Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

An Akari model « UF3-XN » by Isamu Noguchi Original shade in washi & bamboo rims Structure & base in black lacquered metal Hand-made form realized by Ozeki...

A gorgeous black and white abstract sculpture in Alabaster and Marble. Made in France.

Large midcentury sculpture of a standing egret, in the style of Maison Jansen, raised on a circular enameled base.

A large and impressive abstract wall sculpture by Curtis Jere circa 1977. It consists of many chrome elements in a tree or umbrella form. Uncommonly seen...

Mid-20th century wooden face sculpture 1950s. Signed L.N. 1951 Painted wood sculpture, signed and dated on left side. Supported on an acrylic base.

A molecular model from Czechia, produced circa 1970. A brightly rendered plastic model of a chemical compound. Familiar from laboratory courses in secondary schools or universities, ...

Stunning vintage plywood divider by Charles and Ray Eames, for Herman Miller. Model “FSW-6” (folding screen wood) was designed and released to market in 1946. Consists of six adjusta...

Classic pair of early production plywood chairs, second generation, Designed by Charles and Ray Eames manufactured by Herman Miller, Amazing original condition, wonderful color, patina.

Abstract Mesquite Carved Wood Sculpture Mexico 1950s Unsigned. In the manner of Mathias Goeritz. 32.5H x 13 W x 7 D Original vintage unrestored conditi...

Exceptionally well hand carved abstract panel in metal frame produced from a single slab of blue slate. Exquisitely executed. Very good quality heavy piece. Dates from the 1960s. Sig...

Classic American modernist walnut and inlay stone boomerang coffee/ cocktail table, solid walnut frame, wonderful variety of mixed stone, handsome design, unusual foot detail, retain...

Péter Pierre Székely (1923-2001) Sculpture, 1975 Marble Measures: 11 H x 8.5 W x 9 D inches 27.9 H x 21.6 W x 22.9 D cm Signed and plated, un...

Classic Mid-Century Modern floor lamp "Grasshopper" inspired by the classic, graceful design of Greta Grossman, nice old patina and finish, great hunter green painted iron base, reta...

Grand Ca Rezzonico chandelier. All made in clear glass with 24-karat gold leaf embedded into glass. The use of gold leaf highlights and bring preciousness to the chandelier. There ...

Sculpture presents architectural form in bronze Unmarked Dimensions: 14.5 H x 17W x 4.5 D Original unrestored preowned vintage condition. Refer to images.  

Mid-Century Modern brass and metal tree wall art sculpture. Hooks on the back for hanging.

Charles and Ray Eames designed their fiberglass and wire chairs to be fitted with a wide variety of bases to offer a range of heights, uses, and aesthetics. One of the most desirable...

This intriguing art piece comes from Pino Signoretto private collection. Owner said it was his favorite piece. I started looking closely at the piece and recognized a few elements that are on Bosch paintings. One caught my attention, the fish with wings which is very similar to the butterfly monster of The Garden of Earthly Delights. Then everything came after. The big foot is from the man with one enormous foot in the Last Judgement...

Curtis Jere 5 Ft Tall Brutalist sculptural Raindrops tree. Amazing designer item. Three large round starbursts pom pom style balls adorn this three branched tree with large Brutalis...

This early wire wrapped pendant was likely made by Harry Bertoia while he was at Cranbrook.

A Biomorphic wooden sculpture in sinuous curves and forms evocative of the human form, on a circular rotating wooden base. The sculpted wood shows its natural grain. Unknown artist's...

A modernist wood sculpture in sinuous curves and forms, on an ebonized circular rotating wooden base. The sculpted wood shows its natural grain. Unknown mark on the lower edge where ...

Rare large cast iron bowl attributed to Isamu Noguchi for Bonniers Japan. This is the larger example of this form produced in the 1950s at the Ooi Kojo ...

Classic Lightolier Sputnik pendant light fixture, atomic design, smoke glass globes. Retains original early Lightolier paper label.

Tom Dixon style ebonized Hairpin table lamp, the ebonized and randomly reeded wood hairpin, rests on a 5" D x 10.5" block base. 27.5" inches high to...

