Boris Lovet-Lorski Sculptures

American, 1894-1973

Boris Lovet-Lorski, sculptor, lithographer and painter, who contributed significantly to the American Art Deco movement, was born in Lithuania in 1894. Trained as an architect at the Royal Academy in Petrograd, throughout his career, Lovet-Lorski was acutely sensitive to volume and structural space. He also incorporated architectural backgrounds in the flattened aesthetic of his Art Deco neoclassicism, hallmarks of his elegant in a distinctly original style. Lovet-Lorski's idealized subject matter and masterful designs quickly won the young sculptor critical acclaim and led to his first one-man show in Boston in 1925, the year he became an American citizen. He was then invited to teach at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, quickly developing a reputation that catapulted him into the New York artistic milieu. He exhibited on a regular basis with the Wildenstein Gallery from 1928 onward. Lovet-Lorski was a quintessentially Art Deco artist. His unique style was an amalgam of Modern, Tribal, Oriental, Archaic and Teutonic influences. His Slavic roots and eclecticism tempered his modernism with lyricism and a sense of mystery. His sculptures, in bronze or Black Belgian Marble, are sleek and gorgeously polished. The work from the 1920s and 1930s often featured exotic, allegorical nudes, stylized horses or busts. Lovet-Lorski was particularly noted for his female nudes with narrow hips, thoracic cages that broaden as they rise from waist to shoulder and wide-spread arms, with hands clasped and held behind or above classically modeled heads that were perched on their torsos like flowers on a stem. Lovet-Lorski's idealized vision coincided perfectly with the mechanization of the era, its gleaming, streamlined airplanes, automobiles and proud skyscrapers, that were the sacramentals of the inter-war period. He regularly worked in sumptuous and precious materials, onyx, jade and rare, fossilized wood essences, such as that taken from a 600-year old, Assyrian lemon tree. He tailored the subjects of his sculptures to suit the nature of his materials. The Belgian black marble of Head of a Woman is a dense and close-grained stone that complements the idealized features of the figure. God Unknown, one of the sculptor's best-known works was carved in pure white Carrara marble. His preferred exteriors were like polished silk,” adding to the serenity and timelessness that his sculptures convey. Lovet-Lorski’s style and the allure of his materials brought him commissions for portraits of high society and celebrated figures. By 1929, he was successful enough to maintain studios in New York, Rome and Paris. Wildenstein Gallery gave him a retrospective exhibit in 1940. His recognition was international and his sculptures were acquired by the permanent collections of over 20 major museums. The sculptor received the French Legion of Honor in 1950. He was a member of the National Academy of Design, the National Sculpture Society, the Society of Independent Artists and the Salons of Paris. His last major work was the Manila War Memorial. He attempted to complete the monument in 1957, but arthritis had crippled him to the point that he could no longer sculpt. He finished his career as a painter and his works continued to enjoy considerable success. Lovet-Lorski's works are held in the collections of the Musée de Luxembourg, Paris; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the Petit Palais, Paris; the British Museum, London; and many museums and galleries in the United States: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Art; the Seattle Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts. As an interesting footnote: in his youth, he had considerable success with the feminine sex that was so eloquently extolled in his art.

Artist: Boris Lovet-Lorski

Boris Lovet-LorskiMother and Child, Modern Bronze Sculpture by Boris Lovet-Lorski, Mid-20th Century

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Mother and Child, Modern Bronze Sculpture by Boris Lovet-Lorski

By Boris Lovet-Lorski

Located in Long Island City, NY

Boris Lovet-Lorski, American (1894 - 1973) - Mother and Child, Medium: Bronze sculpture, signature inscribed on base, Size: 9.5 x 22 x 8 in. (24.13 x 55.88 x 20.32 cm), Reference: ...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Boris Lovet-Lorski Sculptures

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Bronze

$8,814

H 69.3 in W 15.75 in D 21.66 in

Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Herons

Located in Rome, IT

Elegant pair of gilt bronze heron sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.

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1990s Modern Boris Lovet-Lorski Sculptures

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Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Herons, 1990

$8,814

H 69.3 in W 15.75 in D 21.66 in

Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Herons

Located in Rome, IT

Elegant pair of gilt bronze heron sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.

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1990s Modern Boris Lovet-Lorski Sculptures

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Leonard BaskinBronze Sculpture Wall Relief Judaica Jewish Matriarchs Modernist Leonard Baskin, 1998

$3,000

H 9.5 in W 9 in

Bronze Sculpture Wall Relief Judaica Jewish Matriarchs Modernist Leonard Baskin

By Leonard Baskin

Located in Surfside, FL

Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) Jewish Matriarchs, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah with Hebrew calligraphy Bronze, 1998 9.5 X 9 inches Judaic biblical bronze of Jewish mothers. Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Arman, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...

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20th Century Modern Boris Lovet-Lorski Sculptures

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3 Faces Cast in Bronze Relief, mid century mystery artist, 20th Century

$1,200

H 19.25 in W 7.25 in D 1.33 in

3 Faces Cast in Bronze Relief, mid century mystery artist

Located in New York, NY

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

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20th Century Modern Boris Lovet-Lorski Sculptures

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Boris Lovet-LorskiArt Deco Sculpture Flapper Womans Head Xenozane Marble Stone, c.1930

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Art Deco Sculpture Flapper Womans Head Xenozane Marble Stone

By Boris Lovet-Lorski

Located in Surfside, FL

This is a portrait sculpture bust of a flapper woman. The sitter was Frances Widney, (Mrs. Robert Gump of the San Francisco family who owned Gump's Department stores). This auction i...

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