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Period: Mid-20th Century
Duffo, Jim Pallas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Jim Pallas (1941)
Title: Duffo
Year: 1963
Medium: Glazed ceramic with tempura
Size: 8 inches, diameter
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed and dated
JIM PALLAS (1941-) ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
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
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Shawl
Located in PARIS, FR
"Shawl" by Apelles Fenosa (1899-1988)
Bronze with nuanced brown patina
Cast by Bisceglia - stamp of the bronze caster
Numbered I / 5
France
circa 1943
height 16 cm
A similar model...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Imagined Reality - Sculpture by Vincenzo Gaetaniello - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Imagined Reality is a sculpture realized by Vincenzo Gaetaniello, in 1960s.
Cast iron, 47 x 62 x 38 cm.
Label on the back with title and the artist's proof.
Good conditions.
...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Owl Perched on Ball, Modern Bronze by Antonovici 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original bronze sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his Owl Series. Referenced in "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls", pg 43
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on Fe...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair Primitive Oversized Mistique Paper Mache Wall Figural Sculptures
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1482 Pair oversized primitive hand made and painted Caribbean figural wall sculptures made from corrugated boxes and hand painted
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Large Judaica Copper Repousse Sculpture Relief Plaque Arie Merzer Bezalel Era
By Arieh Merzer
Located in Surfside, FL
Arieh Merzer (Israeli, 1905-1966)
Copper relief sculpture panel in gilt frame
Framed dimensions 18 X 26.25, copper 14.5 X 22.5
Arieh Merzer ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper, Metal
Owl Perched on Ball, Bronze Sculpture by Constantin Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original bronze sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his Owl Series. Referenced in "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls", pg 43
Owl Perched on Ball
Constantin Antonovici, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is a piece of my private collection from artists of the 20th Century. It is original, signed by artist and numbered 217/220. It is vibrant in color and in very good...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plate Glass, Oil, Lithograph, Watercolor
Girl Torso, Modern Marble Sculpture by Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original carved marble sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his Torso Series. Referenced in "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls", pg 79
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Roma...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Rare Milk Glass Carved Sculpture Panel Cowboy Indian WPA Artist Americana
By Abraham Harriton
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a carved glass panel. I belive this is milk glass. it is a classic Americana scene of a cowboy or frontier trapper and an Indian or Native American with a feathered headdress...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Judaica Silvered Copper Repousse Sculpture Relief Plaque Shtetl Yeshiva Bochur
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
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Music (attributed)
By Philip Kran Paval
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Music (attributed), brass and wire construction, c. 1936, 28 x 14 x 5 inches; perhaps exhibited at Hollywood Riviera Gallery, 1936 (third prize); provenance includes Estate of Jon Spencer Helfen (Los Angeles, CA
About the Sculpture
In 1935, Philip Paval bought a box of metal in a “blind auction.” Paval, a painter, sculptor, and jeweler, had hoped the box contained silver. To his dismay, it was brass. Seeing an opportunity, Paval started to make sculptures from the brass sheets. His subjects included Cinema, Hollywood, Radio, Dance, Aviation and Music. The works were well-received with the Hollywood crowd and critically acclaimed. Actor and comedian, Ben Bard, purchased four of them for his theater, and novelist and screenwriter, Vicki Baum ordered four more for her drawing room. Movie director King Vidor also purchased them. Los Angeles Times art critic, Arthur Millier, described Paval’s “contraptions” as “ingenious, decorative, different.” Paval exhibited these works for several years in the late 1930s, including at the American Artists’ Congress Gallery in Los Angeles in an exhibition called Formalism and Abstraction in 1938 and at a solo show at Stendahl Galleries in 1939. The appeal of these works must have been irresistible, as a 1936 Los Angeles Times article noted, “Two feet of brass art has been stolen from the Hollywood Riviera Galleries. The work is an abstraction. It portrays the spirit of music and rested on the grand piano in the main hall. The work of Philip Paval, it won third prize in the current gallery exhibition at the gallery.” One can only wonder whether this is the “contraption” which was pilfered from the gallery nearly one hundred years ago. Given the description of the work, its subject matter and size, it seems likely.
