Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
ART NOUVEAU STYLE
In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.
ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the late 19th century
- Popularity of this modernizing style declined in the early 20th century
- Originated in France and Britain but variants materialized elsewhere
- Informed by Rococo, Pre-Raphaelite art, Japanese art (and Japonisme), Arts and Crafts; influenced modernism, Bauhaus
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
- Sinuous, organic and flowing lines
- Forms that mimic flowers and plant life
- Decorative inlays and ornate carvings of natural-world motifs such as insects and animals
- Use of hardwoods such as oak, mahogany and rosewood
ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.
The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.
The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.
In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers.
The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.
Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass.
Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).
Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.
There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.
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Item type: Antique and Vintage
Style: Art Nouveau
Porcelain Hand Painted Very Small Bird Figurine
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an unmarked porcelain figurine of a very small bird. It depicts a very well done hand painted bird. It is standing up over an asymmetrical s...
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20th Century Unknown Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
French Art Nouveau Bronze Representing Woman Lounging Signed Philippe
By G. Philippe
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
Incredible gold bronze signed Philippe with black marble base Art Nouveau.
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Large Porcelain Group 'Joy of Life' by J. Limburg Rosenthal Selb Germany Ca 1923
Located in Vienna, AT
Extremely Rare Large Art Nouveau Group:
Monumental figure of Flora with chin-length hair in a long dress loosely embracing the beautiful body, her right foot resting on a low pedest...
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1920s German Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Bronze Sculpture "Chinoise" circa 1915
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Bronze Sculpture "Chinoise" circa 1915.
A standing figure of a woman in a flowing gown with Buddha-like hand gestures standing on a lotus form base.
Ma...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Eve and the Serpent Symbolist Bronze Sculpture by Isidore De Rudder
Located in Chicago, US
Rare, full size example of this piece. Isidore De Rudder (1855 - 1943) was active/lived in Belgium.
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Early 1900s Belgian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Onyx, Marble, Bronze
'Bohemienne' Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture by Emmanuel Villanis, circa 1890
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
'Bohemienne' An Art Nouveau bronze sculpture by Emmanuel Villanis (1858-1914), depicting an elegant young woman holding a lyre with her other arm raised behind her head with robes fl...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Art Nouveau Stoneware Commedia Dell’arte Mask by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat
Located in Chicago, US
Exploring new firing and glazing techniques and their myriad effects on traditional forms was an exciting approach for many experimental turn-of-the-century ceramists. Here the acid ...
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Stoneware
Large Royal Dux Cup, Art Nouveau Period
Located in Paris, FR
Large Royal Dux cup crafted in porcelain biscuit. The biscuit is partially enameled, and highlighted with polychrome accents. The cup features two nymphs climbing a shell on waves. O...
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Late 19th Century Czech Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Cold-Painted Austrian Bronze Entitled "Bathing Belle" by Franz Bergman
Located in London, GB
An amusingly erotic early 20th Century Austrian bronze figure of a young beauty in a seaside hut peeking out between the curtains. The mechanism pushes down to turn the front curtain around revealing 'what the butler saw...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Goebel Porcelain Hand Painted Bird Figurine of a Wagtail
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Goebel porcelain figurine of a bird. It depicts a very well done hand painted black, gray blue and white, Wagtail bird. It is hallmarked Goebel, W.Germany at the base.
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20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Sculpture, 1900, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, France
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Iron
Annibale De Lotto Large Bronze Sculpture Boy with Crab 1910 Italy Venice
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Annibale De Lotto large bronze sculpture Boy with Crab 1910 Italy Venice.
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1910s Italian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Woman Dancing Sculpture, France, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, 1900
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Sculpture
Year: 1900
Material: silver plated bronze
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Goebel Porcelain Hand Painted Bird Figurine of a Goldfinch
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Goebel porcelain figurine of a bird. It depicts a very well done hand painted Goldfinch. The bird is standing over a branch. It is hallmarked Goebel, W.Germany below the se...
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20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Palm-Shaped Liberty Floor Lamp
Located in bari, IT
Art Nouveau palm-shaped floor lamp of colonial taste production early twentieth century, on this object can be mounted electrical system on request.
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1910s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Wrought Iron
Garniture of Bronze Figures by Franz Xaver Bergman
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Garniture of bronze figures, depicting a scene of hunters with an elephant with a dead tiger strapped securely on top of it, accompanied with one hunter and another at his side with ...
