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Figurative Sculptures For Sale
Period: 1920s
Period: 1890s
Jacobus Nicolaus Sandig, Icarus Falling, Dutch Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, 1925
By Jacobus Nicolaus Sandig
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT ARTIST
Regretfully, there is only a limited amount of biographical information available on the author of this wonderful sculpture - Jacobus Nicolaus Sandig (Dutch, 1876 - 193...
Category
1920s Dutch Romantic Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Goldscheider Art Deco Figure Standing Dancer with Headdress by Wilhelm Thomasch
Located in Vienna, AT
Rare Art Deco Goldscheider ceramics figurine
The dancer wears a blue-green dance dress cut low in front and at the back with a wide, short skirt...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Edgardo Simone, Accordion Player, Art Deco Silvered Plaster Sculpture, ca. 1925
Located in New York, NY
Edgardo Simone, (Italian/American, 1890-1948)
Classically trained in Italy at the Beaux Arts Academy in Rome from 1906 to 1913, Edgardo Simone became a famous sculptor in Italy and the United States using mediums of terracotta, ceramic, bronze, and plaster. He earned a Doctorate of Design and Sculpture at the Academy and then emigrated to the United States where he worked in New York, Chicago and southern California. His style was influenced by Art Nouveau, Art Deco and other modernist influences.
In Italy, he had received three times the Croix de Guerre and was decorated by King Victor Emmanuel II and Queen Margherita. Before moving to America, he had much recognition in Italy. He had created war and city monuments, and tombstones in twenty-six Italian cities. When he arrived in New York City, one of the newspapers carried a headline: "Italy's greatest Sculptor Arrives in New York."
In New York, Simone became prominent in society and did many portrait busts including such of Thomas Edison, John J. Pershing, Henry Ford and Louis Brandeis. Sally Rand, the famous fan dancer of Chicago's World's Fair in 1933-1934, sat as a model in his studio as did President Franklin Roosevelt and author Theodore...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Bronze sculpture "La Renommée", Signed Julien Causse
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture depicting "La Renommée" in bronze with brown patina by Julien Causse. This young woman draped, bare shoulders, blows in a reed-shaped horn. She seems to be rising from a ro...
Category
1890s French Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Henri Louis Bouchard, The Victory of Bogota, Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, ca. 1925
By Henri Louis Bouchard
Located in New York, NY
About ‘VICTORY OF BOGOTA
Henri Louis Bouchard was an important French Romantic sculptor, known for works commemorating heroic moments in the hist...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Car Mascot in the from of a Lady Golfer, Jose Dunach
By José Dunach
Located in Bath, GB
A fabulous gilded bronze car mascot modelled as a lady golfer and mounted on a marble base.
Signed on the base J Dunach; Jose Dunach (1886-1957) was bor...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Goldscheider Vienna 'Owlglass' Jester with Owl by Josef Lorenzl, c. 1925-30
Located in Vienna, AT
Exceptional Art Déco Goldscheider Figurine by Josef Lorenzl
The young man dressed as a jester with a fool's cap sits on a green base. An owl sits on his left outstretched hand. With the right index finger raised, the fool seems to regulate the bird. Referring to his name, 'Eulenspiegel', which literally translated means: 'owl mirror...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of 19th Century Bronzed Statues of a Dutch Lovers
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of late 19th century bronzed Spelter figures of young Dutch lovers, set of marbled bases. Measures: 13.5" (35cm) high.
Category
1890s French Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Spelter
Pair of Highly Detailed Cast Antique Military Figures with Gilt Accents
Located in Dallas, TX
This impressive pair of highly detailed antique military figures were cast in France, circa 1890. Both soldiers stand in a classical pose known as con...
Category
1890s French Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Spelter
"Swordsman and Running Panther, " High Style Art Deco Lamp Base, Copper & Silver
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An extraordinary example of French dinanderie, or mixed metal artisanry, this Art Deco copper and silver lamp base depicts a bounding swordsman and ru...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Copper
African Vintage Wood Statue of Couple from Celebrity William Holden Estate
Located in Palm Springs, CA
This statue was part of a collection that belonged to the late actor William Holden. He purchased all this African art for his beautiful estate in Palm Springs California. This piece...
