Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
ART DECO STYLE
Art Deco furniture is characterized by its celebration of modern life. More than its emphasis on natural wood grains and focus on traditional craftsmanship, vintage Art Deco dining chairs, tables, desks, cabinets and other furniture — which typically refers to pieces produced during the 1920s and 1930s — is an ode to the glamour of the “Roaring Twenties.”
ORIGINS OF ART DECO FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged in the 1920s
- Flourished while the popularity of Art Nouveau declined
- Term derives from 1925’s Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) in Paris, France
- Informed by Ancient Egypt, Cubism, Futurism, Louis XVI, De Stijl, modernism and the Vienna Secession; influenced Streamline Moderne and mid-century modernism
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART DECO FURNITURE DESIGN
- Bold geometric lines and forms, floral motifs
- Use of expensive materials such as shagreen or marble as well as exotic woods such as mahogany, ebony and zebra wood
- Metal accents, shimmering mirrored finishes
- Embellishments made from exotic animal hides, inlays of mother-of-pearl or ivory
ART DECO FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
VINTAGE ART DECO FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Few design styles are as universally recognized and appreciated as Art Deco. The term alone conjures visions of the Roaring Twenties, Machine Age metropolises, vast ocean liners, sleek typography and Prohibition-era hedonism. The iconic movement made an indelible mark on all fields of design throughout the 1920s and ’30s, celebrating society’s growing industrialization with refined elegance and stunning craftsmanship.
Widely known designers associated with the Art Deco style include Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Eileen Gray, Maurice Dufrêne, Paul Follot and Jules Leleu.
The term Art Deco derives from the name of a large decorative arts exhibition held in Paris in 1925. “Art Deco design” is often used broadly, to describe the work of creators in associated or ancillary styles. This is particularly true of American Art Deco, which is also called Streamline Moderne or Machine Age design. (Streamline Moderne, sometimes known as Art Moderne, was a phenomenon largely of the 1930s, post–Art Nouveau.)
Art Deco textile designers employed dazzling floral motifs and vivid colors, and while Art Deco furniture makers respected the dark woods and modern metals with which they worked, they frequently incorporated decorative embellishments such as exotic animal hides as well as veneers in their seating, case pieces, living room sets and bedroom furniture.
From mother-of-pearl inlaid vitrines to chrome aviator chairs, bold and inventive works in the Art Deco style include chaise longues (also known as chaise lounges) and curved armchairs. Today, the style is still favored by interior designers looking to infuse a home with an air of luxury and sophistication.
The vintage Art Deco furniture for sale on 1stDibs includes dressers, coffee tables, decorative objects and more.
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Style: Art Deco
Pair of Max Le Verrier Clarte Art Deco Sculpture Lamps Nude with a Glass Ball
Located in Ulm, DE
Lumina, Set of 2
Famous, very decorative Art Deco object.
Slightly smaller than the famous Clarté
Designed in France during the roaring 1920s by “Max Le Verrier” (1891-1973)
Orig...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Spelter
Goldscheider Vienna Nude Art Déco Dancer Posing With Large Shawl, circa 1939
Located in Vienna, AT
Rare Goldscheider ceramic figurine of the late 1930s:
Only with ballet shoes dressed young pretty lady with curly hair, with turned to the side and tilted backwards upper body balanc...
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1930s Austrian Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Large 24" Art Deco silvered bronze statue of a dancer Stella Guiraud-Rivière
Located in New York City, NY
Guiraud-Rivière 1881-1947
A tall, exquisite, original French Art Deco sculpture in silvered bronze with parcel gilt accents. This largest rendition of the sculpture is truly a rarit...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Marble, Silver Plate, Bronze
Art Deco panther Sculpture by Ouline
Located in Madrid, ES
Art deco panther sculpture in patinated metal based on a plate of Belgian marble.
Made in France Ca, 1930. Signed by Online (Alexandre Online)
It is in good condition, with wear on...
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1930s French Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Metal, Bronze
Erotic Bronze Female Nude in Sarcophagus by Bergmann Vienna Around 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
At first glance an upright Egyptian sarcophagus, which opens to both sides when pressure is applied to a small lever on the front of the base, revealing an upright nude young woman w...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Clarté Sculpture Lueur Lamp from the Important Art Deco Artist Max Le Verrier
Located in Ulm, DE
Smallest model of the famous "Clarté"
“Lueur Lumineuse”
Original “Max Le Verrier”
Art Deco style, France.
Table lamp, lighted sculpture made in spelter / white-bonze (french = Régu...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Spelter
Bronze Sculpture by J. Cormier, Art Deco Period, Circa 1930.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bronze sculpture by J. Cormier, Art Deco period, circa 1930.
Bronze, Art Deco period sculpture, 1930 by J. Cormier .
Dimensions: h: 35cm, w: 73cm, d...
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20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1920 René Lalique, Car Mascot Statuette Sirene Glass with Sepia Patina Mermaid
By René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Car Mascot Statuette "Sirene" made in frosted glass with sepia patina by René Lalique in 1920.
Molded signature into the decor.
Perfect condition
Height: 10.5 cm
Félix Marc...
