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Italian Art Deco, Equestrian Groom, Patinated Bronze Sculpture, 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Signed on the base: “DITA”.
Impressed foundry stamp.
Category
Vintage 1920s Italian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Benson A. Selzer, Woman IX, Contemporary Patinated Bronze Sculpture, 1980s
By Benson A. Selzer
Located in New York, NY
Benson A. Selzer (1921-1999) was an American artist, known for sculpture and painting.
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancing Boys, Black Forest Art Deco, Hand-Carved Wood Sculpture, 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Signed on the base with an unencrypted monogram...
Category
Vintage 1920s German Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Paul Rudin, Rhinoserus, Patinated Bronze Sculpture, 1970s
By Paul Rudin
Located in New York, NY
Paul Rudin (1904-1992) was an American sculptor, mostly known for animal depictions.
Category
Vintage 1970s American Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Marina Núñez del Prado, Head, Patinated Bronze Sculpture, 1930s
By Marina Núñez del Prado
Located in New York, NY
Marina Núñez del Prado (1910-1995) was a celebrated Bolivian sculptor and one of the most respected sculptors from Latin America. Her work is hi...
Category
Vintage 1930s Bolivian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Art Nouveau Majolica Vase with Thistles and Lizards, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
This beautifully designed and highly decorative Art Nouveau ceramic vase is outstanding by all measures. It is very impressive and fabulously rendered in a most unusual technique, co...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Majolica
Art Deco Bronze and Green Agate Sculptural Vide Poche, ca. 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Unmarked, probably Austrian, this charming carved green agate octagonal vide poche with green/black patinated bronze handle is done in the manner of Hagenauer - a superbly detailed a...
Category
Vintage 1920s Austrian Art Deco Paperweights
Materials
Agate, Bronze
Charles Vital-Cornu, French Art Nouveau Bronze Sculptural Floral Vase, 1900s
By Charles Vital-Cornu
Located in New York, NY
Charles Vital-Cornu (French, 1851 - 1927), Jouffroy’s and Pils’ pupil, he acquired a skillfulness mastery in carving marbles and producing bronzes. He used several patinas in his production. Indeed, if his pieces' embodiments are often golden-brown colored, the hollow part are darker. His figures, hands, faces, and bodies are of a great quality.
Charles Vital-Cornu had participated in numerous annual ‘‘Salons’’ organized in Paris by ‘‘la Société des Artistes Français’’ where he got several awards, such as a mention of Honor in 1880 and 1881, a third class medal in 1882, a travelling grant in 1883, a second class medal in 1886, a bronze medal at the 1889 World Fair and, finally, a silver medal at the 1900 World Fair at the Grand palace...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Bronze
Antique Bust of Cape Verde Island Native Woman, Colonial Portugal, ca. 1875
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite and very unusual sculptural bust of a woman in a folklore Cape Verde Island costume, wearing a coral necklace and a bright headscarf was made in the last quarter of XI...
Category
Antique 1870s Portuguese Rustic Busts
Materials
Terracotta
Marcel-André Bouraine, Nude, French Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, circa 1920s
By Marcel-André Bouraine
Located in New York, NY
An Art Deco bronze sculpture of a seated semi-nude woman by Marcel-André Bouraine, French, 1886-1948.
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Alexandre Vibert, French Art Nouveau Figural Gilt Bronze Ewer, circa 1900
By Alexandre Vibert
Located in New York, NY
An Art Nouveau gilt bronze lobed ewer by Alexandre Vibert (French, 1847-1909), produced within the early 20th century period, depicting a classical nude female figure on the bank of ...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Urns
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Mid-Century Modern, Nude Boy, Patinated Bronze Sculpture, 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Original dark-brown patina, signed illegibly in Japanese hieroglyphs.
Dimensions: Height 10 inches, diameter 2 7/8 inches.
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Paul Scheurich for Meissen, Resting Nobleman, Porcelain Sculpture, circa 1920
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
Presented here is one of the finest Meissen porcelain figurines of the Art Deco period by Professor Paul Scheurich (1883-1945), who is acknowledged to be one of the 20th century's gr...
Category
Vintage 1920s German Belle Époque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
T. Truitt, Modern American Abstract Anodized Iron Sculpture, ca. 1974
By T. Truitt
Located in New York, NY
A unique abstract sculptural composition in anodized iron. Signed on the base T. Truitt, and dated 1974.
Category
Vintage 1970s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Franz Xavier Bergman, Oriental Dancer, Jugenstil Vienna Bronze Sculpture, 1900s
By Franz Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
This provocative, desk-size bronze statuette of a semi-nude oriental dancer in a sensuous, rather candid pose rendered in the best Art Nouveau traditions of the world-famous Viennese foundry of Franz Xavier Bergman...
Category
Antique 1890s Austrian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bernard Langlais, Seated Nude, Contemporary Bronze Sculpture, circa 1993
By Bernard Langlais 2
Located in New York, NY
The sculpture is signed and dated: Langlais © 1993
Limited Edition: 4/8
Bernard Langlais (American, 1921-1977)
Bernard Langlais was a sculptor and painter in Cushing, Maine...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Eugene Kormendi-Frim, Head, Hand-Carved Ebonized Wood Sculpture, circa 1930s
By Ervin Kormendi-Frim
Located in New York, NY
Eugene (Jenő) Körmendi-Frim (1889–1959) was a renowned Hungarian-American sculptor, coming from a family of artists. His brother, Erwin Kormendi-Frim (1885 – 1939) was famous Hungarian painter known for his still life’s and portraits in a style developed under the influence of Cézanne. His cousin was Philip Alexius de László, (Hungarian: László Fülöp Elek, 1869 –1937), an Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages.
Eugene (Jenő) studied at the Academy of Budapest, and then traveled to Paris to work with Auguste Rodin and Jean Paul Lorenz. In 1939, he visited America for the New York World’s Fair with his wife, Elizabeth, a painter and ceramist. During their tour, World War II broke out in Eastern Europe and they were unable to return home. Eugene found a position as sculptor-in-residence at Notre Dame University that allowed them to stay in the United States.
He created many statues while at the university, including a war memorial in Valparaiso, Indiana, and a twenty-two foot-statue depicting Christ as the “Light of the World...
Category
Vintage 1920s Hungarian Art Deco Busts
Materials
Wood
Alexander Ney, Head, Gilt Terracotta Sculpture, circa 1990
By Alexander Ney
Located in New York, NY
Gilt terracotta sculpture on marble base.
Signed with artist's facsimile, dated '90
Alexander Ney (Russian, born in 1939 in Leningrad, Russia) is an American sculptor and painter...
Category
1990s American Modern Busts
Materials
Marble
Dance with a Snake, Austrian Jugenstil Bronze and Marble Sculpture, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
Made of a beautifully crafted patinated bronze, it proudly stands on its original magnificent marble base. Unsigned, the authorship is unidentified.
Full of tasteful provocative ero...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Vintage American Sculptural Award Prize Trophy, circa 1969
Located in New York, NY
The inscription on the silvered bronze plaque reads:
A/S 1969 AMERICAN SALESMASTER.
The place for the awardees name is blank.
Solid marble octagonal base.
No dings, dents, or c...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
La Cruche Casee, Antique French Bronze Sculptural Desk Candleholder, circa 1875
Located in New York, NY
The inscription engraved on the gilded medallion in the center of the plinth serves as the name of this remarkable sculpture, La Cruche Casee (The Broken Jug). Made of multicolored patinated and ormolu bronze in the second half of the 19th century France, this absolutely fabulous stationary figural candle...
Category
Antique 1870s French Romantic More Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Opus-Cellini, Art Deco Bronze and Marble Sculptural Paperweight, ca. 1930
By Opus Cellini Bronze Works
Located in New York, NY
Marked "Opus-Cellini" in the back, this remarkable American Art Deco desk-size gild and dark-patinated bronze and marble sculptural paperweight, depicting a comfortably resting beautiful nude female was made circa 1930 by the famous American founder, Cellini bronze...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Paperweights
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Rudolph Henn, Child Feeding a Squirrel, Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, circa 1920s
By Rudolph Henn
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the artist on the plinth, this desk-size sculpture of a child feeding a squirrel was created by the sculptor mostly known for his depictions of children, Rudolph Henn. In t...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chaim Gross, Ballerina on Unicycle, Hand-Carved Wood Sculpture, circa 1940s
By Chaim Gross
Located in New York, NY
Signed CH.GROSS on the plinth with the artist's "fox stamp" below, and on the bottom of the base, as well.
A beautifully carved modernist wood sculpture by well known and highly collectible New York artist, Chaim Gross (1904-1991). It is one of ten small versions of a 29" sculpture in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The sculpture is made of Lignum Vitae wood. The meaning of LIGNUM VITAE is the very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacums. Guaiacum is of the caltrop family of tropical American evergreen trees and shrubs. Sometimes called guayacan or guaiacum, it is also known in parts of Europe as Pockholz or Pokhout. Due to its extreme hardness, the wood of such a tree is often used for making pulley blocks, mallet heads, bearings, etc.
Provenance: Schrick private collection, Connecticut, USA.
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) was an Austrian born American sculptor. He was born in the then Austro-Hungarian village...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
