James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

British, 1904-1974

Lloyd was born in Alsager, Cheshire. He had worked on his father's farm until the age of 19, when he too joined the police force. Lloyd had a variety of jobs before the war until he was accepted for the famous and exclusive British Army regiment of the Coldstream Guards. He served with distinction in his regiment overseas during the war. On demobilisation he married Nancy, she was a teenager and he in his forties, he returned to the land and took a job as - a wagonner- in Shropshire. Although he had done some paintings as a young man, it was not until he was forty, that he began to paint in earnest. He and his family moved to Skirpenbeck, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1950. He took on the job as a cowman and painted by night at the kitchen table. Lloyd began to produce so many paintings - laboriously constructed, dot-by-dot, in their naîve pointillism - that his wife Nancy, who was his severest critic, decided it was time that Jim's work was seen by a wider public than his family. Without telling Jim, she wrote to Sir Herbert Read, who paid the artist a visit and left with a couple of new purchases. Read also borrowed some to send to show to a group of London galleries. In 1958, at the age of fifty-three, James held his first one-man show at Arthur Jeffress Gallery. All but two of the 32 paintings were quickly sold. The rapidly expanding Lloyd family (eight children, and one who died young) moved to a council house further into the village and Jim took a job with the Derwent Plastics Company at Stamford Bridge, the money was better and the hours easier, he did shift work so he could paint by day and work by night. He devoted all his spare time (except for that spent at the pub) to painting. He never painted in a studio; he would usually just paint at the kitchen table. In 1961 he was commissioned by the York City Art Gallery under the Evelyn Award Scheme to paint the view of Cliffords Tower, York for the gallery's collection - his first work in a public collection. L.S. Lowry also produced a painting of Cliffords Tower. At the closure of Arthur Jeffress Gallery, James Lloyd was taken on by the Portal Gallery, where his paintings still remain. In 1963 Eric Lister of the Portal Gallery introduced James to film director Ken Russell. The result was that the BBC Monitor unit made a television documentary film about his life and work, 'The dotty world of James Lloyd'. Two years later Lloyd was chosen to play, the part of Henri Rousseau in Ken Russell's 'Monitor' film on the great French naîve painter. The photographer, David Bailey, bought several paintings by Lloyd and became a very good friend. When his book 'Goodbye Baby and Amen', an album of Bailey's portraits of celebrities of the 60's was published, Jim featured prominently.

Artist: James Lloyd

James LloydImage Head

$16,000

Image Head

By James Lloyd

Located in Napa, CA

"Metaphors, symbols, the material world, the collective unconscious and the spiritual realm generate the sources in which I investigate images for the viewer to interact with. Becaus...

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21st Century and Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

James LloydSilent Head II

$16,000

Silent Head II

By James Lloyd

Located in Napa, CA

"Metaphors, symbols, the material world, the collective unconscious and the spiritual realm generate the sources in which I investigate images for the viewer to interact with. Becaus...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

James LloydSilent Head

$16,000

Silent Head

By James Lloyd

Located in Napa, CA

"Metaphors, symbols, the material world, the collective unconscious and the spiritual realm generate the sources in which I investigate images for the viewer to interact with. Becaus...

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21st Century and Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Jesus Curia PerezSnow - Hooded Bronze Figure with Skis, Light Blue Patina, 2023

$6,850

H 29.5 in W 8.75 in D 7 in

Snow - Hooded Bronze Figure with Skis, Light Blue Patina

By Jesus Curia Perez

Located in Chicago, IL

Jesús Curiá Perez Snow bronze and methacrylate 29.50h x 8.75w x 7d in 74.93h x 22.23w x 17.78d cm ed. 1/8 JCP057 Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely aesthetic...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Jesus Curia PerezConstruction II - Bronze Sculpture Surreal Transfiguring Human Form, Lush Patina, 2021

$32,000

H 68.5 in W 15.75 in D 12 in

Construction II - Bronze Sculpture Surreal Transfiguring Human Form, Lush Patina

By Jesus Curia Perez

Located in Chicago, IL

***This artwork is currently on exhibit at the Instituto Cervantes, Chicago until September 2025. If purchased this artwork will be available to ship after September 1, 2025. Contact...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Jesus Curia PerezKendo II - Figure, with Arms in Throwing Position, Bronze & Artificial Stone, 2024

$6,850

H 30.75 in W 12.5 in D 7.75 in

Kendo II - Figure, with Arms in Throwing Position, Bronze & Artificial Stone

By Jesus Curia Perez

Located in Chicago, IL

Jesús Curiá Perez Kendo II bronze and artificial stone 30.75h x 12.50w x 7.75d in 78.11h x 31.75w x 19.68d cm JCP067 Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely aesth...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

James BeardenJames Bearden Large Scale Brutalist Owl Sculpture from His "Animal Series", circa 2010

$4,400

H 34 in W 19 in D 6 in

James Bearden Large Scale Brutalist Owl Sculpture from His "Animal Series"

By James Bearden

Located in Dallas, TX

Amazing large scale brutalist owl sculpture with glass eyes and beautiful enamel coloration by renowned Iowa abstract artist James Anthony Bearden from his Animal Series. We also hav...

