1920s Figurative Sculptures

Very rare Goldscheider Vienna Figurine of the 1920s A standing dancer looking to the side with arms crossed and raised in front of her is shown. The young lady wears a Russian costume, decorated with elaborate blue embroidery, with a high fur cap and a highly tailored, fur-lined coat with wide sleeves, tight trousers and high, black heeled boots...

French Art Deco bronze tabletop sculpture of a snake charming nude woman mounted on a red veined marble base with incised Egyptian and Greek Revival elements. The piece is signed 'Pa...

Brutalist natural bronze tree midcentury 1950s wall sculpture measuring 48 inches high by 39 inches wide by 1.25 inches in depth. Lifelike tree form sculpture of tree...

Very nice terracotta girl by the well known Austrian artist Susi singer. Made by Gudrun Baudisch. (SS). Made in Austria.

Carrara marble and bronze sculpture. Art Deco period. France, circa 1920. Rosso Verona marble base.

Gilt bronze and marble sculpture signed Affortunato Gory. Louis XV style. France, circa 1920. Carrara and Breccia marble.

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...

Beautifully cast and finished with a lovely, lustrous patina, this bronze lidded box depicts all 12 of the Zodiac symbols -- four on the lid and two ...

French Art Deco patinated bronze sculpture, by E. Popineau, circa 1920, cymbals dancer. Signed. Also stamped by foundry, la Stele. 36.25" high. 17" wide at hands. Francois-Emile ...

Porzellanfabrik, Thuringen, Germany, circa 1920s, by Aelteste Volkstedter. To set a breathtaking table, first give each guest their own unique porcelain sculpture …. This dramatic co...

Interesting Vienna bronze figurine: Semi-nude lady holding a hoop It is a finest figurine. The bare-breasted lady stands on round flat bronze base which is attached to column made ...

Masterfully conceived and executed, this highly rare, perhaps unique, bronze sculpture captures a young male nude figure twisting to his right to pluck the strings of his lyre. Perhaps a reference to Orpheus who was able to charm all living creatures, the sculptor Earl Cummings...

Signed on the plinth “Lucile Swan” Valsuani Foundry stamp. Original black patina. Dimensions Height: 14.5 inches (36.25cm) Width: 5 inches (12.5cm) Depth: 2.5 inches (6.25cm) LUCILE SWAN (American, 1887-1965) was born in Sioux City, Iowa. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1908 to 1912. In December 1912 she married painter Jerome Blum...

Circa 1928, Austria, a wonderful example of Secessionist pottery from one of the undisputed masters. Depicting a male harlequin figure. Wiener Wer...

Being bronze dealers for over 40 years we are always on the lookout for horses, because they are beautiful, graceful animals, and people love them. We often get jockeys on horses, bu...

Rare sculpture ‘Nina på kuglen’ / ‘En lille Globetrotter’ designed by Kai Nielsen. Produced by Kähler in Denmark.

Marked cross swords.

Bronzed Statue Material: Ceramic bronze Source: Czech - Art Deco Period: 1920-1929.  

Very nice 1920s 1930s large metal industrial advertising sign in the form of a spoon in Rococo style. The Spoon is heavy and partly silver plate...

