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Period: 20th Century
Nude
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "1938-42 Morgan Russell" with monogram on base cast circa 1982 with permission of the Estate of Morgan Russell
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Modern 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Isaac Cordal - Miniaturization World - Sculpture
By Isaac Cordal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Isaac Cordal Cement Eclipse Unique Resine Sculpture. Signed Dimensions: 23 X 51 x 30 cm With the simple act of miniaturization and thoughtful placement, Isaac Cordal magically expan...
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Contemporary 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

The Rape of Sabine Iconic Bronze Sculpture 1930
Located in Rome, IT
Fine Group of Sculptures in Bronze after Jean de Boulogne (Giambologna) The torturously twisting Rape of the Sabine Women is one of the finest and most technically difficult sculptures in the world. Three intertwined bodies, two men and a woman, spiral upwards as the woman tries to escape the clutches of the younger man standing over the older one. It is an absolute masterpiece by the Flemish sculptor Giambologna. After the original in Florence’s Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria...
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Mannerist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Motherhood
Located in PARIS, FR
Motherhood by Baltasar LOBO (1910-1993) A bronze group with a nuanced greenish dark brown patina Signed " Lobo " Cast by " Susse Fondeur Paris " (with the foundry mark) Artist's cas...
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French School 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

The Song
Located in PARIS, FR
The Song by Félix CHARPENTIER (1858-1924) Bronze sculpture with a very nuanced dark brown patina Signed on the base " Félix Charpentier " Cast by "E. Colin & Cie Paris" (foundry ma...
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French School 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Nude Standing Woman - Relief Sculpture
Located in Salzburg, AT
The relief sculpture is framed. The visible jumps on the legs were intentional and existed from the start, because the artist was inspired by ancient ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Wood, Mixed Media

Woman, Sitting Back on Heels
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...
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Expressionist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Dreaming girl
Located in Zofingen, AG
"I create this sculpture at the very beginning of my career. I sculpted it from a real model. The girl was very lost in her thoughts or dreamed of something. Her body was relaxed an...
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Realist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

The Rape of Sabine Iconic Bronze Sculpture 1930
Located in Rome, IT
Fine Group of Sculptures in Bronze after Jean de Boulogne (Giambologna) The torturously twisting Rape of the Sabine Women is one of the finest and most technically difficult sculpt...
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Mannerist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Classical Male Torso
Located in Milford, NH
Wonderful sculpture of a Twisting Male Torso in carved stone by contemporary New York City artist Martin Glick. Born in 1944, Martin Glick resides in Pomona, New York, just outside of New York City. He was taught by Conger Metcalf...
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Renaissance 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Stone

Hombre Colorado II
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Hombre Colorado II" is a papier-mâché sculpture made by Manuel Neri in 1958. The total dimensions of the piece are 65.5 x 27 x 10 inches. This work is a good representation of the ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Papier Mâché

