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Period: Early 20th Century
Bronze Sculpture "Mother and Child" Baboons by Blanca Will
Located in Rochester, NY
"Mother and Child" an impressionist bronze sculpture of baboons by sculptor Blanca Will, American, 1881-1978, dated 1912. Works by Will are rare.
Blanca Will Exhibited at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Statuetta in bronzo toscana figurativa nudo femminile del XX secolo
By Quinto Martini
Located in Florence, IT
Questa statuetta in bronzo raffigura una giovane donna nuda in piedi che si tiene i capelli con le mani. Sebbene non firmata, la provenienza e lo stile confermano la mano di Quinto M...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cast Bronze and Cold Painted Perched Parakeet Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Three Vienna cast bronze and cold painted parakeets or birds perched on a brass Stand with a Classic turned base, in the manner of Franz Bergman.
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Woman with Square Umbrella
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture in wood depicting a woman holding an umbrella. "Woman with Square Umbrella" by Post War artist Alexander Calder is signed underneath, "Calder." "Woman with a Square Umbre...
Category
Post-War Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
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
Little Red Riding Hood Inkwell
Located in Missouri, MO
Antoine Bofill
"Little Red Riding Hood"
Bronze Inkwell
6H x 10W x 6D
Signed
Inscribed: 25 Septembre 1920
Antoine Bofill was born in Barcelona i...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Le Verre Francais Schneider Art Glass Art Deco
Located in Miami, FL
We are putting this work on Sale for only a short period of time! Great Price.
Monumental Wide Flared Casiform Vessel Le Verre Francais Art Glass...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Antoine Bofill Art Nouveau Nude Bronze Sculpture, circa 1900
Located in Dallas, TX
This is one of Antoine Bofill's best models, being a signature Art Nouveau nature form with a beautiful nude nymph gazing upon a bumble bee insect. The patina on this statue figure i...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian school of the 20th century, alabaster columns
Located in Tricase, IT
Italian school of the 20th century, Alabaster Columns
Spectacular baroque alabaster columns probably from the Tuscan school. The ancient and completely hand-sculpted works are perfec...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Pan and Maidens
By Ary Bitter
Located in London, GB
Silvered bronze with marble base
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$30,642
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
Fox Hound After the Hunt, Bronze Sculpture by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, born in Buffalo, NY in 1879. His interest in sculpture appeared and was encouraged at an early age. The most significant encouragement came when the boy was taken by his parents to Paris in 1893.
After graduating from Harvard in 1902, Rumsey returned to Paris where he took a studio in the Latin Quarter and enrolled and the Julian and Colarossi Academies. One professor, Emmanuel Fremiet, a specialist in equestrian statuary, devoted special emphasis to the study of the horse, and his training was to have a decisive influence on the young Rumsey. Apart from sculpture, horses were the great passion of his life. He was an excellent horseman and an 8 goal polo player with Meadowbrook Polo Club Long Island NY.
Rumsey’s specialties included equestrian sculptures – portraits of polo players and prize horses, as well as of cowboys, cattle and horses as metaphors. He worked principally in bronze and stone, often employing mythology and historical themes articulated in private commissions for freestanding statuary and in public monuments. His 40-foot bas relief panels of Indians, horses and buffalos for the Manhattan Bridge and the heroic subject matter of Rice Stadium commission are examples.
The estate of Charles Rumsey...
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Head of a Young Boy, Early 20th Century English Sculpture
Located in London, GB
English School
Early 20th Century
Head of a Young Boy
Bronze with stone base
Height: 12 3/4 inches (32.5 cm)
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Winning the Race Galloping Horse and Rider in Bronze by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
Rumsey’s specialties included equestrian sculptures – portraits of polo players and prize horses, as well as of cowboys, cattle and horses as metaphors. He worked principally in bron...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Life-Sized, Abstract Figurative Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Remarkable, large, hand-carved, tribal-type, teak sculpture of an abstract, female form featuring a mix of refined and rough finishes.
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Dog Scratching Bronze of a Dog Scratching
Located in Brookville, NY
Charles Cary Rumsey attended Harvard University, studied art in Paris at the Academie Julian and at Boston School of Fine Art under Bela Pratt. His public works are found worldwide, such as the frieze at the Manhattan Bridge, Zion Park...
