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Period: 1920s
Art deco spelter group of two cranes
Located in Budleigh Salterton, GB
Great French Art Deco spelter sculpture
Of two Herons or Cranes mounted on a marble base
Circa 1930’s
Height 19 inches or 48 cms
Width 19.5 Inches or 49.5 cms
Depth 7 inches 18 cms
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Spelter
Andrianna Shamaris Minimalist Teak Wood Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Minimalist sculpture hand carved from a single block of century old teak wood. Finished with a natural oil revealing the beautiful wood grain. Set on a modern black metal stand 12” x...
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Organic Modern Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pair of Pompeian Deer from Herculaneum by Chiurazzi
Located in Madrid, ES
Couple of young deer after ancient times.
Patinated bronze.
Beginning of the 20th century.
This pair of young deer is a reproduction of the same dimensions as the originals preserve...
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Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Handcrafted Wooden Dogon Ladder, Mali, 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
A classic Dogon ladder made of dark wood and mounted on a sturdy metal stand.
The Dogon people live in southeastern Mali and Burkina Faso. Despite being surrounded by Muslims, th...
Category
Malian Tribal Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Surrealist Bauhaus Wooden Head Sculpture, 1920's
Located in Zwijndrecht, Antwerp
A unique surrealist/abstract bauhaus wooden head sculpture, hand painted circa 1920's. The artist is not known but there is a illegible/unknown stamp on...
Category
European Bauhaus Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Set of Four Vintage Weights, circa 1920
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Set of four vintage weights: 5, 2, 1 and a half kilograms. By unknown manufacturer, circa 1920.
In original condition, with minor wear consistent with...
Category
European Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Cubist Bronze Sculpture 'The Twins' by Willy Kessels, 1920s
Located in Brussels, BE
Cubist bronze sculpture 'The Twins' by Willy Kessels - 1920s
Cubist bronze 'the twins' from the 1920s famous and well known Belgian sculptor, architec...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Napoleone Martinuzzi for Venini Red Cactus Succulent Sculpture, Signed, 1929
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Napoleone Martinuzzi for Venini red Cactus Succulent sculpture, Signed, 1929.
Exceedingly rare example of a signed Venini succulent by Matinuzzi. Museum-worthy masterwork by Martinuzzi during his groundbreaking tenure as artistic director of Venini. Large-scale. Original brass frame.
This stunning pulegoso glass and gold leaf “pianta grassa” is in very good antique condition with no apparent signs of repair. Acid etched Venini signature is at bottom. Lovely contrasting white glass rim on pot. Playful use of co lot with the green pot...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Antique Sculpture Violin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This extraordinary antique french sculptural violin is in good condition and is beautifully hand-crafted out of wrought iron, This piece is eye-catching and features incredibly forge...
Category
French Arts and Crafts Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Metal
African Sculpture Zaire Antique Copper Coin
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
That's a true antique copper coin from Zaire, very rare: a modern simple sculpture !
I saw only another one like this, but it was not authentic: done for ...
Category
Congolese Archaistic Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Giacomo Balla Sculpture Ceramic Riccardo Gatti Futurist Art Deco Italy 1930s
Located in Catania, IT
We present an authentic sculpture by the famous futurist artist Giacomo Balla.
A very rare tea service produced in the middle of the Futurist period in Italy.
Extremely rare object...
Category
Italian Futurist Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
Marble and Glass Abstract Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Original Abstract Marble and Glass sculpture signed “G.G. Rivers 2006”. Perfect for Hallway decoration or Home office decor.
Category
South American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
French Modernist Sculpture Saint John Baptist Bronze by Jean Lambert-Rucki Paris
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Jean Lambert-Rucki (French 1888-1967.) Patinated Bronze Statuette on hardwood plinth of St. John the Baptist.
Retains original paper label on bottom inside from Foundry; Adalc Paris, Made in France. Wooden base is stamped, Cheret Paris...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1920s Popsicle Mold Vintage Industrial Good Humor Relic Prop
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Complete with the stainless steel stick holder/mount that sets on the mold.
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Antique Bronze Tabletop Sculpture of ChiId illegible Artist Signed like Rodin
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Antique Tabletop Bronze Sculpture of a Mother and Child or Cherubs in the Sea? Procured from high-end Washington D.C. Estate. We are unable t...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Classic 1920s Adjustable Height Leather and Cast Iron Pommel Gym Horse
Located in Buffalo, NY
Classic 1920s adjustable height leather and cast iron pommel gym horse, amazing design, proportion and patina. Retains original 'HORSE-HOOF" feet, adjustable height from 26" to 40", cast iron wheels signed and dated 1921, Hamilton Caster mfg co, perfect for home gym...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Agwam Hangar Aircraft Service and Repair Fuselage Access Ladder Prop Treehouse
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A vintage relic sold as a prop. An antique collapsible Early-century wooden and steel ladder. Each Rung Segment is 14 inches and space between rungs is about 12 inches. Seems strong...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
1920s Swedish Grace Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This abstract 1920s Swedish sculpture of painted-and-gilded plaster, on a painted-wood base, is pleasing from all angles. At the time and place where it...
