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Period: 1970s
Vintage Paolo Soleri Ceramic Mobile Sounding Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Paolo Soleri Ceramic & Copper Solar Bell — 6'3" Tall Mobile Sculpture with "Witch Hat" Top and Tribal Motifs
A dramatic and rare example of Paolo Soleri’s iconic Solar Bells,...
Category
American Brutalist Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Copper
François Colette : Chrome plated signed and dated mobile sculpture - 1972
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
François Collette or Colette (1936-2024, France) : "Stabile"
Hand made and welded mobile sculpture made of chrome plated metal
Signed "FC" on triangular base and dated "72" (1972)
...
Category
French Kinetic Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Paolo Soleri Special Order Large 55 inch Brutalist Windbell 1975
By Paolo Soleri
Located in Chicago, IL
Paolo Soleri Special Order Large 55 inch Brutalist Windbell 1975
Cast aluminum, patinated bronze, and copper
55 h × 13 w × 7½ d in
Cast artist's cipher to body.
Condition:
Natural pa...
Category
American Brutalist Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Copper
François Colette : Chrome plated signed and dated mobile sculpture - 1974
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
François Collette or Colette (1936-2024, France) : "Stabile"
Hand made and welded mobile sculpture made of chrome plated metal
Signed "FC" and dated "74" (1974)
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French Kinetic Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large 9 Rod Sonambient Sculpture in the Style of Harry Bertoia
Located in Culver City, CA
Picture this: a tall, elegant sculpture that pays homage to the legendary Harry Bertoia but with its own twist. While Bertoia's original sonambient sculptures are famous for their de...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Steel
1970's Charles Taylor Large Modernist Kinetic Sculpture
By Charles Taylor
Located in New York, NY
Fabulous 1970's modernist large Kinetic aluminum sculpture designed by Charles Taylor Model #450 in vintage original condition with minor wear and patina due to age and use.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Rare Bill Curry Cattail Room Divider / Sculpture for Design Line 29 Cattails
Located in Buffalo, NY
Extremely rare Cattail Sculpture / Room divider designed by Bill Curry for Design Line,,Featuring 29 metal rods with beautifully shaped and painted oval ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Harry Bertoia Kinetic Spray Sculpture - 1970s
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
This "Spray" sculpture by Harry Bertoia from the 1970s is a stunning kinetic piece.
This rare work, approximately 100 cm (39") in diameter and 73 cm (28.7") in height, is made of fin...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Large Modern Owl Sculpture on Hanging Perch by Sergio Bustamante
Located in Pasadena, CA
Perched on a thin crossbar, this owl sculpture made by Sergio Bustamande stares at the viewer with painted eyes, their spiraling, hypnotic contours. The green and gold of its gaze su...
Category
Mexican Folk Art Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass, Copper
Large Steam Engine Model 'Mamod Steam Wagon' Decorative Shelf Art Vintage Toy
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
A lovely old British Made Vintage Steam Engine Model. The piece has good scale and a beautiful vintage patina, ideal as an art piece or shelf model.
The item dates to circa 1970s wh...
Category
Victorian Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Studio-Made Modernist Mobile, Small
Located in Dallas, TX
A studio-made modernist mobile; mustard yellow, blue, opium red. This innovative art form, rooted in the principles of modernism, emphasizes minimalism, abstraction, and the intrinsi...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Modern Wire Spray Table Sculpture style of Harry Bertoia 1970s
Located in Troy, MI
Vintage wire spray table sculpture in the manner of Harry Bertoia circa 1970s
Executed in fine steel wires with fluid kinetic movement on a rare black marble base
Unmarked
29 inch...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Steel
Large Curtis C Jere Brass Spray Sculpture on Marble Base
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Wayne, NJ
Large Curtis C Jere brass spray sculpture on marble base ribbon forms with rods. Unsigned. many times from cleaning, the signature gets worn off through ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Wire Kinetic Figure Sculpture Hand Painted
By Donald Max Engelman
Located in Troy, MI
Unique and whimsical abstract kinetic table top sculpture circa 1970s
Minimalist wire figure with a hand painted hat mounted to a brutalist foot base
The movement is reminiscent of...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Monumental Chandelier by Architect Paolo Soleri
By Paolo Soleri
Located in Chicago, IL
Monumental Chandelier Hand-Crafted by Architect Paolo Soleri,Brutalist Design. Bronze Cast from the Arcosanti
foundry Yavapai County, Arizona 19...
