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Period: 1950s
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...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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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...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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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...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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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...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Ceramic Owl Vase (A.R. 135) from the Madoura Pottery by Pablo Picasso
Located in London, GB
Mid-Century earthenware vase with painted owl decoration, by Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, France (1952). This is a vintage, limited edition earthenware creation, in a run of 500 (Edition Picasso) at the Madoura pottery...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Pablo Picasso, Plate, " Bouquet à la pomme " (Bunch with Apple), 1956 A.R. 307
Located in tel aviv, IL
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, the founder of Cubism, and one of those who radically transformed the understanding of form, space, and...
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Synthetic Cubist 1950s Sculptures

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Earthenware, Underglaze

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...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Relining Nude (WG6)
By Waylande Gregory
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Waylande Gregory (1905-1971). Nude Reclining, ca. 1950's. Painted composite cast from original sculpted in 1930's. Casting sanctioned and approved by the artist during his lifetime in partnership with MPI, Museum Pieces Incorporated. Very few examples were produced and even fewer survive. Waylande Gregory was considered a major American sculptor during the 1930's, although he worked in ceramics, rather than in the more traditional bronze or marble. Exhibiting his ceramic works at such significant American venues for sculpture as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and at the venerable Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, he also showed his ceramic sculptures at leading New York City galleries. Gregory was the first modern ceramist to create large scale ceramic sculptures, some measuring more than 70 inches in height. Similar to the technique developed by the ancient Etruscans, he fired his monumental ceramic sculptures only once. Gregory was born in 1905 in Baxter Springs, Kansas and was something of a prodigy. Growing up on a ranch near a Cherokee reservation, Gregory first became interested in ceramics as a child during a native American burial that he had witnessed. He was also musically inclined. In fact, his mother had been a concert pianist and had given her son lessons. At eleven, he was enrolled as a student at the Kansas State Teacher's College, where he studied carpentry and crafts, including ceramics. Gregory's early development as a sculptor was shaped by the encouragement and instruction of Lorado Taft, who was considered both a major American sculptor as well as a leading American sculpture instructor. In fact, Taft's earlier students included such significant sculptors as Bessie Potter Vonnoh and Janet Scudder. But, Taft and his students had primarily worked in bronze or stone, not in clay; and, Gregory's earliest sculptural works were also not in ceramics. In 1924, Gregory moved to Chicago where he caught the attention of Taft. Gregory was invited by Taft to study with him privately for 18 months and to live and work with him at his famed "Midway Studios." The elegant studio was a complex of 13 rooms that overlooked a courtyard. Taft may have been responsible for getting the young man interested in creating large scale sculpture. However, by the 1920's, Taft's brand of academic sculpture was no longer considered progressive. Instead, Gregory was attracted to the latest trends appearing in the United States and Europe. In 1928 he visited Europe with Taft and other students. "Kid Gregory," as he was called, was soon hired by Guy Cowan, the founder of the Cowan Pottery in Cleveland, Ohio, to become the company's only full time employee. From 1928 to 1932, Gregory served as the chief designer and sculptor at the Cowan Pottery. Just as Gregory learned about the process of creating sculpture from Taft, he literally learned about ceramics from Cowan. Cowan was one of the first graduates of Alfred, the New York School of Clayworking and Ceramics. Alfred had one of the first programs in production pottery. Cowan may have known about pottery production, but he had limited sculptural skills, as he was lacking training in sculpture. The focus of the Cowan Pottery would be on limited edition, table top or mantle sculptures. Two of the most successful of these were Gregory's Nautch Dancer, and his Burlesque Dancer. He based both sculptures on the dancing of Gilda Gray, a Ziegfield Follies girl. Gilda Gray was of Polish origin and came to the United States as a child. By 1922, she would become one of the most popular stars in the Follies. After losing her assets in the stock market crash of 1929, she accepted other bookings outside of New York, including Cleveland, which was where Gregory first saw her onstage. She allowed Gregory to make sketches of her performances from the wings of the theatre. She explained to Gregory, "I'm too restless to pose." Gray became noted for her nautch dance, an East Indian folk dance. A nautch is a tight, fitted dress that would curl at the bottom and act like a hoop. This sculpture does not focus on Gray's face at all, but is more of a portrait of her nautch dance. It is very curvilinear, really made of a series of arches that connect in a most feminine way. Gregory created his Burlesque Dancer at about the same time as Nautch Dancer. As with the Nautch Dancer, he focused on the movements of the body rather than on a facial portrait of Gray. Although Gregory never revealed the identity of his model for Burlesque Dancer, a clue to her identity is revealed in the sculpture's earlier title, Shimmy Dance. The dancer who was credited for creating the shimmy dance was also Gilda Gray. According to dance legend, Gray introduced the shimmy when she sang the Star Spangled Banner and forgot some of the lyrics, so, in her embarrassment, started shaking her shoulders and hips but she did not move her legs. Such movement seems to relate to the Burlesque Dancer sculpture, where repeated triangular forms extend from the upper torso and hips. This rapid movement suggests the influence of Italian Futurism, as well as the planar motion of Alexander Archipenko, a sculptor whom Gregory much admired. The Cowan Pottery was a victim of the great depression, and in 1932, Gregory changed careers as a sculptor in the ceramics industry to that of an instructor at the Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cranbrook was perhaps the most prestigious place to study modern design in America. Its faculty included the architect Eliel Saarinen and sculptor Carl Milles. Although Gregory was only at Cranbrook for one and one half years, he created some of his finest works there, including his Kansas Madonna. But, after arriving at Cranbrook, the Gregory's had to face emerging financial pressures. Although Gregory and his wife were provided with complimentary lodgings, all other income had to stem from the sale of artworks and tuition from students that he, himself, had to solicit. Gregory had many people assisting him with production methods at the Cowan Pottery, but now worked largely by himself. And although he still used molds, especially in creating porcelain works, many of his major new sculptures would be unique and sculpted by hand, as is true of Kansas Madonna. The scale of Gregory's works were getting notably larger at Cranbrook than at Cowan. Gregory left the surface of Kansas Madonna totally unglazed. Although some might object to using a religious title to depict a horse nursing its colt, it was considered one of Gregory's most successful works. In fact, it had a whole color page illustration in an article about ceramic sculpture titled, "The Art with the Inferiority Complex," Fortune Magazine, December, 1937. The article notes the sculpture was romantic and expressive and the sculpture was priced at $1,500.00; the most expensive sculpture...
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Art Deco 1950s Sculptures

