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ERTE "THE MYSTIC" 1984, BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"The Mystic" (Bronze)
by
Erte
Type: Sculpture
Media: Patina on Bronze
Dimensions: 17 x 14 x 9 1/4"
Year Produced: 1989
Edition Size: 375 Numbered, 37 AP
Edition Number: 92/375
In Exc...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Exceptional Italian Sphinx Limestone Statues
Located in Rome, IT
Designed as entrance guardians, this pair of mythical lady sphinx statuary display the head and chest of a neoclassical woman and the body of a recu...
Category
2010s Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Palabres by Marine de Soos - Large bronze sculpture, human figure, man, nude
Located in Paris, FR
Palabres is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 150 × 80 × 65 cm (59.1 × 31.5 × 25.6 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is par...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
RECLINING NUDE (SCULPTURE)
By Bruno Luna
Located in Aventura, FL
Incised signature and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition of 50. All reasonable offers will be considered.
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Hunt Large Bronze Sculpture Ferdinand Barbedienne Fondeur Napoleon III
Located in Pistoia, IT
Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) "The Hunt.
Impressive bronze sculpture with brown patina, 98 cm tall. Signature "E. Barrias" on the rock; "F. Barbedienne fondeur Paris" and mechanic...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Diana
By Hans Harry Liebmann
Located in Miami, FL
This is a rare statement piece that commands that eye. It is of museum quality will be the centerpiece of any space. Masterfully crafted details of the human form are finely rendered...
Category
1910s Art Deco Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Think Big, study
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 12 + APs
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th century Bronze Sculpture of Cupid After Pierre Chenet
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century Bronze Sculpture of Cupid After Pierre Chenet
Base diameter 6"
9"W x 23"H
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman Seated A Bronze Sculpture of a Woman by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
The bronze sculpture of a woman by Charles Rumsey is undated, but was created at a point in his career where he began to transition from realism to more modern, looser depictions of ...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
To Be or Not to Be, Bronze Sculpture by Volodymyr Mykytenko, 2015
Located in Zofingen, AG
Volodymyr Mykytenko - To be or not to be (2015)
To be or not to be-life and death, money and knowledge, my smart toad thinks about all this
Additional information:
Medium: Bronze
D...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Walking Bear, Crystal clear blue, Richard Orlinksi
Located in Porto, 13
Walking Bear
With his mouth and pricked-up ears, Richard Orlinski's walking bear seems to move smoothly and confindently. The animal's curves contrast with the edgy facets.
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Kendo I - Bronze Figure Suspended from a Stainless Steel Bow
Located in Chicago, IL
Jesús Curiá Perez
Kendo I
bronze and stainless steel
33.50h x 16.50w x 8d in
85.09h x 41.91w x 20.32d cm
ed. 2/8
JCP066
Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely ae...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Stainless Steel
Pair Bronze Candlesticks Rancoulet Signature 19th Century France Sculpture
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Ernest Rancoulet (Bordeaux 1842 - Bordeaux 1905)
Signature on reverse side ‘Rancoulet’
Pair of bronze candlesticks depicting winged cupids ‘Allegory of Autumn and Spring’
Gilt bron...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sir Winston Churchill Memorial By Ivor Roberts-Jones
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ivor Roberts-Jones
1916-1996 British
Sir Winston Churchill Memorial
Bronze
This exceptional and iconic sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill is the original maquette for the renowne...
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sculpture of female head done by Werkstatte Hagenauer Wien
Located in Houston, TX
Sculpture of female head, silvered plated brass.
Inscribed on the bottom, "Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien"
Austria, c. 1930s
16"h x 10.5"w x 3.5"d
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Tethered 1/9 - poised, male, nude, figure, mixed media, wall sculpture
By W.W. Hung
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian sculptor WW Hung has chosen another poignant and powerful pose to explore the human condition in this contemporary mixed-media piece.
A nude male sit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Steel
Contemporary Bronze Sculptor. Dance of Life.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
"Sculptor Marsha Gertenbach signed and numbered this bronze sculpture, edition 5/10. Here is the artist's message about this unique piece:
In every loving relationship we experience...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Algeo Bronze Nude Male Figure Sculpture Boy Marble Stone - In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Algeo Bronze Nude Male Figure Sculpture Boy Marble Stone - In Stock
Beautiful intimate sculpture of a boy, nude bronze male figure in a grey pat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Zinnia, early 20th century sculpture of nude bust of woman, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Walter Sinz (American, 1881-1966)
Zinnia, c. 1930
Plaster
Signed on base
9 x 8 x 4 inches
Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 13, 1881. Sinz’s fa...