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Charles Paillet "Medaille D'or" Bronze of Two Playful Goats
By Charles Paillet
Located in Dallas, TX
A large Charles Paillet French (1871-1937) bronze of two playful goats "Medaille D'or"
Here we have a fun and whimsical statue sculpture of two young goats playing in the grass. One...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Nouveau Italian Signed Dated and Inscribed Original Bronze
By Constantino Barbella
Located in Roma, IT
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...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1920s Italian Signed Bronze Sculpture
By Elisabetta Mayo D’Aloisio
Located in Roma, IT
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...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Franz Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMANN
Austrian, (1861-1936)
Fetching a Drink at the Well
Depicting an Arab man and woman at a well, the woman holds a vase of water whilst the man is drinking.
17 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jockey Pipe Rack in Bronze A Bronze by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
Charles Rumsey was a child prodigy sent to Paris to train in sculpting at age 12. He was not only a prodigy sculptor but an avid horseman and sportsman...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Announced
Located in Roma, RM
Antonio Maraini (Rome 1886 - Florence 1963), Annunciata
Marble sculpture 54 x 15 x 10 cm signed on base.
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$6,002
Purity
Located in PARIS, FR
"Purity"
also known as "Bust of a young girl"
by Joseph BERNARD (1866-1931)
Bust in bronze with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed “ J Bernard ” and marked “ N 3 ”
Sand cast
Cast by the artist
Raised on a wooden base
France
circa 1910
height of the bronze : 24 cm
total height with its base : 29 cm
width : 22,5 cm
depth : 13,5 cm
The model of this head is a study made for the pink marble bust...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Stone Figure of a Woman, hand carved with painted patina
Located in Brookville, NY
Born in Hammersmith, London, Cribb's career as an artist began when he was fourteen. He was recruited by Eric Gill as his assistant in 1906 and was taught letter cutting and masonry skills by his master. He was suggested to Gill by his father Herbert William Cribb's associate, the Arts and Crafts printer Emery Walker...
Category
English School Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Donal Hord Bronze Sculpture, 1927, “Dying Warriors”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Donal Hord bronze sculpture, 1927. “Dying Warriors”
Sits on a 2" wooden plinth. In excellent condition.
Inscribed “D.H.” underneath the bronze on the plinth.
Measures 11"H x 10"W x ...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$9,200 Sale Price
20% Off
The vocal lesson
Located in PARIS, FR
"The vocal lesson"
Pierrot's Getting His Cats To Sing
by Ernest Wante (1872-1960)
Sculpture in bronze with a dark brown patina
Signed "E. Wante" on the b...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A seated Couple
Located in PARIS, FR
A seated Couple
by Louis-Eugene DEJEAN (1872-1953)
A rare bronze group with a nuanced dark brown patina
signed "Louis Dejean"
cast by "Alexis Rudier fondeur" (with a barely legible...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lady with caskets
Located in PARIS, FR
Lady with caskets
by Léo LAPORTE-BLAIRSY (1865-1923)
Bronze a nuanced brown patina
signed on the side of the base "Léo Laporte-Blairsy"
old cast
Stamped with a number "60765 / 6"
F...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carved Oak Wood Arts and Crafts Frame with Rabbit, Dog, Bird, Emu Carvings
Located in Miami, FL
One needs to view this work as much as a sculpture as a utilitarian frame.
Handmade Arts & Crafts channeled oak frame with chiseled relief farm animal decoration on each corner, pin and dovetail construction, artist cipher and date carved verso, 45"h x 31.5"w (outside), 37"h x 24"w (inside)
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Maximilien Louis Fiot 'Fr 1886 - 1953' Combat Des Aigles
Located in Dallas, TX
Maximilien Louis Fiot (French, 1886 - 1953)
A very large bronze animalier sculpture of combatant eagles in flight above an outcropping or rocks. The Eagles are fighting for their li...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$4,320 Sale Price
20% Off
The Bride
By Janet Scudder
Located in PARIS, FR
The Bride
by Janet Scudder (1869-1940)
Bronze with dark brown patina
signed "Janet Scudder" on the base
cast by Alexis Rudier, fondeur Paris (foundry mark)
France
early 20th century
