Art Deco Sculpture after Pugi

Green patina bronze proof of a cupid stringing his bow, after a marble original presented at the 1814 Salon by Charles Gabriel Sauvage dit Lemire (1741-1827). Love is shown seated an...

Important pair of decorative sculptures in white biscuit , featuring two women draped in the Antique style, accompanied by winged putti. One, holding a large sunflower, raises her ar...

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 ...

Bronze sculpture with a brown patina shaded in green signed Pigalle on the base, representing a child surprised by a crayfish's pinching. Tears are running down the cheeks of the naked child, sitting on a large shell, as he has just been pinched by a crayfish. The sculpture rests on a green marble base. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle is a great French sculptor born in Paris in 1714. At a very young age, he studied sculpture and became aware that his art was the meaning of his life. He moved to Italy in 1734 to perfect his technique. Then, he joined the Beaux-Arts, thanks to his work "Mercury attaching his heel" (1740) which had an immediate success. Several artists have a copy, painters represent it on their canvases, and a biscuit reduction is made by the manufacture of Sevres in 1770. Very quickly the orders multiplied and Mme de Pompadour took him under her wing. Juggling between baroque and classical styles, he made portraits of Diderot and Voltaire and then realized the famous funeral monuments...

Late 19th Century Italian Arabesque Style Carrara Marble Sculpture Signed Pugi. Offered is a beautifully executed late 19th century carved Carrara marble seated Arab male on a thick ...

Important 19th century sculpture carved on white Carrara marble. The female figure is dressed in a stunning Art Nouveau costume and rests on a pyramidal-shaped pedestal. Magnificent ...

Marble and broze Artemisa sculture, signed Pugi, Italy, circa 1870. Statuary, Breccia and Siena marble and bronze. By Guglielmo Pugi (1850-1915) With breccia marble pedestal. Scul...

A fine Carrara marble bust on a pedestal showing a woman wearing a toga tied with a fibula on the right shoulder in the manner of antique busts. The woman's facial features are the s...