About the Artist
Philip Paval was a sculptor, painter, and jeweler. Born in Denmark, Paval was apprenticed to a silversmith and studied art in Denmark. He immigrated to the US in 1919 and first worked as a merchant seaman in New York. The following year, Paval settled in Los Angeles where he later opened his own jewelry shop featuring works he designed and produced. Paval became a favorite in the entertainment world, making a good living selling silver...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Mid-century Mexican Wood Sculpture Figure
Located in Troy, NY
This beautiful wooden figurine depicts a woman in a long robe with a hood covering her head and carrying a sack over her shoulder. The woman in the sculpture could be viewed as a wo...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Carved Wood Relief Mask Wall Sculpture Panel, a pair
Located in Atlanta, GA
Superbly handcrafted pair of Mid-Century-Modern wooden wall art sculpture panels. The artworks feature dimensional female and male faces or m...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century 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 Febr...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fantasy Female Sculpture
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4065 Hand painted surreal resin sculpture
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Oil
Winking Owl, Modern Bronze by Antonovici 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original bronze sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his Owl Series. Referenced in "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls", pg 43.
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on F...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Native North American Hopi Katsina (Kachina) Doll.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Native North American carved wood and painted effigy figure, Hopi Katsina or Kachina doll. This is one of a group of eight dolls all individually priced, or available as a set, and ...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Owl, Modern Aluminum Sculpture by Antonovici 1958
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original bronze sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his Owl Series. Referenced in "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls", pg 50.
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on F...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
La Testa Terracotta Sculpture by Renato Bertelli
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Midcentury painted terracotta abstract figurative sculpture “La Testa” by Italian Futurist artist Renato Bertelli (1900-1974). Initialized “R. B. A-XI”.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Paint
Golf (Wall Plaque)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Golf (Wall Plaque)
Polychromed ceramic, c. 1930-1
Signed with the artist's initials: VS recto
Very rare, only a few produced prior to the closure of Cowan Pottery
Format: Round ceramic plate, 11 1/4 inches
Designed by the artist while working for Cowan Pottery in 1930. One of Cowan's clients, an interior designer, requested plates decorated with different outdoor activities. Others in the series included "Swimming," "Tennis," "Polo," and "The Hunt."
According to Henry Adams, the number of examples created was very limited due to the closing of Cowan Pottery in 1931. Very rare
Condition: Good, with the usual craquelure of the glazes used.
Note: Industrial design democratizes high style, and Mr. Schreckengost was widely considered among the most democratic industrial designers. He made, quite literally, the stuff of life — things found routinely in homes, backyards and garages in this country and around the world. He designed bicycles for Sears and everyday china for American Limoges. He designed children’s toys and pedal cars; flashlights, furniture and fans; lawn chairs, lawn mowers and golf carts; baby walkers and artificial limbs.
In 2006 Mr. Schreckengost was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the country’s highest cultural honor. His work is in the permanent collection of major museums, including the Renwick Gallery, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Mr. Schreckengost belonged to the first great generation of American industrial designers, which included luminaries like Russel Wright, Norman Bel Geddes and Raymond Loewy.
The lights of New York...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Midcentury Bronze Bust of Man
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Large, midcentury, cast bronze bust of a man mounted on a chic, veined, polished marble base of the same period.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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 ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Hitch Hiked" Hayward Oubre, Painted Wire Sculpture, Southern Black Artist
Located in New York, NY
Hayward Oubre
Hitch Hiked, 1960
Signed on Base: OUBRE 60
Painted wire sculpture
45 H. x 21 W. x 19 D. inches
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Deeply at...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of Michele - Nickel Plated Sculpture by M. Berrocal - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait de Michéle -Opus 110, is realized by Miguel Berrocal (Villanueva De Algaidas 1933 - Antequera 2006), in 1969.
Multiple sculpture in nickel-plated Zamak dismountable into 17...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Untitled" 1963 pre-Star Wars Space Ship Cast Bronze Signed & Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
This Pre-Star Wars Space Ship captures the magic, power and volume of unidentified objects that pass through our solar system and within viewing site of spaceship Earth. Titled "Untitled" this piece has the monumental quality and style of a spaceship that has been circling the universe forever. Constructed in 1963, prior to film industry creatives scaring viewers with visions of unimaginable spacecraft come to destroy earth, Julius Schmidt's imagination was unstoppable with his numerous and unique cast bronze sculptures. This extraordinary piece is a heart stopping example of what a genius creative can produce.
It was exhibited in March 9 - 31, 1963 at the Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, NY. A Catalog of the show accompanies this piece.