Signed “E. Seger”. Black patina. Dimensions Height: 8 inches (20cm) Width: 7.5 inches (18.75cm) Depth: 8.5 inches (21.25cm) THE BIBLE STORY Samuel 17:34-36 Originally, Saul would not allow David to fight Goliath (17:33). Saul’s reason was simply that Goliath would be stronger than David. David was young and he did not have the experience to fight such a capable enemy as Goliath. David was likely to die, and his death would benefit nobody. Often people wrongly imagine that they are acting in faith (in other words, that they are trusting God). Really, they are acting in a foolish manner, as if the danger is not real. They are not trusting in God, but in their own thoughts, hopes and desires. David’s reply to Saul shows us his attitudes. This reply explains clearly why David had offered to fight Goliath. In other words, it shows how David considered himself able to defeat Goliath. Like many boys and young men in Israel, David had worked as a shepherd. That is, he looked after sheep. He was responsible to look after those sheep in every way. In particular, he had to protect them from wild animals. Lions and bears are some of the fiercest large wild animals. They were common in Israel at the time of the Bible. They are much stronger than a man (see for example 1 Kings 13:24 and 2 Kings 2:24). Only the bravest and strongest men were able to kill a lion (Judges 14:5-6; 2 Samuel 23:20). However, David had killed both a lion and a bear. He had killed animals that were stronger than him. David did not believe that the strongest man would win the fight. David had a close relationship with God; he was trusting God to rescue him (17:37). David was not pretending that there was no danger. However, God’s Holy Spirit was active in David’s life (16:13). By the power of his Holy Spirit, God had given David the faith (trust in God) to fight Goliath. Because David really was trusting God, there was no reason for him to be afraid of Goliath. THE ARTIST Ernst Seger (1865 1939), born in Neurode (Nowa Ruda, now Poland), studied sculpturing from 1884 at the Kunstschule in Breslau under Robert Härtel. From 1886 he worked in the Atelier of Christian Behrens, where he created the Eichendorff-Memorial for the Silezian City of Neisse. From 1893 to 1894 Seger stayed in Paris where he worked in the atelier of Auguste Rodin. However, Seger finally chose a ‘Jugenstill’ and a more ‘naturalistic’ or ‘Neuklassizismus’ style. His sculptures, modelled like the Greek antiques, were later greatly admired by the National Socialists. At the end of 1894 Ernst Seger went back to Berlin, founded his own atelier and created the Kaiser Wilhelm I memorial for the Silesian City of Glatz. In 1897 Seger created the sculpture ‘Jugend’ (‘Youth’), which was displayed at the ‘Große Berliner Kunstausstellung’ in 1898, at the ‘Große Berliner Kunstausstellung’ in 1899, at the ‘Münchener Glaspalast Ausstellung’ in 1899 and at the ‘Münchener Glaspalast Ausstellung’ in 1908. As a sculptor Seger regarded this as his first relevant work, his breakthrough. A copy of the sculpture in bronze, 1.60 metres high, was placed in the ‘Scheitniger Park’ in Breslau (now Wroclaw). In 1898 Segers ‘Diana’, the Roman Goddess of the Hunt, the Moon and Childbirth, was unvealed in Park Szczytnicki, Breslau, Polen (earlier ‘Schneitniger Park’). Until 1945 the sculpture stayed in the Schneitniger Park, Breslau. This part of the park is still called ’Dianagarten’. After the turn of the century the elegant female dancers and nudes by Seger gained great popularity. In 1905 Ernst Seger created -together with the sculptor Bernhard Sehring- the ‘Bismarck Brunnen’ (‘Bismarck Fountain’) in Breslau. This memorial-fountain (which still exists) represents the allegories ‘Kampf’ and ‘Sieg’ (‘Battle and Victory’). Seger’s ‘Verwundete Amazone’ (‘Wounded Amazon’), displayed at the Grosse Münchner Kunstausstellung in the Glaspalast in 1908, was placed in the garden of the ‘Kaufhauses Wertheim’ in Berlin. In the same year he was appointed as a professor. Seger’s marble sculpture ‘Kypris’, created in 1916, was placed in the Alten Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In 1925 the City of Berlin acquired his sculpture ‘Anbetung’ and placed it at the Johannaplatz. ‘Storchenbrunnen’ (‘Stork-fountain’), was placed in 1931 at the Adolf-Scheidt-Platz in Berlin. In 1935 the American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst bought Seger’s sleeping ‘Ganymede’. During the Third Reich Ernst Seger was commissioned numerous Hitler busts...

A rare work by Oskar Lindenberg, a German sculptor who produced few pieces during his productive years, this beautiful nude male bronze captures its s...

Clearly influenced by the geometric forms and exaggerations of French Cubism, this rare and striking bronze presents an African mother nursing her child,...

Great terra-cotta / ceramic, work for the well known Austrian artist Kitty Rix. Signed impressed mark KR, WW, 2. 312. Plus original paper label. Shows restorations.

Whirling, spectacular circular marble centerpiece with a bronze sculpture of two dancing girls holding hands by the French artist Andre Gilbert, circa 19...

Adda Bonfils (1883-1943) for Ipsens Enke. Figure of girl with shovel in glazed ceramics. Model 889. 1920s / 30's. Measures: 11,5 x 9 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped.

This is an interesting patinated metal sculpture of a nude woman. Base reads "Somnambulist" (defined as "sleepwalker"). The woman appears to be sleepwalking as she wraps a garment or...

Beautiful 20th century Art Deco bronze man with a bow signed by G.Gori from the 1925. Very nice brown patina. Very elegant statue. Perfect condition.

Bronze figure of Eve offering the apple. With Gorham Co. Foundry.

Pair of bookends children girl boy reading book plaster, circa 1920 Gloriously lightly distressed A great bookends unusual from the 1920s Good vi...

Female Oriental Figurine Wearing Costume: Tall Odalisque Designed by Josef Lorenzl (1892-1950) / one of most important designers having been active for Goldscheider manufactory in...