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1920s French Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Rare Just Andersen Group Figurine of a Sea Boy and Dragon in Disco Metal, 1940s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Rare Just Andersen group figurine of a sea boy and dragon in disco metal.
1940s.
Model number D1697.
Marked.
In great condition.
Dimensions: H 11.5 x D 10.0 cm.
Category
1940s Danish Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Just Andersen, Sculpture in Disco Metal, Naked Boy Blowing a Horn
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Just Andersen, sculpture in disco metal, naked boy blowing a horn.
In excellent condition with fine patina.
1940s.
Model 2170.
Dimensions: H 18.0 x D 10.0 cm.
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1940s Danish Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Sculpture by Ivanov Dimitry Iosivovich for Lomonosovski S.Pietroburgo, 1923
Located in Montelabbate, PU
The author of the model (1923) is the sculptor Ivanov Dimitry Iosifovich. Signed in paste on the base and under the brand lomonosovski porcelain of St. Petersburg The famous Russian ...
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1920s Russian Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Art Deco Sculpture Female Athlete with Palm Leaf by Fayral, Pierre Le Faguays
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco sculpture female athlete with palm leaf by Fayral.
Pseudonym of Pierre Le Faguays, France 1930.
Patinated bronze on a stone base.
Category
1930s French Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Bayadère Dancer Sculpture in Art Deco Style by Charles for Max Le Verrier
By Janle, Max Le Verrier
Located in Ulm, DE
"Le Bayadère" (The Temple Dancer) is a ballet, full of Indian exoticism and romantic poetry.
Dancing Sculpture with a Hoop
Designed in France by “Charles”, signed
Original “Max...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Spelter
Ceramic Figurine of a Decò Ballerina from the 1940s
Located in Milano, MI
Decò sculpture of a dancing lady, made in ceramic in the 1940s.
Measures: diameter 14 cm Ø 15 cm height 24 cm.
Minor restoration were done in the color of the dress border.
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1940s Italian Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Style Bronze Goddess
Located in Hudson, NY
Large 27" Art Deco Egyptian Revival style bronze of a partially draped female figure.
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco sculpture Ecstasy by Amadeo Gennarelli
Located in Miami, FL
The Ecstasy Art Deco sculpture is one of the Italian sculptor, Amedeo Gennarelli, nude female figures. This is sculpture is made in Patinated Bronz...
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20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancer Sculpture in Spelter, Folie by Denis, Original Max Le Verrier
Located in Ulm, DE
Sculpture dancing lady “Folie”
Designed in France during the roaring 1920s by “Maurice et Marcel Denis”, signed
Original Max Le Verrier, signed
Art Deco style, France
Material...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Spelter
Ceramic Figure from BiGi Torino, 1940s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Ceramic Figure from BiGi Torino, 1940s
Packaging with bubble wrap and cardboard boxes is included. If the wooden packaging is needed (crates or boxes) for US and International Shippi...
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1940s Italian Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Hester Mabel White Art Deco Bronze Oriental Children Bookends
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning pair Art Deco cold painted bronze bookends mounted with Oriental Children figures by renowned sculptor Hester Mabel White (British, 1870-1948) and dating from around 1920. This iconic pair of bookends portrays two children in Oriental dress who clearly should be studying, both with books. One portrays a young girl seated and studiously reading her book while a young boy stands leaning on the upstand of the bookend and peers over watching...
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1920s British Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Viennese Art Deco Bronze Dancer by Josef Lorenzl, circa 1915/1920
Located in Vienna, AT
The graceful, bare dancer with short, curly hair combed back, leads, with her upper body turned to the right, her arms stretched out horizontally from the body, a dance step forward ...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Art Deco Sculpture of Boxer in Wood
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art Deco sculpture of boxer in wood
high quality sculpture
Art Deco Style Circa 1940
Origin Europe without visible signature
Carved from heavy hard wood
Without restoration in p...
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1940s European Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood
Large Art Deco Bronze Figural Sculpture on Carrara Marble Pedestal
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco bronze figural sculpture on Carrara marble pedestal. Sculpture has a nice patina to the bronze. Mounted to the base.
Category
1940s Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Art Deco Onyx, Bone & Silver Pewter Lady w/ Greyhounds Sculpture, After Chiparus
Located in New York, NY
This stunning Art Deco sculpture was realized in France, circa 1930. It offers a lady in repose donning a flapper dress, flanked by two greyhound dogs in silvered pewter presented on...
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1930s French Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Pewter
French Art Deco Bronze Magazine Rack with Verdigris Patina
Located in Stamford, CT
Beautifully designed and very unusual cast bronze magazine of book rack showing two centaurs rearing and with arms out stretched, with subtle verdigris patina.
Whether used as a ho...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Stunning White and Black Art Deco Porcelain Penny Scale by Navco
By NAV
Located in Buffalo, NY
Stunning white and black Art Deco porcelain penny scale by Navco. Amazing design, reminiscent of a womans cloaked silouette, retains original key...
