Modern Figurative Sculptures
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Bull (Taureau) - Original Ceramic MADOURA - Edition of 500 (Ramié #177)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso
Bull (Taureau), 1952
Original ceramic of Pablo Picasso, white faience earth, enamel and oxidized paraffin decoration
Annotated on the Back : Empreinte originale Picass...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Flute Player and Goat - Original Ceramic MADOURA - Edition of 450 (Ramié #382)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso
Flute Player and Goat, 1956
Original ceramic of Pablo Picasso, white faience earth, enamel and oxidized paraffin decoration
Annotated on the Back : Empreinte originale...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bird with Worm - Original Ceramic MADOURA - Edition of 500 (Ramié #172)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso
Bird with Worm, 1952
Original ceramic of Pablo Picasso, white faience earth, enamel and oxidized paraffin decoration
Annotated on the Back : Empreinte originale Picass...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
At the Sea, Beach Scene - Original Ceramic MADOURA - Edition of 450 (Ramié #391)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso
At the Sea, Beach Scene : Bathers, 1956
Original ceramic of Pablo Picasso, white faience earth, black covered bath and enamel
Annotated on the Back : Empreinte origina...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bronze Abstract Space Age Book Sculpture LA California Modernist Charna Rickey
Located in Surfside, FL
Charna Rickey 1923 - 2000 Mexican-American Jewish Woman artist.
Signed Bronze House of Books, Architecture Bronze sculpture, signed Charna Rickey and on the front "House of the book." It depicts an open Torah. Original patina.
Approx. dimensions: 7 in. H x 9 in. W x 8.5 in. D. Weight: 13.1 lbs.
Modernist Judaica Sculpture
Born Charna Barsky (Charna Ysabel or Isabel Rickey Barsky) in Chihuahua, Mexico, the future artist lived in Hermosillo and immigrated to Los Angeles when she was 11. She was educated at UCLA and Cal State L.A., she married furniture retailer David Rickey and explored art while raising their three daughters. Moving through phases in terra cotta, bronze, marble and aluminum, she found success later in life. Rickey became one of the original art teachers at Everywoman's Village, a pioneering learning center for women established by three housewives in Van Nuys in 1963. She also taught sculpture at the University of Judaism from 1965 to 1981.
As Rickey became more successful, her sculptures were exhibited in such venues as Artspace Gallery in Woodland Hills and the Courtyard of Century Plaza Towers as part of a 1989 Sculpture Walk produced by the Los Angeles Arts Council. Her sculptures have also found their way into the private collections of such celebrities as Sharon Stone.
Another of Rickey's international creations originally stood at Santa Monica College. In 1985, her 12-foot-high musical sculpture shaped like the Hebrew letter "shin" was moved to the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The free standing architectural Judaic aluminum work has strings that vibrate in the wind to produce sounds. Rickey also created art pieces for the city of Brea. They commissioned some amazing art pieces by Laddie John Dill, Walter Dusenbery...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Circus Acrobats WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991)
Patinated cast bronze sculpture,
Three Acrobats,
signed
mounted on black marble plinth
24.5"h x 14"w x 7"d (bronze alone)
Chaim Gross (March ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Portrait of Giosuè Carducci -Mixed Media by Libero Andreotti Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Giosuè Carducci is an original modern artwork realized by Libero Andreotti in the first half of 20th century.
Relief on copper plate.
Includes frame.
Signature on the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Venus, Unique Carved Green Onyx Sculpture by Anthony Quinn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Date: circa 1980
Green Onyx sculpture on marble base, signature inscribed at base
Size: 45 x 10 x 10 in. (114.3 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm)
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Reclining Figure" Louise Nevelson, Modernist, Human Form, Abstracted Body
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson
Reclining Figure, circa 1943
Tattistone
8 inches high x 21 inches wide x 9 inches deep
With base 10 inches high x 21 3/4 inches wide x 9 1/2 inches deep
Provenance
T...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Nativity Scene By Leo Salazar Hand Carved Cedar Wood 1960s
By Leo Salazar
Located in Detroit, MI
Nativity Scene with Blessed Mary, Kneeling Joseph, Angel, One Shepherd, One King, Manger, Baby Jesus, and Two Animals. The figures range in height from 18.5" to 12"; animals are 3" ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cedar
Bronze Sculpture Flutist American Modernist Art Stanley Bleifeld Girl with Flute
Located in Surfside, FL
Retaining a fine patina and in overall good condition.
