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Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture with Weaving Shuttle by Aage Birck, Denmark, 2015
By Aage Birck
Located in New York, NY
One of several arresting sculptures by Danish contemporary ceramist Aage Birck, in which he incorporates the tools from other arts into his work, using them as details or ornamentati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture with Weaving Shuttle by Aage Birck, Denmark, 2013
By Aage Birck
Located in New York, NY
One of several arresting sculptures by Danish contemporary ceramist Aage Birck in which he incorporates the tools from other arts into his work, using them as details or ornamentation. This particular piece is inset with porcelain weaving...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Aage Birck, Denmark, 2014
By Aage Birck
Located in New York, NY
One of several arresting sculptures by Aage Birck in which the Danish artist recontextualizes bones, teeth, or other once semi-living remains, using them as details or ornamentation....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Aage Birck, Denmark, 2010
By Aage Birck
Located in New York, NY
One of several arresting sculptures by Aage Birck in which the Danish artist recontextualizes bones, teeth, or other once semi-living remains, using them as details or ornamentation....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Hervé van der Straeten, "Coupe Nid" Bronze Centerpiece, France, 2012
By Herve Van Der Straeten
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary bronze centrepiece by Hervé van der Straeten.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Niamh Barry, In the Eyes of, Polished Bronze Light Sculpture, Ireland, 2023
By Niamh Barry
Located in New York, NY
Niamh Barry often says that her sculptures are drawings in bronze and light. Inspired by natural beauty, her work transcends utility. She strives, above all else, to achieve striking...
Category
2010s Irish Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Emiliano Céliz, Genesis Marina IV: Life from the Void, Argentina, 2022
By Emiliano Céliz
Located in New York, NY
Emiliano Céliz is one of the finest silversmiths in South America. Residing in the San Martin de los Andes of Patagonia, he takes as his inspiration the splendor of his natural surroundings, incorporating the forms found in the beautiful lakes and the exquisite landscapes of the region into his work. His decorative artworks are wrought from a single plate of metal, a technique mastered by only a few artists in the world.
Evocative of primitive life in ancient seas...
Category
2010s Argentine Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Arango & Lollar, Templon Pacis (Temple of Peace), Ceramic & Steel Sculpture, US
By Thomas W. Lollar, Ricardo Arango
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Lollar earned his BFA and MA at Western Michigan University, and has been teaching ceramics and sculpture since 1975. A master sculptor, his subjects are rendered in both fron...
Category
2010s American Mounted Objects
Materials
Steel
Arango & Lollar, Ancient Mirror - Two Figures, Ceramic & Steel Sculpture, US
By Thomas W. Lollar, Ricardo Arango
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Lollar earned his BFA and MA at Western Michigan University, and has been teaching ceramics and sculpture since 1975. A master sculptor, his subjects are rendered in both fron...
Category
2010s American Mounted Objects
Materials
Steel
Arango & Lollar, Roman Arch, Ceramic & Steel Sculpture, US
By Thomas W. Lollar, Ricardo Arango
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Lollar earned his BFA and MA at Western Michigan University, and has been teaching ceramics and sculpture since 1975. A master sculptor, his subjects are rendered in both fron...
Category
2010s American Mounted Objects
Materials
Steel
Arango & Lollar, Temple of Vesta Rome, Iron & Welded Steel Sculpture, US
By Thomas W. Lollar, Ricardo Arango
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Lollar earned his BFA and MA at Western Michigan University, and has been teaching ceramics and sculpture since 1975. A master sculptor, his subjects are rendered in both fron...
Category
2010s American Mounted Objects
Materials
Steel, Iron
Matthew Soloman, Tulipiere in a Metalic and Blue Glaze, United States
By Matthew Solomon
Located in New York, NY
Using fine ceramics fired in a variety of glazes (all of which he crafts himself) Matthew Solomon creates sculptures of beauty, with an element of the unexpected. Repetition of form ...
Category
2010s American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Ganesha, Ceramic Sculpture in Metalic Glaze, United States, 2009
By Matthew Solomon
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary glazed porcelain sculpture by Matthew Solomon. Unique piece, signed and dated.
Using fine porcelain and glazes he crafted himself, Matthew Solomon translated the unruly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Floral Ceramic Sculpture in Metalic Glaze, United States
By Matthew Solomon
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary glazed porcelain sculpture by Matthew Solomon. Unique piece, signed and dated.
