20th Century Sculptures

Mark Morrison (1895-1964) Monkey, ca. 1940 Carved New Hampshire granite 8.5" by 5", height is 16.5" Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison. Born: Kingfisher, OK Education: ...

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 ...

"Return Engagement" Wood Panel Original Painting and Carving. Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This bold piece features a carved oval sh...

This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 1000 realized in 1980 by the well known Italian artist Bruno Chersicla. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by ...

Modern Bronze and Ceramic Sculpture of Silt Sandpiper in Waves. Beautiful bronze sculpture of iconic Californian Silt Sandpiper in the waves by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010...

Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1988. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 11.5 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base. Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho. Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...

Krishna Reddy Brutilist sculpture titled The Vision 15 X 11 purchased from the artist gallery brochure included signed Clearly on sculpture Condition : in excellent condition

A VERY rare Tigre (TIGER) Dance Mask Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico. Anonymous Deep Yellow Tigre Dance Mask. Early 20th C. Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico. Painted leather and fur. Museum-quality...

John Okulick, large colorful wood wall sculpture construction "Perfect Harmony" Hand signed and dated, 1999 Dimensions: H: 52 inches:...

Mystery Artist Untitled, 20th century Bronze with wood and acrylic mounting Overall: 19 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. Bronze plate: 17 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. Numbered lower left: 7/30 Initialed l...

"Roped into Duality" Abstract Relief Sculpture. Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This eye-catc...

Bronze sculpture, 132 cm × 31 cm × 18 cm. Limited edition of 8 + 4 A.P., each signed and numbered. Dimensions include the base of the sculpture, which is H 1 cm x W 31 cm x D 18 cm. ...

Mary Caroline Richards Teapot, circa 1970s Glazed earthenware 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches Provenance Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025. Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards (1916 – 1999) ...

​Interesting Pop Art tile Sculpture plaque by Guillermo Wagner Granizo (American, 1923-1995). A colorful woman with a beehive hairdo is surround by a fe...

Mark Morrison (1895-1964) Platypuses, ca. 1940 Granite 10.25" wide, 8" deep, height is 20.5" Very heavy, dense stone. Weighs approx. 125-150 lbs. Provenance: Estate of Mrs. M...

Mary Caroline Richards Tea Cup, circa 1970s Glazed earthenware 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches Provenance Estate of Carolyn Brown, New York 2025. Mary Caroline (M. C.) Richards (1916 – 1999)...

Seated Woman with a Fan by Auguste Seysses (1862-1946) Bronze with nuanced light brown patina cast by HEBRARD France Early 20th century height 49.5 cm width 47 cm Biography : Feli...

Bronze Sculpture with Black Patina dated 1929 Signed G.L.BADEAU and dated 1929 on the corner of the base Seal of the founder BISCEGLIA on the base Put on an independent marble Pedest...

Marcie Stone Mobe Pearl Sculpture Beadwork Year: 1995 Size: 12 x 8 x 1 inches Comes with display case Comes with original papers COA provided Ref.: 924...

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...

Magnificent sculpture on wood by Spanish artist CODINA CORONA. Sculpture of one piece of wood . The measurements are of the sculpture without counting the base Josep Maria Codina Cor...

This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...

Angelo Canevari's "Mirabile Composto" is a 106.3 x 106.3-inch leather and stone abstract sculpture composed of 12 elements. This piece is part of a limited number of works where Canevari engaged in a different medium than bronze. The title "Mirabile Composto" comes from a 17th-century quote describing the work of the famous Baroque Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It refers to Bernini's fusion of architecture, sculpture, and painting. In this work, Canevari skillfully plays with different shades of leather and a river pebble to blur the distinction between painting, sculpture, or architectural pieces. The piece projects a magnetic presence. It reminds the immensity and peacefulness of the golden sand mounds in the Sahara desert when viewed from an aerial view. Angelo Canevari is an Italian sculptor from a long lineage of artists active in Rome since the 17th century. He has been commissioned several works by the Vatican, including the Bronze Doors of the Cathedral of Belluno and the Vatican Coins.