Ilithyia III by Yann Guillon - Female nude sculpture, figurative, bronze
Located in Paris, FR
Ilithyia III is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 26 × 16 × 18 cm (10.2 × 6.3 × 7.1 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a l...
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Contemporary 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Young woman seated with drapery
Located in PARIS, FR
Young woman seated with drapery by Pierre-Marie POISSON (1876-1953) Bronze sculpture with nuanced green patina signed on the base "P. Poisson" old cast France circa 1935-40 height 21,5 cm length 24,5 cm depth 11 cm Biography : Pierre-Marie Poisson (1876-1953) was a French sculptor and medalist. He studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse from 1893 to 1896, where he trained in plaster works. He completed this teaching in the Barrias studio in Paris. He began to exhibit his works in 1899 at the Society of French Artists and in 1907 obtained a medal of honor at the Salon as well as an allowance to reside at the villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers where he designed and produced the decorations. He returned there regularly until 1914. After the Great War, Poisson collaborated with the Compagnie des Arts Français with Süe and Mare. In 1922 the city of Niort commissioned Poisson a war memorial located on the esplanade of the keep. Poisson created the monument to the dead in Le Havre in 1925, considered his masterpiece. He participated in various decorative works : lounge of the Paquebot...
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French School 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Boy playing the shawm / - The transience of sounds -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Harders (1875 Mörel - 1955 Berlin), Boy playing the shawm, around 1930. Dark patinated bronze with round plinth on a black marble base (2 cm high), t...
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Art Deco 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Figurative bronze with a literary mythological theme from the early twentieth century
Located in Florence, IT
Early 20th-century Art Nouveau decorative bronze depicting a smiling mermaid carried by a wave above a fountain with a mask. The reference is to the fairy tale by writer Hans Christ...
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Aurora
Located in Miami, FL
Franco Mauro Franchi was born in Castiglioncello (Livorno) on 9 October 1951. He completed his artistic studies at the Lucca State Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Fl...
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Contemporary 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Raul Valdivieso Latin American Erotic Ceramic Sculpture, 1960s
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind ceramic sculpture by Latin American sculptor Raúl Valdivieso (Chilean, 1931-1993). Valdivieso is known for his reinterpretation of classic organic forms and human figures. Sculpture retains the original wood and black laminate base with metal cage. Ceramic is in good original condition. Laminate is in poor condition with a few chips. Raúl Valdiveso was born September 9, 1931 in Santiago, Chile. In 1952 he began his studies at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile. There he took to sculpture and studied under professors like Marta Colvin...
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Modern 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Metal

Standing Nude Edition 6/6
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Standing Nude 97. Signed and numbered on base Cam '97, edition 6/6. Very good condition. Measures 18" H. base about 6x6 inches Cameron Douglas was born in Perth, Scotland in 1957 ...
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Modern 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

The Discus Thrower
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Art Deco patinated bronze titled "The Discus Thrower" by Claire Jean Roberte Colinet (1880-1950) Raised on a circular green marble base and the attached to a square lacquered metal b...
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Art Deco 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Balancing WPA Artist Mom and Child
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Patinated cast bronze sculpture, Balancing, Mother and child signed and editioned 1/6 mounted on black marble plinth 14"h x 11.5"w x 8"d (height w...
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American Modern 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

L'ABISSO
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Document from the Nashvile Art Association dated 1925. The marble was purchased in Florence, Italy at an exhibit of The Association of of Italian Artists.
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Art Deco 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Marble

Untitled Nude Figurative Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
Reclining nude bronze on black marble sculpture by sculptor Laura Smith. The contrast of the bronze patina on marble makes the figure appear as if floating. There is some discolorati...
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Other Art Style 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Chili Rojo, Nude Folk Art Ceramic Dish by RC Gorman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Limited edition cast ceramic dish with a hand-carved image of a nude woman tapering into the shape of a chili pepper. This sculpture by Indigenous American artist RC Gorman is signed...
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Folk Art 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Ceramic

Woman and Child, Early 20th Century Ceramic, Female Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1903-1977) Woman and Child, c. 1935 Glazed stoneware, painted plaster 14 x 7 x 5.875 inches Thelma Frazier Wint...
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20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Stoneware, Plaster, Glaze

Marble Sculpture of Roman Mythological subject Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in white Carrara marble of Apollo head .
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Academic 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Limestone

Dame Elisabeth Frink Bronze Relief Statue Of Man And Eagle Numbered 1/7 Maquette
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Dame Elisabeth Frink. English ( b.1930 - d.1993 ). Maquette For Man And Eagle. Bronze With Gold Brown Patina. Signed And Numbered 1/7 Lower Left. Size 8.7 inches x 10.2 inches ( 22cm x 26cm ). Depth 2.8 inches ( 7cm ). Weight 7.1lb ( 3.24KG). Available for sale; this original bronze plaque with raised relief is by Dame Elisabeth Frink and was conceived and cast in 1967. The maquette is presented and supplied unmounted. There is the option to hang the plaque from 2 rings applied to the rear when in previous ownership. This vintage bronze plaque...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Dressing Woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Dressing Woman by Georges LAËTHIER (1875-1955) Bronze sculpture with very nuanced greenish brown patina Signed on the side of the base " G. Laethier " old period cast Presented on i...
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Apollo
Located in Dallas, TX
"The most Greek of all the gods, in art the ideal type of young, but not immature, manly beauty. A master musician, archer, healer, and prophet, he is the god of light and the god of truth. The rugged, strong, masculinity of the stone - its unique character - suggested Apollo to me." - Anita Huffington Quote from the monograph "Anita Huffington," Photographs by David Finn...
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Modern 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

