Philip Paval Abstract Sculptures

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...

This sale is for one of them of the Cast Iron Roundels. However, we have 3 Cast Iron Roundels from the Old West Side Highway in Manhattan if you want to buy all three... reach out to us. . Each retains its original industrial paint. If the paint is removed, the clear shape of the iron cast will be removed. Each roundel has a different image and story. They were designed in 1928 by Rene Paul Chambellan...

Summertime Lady can be commissioned. You can have it with the black finish or painted Ferrari Red. I've cast it in a pale green patina for a pool in Bermuda. Outstanding focal point ...

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...

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...

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...

This piece was created expressly for the purpose of being photographed for a photo series. Created of a sculpted brass metal mesh screen material mounted upon a solid wood base and c...

Set of two small scale sculptures in brass by Jacques Jarrige. Sold together or separately. Price is for the pair. Part of body of work "18 Ange...

Chic vintage Italian palm tree object of art having tole leaves on a brass trunk in a classical porcelain planter with quartz stones.

Limited edition encased glass Art Deco vase with raised and etched design in frosted and cobalt blue glass colors. Holds Erte signature to lower right of figure. Stamp numbered with ...

Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer and pianist, is considered to be one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Conceived in 1947 while Wein was in Rome after having been a...

Sculpture by Jacques Jarrige formed by 2 stems of brass shaped hand hammered . The piece is set in an oak base. Unique piece.