Marcel Duchamp Thonet Readymade "Porte Chapeau"

Important early piece (1928) of Breuer's revolutionary tubular furniture.

Original sculpture made in 1936. Cast plaster reproduction with brass identification on bottom, from 1940-50's.

An Austin Productions casting of the well known Manzu Sculpture "Cardinale Seduto". Perhaps this sculpture more than any other of the masters works, contrast an abstract gestalt bulk...

A plaster reproduction of the famous Maillol sculpture 'Pour Le Monument a Park Cezanne' Measurements of Sculpture only: 11 1/2 x 7" x 3 1/2". On a wooden base.

An extremely rare 'preparation painted' for casting model by the great German 'Gothic' Expressionist Ernst Barlach (1870-1938). These sculptures date from young Barlach's 1906 visit ...

Graceful original modernist American sculpture signed KROLL on the base.

Bottle holder as the ones used by Marcel Duchamp for his readymade, Not signed. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use. Preserving a beautiful ...

Original vintage bottle dryer or bottle holder in the style of the well-known "Readymade" with the name "Porte-Bouteille" by the French Artist Mar...

Palatial bust of Henri Robert-Marcel Duchamp by Ursula Meyer. The sculpture itself measures 47" in height, 27.5" in width, and 21.5" depth acquired from the home of the most prolific American conceptual artist. Signed and dated. Provenance: From the Estate of Ann Pollon Re: The Collection of Ursula Meyer. Descendant. Acquired from the artist. Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp French: (28 July 1887-2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art He was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art, and he had a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art. By the time of World War I he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (such as Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind. Ursula Meyer was a German-born American sculptor, art-focused academician, and fine art critic, who proved an influential player in the transmission of and appreciation for European born Modernism to the United States in the post-World War II era. At first a ceramicist beholden to the teachings of 1930s Germany’s Bauhaus and Italy’s Futurists, she eventually became a creator and exponent of a crisp, geometry-focused sculptural lexicon in ceramics, and later wood and metal sculpture. Her legacy includes a decades-long exploration of Minimalism, as well as experimentations in creating and deciphering Conceptual and Expressive genres. Born in Hanover, Germany in 1915 to Ernst Josef Meyer and Elsa Katzenstein, Ursula Meyer is recorded as having “studied with former Bauhaus masters after the Bauhaus itself had closed under threat of National Socialism” in 1933. Spanning the years 1934 through 1937, Ursula’s Bauhaus tutorial is not fully documented, but it may well have included at least brief study with the French-born Marguerite Friedlaender Wildenhain (1896-1985), the first woman to earn the Master Potter certification in Germany, and who worked with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Kehan and Gerhard Marcks (1889-1981). Meyer is recorded as having directly worked with Marcks, as well as with Otto Lindig...

Traditional Dogon architecture throughout a Dogon village consists of a series of unique and exceptional mud buildings which the Artist, Victor Anicet, featured in an organic sculptural manner in his Porte Dogon...

Victor Roman, signed, numbered and documented. Bronze sculpture on a rectangular travertin base representing an arch flanked by two removable semi-circle panels...

Charles O. Perry for the Centro Duchamp in Bologna, Italy, 1970. The piece is approximately 3 ¼” x 3 ¼” inches in cast bronze with a subtle patina. Stamped “CENTRO DUCHAMP” ton one c...