“Woman” Stainless Steel Sculpture by Marian Owczarski
Located in Clinton Township, MI
“Woman” is a Stainless Steel Sculpture by the artist Marian Owczarski. It measures approximately 15 x 8.5 x 6 inches. The date of creation is unknown,...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Stainless Steel

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...
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20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Metal

Lancelot II by Yann Guillon - Male nude bronze sculpture, torso, figurative
Located in Paris, FR
Lancelot II is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 50 × 25 × 17 cm (19.7 × 9.8 × 6.7 in). Height of the sculpture with the base: 60 cm (23.6 in). ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Dancer fastening the shoulder strap of her bodice – Edgar Degas, bronze cast by
Located in Gent, VOV
A superb bronze cast of Edgar Degas’ iconic dancer, Danseuse agrafant l’épaulette de son corsage presents a moment of disarming intimacy: a young ballerina absorbed in adjusting the ...
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Modern 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Reclining Man Ashcan Early 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Gay Nude
By Isidore Konti
Located in New York, NY
"Reclining Man" Ashcan Early 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Gay Nude Isadore Konti (1862 - 1938) "Reclining Man" 7 1/2 w x 4 1/2 d x 7 high inch...
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American Realist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Italian Bronze Sculpture of Nude Woman, Mid 20th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mario Spampinato (Italian 1912–2000) Nude Bronze Signed on base 17.5 in. h. x 5.75 in. w. x 6 in. d. The artist was born, raised and trained in Italy. During one of his exhibits (at San Marcos in Rome) the Director of a New York Gallery asked him to come to New York to work for him. The American Consul, before issuing his visa, asked Spampinato to create a bust of him. In exchange, the Consul paid for his passage on the boat to New York. In New York, he worked with his brother Clemente Spampinato who is a well known sculptor as well. After moving to Chicago in 1954, he discovered that there was no foundry in the Midwest that could cast his bronzes. So, he opened his own foundry called the Spampinato Art Foundry, casting in the lost wax process. He also started his own private school (Spampinato Art Workshop, Ltd) and did some teaching at the University of Chicago and conducted seminars at Lawrence University in Kansas. Many of his own works are pictured and cataloged in Volumes 2 & 3 of Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930 by Harold Berman. Between 1959 and 1967, Spampinato recast a number of Charles M Russell...
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20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Noche Crist Goddess Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
One of a kind Goddess sculpture by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Catalogue of a postumous retrospecti...
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Outsider Art 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Acrylic Polymer

20th Century Bronze Nude Female Torso after French artist Aristide Maillol
Located in Beachwood, OH
After Aristide Maillol (French, 1861–1944) Bronze Torso Signed with foundry mark Cire Perdue A. A. Hebrard 12 in. h. x 6 in. w. x 6 in. d. Foundry mark "Cire Perdue A. A. Hebrard". ...
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20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Kneeling Nude
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sculptor, engraver and medallist. Serge Zelikson received his secondary artistic education in his native country. In 1914 he arrived in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux...
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Art Deco 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Crouched Body by Sergio Monari 1985 Figurative Sculpture Patinated Bronze Cast
Located in Brescia, IT
Bronze artwork made with lost wax casting technique. This is the prototype, unique signed artist proof. Sergio Monari is an Italian sculpture, that lives and works in Bologna, Italy. He exhibited his artworks in the best Galleries...
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Post-Minimalist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

1980 Italy Post-Modern Figurative Bronze Sculpture Mediterranean Woman
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an interesting multiple artwork signed by the author Andrea Picini, a talented artist of years 80' in Italy. This is a multiple of a numbered edition of 1.000 pieces; we can...
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Post-Modern 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Carole Feuerman Hyperrealist Sculpture Installation
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Carole Feuerman (b. 1945) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1981 Country of origin; materials: American; painted cast resin Dimensions (H, W, D): overall dime...
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Contemporary 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Resin, Paint

