"Pulling A Soldier to Safety", Large Art Deco War Memorial Bronze by De Lue

Rare and striking, this bold, bronze allegorical sculpture is entitled "Glory" or "Gloire," and is a smaller version of a grand public scu...

Created early in De Lue's career, possibly when he worked in the New York studio of Bryant Baker, this handsome Art Deco drawing depicts a nude male figur...

Unique and powerful, this large plaster maquette for a major monument memorializing the dead, perhaps soldiers lost in World War I, features a trio of Art Deco angels...

A brilliant and rare example of late Art Deco sculpture struck in solid silver, this medal was designed by Donald De Lue in 1965 as part of the larger New York University Hall of Fam...

A rare pair of bookends featuring Chimpanzee pulling goose statue in Bronze on marble base. Signed on the base. Excellent condition. French. Around 1920.

Very good cast of a Benin bonze head, probably mid 20th century From the Benin Tribe of Africa comes this beautiful bronze head

A great looking nude lady hanging on the side of a vase pulling in a fishing net. Good size at 16" in height and 11" wide. Very heavy casting, and with great details in hi-quality lo...

Neapolitan "Scugnizzo" bust, Street boy, in gilt and burnished bronze, circa 1920 by Giovanni De Martino . Sculpture in gilded bronze and dark patina on a square base in light gray marble. The realistic trait typical of the author is striking. Signature of the artist De Martino on the back Giovanni De Martino (Naples, 13 January 1870 - Naples, 3 March 1935) was an Italian sculptor active in Paris. Important Bronze sculpture depicting a boy's head in Naples called "Scugnizzo" Excellent quality and sublime workmanship, note the delicacy and expressiveness. The sculpture is signed DE MARTINO on the back. GIOVANNI DE MARTINO (Naples 1870-1935) very important sculptor known for the production of sculptures of small bronze busts, in particular street urchins, fishermen, common people, with realistic features. Excellent quality, as seen in the detail photos. Excellent workmanship. A truly beautiful sculpture! BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST Giovanni de Martino (1870-1935) trained in Naples at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. He moved to Paris where he performed small sculptural groups and frequently exhibited at the "Paris Salon", winning the Louvre Museum prize for the bronze work Le Pêcheur de criquets (The Locust Fisherman). Returning to Naples, he returned to a socialist realism and on dedication to the production of sculptures depicting characteristic Neapolitan types, in rascal species, "scugnizzi", children and young fishermen. The dominant theme of his production is childhood: in particular he represents in his works pensive, sad, skinny children, on whose faces the signs of abandonment and suffering emerge (for this reason De Martino becomes known with the nickname of "The sculptor of children...