Category
1920s Malian Primitive Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Goldscheider Vienna Art Deco Figur 'Pyjamas' by Stephan Dakon, circa 1930
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Art Deco goldscheider ceramics figurine
The young lady with a brunette page-boy head, shown is the German actress Emmy Sturm (1900-1977), is wearing turquoise silk pajamas...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Nude Bronze Sculpture by Affortunato Gory
Located in Oakland, CA
An early Art Deco bronze nude sculpture of a Dancer by Affortunato Gory. This is one of the most spectacular pieces we have been able to offer. The darkly gilded patina is smooth and flawless, highlighting all the delicate features of the subject. Note her lovely face, perfectly rendered hands, and feet (the details many sculptors do not execute so deftly). Her elaborate headdress has great texture, and the alabaster ball...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Sculpture Seated Nude with Flowers by Real Del Sarte, 1920
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco bronze sculpture seated nude with flowers by Maxime Real del Sarte, France 1888-1954. Ca. 1920
Information about the artist:
Bronzes, sculptors and founders by H. Berman, Abage.
The dictionary of sculptors in bronze by James Mackay...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1920s Steelcraft "inter-city-bus" Antique Pressed Steel Truck
By Steelcraft Murray and Merritt Alcoaster Aluminum
Located in Buffalo, NY
1920s Steelcraft "inter-city-bus" antique pressed steel truck, wonderful original condition, color surface, patina.
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Goldscheider Figurine Pierrette With Balloon Skirt by Josef Lorenzl, ca 1925
Located in Vienna, AT
Very Rare Goldscheider Vienna Figurine of the 1920s:
Standing pierrette leaned forward and holding her hands together behind her back, in a white costume with a multi-layered, pine-cone-like balloon...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Emile Picault Bronze Female Statue with Eagle Sculpture
Located in Toledo, OH
Beautiful bronze sculpture by Emile Picault. This statuary is of a woman holding a torch sitting on a rock with stars. An eagle with outstretched wings s...
Category
1890s Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Seated Male Nudes, " Pair of Bookends with Figures in Michelangelo-Esque Poses
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare and very fine, this set of bronze-toned bookends feature a nude male figure in repose, his arms resting on one knee, in a Renaissance setting topped with an arched cornice and p...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Art Deco Figure, Harlequin with Flute by Josef Kostial, Goldscheider Vienna
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Art Deco Goldscheider ceramic figure of the 1920s.
Depiction of Till Eulenspiegel in a uniform costume with brown ribbons, framed by a black zigzag pattern, with matching shoes, a large ruff and a brown fool's cap, leaning on a pedestal covered with a colored cloth and playing a flute.
On a black oval base with the artist's signature 'Kostial' on the back of the pedestal.
Originally from Germany, Till Eulenspiegel allegedly lived as a wandering rogue in the 14th century, born around 1300 in Kneitlingen near Brunswick. He traveled around the Holy Roman Empire and other parts of Europe, as a country traveler he became the protagonist of a Middle Low German collection of swans, which was first published by a Strasbourg publisher without naming an author long after his death around 1510. In later illustrations, the fool's cap became his most important attribute and distinguishing mark, often with 'Donkey ears' and / or bells occupied.
'Eulenspiegel' made his main entrance in English- speaking culture late in the 19th century as 'Owlglass', but was first mentioned in English literature by Ben Jonson in his comedic play The Alchemist.
Designed by Josef KOSTIAL...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Shy Naked Women Bronze, Paperweight, Car Mascot, Hood Ornament
By Luigi Betti
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Lovely Art Deco shy naked women made of bronze and mounted over a green marble base. It is signed L. Betti and foundry Etling Paris. Perfect piece of Autom...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th C Bronze Statue of a Young Henry IV After Baron Francois Joseph Bosio
By Baron François Joseph Bosio
Located in Savannah, GA
This late 19th century French patenated bronze figure was copied from the original made in 1822 by Baron Francois Joseph Bosio (French, 1768-1845), which is now in Paris at the Louvr...
Category
1890s French Renaissance Revival Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Porcelain Figure, Seated Oriental Woman with Mirror, R. Förster, Rosenthal, 1923
By Rosenthal
Located in Vienna, AT
Rare Art Deco porcelain figurine of the 1920s.
Young oriental woman sitting on a rock with her leg up, looking at herself in a hand mirror and adjusting her headgear. Sparing painti...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Franz Xaver Bergmann, Odalisque, Vienna Bronze Sculpture, Ca. 1900
Located in New York, NY
This wonderful life-like sculpture depicts a half-naked odalisque reclining in a lazy pose on silk pillows on an ottoman, covered with a lion's skin. With bare breasts, only a small ...
