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Period: Early 20th Century
Portrait of daughter Anna
Located in Roma, RM
Giovanni Prini (Genoa 1877 - Rome 1958), Portrait of his daughter Anna (1918)
Bronze sculpture 25 x 18 x 21 cm signed at the bottom of the neck.
This model turns out to be exhibite...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Edward Carter Preston - Athena - 20th Century British Plaster Sculpture Figure
Located in London, GB
EDWARD CARTER PRESTON
(1885-1965)
Athena
Signed: E CARTER PRESTON
Bronzed plaster
59 cm., 23 ¼ in. high
Edward Carter Preston is best known as the designe...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Mali woman bronze sculpture
Located in Three Oaks, MI
These cast figures and objects express status, prestige, and power. This cast metal figure exhibits the technical skill and artistry that Dogon blacksmiths brought to their work. Mad...
Category
Tribal Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Set of 12 glossy ceramic popsicles wall hanging
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
12 Glossy ceramic popsicles sculptures on a natural wood base.
Color Numbers:
SC- 85
SC- 9
SC-15
SC- 93
SC-18
SC-75
SC-24
SC-73
SC-1
SC-2
SC-23
SC-13
Handmade by artists Osnat Zim...
Category
Contemporary Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Testa bambina con base - gesso policromo - Gustave Fontaine 1877- 1952
Located in Stienta, IT
Gustave FONTAINE ( Etterbeek 1877-1952 Bruxelles).
Opera firmata (vedi dettaglio foto)
Misura scultura (vedi scheda tecnica)
Base appoggio 16 x 16 cm
Scultore policromo e pittore....
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Chalk
Pointer / - The elegance of the hunting dog -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anton Büschelberger (1869 Eger - 1934 Dresden), Pointer, around 1930, made by the Karl Ens porcelain manufactory in Volkstedt (Thuringia), model number 2478, 6. Porcelain with underg...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Anglo Indian Folk Art Carved Wood Lion Tiger
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Whimsical carved mahogany rustic sculpture of a big cat with a surprising yet charming combination of the form of a lion and the stripes of a tiger. Retaining its original paint now ...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
"Mossi Head dress Mas ceremonies Rep Upper Volta, " Wood created c. 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Mossi Head dress Mas ceremonies Rep Upper Volta" is a wood sculpture that includes various other materials such as fabric, and fibers. An abstracted animal with a hump and a bird on it's back make up the top of the headdress.
27" x 6" x 1"
The Mossi states were created about 1500 A.D., when bands of horsemen rode north from what is now northern Ghana into the basin of the Volta River and conquered several less powerful peoples, including Dogon, Lela, Nuna, and Kurumba. These were integrated into a new society call Mossi, with the invaders as chiefs and the conquered as commoners. The Mossi make both political art and spiritual art. Figures are used by the ruling class to validate political power, and masks are used by the conquered peoples to control the forces of nature. The several mask styles reflect the diversity of the population before the 15th century invasion. Long tall masks...
Category
Tribal Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Royal Copenhagen Figure Milkmaid / - The dignity of the farmer's wife -
Located in Berlin, DE
Christian Thomsen (1860 Kolding - 1921 Copenhagen), Milkmaid with stool and milk jug, designed around 1910, executed between 1975 and 1979. Model number 899. First choice. Porcelain ...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood & Fabric c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This flat shadow puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. This shadow puppet, 25" high with movable arms, was used in Indonesian Wayang Klitik puppet shows.
Wayang (Krama Javanese: Ringgit ꦫꦶꦁꦒꦶꦠ꧀, "Shadow"), also known as Wajang, is a form of puppet theatre art...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
"Toma Mask, Guinea, " Carved Wood from Africa created circa 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Toma Mask, Guinea" is a carved wooden mask from Africa and created in c. 1900. The painting has worn away, but around the eyes the painting is easier to see...
Category
Tribal Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
éléphant
Located in PARIS, FR
Glazed ceramic, Bruno Cambone
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Pair of Antique Italian Earthenware Lion Sculptures
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique Italian true pair of lions crafted in terra cotta, decorated, glazed and forever in repose.