Using fine porcelain and glazes he crafted himself, Matthew Solomon translated the unruly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Matthew Solomon, Reddish Floral Glazed Ceramic Vessel, United States, 2008
By Matthew Solomon
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary glazed porcelain sculpture by Matthew Solomon. Unique piece, signed and dated.
Using fine porcelain and glazes he crafted himself, Matthew Solomon translated the unruly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Matthew Solomon, Floral Columnar Glazed Ceramic Vase, United States
By Matthew Solomon
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary glazed porcelain sculpture by Matthew Solomon. Unique piece, signed and dated.
Using fine porcelain and glazes he crafted himself, Matthew Solomon translated the unruly...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Hilabeteak VIII, Contemporary Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo' Pays Basque
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hilabeteak V, Contemporary Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Yongjin Han, Untitled, Sculpture in Pink Granite, United States
By Yongjin Han
Located in New York, NY
Yongjin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1934. After the Korean War—in which he fought, lying about his age in order to enlist—he was one of six students admitted to the sculpture program at the Seoul National University. At the time of his enrollment little of his native city remained intact; nonetheless, he had never felt more responsible to his work, firm in the conviction that artistic expression is every bit as essential to life and human nature as eating, drinking, or breathing.
One of Han’s teachers was Kim Chong Yung, a pioneer of Korean abstract sculpture, and by the time of his graduation he had adopted the abstraction that had seized both Europe and the United States several years before. . In 1967 he relocated to the USA, where he studied at Dartmouth and Columbia. Over the course of his long career the artist returned to Korea with frequency and made extended stays in Japan and Europe.
Trips to Korea signified something more than mere homesickness: Han’s work, though made largely in America, remained grounded in his rich cultural heritage. Korea rests on a bedrock of granite, and freestanding sculpture produced of the stone has for centuries demarcated sites of historical and religious significance. Han’s sculpture bridges this past with modernity. Richard A. Born, former Curator at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, has said that Han “brought Korea’s tradition of direct stone carving out of figuration into a refined, non-objective abstraction.”
For his part, Han put very little stock in designations; his focus, instead, was on the stone itself. His pieces explore a certain harmonization with nature. Han, when describing his work, said, "As stone has been around since the beginning of time, it has much to teach us if we care to slow down and listen." He believed that each stone has its own history, character, and energy and that his task was to draw out these inherently spiritual qualities. He described his process as a “dialogue” with his material: "The stone tells me it has an itch in a certain spot, so I scratch it—and we both feel better!"
Han worked alone and with manual tools, and the process is arduous. Carving stone this way takes time, and, what’s more, required great force—yet Han’s sculptures, even the monumental ones, are, as friend and fellow artist David Parker says, “all gentle grace and warmth” … [the sculptor] “engages with the stone as an equal—like wayfarers meeting on a path, Han and a stone spend time together and when they part, both are marked and changed forever.”
Yongjin Han's career spanned decades and continents, and included several prestigious large-scale public commissions. In Seoul his work can be found at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the IE Young Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whanki Museum, the Ewha Woman’s University Museum, Posong High School, and the 88 Olympics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Yongjin Han, Untitled, Sculpture in Bronze, United States, 1996
By Yongjin Han
Located in New York, NY
Yongjin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1934. After the Korean War—in which he fought, lying about his age in order to enlist—he was one of six students admitted to the sculpture program at the Seoul National University. At the time of his enrollment little of his native city remained intact; nonetheless, he had never felt more responsible to his work, firm in the conviction that artistic expression is every bit as essential to life and human nature as eating, drinking, or breathing.
One of Han’s teachers was Kim Chong Yung, a pioneer of Korean abstract sculpture, and by the time of his graduation he had adopted the abstraction that had seized both Europe and the United States several years before. . In 1967 he relocated to the USA, where he studied at Dartmouth and Columbia. Over the course of his long career the artist returned to Korea with frequency and made extended stays in Japan and Europe.
Trips to Korea signified something more than mere homesickness: Han’s work, though made largely in America, remained grounded in his rich cultural heritage. Korea rests on a bedrock of granite, and freestanding sculpture produced of the stone has for centuries demarcated sites of historical and religious significance. Han’s sculpture bridges this past with modernity. Richard A. Born, former Curator at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, has said that Han “brought Korea’s tradition of direct stone carving out of figuration into a refined, non-objective abstraction.”
For his part, Han put very little stock in designations; his focus, instead, was on the stone itself. His pieces explore a certain harmonization with nature. Han, when describing his work, said, "As stone has been around since the beginning of time, it has much to teach us if we care to slow down and listen." He believed that each stone has its own history, character, and energy and that his task was to draw out these inherently spiritual qualities. He described his process as a “dialogue” with his material: "The stone tells me it has an itch in a certain spot, so I scratch it—and we both feel better!"
Han worked alone and with manual tools, and the process is arduous. Carving stone this way takes time, and, what’s more, required great force—yet Han’s sculptures, even the monumental ones, are, as friend and fellow artist David Parker says, “all gentle grace and warmth” … [the sculptor] “engages with the stone as an equal—like wayfarers meeting on a path, Han and a stone spend time together and when they part, both are marked and changed forever.”
Yongjin Han's career spanned decades and continents, and included several prestigious large-scale public commissions. In Seoul his work can be found at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the IE Young Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whanki Museum, the Ewha Woman’s University Museum, Posong High School, and the 88 Olympics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hilabeteak IX, Contemporary Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hilabeteak III, Contemporary Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Niamh Barry, "Standing, " Patinated Bronze Light Sculpture, Ireland, 2022
By Niamh Barry
Located in New York, NY
Niamh Barry often says that her sculptures are drawings in bronze and light. Inspired by natural beauty, the work transcends utility. She strives, above all else, to achieve striking...
Category
2010s Irish Floor Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Tarte IV / Espace, Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque, 2015
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tarte III / Espace, Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque, 2015
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Franck Evennou, Large-Scale Wooden TOTEM, France, 2020
By Franck Evennou
Located in New York, NY
The totems of the French sculptor Franck Evennou possess a playful quality that counterbalances the traditional solemnity of the form. With their rough, splitting surface, they are n...
Category
2010s French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Marrazki Haundia III, Bronze Sculpture by Zigor ‘Kepa Akixo’, Pays Basque, 2009
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region, both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures a...
Category
Early 2000s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fred Brouard, "Sterne" Modernist Sculpture, France, 1972
By Fred Brouard
Located in New York, NY
This piece in polished aluminum, elevated on a rectangular, black pedestal, by Fred Brouard, illustrious and groundbreaking French sculpture and furniture maker of the mid-to-late tw...
Category
20th Century French Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Mario Dal Fabbro, Wood Sculpture, United States, 1981
By Mario Dal Fabbro
Located in New York, NY
One of the more figural of dal Fabbro's oeuvre, this sculpture conjures images of a bird perched on a branch, ready to take flight. In the artist's classic style, however, the carvin...
Category
20th Century American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Yongjin Han, Two Pieces of Bluestone, Sculpture, United States, 2010
By Yongjin Han
Located in New York, NY
Yongjin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1934. After the Korean War—in which he fought, lying about his age in order to enlist—he was one of six students admitted to the sculpture program at the Seoul National University. At the time of his enrollment little of his native city remained intact; nonetheless, he had never felt more responsible to his work, firm in the conviction that artistic expression is every bit as essential to life and human nature as eating, drinking, or breathing.
One of Han’s teachers was Kim Chong Yung, a pioneer of Korean abstract sculpture, and by the time of his graduation he had adopted the abstraction that had seized both Europe and the United States several years before. . In 1967 he relocated to the USA, where he studied at Dartmouth and Columbia. Over the course of his long career the artist returned to Korea with frequency and made extended stays in Japan and Europe.
Trips to Korea signified something more than mere homesickness: Han’s work, though made largely in America, remained grounded in his rich cultural heritage. Korea rests on a bedrock of granite, and freestanding sculpture produced of the stone has for centuries demarcated sites of historical and religious significance. Han’s sculpture bridges this past with modernity. Richard A. Born, former Curator at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, has said that Han “brought Korea’s tradition of direct stone carving out of figuration into a refined, non-objective abstraction.”
For his part, Han put very little stock in designations; his focus, instead, was on the stone itself. His pieces explore a certain harmonization with nature. Han, when describing his work, said, "As stone has been around since the beginning of time, it has much to teach us if we care to slow down and listen." He believed that each stone has its own history, character, and energy and that his task was to draw out these inherently spiritual qualities. He described his process as a “dialogue” with his material: "The stone tells me it has an itch in a certain spot, so I scratch it—and we both feel better!"
Han worked alone and with manual tools, and the process is arduous. Carving stone this way takes time, and, what’s more, required great force—yet Han’s sculptures, even the monumental ones, are, as friend and fellow artist David Parker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Jin Soo Kim, Copper Crate, Sculpture, United States, 2019
By Jin Soo Kim
Located in New York, NY
The artist spends extended periods of intense manual labor, wrapping long lines of wire or gauze to build volumes and textured surfaces. By surrendering herself to this ritualistic p...