Signed with initials SB.
I believe the edition size was 7 But I cannot find a mark.
Stanley Bleifeld (1924 – 2011) was an American sculptor.
Stanley Bleifeld was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Bleifeld earned bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of science in education and in 1949 a master of fine arts degree in painting at Tyler School of Art of Temple University. After a trip to Rome in 1959 or 1960 he gave up painting for sculpture. He began his fine-art career as a painter. However, a visit to Italy and exposure to the bronzes of Donatello, Michelangelo, and Ghiberti changed his direction He worked with the Art Foundry of Massimo del Chiaro and alongside artists such as Lucchesi, Harry Marinsky, Fernando Botero, Igor Mitoraj and Ivan Theimer. Many of his early pieces were religious subjects, and reflected both painting and sculptural techniques in bas reliefs* that had "liquid landscapes in undulating reliefs and free-flowing portraits reminiscent of classical fragments" (166-167). He later turned from these abstract pieces to more realistic figures in bronze.
Bleifeld was a National Academician in Sculpture, and a member of the National Academy of Design, and helped set policy for that organization. He was also President of the National Sculpture Society. Past presidents of the society have included John Quincy Adams Ward, James Earle Fraser, Chester Beach, Wheeler Williams, Leo Friedlander, Neil Estern, and Cecil de Blaquiere Howard. The first woman to gain admission into the NSS was Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, in 1893. She was followed a few years later by Enid Yandell and Bessie Potter Vonnoh in 1898; Janet Scudder in 1904; Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1905 and Evelyn Longman and Abastenia St. Leger Eberle in 1906. In 1946, Richmond Barthé was likely the first African-American to be admitted.
In 1994, the NSS held their first exhibition outside the United States at the Palazzo Mediceo Di Seravezza in Italy. Titled “100 Years of the National Sculpture Society of the United States of America in Italy” it ran from the 16th of July through the 4th of September and was curated by Nicky and Stanley Bleifeld along with Costantino Paolicchi, Lodovico Gierut and Paolo Giorgi. Among the 60 notable American sculptors whose work was selected for the exhibition were Stanley Bleifeld, Andrew DeVries, Neil Estern, Leonda Finke...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid Century Sgraffito, Saltimbanque and the Card Player, Circle of Picasso.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Tete de Femme III, Modern Cast Stone Sculpture after Amedeo Modigliani
Located in Long Island City, NY
Amedeo Modigliani, After, Italian (1884 - 1920) - Tete de Femme III, Medium: Cast Stone Sculpture, Size: 22 x 6.5 x 5.5 in. (55.88 x 16.51 x 13.97 cm), Publisher: Austin Productions
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Mexican Art Abstract Brutalist Gilt Steel Geometric Sculpture Mathias Goeritz
By Mathias Goeritz
Located in Surfside, FL
Mathias Goeritz (German Mexican, 1915-1990)
Geometric Torch-cut Steel or Iron Sculpture with gold leaf gilding. Welded signature, MG. This came from an estate and is signed with his ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Gold Leaf, Steel
Large Rare Signoretto Murano Glass Aventurine Menorah Italian Sculpture Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Giancarlo Signoretto (Italian, 1962-)
Glass Sculpture
Undated
Hand signed and dedicated to a gallery on underside.
Depicting a gold menorah and a Jewish star of David over cobalt...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Tête de Femme, after Modigliani
Located in Long Island City, NY
Tete de Femme after Modigliani, produced by Austin Productions in 1961. Austin Productions started in Brooklyn in 1952 and began manufacturing reprodu...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Israeli Bronze Sculpture Lovers Embrace Abstract Modernist Ein Hod Israel
By Gedalia Ben Zvi
Located in Surfside, FL
Bronze sculpture signed in Hebrew and numbered from small edition of 6
BIOGRAPHY
"I was born in Czechoslovakia in the year 1925, of traditional parents. I spent my youth partly in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kneeling Nude
By Bernard Simon
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Primarily a figure sculptor in marble and wood, he was born in Russia. In New York City, he studied at the Educational Alliance and Art Workshop and was active in numerous art associ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
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Owl with Feathers - Original Ceramic Madoura - Ltd to 300 - Catalog Ramié #122
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso
Chouette aux plumes (Owl with Feathers)
Original ceramic of Picasso made of white earthenware clay, partially engraved, with colored engobe and glaze.
