Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures

German Bronze Statue by Adolf Muller-Crefeld, 1900 Adolf Muller-Crefeld, German sculptor (1863-1934) studied at the Academy in Antwerp from 1879 to 1882 and settled in Berlin, in 19...

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...

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 ...

Large bronze sculpture entitled "Lovers" by Italian sculptor Luca Madrassi, circa 1940s. The sculpture stands on an 14" D round black marble slab, is in very good condition and maint...

A fine 20th century statue of a two-tone patina bronze woman dressed in Classic Victorian clothing, holding a pair of theatre binoculars. Signed by ...

Anton Chotka (Austrian, 1875-1925) Pair of dancig women gilt bronze bookends. The base is a bronze carpet with high details. Signed Chotka and stamped Aus...

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

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 ...

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...

Bronze sculpture "Maternity Woman" by Emil Filla, cubist sculptor.

"Friend In Need" is a Western theme bronze sculpture by Carl Kauba & highlights the artist's exceptional attention to detail. An Indian Chief, in full f...

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...

This pair of Art Deco bronze figural bookends are signed, but the artist could not be identified. It is presumed this pair of bookends was made in Austria in approximately 1920 in th...

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

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...

Indian Chief patinated bronze sculpture after Carl Kauba.

Tinos bronze, Denmark, 1930s.

Don Quixote on horse on marble base. Signed A. Hussman.

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 ...

Artist: Franz Xaver Bergmann Sculpture: Moorish Warrior Description: This wonderful life-like sculpture depicts a Moorish warrior in a historical costume, at the moment of thr...

Georges Van der Straeten, (1856-1928) "Buste de jeune femme au chapeau" A gilt bronze portrait bust of a fashionable lady signed: G. Van der straeten and stamped with the Société...

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...

A very fine early 20th century Austrian bronze of an Indian Chief on Horseback by Carl Kauba. Carl Kauba The Native American in full wa...

Exemplary of Art Nouveau elegance, the sensuous female form is the focus of this Viennese bronze by Austrian sculptor Carl Kauba (1865 - 1922). The intricately detailed bronze captures the supple form of an exotic Nubian dancer in a true representation of the era’s predominant aesthetic. Both classical and evocative, the nude figure is adorned by an array of bronze jewelry, including a stunning golden belt...

Experience the timeless beauty of Affortunato Gory's "Baigneuse," a captivating bronze sculpture that epitomizes the elegance and grace of the Art Deco era. This exquisite piece dep...

This charming treatment shows a girl of perhaps seven or eight sheltering from the rain under a large umbrella. Chiparus is celebrated for his exciting exotic dancers in bronze and i...

Adorable bronze statue of a young little girl pulled by the dog.

Sculpture: Moorish Warrior This wonderful life-like sculpture depicts a Moorish warrior in a historical costume, at the moment of throwing a javelin. It is created in polychrome c...

Early 20th century bronze of boy with a goose, after the antique. Signed, Musee du Louvre. A young boy with a goose, one of many Roman copies of a Hellenistic bronze original (160 B...

19th-20th century antique bronze by Joaquin Angles listed "Premier Triomphe" a fine casting of a winged angel. Signed and titled on base.   

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

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...

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.

Inscribed G. Henning, dated 1928 and No. 2.

Bronze figure of 'La Nature se dévoilant devant la Science' by Louis-Ernest Barrias. Inscribed 'E. Barrias' and with Susse Frères foundry cachet and further Susse inscription. ...

A vintage multifigure action bronze of the "Old West" by C. Kauba. The pristine polychrome sculpture identifies an unyielding American Indian chief brandishing a tomahawk battling ag...

Turn of the century bronze cherub.

A charming antique Viennese bronze sculpture of a young Dutch boy pulling in a fishing net by Peter Tereszczuk dating from circa 1910. The f...

Clearly showing the influence of Auguste Rodin and the Art Nouveau movement, this remarkable bronze was sculpted by David Edstrom, a Swedish American artist. Here, a nude male figure is perched on the edge of a cliff, looking heavenward as a nude mermaid lies below, nude and full of invitation. Edstrom, the quintessential example of the tortured artist...

Early 20th century bronze sculptures from Mexico City Natural bronze color on black marble base dimensions: 5" height x 3.75...

Cipri Adolf Bermann (German, 1862-1942) a very fine 19th century gilt-bronze miniature figure of a Bacchus Herm, depicting Bacchus, also known as Dionysus, the god of the grape harve...

In dark patina bronze Signed by Prof. Puntelli Measures: Height 75 cm.

Franz Bergmann Austrian, (1861-1936) Austrian pold-painted bronze sculpture depicting two men peeping into a tent on a circular base, the domed roof with a crescent moon; the ope...

"The coffee maker" Viennese Vienna cold painted oriental bronze by Franz Bergmann. Extremely fine and detailed masterpiece. Both parts hallmarked.    

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...

Art Deco Italian figure of a woman dancig with a music instrument. Sculpture of a dancing nude girl. Bronze with a dark green patina. Mounted over a marble base.

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. (...

Artist: Franz Xaver Bergmann Sculpture: Moorish Traveler with Staff This wonderful life-like sculpture depicts a Moorish traveler in a historical costume, with a staff in his h...

Bronze figurine of a self-satisfied, disapproving Jewish businessman with the caption: Now! Vot about it? (an imitation of the Jewish accent), heavy, cast bronze figurine...

Elegant Art Nouveau bronze sculpture of a draped semi-nude dancer signed by Theodor Stundl, Austria, 1875-1934 With foundry mark. The bronze has a bea...

Homage to Edmondo De Amicis is an original artwork realized in 1908 by Massimo Picozzi. Bas-relief bronze plaque. The artwork represents an allegory of reading and the portrait...