height 28 cm
Biography :
Janet Scudder (1869-1940) was an American sculptor. Born Netta Deweze Frazee, but called Janet, her childhood was difficult. Her mother died at age 38 in 1874. Despite limited financial means, her father sent her to study drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She also studied sculpture with Louis Rebisso. She taught in 1888 women wood...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maximilien-Louis Fiot Bronze Ducks In Flight Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Maximilien-Louis Fiot (1886-1953) Art Nouveau-Art Deco sculpture of Ducks in Flight, patinated cast bronze sculpture mounted on thick Acid etched gl...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Anton Chotka
By Anton Chotka
Located in New York, NY
ANTON CHOTKA
Austrian, (1881-1955)
Cleopatra and Servants
Austrian Cold-painted Bronze Figures Depicting Cleopatra and Servants
11 inches high
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture Winged Buffalo Bronze 1921
By Badeau Georges Laurent
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
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...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Westside Highway Cast Iron Roundel Art Deco - Rene Paul Chambellan
Located in Miami, FL
This sale is for one of them of the Cast Iron Roundels. However, we have 3 Cast Iron Roundels from the Old West Side Highway in Manhattan if you want to buy all three... reach out to us. . Each retains its original industrial paint. If the paint is removed, the clear shape of the iron cast will be removed. Each roundel has a different image and story. They were designed in 1928 by Rene Paul Chambellan...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Iron
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Art Nouveau Sculptural Bronze Group of Children", 20th Century by Juan Clará
Located in Madrid, ES
JUAN CLARÁ AYATS
Spanish, 1878 - 1958
ART NOUVEAU BRONZE GROUP OF CHILDREN
signed "Juan Clara" (lower right on the bench)
bronze sculpter group
4-3/4 x 6 x 3-1/2 inches (12 X 15 X 9 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Spanish Collector
Juan Clará's Art Nouveau bronze sculptural group representing two boys and a girl sitting on a bench in a funny and surprise attitude to something they are seeing.
Juan Clará's Art Nouveau bronze sculptural group representing two boys and a girl sitting on a bench in a funny and surprise attitude to something they are seeing.
Juan Clará Ayats. Olot (Gerona), 6.XII.1875 - Paris (France), II.1958. Sculptor
Student of José Berga at the Olot School of Fine Arts, developed his training in France, first at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, in 1896, and from 1901 in Paris. At this stage he lived with his younger brother, José Clará...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"A Girl Sitting on a Stool Tying Her Shoe", 20th Century Bronze by Juan Clará
Located in Madrid, ES
JUAN CLARÁ AYATS
Spanish, 1878 - 1958
A GIRL SEATED ON A STOOL TYING HER SHOE
signed "Juan Clara" and stamped A.G. Paris (on the stool )
bronze figure
6-3/8 x 3 x 4 inches (16 X 7.5 X 10 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, France
Gilded bronze sculpture of Art Nouveau style, depicting a little girl sitting on a sidewalk tying her shoe.
The plasticity that Juan Clará achieves with the bronze when shaping this beautiful little sculpture is wonderful. We notice the effort that the little girl is making to put on her shoe, her gestures and attitudes which moves us and attracts us towards her.
Juan Clará Ayats. Olot (Gerona), 6.XII.1875 - Paris (France), II.1958. Sculptor
Student of José Berga at the Olot School of Fine Arts, developed his training in France, first at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, in 1896, and from 1901 in Paris. At this stage he lived with his younger brother, José Clará...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"A Girl Sitting on a Stool Tying Her Shoe", 20th Century Bronze by Juan Clará
Located in Madrid, ES
JUAN CLARÁ AYATS
Spanish, 1878 - 1958
A GIRL SEATED ON A STOOL TYING HER SHOE
signed "Juan Clara" and stamped A.G. Paris and marks L.R. 213 (on the stool )
bronze figure
6-3/8 x 3 x 4 inches (16 X 7.5 X 10 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Madrid
A brown patia bronze sculpture of Art Nouveau style, depicting a little girl sitting on a sidewalk tying her shoe.
The plasticity that Juan Clará achieves with the bronze when shaping this beautiful little sculpture is wonderful. We notice the effort that the little girl is making to put on her shoe, her gestures and attitudes which moves us and attracts us towards her.