Standing Female Nude After Alexander Archipenko
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Illustrated: "Walt Kuhn, Painter, His Life and Work, by Phillip Rhys Adams, page 67, plate 27, Courtesy of Kennedy Galleries-Kuhn Estate (see photo) Kuhn’s sculptures were collected...
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Cubist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Wood

Parvati
Located in Long Island City, NY
A bronze sculpture by Allan Clark originally casted in 1927. A nude figure sculpture of Parvati, the Hindu goddess of love. Artist: Allan Clark (after), American (1896 - 1950) T...
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Romantic 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Gaston Lachaise "La Montagne" Bronze Sculpture
Located in Astoria, NY
Gaston Lachaise (French, 1882-1935) "La Montagne" [The Mountain, LF 45], Patinated Bronze Sculpture, posthumously cast later, stamped "Lachaise Estate" and numbered edition "2/11", m...
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20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Brutalist Ceramic Sculpture Vase Bronze Lustre FInish California Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jenik Cook Handmade ceramic vase or pot sculpture Hand signed by the artist. Fired clay with a luster bronze painted finish Jenik Esterm Simonian Cook is a painter and ceramicist ...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Ceramic, Luster, Paint

Lying Body by Sergio Monari 1985 Figurative Sculpture Patinated Bronze Cast
Located in Brescia, IT
Bronze artwork made with lost wax casting technique. This is the prototype, unique signed artist proof. Sergio Monari is an Italian sculpture, that liv...
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Post-Minimalist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Two Figures Bronze Sculptures Modernist style of Botero - Picasso
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Figures Bronze Sculptures Modernist style of Botero - Picasso Bronze figurative Nude sculptures by San Francisco Bay Area artist Mike Evans (American, 20th-21st C.). A Pensive m...
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Abstract Impressionist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Cord
Located in Chicago, IL
Edition of 12
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Modern 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Large Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Circus Acrobats WPA Artist
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 17, 1904 – May 5, 1991) was an American modernist sculptor and educator. Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mezhgorye, Ukraine), in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia (which was annexed into the Ukrainian USSR in 1939 and became part of newly independent Ukraine in 1991). When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest to join their older siblings Sarah and Pinkas. Gross applied to and was accepted by the art academy in Budapest and studied under the painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Austria shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1921. Gross's studies continued in the United States at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League of New York, with Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky, at the same time as Moses Soyer and Peter Blume. In 1926 Gross began teaching at The Educational Alliance, and continued teaching there for the next 50 years. Louise Nevelson was among his students at the Alliance (in 1934), during the time she was transitioning from painting to sculpture. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1929, Gross experimented with printmaking, and created an important group of 15 linocuts and lithographs of landscapes, New York City streets and parks, women in interiors, the circus, and vaudeville. The entire suite is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gross returned to the medium of printmaking in the 1960s, and produced approximately 200 works in the medium over the next two decades. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes, Judaica, balancing acrobats, cyclists, trapeze artists and mothers and children convey joyfulness, modernism, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Jewish Hasidic heritage, which teaches that only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the MoMA art school, the Art Student's League and the New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with Alexander Dobkin...
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American Modern 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

20th Century Continental School Bronze Figure of Europa and the Bull
Located in Beachwood, OH
20th Century Continental School Europa Bronze on stone base 11 in. h. x 8.5 in. w. x 4.5 in. d., overall Inspired by the Greek myth Europa and the Bull Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus...
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20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Stone, Bronze