Category
Swedish Modern Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Hand Carved Folk Art Figure of a Naked Lady
Located in London, GB
Naked Lady, circa 1920
We are proud to offer a unique example of an early 20th century Folk Art hand carved figure. The figure stands in her underwear spor...
Category
Unknown Victorian Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Pine, Paint
Laurel Leaf Appliqués/Sconces in Bronze, Art Deco, Set of 3
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully cast and patinated, this set of three Art Deco appliqués or sconces may have been used to decorate a door or building element, or been hu...
Category
Art Deco Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Mold Makers Wood Abstract Sculpture
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Wood sculpture made from foundry wood molds.
Category
Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood
Articulated Artist Models
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A great pair of early 20th century artist models.
Good original surfaces.
Professionally mounted on a faux slate cube.
Can be taken off the base
Category
French Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wool
Unusual Turn of the Century Industrial Brass Small Animal Cage with Wheel
Located in Buffalo, NY
Unusual turn of the century industrial brass small animal cage with wheel. Possibly made by Pierce Arrow. Buffalo NY. Superior quality and construction. Sm...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass
Mounted Oversized Wrench
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A dramatically oversized patinated forged steel wrench beautifully mounted on a circular base.
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Carved Wooden Dog Head Statue Sculpture Bust, Vintage Austria, circa 1910s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Adorable unique wood carved head. Austria, 1920s or older. Ideal decoration item, Hand carved from one piece of solid wood. Nice display piece in any room. Found at an Estate Sale in...
Category
Austrian Folk Art Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Important Pair of Constructivist Table Lamps in the Style of Alexandre Rodchenko
By Alexandre Rodtchenko
Located in New York, NY
Rare pair of handmade Mid-Century wood table lamps with sculptural bases utilizing constructivist and cubist principles. Each lamp is different and complimentary to each other both r...
Category
European Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1920s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
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H 12.01 in W 10.83 in D 2.37 in
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Jacques Lipchitz, Two Figures, French Cubist Patinated Bronze Sculpture, 1923
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Located in New York, NY
This small but very powerful sculpture depicting the passionate interweaving of two bodies of lovers was completed in the year of the death of the master in his beloved Pietrasanta, Italy; and cast in bronze at the local foundry ‘Fonderia Luigi Tomassi Pietrasanta’.
Signed ‘Lipschitz’ and dated ‘23’
Foundry stamp ‘Fonderia Luigi Tomassi Pietrasanta’.
Original dark brown-black patina.
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Height: 3.57 inches (8.9cm)
Width: 5 inches (12.5cm)
Depth: 3.13 inches (7.82cm)
Jacques Lipchitz (1891 – 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism In 1920, Lipchitz held his first solo exhibition, at Leonce Rosenberg’s Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris. Fleeing the Nazis he moved to the US and settled in New York City and eventually Hastings-on-Hudson.
Jacques Lipchitz was born Chaim Jacob Lipschitz, in a Litvak family, son of a building contractor in Druskinikai, Lithuania, then within the Russian Empire He studied at Vilnius grammar school and Vilnius Art School. Under the influence of his father he studied engineering in 1906–1909, but soon after, supported by his mother he moved to Paris (1909) to study at the Ecole-des-Beaux-Arts and the Academy Julian.
It was there, in the artistic communities of Monmartre and Montparnasse, that he joined a group of artists that included Juan Gris and Pblo Picasso, as well as where his friend, Amedeo Modigliani, painted Jacques and Berthe Lipschitz.
Living in this environment, Lipchitz soon began to create Cubist sculpture. In 1912, he exhibited at the Salon de la Societe des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d’Automne with his first solo show held at Leonce Rosenberg’s's Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris in 1920. In 1922 he was commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania to execute seven bas-reliefs and two sculptures.
With artistic innovation at its height, in the 1920s he experimented with abstract forms he called transparent sculptures. Later he developed a more dynamic style, which he applied with telling effect to bronze compositions of figures and animals.
In 1924-25 Lipchitz became a French citizen through naturalization and married Berthe Kitrosser. With the German occupation of France during World War II, and the deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps, Lipchitz had to flee France. With the assistance of the American journalist Varian Fry in Marceille, he escaped the Nazi regime and went to the United States. There, he eventually settled in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
He was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the Third Sculpture International Exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949. He has been identified among seventy of those sculptors in a photograph Life magazine published that was taken at the exhibition. In 1954 a Lipchitz retrospective traveled from The Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and The Cleveland Museum of Art. In 1959, his series of small bronzes To the Limit of the Possible was shown at Fine Arts Associates in New York.
In his later years Lipchitz became more involved in his Jewish faith, even referring to himself as a "religious Jew" in an interview in 1970. He began abstaining from work on Shabbat and put on Tefillin daily, at the urging of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson.
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H 3.57 in W 5 in D 3.13 in
Antique French Pair of Glove Molds in Metal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Antique French Pair of Glove Molds in Metal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of glove molds in metal (sizes may vary). Originating in France, circa 1910.
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20th Century Large Chinese Cork Diorama
Located in LEGNY, FR
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