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Glaze
Juggling Monkey, Porcelain Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
This porcelain sculpture is a playful rendering of a juggling monkey. The monkey's costume lends the animal a sense of performance, and engages the viewers' childhood imagination. ...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Dolpo Shamanic Figure, " Carved Wood created circa 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This shamanic figure was created by the Nepalese Dolpo people. It depicts a man with arms at his side.
11 1/2" x 2 1/4" x 1 1/2" figure
Dolpo is a region in Nepal. The Dolpo peopl...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Mother and Child - 20th Century British terracotta figure by Lady Muriel Wheeler
By Lady Muriel Wheeler
Located in London, GB
LADY MURIEL WHEELER, PSWA
(1888-1979)
Mother and Baby
Signed and indistinctly dated 19-4
Terracotta on wooden base
44 cm., 17 ¼ in. high including base
Muriel Bourne was born in ...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"Bacongo Statue, Used as Fetish - Zaire, " Wood, Glass Feathers, & Cloth
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This wood statue, used as a fetish, was created by an unknown Bacongo artist in Zaire. The Kongo people (also Bakongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of K...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Glass, Wood, Found Objects
British Relief Bronze Portrait of Sir Henry Irving by Albert Toft
Located in London, GB
ALBERT TOFT
(1862-1949)
Relief Portrait of Sir Henry Irving
Indistinctly signed l.r.: Albert Toft
Bronze, dark brown patina, on wooden base
Diameter 24....
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Lacquer Wood Buddhist Monks
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Pair of Lacquer wood Buddhist Monks
Burmese wood and lacquer and gold, color glass decoration. Figures in a praying tranquil position. They are wearing jeweled robes with inlay an...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Gold
$1,500 Sale Price
50% Off
Baby, 1900-1920 - terracotta, 37x38x20 cm
By Max Cantini
Located in Nice, FR
Sculpture in terracotta.
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood & Fabric c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 28" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be compared to European and North America: most performances revolve around Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses who fight against evil, mystical, beings to (usually) end happily.
Three-dimensional Indonesian puppets...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
Antique English Silver Plate Pheasant Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Lofty antique English pheasant figure or statuette crafted in silver plate on brass with ambitious detail and presented on a classic ebonized oval base.
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Arvid Knöppel, The Virgin Mary, Bronzed Wall Relief Plaster Sculpture, Signed.
Located in Stockholm, SE
A finely sculpted dark bronzed wall relief plaster sculpture of Virgin Mary by Arvid Knöppel, signed and dated 1921. An unusual subject of his...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Bronze Goat Statue with her kids by Ary Bitter - (1883-1973)
By Ary Bitter
Located in Gent, VOV
Fine quality Bronze Goat statue by the esteemed French sculptor Ary Bitter (1883-1973), depicting a mother goat tenderly accompanied by her two young kids...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Wilhelm Krieger (1877-1945), bronze doe sculpture circa 1920
Located in Gent, VOV
"Wilhelm Krieger (1877-1945) The Doe Around 1920 "
The DOE. Circa 1920.
Good quality bronze model of a doe, probably cast around 1970. Animal standing, looking forward, picking up ...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Georges Gardet — (1863-1939)+ Bronze cast, Panther on the lookout
Located in Gent, VOV
A fine bronze cast of a panther on the lookout, by Georges Gardet (1863-1939). An old cast with a dark brown shaded patina with some green undertones. Signed G. Gardet. Foundry Barbe...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Golek Puppet (Male), " Wood & Cloth created in Indonesia circa 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek Puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 22" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be c...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Bathing woman surprised
Located in PARIS, FR
Bathing woman surprised
by Aimé-Jules DALOU (1838-1902)
A bronze sculpture with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed to the rear " Dalou "
A very fine cast by " Susse Fres " (with t...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Mask, Baga Guinea, " Carved Wood c. 1920
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Mask, Baga Guinea" is a carved wooden mask created c. 1920. Where a face would go in the mask is actually the body of a woman figure. There are two breasts above a hole for the mask wearer...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood & Fabric c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 26" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be compared to European and North America: most performances revolve around Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses who fight against evil, mystical, beings to (usually) end happily.