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1890s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Goebel Porcelain Hand Painted Bird Figurine of a Nuthatch
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Goebel porcelain figurine of a bird. It depicts a very well done hand painted Nuthatch. This colorful bird is standing over an old aged trunk. It is hallmarked Goebel, W.Ge...
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20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Goebel Porcelain Hand Painted Bird Figurine of a House Sparrow
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Goebel porcelain figurine of a bird. It depicts a very well done hand painted sweet House Sparrow bird. It is standing up over a branch with a green leaf. It is hallmarked ...
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20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Centerpiece, German, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, 1900, WMF
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Centerplace, WMF, German
WMF (Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik)
Electro- Wurtemberg Plate Company in Geislingen, Germany, internationally known today as 'WMF' initials of the...
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Early 1900s German Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Metal
Bust of Women in Bronze After Clodion
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Magnificent bust of women in bronze make in 1920 after the model of Clodion
The bronze bear a mark of clodion and a date. the bronze is on a red marble base .the bronze is coming p...
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1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carrara Marble Sculpture by Antonio Frilli, Firenze, circa 1890
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Carrara marble sculpture by Antonio Frilli, Firenze, circa 1890.
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1890s Italian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Carrara Marble
Centerplace, France, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty, 1900, Sign: L. Alliot
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Centerplace,
Year: 1900
Firms:
L. Alliot
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Metal
French Terracotta Sculpture Nude Woman "Premiere Faute" - by LAMI - Art Nouveau
By Stanislas Lami
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Female nude in terracotta.
Signed "St. Lami" on the base. Stanislas Lami is a French sculptor.
Stamp mark "Terracotta - R. D'ARLY Paris".
This work inspires purity and delicacy.
The sculpture represents a kneeling naked woman, the features are fine and pleasant. The work is neat and delicate. The position of the woman calls for calm and tranquility.
Our terracotta proof is a reduction of Stanislas Lami's marble entitled "Première Faute" which earned him the second medal at the Salon of 1891. The work represents a young woman kneeling, her arms modestly covering her face with closed eyes. At the dawn of the 20th century, this elegant statuette was part of the symbolist movement and announced the Art Nouveau movement.
This beautiful work was included in the second edition of the artist's catalog raisonné.
Related literature:
Grégoire de Thoury, Stanislas Lami (1858-1944), catalog raisonné of sculptures, Paris, 2014, model listed under number FA12.
More widely known for his masterful literary work, Stanilas Lami is an artist as much as a scholarly amateur.
Son of the sculptor Alphonse Lami, grandson of the neoclassical painter Bidauld, son-in-law of the art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer, he benefited all his life from an environment favorable to the promotion and commissioning of his written or sculpted works.
While he wrote his famous dictionaries of sculptors of the French School throughout his career, over around forty years, he also exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes français between 1882 and 1942.
Wonderful decorative piece.
Beautiful dimensions.
France - Art Nouveau - 1891
Stanislas Lami, born in 1858 in Paris and died in 1944, was a French sculptor and art historian. He is the grandson of landscape painter François-Xavier Bidault and the son of sculptor Alphonse Lami.
Some of his works are kept in museums, especially in Spain. In Paris, at the Musée d'Orsay, there is a marble sculpture of the Danish Dog...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Terracotta
19th Century French Animalier "Guerrier du Caucase" by Antoine L Barye
Located in London, GB
"Guerrier du Caucase" by Antoine L Barye
Excellent French bronze study of a mounted Caucasian Warrior in full armour, the bronze with excellent hand chased surface detail and rich green, brown, black and orange patination, signed BARYE. A fabulous example of this important sculpture in optimal condition.
Additional Information
Height: 20 cm
Width: 17 cm
Depth: 7 cm
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Foundry: Atelier Barye
circa: 1874
Materials: Bronze
Book Ref BARYE Catalogue Raisonne des Sculptures by Michel Poletti – Alain Richarme
Page no. 78
Description
Antoine Louis Barye
“The Michelangelo of the Menagerie”
These are the words of Théophile Gautier in praise of Barye’s genius. Throughout his life Barye endeavoured to capture the fundamental nature of the animal kingdom in all its diversity, wild or tame, exotic or familiar, cruel or gentle, bringing to life the roaring, trembling, living beasts.
