa 1950's.
The manner in style is exaggerated /grotesque in the 19th C French style of animali...
Category
Renaissance 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Bruno Zach
By Bruno Zach
Located in New York, NY
Cold Painted Austrian Bronze Table Lamp and Sculpture of a lounging Arab man.
Signed with one of Zach's pseudonyms "K. Salat"
Size: 16 1/2 inches high
Artist Bio:
Bruno Zach (6 Ma...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Isaac Cordal - Miniaturization World - Sculpture
By Isaac Cordal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Isaac Cordal
Cement Eclipse
Unique Resine Sculpture.
Signed
Dimensions: 23 X 51 x 30 cm
With the simple act of miniaturization and thoughtful placement, Isaac Cordal magically expan...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Herons
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant pair of gilt bronze heron sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Mind Your Manner" Abstract Relief Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mind Your Manner" Abstract Relief Sculpture.
Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This large-scal...
Category
Outsider Art 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper, Found Objects
"The Source", Frederick Hart, Bronze Sculpture & Fountain, Half Life Size, 1995
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Source" by Frederick Hart is a figurative bronze with a glass orb and a working water fountain with edition 94/175. This edition has been Sold out from the creation date of 1995...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Model Girl
Located in Zofingen, AG
Classic female torso inspired by examples of high Greek sculpture. Sculptor explores the lines and shapes of the female body, embodied the diversity, slightly changed the poses.
Thi...
Category
Realist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Canopo - Anthropomorphic Bronze Sculpture with opening Elements
Located in New York, NY
Angelo Canevari's "Canopo" is a 22 x 12-inch bronze anthropomorphic sculpture. It is part of the "Canopo" series. With a modern interpretation, Canevari revisited the sacred vases of...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Hunting
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Hunting is a sculptural interpretation of Autumn, a lithograph from Erté’s The Four Seasons. It represents a beautiful creature – half woman, half animal – wounded by a cruel hun...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$14,850
Visage, Picasso, 1950's, Unique work, sculpture, design, Frame, Portrait
Located in Geneva, CH
Visage, Picasso, 1950's, Unique work, sculpture, design, Frame, Portrait
Visage
Unique work
1957
Painted and partially glazed ceramic ; tomette
16.9 x 15.2 cm
Certificate of authent...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Bronze Sculpture of Nude Woman, Mid 20th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mario Spampinato (Italian 1912–2000)
Nude
Bronze
Signed on base
17.5 in. h. x 5.75 in. w. x 6 in. d.
The artist was born, raised and trained in Italy. During one of his exhibits (at San Marcos in Rome) the Director of a New York Gallery asked him to come to New York to work for him. The American Consul, before issuing his visa, asked Spampinato to create a bust of him. In exchange, the Consul paid for his passage on the boat to New York. In New York, he worked with his brother Clemente Spampinato who is a well known sculptor as well.
After moving to Chicago in 1954, he discovered that there was no foundry in the Midwest that could cast his bronzes. So, he opened his own foundry called the Spampinato Art Foundry, casting in the lost wax process. He also started his own private school (Spampinato Art Workshop, Ltd) and did some teaching at the University of Chicago and conducted seminars at Lawrence University in Kansas.
Many of his own works are pictured and cataloged in Volumes 2 & 3 of Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930 by Harold Berman.
Between 1959 and 1967, Spampinato recast a number of Charles M Russell...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Graceful, Alabaster, Architecture Model
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautifully carved, Grand Tour period architectural model featuring fluted columns surmounted by Corinthian capitals and a relief carved pediment above a raised base inset with a fl...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Marble
F. Soriano Women Iron Garden coontemporary steel esculpture
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
"Quimeres "original steel unic piece sculpture
Sculpture by the Spanish artist FERRAN SORIANO
Artist well known for his large format works on the street.
Iron and Steel
Ferran Sori...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Bronze Bust of a Gentleman by Nison Tregor
Located in Brookville, NY
Nison Tregor
Born in Lithuania of Polish parents, Nison Tregor studied sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. After immigrating to the United State...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Seated Woman with a Fan
Located in PARIS, FR
Seated Woman with a Fan
by Auguste Seysses (1862-1946)
Bronze with nuanced light brown patina
cast by HEBRARD
France
Early 20th century
height 49.5 cm
width 47 cm
Biography :
Feli...
Category
French School 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Franz Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMANN
Austrian, (1861-1936)
Playing the Mandolin
Cold-painted Austrian Bronze Lamp and Sculpture of a Woman playing the Mandolin....
Category
20th Century 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 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jacqueline au chevalet (A.R. 333), Pablo Picasso, Design, Ceramic, Madoura
Located in Geneva, CH
PABLO PICASSO
Jacqueline au chevalet (A.R. 333), 1956
Ed. 90/200 pcs
White earthenware clay, decoration in engobes under partial brushed glaze, grey patina, ivory, black, green.
D. ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Le Cavalier (petit)
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, metal, bronze patina
Display: The s...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Tyra Carolina Lundgren Bird Sculpture, Murano
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Provenance: Estate of a noteworthy Italian glass collector from Florida and New York. Reference (similar example): Venini Glass Catalogue 1921-2007, Franco De...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Franz Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMANN
Austrian, (1838-1894)
Fetching Water
Arab on a Camel Fetching Water From a Woman
11 inches high
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sydney Kumalo Bronze Minimalist African Modernist Sculpture Figural Female Nude
Located in Surfside, FL
Sydney Kumalo. Features a bronze stylized female figural form sculpture fixed to a marble plinth and wood base. Bears signature on base. Measures 9 1/2" x 4 1/4". There is no edition number on the piece.