Annoted "Edition...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Petite Cuirasse Bronze Torso Sculpture
By Igor Mitoraj
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Petite Cuirasse Bronze Torso Sculpture
Igot Mitoraj (Polish, 1944-2014)
signed in the mold, from an unnumbered edition of 1500 bronze with gilt patina on lucite base.
Dimensions of...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sculpture
Located in PARIS, FR
A polychrome terracotta figure depicting a woman with raised arms resting on her head. The rounded body is decorated with red-orange star motifs, and the base rests on a small rectan...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bowl with Interior Still Life (Mid-Century, Lounge Chair, Stereo Tower, 42% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Melanie Sherman
Bowl with Interior Still Life (Handmade, Mid-Century, Lounge Chair, Stereo Tower, Speakers, Gold Luser)
Earthenware, 24K German Gold Luster, Glaze, Underglaze, China ...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Luster, Paint, Glaze, Earthenware
Marianne "Initial BB " Don de BRIGITTE BARDOT
Located in CANNES, FR
Alain Gourdon dit ASLAN ( 1930 -2014 )
" Initial BB " Buste de Brigitte Bardot en Marianne par Aslan .
dédicace signée de Brigitte Bardot avec une marguerite .
( Don de BRIGIT...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Monumental Italian Rationalist Marble Sculptures of Young Athletes
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athletes figure , on a cylindrical base . Exaltation of the male strength and beauty, inspired by the trend i...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Barge Toiler -Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Labor Plaster Depression-Era Sculpture
By Max Kalish
Located in New York, NY
"Barge Toiler" by Max Kalish is a Mid 20th Century modern Depression-Era sculpture from his Labor series. The WPA era work is made of plaster.
Max Kalish (1891 – 1945)
Barge Toiler
12 x 8”x 4 inches
Patinated plaster
Signed and monogramed
BIO
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
1930s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Femme Du Barbu (A.R.193)
Located in PARIS, FR
Stamps under the base: Edition Picasso; Madoura Plein Feu and inscribed: Edition Picasso
White earthenware, decoration engraved with a knife under partial glaze; black, beige
Alain...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Shifting Migrations (14 Blue Birds)
Located in Dallas, TX
(14) Blue Bird Sculptures (nails on back for installation).
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Pigment
STRIDENT MAN Carved Wood Sculpture Hollywood WPA Modernist Puppet Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
This 18 x 9 x 4 inch carved wood sculpture is unsigned and comes directly from the artist's family.
Louis 'Lou' Bunin (28 March 1904 – 17 February 1994) was an American puppeteer, artist, and pioneer of stop-motion animation in the latter half of the twentieth century. While working as a mural artist under Diego Rivera in Mexico City in 1926, Bunin created political puppet shows using marionettes...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Contemporary Solid Bronze sculpture of a ballerina 'Tutu' by Benson Landes
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Tutu' is a beautiful sculpture of a ballerina leaning 'en barre'. The elegance and grace of the ballerina is perfectly depicted in the sculpture.
Benson's theme is predominately the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Omaggio To Picasso Murano Glass Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Omaggio To Picasso Woman in Hat Murano Glass Sculpture
Artist signed and titled.
Walter Furlan was born (1931-2018) in Chioggia, a small town near Venice. He started to work in a f...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Francisco Zuniga Bronze Sculpture, 1964, Reclining Mother with Shawl
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Zuniga bronze, edition: 3. #472 catalog raisonne:
"Madre Reclinada con Rebozo".
Measures: 5 3/4" H x 12" L x 8" W not including the wood plinth.
Signed Zuniga and dated 1964.