The son of a goldsmith, apprenticed to a steel engraver at a young age, Barye found himself making moulds for ornaments, acquiring knowledge that he would later build on to produce his exquisitely chased bronzes. When he was called up at seventeen, he joined the army’s topographic brigade where he used clay to model raised relief maps...
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19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Wonderfully Designed Shepherdess Made by Royal Dux Bohemia
Located in Tilburg, NL
Wonderfully designed shepherdess made by Royal Dux Bohemia.
Marked with the pink triangular stamp of Eduard Eichler.
Factory no. 352. In excellent condition.
The factory Royal Du...
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Late 19th Century Czech Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Italian Early 20th C. Glass Grape Bunch Pendant Light (3 available)
Located in San Francisco, CA
A vibrant pendant light from the 1920s; ruddy-red to amber, Venetian glass grape bunches with detailed green and pink leaves. The grapes are hanging from...
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Antique Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture of "La Danse" by Eugene Delaplanche
Located in Shippensburg, PA
EUGÉNE DELAPLANCHE
French, 1836-1891
"La Danse"
Medium-brown patinated bronze signed in cast DELAPLANCHE incised "F. Barbedienne Fondeur Paris" & numbered 225 sealed with A. Collas reduction cachet
Item # 212LKS08A
This is a very fine casting of La Danse after the original model by Eugene Delaplanche...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Art Nouveau Ceramic Figurines Rstk Amphora Austria Turn Teplitz
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Art Nouveau ceramic figurines Rstk Amphora Austria Turn Teplitz - a pair
Attributed to Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel for Amphora, Turn Teplitz Austria...
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19th Century Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Ceramic, Porcelain
Late 19th Century French Majolica Bank of a Pixie Boy, Walter P. Chrysler Label
Located in San Francisco, CA
Late 19th century French Majolica Bank Of A Pixie Boy.
From the Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Collection Label No.
Sold by David Hollander NYC. striking blue...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Ceramic
Large Porcelain Figurine 'Cabaret', by R. Marcuse, Rosenthal Selb Germany, 1920
By Rosenthal
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Nouveau beauty with chin-length dark brown hair, in a strapless dress with a deep neckline decorated with elaborate floral embroidery at the front and back and a softly falling, wave-like billowing skirt hem, posing bent to the side and playing a lute.
Based on a round, white, fluted plinth, artist's signature 'RUDOLF MARCUSE...
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1920s German Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Bronze Figural Group Erotic Scene in the Manner of Bergman
Located in Montreal, QC
Bronze figural group erotic scene in the manner of Bergman depicting a bacchante hold a grape over a Faun.
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Girl with Wheat Bronze Sculpture by Hippolyte Moreau
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Girl with Wheat bronze sculpture by Hippolyte F. Moreau. He is famous for his bronze statues of young women. He is also the son of another renown French sculptor named Jean Baptiste Moreau. It depicts a young lady with long curly hair who is dressed with a see-through robe. She is holding a basket of wheat with one arm and some branches of them with the other one. She appears to be in the countryside and is observing a pair of doves that are on the ground. The bronze sculpture is standing over two...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Marble, Bronze
Early 20th Century Bronze Group Entitled Diana the Huntress by a Muller-Crefeld
Located in London, GB
A very fine bronze sculpture modeled as the beautiful Goddess standing with her bow and quiver and gently holding the collar of her hunting hound. The bronze with warm brown patina a...
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Marble, Bronze
Carl Kauba, Frightened by the Frog, Viennese Bronze Sculpture, circa 1915
By Carl Kauba
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions
Total Height: 7.5 inches
Base Height: 2 inches
Width: 2.75 inches
Depth: 2.75 inches
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This charming desk figurine in dark brown patinated Viennese bronze by the famous Austrian sculptor Karl Kaub stands out for the originality and humor of its subject matter. The author depicted with amazing subtlety a boy who jumped on one leg in fright, suddenly seeing a frog sitting on his arm.
CARL KAUBA (Austrian, 1865-1922) was born August 13, 1865 in Vienna, Austria. The son of a shoemaker, Kauba chose to follow his calling into the world of art. Collectors now rank him in a class with Remington and Russell as one of the great portrayers of American Western. His subjects were typically American Indians, calvarymen, cowboys, and roughriders. In addition to his American bronzes, Kauba produced a lifetime’s worth of Austrian statuary. His work became fully appreciated on both sides of the Atlantic.