Category
1890s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sculpture "Appel Au Passeur" by J. Le Guluche Editor, "A. Hanne" Signed
Located in Verviers, BE
Sculpture "Appel au Passeur" by J. Le Guluche editor, "A. Hanne" signed
Le Guluche, 1849-1915
Appel au Passeur
Editor A.Hanne no 395
Joseph Le Guluche, (1849-1915)
Appel au Passeur...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Bronze Sculpture by Luis Domenech Vicente
By Luis Domenech y Vicente 1
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Fine Bronze Sculpture by Luis Domenech y Vicente, c.1904 After the Model He Exhibited at the Salon Des Beaux Arts in Paris That Year
Luis Domenech y Vicente, Le Messager de Paix, ...
Category
1890s Spanish Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rene Lalique Glass 'Tete De Paon' Peacock Car Mascot
By René Lalique
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Rene Lalique clear & frosted glass 'Tete De Paon' car mascot. This model features the head of a peacock. The bird is mounted onto a rectangular, black glass base. Moulded maker's mar...
Category
1920s European Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Franz Xaver Bergmann, Koran Reader, Vienna Bronze Sculptural Paperweight, Ca. 19
Located in New York, NY
Marked on the base bottom with initial "B" in an urn-shaped cartouche (for “Bergmann”).
Dimensions:
Height: 3.63 inches (9.07cm)
Length: 4.75 inches (11.87cm)
Width: 2.63 inc...
Category
1890s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Antique Hubbell Carved Oak Figural Dolphins Library Column Floor Lamp
By Hubbell
Located in Dayton, OH
A rare and one of a kind antique figural carved oak floor lamp, circa 1920s. Meticulously carved with amazing detail throughout. Features a swiss guard with torchiere staff atop a sq...
Category
1920s Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Oak
19th Century French Bronze Figure of "Victorious Archer" After Eugene Marioton
Located in Dublin, IE
After Eugene Marioton (1854-1933), a patinated bronze model of a youth called 'Victorious Archer', the partially draped figure portrayed standing and with an arrow-filled quiver over...
Category
1890s French Belle Époque Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Sculpture Nude with Drape F. Trinque, France, 1920
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco bronze sculpture of a nude in split pose with arm outstretched holding a scarf behind her on a marble base. Beautiful multi-color patina. Signed in the bronze F. Trinque, ci...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Italian Hand Painted Plaster Mannequin Head, 1920s
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Italian unique hand painted plaster mannequin head 1920s.
Category
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
1930s Art Deco French Craquelè Sculpture
Located in Milan, IT
1930s Art Deco French Craquelè sculpture.
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Dance and Music, " Gilded Bronze Door Pulls with Nude Female Figures, France
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Fabulous and rare, this pair of gilded bronze door pulls depict two joyous nude female figures, one a dancer and the other playing the tambourine. Although the sculptor is not known,...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Angel Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Bronze sculpture of angels.
Category
1920s Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Discus Thrower, " Large, Extremely Rare Bronze with Nude Male Athlete, McKenzie
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sculpted by America’s foremost artist with a focus on the form and performance of male athletes, this masterpiece of 20th century sculpture -- especially large and rare -- depicts a nude discus thrower as he is about to hurl the disc forward. Robert Tait McKenzie...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Classic Bronze Lion Statue by Josue Dupon Belgian Sculptor Art Deco
By Josue Dupon
Located in Oakland, CA
Classic decorative bronze by Josue Dupon. Classically trained, his work can be found throughout Belgium. Antwerp Zoo and other major installations. This unique work is from the period of 1896, Dupon was a contemporary of Carlos Bugatti who also was known for this style: realism and interpretations of the modern wild animals. Beautiful signature, stunning rendering and amazing quality. The posture of the male lion is very realistic, extremely life-like casting. This is where you see the connection from the Art Nouveau period and how it later became a very common direction also associated with the Art Deco period.
Josuë Dupon (also Josué or Josue Dupon) was a Flemish sculptor and engraver. He received his education through the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts (1887). After his studies he first worked in the studio of sculptor Clément Carbon in Roeselare. He was good friends with sculptor Jules Lagae. In 1891 he won a gold medal with the monumental sculpture group Samson killing the lion and he became second in the Romeprijs for sculpture. From 1905-1934 he was a teacher of sculpture at the Antwerp Academy.
Dupon was best known as a sculptor of realistic images of exotic animals. The placement of his Camemberter and two bronze groups at the entrance of the Antwerp Zoo confirmed that reputation. He also made busts, war memorials (Ichtegem, Berchem, Hoogstraten, Roeselare) and public monuments, such as the equestrian statue of Constant Lievens in Moorslede (unveiled in 1929). The statue Man...
Category
1890s Belgian Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Sculpture by Joé Descomps, French, circa 1925
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An Art Deco bronze sculpture by Joé Descomps of a nude female wearing a loose green patinated cloak and matching colored head scarf. Signed 'Joé Descomps' to bronze. Set over a varie...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Zsolnay Decorative Ceramic Figurative Dishes with Eosin Glaze
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Pair of Hungarian Zsolnay hand painted decorative ceramic figurative sculpture dishes with Eosin glaze. Woman scooping water with a vase or urn is ci...
Category
1920s Hungarian Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Academic Cast Depicting Furietti Centaur Head, Italy 1890
Located in Milan, IT
Over the wooden black painted base and a column of red marble from Verona is set the lava and chalk cast of the young head of Furietti Centaur. The o...
Category
1890s Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Austrian Majolica Black Musician with Horn, circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
Austrian Majolica black musician with horn, circa 1890.
Category
1890s Austrian Late Victorian Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bronze Sculpture, "Diana's Nymph" After Lucie Signoret-Ledieu
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful statue in patinated bronze representing Diana, godess of the hunt, also called Nymph of Diana, after the work of Lucie Signoret-Ledieu. It represents the goddess seated on ...
Category
1890s French Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Supplication, " Art Deco Sculpture from Archipenko's Ceramic School, Woodstock
By Lu Duble
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the rarest and most important sculptures eminating from the ARKO ceramic school established by Alexander Archipenko in Woodstock, New York, this stylized group of praying figu...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Bronze Figure Entitled 'Riding Crop' by Bruno Zach
By Bruno Zach
Located in London, GB
An erotically charged early 20th century Art Deco cold painted bronze figure of a seductively dressed young lady holding a riding crop behind her back standing in a domineering pose and wearing a revealing basque with gartered stockings, raised on an oval shaped Brazilian green onyx plinth, signed Zach.
Bruno Zach (German, 1891–1935) - Bruno Zach was a prolific creator of tall, athletic, independent women in bronze...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Franz Xavier Bergmann, Praying Man, Vienna Bronze Desk Sculpture, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
This gorgeous desk-size Vienna bronze figurine made by famous Viennese Bergmann Foundry in 1890-1900, depicts an Arab praying man dressed in oriental garments. Kneeling on a carpet, the man raises his arms. His shoes and walking stick are put aside on the edge of the carpet. Stunningly life-like, this outstanding little figurine...
Category
1890s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Alabaster Woman Bust Signed F. Vichi with Marble Base, Firenze, circa 1890
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Alabaster woman bust signed F. Vichi with marble base. Firenze, circa 1890.
Siena marble base.
Category
1890s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Siena Marble
Goldscheider Vienna Figurine Veil Dance Model 5570 by Stephan Dakon, circa 1926
By Stefan Dakon
Located in Vienna, AT
Rarest Goldscheider Vienna figurine Veil Dance Model 5570 by Stephan Dakon circa 1926, 14.17 inches
Designed by Stephan DAKON (1904-1992) / one of most important designers having been active for Goldscheider manufactory in period of 1920-1940 / design of this model circa 1926.
Manufactured circa 1926
Model number 5570 / 45 / 8
Marks:
Goldscheider Wien (= Vienna) stamp mark existing.
Made in Austria / Hand-decorated
Painter's sign D1 III
M - additional mark after 1925
Signature of modeller 'Dakon' on the back of the base
Subject:
'VEIL DANCE' lady in elegant dance pose
The lady dancer is holding a long piece of cloth, the veil, on both ends with nearly outstretched arms. The fabric forms a long loop that is reaching down to the floor. She tilts her upper body slightly to the left and with her head in laid back position she is looking down with nearly closed eyes. The dancer is clad in a one-piece suit...
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1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Grand Tour Style Allegorical Bronze of Thalia, Greek Goddess of Comedy & Poetry
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely cast & patinated bronze figure of Thalia, one of the nine Greek Muses and known as The Goddess of Comedy & Idyllic Poetry, shown standing draped in classical attire holding a comedic mask by her side in one hand and a poem in the other, raised overall upon a stepped red marble plinth...
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1890s French Grand Tour Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"The Mourning of Orpheus, " Rare Gilded Bronze by Strindberg w/ Nude Male & Lyre
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully sculpted by Tore Strindberg, one of Sweden's leading sculptors in the early 20th century, and sensitively cast and gilded by the Otto Meyers fou...
Category
1920s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Art Nouveau Bronze Figural Campfire Lamp Georges Van Der Straeten
Located in Dayton, OH
"Antique 1920s art nouveau Georges Van Der Straeten bronze budoir lamp sculpture in the shape of a young woman warming herself at a camp fire, with inkwell or keepsake compartment.
Georges Van der Straeten was a Belle Epoque sculptor born in Ghent, Belgium, on December 21, 1856. He studied under the Neo-Baroque sculptor Jef Lambeaux (1852-1908).
In 1883, at the twenty-seven years old, Van der Straeten moved to Paris. While living in Paris he befriended Jean Marie Constantin...
Category
1920s Belle Époque Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Art Deco Terracotta Seated Nude with Fawn, Signed Ary Bitter
By Ary Bitter
Located in New York City, NY
A fine signed original French Art Deco terracotta sculpture of a naked young woman seated on a rectangular shaped self plinth. The bare chested ...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Large Chinese Agate Figure of Kuan Yin, circa 1890
Located in New York, NY
Large Chinese Agate figure of Kuan Yin, circa 1890.
Category
1890s Chinese Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Agate
Large French Art Deco Mannequin Display of 1930s Chic Woman
Located in New York, NY
A very large and stunning hand painted French Art Deco necklace and/or camisole display mannequin bust of a chic woman. Her expression is not ...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
"Etoile de Matin" French Figural Bronze by Etienne Gaudez, 1845-1902
Located in Montreal, QC
This is a period casting of a young woman, in windswept gown and with arm uplifted while standing on a celestial globe cast with the zodiac. In the Art Nouveau taste, she is allegori...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sculpture of Plaster, signed Gallé and dated -93 (1893)
Located in Stockholm, SE
A plaster sculpture by André Vauthier-Galle (1818–1899). A seated male figure with his hands behind his back. Executed in a very realistic way. The sculpture very much reminds of Auguste Rodins "The Thinker" in its pose.
The sculpture has a great patina.
The sculpture comes from the workshop of the Swedish painter and sculptor Jonas Åkesson...
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1890s French Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Pair of Cold Painted Vienna Bronze Kewpies, circa 1920s
Located in Petaluma, CA
A very rare and whimsical pair of cold painted Vienna bronze Kewpies. We have sold many Vienna bronzes in our over 40 years of dealing in them, but we must say, these are very unusua...
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1920s Austrian Other Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Art Nouveau Lady Sculpture Original Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Art Nouveau standing lady chained to the globe with a sword. Gold medal winner. Signed on the base by the Artist (August Paris) Missing part in her right hand. Large sculpture at 33"...
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century Marble and Bronze Cassolettes
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of 19th Century Marble & Bronze Cassolettes make an excellent choice for providing beauty, elegance and symmetry to any room! Such decorative items were created for the affluen...
Category
1890s French Belle Époque Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Statue of Lovers in Spelter on Faux Marble
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century statue of lovers in spelter on faux marble depicts two young lovers in classical raiment enjoying their vitality and company. This idyllic notion rose to incredible popularity during the Belle Epoque, culminating in a variety of sculptors depicting such scenarios in bronze. Then copies would be made of the original bronzes which were cast in spelter and given a hand-applied finish to mimic the look of bronze. Note the detail in the garments, the bough of flowers, even the love birds on the ground at their feet! The Classic poses were derived from the French fascination with ancient Greek and Roman statuary...
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1890s French Belle Époque Antique Figurative Sculptures
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Spelter
Antique, New and Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Figurative sculpture is a modern art form in which artists create work that is typically representative of the visible world. However, sculptures that are considered to be figurative in style can definitely be inclusive of abstract elements. A wide range of antique, new and vintage figurative sculptures has been made over the years by both well-known and emerging artists, and these pieces can prove striking and provocative as part of your home decor.
Realistic representation in visual art has a very long history. And while figurative artists, whether figurative painters or sculptors, find inspiration in humans, animals and real-life objects, good figurative sculptures can make us think differently about how the real world should look. Just as figurative paintings might include Photorealistic human likenesses, they can also include elements of Surrealism and can suggest a creative and alternative reality. Figurative sculptures aren’t always realistic impressions of our world — depictions of the human form in classical Greek sculpture, for example, might emphasize beauty and physical perfection.
There are a variety of figurative sculptures on 1stDibs created by artists working in a number of styles, including Art Deco, Art Nouveau, mid-century modern and more. A large figurative sculpture can introduce an excellent focal point in a guest bedroom, while smaller works might draw the eye to spaces such as wall shelving or a bookcase that people may otherwise overlook.
When decorating your living room, dining room, home office and study areas with figurative sculptures, don’t be afraid to choose bold colors to inject brightness into neutral spaces. Texture is another factor to consider when purchasing figurative sculptures. A highly textural work of ceramics or wood will catch the eye in a sleek modern space, whereas a smooth, flat glass sculpture can offer an often much-needed contrast in a room that already has many textures.
On 1stDibs, find antique, new or vintage figurative sculpture or other kinds of sculpture for your home decor today.
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