Sydney Kumalo (1935 - 1988) was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, on 13 April 1935. His was one of the families who had to move out of the "white" city to the South Western Townships, or Soweto. Raised in Diepkloof and educated at Madibane High School, he took with him from old Sophiatown the curious and diverse heritage of its heyday. Art classes in the Catholic school, "Sof' town" blues and jazz, the vibrant street culture and growing defiance of its population of various races who were gradually forced out into separate race-group areas. So it was that these various aspects of his early life created for Kumalo a cultural mix of a Zulu family related to the traditional royal house; city schooling, nascent township music and lingo; growing urbanised political defiance and the deep-rooted Zulu pride and respect for the legends and ancient stories of a tribal people. This mix of old and new cultures was reinforced when he began his studies at the Polly Street Art Centre in 1953 where he became a member of Cecil Skotnes group of serious artists who were encouraged to acquire professional skills. Skotnes introduced a basic training programme with modelling as a component, which marked the introduction of sculpting (in brick-clay) at Polly Street.
Kumalo was Skotnes’ assistant at Polly Street from 1957 to 1964, and having recognised his great talent as a sculptor, Skotnes encouraged him to become a professional artist.
After Kumalo’s very successful assistance with a commission to decorate the St Peter Claver church at Seeisoville near Kroonstad, with painting designs, sculpture and relief panels in 1957, Skotnes arranged for Kumalo to continue his art training by working in Edoardo Villa ’s studio from 1958 to 1960. Working with Villa, he received professional guidance and began to familiarize himself with the technical aspects of sculpting and bronze casting. In 1960 he became an instructor at the Polly Street Art Centre.
Kumalo started exhibiting his work with some of the leading commercial Johannesburg galleries in 1958, and had his first solo exhibition with the Egon Guenther Gallery in 1962. He was a leader of the generation who managed to leave behind the forms of African curios, reject the European-held paternalism which encouraged notions of "naive" and "tribal" African art, and yet still hold fast to the core of the old legends and spiritual values of his people. He introduced these subjects into his bronze sculptures and pastel drawings, evolving his own expressive, contemporary African "style".
Together with Skotnes, Villa, Cecily Sash and Giuseppe Cattaneo, Kumalo became part of the Amadlozi group in 1963. This was a group of artists promoted by the African art collector and gallery director Egon Guenther, and characterised by their exploration of an African idiom in their art. Elza Miles writes that Cecil Skotnes’ friendship with Egon Guenther had a seminal influence on the aspirant artists of Polly Street: “Guenther broadened their experience by introducing them to German Expressionism as well as the sculptural traditions of West and Central Africa. He familiarised them with the work of Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Gustav Seitz, Willi Baumeister and Rudolf Sharf.” It is therefore not surprising that some of Kumalo’s sculptures show an affinity with Barlach’s powerful expressionist works. Guenther organised for the Amadlozi group to hold exhibitions around Italy, in Rome, Venice, Milan and Florence, in both 1963 and 1964.
Kumalo’s career took off in the mid 1960s, with his regular participation in exhibitions in Johannesburg, London, New York and Europe. He also represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale in 1966, and in 1967 participated in the São Paulo Biennale.
EJ De Jager (1992) describes Kumalo’s sculpture as retaining much of the “canon and formal aesthetic qualities of classical African sculpture. His work contains the same monumentality and simplicity of form.” His main medium for modelling was terra cotta, which was then cast in bronze, always paying careful attention to the finish of both the model as well as the final cast. He began casting the pieces he modelled in clay or plaster into bronze at the Renzo Vignali Artistic Foundry in Pretoria North. He worked throughout his life with its owners, the Gamberini family, and enjoyed learning the technical aspects of the casting process, refining his surfaces according to what he learned would produce the best results in metal. De Jager further writes that Kumalo’s distinctive texturing of the bronze or terra cotta is reminiscent of traditional carving techniques of various African cultures. “In many respects Kumalo thus innovated a genuine contemporary or modern indigenous South African sculpture”. Kumalo came to admire the works of the Cubists, and of British sculptors Henry Moore and Lynn Chadwick. He became noted for adapting shapes from them into his own figures. The success of his use of the then current monumental simplicity and purely aesthetic abstractions of natural forms has been emulated by many South African sculptors since the 1970s.
He was in many ways the doyen of South African Black art. As such he was an important influence especially on younger African sculptors, by whom he is greatly revered. Through his teaching at Polly Street and at the Jubilee Centre, as well as through his personal example of integrity, dedication and ability, he inspired and guided students who in their own right became outstanding artists, for example, Ezrom Legae, Leonard Matsoso and Louis Maqhubela
From 1969 onward, he allied himself with Linda Givon, founder of The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, where he exhibited regularly until his death in December 1988. Working with Givon also perpetuated his associations with his many friends of strong principles. Skotnes, Villa, Legae and later such peers from the Polly Street era as Leonard Matsoso, Durant Sihlali and David Koloane have all exhibited at The Goodman Gallery. Kumalo, Legae, and later Fikile (Magadlela) and Dumile (Feni) were among the leading exponents of a new Afrocentric art...
Category
Modern 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
La Parisienne: Art Nouveau Belle Epoque young lady with a gleam in here eye
Located in Norwich, GB
A lovely hand modelled sculpture in bas relief, depicting the head of a smiling young Parisian lady with a gleam in her eyes. The work dates from from the Belle Epoque, the art nouv...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Wood Panel
Pair of Elegant Brass Sculptures of Greyhound Dogs
Located in Rome, IT
Fine pair of gilt bronze Greyhound dog sculptures.
The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze