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Art Subject: Bronze
Frog Proposal by Helle Crawford, Bronze sculpture of a horse carrying a woman
Located in DE
Bronze sculpture of a horse carrying lady Godiva
Limited Edition of 8
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Belle Main (Les mains libre) - Bronze sculpture by Man Ray - 1971
By Man Ray
Located in Roma, IT
Belle Main (Les mains libre) is a bronze sculpture realized by Man Ray in 1971.
Signed with initials and numbered on the base.
Cast by Fratelli Barberis in Turin for Luciano Anselm...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Odalisque", Nude Side Lying Woman Figurative Bronze Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This Bronze by Isabelle Jeandot is one edition of a limited series of twelve original sculptures, and it will be delivered with the certificate of aut...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ravageot and Ravageode
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze with nuanced dark brown patina
Old edition cast
version with a leash at the necks of dogs
France
circa 1890
height 14,5 cm
diam. 17 cm
A similar model is reproduced in "Emma...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Reclining Boy
Located in Boston, MA
Initialed and dated: "DVT 61". From the estate of the artist. In fine condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Atlas Shrugged - Greek Mythology Inspired Bronze Sculpture on Granite Base
By Dean Kugler
Located in Chicago, IL
Dean Kugler
Atlas Shrugged, 2024
bronze, ed. 9/12
22h x 14.50w x 16d in
55.88h x 36.83w x 40.64d cm
ed. 9/12
DK0046
Dean Kugler is a seasoned interdisciplinary artist, painter, and ...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Surreal Bronze Sculpture by Lorenzo Quinn
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Surrealist bronze sculpture by Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn depicting a male figure with hands reaching into his chest. Published to benefit the World ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Pair of Russian Wolf Hound/Borzoi Dog Portrait Sculptures circa 1930's
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Pair of Russian Wolfhounds/Borzois Dog Portrait Sculptures
by Scalini (aka Scali; Italian, 20th century)
circa 1930's
Patinated spelter
9 x 14 inches (on bases)
Though rath...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Bronze
French 19th century Animalier bronze of Two Hares on a naturalistic base
Located in Bath, Somerset
19th century bronze group of a standing and sitting hare by French animalier sculptor Alfred Dubucand (1823-1894). Finely detailed bronze with good dark brown patination. Signature '...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
By Christophe Fratin, Lurking Lion
Located in Milan, IT
Christophe Fratin (Metz, 1801 - Le Raincy, 1864)
Lion lurking
Bronze with dark patina, 30 x 51 x 14 cm
Signed "FRATIN" on the base and dated "1854"
Bibliography: Michel Poletti, ...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Monumental French Patinated Bronze Bust of William Shakespeare, after Houdon
Located in New York, NY
A Monumental French Patinated Bronze Bust of William Shakespeare, after Houdon, by F. Barbedienne Foundry, circa 1870.
Masterfully and realistically sculpted in solid bronze, this b...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Louvre, Bronze after P. Julien Executed from a Marble Ordered by Marie-Antoinette
Located in Paris, FR
This splendid sculpture represents Young Girl with a Goat (Amalthea and Jupiter's Goat), after the original by Pierre Julien commissioned by Louis XVI in 1785 and completed in 1787 for the cot of Queen Marie-Antoinette in Rambouillet. The work of the sculptor Pierre Julien decorated the interior of a grotto in a pavilion decorated with bas-reliefs by the same sculptor
(acquired by the State by dation in 2003). The work was the main element of a rock basin, which was destroyed during the renovation of the gardens of the small castle.
The same sculpture was seized during the Revolution and exhibited in the Louvre from 1829. The terracotta sketch, which belonged to the collector Ernst May, must have adorned his château de la Couharde (Yvelines) before entering the Louvre's collections in 1920.
The bronze set with a beautiful gilded patina presented here is a work after the original by Pierre Julien (1731-1804) and dates from the 19th century (around 1850).
The superbly preserved sculpture, which has belonged to the same family since its acquisition, is presented on its original base in grey serpentine marble.
The quality of this work is doubly certified:
- on the one hand it is stamped with a round stamp at the top "A. This stamp is a sign of high quality. Achille Collas (1794 - 1859) was the French engineer, engraver and illustrator, inventor among other things of the patented mathematical reduction process of the 19th century to reproduce sculpted objects in reduction, which was very successful. He was awarded a prize at the 1855 exhibition: his "Procédé mécanique", the name under which he prints all his productions, is easily recognisable by the finesse of its execution and by the famous stamp which appears on the base (terrace) of this sculpture.
- On the other hand, an important signature is found on the terrace of the sculpture "F. Barbedienne Fondeur", founder. In 1844, Achille Collas, in order to protect his invention, formed the Société Collas et Barbedienne (Paris) with the art founder Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892), which began to produce and sell famous but smaller sculptures in plaster, wood, bronze or ivory.
The first object to be marketed was the Venus de Milo after the original in the Louvre Museum. Other sculptures such as the sculpture of George Washington, of which a bronze bust was made by the Barbedienne & Process Collas foundry, are currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
HEIGHT OF THE SCULPTURE without base 69CM + BASE = 84CM
WIDTH OF THE SCULPTURE without base 28 CM + BASE = 30,5 CM
LENGTH OF THE SCULPTURE without base 46 CM + BASE 51 CM
The Collas and Barbedienne company was highlighted at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, the objects of the Barbedienne foundry received a medal and sales soared. At the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, the Barbedienne company again presented a large number of its compositions, including the large neo-Renaissance clock of 1878.
This clock, which was part of the Leblanc-Barbedienne estate, was donated by his heirs to the city of Paris, and is kept in the city hall.
Pierre Julien (20 June 1731 - 17 December 1804) was a French neo-classical sculptor who worked in the full range of rococo and neoclassical styles.
He had an early apprenticeship in Le Puy-en-Velay, near his native village of Saint-Paulien, and then at the École de Dessin in Lyon, before entering the Paris workshop of Guillaume Coustou le Jeune. In 1765, he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a bas-relief panel depicting a subject from Antiquity and entered the Royal School for Protected Pupils, which offered a special curriculum under the direction of the painter Louis-Michel van Loo. He was a boarder at the Académie de France in Rome from 1768 to 1773, where he was influenced by the wave of neoclassicism affecting his fellow students. As boarders were required to do, he sent back to France a slightly reduced marble copy of the so-called Cleopatra, the Sleeping Ariadne from the Vatican, which survives in Versailles.
Back in France and with his former master, he worked on the sculpture of the mausoleum of Louis, the Grand Dauphin, in the cathedral of Sens. After a failed attempt in 1776, with his Ganymede, he was accepted by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1778, with a Dying Gladiator. He was appointed one of the first members of the Institut de France in 1795, and knight of the Legion of Honour in 1804.
He was commissioned by the Count of Angiviller, director of the King's Buildings, on behalf of Louis XVI, to paint the figures for a series of life-size portraits of the great men of France: he produced a Jean de La Fontaine and a Nicolas Poussin, whom he chose to depict in a nightgown, similar to the draperies of a Roman toga. While fulfilling commissions in Paris, for the church of Sainte-Geneviève (now the Panthéon, Paris), or for the Pavillon de Flore in the Louvre, he sculpted in 1785 a virtuoso marble set representing the nymph Amalthée and Jupiter's nurse goat for the Queen's Dairy at the Château de Rambouillet; for his model, he adapted the pose of the famous Venus of the Capitoline. The bas-reliefs of the Dairy, considered his masterpieces, were sold at auction in 1819, but were recovered by the State in 2005, thanks to a gift from the son of the great dealer-collector Daniel Wildenstein.
19th century French school, after Pierre Julien (1731-1804)Amalthea and Jupiter's Goat
Bronze with a light brown patina and gilding, reduction made after the marble by Pierre-Julien 1785 executed for Marie-Antoinette at the Laiterie du parc du château de Rambouillet in the Louvre Museum.
Among his major works:
- Dying Gladiator, marble, 1779, Musée du Louvre.
- Ganymede pouring nectar to Jupiter changed into an eagle, [4] marble group, 1776-1778, Paris, Musée du Louvre.
- Jean de La Fontaine, marble, 1783-85. Musée du Louvre
- Nicolas Poussin, marble, 1789 - 1804. Musée du Louvre
- Sketch of a model in terracotta by Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1787 - 1788. Musée du Louvre
- Amalthea and Jupiter's goat, marble group, 1787 for the Rambouillet Dairy. The Queen's Dairy at Rambouillet
- The girl with the goat, terracotta statuette, 1786. Louvre Museum
- Sainte Geneviève restoring her mother's sight, terracotta bas-relief, 1776. Musée du Louvre
The works of the famous sculptor Pierre Julien have been referenced in several books and catalogues, including
The exhibition catalogue. Gilles Grandjean and Guilhem Scherf. "Pierre Julien 1731-1804". Le Puy-en-Velay, France: Musée Crozatier, 2004.
The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press, 1981), cat. no. 24, pp 184-87).
Michael Preston Worley, 2003. Pierre Julien: Sculptor to Queen Marie Antoinette. The first modern monograph.
Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution, a catalogue from the libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online in PDF format), which contains information on Julien.
Excerpts from the Grove Dictionary of Art online
Pierre Julien in American Public Collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
STATUE BARE (BODY) NANNY GOAT (ANIMAL) AMALTHAEA SITTING WOMAN
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19th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Mini Nail #2
By David Tanych
Located in Napa, CA
David Tanych has been building objects since his father gave him a saw, hammer, nails and a block of wood at the age of 10.
A veteran home and furniture builder, David turned his in...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Fine Patinated bronze Flore et Zephyr Statue by Mathurin Moreau
Located in New York, NY
MATHURIN MOREAU (FRENCH, 1822-1912)
Flore et Zephyr
Signed 'Mthrin Moreau' (to the base), rotating socle applied with engrave plaquette 'FLORE ET ZEPHIR / PAR Mathurin MOREAU / MEDAI...
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19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jupiter 3
Located in Palm Desert, CA
My Jupiter Series is part of a new series of pieces started while quarantining in this pandemic time. They are hand cast solid bronze relief sculptures mounted on black granite bases...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Untitled Portrait Head (perhaps Arnold Geissbuhler, the artist’s husband)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled Portrait Head (perhaps Arnold Geissbuhler, the artist’s husband), c. 1920s, bronze, signed verso, 11 x 9 x 7 inches (excluding base)
Elizabeth Chase was a sculptor, printma...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Crusader with shield and mace / - Ready to strike -
Located in Berlin, DE
Josef Moest (1873 Cologne - 1914 Rath), Crusader with shield and mace, around 1910. Bronze on a black marble pedestal (19 cm high). 57.5 cm (total height) x 21 cm (width) x 12 cm (de...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lucifer Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology Male Figure Wings Angel
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Lucifer Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology Male Figure Wings Angel
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Foundry Worker
Located in San Francisco, CA
This sculpture "The Foundry Worker" c.1925 is a bronze sculpture by German artist Albert Caasmann, 1886-1968. The signature is impressed in the bronze. The subject size is 11.15 x 8.15 x 3.15 inches, including marble base, the size is 13.15 x 8.15 x 5 inches. It is in excellent condition.
about the artist:
Albert Caasmann (2 June 1886 – 23 March 1968) was a German sculptor and porcelain artist. Caasmann designed toy figures for the Berlin toy company Lineol and from 1919 to 1952 was the lead designer and production manager for the company. He designed figurines for the porcelain companies Rosenthal AG and Volkstedt. Caasmann's work for the company Rosenthal are exhibited in the Porzellanikon's Rosenthal Museum. Lineol toy figures modeled by Caasmann are in the Historical Toy Museum in Freinsheim and the Toy museum in Havelland.
Albert Caasmann was born on 2 June 1886 in Berlin, Germany. From 1909 to 1919, he worked as a freelancer for the Berlin toy company Lineol, founded by Oskar Wiederholz in 1906. After service as a soldier in the First World War, he became the leading designer and production manager of Lineol from 1919 to 1952. He designed over 600 figures for Lineol, including soldiers, animals, Indians, knights, fairy figures, and railroad figures. His toy figures were widely used in the region by children. Lineol ceased operations in 1965, and in 1985 the company Lineol Duscha has the trademark rights to Lineol. Lineol Duscha reproduces Lineol figures modeled before 1945. Lineol toy figures modeled by Caasmann are in the Historical Toy Museum in Freinsheim and the Toy museum in Havelland.
Caasmann spent time in the Berlin Zoo, where he modeled his animal models. He made a model for a porcelain cheetah...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"The Dreamer" Bronze sculpture of a rounded female figure sitting
By Monica Wyatt
Located in Edgartown, MA
I first realized my love for visual storytelling when I began producing and directing television shows. Starting with the writer’s script, my palette was everything seen through the camera’s lens: actors, movement, light, and mood. Shot by shot, I wove together these images into two-dimensional dramas.