Three-dimensional Indonesian puppets...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
Monumental Tom Suomalainen Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Tom Suomalainen is a ceramic artist known for his creative and imaginative sculptures.
Marking(s); notes: marking(s)
Country of origin; materials: USA; salt...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
éléphant n°2
Located in PARIS, FR
Glazed ceramic, Bruno Cambone
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
"Indonesian Garuda Head, " Carved Wood created circa 1920
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This carved wood sculpture, a "Garuda Head," was made by an unknown Indonesian sculpture. The face sculpture is 12 1/2" x 9". The Garuda is a legendary bird or bird-like creature in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain mythology. He is variously the vehicle mount (vahana) of the Hindu god Vishnu, a dharma-protector and Astasena in Buddhism, and the Yaksha of the Jain Tirthankara...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Nail Fetish Bacongo-Zaire, " Glass, Wood, & Metal created circa 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nail Fetish Bacongo-Zaire" is a sculpture made of glass, wood, and metal created circa 1910. He has a top hat upon his head and face paint. Their right ha...
Category
Tribal Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Reclining Figure Carved Marble Early 20th Century France
Located in London, GB
Circle of Henri-Gaudier-Breska
1891-1915
Reclining Figure
Carved marble
Height 5 inches
Born Henri Alphonse Séraphin Marie Gaudier near Orléans in France, Gaudier-Brzeska started using his hyphenated name in 1910 when he met the Polish writer Sophie Brzeska. They moved to London together in January 1911 and adopted their new names and the identity of brother and sister in order to make their cohabitation respectable.
Gaudier-Brzeska started to establish himself as a sculptor in 1912. Initially influenced heavily by Rodin, he later assimilated more influences from the modernist movement of cubism and from examples of non-European art he saw in London’s museums. He met the sculptor Jacob Epstein in June 1912, who further encouraged him to break with classical Greek tradition.
While working from 25 Winthorpe Road in 1913–14, Gaudier-Brzeska became increasingly involved in London’s avant-garde art scene. He exhibited at the London Salon in July 1913, where he met the poet and arts patron Ezra Pound. Pound described Brzeska as ‘like a well-made young wolf or some soft-moving, bright-eyed wild thing’. Gaudier-Brzeska subsequently became associated with the vorticist movement led by Wyndham Lewis, contributing two important articles to Lewis’s magazine Blast and signing his name against the vorticist manifesto.
He was also a founding member of the London Group, which formed when the all-male Camden Arts Group joined with independent artists to challenge the dominance of the Royal Academy of Arts. Other founding members included Walter Sickert, Robert Bevan and Spencer Gore...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood & Fabric c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 24" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be compared to European and North America: most performances revolve around Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses who fight against evil, mystical, beings to (usually) end happily.
Three-dimensional Indonesian puppets...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
Robert Garret Thew American Sculptor Rare Art Deco Bronze Cigar Stand, Penguin
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Fabulous deco penguin design- bronze cigar stand by Connecticut sculptor Robert Garret Thew, (1892-1964).
Signed on the base "G.Thew" and dated 1929. In excellent condition with a be...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood & Fabric c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 20" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be compared to European and North America: most performances revolve around Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses who fight against evil, mystical, beings to (usually) end happily.
Three-dimensional Indonesian puppets...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood & Fabric c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 24" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
Antique Chinese Model of a Sovereign Carried in Sedan or Litter
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and unusual antique Chinese sculpture or model depicting a Manchurian sovereign carried on a palanquin by four courtiers all mounted on a wood platform.
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Running Terrier Pups (bookends)
By Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Pair of Running Terrier Pup sculptures cast by Gorham Co. Founders in the 1920s.
Signed on base; stamped ‘GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS’
stamped and numbered “OFCP” and “OFCB” respectively
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Barye Rare Bronze Sculpture, "Marabou and Snake Marabout Au Serpent"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875.) Bronze maribou stork and snake with rich brown patina, signed “Barye” on the embankment.
Antique edition cast marked F. Barbedienne Fondeur (caster.)...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Donal Hord Bronze Sculpture, 1926, “Kneeling Indians”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Donal hord bronze sculpture, 1926. “Kneeling Indians” 10" H x 9" W x 9" D.