Juan Clará Ayats. Olot (Gerona), 6.XII.1875 - Paris (France), II.1958. Sculptor
Student of José Berga at the Olot School of Fine Arts, developed his training in France, first at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, in 1896, and from 1901 in Paris. At this stage he lived with his younger brother, José Clará...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Young girl from Bou-Saada
Located in PARIS, FR
Young girl from Bou-Saada
by Louis-Ernest BARRIAS (1841-1905)
Bronze sculpture with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed on the base " E. Barrias "
Cast by " Susse Fres Edrs à Paris "...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Art Nouveau Bronze Sculptural of a Boy and Girl", 20th Century by Juan Clará
Located in Madrid, ES
JUAN CLARÁ AYATS
Spanish, 1878 - 1958
ART NOUVEAU SCULPTURAL BRONZE OF A BOY AND GIRL
signed "Juan Clara" (on the lower left )
sculptural bronze
4-3/8 x 4-3/8 x 3-1/2 inches (11 X 11 X 9 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Spanish Collector
Art Nouveau Bronze sculpture representing a boy and a girl sitting on a stool in a funny and surprised attitude to something they are seeing. Sgned "Juan Clará" lower left with the foundry seal and marks on the right side of the bench
Juan Clará Ayats. Olot (Gerona), 6.XII.1875 - Paris (France), II.1958. Sculptor
Student of José Berga at the Olot School of Fine Arts, developed his training in France, first at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, in 1896, and from 1901 in Paris. At this stage he lived with his younger brother, José Clará...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"A Girl Bust" 20th Century Bronze Sculpture by Spanish Artist Juan Clará Ayats
Located in Madrid, ES
JUAN CLARÁ AYATS
Spanish, 1878 - 1958
A GIRL BUST
signed "Juan Clara" and Buenos Aires stamp mark (on the back )
bronze figure
6-3/8 x 4-1/8 x 4-1/8 inches (16 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm.)
8 x 4-1/8 x 4-1/8 inches (20 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm.) base included
PROVENANCE
Private Spanish Collector
Art Noveau bronze...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Signed Wrede - Angel with torch - Bas-Relief
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Wrede
Bas Relief - Angel with torch
Bronze
106,6 x 34,7 cm with the wood panel
Signed on lower right
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dreams
Located in Roma, RM
Giovanni Nicolini (Palermo 1872 - Rome 1956), Dreams
Bronze sculpture 63 x 35 x 35 cm signed and located Rome on the back; in the wooden base is a ...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Combat: Indian, Horse and Buffalo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Combat: Indian, Horse and Buffalo: Arthur Putnam (September 6, 1873 – May 27, 1930) was an American sculptor and animalier who was recognized for his bronze sculptures of wild animals. Some of his artworks are public monuments. He was a well-known figure, both statewide and nationally, during the time he lived in California. Putnam was regarded as an artistic genius in San Francisco and his life was chronicled in the San Francisco and East Bay newspapers. He won a gold medal at the 1915 San Francisco...
Category
Romantic Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Nu Assis Dans Un Fauteuil
By Chana Orloff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chana Orloff was a Ukranian-born Israeli sculptor, who created many sculptures that focused on the human form. This editioned sculpture has a signature, date, and foundry stamp inscr...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Snake Dancer
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed and stamped “Cire Perdue, Bisceglia F-es, Paris”
Biography
Paul Landowski was a French monument sculptor who was Polish. His parents were Polish refugees. He created over 35 monumental sculptures in the city of Paris. Landowski is known for the 1931 Christ the Redeemer...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
A Beggar’s Prayer for Healing
Located in New York, NY
A Beggar’s Prayer for Healing
1922
Signed “F,” l.r.
Signed, verso
Wood (with gold inlay)
23.5 x 8.5 x 1 inches (59.7 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm)
Contact gallery for price.
Provenance:
E. A...
Category
Contemporary Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Price Upon Request
Going into Battle
By Carl Kauba
Located in Missouri, MO
Carl Kauba
"Going into Battle" c. 1920s
Bronze with Brown Patina
Signed
approx 10 x 10 x 4 (including wooden base)
This Austrian sculptor was born in Vienna in 1865. His teachers were Karl Waschmann (1848-1905), known for his ivory sculptures and portrait plaquettes of contemporary celebrities, and Stefan Schwartz (1851-1924), who exhibited in Paris, including the Exposition Universelle of 1900 where he won a gold medal. Kauba's intricate bronzes, imported to the United States between 1895 and 1912, were cast at the Roman Bronze Works. Kauba was part of the nineteenth-century tradition of polychrome bronze sculpture. There were several types of patinas on a single statue: he could render the color of buckskin, variously tinted shirts, blankets, feathers, as well as beaded moccasins. Reportedly, Kauba came to America around 1886. Inspired by the Western tales of German author Karl May, he traveled to the West and made sketches and models. Critics, however, pointed out inaccuracies of costume and other details. For instance, the guns that his "mid-nineteenth-century" figures use are models produced after 1898. Apparently he did all of his works back in Vienna.
