Art Deco Sculptures

Sisters was inspired by a gouache painting from 1921 entitled 'Les baisers pervers ou la brune et la blonde' and is a wonderful example of an invention of Erté's from the early 1920s...

Florencio Gelabert Y Perez (Cuban, 1904-1995) Hand carved, signed; 1979 Materials: Cuban wood (mahogany?) Dimensions 23 X 4 X 4 inches Label affixed to underside: National Registry of Cultural Assets of the Republic of Cuba Ministry of Culture. Provenance: Art Master Collection, Miami, Florida. Florencio Gelabert, with a style reminiscent of Art Deco and Art Nouveau in a Latin American Expressionist stylization. Carved wood sculpture. Depicts a modernist stylized form of a man in a streamline moderne style. José Florencio Gelabert Pérez (Caibarien, 1904 - Havana, 1995) Cuban musician, sculptor, draftsman and teacher. He graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He received numerous awards, mentions and recognitions in Fine Arts Halls and Circles. His works are in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Florencio Gelabert is a renowned sculptor, who made more than twenty solo exhibitions beginning in 1929, several in the National Museum of Fine Arts, and participated in more than thirty collectives in Cuba, Spain and Brazil, the latter in the Sao Paulo Biennial. he traveled from Caibarién to Santa Clara in 1928 to audition to enter the famous San Alejandro Fine Arts School in Havana. He obtained one of the five vacancies. Already in the Cuban capital, he combined fine arts and music. When he graduated, he became a professor in San Alejandro and the academy’s principal in 1960. With a calling common to wood sculptors –which began with his primary school carving carpentry classes and the active life of his home town’s shipyards, his chisels and gouges feverishly turned mahogany, “ácana” and ebony into female heads with black African features dating back to 1930. In 1938 he used his savings to explore Europe: France (Paris, Marseilles), Italy (Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice), Belgium (Malina). His encounter with the works by Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Ossip Zadkine, Constantin Brancusi and even with Wifredo Lam, who was also born in another Cuban coastal area, Sagua la Grande, and his encounter with the nude marble David sculpture...

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Asymmetrical head of man, terracotta sculpture, 1930s-40s, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981). Terracotta modeled by hand by the artist. Unique piece.  Dimensions: Height 34 cm. The choice ...

Golf (Wall Plaque) Polychromed ceramic, c. 1930-1 Signed with the artist's initials: VS recto Very rare, only a few produced prior to the closure of Cowan Pottery Format: Round ceramic plate, 11 1/4 inches Designed by the artist while working for Cowan Pottery in 1930. One of Cowan's clients, an interior designer, requested plates decorated with different outdoor activities. Others in the series included "Swimming," "Tennis," "Polo," and "The Hunt." According to Henry Adams, the number of examples created was very limited due to the closing of Cowan Pottery in 1931. Very rare Condition: Good, with the usual craquelure of the glazes used. Note: Industrial design democratizes high style, and Mr. Schreckengost was widely considered among the most democratic industrial designers. He made, quite literally, the stuff of life — things found routinely in homes, backyards and garages in this country and around the world. He designed bicycles for Sears and everyday china for American Limoges...

The Hunting is a sculptural interpretation of Autumn, a lithograph from Erté’s The Four Seasons. It represents a beautiful creature – half woman, half animal – wounded by a cruel hun...

Keith Murray, architect and industrial designer, created this particular vase, "Chinese Lantern" in moonstone white ( shape no.3765) Made in England. Priced individually at $1200 each, we have this same vase in Yellow and in Green. A quote can be given for additional pieces. We have yellow green and moonstone in bombe in small and large sizes. We have celadon bowls, yellow bowls, and small moonstone pot with lid. All c. 1935 art deco style made in England. All in excellent condition. These are the most desirable classic examples of pottery by Architect Keith Murray produced for Wedgwood in the 1930's. Published and illustrated in the book "Wedgwood Ceramics...

"Friendship" reflects the very individual character of your animal, it shows the liveliness and joy, but also deep loyalty and inseparable connection of your favorite. Our artist Chroessi Schnell has designed a series of urns exclusively for the Colonia-Art. The first of these animal urns...

French Art Deco bronze sitting nude by F. Trinque, 1930. A gorgeous Art Deco woman stretching her arms and drying her back with a towel possibly after a swim or bath with a rich gold...

Bronze sculpture. Incised Erte signature with stamp numbered edition, foundry and date. From the edition of 375. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Artwork is in excellent co...