A bronze stand with a kneeling Indian at each corner bearing a bronze bowl.
Two Pieces. In excellent condi...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$7,840 Sale Price
20% Off
"Ekamka Fetish - Nigeria, " Carved Wood Figure created circa 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Ekamka Fetish sculpture was carved from wood by an unknown Nigerian artist. It depicts a figure holding a mask. The figure has two symbolic horns protruding from his head and he sits on a thin...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Girl in White Marble Italian 1920's Art Deco Sculpture by Prendoni Attilio
Located in Milano, IT
Prendoni Attilio Sculpture of Girl Child in Carrara Marble Biaco signed on the molded plinth, depicts a young girl with her hair gathered by a bow, a maiden with a shy attitude as in...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Chien à la sauterelle, Sandoz, Dog, Sculpture, Bronze, Animal, 1910's
Located in Geneva, CH
Chien à la sauterelle, Sandoz, Dog, Sculpture, Bronze, Animal, 1910's
Chien à la sauterelle
Susse Fondeur
circa 1918-1930
Bronze with brown patina and shade of green
13 x 13 x 9 cm
Signed and seal of the foundry on the base : Sandoz, Susse Fondeur
Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté de Edouard Marcel Sandoz, sculpteur figuriste et animalier 1881-1971, by Félix Marcilhac, Les Editions de l'amateur, 1993...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French, Cast Bronze Hounds
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An elegant pair of 1920's, patinated, bronze hounds initially conceived and created by master sculptor, J.E. Masson (1871-1932). This edition cast at the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Female), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood & Fabric
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 26" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
Claude-Levy Cast Iron Sculpture of Flora, Dated 1925
Located in New York, NY
Claude-Lévy, 1895 – 1942
Alice Nikitina in the role of Flora, from the Dukelsky/Braque production of the ballet Zephyr & Flore at the Ballets Russes, 1925
Cast Stone
Signed and dated: Claude-Levy 1925 on rear face of self-base.
The present sculpture is as rare as it is delightful. Mademoiselle Claude-Levy, as the
catalogues of the period list her, was one of the truly original talents of the Art Deco period. Painter, architect, decorator, and sculptor, she was a friend of the Parisian, Modernist sculptors, Chana Orloff, Henri Laurens and the Martel brothers, to whom her work was often compared. The ingenuity of her models brought her great critical acclaim, but she seems to have stopped producing in the early 1930s. Her output, although fine, is rare. Claude-Levy’s gentle Cubism might be better described as Purism in sculpture. It is characterized by simplified surfaces, rounded (as opposed to angular) forms, and smooth, lustrous surfaces. The Purist movement included the painters Léger, Ozenfant and Le Corbusier in its ranks.
Claude-Lévy, along with other artists of the avant- garde living in the Gallic capital (Czaky, Zadkine, Archipenko, Lipchitz, Lambert Rucki Miklos, Nadelman, Vörös, Orloff) helped to develop a collective twentieth century figurative sculptural idiom that exploited the daring and rich possibilities of geometric abstraction.
The present work is Claude-Lévy’s Commedia dell’Arte figures inspired by the Stravinsky/Picasso Ballet...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
"Bambara Antelope Headdress Pair--Male and Female, " Carved Wood
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This headdress was hand-carved by an unknown artist in the Bambara tribe in Mali, West Africa. It was likely created for ceremonial purposes and includes one male and one female head...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Nigeria-Yoruba Medicine Staff, " Hand Forged Iron created c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nigerian Yoruba Medicine Staff" is a hand-forged iron implement created for medical practice in Nigeria. It depicts a central stick with a bird ...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Sculpture - Male Face
By Max Blondat
Located in PARIS, FR
Max Blondat (1872 - 1925)
Mael Figure
1915
Terracotta
30 x 21 x 14 cm
Signed and dated on the neck on the left: Max Blondat 1915
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Pair of Antique Polychrome Wood Geese Sculptures
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Pair of large Chinese wood geese.