Category
1930s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Ceremonial Musician, Chiang Mai Temple, Thailand
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a ceremonial musician from the Chiang Mai Temple in Thailand.
Category
1960s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Twelve limousine plaques depicting Saints, Apostles and Fathers of the Church
Located in Milano, IT
Extraordinary collection of 12 gilded copper plaques with glass paste eyes, originating in Limoges, France, and dating from the early 13th century. These fine plaques, each about six...
Category
15th Century and Earlier French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Baroque Roman sculptor - 17th century bronze sculpture - Mars Warrior
Located in Varmo, IT
Gilded bronze sculpture - Mars, god of War. Rome, 17th century.
9 x 9 x h 31 cm.
Entirely in cast, chiseled and gilded bronze, resting on an ebonized wooden pedestal decorated with...
Category
Mid-17th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th Century Pair of Bronze Atlas Sculptures with Globe & Armillary Sphere
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This pair of bronze sculptures of Atlas with Globe & Armillary Sphere are of high cast quality. Pairs have sold for over 700,000 Euro. Their condition is excellent for age and has ve...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Old Soldier
Located in Greenwich, CT
Humphris is a highly acclaimed American sculptor and created a large body of work of Western subject matter, particularly of the American Indian so rare to get a soldier. He did liv...
Category
1910s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Phryne - Marble Bust of a Beautiful Young Woman Perfect Silhouette Art Nouveau
Located in Miami, FL
Emmanuel Villanis was well known primarily for his bronzes of beautiful young women. With Phryne, the sculptor is working in marble. Since stone is not in the least forgiving, it's...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Charlie - contemporary, male, figurative, paper Mache and stone sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary figurative tabletop sculpture is by Paul Duval.
This charming series of contemporary indoor sculptures showcases Quebec artist Paul Duval’s skill in capturing the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Wire
Diana and the Hounds, a bronze sculpture by Giuseppe Joseph D’Aste (1881–1945)
Located in Gent, VOV
Diana and the Hounds by Giuseppe Joseph D’Aste is a finely executed silvered bronze sculpture from the 1920s, cast using the lost-wax (cire perdue) metho...
Category
Early 20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Female Statue "Le Crépuscule" by Emile Andre Boisseau
Located in New York, NY
Emile-Andre Boisseau (French, 1842-1923)
Le Crépuscule
signed 'E. Boisseau' (on the base)
Bronze
height: 29 in. (74 cm.)
Emile-André Boisseau was a...
Category
19th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Émile Guillemin (French 1841-1907) Bronze Bust of an Algerian Beauty
Located in New York, NY
Bronze bust with brown patina on marble socle base. Red patina detail on head scarf. In beautiful condition, expertly cast and modeled. Perfect for an art collector looking for European work that depicts Black and African people...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Outdoor Italian Stone Garden Sculptures of Roman Mythological subject of Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in Vicenza limestone of Apollo in Excellent condition from an estate of Veneto. Timeless decoration for your interior or garden.
Measurements: St...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Jeune Femme Debout, les Bras sur la Tête – Bronze by Henri Parayre (1879-1970)
Located in Gent, VOV
Henri Ernest Parayre’s Jeune femme debout les bras sur la tête is a striking embodiment of early 20th-century French sculpture, seamlessly blending classical inspiration with the eme...
Category
Early 20th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Ex Nihilo", Frederick Hart, Bronze Sculpture, Figurative Woman & Men
Located in Dallas, TX
Very Rare! Ex Nihilo, working model, is the intermediate scale model for the full-scale plaster for the final stone sculpture of Ex Nihilo, commissioned as part of The Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"The Rape of Sabina" Large Bronze Sculpture Bottega Romana Grand Tour
Located in Pistoia, IT
"The Rape of Sabina," large bronze group with brown patina, Roman workshop of the second half of the 18th century, circle of Francesco Righetti (Rome 1749-1819).