Carl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under professor Laufenberg. Later he would study at the academies under Carl Waschmann and Stefan Schwartz. Next, he went to Paris in 1886 to further study before he set off for the U.S. In fact, some debate still remains as to whether Kauba ever visited the U.S.
Kauba’s fascination with the West was fired by the stories of the German writer, Carl May, whose tales of Western adventure were well known throughout Europe. Most authorities feel that he was about twenty-five years old when he traveled widely throughout the American West. He then returned to Austria with voluminous notes, sketches, and several models of Western sculpture...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Terracotta Woman Sculpture Signed Goldscheider, Austria, circa 1900
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Terracotta woman sculpture signed Goldscheider, Austria, circa 1900.
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Terracotta
French Ceramic Sculpture of Lady Liberty with Early 20th Century Flower Holder
Located in Milano, MI
French ceramic figurine of a lady carrying flowers, made in the early 20th century.
The figurine is in good condition, has some chipping due to ageing, detailed photos of which ha...
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1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Ceramic
Large Goldscheider Art Déco Figurine 'Helena', Allegory of Beauty, circa 1920
Located in Vienna, AT
Very large and rare Goldscheider Vienna ceramic figurine:
Art Déco execution of an Art Nouveau design around 1909: young woman as the personification of beauty, with hair tied at the nape of the neck, head tilted to the side and looking down, covering the nakedness of her shapely body only at the legs with a large cloth...
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1920s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Ceramic
Goebel Porcelain Hand Painted Bird Figurine of Baltimore Oriole
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Goebel porcelain figurine of a large bird. It depicts a very well done hand painted Baltimore Oriole. The bird is standing up over a branch...
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20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Alabaster Table Lamp Sculpture Attributed to Dante Zoi, Italy Early 20th Century
By Dante Zoi
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Alabaster table lamp sculpture attributed to Dante Zoi. Italy, early 20th century.
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Alabaster
Sitting Kewpie or The Thinker, Silvered Bronze Car Mascot Hood Ornament, 1910´s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
"Sitting Kewpie" or "The Thinker", Car Mascot Hood Ornament, 1910´s.
Made of silvered bronze, mounted over a green and white mrble base.
Can de used as a desk paperweight.
Originally appearing in the form of magazine illustrations between 1905 and 1909, Kewpie dolls...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Marble, Bronze
J.Loysel : Dancer with a Veil 'Probably Loïe Fuller'
By Jacques Loysel
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Jacques Loysel (1867-1925, France) : "Dancer with a veil" / "Danseuse au voile", probablement Loïe Fuller)
Bronze cast sculpture patinated dark green-brown representing a woman da...
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1910s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Marble, Bronze
Lalique Crystal Female Figurative Sculpture, from Paris, France, circa 1970s
By Lalique
Located in New York, NY
A French Lalique crystal female figurative sculpture piece, circa 1970's, France. A nude crystal female figure sculpture on black glass ba...
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1970s Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Crystal
A. De Remière, Friedrich Goldscheider Polychrome Patinated Terracotta Sculpture
Located in Tilburg, NL
A. De Remière, Friedrich Goldscheider Polychrome Patinated Terracotta Sculpture
Friedrich Goldscheider: polychrome patinated terracotta sculpture ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Terracotta
Goebel Porcelain Hand Painted Bird Figurine of a Long Tailed Titmouse
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a goebel porcelain figurine of a bird. It depicts a very well done hand painted long tailed titmouse. It is standing up over an asymmetrical oval light green base. It is hall...