Frank Vittor (1888-1966) important bronze of mother and child. Signed by the artist “F. Vittor” and dated 1915. Also bears the foundry mark. Measures 12 1/2"h x 12 ½”w x 9"long. Bronze rests on a 1 ½ inch marble plinth. Artist born in Italy, studied with Rodin. The foundry is the National Art bronze works. The bronze was converted to a lamp at one point, and still bears a threaded tube projecting from the lower base approximately ½ inch. Frank Vittor (January, 6, 1888 - January 24, 1968) was an Italian immigrant to the United States who became famous as a sculptor. Vittor was born in Mozzato, Como, a suburb of Milan, Italy. He studied art in Milan at the Academy of Beres and then traveled to Paris, France to study under Auguste Rodin. When Vittor was 18, in 1906, U.S. architect Stanford White brought Vittor to New York to work on his staff. White, who had designed Madison Square Garden II, was murdered at a performance at The Garden two weeks after Vittor arrived. The youth, having little money and knowing very limited English, decided to stay in America and soon opened an art studio. He met his future wife, Ade Mae Humphreys, a resident of Pittsburgh, and made the move to her home town. Aviator Charles Lindbergh's first solo trans-Atlantic 3,600-mile (5,800 km) flight between Long Island, New York and Paris, France was immortalized in bronze by Vittor with a 50-foot-tall (15 m) sculpture showing a winged youth spanning the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. Congress approved the expenditure in 1928, and the work was completed in 1929. Perhaps no work by Vittor created as much controversy and media coverage as did his nude statue of Henrietta Leaver, Miss America 1935. Though Leaver posed for Vittor, she did so in a bathing suit, accompanied by her grandmother. Upon first viewing the life-size 5-foot 5-inch plaster statue Leaver was shocked that it was a nude and demanded her representation be draped or veiled. Vittor did not agree and called in art experts to judge the work and all agreed it should stay as it had been created. Leaver did not back down and demanded people her own age review The American Venus, as it had originally been called. Unfortunately for Leaver her 60 peers, many of whom were art students, agreed it should remain unveiled. Though the strong disagreement between the two eventually did subside, Leaver, Vittor and the statue resurfaced five decades later in recaps of controversial Miss America mishaps. Baseball player Honus Wagner, one of the first five players inducted into the Hall of Fame, was memorialized by Vittor in a 17-foot-tall (5.2 m) bronze statue, originally on display near the Pittsburgh Pirates Forbes Field. It was moved to Three Rivers Stadium and, when that stadium was imploded in 1971, the statue was relocated to PNC Park.[6] In 1958, one of Vittor's greatest works, a 50-foot-tall (15 m) granite base and bronze statue of Christopher Columbus, was unveiled in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park. Shortly after the statue was placed, the bronze plaque at the base was stolen by vandals. The Sons of Columbus USA desire to replace the plaque with the original wording; however, there exists no record of what Vittor had written regarding Columbus. Charles Lindbergh was the recipient of a second work of art created by Vittor. The artist and sculptor designed a commemorative stamp picturing the pilot and his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. Walter F. Brown, the U.S. Postmaster General, authorized a 175th anniversary commemorative "Battle of Braddock" 2-cent stamp to be designed by Vittor. The artwork he created featured a likeness of Colonel George Washington with the inscription "Battle of Braddock's Field, 1755-1930. In 1936 the U.S. Congress authorized minting a half-dollar coin to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the American Civil War. Vittor was the person selected to design the coin. The obverse depicts the profile of two soldiers, one from the North and one from the South and the reverse holds a symbol of the battle placed between the combatant's shields. The coins were distributed through the Pennsylvania State Commission for Gettysburg. Throughout Pittsburgh and the surrounding communities there exist more than 50 statues...

This is an antique bronze figure. A French, female statue of Art Nouveau taste in the manner of Hippolyte François Moreau, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1920. Sculpture ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning, very rare and highly collectible pair of Faberge signed cast and cold painted bronze statues of A.A. Kudinov and N.N. Pustynnikov, personal Kamer-Kazak bodyguards of Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna A little history, the original sold at auction in 2013 for $5,200,000, I’ll include further information below which came from Sotheby’s These expertly made statues are as mentioned of A.A. Kudinov and N.N. Pustynnikov in dress parade uniforms with badges and medals, the coats trimmed with Imperial eagles, the cockaded fleece hats with gold braid, inscribed in Russian on the heels and soles of the boots 'Kamer-Kazak since 1894/A.A. Kudinov/Fabergé/1912' History The precise origin of these figures, which appear to be copies of – or models for – the well-known Fabergé hardstone...

Franz Bergmann Austrian, (1861-1936) The Music Lesson Austrian cold-painted bronze figure of a boy learning to play the Mandolin. Measure: 15 inches high.

Bronze sculpture entitled "Reconnaissance" by French sculptor Eugene Marioton, circa 1940s. The sculpture stands on an octagonal marble slab, is in very good condition and maintains ...

The sculpture depicts a woman and her child on a camel. Totally made of bronze and marble base where you can see the artist's signature. This work presents the main characteristics of an impressionist sculptor, this is a unique piece perfect as a collector's item and to give a Classic touch to your living room. Ernesto Bazzaro was a Milanese artist trained in Brera starting in 1875. He was one of the leading Italian sculptors of the second half of the nineteenth century, close to Impressionism thanks to his disheveled education. He was also the teacher of Paolo Troubetzkoy...

A fine French 19th-20th century Art-Nouveau patinated bronze bust of "Marie Antoinette" (Queen of France 1755-1793), after the model by Agathon Léonard or Léonard Agathon van Weydeve...