Category
American Brutalist Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1972 A.R.D.I.T.I. Wall Lamp Chromed Steel and Movable Lights for Sormani, Italy
Located in Arosio, IT
Extremely rare, modular, sculptural large wall lamp BT1 in stainless steel with low-voltage lights with magnetic, movable Perspex/Lucite cylinders and a movable cube, that can be det...
Category
Italian Space Age Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Magnets, Stainless Steel
Modernist Gray Lucite Kinetic Sculpture Astrolabe, circa 1970
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning rotating astrolabe is a gorgeous kinetic sculpture. The rare piece was crafted in Italy circa 1970. The six circles are made of Lucite in a smoke gray color and stand o...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Lucite
Large Modernist Abstract Kinetic Metal Hanging Sculpture
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large 60" x 60" Modernist Abstract kinetic metal hanging sculpture. Attributed to Yaacov Agam. Eight metal squares graduating in size. Sculpture has been outside for 40-50 years show...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Moving Sculpture of I Ching Energies by Equipo Zarpa, 1970s
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Fascinating steel sculpture composed of a rotating body where to place the twelve rods that will form the trigrams resting on the marks on the base. The origin of the IChing comes fr...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Mid-Century Modern Brutalist Kinetic Balancing Man Sculpture by Strauss, 1970’s
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Mid-Century Modern Curtis Jere style Brutalist tabletop or book shelf counter balance sculpture constructed of welded metal and nails. This kinetic t...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
François Colette : Chrome plated signed and dated mobile sculpture - 1975
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
François Collette or Colette (1936-2024, France) : "Stabile"
Hand made and welded mobile sculpture made of chrome plated metal
Signed "FC" and dated "75" (1975)
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Category
French Kinetic Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Agam Kinetic Space Divider Sculpture Limited Edition Artist Proof & Lucite Stand
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928-)
Title: Space Divider
Medium: Polished metal kinetic sculpture
Edition: 19/25
Rotates at top
Signed on side of piece - Agam on the underside is the number.
On stand 47” tall 7” x 7”
Piece only 7” wide by 9” by 2 7/8” wide
normal tarnish and wear
It comes with the magazine cover of the artist and the custom made Lucite base.
Artist Biography from the Guggenheim
Yaacov Agam
B. 1928, RISHON-LE-ZION, PALESTINE
Yaacov Agam was born in Rishon-le-Zion, Palestine (now Israel), in 1928, the son of a rabbi and kabbalist, Yehoshua Gibstein. He studied at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem under Mordecai Ardon in 1946, moved to Zurich and then Paris, and studied at the Atelier d'art abstrait and at the Académie de la grande chaumière. While in Zurich, he met and was influenced by artist and teacher Johannes Itten, who was propagating Bauhaus ideas; he also found inspiration in Vasily Kandinsky's defense of abstraction, ber das Geistige in der Kunst. Insbesondere in der Malerei (On the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular, 1911).
His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Craven in Paris in 1953, entitled Peintures en Mouvement (Paintings in movement), where he showed two series of early work. In one, grids of painted strips that incorporated different designs on opposite sides created images that merged and changed as spectators shifted their viewing position (a type of lenticular print that eventually became known as an Agamograph). In the other, his Transformable Pictures (Images transformables, 1953–61), viewers could manually activate works and rearrange their visual elements. While not the first Optical-Kinetic artist, Agam encouraged spectator participation at a time when such strategies were rare. He exhibited, along with other pioneers of Kinetic art including Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely, at the Le mouvement (Movement) exhibition at the Galerie Denise René in 1955.