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20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Ruchot Jean Charles French Sculptor Art Noveau Statue of "Science" in Spelter
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Particular and elegant statue in spelter with marble base; the sculpture represents a young woman in a beautiful plastic and slender pose that holds in the left hand a laurel wreath and in the right hand a sheet of paper with an inscription, probably of scientific formula, in fact, the statue is the interpretation of "Science". The crown "triumphalis", precisely called "laurel crown", in Greek mythology symbolized wisdom and glory, it was the highest honor for a poet who had just graduated. Laurel was considered a sacred plant also by ancient Romans: it was venerated in particular by Apollo, god of the sun, music, poetry, sculpture, and painting. Precisely because of his countless knowledge, in fact, Apollo represented wisdom and intelligence. On the pedestal has been applied a scroll with the name of the sculpture itself and that of its author: Jean Charles Ruchot. It was made in spelter, with the technique of "lost wax", by the artist himself in his workshop in Romainville, a French commune located in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, between 1900 and 1905. Jean Charles Ruchot, the refined and prolific artist, was active from 1890 until 1925, he produced classical works inspired by antiquity, then he was influenced by Art Nouveau, then by Art Deco, styles in which he expressed his greatest talent; he created many statues both in bronze and in spelter, he is also the author of many objects of decorative arts: lamps, sculptural groups for clocks and advertising objects. Spelter is a zinc-lead alloy that is aged to resemble bronze, but it is softer and can be easily melted and worked unlike bronze, composed of copper and tin, which melts between 850° and 1020°. Spelter has been used since 1860 to make objects that could compete with bronze, because of its great convenience and ease of use, this material had very strong dissemination and use when many sculptors and bronze Art Nouveau and Art Deco used...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Spelter
Art Nouveau Group 'Girl With Goat', by Erich Hoesel, Meissen Germany, ca 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group:
Girl in a striped dress with polka dots and a white blouse holding a bouquet of flowers in both hands above her head and fending off a ...
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1910s German Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Ernest Rancoulet, Sculpture Group of a Man and Woman “L’ Age d’or ” 1870 – 1915
By Rancoulet
Located in Tilburg, NL
Beautifully imposing sculpture by the artist Ernest Rancoulet.
The artist paid a lot of attention to the performance of the clothing and the hairstyle. The sculpture has a plate ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
"La Moissonneuse" Statue en Bronze Par Ernest Rancoulet
By Rancoulet
Located in VERSAILLES, FR
Important bronze sculpture with brown patina representing a young woman harvester returning from work in the fields. Note the beautiful expression of the face underlining the satisfa...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Art Nouveau Lamp in Bronze Signed Alexandre Clerget, 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Art Nouveau lamp mounted on a sculpted and chased bronze vase, signed A. Clerget. This lamp carved in relief, presents a seated woman forming a handle, a head of sylvan among vine leaves and grapes winding a spout. The shaft of this 1900 light fixture...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Bronze Alloy Table Lamp Sculpture Signed Waagen, Germany, circa 1890
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Bronze alloy table lamp sculpture signed Waagen. Germany, circa 1890.
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1890s German Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Erotic / Nude Women Bronze Sculpture Table Bell Push, Austria, 1900´s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Erotic / nude women bronze sculpture table bell push - Austria 1900´s
Talk about hard to find items! This impossible to believe bell push is the only erotic bell push we have ever s...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Figurine Sculpture of Blindfolded Girl signed, Italian 19th C
By Ferrari SRL
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a solid bronze figurine of a young Girl with a blindfold playing Hide and Seek, which we attribute to the Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ferrari ( ...
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19th Century Italian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cast Bronze and Marble Shepherdess with Sheep Sculpture Signed D. Alonzo
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Cast bronze and marble shepherdess with sheep sculpture signed D. Alonzo. France, early 20th century.
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Sculpture Spirit of Spring by Friedrich Heuler 1920s
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Precious porcelain sculpture attributed to the ceramic designer and sculptor Friedrich Heuler (1889-1959) representing spring with a nymph riding on a satyr, to which she clings to i...
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1920s German Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Ceramic Sculpture Signed Friedrich Goldscheider. Austria, circa 1900
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Ceramic woman with sled sculpture signed Friedrich Goldscheider. Austria, circa 1900.
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Confidence, Calamine. France, circa 1900, After Grisard, Désiré '1872-¿'
Located in Madrid, ES
"Confidence". calamine. France, around 1900, following Grisard, Désiré (1872-¿).
With manufacturing stamp, titled and engraved name.
Calamine figure patinated in various shades t...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Other
Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture Entitled "Cleopatra and Asp" by Schnauder
By Richard Georg Schnauder
Located in London, GB
A very fine early 20th Century gilt bronze figure of the famous Cleopatra with a snake wrapped around her wrist drinking from a bowl. Exhibiting fine colour and excellent hand fi...
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Meissen Three Girls Playing Hide and Seek by Theodore Eichler Model W 115
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen rarest group of figurines: Three Girls Playing Hide and Seek by Theodore Eichler.
Size:
height 25.0 cm (= 9.84 inches)
width 20.0 cm (= 7.87 inches)
depth 12.5 cm (= 4...
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
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