The exceptional qu...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A woman. Contemporary figurative bronze sculpture, Polish art, Limited edition
Located in Warsaw, PL
Limited edition bronze sculpture by Polish artist Olga Prokop-Misniakiewicz. Artist signes her artworks by hand, using engraving tool. Edition of 5. Olga Prokop-Misniakiewicz likes t...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ouvrir les Frontières pour Mr. Olingou
Located in Atlanta, GA
The universal theme of travel has always inspired Bruno Catalano. Since he started to knead clay, hundreds of “Travellers” went out of his feverish hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman and Panther - Bronze by Albert Poncin (1877-1954), Art Deco influence
Located in Gent, VOV
Albert Poncin’s Femme à la Panthère is a striking and elegant Art Deco bronze sculpture that perfectly encapsulates the movement’s characteristic blend of stylized modernity and clas...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vincent III - Sculpture by Dutch Artist Romee Kanis Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh
By Romee Kanis
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
You can rightly call Romee Kanis an old acquaintance of the gallery, her work was regularly seen at the gallery until a few years ago. We restore this trad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Grand Tour Bronze Greco-Roman Uffizi Wrestlers Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in Rochester, NY
Grand tour circa 1860s bronze of the Wrestlers. Rich fine dark brown patina. Marked "F. Barbedienne Fondeur." The Wrestlers also known as The Two Wrestlers, The Uffizi Wrestlers...
Category
Mid-19th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Pair Primitive Oversized Mistique Paper Mache Wall Figural Sculptures
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1482 Pair oversized primitive hand made and painted Caribbean figural wall sculptures made from corrugated boxes and hand painted
Category
1960s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Mahout washing his elephant
Located in PARIS, FR
Mahout washing his elephant
by Roger GODCHAUX (1878-1958)
A very rare sculpture in bronze with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed on the base "Roger Godchaux"
Cast by "Susse Frs Edt...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Horse Head of Selene - Jos de Wit, 21st Century Contemporary Wooden Sculpture
By Jos de Wit
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Sculpture is made by Dutch artist Jos de Wit.
It is unique and made of mahogany wood. The pedestal is made of mahogany and maple wood. In the not of the fish there is a piece o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative 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 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
Early 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
“Eden”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original hand cast bronze dual figure of a hollow dressed torso of a male and female representing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The bronze sculpture is attributed to the American sculptor Judith Shea. This piece is a maquette for a life size bronze executed by this artist that is located in an outdoor space in Buffalo, New York. Both are titled “Eden” and were done in 1987. Condition is excellent. Unsigned. Label on the bottom of the thick pine base states the artist and title of the artwork. Provenance: A Long Island, New York collector.
Judith Shea has been a notable presence in the New York art world since the 1970s. Trained as a designer at Parsons, she soon found the fashion industry too restrictive and abandoned it in favor of making art. For her first solo show, at The Clocktower in 1976, Shea made a work based on color theory, using transparent silks in a spectrum of colors, worn by a live model. Other early work referenced clothing and its construction, first as flat, minimalist pattern and later as molded draping over implied, absent figures. In the 1981 Whitney Biennial, Shea showed three simple forms that evoked iconic clothes of the 1950s and 60s—the overcoat and the simple sheath dress—which hung from the wall as if on hangers. Five related works were included in the Hirshhorn’s Directions 83 survey. All of these works evoke human presence, felt as absence, as if the clothes were placeholders for missing persons. Thinking about her earlier clothes-based works, Shea has said that she “was looking for characters, for personae, really, to occupy them. I used clothes as stand-ins for people.”
With the support of NEA grants, Shea began to learn bronze casting, and she was able to also spend time in Paris studying the statuary of its parks and gardens. This research led to several hollow-figure compositions from the 1980s that were designed to be sited in public spaces, such as Eden (John Hancock Tower, Chicago), Shepherd’s Muse (Oliver Ranch), Shield (Sheldon Museum of Art), and Without Words (Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, after a residency at Chesterwood—the site of Daniel Chester French’s studio in Stockbridge—Shea began to use woodcarving to make monumental public sculpture. The first of these full-scale wooden figures were shown in 1992 at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris in New York. In 1994 her wooden equestrian statue The Other Monument, a monumental image of a black man on a black horse, was installed at Doris Freedman Plaza in New York, in the same plaza as the William Tecumseh Sherman...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Juggler / - Artistic naturalness -
Located in Berlin, DE
Claire Jeanne Robertine Colinet (1880 Brussels - 1950 Asnières-sur-Seine), Juggler, around 1920. Brownish patinated bronze with gilded balls on a round, multi-profiled stone base (10...
Category
1920s Art Deco Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Fisherwoman, 19th century French bronze sculpture
Located in Beachwood, OH
Émile Louis Picault (French, 1833-1915)
Fisherwoman
Bronze
Stamped "E. Picault"
30 x 15 x 12 inches
Subject depicting a young woman holding fishing line in one hand a basket of fis...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Satiro - Original Bronze Sculpture by Giulio Aristide Sartorio
Located in Roma, IT
Bronze head sculpture realized by Giulio Aristide Sartorio, an Italian painter, sculptor and film director from Rome.
Having attended the Rome Institute of Fine Arts, Sartorio presented a Symbolist work at the 1883 International Exposition of Rome. He made friendships with Nino Costa and Gabriele D’Annunzio, and associated with the painters and photographers of the Roman countryside.
His period of greatest renown came at the beginning of the century, when he produced decorative friezes for the 5th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte of Venice (1903), the Mostra Nazionale of Fine Arts (Milan, Parco Sempione...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pop Doll - Pop Art Pop Free New Movement Mannequin Colors Acrylic Paints
Located in Sofia, BG
"Pop Doll" is a decorated sculpture.
It is created by the French artist David Cintract.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: mannequin fiberglass, lacquer,...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Lacquer, Acrylic, Stencil
Art Deco Bronze , French Nude Girl Dancer Danseuse
By Francois Emile Popineau
Located in Miami, FL
Feminine Nude Bronze with black patina Signed on Base 31 inches Paris Listed in Major Art books Iconic pose of both arms pressed close to the body with ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jaya - 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Bust Sculpture, Girl With Braided Hair
By Romee Kanis
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
You can rightly call Romee Kanis an old acquaintance of the gallery, her work was regularly seen at the gallery until a few years ago. We restore this trad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Italian Carved Neoclassical Semi Nude Female Busts
Located in Beachwood, OH
18th Century Italian Carved Neoclassical Semi Nude Female Busts
Wood affixed to wood plinths
"Leone Della Torra / Italy Country of Origin" labels on b...
Category
18th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Hebru Brantley Flyboy set of 4 works (Hebru Brantley art toys)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley Art Toy collection: 2018/2022. Set of 4: Hebru Brantley art toys, each new in original packaging: Composed of three 2017 Hebru Brantley Flyboy's & one Hebru Brantley F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Apollo
Located in PARIS, FR
"Apollo" by Henri Bouchard (1875-1960)
An Art Deco period masterpiece!
Exceptional bronze sculpture with a golden-brown patina
Signed " H. Bouchard "
Unique piece
This work personifies Apollo, god of the Arts. Represented here as Apollo Musagète, leader of the procession of muses and winner of the serpent Python.
This subject was commissioned to adorn the entrance to the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and whose monumental bronze is still exhibited there.
To participate in the Venice Biennale in 1938, Henri Bouchard had reduced in 1937 the large Apollo of the Palais de Chaillot, which had not yet been installed.
Vintage cast by Bisceglia (cast founder stamp) made during the artist's lifetime.
Incised dedication below signature : " à mon cher ami E. Sandoz "
This is a unique cast made for the sculptor Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881-1971).
This cast was exhibited at the 1938 Venice Biennale.
France
1937
height : 82 cm
width : 45 cm
depth : 30 cm
weight : 31,2 kgs
Stickers under the bronze cast :
- Sticker mentioning that this cast has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 1938 under the number 354 ("Biennale Internaz. d'Arte Venezia – 1938 – XVI – 354").
- Sticker mentioning that this cast went through Italian customs ("ne – merci – dogana italiana – visitate - 9622")
- Damaged Sticker mentioning the name ("A…") and the address ("25…") of the owner of the cast (maybe for the workshop "Atelier Henri Bouchard", 25 rue d’Yvettes, 75016 Paris).
Provenance :
- Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Paris, according to the dedication.