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Georges Charpentier, French (1937 - 2024) - L'Arbre de Vie, Year: 1980, Medium: Bronze Sculpture with gold patina on wooden base, signature and numbering inscribed, Edition: 5/8, ...

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Portrait of boy, terracotta sculpture, 1930s-40s, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981). Tuscan Sculptor. Terracotta modeled by hand by the artist. Unique piece. Dimensions: Height 31 cm. The...

Size includes wood mounting. George Aarons (born Gregory Podubisky, in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1896 - died in Gloucester, Massachusetts 1980) was a distinguished sculptor who lived and taught in Gloucester, Massachusetts, for many years until his death in 1980. He had, many students in the area and he designed Gloucester's 350th Anniversary Commemorative Medal. Aarons moved from Russia to the United States when he was ten. His father was a merchant. He began taking drawing classes during evenings at Dearborn Public School in Boston as a teenager and went on to study at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1916. Aarons later moved to New York City to study with Jo Davidson, and other Paris-trained masters at the Beaux-Arts Institute. He eventually returned to the Boston area and established studios in Brookline and Gloucester, Massachusetts. During his lifetime, he was recognized internationally and won several prestigious awards. Aarons had studios in Brookline, Massachusetts and Gloucester, Massachusetts where he produced large bronze and marble figures and wood carvings. He produced several projects for the Works Progress Administration including a group of three figures for the Public Garden (Boston), a longshoreman, fisherman and foundry worker, as well as a large relief (1938) for the South Boston Housing Project and façade of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregational Building (1956). His works are at the Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel; Fitchburg Art Museum in Massachusetts, Musée de St. Denis in France; Hilles Library at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Hillel House at Boston University in Massachusetts. He did reliefs for Siefer Hall at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (1950); Edward Filene (the founder of Filene's Department Store and a philanthropist) on the Boston Common; Fireman's Memorial in Beverly, Massachusetts; a memorial to Mitchell Frieman in Boston; the U.S. Post Office in Ripley, Mississippi; and at the Cincinnati Telephone Building; the Combined Jewish Philanthropies building in Boston (1965); and a commemorative medal for the 350th Anniversary of the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts (1972). Characteristic of his era, George Aarons was among the foreign-born American sculptors of the early 20th century who started their careers as academicians and evolved into modernists and increasingly abstract artists. Over thirty pieces spanning the length of this sculptor's career were featured in this exhibition, including work in various medium bronze, wood and original plasters. Like his contemporaries, Aarons experimented with direct carving in wood, and he was one of the few academically trained sculptors who consistently cut his own works in marble. His early work was classically inspired figurative work, along with sensitive portraits. Some of his most powerful sculpture comes from his middle period, when he worked through his emotional pain following the global realization of the Jewish Holocaust. He depicted humanity deep anxiety over this tragedy with figures that are at once symbolically charged and movingly beautiful. Aarons late work consists of radically simplified forms that continue to reference the human form and often are carved directly in wood and stone. Aarons summered and taught classes on Cape Ann for many years before moving to Gloucester full-time with his wife about 1950. While Aarons is best known locally for his domestic-scale works, he also executed numerous monumental, public commissions that can be found throughout the United States in cities such as Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; and Cincinnati, Ohio; as well as in France and Israel. As noted in a Gloucester Daily Times Article, Aarons wanted his sculptures to honor the struggles and nobility of people and rail against the evil done against them. And that was why, even as his work grew more and more abstract, stylized and simplified, he never left behind the form of the human figure that had been his focus from his earliest works. Aarons told the Gloucester Daily Times in September 1954 that he found it hard to remember at just what age he started studying art, but he recalled that the nude model had to partially dress when he was in class because he was so young. He initially studied painting and drawing at the museum school, but he once said he became fascinated by sculpture when he met an established sculptor at the Copley Society in Boston who invited Aarons to his studio and offered him some clay to "play around" with. After he graduated, he apprenticed under sculptors Richard Brooks, Robert Baker and Solon Borglum. He worked as a carpenter, shipbuilder, dishwasher and chimney sweep. He fashioned architectural decorations, including figures for fountains and now and then a few commissioned portraits. He returned to Boston by the early 1920s and began to exhibit his own works and get commissions for portraits, fountains and reliefs. His sculptures from this time are dreamy and romantic in the realistic, academic style of the time. A painted portrait of the young Aarons that is included in the North Shore Arts Association exhibit shows a determined fellow with dark brown hair, a suit and bow tie. However, in 1922, this determined young artist was living with his parents on Calder Street in Dorchester. In the 1930s, Aarons adopted the streamlined, monumental style of the socialist works of the time. Aarons made money, as he would all his life, from commissions, selling his personal work and teaching sculpture, but the Depression of the 1930s was tough for everyone. So Aarons found work though the federal Works Progress Administration, one of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs. He received his first major commission when he was asked to create a public sculpture for the South Boston Harbor Village public housing project around 1937. He was elevated to the position of supervisor for the project and received a corresponding $5 pay increase to make his weekly salary $32. The raise convinced him he was fit to marry and he proposed to Gertrude Band, an attractive brunette dancer whom he had been dating for more than a year. They were married before the Harbor Village project was dedicated on Labor Day 1938. Aarons' design featured a brawny, larger-than-lifesize fisherman, longshoreman and a laborer flanked by a boy and girl at either end to portray the children who would live in the apartments. Aarons elected to do the piece in cast stone to employ carpenters and laborers as well as craftsman for a total of 10 men. In his sculpture, Aarons focused more and more on the theme of oppressed people as he worried about the spread of fascism and Nazism during the 1930s, World War II and after. He had done pieces during the mid-1930s about the oppression of African-Americans, including "Negro Head," which is in the North Shore Art Association retrospective. After the war, he also delved into Jewish themes and became increasingly known as an important Jewish artist, leading to commissions from Jewish organizations across the country and abroad. "He gets into raw emotion. Some people describe him as an expressionist because of the emotion (in his work)," Reynolds says. But Aarons, also sculpted sensual sexual nudes...

