Leda and the Swan Bronze Figurine by Danish Kai Nielsen made at L. Rasmussen

Original figurine designed by Danish artist and sculptor Just Andersen (1884-1943) featuring a naked boy sitting on a marble plate. This particular figurine was first launched in 194...

Huge stoneware figurine/sculpture of a young lively horse no. 535 designed by Gertrud Kudielka (1896-1984) and manufactured by L. Hjorth ceramic workshop on the island Bornholm, Denm...

Original figurine designed by Danish artist and sculptor Just Andersen (1884-1943) featuring a young boy on a large fish, surrounded by smaller fish and sea weed. It's made in Denmar...

Figurine of a standing just born calf designed by Gudrun Lauesen. Manufactured by Danish artist and sculptor Just Andersens (1884-1943) metal workshop. It's made in Denmark in the 19...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Leda and the Swan” is by Reuben Nakian (1897 - 1986). He was an American sculptor and teacher of Armenian extraction. His works’ recurring themes are from Greek and Roman mythology. Nakian’s small bronzes achieve majesty and power which are not dependent on size and amplitude. With characteristic freshness, he has reinterpreted the classical subject of Leda and the Swan refining it in the Classical-Renaissance-Baroque tradition in a contemporary way. Dr. Robert P. Metzger gives us his aesthetic interpretation of this work which retells the myth in classical hedonism and freedom of expression showing Leda and the Swann prior to her being ravaged and during their first meeting. “The young virgin is fascinated with her new found friend and accepts him in a spirit of playfulness, contentment and wonder. She is dreamily available and shyly seductive as the deceptively tame swan snuggles up to her with its phallic-like neck.” Leda appears composed, placid yet open and available as compared to her more intense and passionate states in other of Nakian’s depictions on the same theme. This was cast at the "Renaissance Art Foundry" in 1978 and is so marked on the base being #5 of 7. It is believed that “no other sculptor of the twentieth century matched Rueben’s heroic renditions with the grand themes of Western Art. His erotic mythological figures exude a joyous energy of gesture and movement which place them among seminal sculptural achievements of the past one hundred years.” Nakian studied at the Independent School of Art in New York City previously known as the Robert Henri School … with Homer Boss...

Bacchus and a boy with grapes by Kai Nielsen (1882–1924). From Bing and Gröndahl. Signed on the base. Boy: Number 21. (1912) 11 x 10 cm. And A 51. (t27...

B&G, Kai Nielsen, 1882-1924. Figurine in the form of a lying woman with a bunch of grapes, from the series 'Grape Harvesting.' Signed Kai Nielsen, 1919. Model number 4...

Leda and the Swan Bronze sculpture by Ferd Otratovsky. Signed and dated "FERD. OTRADOVSKY 1926" within the cast on the base. Black patinated bronze, mounte...