First Steps, Early 20th Century Bronze Sculpture, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Zorach (American 1891-1966) First Steps, 1918 Bronze 8.5 x 5 x 4 inches, including base Born in 1887 in Lithuania, William Zorach immigrated with his family to the United States when he was just four years old, settling in Cleveland, Ohio. Zorach displayed an exceptional artistic talent at a young age and, at the recommendation of his seventh-grade teacher, began studying lithography at night at the Cleveland School of Art. It was not long before he was apprenticing at a lithography company in Cleveland. It was there that he realized he wanted to become an artist - to escape the commercial end of the field in which he was suddenly immersed. In 1907, Zorach saved enough money to move to New York and study art at the National Academy of Design, where he received several awards for his paintings and drawings. He continued his studies in Paris in 1910 at La Palette. This year abroad would turn out to be quite fruitful because in Paris he was greatly influenced by the Cubist and Fauvist movements and had several paintings exhibited at the Salon d'Automme. This influence and subsequent success fueled his career back in the states where he was honored with his first one-man exhibition. Due to this new-found stability, he married a young woman he met at school in Paris, and they moved to New York and set up a studio. Shortly after, their work was accepted into the famous 1913 Armory Show. For the next nine years, Zorach continued to think of himself as a painter, although he had already begun to experiment in sculpting. He was experiencing modest success with his painting and was therefore reluctant to abandon it completely. However, he was impelled toward sculpting, and in 1922, he painted his last oil. Zorach's involvement with sculpture began largely be accident. While he was working on a series of wood-block prints, Zorach suddenly became more interested in the butternut panel than the print and turned the panel into a carved relief. With no formal training as a sculptor, Zorach's first sculptures were of wood and his carving tools were primitive, such as a jack-knife. I n fact, his early works have a certain stylized look, suggesting the influence of various primitive arts such as African and American folk. Zorach found his sculptural direction by instinct, but was not unaware of what other sculptors were doing, both here and abroad. He soon allied himself with a growing number of modern sculptors who believed in the esthetic necessity of carving their own designs directly in the block of stone or wood rather than modeling them in clay. From the beginning he found a deep satisfaction in the slow and patient process of freeing the image from its imprisoning block, watching the forms emerge and appear. "The actual resistance of tough material is a wonderful guide," Zorach said in a lecture on direct sculpture in 1930. The sculptor "cannot make changes easily, there is no putting back tomorrow what was cut away today. His senses are constantly alert. If something goes wrong there is the struggle to right the rhythm. And slowly the vision grows as the work progresses." Zorach also found that the material itself had a constantly modifying effect on the artist's vision. The grain of the wood, the markings in the stone, the shape of the log or boulder all set limits and suggested possibilities. He was always sensitive to the characteristic qualities of his material and occasionally let them play a major role in determining his forms. In works such as these, the feel of the original material is preserved in the finished piece and is often heightened by leaving parts of the original surface untouched and other areas roughly marked by the sculptors tools...
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20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Victor Salmones Nude Figural Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Victor Salmones (1937-1989) Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 9/10 Country of origin; materials: Mexican; bronze Dimensions (H, W, D): 10.5"h, 13"w, 11"d Additional Information: This work is one of four Victor Salmones bronzes...
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Other Art Style 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Untitled
Located in Warren, NJ
Felipe Castaneda, signed marble sculpture of Beautiful Nude Woman Felipe Castaneda, Mexican, born,1933, is an internationally renowned sculptor whose ar...
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20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Marble