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Jean Cocteau ( 1889 -1963 ) " Trois faces aux triangles " signed Jean Cocteau . plat en terracotta et engobe partiellement émaillé . diamètre : 36cm . exécuté en 1959 dans une sér...

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Mark Morrison (1895-1964) Sleepy Cat, ca. 1950 Pink Vermont granite 9.5" wide, 9" deep, height is 15" Signed at base. The artist signed his work, carving directly into the stone d...

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Ball lamp d = 28cm rust with natural oak base 20x20x78cm. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. You will find an exceptional and h...

Georges Charpentier, French (1937 - 2024) - Female Bust, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and numbering inscribed, Edition: EA, Image Size: 7, Size: 24 x 12...

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Oak Column & Garden Torch "Cube" - Straight - Handmade Extraordinary garden torch with one burner insert on an untreated oak spot. If the oak spot is set up outside, it develops a g...

Polygon Dragon on Oak Column oxidized. Extraordinary polygon sculpture Dragon with a burner insert on an oxidised oak column 20 x 20 x 100 cm. There are already individual lava ston...

Bronze sculpture.. Incised artist signature; stamp numbered with foundry and date. Edition: Of 375. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Artwork is in excellent condition. All...

Philip Paval was a sculptor and silversmith who worked primarily in Los Angeles. He was known as a Hollywood Artist, as he affiliated with many of the Hol...

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German Steel Fireplace "Globe" with base, is available in different sizes, and also available in stainless steel on request. Please contact us. This fireplace globe is the eye-catch...

The extraordinary polygon sculpture "Deer" with burner insert on an oxidised oak pedestal for our garden. In the included burner there are already single lava stones, so this burner...

This outdoor fire pit "Globe" is the eye-catcher in your garden. Due to good air supply, you can very quickly light a beautiful fire. There are already individual lava stones in the...

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Sculptor, engraver and medallist. Serge Zelikson received his secondary artistic education in his native country. In 1914 he arrived in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux...

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'Spirit' by Carl Payne is a 20th Century Solid Bronze Nude Figurative Sculpture. Carl is a Staffordshire based sculptor for whom art has played a large part in his academic work taking him through the Burslem School of Art, the Henry Doulton School of Sculpture and then to Stafford College. After qualifying in Figurative Sculpture he launched his career with commission after commission which has now secured his reputation for fine quality workmanship both in life-size format and smaller decorative pieces. The list of his completed commissioned work is extensive, including many ‘house-hold’ names from the sporting world, commerce and the past. The following are just some of the private and publicly commissioned completed works that form Carl’s prestigious portfolio:- King George 5th and Queen Mary – life size portrait buste commissioned by Cunards Cruise Ships and located in the ballroom of the Queen Mary 2 (QM2) cruise ship. Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross – life size and a quarter commissioned by Banbury Council, located at Banbury Cross and unveiled by Princess Anne. Randolph Turpin – life size and a quarter - commissioned by Warwick and Leamington Spa...

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"Femme de luxe" (Bronze) by Erte Type: Sculpture Media: Patina on Bronze Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 7" Year Produced: 1990 Edition Size: 500 Numbered, 12 AP, 2 HC Edition Number: ...

