Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 9

American Art Deco Carved Ebonized Wood Head Bust of a Young Boy, ca. 1940s

About the Item

ABOUT SCULPTURE This wonderful sculptural and portrait work was certainly created by a master sculptor, although not signed by the author. The face of this typical all-American boy, as if familiar to everyone, is distinguished by a special emotional intensity, expressed in the seriousness of his gaze and in tightly compressed lips. This is what makes this sculpture a real portrait, reflecting the internal psychological state of the model. DIMENSIONS Height: 14.5 inches Width: 7 inches Depth: 9 inches
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Width: 7 in (17.78 cm)Depth: 9 in (22.86 cm)
  • Style:
    Art Deco (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1940s
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. We make our best effort to provide a fair and descriptive condition report. Please examine photos attentively, as they are part of the description. Send us a message to request more details or discuss price.
  • Seller Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2819335067062

More From This Seller

View All
Head of a Jazzman, Patinated Bronze Sculpture, American, ca. 1940s
Located in New York, NY
About sculpture This remarkable portrait bust is in all likelihood a privately commissioned sculpture from around 1940s. Despite the fact that the sculpture is not signed, it is cer...
Category

Vintage 1940s American Streamlined Moderne Busts

Materials

Bronze

Modernist Carved Ebonized Wood Female Bust, ca. 1950
Located in New York, NY
This remarkable modernist carved ebonized wood female bust, ca. 1950s with a proudly set head on an exaggeratedly elongated neck and hair flowing over the shoulders, immediately conj...
Category

Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Busts

Materials

Wood

American Modernism, a Pair of Nude Males, Hand-Carved Wood Sculpture, ca. 1940s
Located in New York, NY
About Sculpture This homoerotic ebonized hand-carved wood sculpture of a pair of nude males, the older one supporting the falling down body of the youth, was created by an anonymous...
Category

Vintage 1940s American Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Amedeo Gennarelli, Torso, Art Deco Carved Granite Sculpture, ca. 1940
Located in New York, NY
Amedeo Gennarelli Torso Carved Granite Art Deco Circa 1940 DIMENSIONS Height: 15.5 inches (39.37 cm) Width: 8 inches (20.32 cm) Depth: 6 inches (15.24 cm) ABOUT This expressive hand-carved and highly polished grey-and-pink granite sculpture is mounted on a square black stone base with the incised signature atop, ‘A. Gennarelli’. AMEDEO GENNARELLI (Italian/French, 1881–1943) a/k/a Jean Ortis was a French/Italian sculptor. He was born in 1881 in Naples, Italy, but immigrated to Paris in 1913 and worked there; exhibiting at numerous Salons of the Societe des Artistes Francais through the years to come. He is known for his work in the art deco style and for his depictions of the female nudes; working in bronze, stone, terra-cotta and wood. Amedeo Gennarelli died in Paris...
Category

Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Granite, Stone

American Art Deco Carved Slate Nude Kneeling Woman Sculpture, ca. 1920
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco Nude Kneeling Woman Carved Slate Sculpture ca. 1920 DETAILS Mounted on original marble base. Apparently unsigned. DIMENSIONS Hei...
Category

Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Slate

Head, French Modernist Hand-Carved Wood Sculpture, ca. 1950
Located in New York, NY
Unusual in its conciseness and modernistic vision of a rather familiar subject - the human head - this original elegant sculpture does not leave anyone indifferent and is imprinted i...
Category

Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

You May Also Like

An Art Nouveau Hand-Carved Wood Italian Bust of a Young Boy
Located in Catania, Sicilia
This Art Nouveau Italian bust embodies the movement's hallmark features and also incorporating elements influenced by Italian art and culture. Their historical and artistic value mak...
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Busts

Materials

Fruitwood

1940s Carved Wood Bust of African Man
By Helge Holmskov
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1940s Carved Wood Bust of African Man
Category

Vintage 1940s Danish Busts

Materials

Wood

American School Art Deco Bronze Sculpture “Hercules & The Hydra” ca. 1940s
Located in Shippensburg, PA
ART DECO United States, circa 1940s Hercules and the Lernean Hydra Patinated bronze unsigned designed as a fountain Item # 410TUG09E Stark, minimal and thoroughly modernist, th...
Category

20th Century American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Soccer player, Art Deco sculpture, ca. 1940s
Located in Nürnberg, Bayern
Very decorative
Category

Vintage 1940s Ukrainian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal

1940s Patinated Plaster Bust Greek Head
Located in Madrid, ES
An 1940s academy bust in plaster, patinated imitating terracotta, representing a head from the classical Greek world.
Category

Mid-20th Century Spanish Neoclassical Revival Busts

Materials

Plaster

Hand Carved Soapstone Tribal Bust 1940s
Located in CA, CA
A beautiful soapstone hand-carved head of an African tribe-woman circa 1940.
Category

Vintage 1940s Zimbabwean Tribal Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Soapstone

Recently Viewed

View All