Chanson d'Amour
Located in Boston, MA
Donald De Lue, American (1897-1988). Chanson d'Amour, 1986. Bronze, 15 1/2 inch height. Bronze with Renaissance Brown patina, as well as Pewter patina on instrument. Number 1 in an...
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Art Deco 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Gladiator In Bronze Galata Dying Statue Italianadi Gusto Neoclassical 1930s
Located in Milano, IT
Bronze Gladiator Figure, Wounded Gladiator in dark patina bronze, early 1900s Italian sculpture in good condition. The work is inspired by the Hellenistic sculpture depicting the Dyi...
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Other Art Style 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Italy 1985 Figurative Sculpture Patinated Bronze Cast by Sergio Monari
Located in Brescia, IT
Bronze artwork made with lost wax casting technique. This is the prototype, unique signed artist proof. Title "Sleeping body" Sergio Monari is an Italia...
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Post-Minimalist 20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Large Masterwork Haitian Folk Art Steel Drum Metal Work Sculpture Murat Brierre
Located in Surfside, FL
This work is hand signed. It is not dated. Murat Brierre or Murat Briere (1938–1988) was one of Haiti's principal metal sculptors. He was influenced by George Liautaud, but his work acquired its own, highly experimental style, often focusing on multi-faceted and conjoined figures, fantastically personified elements, and unborn babies visible within larger creatures. He sculpted works that reflected both Christian and Haitian Vodou themes. Murat BRIERRE was born in Mirebalais in 1938. He first worked as a builder, cabinetmaker and blacksmith before being introduced to Le Centre d’Art in 1966. After trying painting with DeWitt Peters, he realized that metal sculpture was best suited for him and studied under Georges Liautaud in order to learn the métier. He also made very beautiful linocuts. Francine Murat quickly recognized his talent and considered Brierre to be one of the best Haitian sculptors. He passed away in 1988 at the age of 50. Brierre was known for his recycling of surplus steel oil drum lids. Brierre worked as a brick mason, cabinetmaker, tile setter, and blacksmith. He was born in Mirebalais or Port-au-Prince, Haiti and was the younger of two brothers. His older brother, Edgar Brierre, was a painter and sculptor. The brother's signed their works with only their last name, creating some confusion within their professional circles about the authorship of their work. Brierre's sculptures typically ranged from three to six feet in length and reflected Christian, Haitian Vodou, and folklore themes. Brierre was also a painter, but ultimately chose to work with metal because he felt that the material was saturated with spiritual energy. It was a laborious process. The oil drum lids were hammered flat, drawn onto, then cut with a razor. The sheet was then cut with a chisel before finishing was completed with a file. By the mid1970s, Brierre's sculptures included pronounced areas of cut outs surrounding long curved lines of metal. Brierre's iron sculpture titled Chien de Mer overlays a dog head onto the body of a fish. Haiti has long celebrated a rich artistic and cultural heritage. Georges Liautaud (1899–1991) ignited the Haitian metal sculpture movement in the 1950s in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. A blacksmith by trade, he fashioned crosses for public cemeteries before creating more elaborate cut-metal works. Liautaud disseminated the distinctly Haitian art form to emerging artists, such as Murat Brièrre (1938–88) and the Louisjuste brothers, Sérésier, Janvier, and Joseph (1940–89). They, in turn, taught others in Croix-des-Bouquets, including Gabriel Bien-Aimé (b. 1951) and Serge Jolimeau (b. 1952), Haiti’s two leading metal sculptors working today. Discarded steel oil drums have historically served as the base material for Haitian metal artists. The drums’ lids are cut open with a chisel and hammer and a long vertical split is made along the side of the drums. The interiors are filled with dried sugarcane or grass and lit on fire to remove any grime; once cool, the drums are flattened into sheets. Designs are chalked on; pieces are then cut and sculpted using only hand tools and further enhanced by hammering, embossing, cutting holes, and bending the metal. Sculptures reflect everyday life portraits, imaginative themes, and motifs of Haitian Vodou, an African Diasporic religion. Some of the many forms that appear include angels and winged creatures, mermaids and other aquatic figures, musical bands, animals, and earthly, paradisiacal scenes. Solo exhibitions 1967 – Haitian Art Gallery, New York 1968 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Bradley Galleries, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Georgetown Graphics Gallery, Washington D.C.; Menschoff Gallery, Chicago; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Roko Gallery, New York 1969 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Showcase Gallery, Washington D.C.; Botolph Group, Boston 1970 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1972 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Roko Gallery, New York 1979 – Areta Contemporary Design, Boston Group exhibitions 1969 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa 1974 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa 1978 – Brooklyn Museum, New York (traveling) 1982 – Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 1983 – Chicago Public Library Cultural Center 1985 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa 1987 – Musée du Panthéon National, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1988 – Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris 1989 – Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 2006 – Phyllis Kind Gallery in conjunction with the Outsider Art Fair, New York 2024 Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance, Luhring Augustine, Tribeca, New York 2023 Haitian Metal Sculpture, SFO Museum, California, USA 2015 Celebrating African American Art, Flomenhaft Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA An important exhibition of works by outstanding African American artists. Included were: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Murat Brierre, Beverly Buchanan...
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Outsider Art 20th Century Nude Sculptures

Materials

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Materials

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