The giraluna is a spectral plant entity from Leo Lionni's Classic alternate universe  textbook Parallel Botany.  About the Sculpture: The Giraluna This elusive and capricious plant is the Dream Queen of parallel botany. Hydendorp, quite rightly, does not hesitate to define it as the "most parallel of plants, most plantlike of the parallels," and in so doing he stresses not so much its physiognomic oddnesses as the disconcerting normality of its shape. "If we were in the jungle," he writes, "and we found one blocking our way, we would not for an instant hesitate to hack it down with our machetes."1 But it will not be our good fortune to encounter it. If in reconstructions the Giraluna displays considerable plantness of form and an exact and convincing solidity, in its natural environment it can be perceived only as a nebulous interplay of glimmerings and empty spaces which alternate in the darkness and vaguely suggest where its outlines might be. (pl. XXIV) Its nocturnal presence, in fact, is manifested almost entirely in terms of the equivocal O'-factor of the moonbeams, which was discovered and measured a few years ago by Dennis Dobkin of the Point Paradise Observatory. This factor changes the light-shade ratio which normally defines volumes into a subtle interplay of lucencies and opacities, so that our perceptions, our basic sensorial habits conditioned by thousands of years of daytime life in the "solar key," would need complete readjustment and indeed reversal in order to come to terms with it. Daylight isolates objects, bestowing a noisy Meaning on all the odds and ends in the world. But night takes everything away except the very soul of things: a black light, a transparent darkness, a secret we cannot grasp. During the long night of the Erocene era man caught a glimpse of the Giraluna rising mysteriously in its barren landscape. Presolar man imagined himself the child of the Moon. In her lap he had known the comfort of the life, silent torpor of the night, and by her light he had seen silver pearls lie weightlessly upon the coronas of the first great flowers. But he left us only a few enigmatic signs of all this: the Feisenburg cave, the petrified bones in the Ahmenstadt tumulus, the Boergen Cup. Paradoxically enough, all that we do in fact know of his presence in that landscape comes to us from our study of his nocturnal vegetation, Around the middle of the Erocene era, when the flowers of night were fading away in the light of a new dawn, man saw that outlines and colors were slowly hardening. Thus he discovered the stone-hard world of day, and learned to be the child of both Sun and Moon, of Amnes and Ra, of Disarm and Karak, of Nemsa and Taor. The "crawling stones" of Yorkshire, the stele of Tapur, the graffiti of Klagenstadt, these have preserved for us the nearly obliterated images of the two divinities who from the center of their temples drew the design of the universe. But the Sun was not long in attaining absolute power over everything in the world. "O Ra, o Amno Ra our benefactor, glowing and flaming! Gods and men bow down before you, for you are their creator and their only Lord." Such was the prayer of Amresh, High Priest of Egypt. And a new vegetation, outspoken and exuberant, appeared on the earth, and made the bright leaves dance in the morning breeze. Night soon became no more than a dark corridor joining one day to another, a place of visions and memories, a storehouse of words and images. It became a secret refuge where the vanished flowers could once more flaunt their coronas to the Moon. And thousands of years later the black flowers of that distant night-Giraluna, Lunaspora, Solea argentea-were born from seeds hidden deep in a soil rich with legends and stories. If our knowledge of the Giraluna is today reasonably complete and detailed this is due to the industry and scholarship of Professor Johannes Hydendorp of the University of Honingen, who has collected and collated all known facts and kept his records abreast of the latest developments. Our historical and geographical information comes from the most varied sources: legends and folk tales handed down from generation to generation, accounts given by explorers, anthropologists, and paleontologists, and of course the more recent testimony of botanists such as Heinz Hornemann and Pierre Maessens. Source: Sivatherium. narod .edu About Sculpture: Leo Lionni is best known today for his children's books: Little Blue and Little Yellow; Frederick—the one about the mouse who gathers poems while his family is harvesting seeds for the winter—Swimmy the Fish. Of course the children don't remember his name, but to parents and grandparents, the ones who actually do the reading, he is something of a celebrity. Most people don't realize that Lionni is also one of the 20th-century's most influential graphic designers. Within that field, he is a legend. In fact, he didn't start doing children's books until he had left the world of advertising, teaching, and design to allow more time for contemplation and for art. Little Blue and Little Yellow (1959) began as an improvised entertainment for bored grandchildren. What can you do with a few scraps of colored paper and a lot of imagination ? Make the first best-selling children's book illustrated with abstract art. Before that his work as design director for Olivetti Corporation of America and the art director of Fortune magazine, the co-founder of the Aspen...

Impressive solid rosewood sculpture, organic form, with rich original patina. The freestanding oblong shape flows visually, with a sinuous top to bottom curve, and a hole that adds ...

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...

Signed triple ribbon sculpture by Dan Murphy, circa 1987. Gleaming interlocking swirls of anodized silver and gold tone aluminum are woven together atop a solid Lucite base. Some cra...