He continued to produce abstract, Kinetic work that incorporated light, sound, and viewer participation. He also produced many public commissions, including a moving salon environment at the Elysée Palace in Paris in 1972. In the space, walls were covered with lenticular imagery; transparent doors were included; and a sculpture was placed on a Kinetic carpet. In all, the environment shifted according to the viewer's position. In 1979, Agam was asked to make a work of art to commemorate the peacemaking efforts between Anwar el-Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
Category
Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Kinetic Lucite Plexiglass Obelisk Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning 1970s Lucite or Plexiglass sculpture boasts an abstract geometrical swirl shape with a milky white color mounted on a tall, stepped black Lucite or acrylic base. The pi...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Lucite, Plexiglass
2 William King Midcentury Modernist Aluminum Puzzle Sculptures of Acrobats
By William King
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Event and The Test - a group of 2 Mid-Century Modern aluminum acrobat sculptures.
William D. King (1925-2015)
These interlocking aluminum sculptures were part of a series, which w...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Mid Century Fiber Art Crocheted Wool Hanging Sculpture by Jane Knight 1970s
By Jane Knight
Located in Troy, MI
Suspended macrame sculpture by Michigan fiber artist Jane Knight circa 1970s
Three dimensional open weave crocheted sculpture in a muted chartreuse wool, adorned with a hanging bras...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Wire Spray Table Sculpture by Dave Grossman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A super cool stainless steel kinetic wire sculpture by Dave Grossman in the 1970s. It's a nice size table sculpture. Features a stainless cylindrical base with 100's of wires.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Modernist Curvilinear Sculpture in Brushed Aluminum w/ Onyx Base Signed Curtis J
By Curtis Jeré
Located in New York, NY
This sophisticated brushed aluminum modernist sculpture was realized in the United States in 1979. Created by an unheralded, but masterful artist, and signed Curtis J, the piece suggests a deconstructed Kandinsky painting...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
ARNULF HOFFMANN mobile / stabile / pendulum 1970 signed and numbered
Located in Köln, DE
Hoffmann, Arnulf (1935-2020) ‘Pendulum object’
1970, monogrammed "AH" / numbered 17/50.
Painted metal.
Measures height 40.5 cm.
Slight signs of age.
Very good condition.
Category
German Kinetic Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Eugenio Carmi Light Box, Signed Artwork, 1970, Italy
Located in Brussels, BE
Eugenio Carmi (1920-2016) "Segnale Immaginario Elettrico 23" artwork, 1970, Italy.
Black, white, multicolor plexiglass light box.
Turns off and on again at regular intervals (more or...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass
Holmegaard Handmade Glass Relief / Sun Catcher Abstract Motif "Summer", 1975
By Per Lütken, Holmegaard
Located in Odense, DK
Large handmade glass relief or sun catcher made for Holmegaard Glassworks 150th anniversary in 1975. Mounted in original cast iron holder. "The Seasons" we...
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Gilded Steel and Onyx Tabletop Sculpture by Curtis Jeré
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A original 1970s brass sculpture on a solid onyx base by Curtis Jeré.
Dimension: 33.25" high 31" wide 15" deep.
The onyx base is 6" high 5" ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Steel
Mid-Century Modern Hand Carved Grisaille Granite Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This dynamic and refined Mid-Century Modern sculpture was realized in the United States, circa 1970. It features a totem hand-carved form consisting of various tiers of grisaille gra...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Monumental Modernist Mixed Metal Kinetic Floor Sculpture by Irving Lehman
Located in Buffalo, NY
Titled Galaxy 79, which I believe to be the year? Amazing mixed metal sculpture, consisting of copper, brass, aluminum steel and wood. Aluminum frame consisting of five moving abstra...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper, Cut Steel, Aluminum
Optical Methacrylate light sculpture, France 1970s
Located in Rotterdam, ZH
Unique optical methacrylate light sculpture, France 1970s. Wonderful dimensional light sculpture composed of multiple methacrylate pieces, the pieces are dynamically positioned in a ...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic
Mobile-stabile in chrome-plated steel François Collette, France, 1970
By François Collette
Located in Paris, FR
Mobile-stabile sculpture in chromed steel. Monogrammed F.C. and dated 70.