I longed, however, to tell my own stories, to move beyond words and pictures, and to explore themes that ignited my imagination. My sculptures and assemblages became the three-dimensional stories I wanted to tell; stories about relationships, childhood, time passage, marriage, motherhood, and secrets never told.
My sculpting process always begins with a tiny bit of clay to which I add more, never knowing how any piece will end. I don’t use models...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Bronze Dog "Whippet with a Butterfly" Arthur Waagen (1833-1898) 2 of 2
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait
“La Levrette au Papillon” or “Whippet (Greyhound) with a Butterfly”
Arthur Waagen (Germany, France 1833-1898)
Circa 1860’s
11 x 8 x 4 inches
(2of 2. No...
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1860s Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Eugéne Marioton (French, 1854-1933) The Dance of Zephyr and Psyche
Located in New York, NY
BRONZE FIGURAL GROUP “LA DANSE” BY EUGENE MARIOTON (FRENCH, 1857-1933)
This exceptional work by Eugéne Marioton is a dynamic expression of true love. It is presumed to be an allegor...
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Early 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Neoclassical Bronze Of Androcles and the Lion
Located in Rochester, NY
Large French Neoclassical sculpture of Androcles and the Lion. Exceptional quality casting and patina. Mid 19th century.
The runaway slave ...
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19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large, Cast Bronze Roman Figures
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of large, detailed cast bronze Roman figures of a senator (likely Julius Caesar) and possibly an emperor. Each in cascading drapery with beautifully rendered facial expression...
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1910s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Joan of Arc on horseback
Located in PARIS, FR
Equestrian Joan of Arc
by Emmanuel FREMIET (1824-1910)
A very fine bronze equestrian group with an "old gold" patina
signed "E. Fremiet" on the base
cast by "F. Barbedienne Fondeur...
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1880s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Song
Located in PARIS, FR
"The Song" by Félix Charpentier (1858-1924)
A very fine bronze sculpture with nuanced dark brown patina
Signed "Fx. Charpentier"
Cast by "E. Colin & Cie Paris"
France
around 1900
he...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
2049 Rider Big Model Bronze
Located in Pasadena, CA
Bronze 1/3 black patina or gold leaf Korten steel base leaving
sculpture on wheels, water jet engraving QR coded cartridge.
Born in 1960 in a family of artists collecting the br...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Silvered Bronze Figure of Psyche
Located in New York, NY
MATHURIN MOREAU
French, (1822-1914)
Silvered Bronze Figure of Psyche
Silvered bronze; Signed ‘Moreau Mathurin’
30 3/8 x 15 x 13 inches
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
1960s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Irakli Tsuladze - Horse
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze & Marble
Irakli Tsuladze is a Georgian sculptor born in 1973 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His sculptures present a peculiar unity of substance and emotions, whe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"Sailing Towards You" contemporary figurative bronze wall sculpture love sea
By Mireia Serra
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Sailing Towards You is a wall sculpture. It can also be placed on a flat surface, for example on a shelf.
Edition Size: 18. Sculpture for wall easily hung with 2 screws/nails.
BIOG...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Bronze Sculpture Figure with Beast American Modernist Leonard Baskin Museum Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin, American 1922-2000
Homage to the Un-American Activities Committee
Bronze relief sculpture plaque
This is not editioned, nor signed or numbered, on the piece but according to the catalog there was 12 or less.
A number of these are in museum and university art collections and one of them was exhibited at MoMA NY.
This was done to commemorate the communist witch hunts of the Mccarthy era. An important, historic piece.
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, small edition, 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 Cortege (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 signed 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, Edmond Casarella...
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1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Italian Grand Tour Granite "Medici" Lion 19th Century
Located in Rochester, NY
19th century grand tour carving of the "Medici" lion. Carved green porphyry granite. This is an unusually large size. Pieces carved porphyry granite are uncommon. It's hardness makes...
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19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Granite
Dante Meets Virgil - Original Bronze Sculpture by P. Fazzini - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dante meets Virgil - Sculpture is a rare and magnificent artwork realized by the renowned sculptor Pericle Fazzini during the 20th century.
Bonded bronze high relief sculpture. Edi...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Torso - 21st Century, Contemporary bronze sculpture, Figurative, Classical
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative bronze sculpture by Polish artist Michal Bajsarowicz. This piece has green patina that is more visible on the back than on t...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Two Dancers
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Two Dancers Bronze Sculpture
Artist signed, artist proof, the sculpture stands on a steel base made to be place in the garden, original patina.