"Letter of Authenticity", issued by the Zuniga foundation
(and son Ariel Zuniga...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"HORSE TAMER" BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in San Antonio, TX
John Bennett
(Born 1952)
Fredericksburg, Texas Artist
Image Size: 22 x 39 across x 11
Medium: Bronze
"Horse Tamer"
John Bennett (Born 1952)
John Bennett was designated Texas State Ar...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Polish Modernist Prancing Horses Bronze Expressionist Art Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed bronze from small edition of 8. plus 4 artists proofs
Dominik Albiński
(born 1975, South Africa)
He started carving at the age of twelve. When he was eighteen he went to Pari...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Bull, Bronze Sculpture by Modern Indian Artist B. Vithal "In Stock"
By B. Vithal
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
B. Vithal – Horse – H 13 x W 14 x D 5 inches
Bronze
Born : 1935 Vardha Maharashtra
Died : 1992
Education : Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai
Exhibitions :
Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2013 'The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art', Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
2011 'Agape', Hacienda Art...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Untitled" bronze sculpture of seated female figure by artist Felipe Castañeda
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Untitled" bronze sculpture of a female nude by artist Felipe Castañeda. Inscribed F. Castañeda 1984 P/A on base.
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bill Haendel Americana 'A Child's War' Cast Paper Relief Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Other
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions w/Mat: 20" x 21"
Bas relief on hand-made paper; Visual statement of society’s role in...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Female Figure
Located in New York, NY
It is marvelous to find discoveries such as Lorrie Goulet's female form, one of our few American women sculptors who direct carved in marble. Goulet has an attractive technique of u...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Mother and Baby Playing WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991)
Cast bronze sculpture
Caring (or Mother and Child)
signed
Mounted on wooden plinth
Featuring a mother raising her child up in superb high relied i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Nike Torso-Bronze Sculpture Ed. 1/6
Located in Zug, CH
Hermann Rastorfer was a draftsman, painter, sculptor, illustrator, ceramist, designer, poster artist, developer of advertising concepts and communication campaigns, inventor, and architect. He began as a typesetter in Salzburg. In the mid-1950s, he moved to Germany, where he soon founded his own studio for graphic design and advertising. His goal was always to give each product a distinctive, highly recognizable appearance. He designed his own design line for the German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, artistic cover images for numerous paperbacks from renowned publishers, and packaging for well-known products such as Ferrero Küsschen, Mon Chéri, Martell cognac...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Venus, Modern Abstract Figurative Sculpture #37
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful small scale abstract figurative stone Venus sculpture by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010), 1975. A highly abstracted female form is expressed through the organic, fl...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone
Victory (La Vittoria) - Sculpture by Adolfo Wildt - 1990
By Adolfo Wildt
Located in Roma, IT
Second Edition of 6 copies plus 3 Artist’s Proofs, realized in 1990 after the famous homonymous sculpture realized by Wildt in 1918/19. Authorized by Wildt's heirs, from the original...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Grande Tête De Femme Au Chapeau Orné (Woman’s Big Head with Decked Hat)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1964, this red earthenware clay big rectangular plaque printed with engobe pad is #15 from the edition of 50. This work is stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU’ and ‘EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO’ stamps on the reverse.
Pablo Picasso Grande Tête De Femme Au Chapeau Orné (Woman’s Big Head with Decked Hat), 1964 A.R. 518 is a remarkable and beautiful work. It represents Picasso’s most important relationships at the time, namely his artistic partnership with the Ramiés and his romance with Jacqueline Roque. It is also notably one of two ceramic works Picasso has ever made of this scale. Picasso takes immense care in depicting this portrait of his greatest muse Jacqueline; its wonderful texture and delicate variations in line weight are testaments to the artist’s innate creative skill.
Composed of a simple linear carved design in an earth tone clay plaque...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Morris Brose "Bronze Bull" Figurative Sculptural Abstract
Located in Detroit, MI
"Bronze Bull" is an exquisite example of Morris Brose's abstract/figurative sculpture. No soft edges on this piece and no invitation to caress, the power, strength and beauty of the bronze are front and center and create awe. "Bronze Bull" is a free-standing piece signed on the base.