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Plaster

Pablo Picasso, "Tauromachy Scene", ceramic plate
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an A.R. turned round plate by Pablo Picasso made in 1957. It is made with red earthenware clay, engobe decoration, and knife engraved in black. It is numbered 279/ 500 ...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Brutalist Israeli Bronze Abstract Sculpture Wave Form Zvi Aldouby
Located in Surfside, FL
Zvi Yehuda Aldouby (1904 - 1996) was active/lived in Israel. Zvi Aldouby is known for Artist, teaching. Biography photo for Zvi Jehuda Aldouby Zvi Yehuda Aldouby (Hirsch Leib Zupnick), sculptor, born 1904, Galicia. Immigrated 1924. Upon aliyah in 1924 he worked in agriculture and construction. 1936-51 studied art and the history of art with Trude Haim, Professor J. Schwartzman, Ds. Schiff, Pinkerfeld, Aviyona, Javetz, and others. After WWII he worked for the Jewish Agency as an envoy in Italy under the aegis of the UNWRA, on the welfare of the survivors of the Holocaust in the DP Camps. In 1948 in Paris, he evaluated advanced studies in European Art Centers. He was a member of the Israel Painters and Sculptors Association. He was a member of the Artists' Village in Ein Harod from its inception. EIN HAROD About the Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman, Mordecai Ardon, Aharon Kahana, Arie Lubin, Yehiel Shemi, Yosl Bergner and others. The graphic arts collection contains drawings and graphic works by Camille Pissarro, Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Marc Chagall (almost all of his graphic work), and numerous other artists. The sculpture collection includes works by Jewish sculptors from all over the world including leading Israeli sculptors; Ben Zvi, Lishansky, David Palombo (brutalist), Yehiel Shemi, Aharon Bezalel and Igael Tumarkin (surrealist). Many Jewish sculptors from all parts of the world, beginning with Mark Antokolsky, are represented in the collection. In the sculpture courtyard there are works by Chana Orloff, Jacob Epstein (the works he bequeathed to the Museum), Enrico Glicenstein, Loutchansky, Constant and Indenbaum from Western Europe; Glid from Yugoslavia; William Zorach, Chaim Gross and Minna Harkavy from the United States; and most of the outstanding sculptors of Israel : Zev Ben-Zvi, Lishansky, Ziffer, Rudi Lehmann, Dov Feigin, Moshe Sternschuss, Zvi Aldouby, Yehiel Shemi, Aharon Bezalel, Hava Mehutan, Igael Tumarkin. Education: 1924-28 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, graduated 1931-37 Teachers' Seminar, Jerusalem, Teacher's Certificate 1938-29 Advanced studies, with Trude Haim Joseph Schwarzman, School of Art 1948-50 Advanced studies in Italy and France Teaching Taught history of art and sculpture Holon Awards And Prizes 1957 Herman Struck Prize, Artists' Association of Haifa and the North, Haifa Municipality 1963 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1964 Medal from Monaco International Exhibition 1965 Prize for the ''Breakthrough into the Negev'' proposal for a monument, Givati Corps, 52nd Brigade 1967 The Histadrut Executive Prize 1991 Worthy Citizen of Tel Aviv Award, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa Environmental Sculptures 1961 Levant Fair, Tel Aviv, "A Sculpture in a Garden" 1968 Atlit Youth Club, Bas- Relief- "Davd Playing Before King Saul" 1969 Netivot (Negev), "Yizkor"- Monument memorializing Aliyat Hanoar youngsters from Tunisia who perished in an air crash. 1944 Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Building, Tel Aviv Artists: Hermann Struck, Moshe Sternschuss, Arie Reznik, Aaron Priver, Yitzhak Itzhak Danziger, Zvi Aldouby, Menachem Shemi, Moshe Castel, Shmuel Ovadyahu, Yohanan Simon, Marcel Janco. Group Exhibition - Etched Voices, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem painting...
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1950s Sculptures

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Limestone, Bronze

Abstract Cityscape Sculpture, Mid 20th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Abstract Cityscape, c. 1950-60 Painted mixed metal 19.25 in. h. x 19.5 in. w. x 11.5 in. d.
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Abstract 1950s Sculptures

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Metal

Vintage Midcentury Demitasse Coffee Set Hans Achtziger for Hutschenreuther Selb
Located in East Quogue, NY
Pristine decorative white porcelain 'Apart' coffee demitasse set from Hutschenreuther Selb, with 6 cups, 6 saucers, coffee pot, creamer/milk jug, sugar bowl (15 piece set). Germain porcelain maker Hutschenreuther (est.1814) commissioned sculptor Hans Achtziger...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Porcelain

Pablo PICASSO, plate, Joie de Vivre (Joy of Living), 1956 A.R. 346
Located in tel aviv, IL
In the ceramic work Joie de Vivre (Joy of Living), Picasso employs the simple decorative motifs characteristic of his ceramics, creating a striking monochromatic piece. Using simple ...
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Abstract 1950s Sculptures

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Earthenware, Clay

Pablo Picasso, Visage (A.R. 288)
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Visage (A.R. 288) stamped and marked 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / Madoura' (underneath) white earthenware ceramic pitcher with c...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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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,...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Bronze

Cruchon Hibou, Picasso. 1950's, Multiple, Edition, Pitcher, Design, Ceramic, Owl
Located in Geneva, CH
Cruchon Hibou 1955 Ed. 500 pcs White clay with blue, black and brown engobe painting, glazed with knife engraving H. 27.2 cm Inscribed and stamped underside : Edition Picasso, D'aprè...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware

Lovers - Bronze Sculpture by Luciano Minguzzi - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Realized by the Artist in 3 different variants, each with a different central body. Declaration of authenticity signed by the Artist on rear of photo in 1975. Provenance: Private Col...
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Abstract 1950s Sculptures

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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...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Picador, Pablo Picasso, Ashtray, Design, Sculpture, Ceramic, White, Edition
Located in Geneva, CH
Picador, Pablo Picasso, Ashtray, Design, Sculpture, Ceramic, White, Edition Picador Ed. 500 pcs 1952 White earthenware clay, oxidized paraffin decoration, white enamel D. 15.2 cm St...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

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...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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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...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Mother and Child: Petal Skirt - Henry Moore, sculpture, modern, british, small
Located in London, GB
Henry Moore (1898-1986) Mother and Child: Petal Skirt conceived in 1955; cast in 1955 bronze; edition 4 of 6 plus 1 artist’s proof by the Fiorini foundry, London 19 x 9 x 15.5 cm (in...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Bronze

Visage, Pablo Picasso, Face, 1950's, Ceramic, Madoura, Sculpture, Earthenware
Located in Geneva, CH
Visage, Pablo Picasso, Face, 1950's, Ceramic, Madoura, Sculpture, Earthenware Ed. 500 pcs White earthenware clay, decoration in engobes under glaze Inscribed on the reverse: Edition...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Clay, Earthenware

Faune aux marottes, Picasso, 1950's, Earthenware, Unique work, 1950's, Design
Located in Geneva, CH
Faune aux marottes, Picasso, 1950's, Earthenware, Unique work, 1950's, Design Faune aux marottes Unique work 1.12.1956 Earthenware, decoration with engobes and metallic oxides 15.1 ...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Earthenware

Pablo Picasso " Picador and Bull" Earthenware
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 (Spanish) Round-square plate “Picador and bull” Model created on September 25, 1953. Diameter 25 cm Original proof in white earthenware and oxidized pa...
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1950s Sculptures

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Enamel

Yves Klein Small IKB Venus Brooch Sculpture Jewel in International Klein Blue
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Klein, Small IKB Venus Brooch Bronze multiple, painted with International Klein Blue (IKB). From a model created in 1956. Edition of 500 copies + 100...
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1950s Sculptures

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Bronze, Gold Leaf

Large Mahogany Relief of Prometheus, The Giver of Fire in Style of Peterpaul Ott
Located in Soquel, CA
Large Scale Mahogany Wood Relief Sculpture of Prometheus, The Giver of Fire In the Style of WPA artist Peterpaul Ott Wonderfully executed wood r...
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Other Art Style 1950s Sculptures

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Wood, Mahogany

Pichet Gothique aux feuilles, Picasso, Pitcher, Ceramic, Design, Deco, Leaves
Located in Geneva, CH
Pichet Gothique aux feuilles, Picasso, Pitcher, Ceramic, Design, Deco, Leaves Pichet Gothique aux feuilles Ed. 76/100 pcs 1952 White earthenware with cut engobed decoration in blue,...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Earthenware

Hibou aux ailes déployées (Owl with spread wings), 1957
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1975, this madoura turned round dish of red earthenware clay, engobe decoration in black and knife engraving is from the edition of 200 and stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EDITION PICASSO' pottery stamps on the back. Pablo Picasso ceramic Hibou aux ailes déployées (Owl with spread wings), 1957 A.R. 397 features a smiling owl with wings opening above its head. The owl sits on a thin branch that spans the lower length of the plate, extending the scene beyond the bounds of the ceramic. Beautiful, bushy feathers fan out. Picasso uses...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Chope Visage, Picasso, Pitcher, Edition, 1950's, Design, earthenware, Figurative
Located in Geneva, CH
Chope Visage, Picasso, Pitcher, Edition, 1950's, Design, earthenware, Figurative Chope Visage Ed. 300 pcs 1959 Earthenware clay, decoration in engobes, g...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Picador, A.R. 200
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1953, ceramic Picador A.R. 200 is a round plate of white earthenware clay with oxidized paraffin decoration (brown, green, white) in a stanniferous enamel bath...
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Abstract 1950s Sculptures

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Enamel

Picador, A.R. 200
Picador, A.R. 200
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Scène de tauromachie, Picasso, 1950's, edition, earthenware, terracotta, scene
Located in Geneva, CH
Scène de tauromachie, Picasso, 1950's, edition, earthenware, terracotta, scene Scène de tauromachie Ed.274/500 pcs 1957 Red earthenware clay, eng...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Earthenware, Terracotta

Original ceramic pendant " Vé et Astrology "
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 ) Vé and Astrology ceramic's pendant : Vé : signed underneath White 1ere variant ( Terre blanche en relief ). page 212 Size: 7 x5.5 cm catalogue rai...
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Art Deco 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Gros oiseau Picasso (Large Bird, Picasso), 1953
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1953, this Madoura big turned vase of white earthenware clay with decoration in engobes and paraffin (red, black), knife engraved is numbered from the edition of 75. This Picasso ceramic vase is stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO' pottery stamps on the bottom. A spectacular work to witness in person, Pablo Picasso Gros oiseau Picasso...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware, ABS

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...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Bronze