'Waka Tupapaku' is a contemporary abstract cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from his Internal Space series. About the Internal Space Series: David’s experiments with sheet glass and fusing led him to try to make the glass thicker to see more interior space. It was during this time a professor pointed out that he was working with a metaphor, for which the internal space of the glass was the equivalent to the internal life of the mind. This became his operating mantra but also forced him to come to terms with the casting of thick sections. “Creating those internal spaces came with some problems. Other than telescope mirrors, I did not know that anyone annealed glass in a kiln for more than a day or two. When pieces cracked after five days of cooling, I could not believe they would need even more time. The tragedy...

This very interesting abstract bronze sculpture, it is one of a kind artwork, created in 1979 by the Italian artist Graziano Pompili, The title "Paesaggio con ombra", is translated ...

Magda Watts (Israeli, b.1928) Handmade Folk Art Sculpture Tourists. Hand signed to underside, Dimensions: 12"h x 14.5" l x 7.5"d. Magda Watts, Holocau...

This is an artwork created by the well known Italian artist Carmelo Cappello. It is a multiple, an Abstract Sculpture one of the identical 99 specimen edited in 1978. This piece is ...

This artwork was created by the artist Jiro Sugawara, the title is "Female horizon"" Jiro Sugawara is a post-war artist and he was born in Japon in 1941. He studied sculpture at the ...

"Balls on the Line" Satirical Wood Panel Original Painting and Carving Elaborate collage, painting and carved sculpture by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). Ball's on the...

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"Om Away from Om" Wood Panel Original Painting and Carving Elaborate collage, painting and carved sculpture by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This piece is carved, wit...

Column XII (Strange Fruit), John Van Alstine. This sculpture will be shipped directly from the artist's studio. Stone and metal, usually granite or slate and found object steel are...

Pique A Terre VIII, John Van Alstine. Stone and metal, usually granite or slate and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a major focu...

Bronze sculpture, patinated brass or steel plinth. 167 cm × 60 cm × 30 cm. Limited edition of 8 + 4 A.P., each signed and numbered. Dimensions include the plinth of the sculpture, w...

FRANZ BERGMANN Austrian, (1861-1936) The Rug Merchant 18 inches high

"Double Entendre (TwoFaceNote)" Satirical Currency Collage Elaborate collage by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This piece is a satirical mixed media artwork that mimic...

This engaging bronze sculpture on black wooden base, well represents a human bust, but for its expressive force, the bust turns into an abstract shape of it. The artist who created t...

Linda Stein, Phone Conversation 136 - Mixed Media Assemblage Contemporary Art Wall Sculpture Phone Conversation 136 is from artist Linda Stein's Brush Assemblage series, where she c...

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...

Marcelo Morandin 1933-1996 Untitled (Embracing Couple, Lovers) Bronze 1988; ed. P/E; Hand signed, dated and editioned to lower edge DImensions: 48.5 x 32 x 21 cm / 18.8 x 12.5 x 8.2 inches (approximately) PAREJA, Bronce, patinado Marcelo Morandin (1933 - 1996) was active/lived in Argentina, Mexico. Argentinian, Mexican Postwar & Contemporary sculptor Morandin is best known for his monumental sculpture. This is a wonderful, art deco inspired nude couple, the woman appears pregnant). Marcello Morandín (Marcelo Román Morandín Paroni) was born in 1933 in Argentina. He was an important plastic artist and Argentine architect, distinguished in Mexico for being an excellent sculptor and furniture designer. At the end of his studies at the Faculty of Architecture of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he traveled to Mexico and settled in Xalapa, Veracruz. In this city he was part of several artistic projects and noted for being one of the founders of the Department of Aesthetic Research and Applied Design at the University of Veracruz, as well as the Department of Aesthetic Research at UNAM. Between the years 80 and 90, he carried out several monumental works, among them "La pigeon de la paz" a project for the UN; "The foundation of Tenochtitlan" located in front of the Official Residence of Los Pinos; and "The Kinetic Tower" Of the government of Veracruz that combines the light and the sound with diverse moving parts to the compass of the music of Arnold Schoenberg. (Lily Kassner. Dictionary of Mexican sculptors of the twentieth century. Volume II. Mexico. Conaculta, 1997). Similar in style to Israeli artists Aharon Bezalel and Isaac Kahn. He has shown with Jose Villalobos, Nicolas Moreno, Pedro...