Julius Schmidt is an American sculptor who earned his B.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1953 and for the next two years studied sculpture under Ossip Zadkine in Paris and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. He returned to Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1955 for his M.F.A. in sculpture. Cranbrook was designed by architect and faculty member, Eliel Saarinen who collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames on chair and furniture design. Numerous creative artists who are alumni of Cranbrook include: Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Jack Lenor Larsen, Donald Lipski, Duane Hanson, Nick Cave, Hani Rashid, George Nelson, Urban Jupena (Nationally recognized fiber artist), Artis Lane (the first African-American artist to have her sculpture, "Sojourner Truth," commissioned for the Emancipation Hall in the Capital Visitor Center in Washington DC), Cory Puhlman (televised Pastry Chef extraordinaire), Thom O’Connor (Lithographs), Paul Evans (Brutalist-inspired sculpted metal furnishings), Eugene Caples (small bronze images/abstract), Morris Brose (bronze sculptures), Herb Babcock...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gilbert Ledward - 1930s Watercolour Design for a Decorative Sculptural Frieze
Located in London, GB
GILBERT LEDWARD, RA, PRBS
(1888-1960)
Tennis, Golf, Shooting, Ice-Skating, Dreaming – Proposed Design for Decorative Frieze in the Italian Drawing Room at Eltham Palace, commissioned by Stephen Courtauld
Signed and dated July 9th 1933
Watercolour and pencil
12.5 by 49.5 cm., 5 by 19 ½ in.
(frame size 36 by 67 cm., 14 ¼ by 26 ¼ in.)
Exhibited:
The artist’s daughter;
London, The Fine Art Society, A Centenary Tribute, Feb 1988, no. 43.
Gilbert Ledward was born in London. He was educated at St Mark’s College, Chelsea. In 1905 he entered the Royal College of Art to study sculpture under Edouard Lanteri and in 1910 he entered the Royal Academy Schools. In 1913 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture, the Royal Academy’s travelling award and gold medal, which allowed him to travel in Italy until the outbreak of the Wold War I. During the war he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was appointed as an official war artist in 1918.
Following the war he was largely occupied as a sculptor of war memorials including the Guards Division memorial in St James’s Park and the Household Division’s memorial in Horse Guards Parade. In 1934, supported by Eric Gill and Edwin Lutyens, he established a company called Sculptured Memorials and Headstones, which promoted better design of memorials in English churchyards. His war memorials after World War II include one in Westminster Abbey to the Submarine Service, Commandos and Airborne Forces.
Ledward was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1927-1929) and in 1937 was elected at Royal Academician. He became President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a trustee of the Royal Academy.
The present work is a design for an intended decorative frieze for the Italian Drawing Room of Eltham Palace. In 1935 the remains of the medieval royal palace of Eltham was rescued from decay by Stephen and Virginia Courtald who built an ultra modern Art Deco house to adjoin the existing Great Hall. They employed the architects John Seeley and Paul Edward Paget and the fashionable Mayfair interior designer the Marchese Peter Malacrida to design the strikingly glamorous 1930s interiors of the new house. The dramatic entrance hall was created by the Swedish designer Rolf Engstromer...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Watercolor
Antoniucci Volti - Femme Fleur
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Fusione in bronzo a cera persa, patina nera, certificato di autenticità , opera originale , timbro della fonderia . Edizione di solo 8 esemplari
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Ancienne Noblesse wood sculpture by Irving Lehman
Located in Hudson, NY
Irving Leeman's cubist inspired sculpture pays homage to artists such as Archipenko, Lipchitz, and Picasso.
About this artist: Irving George Lehman was born in Kiev, Russia -now Uk...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Haitian Outsider Art Metal Work
By Murat Brierre
Located in Surfside, FL
Murat Brierre or Murat Briere (1938–1988) was one of Haiti's principal metal sculptors. He was influenced by George Liautaud, but his work acquired its own, highly experimental style...
Category
Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Colombe sur Lit de Paille (2nd Version of Ramie 79)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso’s rendering of a white dove on a black earthenware plate is a classic example of the artist’s fascination with the bird. Although prevalent throughout his work, this do...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Isabella
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original carved wood sculpture by American WPA artist Avis Zeidler Nemkoff.
"Isabella", is a hand carved wood sculpture measuring 18.5 inches tall, exceptional original condition, originally acquired from the estate of the artist who resided in Northern California.