- Property from the Collection of Seymour Stein (entrepreneur and founder of Sire Records, famous American record label ; and avid collector of 19th and 20th century fine art...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nuestra Señora del Carmen - Pottery & Ceramics - Mexican Folk Art Clay - Cactus
By Martin Ibarra Morales
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
MASTERPIECE
Made with natural clay. Hand-modeled technique and cooked in a wood-fired oven.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
"The Broken Mirror"
Located in PARIS, FR
"The Broken Mirror" also named "The Unrecognized Truth"
by Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902)
Bronze with a very nuanced brown patina
cast by SUSSE
France
circa 1910
height 34 cm
A similar model reproduced in "Jules Dalou, le sculpteur de la République", Exhibition held at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 2013, page 391, n°316.
Biography :
Aimé-Jules Dalou, said Jules Dalou(1838-1902) was a French sculptor, born from Protestants glovers craftsmen who raised in secularism and love of the Republic. Jules Dalou was very young talented for modeling and drawing, which earned him the attention of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, who made him entered in 1852 in the Little School, the future National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. In 1854, he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where he studied painting in the workshop of Abel de Pujol and sculpture in the workshop of Francisque Duret...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Surplus Value (Beige)
By Yue Minjun
Located in Bristol, GB
Mixed materials (wood & copper)
Edition of 75
Signed on the base, and numbered on the base and the accompanying insert card
Mint. Small chip on the wooden box bottom back corner, oth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Arab Falconer on Horseback
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre-Jules Mêne
Arab Falconer on Horseback
A bronze group with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed on the base " P.J. Mêne "
Old period cast
France
model created in 1873
cast in ...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze of Pluto Abducting Proserpine after François Girardon
Located in New Orleans, LA
After François Girardon
1628-1715 French
Pluto Abducting Proserpine
Bronze
This High Baroque period composition captures the famed narrative of Pluto and Proserpine from Roman mythology. The late 17th-century patinated bronze, created after François Girardon's marble composition, captures the very moment that Pluto seizes Proserpine. The anguished goddess reaches skyward, attempting to escape the god’s grasp while Pluto’s stoic face betrays his knowledge that his ploy will succeed. This pivotal moment in the mythological tale has captured the imagination of many art historical greats, from Bernini to Rubens. François Girardon’s version of the climax demonstrates incredible finesse and artistry, modeled expertly in bronze in the present work by a later sculptor. The statue brings a twist of intertwined bodies into a dynamic frenzy, paralleling the tension of the legendary story.
In ancient Roman mythology, Proserpine, the beautiful daughter of Ceres — known as Persephone in Greek mythology — was picking flowers in the fields when she was suddenly abducted by Pluto, the god of the underworld, and taken to his kingdom. Consumed with grief, her mother Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, scorches the earth, stopping the growth of grain and fruit. Jupiter attempts to intervene and secure Proserpine’s return to earth, negotiating a compromise with Pluto and the Fates that allows Proserpine to be released for part of the year before returning to Pluto’s underworld. Proserpine’s journey back and forth is an allegory for the changing seasons; when Prosperine is with her mother, the earth warms and provides bountiful harvests. Upon her annual return to the underworld, however, the earth once again becomes cold and barren.
After returning to France after years of training in Rome, François Girardon quickly rose to become one of the greatest artists in France. He was elected a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1657 and would become Chancellor of the Royal Academy in 1695. The artist was approached frequently for royal commissions and Girardon’s Pluto was originally commissioned by Louis XIV for the gardens at his Palace of Versailles. It was one of four monumental marble groups intended to decorate the corners of Charles Le Brun’s never completed garden at the chateau, the Parterre d’Eau. Each group of three figures symbolized one of the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. Pluto’s association with hell made him the apt...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
12" Glee (One Baaad) 31/250
Located in Napa, CA
Giuseppe Palumbo’s whimsical, anthropomorphic sculptures delve into the human psyche through irony, wit, and humor. By applying classical techniques to his contemporary subjects, Pal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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Miami artist and designer Gabriela Noelle’s fantastical creations appeal to the Peter Pan in all of us.
Hideho Tanaka Carefully Stitched Together Pieces of Paper to Make This Sculptural Textile
The Japanese fiber artist’s ‘Vanishing and Emerging Wall’ may seem innocuous — but it plays with conceptions of time.