Woman's Head, Decorated with Flowers, Ceramic by Pablo Picasso 1954
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pablo Picasso, considered the greatest artist of the 20th Century, was a master of all art mediums. He collaborated with Madoura to produce editions of his painted ceramic works beginning in the 1940’s...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Pablo Picasso Madoura 'Hibou brillant' (A. R. 285) Owl Ceramic Plate 1955
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Hibou brillant (A. R. 285) Terre de faïence dish, 1955, from the edition of 450, glazed and painted, with the Edition Picasso and Madoura stamps.
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Le Miroir d' Arlequin
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 -1963 ) " le miroir d'arlequin " . 1958 . plat ovale 37 x25 cm Terre rouge Crayons d'oxyde : noir , rose et bleu Emaux : noir , orange , rouge , blanc et vert ...
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Art Deco 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Pichet espagnol
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pichet espagnol (A.R. 245) stamped, marked and numbered 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / 152/200 / Madoura (underneath) white earthenware ceramic pitcher, par...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Tête Solaire, Pablo Picasso, Unique Ceramic, 1950's, Earthenware, Design, Tile
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête Solaire, Pablo Picasso, Unique Ceramic, 1950's, Earthenware, Design, Tile Tête solaire II Unique work 27.01.1956 Large white earthenware tile, green stripes on white enamel on ...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Original ceramic pendant " Vé & Astrology " Blue variant
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 -1963 ) Vé : (& Astrology ) ( Blue variant ) . 1958 . 4éme variante : terre incrustée blanche et bleue Size : 7 cm . Signed underneath . Astrology : Pendentif ...
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Art Deco 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Pichet Têtes, by Picasso, Pitcher, 1950's, Edition, Black and white, Design
Located in Geneva, CH
Pichet Têtes, by Picasso, Pitcher, 1950's, Edition, Black and white, Design Pichet Têtes Ed. 500 pcs 1956 White earthenware, decoration with oxidized par...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

" le dernier regard d'Orphée "
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963 ) " le dernier regard d'Orphée " signed and titled Jean Cocteau . marked and numbered Edition originale de jean Cocteau Atelier Madeline -Jolly in an edit...
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Art Deco 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

"El Tren" Ceramic, Glaze, Colors, Mexican Folk Art, Four Sections
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "El Tren" is a whimsical and playful rendition of a train. It is beautifully glazed in various colors. This particular ceramic was from the collection of Jane and Richard Knight’s Estate. Jane Knight was a famous fiber and textile artist. Richard was a photographer who worked for Eliel Saarinen and Alexander Girard. The Knights and Girard became close friends and it was Girard who gifted “Santa Cruz De Las Huertas Jalisco” to the Knights. Alexander Girard left his personal collection to the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM. The Girards eventually amassed a collection of more than 106,000 objects from across the globe. Their 1978 gift of this collection to the Museum of International Folk art quintupled the size of their collection and prompted the construction of a new wing, which opened in 1982 and houses a mere 10% of the Girard Collection in the permanent exhibition Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, which was designed by Alexander Girard himself. This collection includes numerous multiples and is notable for its great breadth, including traditional arts, popular arts, and paper ephemera. “I believe we should preserve this evidence of the past, not as a pattern for sentimental imitation,” Girard once said, “but as nourishment for the creative spirit of the present.” Indeed, folk art was an important inspiration for Girard’s design work. The renowned Candelario Medrano...
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Folk Art 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Glaze

Pablo Picasso, Unique variant of "Tête peinte" (Painted Face), pitcher, ceramic
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an A.R. turned pitcher created by Pablo Picasso in 1953. It is made with white earthenware clay, decoration in engobes and oxides under partial brushed glaze with white...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay

Vase avec Decoration Pastel (Vase with Pastel Decorations), by Pablo Picasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881 - 1973) Title: Vase avec decoration pastel (Vase with Pastel Decorations), [Ramie 190] Year: 1953 Medium: Chamotted red earthenware clay, pastel ...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Abstract Expressionist Biomorphic Welded Metal Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Welded, brazed sculpture on wooden base This is not signed or dated This work is unsigned. We were told it was the work of Seymour Lipton but as there is further documentation we are selling it as attributed and cannot guarantee it as such. Seymour Lipton (1903 – 1986) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor. He was a member of the New York School who gained widespread recognition in the 1950s. He initially trained as a dentist, like fellow sculptor Herbert Ferber, receiving his degree from Columbia University in 1927. In the late 1920s, he began to explore sculpture, creating clay portraits of family members and friends. His early choices of medium changed from wood to lead and then to bronze, and he is best known for his work in metal. Like his contemporary, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, and Arshile Gorky Lipton was influenced by Carl Jung’s work on the unconscious mind and the regenerative forces of nature. He translated these two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional maquettes that enabled him to revise his ideas before creating the final sculpture. The forms that Lipton produced during this period were often zoomorphic, exemplifying the tension between the souls of nature and the automatism of the machine. He made several technical innovations, including brazing nickel silver rods onto sheets of Monel to create rust resistant forms. Seymour Lipton is best known for his textured torch welded metal sculptures...
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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Sculptures