This is a magnificent one of a kind hand carved wood sculpture, c.1938.
Please contact the gallery for additional information
•Avis Zeidler was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1908.
•It is not known when Zeidler moved to California. However, in the 1930s she majored in art at the University of California.
•Later, she enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts after receiving a scholarship for her studies there. She studied with Ray Boynton, Lucien Labaudt, Karl Eugen Neuhaus, and Ralph Stackpole...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pablo Picasso –white terracotta decorated with oxidised paraffin and glazes 1956
Located in Varese, VA
Bouquet à la pomme (A.R. 305)
white terracotta decorated with oxidised paraffin and glazes,
Edited in 1956
Limited edition of 400 exemplars
size: cm 25,5×25,5×2,5
dated at the bottom
on the back Ceramiche Madoura stamp
on the reverse side stamped Empreinte originale de Picasso
Excellent conditions
Bibliography: Picasso Bloch...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze, Terracotta
Maximus: Circus Horse
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present a lifetime masterpiece by American artist Maxine Kim Stussy.
“Maxumus: Circus Horse”, is an original wood assemblage of both ha...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Sterling Silver Gilt Coronation Throne
Located in New York, NY
Historic Sterling Silver-Gilt Coronation Throne, (in original, fitted, hinged, leather and velvet box) made to commemorate the coronation of Queen...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver
BALINESE DANCE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
SASHA S. SCHNITTMAN
"BALINESE DANCE"
BRONZE, SIGNED
AMERICAN, DATED 1937
17.5 INCHES
___________________________
Sascha S. Schnittman
1913-1978
He was born in New York City i...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"SAM HOUSTON" HORN CARVING 1936 TEXAS CENTENNIAL AMAZING WORK
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dan Super "SAM HOUSTON"
(1873-1953)
Houston Artist
Image Size: 3 3/4 inches tall
Medium: Carved Horn of Sam Houston to celebrate the Texas Centennial.
Texas Centennial 1936
"Sam Hou...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
Art Deco Venetian Mask Handcarved Wood Panel Wall Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
This French Art-Deco hand-carved wooden panel or wall-mounted sculpture features a stunning Venetian mask. This high-dimensional panel is made of natural wood with a warm tone and re...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Earth, Ceramic Figural Female Head by Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Edris Eckhardt (American, 1905-1998)
Earth, c. 1939
Signed on base
Glazed earthenware
20.5 x 7.5 x 7 inches
Born in Cleveland, Ohio January 28, 1905, Edris was given the name Edythe Aline Eckhardt. After graduating from Cleveland's East High she enrolled in the painting program at Cleveland School of Art. While enrolled in school she worked part-time at Cowan Pottery where she learned production techniques and firing schedules of various ceramic materials. She switched her choice of study at CIA to sculpture and graduated from Cleveland's School of Art in 1932. Edythe changed her name to the non-gender-specific name Edris in her mid-twenties after being passed over for an award to study sculpture in Europe for one year.
Following graduation Edris studied sculpture with Alexander Archipenko in Woodstock, New York. She returned to Cleveland that same year. She was hired as a faculty member of Cleveland School and taught at the institution for 30 years.
From 1935-1942 Ms. Eckhardt was the head of the Ceramics and Sculpture division of the Federal Art Project (later known as Works Progress Administration - WPA) of Cleveland. During this time frame she won first prize of the 1936 Cleveland Museum of Art May Show for her Alice in Wonderland figure, third Prize in the 1937 May Show for a Song of the South...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Ceramic
Modernist Hand Forged Iron Mosaic Sculpture Animal Ram Israeli David Palombo
Located in Surfside, FL
Heavy Hand Forged Brutalist Iron Ram or Goat Sculpture
David Palombo was an Israeli sculptor and painter. He was born in Turkey to a traditional family and immigrated to the Land of Israel with his parents in 1923. They lived in the Nahalat Shiva neighborhood of Jerusalem. In 1940 he began his studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and from 1942 was a student of sculptor Ze’ev Ben-Zvi. For a period of time, Palombo was an assistant at Ben-Zvi’s studio and also taught at Bezalel. During this period he was also a member of the “Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed” (The General Federation of Students and Young Workers in Israel). In the 1940s he took art lessons at night. In 1948 he went to Paris, where he visited the studio of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi whose work influenced him. Around 1958 he married the artist Shulamit Sirota. In 1960 he quit his job to devote himself to art. In 1964 he married for the second time to the artist Yona Palombo. The two of them went to live in an abandoned home on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. In 1966 he was killed when the motorcycle on which he was riding ran into a chain stretched across the street to prevent the desecration of Shabbat. His widow opened a museum in their home that was active until the year 2000.
Work by Palombo is included in the Judaic collection of the Jewish Museum (a well known Hanukkah menora). Palombo executed the impressive metal gates of the Tent of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem, the memorial to the martyrs of the holocaust, as well as the gates to the Knesset Building the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco award) awarded him a scholarship for study in Japan. He worked in marble, granite, bronze, iron and steel. as well as with glass mosaic tiles. Palombo’s early works, in the 1950s, were influenced by modernist sculptors such as Brancusi. These works were composed of abstract images from nature and were carved out of stone or wood. At the end of the 1950s he began making metal sculptors, using the technique of welding. His work took on a more abstract and expressive character.
Education
1940 Painting with Isidor Ascheim, New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem
1942 Sculpture with Zeev Ben Zvi, Jerusalem
1956 Mosaic, Ravenna, Italy
1958 Welding Course
Awards And Prizes
1966 UNESCO Award
Exhibitions:
Sculpture in Israel, 1948-1958 Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
Artists: Zvi Aldouby, Yitzhak Danziger, Arieh Merzer, Dov Feigin, Aaron Priver, David Palumbo, Menashe Kadishman, Kosso Eloul, Yehiel Shemi, Zahara Schatz.
The Spring Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
Artists: Palombo, David Bezalel Schatz, Mordechai Levanon, Fima, Ludwig Blum
12 Artists, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
Avraham Ofek, Aviva Uri, Avigdor Arikha, Yosl Bergner, Lea Nikel, Palombo, Ruth Zarfati,
General Exhibition, Art in Israel 1960 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Artists: Naftali Bezem, Nachum Gutman, Shraga Weil, Shraga, Marcel Janco, Ruth Schloss
Category
Arte Povera Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Reclining Boy
Located in Boston, MA
Initialed and dated: "DVT 61". From the estate of the artist. In fine condition.
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
David Hostetler Figurative Sculpture Torso Gold Plaster Midcentury Rough Surface
Located in Nantucket, MA
Torso 1955 is a cast plaster with oil paint to resemble a bronze cast. The base is wood, carved, sanded and painted. The base shows slight wear on corners. The sculpture is perfect. ...
Category
Feminist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Oil
Six Vintage Stainless Steel Sculptural Dining Chairs Sculpture Mid-Century Set 6
Located in New York, NY
Six Vintage Stainless Steel Sculptural Dining Chairs Sculpture Mid-Century Set
Kings and Queens could feats on these sculptures, this stunning set of six dining chairs. They are art...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Martyrs - Relief Sculpture - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Martyrs is a modern artwork realized by Artist of 20th century.
Relief on metal decoration artwork depicting a martyrdom scene.
Includes frame.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
“Knight and Death” exclusive Dali and Raynaud & Co. ltd. edition porcelain plate
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Salvador Dali
“Knight and Death”
Edition 1740 of 2000
Salvador Dali was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. After passing through phases of Cubism, Futurism a...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Rhapsody
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Bronze sculpture of a musician by Nathaniel Kaz, signed and dated 1952. Measures 23” x 10” x 19” including the plinth base. Nathan Katz was born in the Bronx, NY in 1917, and he die...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Mini-Caryatids - Sculpture by M. Berrocal - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of Mini-Caryatids, Nickel Plated 24 Element Puzzle Sculpture, 1968-1969, Miguel Berrocal.
Signature and number engraved. Edition of 9500 pieces.
Ref. Catalogo general/obras re...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
The Rudder, Terracotta, 1930s
By Ugo Cipriani
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
French Art Deco terracotta sculpture by Ugo Cipriani (1887-1960), France, 1930s. A man operating a rudder. Measurements : Width : 31"(79cm), Height : 16.7"(42.5cm), Depth : 8.7"(22cm). Signed "U.Cipriani" on the base (see photo) and marked "Terre Cuite d'Art".
Son of the sculptor Adolfo Cipriani and Emilia Pancani, Ugo Cipriani is the fifth child of a sibship of nine. He lives in the Oltrarno district of Borgo San Frediano.
After studying at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Ugo Cipriani worked with marble, terracotta, bronze and alabaster in the spirit of the 1920s Art Deco movement. One of his most famous works, a bronze monument...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Modern Brutalist Metal Sculpture of an Abstract Skeletal Figure in a Locker
By Bob Fowler
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract brutalist metal sculpture by Houston artist Bob Fowler. The work features a skeletal figure welded in a box or locker. Firmly attached to a white and natural wood bas...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"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...
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Tribal Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood
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...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
The Flower Seller after Diego Rivera
Located in Pasadena, CA
The flower seller midcentury plaster sculpture after a painting by Diego rivera major Mexican artist.
Some stains from an old varnish
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Panthers in the Jungle Art Deco Carved Gilt Wood Panel by N. R. Brunet
Located in Atlanta, GA
This sumptuous engraved wooden panel depicting panthers in the bush was created by N.R. Brunet (France, 20th Century). Art Deco design typical of the period, N.R. Brunet is known for...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Leda and the Swan modernist mid century sculpture by French woman artist
Located in Norwich, GB
A unique piece: a hand modelled sculpture by French artist Jeannine Nathan (b.1924). Working in Paris, Jeannine was able to visit Picasso’s studio, and was impressed by the
Master’s ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Young Woman Walking With Backpack Terra Cotta Sculpture
By Paul Serste
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Young Woman Walking With Backpack
Terracotta, artist signed.
By noted Belgian sculptor P. Serste signed.
Born in Anderlecht Belgium 1910 and died in Sint Jans Molenbeek 2000. He was a sculptor, painter and water colourist. He was mostly an autodidact. He was particularly renowned for his terracotta and ceramic sculptures of female...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Large Aharon Bezalel Israeli Modernist Bronze Brutalist Puzzle Sculpture Figures
Located in Surfside, FL
Aharon Bezalel (Afghani-Israeli, 1925-2012)
1984
Edition 4/9
Family Grouping
Hand signed in Hebrew with initials and in English
Movable figures that fit together like puzzle pieces in solid cast bronze with original patina on a lucite bench base.
23 X 19 X 6 base is 24 X 6 X 6
Aharon Bezalel (born Afghanistan 1926) Born in Herat, Afghanistan in 1926 and immigrated to Israel at an early age. His father, Reuven Bezalel, was a rabbi and kabbalist. As a youth Aharon studied gold and silver casting as well as applied arts and worked in these fields as a silversmith and judaica craftsman, and was a student of the sculptor Zev Ben-Zvi at the Bezalel Academy for Art & Design where he also studied with Isidor Ascheim and Mordecai Ardon. There he absorbed the basic concepts of classic and modernist art and interpreted, according to them, ideas based on ancient Hebrew sources. He also studied miniature carving with the artists Martin and Helga Rost applying himself at their workshop. Aharon Bezalel worked and resided in Jerusalem, he taught art for many years. His sculptures - works of wood, bronze, aluminum, Plexiglas - were shown at his studio in Ein Kerem. “I saw myself as part of this region. I wanted to find the contact between my art and my surroundings. Those were the first years of Jean Piro’s excavations at the Beer-Sheba mound. They found there, for example, the Canaanite figurines that I especially liked and that were an element that connected me with the past and with this place.” “…a seed and sperm or male and female. These continue life. The singular, the individual alone, cannot exist; I learned this from my father who dabbled with the Kabbalah.”
(Aharon Bezalel, excerpt from an interview with David Gerstein)
“The singular in Aharon Bezalel’s work is always potentially a couple if not a threesome, the one is also the many: when the individual is revealed within the group he will always seek a huddling, a clinging together.
The principle of modular construction is required by this perception of unity and multiplicity, as modular construction in his work is an act of conception or defense. His work bears a similarity to Berrocal as well as affinities to Henry Moore, Lynne Chadwick and Kenneth Armitage. Two poles of unity, potentially alone, exist in A. Bezalel’s world: From a formal, sculptural sense these are the sphere and pillar, metaphorically these are the female in the final stages of pregnancy and the solitary male individual. Sphere-seed-woman; Pillar-strand-man. The disproportional, small heads in A. Bezalel figures leave humankind in it’s primal physical capacity. The woman as a pregnancy or hips, the man as an aggressive or defensive force, the elongated chest serves as a phallus and weapon simultaneously.
(Gideon Ofrat)
EIN HAROD About the Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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