A rare and fine French pâtes de verre cast glass figure of Pan by Victor Amalric Walter and believed to have been made in Nancy circa 1920. This charming...

Sculpture in colored plaster by Olof Ahlberg, Sweden 1929. Signed and dated.

Royal Copenhagen porcelain figurine. Faun pulling bear's ear. Model number 1804. 1920s. Measures: 19 x 13 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped. 2nd factory quality.

Axel Locher (1879-1941): Dancer, Art Deco bronze sculpture. Signed: Axel Locher. L. Rasmussen, Copenhagen. Measures: Height: 25.5 cm. In perfect condition.

A brilliant example of early French cubist sculpture, this depiction of an African drummer, her hands beating the two-sided drum and her head looking up as she sings or chants to the music, illustrates the fractured, reinvented reality that Picasso and Braque invented just ten or twenty years before. The abstracted breasts of the figure bring to mind the mature Cubism of Ossip Zadkine, Jean Souverbie...

Very rare Art Deco figurine of a lute playing pierrot In a wide bright robe with Art Deco decoration. Wearing hat and ruff and playing a lute. A white ca...

Well done, very sharp detailed cast bronze figure with inlay of silver metal on scroll, 1920s- 1930s. Beautiful golden patina on head and bottom from years of handling. 8.3 lbs.   

Antique Italian Terracotta bust of a Greco Roman. Handsome large antique Italian terracotta bust of an ancient Greco Roman. This stunning s...

The Wind is an original marble sculpture made by Anonymous artist and realized in the 1920s. A beautiful white marble sculpture representing a female portrait as the personificati...

Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet (1880-1950) "Girl with scarf" with molded signature R. Colinet and impressed with foundry mark patinated and gilt bronze. Measures: Height 7.62 in. (...

Bacchus and a boy with grapes by Kai Nielsen (1882–1924). From Bing and Gröndahl. Signed on the base. Boy: Number 21. (1912) 11 x 10 cm. And A 51. (t279) 13 x 13 cm. The figurines is...

LUCE Beautiful and very glamour pair of 1920 sculptures depicting Harlequin & Columbine, France, 1920 The bronze has a beautiful original silver and gold patina and the bone carving...

Stunning in design and execution, this large Art Deco compote is composed of a bronze base featuring a group of nude male caryatids supporting a gorge...

Jan and Joel Martel “L’Accordioniste” The Accordion Player. in cast stone sculpture with painted wood base France, circa 1925. One of the most imp...

"Blacksmith" A patinated terracotta sculpture Luminaire signed R. Aurili, France, circa 1920. Dimensions: Height 29", width 14 1/2", depth 14" NI243 R. Aurili was a 19th century sculptor who came from Naples and exhibited in the Salon de Paris...

Camel with Bedouin is an original decorative object produced in the 1920s by Goldscheider. Original ceramics. Very good conditions. Beautiful sculpture realized by the renow...

French bronze Art Deco nude with cymbals dancer with balanced on the toes of one foot. By Lucien Charles Edouard Alliot.  

Henri Collomb, French artist (1905-?), “Couple Dansant” (Dancing couple), walnut hand carved. The sculpture has a monogram and is dated 192... It ships from Germany. Henri Col...

Henri Collomb, French artist (1905-?), “Nu féminin allongé (Lying female nude), walnut hand carved. The sculpture has a signature. It ships from Germany....

Charles Vyse British Studio Art Pottery figure of cineraria boy, circa 1925.

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...

Modernist bronze female bust, circa 1920 Expressionistic and quaint bust, which sits atop an original wood base. This piece ships from Providence, Rhode Island.

Goldscheider Art Deco figure of nude woman in partially glazed red clay, 1920s-1930s. In very good condition. Measures: 35 x 11.5 cm. S...

Signed 'Raphael Schwartz' (on the base) and with foundry mark 'Cire C. Valsuani Perdue' (on the base).

We always are on the lookout for these great adult toys in bronze. This is indeed one of the best. This beautiful woman in a graceful pose has the added bonu...

Entirely charming and whimsical, this Classic -- and rare -- pair of bronze candlesticks depict male and female sprites, each standing on a gilded sphere and carrying an Amphora. The...

One of the most sophisticated and detailed depictions of Art Deco elegance and fashion we have ever offered, this 1929-era porcelain sculpture depicts a tall, beautiful woman, gorgeously attired, holding an ostrich fan...

Beautiful plaster sketch made in France in the 1920s, the sketch represents the hero in the defense of victory.