Danish Busts

A small pewter vase designed and produced by Just Andersen, Denmark, c. 1930s.

Just Andersen - Scandinavian Art Deco A beautiful large jardinière / flower pot, early model, Dessin 164 in discometal, by Just Andersen. Disko metal is an alloy of different metals...

A disko metal vase designed and produced by Just Andersen, Denmark, 1930s.

A beautiful art deco bronze bowl designed by Just Andersen in 1920s and produced by his own company in Denmark. Good condition, some light scratches and wear to the patination. Stam...

A small pewter vase designed and produced by Just Andersen, Denmark, 1930s. Dimensions: 2” H x 1.875” diameter  Diameter of opening: .5”

A small pewter vase by Just Andersen, Denmark. Base marked "Just A Denmark" and model number.  

Danish Just Andersen art deco disco metal vase produced by Just Andersen A/S in the 1940's. The vase is in good vintage condition and marked with Just. Andersens triangle mark. Ju...

A beautiful art deco merman sculpture, designed by Just Andersen in 1930s and produced by his own company in Denmark. Made from Disko metal (an alloy of different metals invented by ...

This pair of antique sculptures are unsigned, but presumed to have originated from France and date to approximately 1850 and done in a period Renaissance Revival style. The sculpture...

An interesting Bust of the poet Dante, the bust has been made in plaster but then covered in a Bronze wrap. We have never come across a bust in this manor before.

A disko metal vase designed and produced by Just Andersen, Denmark, 1930s.

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...