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Period: Mid-20th Century
Veal - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Figure - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Figure in Yellow - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Woman - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Ceramic sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childhood years...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Woman - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Figure - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Ceramic sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childhood years...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Figure - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted ceramic sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childho...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Runner - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted ceramic sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childho...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Worker - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Christ on the Cross - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Figure - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Head of Boy - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Marble sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand carved.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his ch...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Bag of Apples, Mid-Century Ceramic Still Life Sculpture, Cleveland School
By Lawrence Edwin Blazey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Lawrence Blazey (American, 1902-1999)
Bag of Apples, c. 1950
Ceramic
6 x 14 x 5.5 inches, including base
A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Portrait of Ni-Polog
Located in New York, NY
Signed, dated, and inscribed on the verso:
Malvina Hoffman/ Den Pasar/ “Nipolog”-/ © 1932/ Bali
Provenance:
The artist; her estate.
Literature:
Mal...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Scultura figurativa astratta futurista in bronzo
Located in Florence, IT
Il bronzo raffigura un fantino e nel 1957 venne esposto alle personali dell'artista alla Strozzina di Firenze e alla Galleria Cocchini di Livorno. Esiste anche un disegno preparator...
Category
Futurist Mid-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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Opossum, Resin and Patina Sculpture by Marian Weisberg
By Marian Weisberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marian Weisberg, American XXth
Title: Opossum
Year: circa 1969
Medium: Resin-cast Sculpture, signature inscribed on base
Size: 7 x 7 x 3.5 in. (17.78 x 17.78 x 8.89 cm)
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Tête de chèvre de profil (A.R. 145), Pablo Picasso, Design, Ceramic, Madoura
Located in Geneva, CH
PABLO PICASSO
Tête de chèvre de profil (A.R. 145), June 5th, 1952
Ed. 250 pcs
White earthenware, decoration with engobes under partial glaze with a brush
31.5 x 51.5 cm I 12 3/8n x ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Tim Weldon, "10¢ Per Dance" Folk Art Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco-based folk artist Tim Weldon, fresh off a showing at Scottsdale’s annual Celebration of Fine Art, is a man in touch with his lovable inner child. He declares himself a ...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Trois poissons sur fond gris (A.R. 396), Pablo Picasso, Design, Ceramic, Madoura
Located in Geneva, CH
PABLO PICASSO
Trois poissons sur fond gris (A.R. 396), April 11th, 1957
Ed. 76/175 pcs
Red earthenware clay, decoration in engobes, knife engraved, decorated back
D. 41 cm I D. 16 1/...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Crucifixion
By Doris Caesar
Located in Greenwich, CT
signed "Caesar" lower right edge
American, 1892-1971
Doris Porter Caesar was born in 1892 in Brooklyn, New York. Her father’s successful career as a lawyer allowed her to attend Mi...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
AFRICAN BRONZE AND HORN BAMILEKE SCULPTURE
Located in Three Oaks, MI
A beautiful African cast bronze and carved horn sculpture with a patina. Horns were used by the Bamileke tribe of Cameroon as status symbols for ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Animal Bronze: Lying eagle by Alberic Collin (close friend of Rembrandt Bugatti)
Located in Gent, VOV
Numbered 1/8
Cast Fonderie Rocher
A fine cast with a vivid green patina of a bird of prey
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Albéric CollinAnimal Bronze: Lying eagle by Alberic Collin (close friend of Rembrandt Bugatti), 1935
$17,298 Sale Price
25% Off
The Trapdoor
Located in Roma, RM
Arturo Martini (Treviso 1889 - Milan 1947), La Botola (1930 / 1933)
Terracotta sculpture 34 x 42 x 9 cm signed lower left; label of Galleria del Milione, Milan, on back.
Provenance...
Category
Italian School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Entangled bodies, terracotta sculpture, 1942, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981).
Located in Firenze, IT
Entangled bodies, 1942.
Terracotta sculpture by Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981).
Tuscan Sculptor.
Material: Hand-modeled terracotta by the artist.
Unique piece.
Dimensions: Height 23 c...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Woman, Sitting Back on Heels
By Doris Caesar
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, 1892-1971
Doris Porter Caesar was born in 1892 in Brooklyn, New York. Her father’s successful career as a lawyer allowed her to attend Miss Chapin’s School for transferrin...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Clio – Muse of History [κλειώ]
By Joseph Csaky
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH CSAKY 1888-1971
1888 - 1971 Paris (Hungarian/French)
Title: Clio – Muse of History [κλειώ], 1965
Technique: Signed, Dated and Numbered Bronze Sculpture
Size: 54 x 10 x 9....
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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Italian Animal Bronze : Battling Rams by Sirio Tofanari
Located in Gent, VOV
A very rare bronze cast of two battling Rams, by Sirio Tofanari (1886-1969). An old cast with a dark brown shaded patina. On a heavy green marble steppe...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Stone sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand carved.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Head - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Stone sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand carved.
Very Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Woman - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Stone sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand carved.
Very Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Head of Animal - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Stone sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand carved.
Very Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Head - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Stone sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand carved.
Very Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Pair of bookends with Elephants
By Ary Bitter
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of bookends with Elephants
by Ary BITTER (1883-1973)
A very fine pair of bronze sculptures with a nuanced green patina
Signed " Ary Bitter Sclp " on an original plaque on one o...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Fleet Moment
By Doris Caesar
Located in Greenwich, CT
Featured in the Doris Caesar catalog by Martin H. Bush, page 110.