Besides the variety of color, Kauba's bronzes show a great range of textures and his style is highly naturalistic. The sculptor loved ornament, some of which he rendered with coiled wire for reins, rope and feathers in headdresses. He successfully rendered figures in motion and often executed compositions with more than one figure. Berman (1974) illustrates non-Western subjects by Kaula, such as the pendants Where? and There (ca. 1910), a seated Scottish couple, impressive in the expressions and the details on patterned fabrics of both sitters. Another genre piece is Buster Brown...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Native American in Canoe
By Carl Kauba
Located in Missouri, MO
Carl Kauba (1865-1922)
"Native American in Canoe"
Polychrome Bronze
Signed
approx 5.5 x 10 x 2.75 inches
This Austrian sculptor was born in Vienna in 1865. His teachers were Karl Waschmann (1848-1905), known for his ivory sculptures and portrait plaquettes of contemporary celebrities, and Stefan Schwartz (1851-1924), who exhibited in Paris, including the Exposition Universelle of 1900 where he won a gold medal. Kauba's intricate bronzes, imported to the United States between 1895 and 1912, were cast at the Roman Bronze Works. Kauba was part of the nineteenth-century tradition of polychrome bronze sculpture. There were several types of patinas on a single statue: he could render the color of buckskin, variously tinted shirts, blankets, feathers, as well as beaded moccasins. Reportedly, Kauba came to America around 1886. Inspired by the Western tales of German author Karl May, he traveled to the West and made sketches and models. Critics, however, pointed out inaccuracies of costume and other details. For instance, the guns that his "mid-nineteenth-century" figures use are models produced after 1898. Apparently he did all of his works back in Vienna.
Besides the variety of color, Kauba's bronzes show a great range of textures and his style is highly naturalistic. The sculptor loved ornament, some of which he rendered with coiled wire for reins, rope and feathers in headdresses. He successfully rendered figures in motion and often executed compositions with more than one figure. Berman (1974) illustrates non-Western subjects by Kaula, such as the pendants Where? and There (ca. 1910), a seated Scottish couple, impressive in the expressions and the details on patterned fabrics of both sitters. Another genre piece is Buster Brown...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
La Cothurne
Located in Missouri, MO
"La Cothurne" 1901
Gilt Bronze
Approx 21.5" High (to raised hand)
Signed and Dated
Foundry Mark "Susse Freres"
Originally modeled in white biscuit porcelain this Greek dancer is a from a set of eight created for a dining table. They were immediately successful when they were exhibited in the Sevres pavilion at the 1900 Exhibition. Individual figures could be ordered and "La Cothurne" proved the most popular. Their success led to the firm of Susse buying the right to cast versions in metal.
Agathon Leonard (1841-1923) is one of the well-known French Art Nouveau sculptors. Born in Lille in 1841, he first studied there before moving to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Eugene Delaplanche.
He gained recognition at the annual Expositiones Universelles, winning a Silver Medal there in 1889 and gold in 1900. His most important piece, Jeu L'echarpe, was the best known series of Sevres production at the turn of the century and sold out at the 1900 Expo in Paris and later was given as a gift by the French Gov't to Nicholas II at the Hermitage.
His bronzes were cast at the Susse Freres Editeurs Foundry. He worked also in marble, quartz and ivory. He also produced Art Nouveau medallions...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Nuska, Portrait of a Girl, unique bronze portrait by Isamu Noguchi 1924
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Nuska, Portrait of a Girl, bronze portrait, 1924, unique
Isamu Noguchi (Japanese American 1904 - 1988); "Nuska, The Deaf Girl"; cire perdu cast bronze with complex dark patina on bronze base; 15 x lOx 8 inches; base 4.5 x 5.75 x 5,75 inches; signature quilled under and at back - "Isamu"; foundry stamp quilled in wax at the back - "Roman Bronze Works N.Y."
Excellent condition.
"Nuska, The Deaf Girl" is included in the Catalogue Raisonne of Noguchi's sculpture by Nancy Grove and Dianne Botnick (Garland, 1980) as Number 21. It is currently listed in the digital catalogue being assembled by the Isamu Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York as Number 10. This is apparently a unique casting, not part of an edition.
This is an apparently early, cire perdu bronze cast by Roman Bronze Works, probably when the foundry was located in the Louis Comfort Tiffany red...
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Contemporary Early 20th Century Sculptures
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Bronze
Satyr
By Max Zeitz
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an early hand hammered copper sculpture, "Satyr", by Dutch artist Max Zeitz.
"Satyr", is an original, very early (1910) hand h...
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Early 20th Century Sculptures
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