Jan and Joel Martel Sculptures

Erté's Triumph celebrates victory and achievement through Art Deco sculptural design with elegant bronze craftsmanship. This striking metal sculpture features the artist’s signature...

Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990) Title: An Evening in 1922 Year: 1982 Medium: Bronze Edition: 61/250 Numbered, 12 AP, 9 HC Size: 17 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription...

Signed on base. This was exhibited at the Goldscheider Pavilion at the 1925 Paris Exhibition Marble base has loss to right edge and very small lose to center edge. , Bronze is in ve...

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...

Erté designed Golden Fleece for a Folies-Bergére scene entirtled "The Golden Fleece" and a 1926 George White's Scandals scene entitled "La Toison d'or." Erté, whose artistic style was influenced in part by a childhood admiration of classic Greek art, was always drawn to a good story with a sense of drama – typified by Greek tragedy. Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 115, 207). From the total edition of 462; numbered 207/375 (there were also 50 Roman and 37 AP). Referring to the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, the Golden Fleece sculpture depicts an elegant woman in a classic Greek garment. The curled horns of the ram style her headdress, elegant in appearance and yet fierce in battle. Descending from these horns is the golden fleece itself, its curly mane covering the woman to her toes. Her gown, a gracefully draped toga, is designed to leave one breast bared, in the folkloric tradition of the Amazon tribe of women warriors...

Whether in the draping of a silk gown worn by an opera diva, or in the sparkle of an intricately beaded headdress worn by a woman of society, Erté had an exceptionally acute visual memory of every detail of his early design creations. It was no wonder then that his fashion designs were so adeptly applied to the sculpture format. In Mermaid, we have a fine example of how Erté carried the technical possibilities of the sculpture medium to a new level. This attention to detail added to his legend as one of the Twentieth Century’s foremost artist-designers, with work represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Paris Opera House, the Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Through Mermaid, Erté takes us beyond the female form by choosing the intriguing legendary sea creature whose upper body is that of a woman, and whose lower body is that of an aquatic creature. In quintessential Erté style...

Oriental Dancer Cold-painted Bronze Figure, circa 1925 on a shaped marble plinth inset with bronze medallions 15 in high, signed to base 'Chiparus' Demetre Chiparus was a Romanian s...

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...

Demetre Chiparus Egyptian Dancer, ca. 1920 Bronze, enamel, gilt metal, and marble 29 in Signed to base 'Chiparus'

Cornucopia pays homage to the great goddesses of abundance and fortune, with a modern twist – rather than showing the bounty of the earth overflowing from the horn, this Cornucopia o...

Created C. 1943, award presented in 1965 to Gertrude Seperack for her design work in the fashion induustry. The bronze portion measures 14 x 8.5 inches. The Coty American Fashion Cri...

An Art Deco bronze with a rich chocolate brown patina of a figure of a goalkeeper. The figure is stretching up to parry away the football, on an integral hexagonal base. C. 1925, sig...