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21st Century and Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Brass, Bronze, Copper, Steel

Martine DemalVibration n°2 by Martine Demal - Contemporary bronze sculpture, abstract, 2006

$8,371

H 24.02 in W 9.45 in D 4.73 in

Vibration n°2 by Martine Demal - Contemporary bronze sculpture, abstract

By Martine Demal

Located in Paris, FR

Vibration n°2 is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Martine Demal, dimensions including base (wood plinth, steel base) are 61 × 24 × 12 cm (24 × 9.4 × 4.7 in). The sculpture i...

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2010s Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Stephen LeeThe Precious

$6,800

H 31 in W 15 in D 9 in

The Precious

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Stephen Lee is a Korean-American sculptor based in Dallas, Texas. Born in South Korea and immigrating to the United States as a teenager, Lee draws from a dual set of cultural influe...

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2010s Abstract James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Peter Brooke-BallVariation on a theme II : Hegemony by Peter Brooke-Ball -bronze, ash wood, steel, 2022

$3,488

H 7.49 in W 12.21 in D 10.24 in

Variation on a theme II : Hegemony by Peter Brooke-Ball -bronze, ash wood, steel

By Peter Brooke-Ball

Located in Paris, FR

Variation on a theme II : Hegemony is a unique bronze, steel and ash wood sculpture by contemporary artist Peter Brooke-Ball, dimensions are 19 x 31 x 26 cm (7.5 × 12.2 × 10.2 in). ...

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2010s Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Foster Willey"Resonance" Bronze Female Nude Sculpture with Powder Coated Steel Base, 2008

$26,000

H 72 in W 29 in D 15 in

"Resonance" Bronze Female Nude Sculpture with Powder Coated Steel Base

Located in Detroit, MI

“Resonance” references Greek classical sculpture and modernist traditions. The female from is depicted as a fragment, introspective and animated. The surface of the sculpture is rich...

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Early 2000s Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Jesus Curia PerezHorse II - Bronze Figure Riding Stone Carved Horse, Verdigris Patina, Steel Base, 2022

$8,500

H 27.5 in W 22 in D 9.5 in

Horse II - Bronze Figure Riding Stone Carved Horse, Verdigris Patina, Steel Base

By Jesus Curia Perez

Located in Chicago, IL

Jesús Curiá Perez Horse II bronze and artificial stone 27.50h x 22w x 9.50d in 69.85h x 55.88w x 24.13d cm JCP062 Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely aestheti...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stone, Bronze, Steel

Jesus Curia PerezBoat III, Large Bronze and Wood Sculpture of Inverted Balancing Figure, 2021

$32,000

H 71.25 in W 13.75 in D 21.75 in

Boat III, Large Bronze and Wood Sculpture of Inverted Balancing Figure

By Jesus Curia Perez

Located in Chicago, IL

Inspired by the Shoulder Stand in Yoga, aka Sarvangasan, Curiá brings an abstraction to the pose as the figure's legs morph into a wooden boat. The figure has a beautiful green pati...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Linda CunninghamLinda Cunningham, 'Urban Transformation', 2016, Bronze, Steel, 2016

$18,000

H 103 in W 36 in D 30 in

Linda Cunningham, 'Urban Transformation', 2016, Bronze, Steel

By Linda Cunningham

Located in Darien, CT

A graceful metal sculpture created from altered/ transformed materials, Urban Transformation, industrial steel against a craggy, textured, bark-like bronze elements. ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

Jesus Curia PerezArco II - Bronze Figure Poised Shooting an Arrow, Verdigris Patina, Steel Base, 2024

$9,000

H 26 in W 17.75 in D 7.75 in

Arco II - Bronze Figure Poised Shooting an Arrow, Verdigris Patina, Steel Base

By Jesus Curia Perez

Located in Chicago, IL

Jesús Curiá Perez Arco II, ed. 3/8 iron and bronze 26h x 17.75w x 7.75d in 116.84h x 45.09w x 17.14d cm JCP055 It is seemingly easier to identify with the ideas and thoughts of an ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary James Lloyd Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Steel

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