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Metal

The Couple
Located in New York, NY
This pair of male and female brass masks are emblematic of Hagenauer’s highly stylized Art Deco design. The artist’s reductionist approach together with a nod to African tribal shiel...
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Abstract 1950s Sculptures

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Brass

Pablo Picasso, "Vase with Pastel Decoration"
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a turned vase by Pablo Picasso, created in 1953. It is made with chamotted red eathenware clay, decoration in pastels using white, green, ye...
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Abstract 1950s Sculptures

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Clay

Visage .
Located in CANNES, FR
JEAN COCTEAU (1889 - 1963 ) " Visage " signed : " jean Cocteau "( lower left ) inscribed and numbered 6/30 édition originale de jean Cocteau . Atelier Madeline -Jolly ( undern...
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Art Deco 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Visage .
Visage .
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Pablo Picasso, "Face Turned Pitcher, " ceramic
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an A.R. turned pitcher created by Pablo Picasso in 1955. It is made with white earthenware clay, decoration in engobes in red and black with glaze inside. It bears the ...
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Surrealist 1950s Sculptures

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Clay

Pablo Picasso 'Picador' (A. R. 201) Variant Bullfighter Madoura Plate 1953
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Picador (A. R. 201 V) Terre de faïence plate, 1953, from the edition of 200, inscribed 'Edition Picasso', partially glazed and painted, with the Edition ...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

"Le Bouquetin aux aguets" museum work
Located in CANNES, FR
" le Bouquetin aux Aguets " . signed Jean Cocteau ; marked and numbered Edition originale de Jean Cocteau . Atelier Madeline & Jolly N° 3/10 (underneath ). partially glazed terrac...
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Art Deco 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Pablo Picasso 'Vase deux anses hautes' (A. R. 213) Madoura Vase 1953
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Vase deux anses hautes (A. R. 213) Terre de faïence vase, 1953, from the edition of 400, inscribed 'D'Après Picasso / Edition Picasso', partially glazed a...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline au chevalet (A.R. 333)
Located in Madrid, ES
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Jacqueline au chevalet (A.R. 333) stamped, marked and numbered 'Madoura Plein Feu / Empreinte Originale de Picasso / F 219 / 199/200' (underneath) white ear...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Paseo, from Service Scènes de Corrida, A.R. 416
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1959, Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973) Paseo A.R. 416 is numbered from the edition of 50 on the reverse and stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and ‘EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO' pottery stamps on the reverse. Pablo Picasso was an avid fan of bullfighting his entire life, attending his first corridas when he was a child in Spain and gaining a renewed interest in the events when he settled in the South of France after World War II. Undoubtedly the theatrical drama and flashy machismo of the matadors appealed greatly to Picasso's sensibilities and resonated with his Spanish roots. In 1959, Picasso produced an 8-piece plate series, each featuring a different bullfighting scene suggested through lively stipple lines. Paseo A.R. 416 depicts a line of bullfighters highlighted by a streak of yellow. The strokes of blue above and below the figures contrast with the warm of the yellow, creating visual tension that anticipates the drama of the fight. Catalogue Raisonné & COA: Pablo Picasso Paseo...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Clay, Earthenware, Glaze

" Medievale"
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 ) Médiévale . Vase signed jean Cocteau at the base ; marked and numbered edition originale de Jean Cocteau . atelier Madeline-Jolly (underneath). partial...
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Art Deco 1950s Sculptures

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Ceramic

Metropolis
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a monumental original wood assemblage sculpture by American artist Maxine Kim Stussy(1923 - 2020) "Metropolis", is an original unique wood assemblage using solid wood mac...
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Modern 1950s Sculptures

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Wood

Vegetative Form / - Grown Art -
Located in Berlin, DE
Paul Dierkes (1907 Cloppenburg - 1968 Berlin), Vegetative Form. Mahogany, 1958. 142 x 16 x 10 cm (sculpture), 21 x 17.5 cm (base), monogrammed "PD" on the reverse. - Grown Art - ...
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Post-War 1950s Sculptures

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Mahogany

Patte d'ours et Pied fumeur Matthieu Mategot
Located in PARIS, FR
Bear paws in glazed and cracked ceramic PIED FUMEUR BY MATHIEU MATEGOT
 Lacquered metal and rattan base 7 x 18 x 18 cm (Paw) 55 x 32 x 30 cm (Smoking Foot) 63 x 32 cm (Set)
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French School 1950s Sculptures

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Metal

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