Morris Brose, Polish/American was born in Wyszkow, Poland. He became a sculptor and instructor of sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancer, Signed Cast Paper Relief by Bruno Lucchesi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dancer by Bruno Lucchesi, Italian (1926)
Date: circa 1970s
Cast paper reflief, signed and numbered
Edition of 85/300
Size: 28 x 25 in. (71.12 x 63.5 cm)
Frame Size: 35.5 x 31.5 inches
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Lapin, by Sandoz, rabbit, animal, sculpture, bronze, 1910's, swiss artist, cast
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin, modèle 5, circa 1919-1921
Fondeur Susse
Bronze with brown patina
6.5 x 4.9 x 6.5 cm
Inscribed and foundry stamp : Ed.m.Sandoz, Susse Frères Editeurs
Certificate of authentici...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"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
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Couple II" Mid 20th Century Modern Abstract Figurative 1940s European Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"Couple II" Mid 20th Century Modern Abstract Figurative 1940s European Sculpture
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
"Couple II"
Bronze
signed on the base
The sculpture was conceived in 19...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lapin assis, tête tournée, Sandoz, 1910's, bronze, animal, rabbits, rare proof
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin assis, tête tournée, circa 1919-1921
Fondry Susse, Ed. 3/5 pcs
circa 1919-1921
Rare bronze proof with a brown patina
8.5 x 5.5 x 6.5 cm
Certificate of authenticity issued by th...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lapin, by Sandoz, Animal, sculpture, rabbit, bronze, 1940's, brown patina
Located in Geneva, CH
Lapin, modèle 6, circa 1944-1949
Edition Leblanc-Barbedienne
Bronze with a brown patina
7.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
Sandoz : Sculpteur Figuriste et Animalier 1881-1971, Catalogue Raisonné de l...
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1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Tovar" figurative bronze of a llama walking with pride
By Wayne Salge
Located in Edgartown, MA
The historic tradition of cast bronze provides a contemporary avenue for the creation of Wayne Salge’s abstracted human and animal figures. Thoroughly modern and distinctly impressio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tete de Chevre Goat Head - Original Ceramic MADOURA - Edition /100 (Ramié #148)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso
Tall Dish witth Goat Head, 1952
Original ceramic of Pablo Picasso, white faience earth and enamel
Stamp on the Back : Empreinte originale Picasso - Madoura Plein Feu
L...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
RECLINGING WOMAN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ANTONIUCCI VOLTI
"RECLINGING WOMAN"
BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 2/6
VALSUANI FOUNDRY
ITALiAN, WORKED IN PARIS, C.1960
6.5 X 18.5 X 10.5 INCHES
Antoniucci Volti
1915-1989
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family lived in Italy until 1920 when the family moved to France.
Volti studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice from 1928 to 1920. By 1932 the young artist had won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs before going to Paris, where he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of only fifteen.
After serving in the Second World War, when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Bavaria, he returned in poor health to Paris, only to find his studio destroyed.
From 1947 he showed work at various Paris Salons and, in 1954 and 1955 at the Brussels and Antwerp Biennales. In 1957 a retrospective of his work was organized at the Museum Rodin in Paris.
He died in Paris in 1989 Works by Volti are in leading museums such as the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Antoniucci Volti is one of the most important Late Modern...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$23,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Ouvrir les Frontières pour Mr. Olingou
Located in Atlanta, GA
The universal theme of travel has always inspired Bruno Catalano. Since he started to knead clay, hundreds of “Travellers” went out of his feverish hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Tete de chevre de profil (Goats head in Profile) Unique color Variant, A.R. 154
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1952, Pablo Picasso Tete de chevre de profil (Goats head in Profile) Unique color Variant, 1952, A.R. 154 is an original white earthe...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Glaze
Corrida with Spectators - Original Ceramic MADOURA - Edition /50 (Ramié #104)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso
Corrida with Spectators, 1950
Original ceramic of Pablo Picasso, white faience earth and enamel
Stamp on the Back : Empreinte originale Picasso - Madoura Plein Feu
Lim...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
The Dancer - Sculpture by Giacomo Manzù - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
The Dancer is a sculpture realized by Giacomo Manzù in 1957. Unique piece.
Exhibitions:
Manzù. L’Uomo e l’Artista, Palazzo Venezia, Roma 2002-2003
Manzù-Marino. Gli ultimi moderni,...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Petite tête, profil gauche (Small Head, Left Profile), A.R. 535
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1965, this terre de faïence sculpture with white slip is inscribed on the sculptural base with the atelier stamps ‘EDITION PICASSO’ and ‘MADOURA...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Faience, Slip
$39,600 Sale Price
55% Off
Harmony, 20th century bronze & green marble base, nude man and woman with lyre
By Max Kalish
Located in Beachwood, OH
Max Kalish (American, 1891-1945)
Harmony, c. 1930
Bronze with green marble base
Incised signature on right upper side of base
14 x 9 x 5 inches, excluding base
17 x 10 x 8 inches, including base
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...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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