John A...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Patinated Bronze Figural Group on Bronze by Moreau
Located in New York, NY
MATHURIN MOREAU (French, 1822-1914)
Signed: ‘Moreau’
19th Century
31 1/2 in. x 20 in.
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Faure de Brousse "Mephistopheles & Monkey" Bronze
Located in Astoria, NY
Vincent Desire Faure de Brousse (French, 1876-1908) "Mephistopheles and Monkey" Patinated Bronze Sculpture, late 19th century, the standing figure in Renaissance costume and accompan...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Aparmita Statue 9 Inch with 24K Gold Handcrafted by Lost Wax Process
Located in TRUMBULL, CT
This statue is handcrafted by lost wax process which is one of the ancient process of metal craft. Aparmita is seated in "Padmasana" or lotus pose with two hands holding healing elix...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Bronze #116 by Hanneke Beaumont
Located in Cleveland, OH
Bronze #116 by Hanneke Beaumont
Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-s...
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antoine Louis Barye Ocelot Carrying off a Heron
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875)
Ocelot emportant un héron (Ocelot carrying off a heron)
bronze sculpture, dark-brown patina, Signed “Barye” and “F. Barbidienne Fondeur Paris”...
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1880s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Job
Located in Boston, MA
Edition of 12. Signed and inscribed on front right of base: "De LUE sc '86 © 1987 4/12 Tx". Cast at the Tallix Foundry in Beacon, NY.
"Job, as much as any work of De Lue, shows t...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Patinated Bronze Statuette of William Shakespeare
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frederick William MacMonnies
1863–1937 American
William Shakespeare
Signed "F. MacMonnies" and foundry-marked "E. Gruet Jeune, Fondeur, Paris"
Bronze
Frederick William MacMonnies...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cat Under the Bridge -miniature cat bronze sculpture by NY artist Noa Bornstein
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
"Cat Under the Bridge" is a miniature bronze animal sculpture with a black brown patina. The cat seems to have been suddenly discovered and looks very surprised. It is very life-like...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Boa (9/21)" (2014) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Still Life Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Boa" (2014) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that perfectly captures the detail of a boa constrictor snake.
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Birimbao
Located in Nashville, TN
Philippe Guillerm began his professional life in Paris, France, where he was born in the late 1950s. He has traveled around the world on his forty-ei...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Driftwood
Polar Bears – Bronze by Marcel Debut (1865–1933), Art Deco Influence
Located in Gent, VOV
This rare bronze sculpture by Marcel Debut (1865–1933) presents a unique departure from his more frequently encountered mythological and allegorical themes, venturing into the realm of animalier sculpture. The piece depicts two polar bears, one resting and the other in an alert posture, rendered with a masterful blend of naturalism and expression. The textured modeling of the fur and musculature reflects Debut’s strong academic training while incorporating an impressionistic approach to surface treatment.
A notable aspect of this sculpture is its curved base, a subtle yet clear indication of Art Deco influence. Unlike traditional animalier works, which often rest on rigid, symmetrical bases, this dynamic foundation lends a sense of fluidity to the composition, reinforcing the motion and interaction between the two animals. This element suggests that the piece was created during the later period of Debut’s career, as Art Deco aesthetics—with their emphasis on stylized and elegant forms—began to shape sculptural design.
The choice of subject, polar bears, is also intriguing within the animalier tradition. While French sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries frequently depicted felines, horses, and other terrestrial animals, this work stands out for its intimate, contemplative depiction of arctic wildlife. Rather than emphasizing a dramatic hunting or combat scene, Debut captures a quiet moment of interaction between the two bears, showcasing his ability to infuse emotion and realism into his subjects.
The patina of the bronze is rich and varied, enhancing the play of light on the textured surface and contributing to the lifelike quality of the sculpture. The artist’s signature “Debut” is clearly visible, further confirming its authenticity.
With its balance of academic realism, impressionistic texture, and Art Deco design principles, this bronze sculpture is a remarkable testament to Marcel Debut’s versatility as an artist. Its combination of naturalistic observation, expressive modeling, and modernist elegance makes it a rare and desirable piece within the canon of French animalier sculpture.
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Dancer" David Hare, Male Nude, Figurative Sculpture, Mid-Century Surrealist
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Dancer, circa 1955
Bronze with integral stand
68 high x 17 wide x 13 1/2 deep inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.”
Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp.
In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career.
After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen.
In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941.
World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors.
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France
circa 1901
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FRANZ BERGMAN
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