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Style: Modern
Period: 1940s
Willy Gordon, Terracotta Japanese Girl Akito Head Sculpture, France, 1940s
Located in Firenze, IT
Terracotta japanese girl Akito head sculpture Willy Gordon (1918 - 2023), France 1940s Juvenile work. Signed on the base. Measures: H 35 cm x 20 x 19 cm Conditions: excel...
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French Modern Vintage 1940s Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta, Wood

Vintage Garden Fountain Of Boy, Koi fish and Goose
Located in Pasadena, CA
Vintage Garden Fountain Of Boy, Koi fish and Goose 46h x 16 w This creative sculpture shows a goose trying to steal the fish of the young man. The seemingly needs/ greedy goose wants...
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American Modern Vintage 1940s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Neoclassical-Style Patinated Bronze Figure
Located in Pasadena, CA
Neoclassical-Style Patinated Bronze Figure of a woman laying sideways. Bottom portion of body is covered as top of body is exposed. Measures approx -20h x 37w x 11d
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Italian Modern Vintage 1940s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Apel.Les Fenosa, "Violoniste", Epreuve Originale en Bronze Numéroté, 1946
By Fenouil Hennon
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Apel Les Fenosa (1899-1988, Espagne/ Spain) : "Violoniste" (1946) Epreuve originale en bronze numérotée sur 4 / Original bronze numbered on 4 editions Epreuve en bronze à pati...
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French Modern Vintage 1940s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

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...
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American Modern Vintage 1940s Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

French Bronze Art Buckle Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
Belonged to the series "Rulked by Angels" created by Parisian art Jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997) circa 1945-1950, this lovely and uncommon cast bronze belt buckle is called "Le Choeur de Anges...
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French Modern Vintage 1940s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Bronze Necklace Pendant Saint Laurent Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A cast bronze pendant titled Saint Laurent by French art jewelry designer Line Vautrin (1913-1997). Gilt bronze, circa late 1940s. It depicts the ...
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French Modern Vintage 1940s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Chaim Gross, Ballerina on Unicycle, Hand-Carved Wood Sculpture, circa 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Signed CH.GROSS on the plinth with the artist's "fox stamp" below, and on the bottom of the base, as well. A beautifully carved modernist wood sculpture by well known and highly collectible New York artist, Chaim Gross (1904-1991). It is one of ten small versions of a 29" sculpture in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The sculpture is made of Lignum Vitae wood. The meaning of LIGNUM VITAE is the very hard heavy wood of any of several tropical American guaiacums. Guaiacum is of the caltrop family of tropical American evergreen trees and shrubs. Sometimes called guayacan or guaiacum, it is also known in parts of Europe as Pockholz or Pokhout. Due to its extreme hardness, the wood of such a tree is often used for making pulley blocks, mallet heads, bearings, etc. Provenance: Schrick private collection, Connecticut, USA. Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) was an Austrian born American sculptor. He was born in the then Austro-Hungarian village...
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American Modern Vintage 1940s Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

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Mid-19th Century French Bronze Entitled "Deux Chiens en Arret" by A L Barye
Located in London, GB
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American Cast Bronze Garden Fountain with Figural Boy Holding Koi Fish. C. 1870
Located in Hollywood, SC
American cast bronze garden fountain with standing figural boy holding Koi fish on a two-tiered shell form scrolled base with turtle at his feet, Late 19th century.
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Located in Tarquinia, IT
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Located in London, GB
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Line Vautrin, Mirror "Soleil à pointes n°4", circa 1955
Located in Paris, FR
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Bronze Mini Koi Fish Sculpture, Large by Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
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Japanese Asian Showa Period Bronze Koi Carp Fish Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
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Italian 70s Sculptural Art Brutalist Bronze Chess Set
Located in Halle, DE
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Modernist Carved Stone Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A modernist carved stone sculpture, originating in England, circa 1940.
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Modernist Carved Stone Sculpture
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H 39 in W 13 in D 11 in
Piero Fornasetti Black Cast Iron and Brass "Shoe Form" Doorstop, 1940s
Located in Bainbridge, NY
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Located in Brooklyn, NY
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