Rare early 20th Century hand carved exotic wood and polychrome, heavy geese sculptures with beautiful earthy colors. ...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Torso of a Woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Torso of a Woman
by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
Avery fine nuanced brown chamotte sandstone sculpture
raised on a dark grey marble base
signed on the arm with the monogram "MG" for Marcel Gimond
inscribed with the monogram "GS" for Georges Serré
stamped by the galerie Rouard
France
1927
total height 50 cm
width 20,5 cm
depth 20 cm
After a model by Marcel Gimond, this bust was made in 1927 by Georges Serré at the Manufacture de Sèvres, sold exclusively by the Rouard Gallery, and exhibited the same year at the Paris Fall Fair (Salon d'Automne).
Reproduced in "Sculpteurs nouveaux, Marcel Gimond", Paul Fierens, Nrf, 1930, cover.
Biographies :
Marcel Gimond (1894-1961) was a French sculptor. He studied in Lyon, then at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon where he graduated in 1917. Finally he arrived in Paris the same year and settled in Marly-Le-Roi. Student of Aristide Maillol, he also met Raoul Dufy and Auguste Renoir. Gimond worked with Maillol until 1920, and left him to settle in Paris and regain his independence. He then moved into Renoir's former studio, made available by Jean Renoir. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne in 1922. In 1940, Gimond left Paris to settle in the South zone, in Lyon, then in Aix en Provence; He spent his summers at Saint-Félicien, at the house of poet Charles Forot.
At the Liberation, in 1944, he returned to Paris and his workshop rue Ordener, he left only a few months before his death. From 1946 to 1960, he directed a workshop at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Marcel Gimond was known for his busts of political and artistic personalities. He also owed two bas-reliefs located in the lobby of the newspaper "L'Humanité", in tribute to Marcel Cachin and Gabriel Péri.
Georges Serré (1889-1956) was a French ceramist. He worked at the Sèvres factory until 1914, when he was mobilized to go to war. He then went to Indochina where he taught ceramics at the art school of Bien-hoa for five years. On his return to France, he moved to Sèvres, rue Brongniart, but encountered difficulties in producing his works, until the intervention of the ceramist Emile Decoeur who obtained him help to build an oven for firing his ceramics. It was Georges Rouard and his gallery located on avenue de l'Opéra in Paris, who had noticed him at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts of 1925, which presented him during his "exhibitions of contemporary French artisans".
Georges Serré's taste for these sandstones came to him, among other things, from Khmer sculptures...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade with Carved Painted Wood & Fabric from Indonesia
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 27" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be compared to European and North America: most performances revolve around Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses who fight against evil, mystical, beings to (usually) end happily.
Three-dimensional Indonesian puppets...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
"Hemba Stool-Monkeys Zaire, " Carved Wood created circa 1900-1920 in Africa
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Hemba Stool-Monkeys Zaire" is a carved wood stool created in Africa circa 1900-1920. The base of the stool is domed in the middle a column goes upwards to...
Category
Tribal Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade with Carved, Painted Wood and Fabric
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 23" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
"Baluba Stool Zaire, " a Wood Carving c. 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Baluba Stool Zaire" is a Wood Carving from Africa created around 1910. The base is solid and flat, but above it are three figures embracing each other holding with their heads the s...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade with Carved Painted Wood & Fabric
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 26" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
Garibaldi Riding a Horse - Bronze Sculpture by Carlo Rivalta
Located in Roma, IT
Garibaldi Riding A Horse is an original bronze sculpture realized by Carlo Rivalta. Signed by the artist.
Beautiful and important sculpture representing the most famous Italian Hero...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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KAWS art toys have developed an avid audience in recent decades, and as in any robust collectible market, counterfeiters have followed the mania. Of course, you don’t have to worry about that on 1stDibs, where all our sellers are highly vetted.
A Giant Wedding Cake Has Us Looking at Portuguese Tiles in a New Light
At Waddesdon Manor, artist Joana Vasconcelos has installed a three-tiered patisserie inspired by the narrative tile work of her homeland. We take a look at the cake sculpture and how Portuguese tiles have been used in architecture from the 17th century to today.
These Soft Sculptures Are Childhood Imaginary Friends Come to Life
Miami artist and designer Gabriela Noelle’s fantastical creations appeal to the Peter Pan in all of us.