Vincent Leggiadro

Aztec Head

1990

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...

ULISIS JIMENEZ "REBECCA" WOOD, SIGNED COSTA RICA, C.2000 68 INCHES OVERALL Ulises Jiménez Obregón was born in La Mansión de Nicoya, Costa Rica, in November 1953. He studied Pl...

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...

ITZHAK SANKOWSKY "MODERNIST FACE" WOOD, SIGNED ROMANIAN-AMERICAN, C.1940 24.5 INCHES Itzhak Sankowsky was born in 1908 in Romania. He lived and was active in Philadelphia, Penn...

SEMION RABINKOV "UNICYCLE HORN PLAYER" BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 1/9 MOLDOVAN-AMERICAN, C.1990'S 27.5 INCHES Semion was born in Chisinau, Moldova, 1954...

JOAN STRAUSS CAROL "MODERN FAMILY" FRUIT WOOD, SIGNED CALIFORNIA, C.1980 20 INCHES OVERALL Joan Strauss Carl 1926-2021 Joan Strauss Carl was a...

Set of four cast stone portraits of the members of the iconic British rock group The Beatles by Houston artist David Adickes. Each portrait is recessed into the stone, but appears to...

Created around 1975, La Vierge Noire (The Black Virgin) is an acrylic on wood sculpture that is hand-signed ‘Appel’ by Karel Appel (Amsterdam, 1921-Zürich, 2006) in blue on the front...

Laure Krug. Contemporary French artist Holder of a license in plastic arts, she naturally turns to sculpture. Materials: She begins by working the soil and masters the different co...

Laure Krug. Contemporary French artist Holder of a license in plastic arts, she naturally turns to sculpture. Materials: She begins by working the soil and masters the different co...

Laure Krug. Contemporary French artist Holder of a license in plastic arts, she naturally turns to sculpture. Materials: She begins by working the soil and masters the different co...

Dating from 1979, this acrylic on wood relief is hand-signed 'Appel' by Karel Appel (Amsterdam, 1921 - Zürich, 2006) in red in the lower left. From an edition of 8, this work was pub...