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
“Santa Cruz de las Huertas Jalisco”, Ceramic, Glaze, Colors, Mexican Folkart
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
“Santa Cruz de las Huertas Jalisco” is a whimsical, charming and colorfully ceramic rendition painted blue and red of a local bus that traversed the town where the artist Candelario Medrano...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Picador, A.R. 200
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1953, ceramic Picador A.R. 200 is a round plate of white earthenware clay with oxidized paraffin decoration (brown, green, white) in a stanniferous enamel bath...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
$9,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Luigi Broggini Catalogued 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 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Vintage Israeli Judaica Rabbi Praying Mechanical Sculpture Frank Meisler
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Vintage unusual piece.
In this bronze or metal sculpture by Frank Meisler, the artist recreates a Rabbi at prayer. The figure seems cartoon-like with exaggerated facial features...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
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
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Mini-Zoraida, Puzzle Sculpture by Berrocal 1969
Located in Long Island City, NY
A puzzle sculpture by Miguel Berrocal from 1970. This sculpture comes apart in 25 pieces. In original box with booklet
Artist: Miguel Berrocal, Spanish (1933 - 2006)
Title: Mini-Zor...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Portrait of Italo Balbo - Original Wooden Sculpture by Marco Novati - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Signed lower right: Marco Novati
Italo Balbo was one of the key figures of Italian fascism, being among the four quadrumvirs of the March toward Rome whic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Rare Vintage Israeli Judaica Rabbi Klezmer Violinist Sculpture Frank Meisler Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Vintage unusual piece.
In this bronze or metal sculpture by Frank Meisler, the artist depicts a Klezmer violin player The figure seems cartoon-like with exaggerated facial featu...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
Corrida sur fond noir, Picasso, Multiple, 1950's, Animal, Toros, Spanish, Plate
Located in Geneva, CH
Corrida sur fond noir, Picasso, Multiple, 1950's, Animal, Toros, Spanish, Plate
Corrida sur fond noir
Ed. 500 pcs
25.09.1953
White earthenware c...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
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
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Mother and Child
By Chaim Gross
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A modernist gilt bronze sculpture of a Mother and Child set on a marble base.
Signed on bronze base.
Great condition
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Singing
Located in PARIS, FR
Singing
by Hubert YENCESSE (1900-1987)
A bronze sculpture with a nuanced brown patina
signed on the base " H. Yencesse "
cast by " A. Rudier fondeur Paris " (with the foundry mark)
...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nude Walking, Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture, Cleveland School Artist
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945)
Nude Walking, 1930
Bronze
Signed and dated on base
17 x 9 x 4 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
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ena Rottenberg Glass Sculpture, 1937, Nude Figure “Modell”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Ena Rottenberg (1893-1952) art glass sculpture titled "Modell.”
Made in Czechoslovakia. Marked “Rottenberg” 13" H.
This piece was awarded the Grand Prix at the World’s Fair Paris, 19...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Statue Songye, Kneeling Male Figure, Democratic Republic of Congo
Located in Cotignac, FR
A Songye Male Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the male figure resting on one knee, with openwork arms and hands resting by the abdomen which contains various charms a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$3,629 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
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
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 Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Burled Maple Sculpture Nude Woman with Arms Over Head and Stone
Located in Soquel, CA
Burled Maple Sculpture Nude Woman with Arms Over Head
Beautiful burled walnut sculpture of a nude woman. The woman stands with her arms stretched over her head. Behind her a dark st...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
"Owl" Bronze Sculpture, Caricature, Rich Dark Brown Surface
Located in Detroit, MI
The bronze sculpture "Owl" is an exaggerated rendition of an owl that emphasizes the bird's most prominant characteristics - a big fluffy round body and large unblinking eyes making it a charicature of the bird. It is very touchable and calls for one to pet its rounded back. Tom Brun, the sculptor and zookeeper, is well-known for his wood, stone, marble, ceramics and ivory sculptures. One of them, a large hippopotamus, carved from walnut wood travelled the world in the State Department collection.
It is said that Tom would often go into a house and pick up one of his sculptures and say that it was unfriendly – meaning that it had not been handled enough. Morley Driver has said of Brun in a newspaper article from the 1950’s “In Any Animal He Sees Beauty”: No one who has ever seen a Tom Brun hippopotamus will ever again think of it as ugly or ungainly, meaning that the artist not only gives you beauty but teaches you to see it. Tom has said: “Small pieces are like a proverb – a gem of meaning that one can dissect.” They are meant to be picked up, caressed and held. This owl, too, seems destined to be caressed.
Brun was born in England in 1913. A few years after the end of World War I his father moved the family in 1919 to Detroit, Michigan. In 1935 at age 23, he officially became a U.S. citizen. He served in the army during World War II for five years and upon discharge and at the age of 36 took advantage of the GI Bill and applied for admission to Society of Arts and Crafts (now known as the College for Creative Studies) where he was gladly accepted.
While at Arts and Crafts his instructors and established artists such as Sarkis Sarkisian, John P. Foster, Morris Brose, Richard Koslow, Patricia Burnett, Lloyd and Renee Radell...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Seated Woman (1958) by Chana Orloff (1888–1968)
By Chana Orloff
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Chana Orloff (1888–1968)
Seated Woman, 1958
Bronze, Height: 55 cm
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/8
Stamped with foundry mark Susse Fondeur, Paris
A masterful example of Chana Orloff’...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Latin American Raúl Valdivieso Bronze Organic Abstract Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
Striking bronze organic sculpture by Latin American sculptor Raúl Valdivieso (Chilean, 1931-1993). Valdivieso is known for his reinterpretation of the ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,925 Sale Price
30% Off