German Steel Fireplace "Bowl II" d = 80 cm with tall square base 80 cm. This fire bowl is the eye-catcher in your garden. Due to the good air supply, you can setup very quickly a be...

Document from the Nashvile Art Association dated 1925. The marble was purchased in Florence, Italy at an exhibit of The Association of of Italian Artists.

ERTE "Rue de La Paix" Signed/Numbered BRONZE SCULPTURE By Erte Type: Sculpture Media: Patina on Bronze Image Dimensions: 14 x 6.75 x 3.25 inches Year Produced: 1987 Edition Size: 241...

This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Music (attributed), brass and wire construction, c. 1936, 28 x 14 x 5 inches; perhaps exhibited at Hollywood Riviera Gallery, 1936 (third prize); provenance includes Estate of Jon Spencer Helfen (Los Angeles, CA About the Sculpture In 1935, Philip Paval bought a box of metal in a “blind auction.” Paval, a painter, sculptor, and jeweler, had hoped the box contained silver. To his dismay, it was brass. Seeing an opportunity, Paval started to make sculptures from the brass sheets. His subjects included Cinema, Hollywood, Radio, Dance, Aviation and Music. The works were well-received with the Hollywood crowd and critically acclaimed. Actor and comedian, Ben Bard, purchased four of them for his theater, and novelist and screenwriter, Vicki Baum ordered four more for her drawing room. Movie director King Vidor also purchased them. Los Angeles Times art critic, Arthur Millier, described Paval’s “contraptions” as “ingenious, decorative, different.” Paval exhibited these works for several years in the late 1930s, including at the American Artists’ Congress Gallery in Los Angeles in an exhibition called Formalism and Abstraction in 1938 and at a solo show at Stendahl Galleries in 1939. The appeal of these works must have been irresistible, as a 1936 Los Angeles Times article noted, “Two feet of brass art has been stolen from the Hollywood Riviera Galleries. The work is an abstraction. It portrays the spirit of music and rested on the grand piano in the main hall. The work of Philip Paval, it won third prize in the current gallery exhibition at the gallery.” One can only wonder whether this is the “contraption” which was pilfered from the gallery nearly one hundred years ago. Given the description of the work, its subject matter and size, it seems likely. About the Artist Philip Paval was a sculptor, painter, and jeweler. Born in Denmark, Paval was apprenticed to a silversmith and studied art in Denmark. He immigrated to the US in 1919 and first worked as a merchant seaman in New York. The following year, Paval settled in Los Angeles where he later opened his own jewelry shop featuring works he designed and produced. Paval became a favorite in the entertainment world, making a good living selling silver...

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Italian sculptor (early 20th century) - Masonic altar. 56 x 52 x h 105 cm. Entirely in finely carved white marble, two snakes are depicted wrapping a skull and a game with the Eye ...

This superb French Art Deco wooden panel or wall-mounted sculpture features a spectacular Venetian mask and was hand-crafted in the 1930s. The sculpted panel boasts finely detailed c...

American sculptor Joseph Martinek was born in Chicago in 1915. He was a second generation apprentice to Auguste Rodin. He studied sculpture at the State Industrial School of Art, Pra...

Entangled bodies, 1942. Terracotta sculpture by Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981). Tuscan Sculptor. Material: Hand-modeled terracotta by the artist. Unique piece. Dimensions: Height 23 c...

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Shipping costs on request. This flame flower is the eye-catcher in your garden. Due to the great air supply you can very quickly a beautiful fire. The base also serves as an ash tray, has an inserted bottom, but can also be used separately as can also be used separately as a flowerpot. Of course, you can also plant the flame flower. We manufacture the in our own locksmith's shop. This means that we can also produce special designs, e.g. name plate with house number...

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Outdoor Lamp "Ikosaeder" small and tall in a set of two. This outdoor lamp "Ikosaeder" is for the garden or entrance area. This lamp impresses her unique shadow projection. The "Iko...

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Outdoor fireplace "Flame" with conus tall. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. The included burner already contains individual l...

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Give your garden a touch of industrial elegance with our steel wall in a 3-part design with a rusty surface! Each part of the wall is made of high-quality steel and has been careful...

Two Figures (Mother and son) 9" x 17" terracotta sculpture, signed lower left mounted to wood panel, 15 1/2" x 23 1/2" George Aarons (born Gregory Podubisky, in St. Petersburg, Russ...

84 x 24 x 10 inches Precision board and Venetian Plaster Elegantly slender, contemporary minimalist wall sculpture that is extremely lightweight. Long vertical lines, casting shado...