Height: 54 cm (21.26 inches)
Width: 45 cm (17.72 inches)
Depth: 12 cm (4.72 inches)
Biography : François Collette...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Torch Cut Floral Arrangement from Brotman's Sausalito
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Hanover, MA
Torch cut brass and mixed metal kinetic floral spray in the style of Curtis Jere retailed through Brotman's Village Fair in Sausalito, CA circa 1970
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Cubo di Teo Illuminated Sculpture by James Rivière
Located in Barcelona, ES
Iluminated sculpture named Cubo di Teo designed by James Rivière in 1970's and edited by Centro Ricerche di Arte Industria Lissone, Italy. Colored acrylic ...
Category
Italian Kinetic Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic
Innovative Illuminated Acrylic Benches with White Tops and Clear Side Supports
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An interesting Kinetic sculpture with a sinuous brass arm and attached long metal wires with balls on the ends. The entire piece turns on a brass plate mounted on a circular marble p...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Brass
Carmelo Cappello Bronze Kinetic Sculpture, Signed, Numbered, Dated
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Traditional style sculpture for the well known Italian artist Carmelo Cappello. This is signed and dated 37/99 and 1978. The work shows patina of age and the work seats lose on the b...
Category
Italian Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Brass
Mixed Metal Abstract Sculptures by French Artist Chevallier
Located in New York, NY
Stunning mixed metal abstract sculptures by South of France artist Chevallier, circa 1970s. These distressed metal sculptures - one of copper, aluminum and brass and the larger of al...
Category
French Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Brass, Copper
Signed Vintage handmade mid century modern retro style abstract pottery
Located in Seattle, WA
Handmade wall Decor with a floral bird motif. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured.
Dimensions. 13” Diameter ; 0.75” H
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Abraham Palatnik. Op Art Cat Sculpture in Polyester Resin 1970's
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
Huge Brazilian modern kinetic sculpture made of acrylic resin designed by Abraham Palatnik, part of Artemis Collection made in the 1970's. This is the biggest version of the aforemen...
Category
Brazilian Kinetic Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
Table Top Acrylic Spray Sculpture
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Fun table top kinetic acrylic and wire spray with small brass tips. Cube measures 2.25" with the diameter of the spray reaching out to 32" diameter. Top on arches measure around 11"....
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large metal Mobile sculpture by Arnulf Hoffmann, 1972
Located in Rotterdam, ZH
Large metal mobile sculpture by Arnulf Hoffmann (1935), Germany 1972. Exceptional large and early pendulum / mobile in black lacquered ste...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Sculpture for Architects by Giò Pomodoro
By Gio Pomodoro
Located in Milan, Italy
Plumb line sculpture in brass and wood produced in 1970.
Numbered and signed Giò Pomodoro.
Produced for the company Torno S.P.A.
Biography
Giò Pomodoro...
Category
Italian Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Scultura cinetica italiana modern in plastica gialla di Franco Costalonga 1970
Located in MIlano, IT
Scultura cinetica composta da un tubolare in plastica giallo senape e una sfera con all’interno una bacchetta di radio che genera fasci di colore giallo.
Realizzata da Franco Costalonga...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Plastic
Sculpture by Yaacov Agam, Entitled "Reflecting Space"
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A stunning sculpture by Yaacov Agam Isreali, b. 1928 - Entitled "Reflecting Space", 1978.
Category
Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
1970s Formula 1 Car Sculpture Made with Assorted Old Mechanical Metal Pieces
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s Formula 1 car sculpture made with assorted old mechanical metal pieces: cars, bikes, lawnmowers, etc.
Category
Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Sculpture for Architects by Giò Pomodoro
By Gio Pomodoro
Located in Milan, Italy
Brass and wood sculpture "Livella" produced in 1970.
Numbered and signed Giò Pomodoro.
Produced for the company Torno S.P.A.
Biography
Giò Pomodoro: Brother of the famous sculptor A...
Category
Italian Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass
