Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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Large Sculptural Vase #2 by Dena Zemsky
By Dena Zemsky
Located in New York, NY
Hand-built, glazed stoneware vase form. Signed and dated on underside.
Category
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Metal Sea Fan Sculptures
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pair of stylized sculptures crafted in iron and ambitiously portraying mother nature's sea fan construction. Presented on classical two tiered bases and signed by the noted artist Ro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Set of 2 Modernist 1970s Vase Sculptures Peter Müller for Sgrafo Modern, Germany
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
set of 2 op art elements with abstract floral illustrations
Origin:
Germany
Produder:
Sgrafo Modern
Design:
Peter Müler
Material:
pottery ...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Modernist Abstract Carved Hardwood Crucifix, Corpus of Christ Sculpture Cross
Located in Lisse, NL
Beautifully stylized, midcentury crucifix.
This handcrafted religious work of art shows us that Christ and what He stands for continuous to inspire and motivate spiritual people and...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood
Abstract Bronze and Enamel Sculpture
By Del Campo
Located in New York, NY
Abstract bronze and enamel sculpture by Del Campo. Signed.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Untitled Abstract Sculpture by David Haskell
Located in New York, NY
Abstract sculpture with dark blue glazes. Artist-signed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Robert Sturm Huge Ceramic Sculpture, 1970s
By Robert Sturm
Located in Munich, DE
Big plastic. Ceramics. Coarsely chamotted light material, surface structured and translucent gray-green, partially brownish. H. 122 cm. At the bottom inscribed: ST (carved)., Literat...
Category
1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Leonardo Nierman Onyx "Wing" Sculpture on Marble Base, Signed
Located in Kansas City, MO
Large table top Leonardo Nierman onyx "Wing" sculpture on marble base. Mint condition. Signed with engraved signature.
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Marble
Abstract Lucite Sculpture by Astrolite for Ritts, Los Angeles
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Abstract Lucite sculpture featuring two fish swing in the shape of a yinyang, circa 1960. There is one large 10” long sculpture serving as the base with second smaller 8.25" long scu...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
20th Century Tennis Player Bronze Sculpture / Trophy, Italy, 1930s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Midcentury tennis player bronze sculpture / Trophy. Italy, 1930s.
Very nice Italian bronze figure. Mounted over black Portoro marble.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze Sculpture by Biagio Romeo Metamorphosis of Fish, 1987
By Romeo
Located in Milano, IT
Eccentric sculpture by the master Biagio Romeo, depicting a metamorphosis of fish fossils. Made of bronze with black painted wooden base. The peculiarity ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jungin 'Pure Silver' Thumbprint Vase for Mitsukoshi
Located in Stamford, CT
A hand-hammered Jungin (pure Silver) vase with thumb print pattern. Mitsukoshi and Jungin stamps. With signed box.
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Barry Entner Triangle Solids Glass Sculpture, 2014
By Barry Entner
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American artist Barry Entner's Triangle Solids Glass Sculpture is created with consideration of each individual piece as paint strokes that, once assembled, becomes the desired composition. He doesn't make these using traditional blown glass techniques. For the past 15 years, Barry has developed a method of using steam pressure, produced by way of inserting a wet cherrywood cone into solid hot glass, to “blow” air into the pieces. This allows him to create shapes and forms that are unique within the art glass world, and are “other worldly,” as is sometimes described. This sculpture is signed and dated. Measurements below are for the total overall size; small triangle is 3.25" diameter x 19.75" height, medium triangle is 3.25" diameter x 21.75" height and large triangle is 3.25" diameter x 23" height.
About the artist:
Barry Entner was born on November 1, 1959 in Brookline, Massachusetts. In the late 1970s, Barry attended Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, where he studied developmental psychology, cultural anthropology and philosophy. He also began to study glass sculpture under Gene Koss...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Abstract Stoneware Ceramic Vase or Flower Pot Sculpture by Jean Linard La Borne
By Jean Linard
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Jean Linard
Original and elegant abstract ceramic flower pot.
20th century Mid-Century Modern form with stoneware brown ceramic color.
Signed at the base, circa 1960.
Mea...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
1978 Curtis Jere Freeform Brass Top Metal Sculpture
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Wallkill, NY
Sits on top of a marble onyx base. Stunning spray from Curtis Jere.
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Brass
Solid Brass Cube Shaped Puzzle / Artwork
Located in Antwerp, BE
Decorative puzzle is solid brass in the style of Berrocal. Shaped like a cube, build up with many different organic shapes, all hold together by a centre cone shaded piece. Therefore...
Category
1970s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Clara Shainess 1940s Carved Wood Sculpture
By Clara Shainess
Located in New York, NY
An African School carved wood sculpture made in the 1940s (circa 1940) by U.S. artist Clara Shainess and mounted on a painted wooden base. Good condition, some age cracks and chips; ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
James Gagnon Studio Craft Pewter and Teak Decanter Set
Located in Atlanta, GA
James Gagnon Studio Craft Pewter accessories, American, circa 1970s-1980s. Gagnon's work is hard to find as it was all handcrafted by the artist in limite...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Pewter
ALFREDO BARBINI - Triton-Shaped Sea Shell
Located in Hawthorne, CA
An undulating Italian midcentury clear and salmon colored triton-shaped art glass sea shell with gold inclusions, small air bubble on outer shell. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Abstract Carved Onyx Bust Sculpture on Tall Pedestal
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Modern abstract carved marble or onyx sculpture. Orange beige red.
Category
20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Onyx
Obelisks Fornasetti Wooden Materials Imitation Lapis
By Fornasetti
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Obelisks Fornasetti wooden materials imitation Lapis.
Measures: The great height 80 cm, base cm.12 x 12, small height cm.61, based cm.9 x 9, small scratches as photos.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Salviati Vintage Green Orange Purple Crystal Murano Glass Sculpture Work of Art
By Salviati
Located in New York, NY
1970s Mid-Century Modern mouth blown Murano glass organic sculpture by Salviati, a crystal clear glass "stone" decorated in the interior with swirls of colors in lime green and red o...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass, Murrine, Blown Glass
Ceramic Art Giuseppe Mazzotti 1950 Albisola Enamel with Metallic Luster
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Ceramic Art Giuseppe Mazzotti 1950 Albisola enamel with metallic luster,
Ceramic Art of Fine Historical manufacture.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Luster
Bronze Brooch by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A gilt bronze brooch by French art jewelry designer Line Vautrin (1913-1997) Untitled circa late 1940s. The brooch depicts a horn with twisted texture wrapped with articulated chains. No signature found.
Provenance: From a former Collection of a Line Vautrin jewelry...
Category
1940s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Albert Chubac 1925-2008, Sculpture, circa 2008, France
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Albert Chubac, Modular TOTEM,
Iron and Plexiglass,
circa 2008, France.
Measures: Width 80 cm x Depth 30 cm x Height 200 cm.
Albert Chubac was born in Geneva in 1920. After studying...
Category
Early 2000s French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Sculptures of Stylized Heads in Italian Design 1970s Brass Gold Color
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Sculptures of stylized heads in Italian design 1970s brass gold color.
Measures: Small height cm.5, width cm.3.5, depth cm.3.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Brutalist Welded Steel Sculpture by California Artist Paul Kasper
By Paul Kasper
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Welded steel Brutalist sculpture by Paul Kasper, circa 1960s.
Was purchased from the estate of Paul Kasper.
Biography Paul Kasper.
Paul Charles Kasper was born in Whiting, I...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Ron Fritts Signed Vintage Pop Art Shadow Box Wall Sculpture
By Ron Fritts
Located in North Miami, FL
This eye-catching and rare Ron Fritts Pop Art shadow box wall sculpture has suspended resin or lucite balls floating in four different window vignettes that change. The background is black Mylar plexiglass and the exterior wood is newly ebonized. The original labels on the back that says RF studios Inc. and a number. The silver interior balls jump around as you pick it up and rotate it and even turn it upside down. The components of the resin have slightly yellowed from age and sun exposure. There is also glue residue from age and coming apart. It is what it is...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
Signed Abstract Modernist Metal Sculpture Attributted to Early Curtis Jere
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed abstract modernist metal sculpture. One off, original, stunning form, texture and design, apparently early work of Curtis Jere Company, long before they're sculptures and desi...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Sensual Gold Jaru Nude Male Ceramic Sculptures, Mid-Century Modern
By Jaru
Located in Pemberton, NJ
A chic Mid-Century Modernist figurative sculpture in plated gold by Jaru of California. This example depicts a reclining man in repose. The artist's nod to Cubism is apparent here as...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Daniel Dupir Unique Jewelry Sculpture
Located in Cathedral City, CA
A very unique mannequin cover with vintage costume jewelry design by French artist Daniel Dupir Title "Ma Belle". (unique piece) Come glass and mirror display case...
Category
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Wood
1960s Brutalist Spheric Globe Nail Spike Table Sculpture Nuclear Atomic Era
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful airy design, for such brutal components.
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Sculpture "Dream" by Caesar by Louis Durot, 1998
By Louis Durot
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Abstract freeform sculpture in reddish polyurethane entitled "Dream of Caesar" in tribute to César Baldaccini.
Louis Durot collaborated with César in 1966 as a chemist to improve his "expansions".
It was not long after Caesar's death that he finally found this material for his creations.
This work and signed on the back of the artist and provided with are “Certificate of Authenticity”.
1998 French work signed Louis Durot.
Perfect condition.
1964: Louis Durot creates with several friends an artistic movement "Freelane studio", which tries to bring together artists of various disciplines to achieve a common artistic synthesis. The movement featured jazz journalist Giles Brinnon and a young painter, Jean Ihallero, a friend of painter Maxime Defert. Brinnon and Ihallero present Louis Durot to François Arnal as a research engineer. Louis Durot will try to work with François Arnal on his sculptures of the time, and will maintain relations with him until the marriage of the latter (with a girl of sixteen in 1976). He spent two summers with Arnal, Micheline Presle and Daniel Gelin. During the second stay, in 1968, François Arnal and Micheline Presle created the Châteauvallon theater festival, during which Louis Durot became friends with the director Ulysse Renaud.
At the end of 1966, François Arnal introduced Louis Durot to César as a chemical engineer. For a year he will be the assistant of Caesar, to improve his knowledge of polyurethane foam and try to perpetuate his foam creations (fragile and ephemeral) and make them final. At this time, Caesar introduced him to Pierre Restany, Dr. Knapp and his friends Arman and Malaval. For a year, Caesar and his relations will make the artistic education of Louis Durot and convince him that what he must do, he can do it better and with more technology. Caesar made flat and ephemeral reliefs in a free and uncontrolled material.
In 1968, Louis Durot conceived the project of three-dimensional sculptures with controlled material according to a drawing and a simple and precise project. It was during this period that he made drawings of his first pieces ('mushrooms' and 'carnivorous plants'). In 1968, he opened his first mechanical workshop.
1971: first exhibition at Batimat (Paris) - Exhibition at the leather fair.
Between 1971 and 1974, Louis created about sixty sculptures around an extraterrestrial world populated by mushrooms and carnivorous plants.
In 1974, Louis Durot participated with the architects Sloan and Lecouter in the project of inflatable structure for the French Pavilion in Osaka. The project is priced at one million francs but is ultimately not realized.
It is with this price that Louis Durot is recognized for his expertise on polyurethane.
At the beginning of the 80's, he realized pure works and designs such as "Le Pied", "La Bouche", "Saint siege" and some erotic works, in a style definitely "pop".
At the same time, he continues to work as a research director in listed companies.
It continues to explode in 1991 (La Villette new technologies fair), in 1993 at Art Chicago, 1994 at the Sofa lounge in Miami and 1995 in New York.
From 1998, he exhibited permanently in China.
He becomes a star accumulating dozens of articles in the Chinese press...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Other
William Dickey King Modernist Aluminum Puzzle Sculpture of a Man with Bird
By William King
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Mid-Century Modern aluminum sculpture of a man and a bird (or perhaps a child?).
William D. King (1925-2015)
This interlocking aluminum sculpture was one of a series, which were ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Emma De Sigaldi - "Fruit " - Marble Sculpture - 1980s, Monaco
Located in Munich, DE
Emma De Sigaldi (1910-2010)
This unique sculpture "Fruit" from Emma De Sigaldi is made of Italian or Portuguese bright "salmon" colored marble. The we...
Category
1980s Monacan Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Set of 2 Ceramic Studio Pottery Vase by Gerhard Liebenthron, Germany, 1980s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic stoneware object set of 2
Designer and producer:
Gerhard Liebenthron
Information:
Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen
1925-2005
Decade:
1980s
Th...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Pottery
Italian Midcentury Clotheshorse
Located in New York, NY
Italian midcentury clotheshorse. Picasso-esque figural lacquered and waxed wood “uomo morto” for hanging clothes: jacket, trousers, shirt, socks an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Signed Rusted Steel Mid-Century Modern Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century Modern rusted steel indoor or outdoor table sculpture. Signed and dated on the bottom.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Set of Three Vintage Lucite Obelisk Decorative Sculptures
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Complete set of three striking 1970s Lucite obelisks all in original condition with slight patina from age (namely, to the base of the largest obelisk along with slight overall wear)...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Midcentury Harry Bertoia Sonambient Sculpture
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Midcentury Harry Bertoia Sonambient sculpture featuring seven black monel "cat-tail" tops silvered to beryllium. Copper rods silvered to brass base. In fin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper
Tomiya Matsuda Abstract Modern Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Glazed terra cotta abstract modern sculpture by Tomiya Matsuda. Brown, green and cinnabar glaze over a layered terra cotta curved and footed form ...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Guitou Knoop Mid-Century Modern Abstract Brutalist Sculpture, France
By Guitou Knoop
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Mid-Century Modern abstract bronze metal tabletop sculpture accessory by Guitou Knoop (French, 1909-1985). Signed and dated on base. This work is 1 of 5 available for purchase.
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Modernist Abstract Welded Steel Sculpture "Blue Angle" by Robert Brock
By Robert Brock
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist Abstract Welded Steel Sculpture "Blue Angle" by Robert Brock. Intricately designed,,precision welded and painted heavy steel rods,Truely amazing up close and in person.
...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Clyde Burt Figural Ceramic Face on Plinth
By Clyde Burt
Located in Chicago, IL
Clyde Burt figural ceramic face on attached plinth in glazed stoneware and hand painted face.
Signature to underside: [CB].
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Abstract White and Gold Porcelain Ceramic Vase or Scultpure by Gueneau 1975
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
François Gueneau
Elegant abstract white and gold ceramic porcelain vase.
Excellent original condition.
Sculptural vase, circa 1975.
Signed at the base.
Dimensions : 34...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Glass Sculptural Pyramid Light
Located in Stamford, CT
Dramatic and unusual light sculpture. Amazing detail with miniature elongated cubes of clear glass individually sewn to each other by thin silver wire. A wonderful one-of-a-kind piece.
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Wire
Oversized Dice Sculpture with Red Dots by Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage oversized Lucite sculpture designed by Charles Hollis Jones in the 1960s.
The sculpture is 4" square and the Lucite is clear and free of clouding, craze or hazing.
The pain...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Lucite, Acrylic
Authentic Camel Saddle Seat from Morocco
Located in Lyon, FR
Nice Moroccan camel or dromedary saddle stool
Real berber.
Category
20th Century Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Leather
Torch Cut and Welded Brass on Steel Brutalist Sculpture Signed Pascoe
Located in Ferndale, MI
Well executed and detailed tabletop welded and brazed Brutalist "Garden" sculpture by D. Pascoe.
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Pair of Mid-Century Pop Art / 'Arte Povera' Oil Barrel Lounge Chairs, c. 1960
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Artist conceived, Industrial design armchairs or club chairs re-purposed from Gulf Oil barrels and reflecting a modern 1960s counter-cultural aesthe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Nickel-Plated Armilary Sphere
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Nickel-plated armilary sphere, circa 1960.
Category
1960s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Nickel
2 William King Midcentury Modernist Aluminum Puzzle Sculptures of Acrobats
By William King
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Event and The Test - a group of 2 Mid-Century Modern aluminum acrobat sculptures.
William D. King (1925-2015)
These interlocking aluminum sculptures were part of a series, which w...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Brutal Art Light Scupture
Located in Munich, DE
Handmade iron sculpture from the 1960s. / unsigned.
Category
1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
1960s Erotic Art Sculpture Woman’s Waist Pottery Ashtray Vessel Female Body Form
Located in Hyattsville, MD
White Hi-gloss glazed ashtray, heavily crazed. Artist/Maker unknown. Procured in Puerto Rico.
Category
1960s Puerto Rican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Large Carved and Polished Onyx Sculpture of Mother and Daughter Theme
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Modern abstract sculpture of mother and daughter. Large and heavy carved solid onyx black marble.
Category
20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Hand-Carved Lucite Sculpture on an Oval Base
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-Century Modern abstract Lucite sculpture, table sculpture on an oval base.
Beautiful hand carved details in a very clear Lucite.
No markings.
This is a great desk accessory fo...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Urbano Zaccagnini Ceramic 'Tribal' Mask Bowl
Located in Sharon, CT
A low intaglio relief of a tribal mask, white crackle glaze on brown fired clay. Remnants of painted signature on bottom.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Oak Sculpture on Marble Base circa 1970, Unsigned
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Oak sculpture on marble base circa 1970, unsigned
Category
1970s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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