Seymour Lipton Maquette for Laureate, ca. 1968-1969 Nickel silver on monel metal Unique 18 × 8 1/2 × 7 inches Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1969 thence by descent Christie's New York: Monday, June 30, 2008 [Lot 00199] Acquired from the above Christie's sale This unique sculpture by important Abstract Expressionist sculptor Seymour Lipton is a maquette of the monumental sculpture "Laureate" - one of Lipton's most iconic and influential works located on the Riverwalk in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Laureate is a masterpiece that was commissioned by the Allen-Bradley Company in memory of Harry Lynde Bradley and as an enhancement for the newly constructed Performing Arts Center. It is located on the east bank of the Milwaukee River at 929 North Water Street. The Bradley family in Milwaukee were renowned patrons of modernist sculpture, known for their excellent taste who also founded an eponymous sculpture park. For reference only is an image of the monumental "Laureate" one of Milwaukee's most beloved public sculptures. According to the Smithsonian, which owns a different unique variation of this work, "The full-size sculpture Laureate was commissioned by the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee. In the initial drawings, Seymour Lipton combined details from the architectural plan with a wide variety of images, ranging from musical instruments to a lighthouse on the island of Tobago. He transformed the basic shapes from these sketches into a welded sculpture, which evokes a figure composed of columns, harp strings, and coiled rope. Lipton created this piece to celebrate achievement in the arts. The dramatic silhouette commands your attention, reflecting the title Laureate, which means worthy of honor and distinction. The final version of the piece is over twelve feet high and stands out against the pale, flat buildings of the arts center.,," Provenance Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1969 thence by descent Christie's New York: Monday, June 30, 2008 [Lot 00199] Acquired from the above Christie's sale About Seymour Lipton: Born in New York City in 1903, Seymour Lipton (1903-1986) grew up in a Bronx tenement at a time when much of the borough was still farmland. These rural surroundings enabled Lipton to explore the botanical and animal forms that would later become sources for his work. Lipton’s interest in the dialogue between artistic creation and natural phenomena was nurtured by a supportive family and cultivated through numerous visits to New York’s Museum of Natural History as well as its many botanical gardens and its zoos. In the early 1920s, with the encouragement of his family, Lipton studied electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and pursued a liberal arts education at City College. Ultimately, like fellow sculptor Herbert Ferber, Lipton became a dentist, 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. In addition to providing him with financial security, dentistry gave Lipton a foundation in working with metal, a material he would later use in his artwork. In the early 1930s, though, Lipton’s primary sculptural medium was wood. Lipton led a comfortable life, but he was also aware of the economic and psychological devastation the Depression had caused New York. In response, he generally worked using direct carving techniques—a form of sculpting where the artist “finds” the sculpture within the wood in the process of carving it and without the use of models and maquettes. The immediacy of this practice enabled Lipton to create a rich, emotional and visual language with which to articulate the desperation of the downtrodden and the unwavering strength of the disenfranchised. In 1935, he exhibited one such early sculpture at the John Reed Club Gallery in New York, and three years later, ACA Gallery mounted Lipton’s first solo show, which featured these social-realist-inspired wooden works. In 1940, this largely self-taught artist began teaching sculpture at the New School for Social Research, a position he held until 1965. In the 1940s, Lipton began to devote an increasing amount of time to his art, deviating from wood and working with brass, lead, and bronze. Choosing these metals for their visual simplicity, which he believed exemplified the universal heroism of the “everyman,” Lipton could also now explore various forms of abstraction. Lipton’s turn towards increasing abstraction in the 1940s allowed him to fully develop his metaphorical style, which in turn gave him a stronger lexicon for representing the horrors of World War II and questioning the ambiguities of human experience. He began his metal work with cast bronze sculptures, but, in 1946, he started welding sheet metal and lead. Lipton preferred welding because, as direct carving did with wood, this approach allowed “a more direct contact with the metal.”[ii] From this, Lipton developed the technique he would use for the remainder of his career: “He cut sheet metal, manipulated it to the desired shapes, then joined, soldered, or welded the pieces together. Next, he brazed a metal coating to the outside to produce a uniform texture.”[iii] In 1950, Lipton arrived at his mature style of brazing on Monel metal. He also began to draw extensively, exploring the automatism that abstract expressionist painters were boasting at the time. Like contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock, Lipton was strongly 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. In the years following the 1950s, Lipton’s optimism began to rise, and the size of his work grew in proportion. The oxyacetylene torch—invented during the Second World War—allowed him to rework the surfaces of metal sculptures, thus eliminating some of the risks involved with producing large-scale finished works. In 1958, Lipton was awarded a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale and was thus internationally recognized as part of a small group of highly regarded avant-garde constructivist sculptors. In 1960, he received a prestigious Guggenheim Award, which was followed by several prominent public commissions, including his heroic Archangel, currently residing in Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. A number of important solo exhibitions of his work followed at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC (1964); the Milwaukee Art Center and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1969); the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (1972); the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY (1973); the Herbert E. Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY (1973); the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) in Washington, DC (1978); and a retrospective in 1979 at The Jewish Museum in New York. In 1982 and 1984 alone, two exhibitions of his sculpture, organized respectively by the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC) and the Hillwood Art Gallery of Long Island University (Greenvale, NY), traveled extensively across museums and university galleries around the nation. In 2000, the traveling exhibition An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton was first presented by the Palmer Museum of Art of Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Most recently, in 2009, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC mounted The Guardian and the Avant-Garde: Seymour Lipton’s Sentinel II in Context. Since 2004, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has been the exclusive representative of the Estate of Seymour Lipton and has presented two solo exhibitions of his work—Seymour Lipton: Abstract Expressionist Sculptor (2005) and Seymour Lipton: Metal (2008). In 2013, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presented Abstract Expressionism, In Context: Seymour Lipton, which included twelve major sculptures by the artist, along with works by Charles Alston, Norman Bluhm, Beauford Delaney, Willem de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Michael Goldberg, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Boris Margo, Alfonso Ossorio, Richard Pousette-Dart, Milton Resnick, Charles Seliger...

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...

Yasuhisa Kohyama shapes his asymmetrical forms using piano wire, creating distinctive rough surfaces. The clay with its feldspar nuggets creates a tac...

A fantastic chromed sculpture of three hands. This beautiful sculpture was made by Karl F. Schmidt, who apprenticed with Franz Hagenauer and worked his way...

Anthony Caro Bronze Belt Buckle, 1993 Bronze sculpted belt buckle. Stamped on the verso 3 × 4 1/2 inches Exhibition History: Victoria and Albert Museum, L...

'Altair' is a contemporary abstract cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from his Internal Space series. David fused various colored glass to create a layered, suspended, and vibrant ...

This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa. This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosophy that elevates everyday objetc...

Wonderful Art Nouveau "Ebrezza" bronze sculpture of a woman lying on a bed of roses. It bears at the base the signature Barbella and the wording “Rome Palm Sunday 31 III 1912” Brand...

Important bronze sculpture by Luigi Broggini. “Dancer”. Datable to the from the early 1940s. It is part of the series of Dancers created by the sculptor Broggini in the 1930s. The ...

Bronze on a marble base It bears Mayo's signature. Trademark Fondart - Lagana Napoli. “Of the first sculpture, a group of highly vigorous original artistry, all that remains is Ada...

Presenting an original inlaid marquetry wood tray/sculpture by French artist Pierre Lardin. Pierre Lardin executed his work in wood, creating ...

Blas Alfredo Castagna was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1935. He studied at the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts and at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School, where he obtained the title of National Professor of Drawing and Decorator Painter. In 1959 he traveled to Italy and in Sicily he attended the metal-beating workshop at the Scuola d´Arte di Comiso. A year later, he had a solo show of oil painting and gouaches at the “Alcora” Gallery in Buenos Aires, also presenting it in the province of San Juan. In addition to his artistic activity, he worked between 1974 and 1976 as a teacher in the Department of Plastic Arts, Faculty of Humanities, of the National University of San Juan. In 1982 he was invited to exhibit plates and monotypes at the Galerie de L´Université - Tour Mauran in Toulouse, France. A year later he exhibited in our country at the Van Riel Gallery, where a long connection with this room begins. In 1998 he exhibited again in Toulouse, at the Espace Croix Baragnon, an exhibition entitled "Origins, Mémoide", also presenting that year, at the Enrique Larreta Museum of Spanish Art in Buenos Aires, his "Obra Figurativa 1973-1993". Collectively, he presents his works in Uruguay, Cuba, Spain, at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and at the National Museum of Fine Arts, at the Borges Cultural Center (2007 and 2008), at the Museum of Modern Art in Bahia ( Brazil, 2005), at the Sainsbury Center Norwich (United Kingdom, 2004), Centro Cultural Recoleta (1999), at the Fortabat Foundation (1985), at the II Biennial of Havana (1986) and at the ARCO fair in Madrid ( 1987). In 1990 he was awarded the Spirit of Greece Award for engraving, and in 1992 the “Konex Platinum Award. His work is influenced by the Latin American geometric constructivism present in Argentina and Uruguay as well as the European influences of Surrealism and Dada Art. He showed at the prestigious van Riel Gallery. For over 80 years the Frans van Riel Gallery has exhibited at the forefront of Argentinean art. Beginning with Alfredo Hlito “Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina” (Argentinian Modern Artists). The avant-garde of the 1950s and the work of Kenneth Kemble, Leónidas Gambartes and the Grupo Litoral, Juan Del Prete, Aldo Paparella sculpture, Julio Llinás, Aldo Pellegrini, Juan Batlle Planas, Libero Badii, Malena Babino, Horacio Butler, Alejandro Corujeira, Juan Del Prete, Kirin, Luis Felipe Noé...

Sculptural folk art piece by listed artist Sharon Yavis. This work is constructed by applying layers of wood to create an almost three dimensional effect ...

Ivor Abrahams Tableau Balance Maquette 1990 bronze Edition 10 38 x 19.5 x 28.5 cms (15 x 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 ins) IA9751

Date: circa 1965 Bronze sculpture, wooden base Size: 10 x 8 x 3.75 in. (25.4 x 20.32 x 9.53 cm)

A playful and spirited metal wall hanging by legendary folk artist Rev. Howard Finster (1916–2001), dated 1992 and numbered 25,000,998. This mixed-media piece features a cartoonish U...

A cold patinated bronze model depicting a two Arab men in a tent, pitched with the help of a palm tree, and held open with a shield and flag. The seated figure sits, smoking an long pipe. The standing figure guards the entrance of the tent, with a large rifle in his hands. Signed "Chotka” on the base Artist: Anton Chotka...

This is an Markus Pierson Dreaming of Her Sculpture Wood Sculpturer 1987 48 inches tall 50 made. Measures 48x12. In good condition

Gallifa Study X By Barry Flanagan 1992 Bronze 27.9 x 13.7 x 9.8 cm Edition of 8 Provenance: Private UK collection

Felipe Castaneda, signed marble sculpture of Beautiful Nude Woman Felipe Castaneda, Mexican, born,1933, is an internationally renowned sculptor whose ar...