Amazing 20th Century Gilt Bronze Sculpture of a Meditating King, Italy, 1940

There is a powerful and silent energy that emanates from this bronze sculpture by Alfred Barye, a work that captures the romantic spirit and wild elegance of nineteenth-century Orien...

Magnificent lamp with Tone base and top structure in painted aluminum and represented in the form of laurel leaves. Lamapada in good condition and insertable in any context. Attribut...

A patinated cast bronze statue of a classically draped Greek scholar sitting sideways on a Klismos chair with the trademark griphons as front leg supports, the subject holding a pen in his right hand and an open scroll on the other left signed "Moreau" inscribed on one side of the chair. There are no visible foundry marks. Presumably the signature stands for Mathurin Moreau, a 19 Century French sculptor born 1822, and son of noted sculptor Jean Baptiste Moreau. In 1841, the 19 year old Mathirin entered the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and, the following year, won the Second Grand Prix de Rome with his sculpture Diodemus removing the Palladium. Several of his works remain on public display in Paris, among them on the facade of the Gare du Nord...

Classical, Cast Bronze, Grand Tour, Statue of Seated Hermes, Italy, 20th C. Cast Bronze statue depicting "Seated Hermes," who is the Greek God of messengers. This sculpture is model...