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1930s American Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Gertrud Kudielka 1896-1984 for Hjorth 'Bornholm', Large Glazed Stoneware Figure
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Gertrud Kudielka 1896-1984 for Hjorth (Bornholm). Large glazed stoneware figure. "Europe on the bull", 1940s. Beautiful luster / ox blood glaze. Model number: 602.
Measures: 37 x 36...
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1940s Danish Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Erte Like Fashionable Woman Austrian Bronze
By G. None
Located in Bronx, NY
This beautifully rendered Austrian cold painted bronze is signed (illedgible) & dated. An elegant Art Deco inspired statuesque young woman, fashionably attired in a stunning original...
Category
1990s Austrian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Art Deco Paper Mâché Mannequin
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Mannequin between the 1930s and 1940s, is not in good condition, the head has something like a broken one, it does not stand straight.
Category
Early 20th Century Mexican Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Superb French Art Deco Greyhound Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Unique and rare French Art Deco Greyhound dog, large size sculpture in ivory color, in a very good condition. Beautiful line, movements and wonderfu...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Robert Aitken, A Dance, American Art Deco Patinated Bronze Sculpture circa 1920s
By Robert Aitken
Located in New York, NY
Signed ‘AITKEN’, and ‘XOROS’ (Greek: Dance) on the plinth.
Dimensions:
Height 20 inches
Width (top) 11 inches
Depth 6 inches
This remarkable in its expensiveness sculpture depicts a forest spirit – satyr, dancing and playing his reed simultaneously. With horns and horse ears, satyrs were endowed with the qualities of wild creatures with animal qualities, little thought of human prohibitions and moral standards. In addition, they were distinguished by fantastic endurance, both in battle and at the festive table. Their great passion was the passion for music, reed being one of satyrs’ main attributes.
Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949) was a noted American sculptor, born in San Francisco, California. He became a noted sculptor who spent most of his career teaching at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He has done numerous portraits, full size and bust, of well known figures, and his work is in many collections and museums including the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. For his early study, he was a painting pupil of Arthur Mathews...
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1920s American Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Austrian Sculpture "The Feather" by, Bruno Zach
By Bruno Zach
Located in Englewood, NJ
An Austrian Art Deco patinated and polychromed bronze sculpture "The Feather" by, Bruno Zack of a Native American Indian with a feather headdress riding a top a running horse. The sc...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"David with His Hound, " Unique and Important Sculpture by Paul Manship, 1914
By Paul Manship
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A dignified and poignant bronze by America's greatest sculptor of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, this unique piece by Paul Manship depicts young David in ancient Israel...
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1910s American Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Silvered Bronze Sculpture of Dancing Duo by I. Gallo
Located in Oakland, CA
Ignacio Gallo was born in Valladolid, Spain in the 19th century. He worked from 1910–1935 specialising in statuettes of bathers, dancers, nudes and pagan goddesses. While working in Paris in the mid to late 1920s he created this piece of two women dancing. Unlike a nude sculpture, this gives us a glimpse of the era with the fashionable bobbed hairdo, and the shortened skirt.
The 1920s “Jazz Age” saw a great deal of same sex dancing partners some of it romantic but more often just the popularity of both social dance and “artistic” (think Isadora Duncan) as well as “cabaret” performance. This lively sculpture is a nod to all three forms.
Ignacio Gallo’s creations in bronze were made at the Marcel Guillemard Foundry which has an interesting history of its own. Guillemard worked first with Andre Fau...
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1930s French Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Dancer Bronze, after Bruno Zach
By Bruno Zach
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Art Deco bronze dancer bronze, after Bruno Zach
Incised B. Zach, A7255.
20th Century, Europe
Dimensions: Height: 26.5 in Width: 13 in Depth: 7 in
Transport yourself back to the 20th...
Category
20th Century European Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Goldscheider French Art Deco Bronze Sculpture of a Nude Male Ballet Dancer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare and fine period French Art Deco bronze sculpture of a male dancer or ballerina (nude but for a dancer's belt). The dancer stands with outstretched arms and leg bearing a strai...
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1930s French Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Sculpture of Kneeling Nude in the style of Arno Breker, 1930
By Arno Breker
Located in Antwerp, BE
Elegant Art Deco bronze sculpture of a naked woman sitting on her knees with her arms over her head. This unsigned figurine is in the style of Arno Breker,...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Joe Descomps Art Deco Nude Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
Sculpted in stone, a beautiful French Art Deco nude female with floral details and fabric draping, signed Joe Descomps, dated under the base, 11-6-26, June 11, 1926.
Category
1920s French Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
"Eternal Springtime, " Romantic Antique Sculpture in Marble with Nudes by Kalish
By Max Kalish 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although Max Kalish is renowned for his bronze sculptures of laborers in 1930s, America, he also carved remarkable pieces in marble, often depicting idealized figures and couples in ...
Category
1930s American Vintage Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Art Deco figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Art Deco figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage figurative sculptures created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, bronze and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Art Deco figurative sculptures made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Austria pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original figurative sculptures, popular names associated with this style include Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna, Josef Lorenzl, Max Le Verrier, and Pierre Le Faguays. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for figurative sculptures differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $198,000 while the average work can sell for $3,118.
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