Category
2010s North American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Jin Soo Kim, Large Copper Rectangular Sculpture, United States, 2019
By Jin Soo Kim
Located in New York, NY
The artist spends extended periods of intense manual labor, wrapping long lines of wire or gauze to build volumes and textured surfaces. By surrendering herself to this ritualistic p...
Category
2010s American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Jin Soo Kim, Large Copper Rectangular Sculpture, United States, 2019
By Jin Soo Kim
Located in New York, NY
The artist spends extended periods of intense manual labor, wrapping long lines of wire or gauze to build volumes and textured surfaces. By surrendering herself to this ritualistic p...
Category
2010s North American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Mario Dal Fabbro, Wood Sculpture, United States, 1990
By Mario Dal Fabbro
Located in New York, NY
In this late work by Dal Fabbro, the viewer is reminded of a lone cactus in the desert. But closer inspection reveals expertly carved gaps in the wood, showing us the depths and dive...
Category
20th Century American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Olerki XVIII, Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region—both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Michel Chauvet, Méditerranée, Modern Sculpture, France, 1949
By Michel Chauvet
Located in New York, NY
This plaster sculpture by Michel Chauvet, the notable midcentury French artist, captures the grace of the human form in motion.
Unique piece. Monogrammed: M. CHT.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mario Dal Fabbro, Wood Sculpture, United States, C. 1983
By Mario Dal Fabbro
Located in New York, NY
In this sculptural study by dal Fabbro, the viewer's expectations are reversed. What may at first seem figural becomes abstract as one moves around the piece, revealing the artist's ...
Category
20th Century American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Ivan Bailey, Sculpture of a Resting Eagle, Steel & Granite, US, 20th Century
By Ivan Bailey
Located in New York, NY
Ivan Bailey, a native of Georgia, trained as a blacksmith. He went on to perform countless commissions, both public and private, in the fine arts, not limited to the Olympic Torch mo...
Category
Late 20th Century American Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Eric Astoul, Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, La Borne, France, 2014
By Eric Astoul
Located in New York, NY
Unique piece
Signed: Astoul.
Master ceramicist Eric Astoul created this piece as part of a series inspired by both modern and ancient stoneware, which, with its rough firing, fli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Michel Chauvet, Personnage en Mouvement, Modern Sculpture, France, 1960
By Michel Chauvet
Located in New York, NY
This terracotta sculpture by Michel Chauvet, the notable midcentury French artist, captures the grace of the human form in motion.
Unique piece. Monogrammed: M. CHT.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Lloyd, Contemporary Mahogany Sculpture by Franck Evennou, France, 2007
By Franck Evennou
Located in New York, NY
This arresting piece by French artist Franck Evennou is carved from a single piece of mahogany.
Incised: FE Unique piece.
Franck Evennou expresses himself in bronze as others expre...
Category
Early 2000s French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany
Marcello Fantoni, Abstract Sculpture, Italy, 1977
By Marcello Fantoni
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the artist.
A perfectly balanced abstract sculpture by Italian designer Marcello Fantoni glazed in colors ranging from off white to blueish-gray, which conveys, above al...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Gérard Haas, Timescapes LED Chronotope Light Sculpture, France, circa 1970s
By Gérard Haas
Located in New York, NY
This series by Gérard Haas is many things at once, functional and Avant Garde, elegant and expressive, thanks to the artist's surprising use of reclaimed materials. Finding beauty in...
Category
20th Century French Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Mario Dal Fabbro, "Image of Penguin #2" Sculpture, United States circa 1980-1981
By Mario Dal Fabbro
Located in New York, NY
Signed: Mario Dal Fabbro Image of Penguin #2
Marked: I. 7
Typical of the sculptural output of dal Fabbro, the lines of this piece shift rhythmically depending on the viewer's pos...
Category
20th Century American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Mario Dal Fabbro, Sculpture, United States, 1983
By Mario Dal Fabbro
Located in New York, NY
Signed: Mario Dal Fabbro, 1983
Marked: I. 8
Typical of the sculptural output of dal Fabbro, the lines of this piece shift rhythmically depending on the viewer's position. The art...
Category
20th Century American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Marino Di Teana, Aube, Monumental Sculpture, France, 1977-2017
By Marino Di Teana
Located in New York, NY
Examples of this patinated steel sculpture have been exhibited throughout Europe since the early 1980s, most notably as a tribute to the artist in 2008 in his birthplace and childhoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Otoitz / Priere, Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque, 2015
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cesare Arduini, Onyx and Brass Sculpture, United States, 2019
By Cesare Arduini
Located in New York, NY
With this extraordinary piece, Cesare Arduini has imposed geometric coherence on the natural but chaotic beauty of onyx, in this case using brass, the very ...
Category
2010s American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Brass
Dantza IV, Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque, 1995
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
1990s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tarte II, Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Yongjin Han, Two Pieces of Granite, Sculpture, United States, 2005
By Yongjin Han
Located in New York, NY
Two pieces of granite, a sculpture by Korean-American artist Yongjin Han.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Olerki XVI, Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque, 2011
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region—both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Niamh Barry, "Underneath, " Patinated Bronze Light Sculpture, Ireland, 2018
By Niamh Barry
Located in New York, NY
A study of the human form, this extraordinary patinated bronze sculpture evinces physical muscular strength, strain, and balance--giving it a remarkable presence all its own.
Size ...
Category
2010s Irish Floor Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Cesare Arduini, "Tre Viso, " Abstract Marble Sculpture, United States, 2017
By Cesare Arduini
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed: CLF
Unique piece.
A Nero Marquina marble sculpture depicting a succession of three identical faces in profile.
Category
2010s American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Yongjin Han, a Piece of Wood, Sculpture, United States, 1976
By Yongjin Han
Located in New York, NY
Yongjin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1934. After the Korean War—in which he fought, lying about his age in order to enlist—he was one of six students admitted to the sculpture program at the Seoul National University. At the time of his enrollment little of his native city remained intact; nonetheless, he had never felt more responsible to his work, firm in the conviction that artistic expression is every bit as essential to life and human nature as eating, drinking, or breathing.
One of Han’s teachers was Kim Chong Yung, a pioneer of Korean abstract sculpture, and by the time of his graduation he had adopted the abstraction that had seized both Europe and the United States several years before. . In 1967 he relocated to the USA, where he studied at Dartmouth and Columbia. Over the course of his long career the artist returned to Korea with frequency and made extended stays in Japan and Europe.
Trips to Korea signified something more than mere homesickness: Han’s work, though made largely in America, remained grounded in his rich cultural heritage. Korea rests on a bedrock of granite, and freestanding sculpture produced of the stone has for centuries demarcated sites of historical and religious significance. Han’s sculpture bridges this past with modernity. Richard A. Born, former Curator at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, has said that Han “brought Korea’s tradition of direct stone carving out of figuration into a refined, non-objective abstraction.”
For his part, Han put very little stock in designations; his focus, instead, was on the stone itself. His pieces explore a certain harmonization with nature. Han, when describing his work, said, "As stone has been around since the beginning of time, it has much to teach us if we care to slow down and listen." He believed that each stone has its own history, character, and energy and that his task was to draw out these inherently spiritual qualities. He described his process as a “dialogue” with his material: "The stone tells me it has an itch in a certain spot, so I scratch it—and we both feel better!"
Han worked alone and with manual tools, and the process is arduous. Carving stone this way takes time, and, what’s more, required great force—yet Han’s sculptures, even the monumental ones, are, as friend and fellow artist David Parker...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Eric Astoul, "Module, " Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, La Borne, France, 2014
By Eric Astoul
Located in New York, NY
Unique piece
Signed: Astoul.
Master ceramicist Eric Astoul created this piece as part of a series inspired by both modern and ancient stoneware, which, with its rough firing, fli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Eskua II / la main, Bronze Sculpture by Zigor 'Kepa Akixo', Pays Basque, 2017
By Zigor (Kepa Akixo)
Located in New York, NY
Zigor’s work is shaped by his relationship to the environment of the Basque region-both by the natural landscape as well as the significance of the Basque identity. His sculptures an...
Category
2010s French Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cesare Arduini, Abstract Marble and Steel Sculpture, United States, 2019
By Cesare Arduini
Located in New York, NY
With this captivating white marble sculpture, Cesare Arduini has continued his masterful exploration of space, his play of the balance between positive and negative space.
Unique ...
Category
2010s American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Statuary Marble, Steel
Eric Astoul, Ceramic Sculpture, Bol Géologique, La Borne, France, 2012
By Eric Astoul
Located in New York, NY
Unique piece
Signed: Astoul.
Master ceramicist Eric Astoul created this piece as part of a series inspired by both modern and ancient stoneware, which, with its rough firing, fli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Wilfrid Prost, Ceramic Sculpture of a Bear with Two Cubs, France, circa 1940
By Wilfrid Prost
Located in New York, NY
This playful ceramic sculpture of two cubs riding atop their mother's back emanates warmth with its subject, form, and color.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic