1930s Sculptures

Patinated bronze head on a rosewood base signed Gibert (for Lucien Gibert).

French Carved Stone Sphere Depicting Grazing Deer

Entirely charming and whimsical, the anonymous sculptor of "Pan with Rabbit" has created a masterful portrait of a rotund Pan beguiling a woodland rabbit. Carved from a cylinder of r...

Joseph J. Emmanuel (Descomps) Cormier (1869-1950.) 'La Chaîne' a patinated bronze sculpture of woman and child, 1930s, raised on a marble base. Signed J.D. Cormier and stamped 4/...

Black Marble Belgian Eskimo Sculpture

This very rare pair of terracotta sculptures by Phoenix pottery, probably sculpted by Geza de Vegh, date from the 1930s and are strongly ...

Bronze sculpture in verdigris patina by Gabriel Forestier (1889-1969), representing "Aphrodite".Signed Gabriel Forestier on the base; also inscribed "Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris". France Circa 1930 Provenance: Private New York Art Deco collection. Forestier entered the Municipal School of Fine Arts of Bordeaux in 1907. He won the end-of-year competition in 1907 and was authorized to compete for the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris where he was permanently admitted in 1908. He settled in Paris. From 1909, at the age of 20, he received his first orders. He exhibited regularly at the Salon of French Artists between 1910 and 1939, and won several medals there. After the war, he obtained several commissions for war memorials across France: He sculpted the War Memorial of La Force, that of Ducey in 1921. In 1922, he made a study trip to Italy and continued his artistic research. He created the war memorials of Bergerac in 1927, and that of his hometown, Eymet. In 1930-1931, he participated in the creation of the large bas-relief for the facade of the Musée des Colonies, for the colonial exhibition of 1931. Returning to Paris, he continued his work. His "Giant Suffocating a Snake" from the Salon of 1934 earned him a gold medal, and he received the grand prize of the International Exhibition of 1937 for the creation of the sculpture of the bronze door of the City's museum of modern art from Paris. He received the title of knight in 1939, then Officer of the Legion of Honor of Arts and Letters in 1949 for his works. He served as a jury at the École des Beaux-Arts between 1939 and 1942. After the war, he created the Sea Horses fountain...

Signed M SIMARD, located PARIS and dated 1926 on the base. This is likely the Mona Vanna sculpture exhibited by Simard in 17th Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in 1927. Its date (of 1...

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...

Extremely rare aluminum string bass, circa 1930s, bass was originaly wood grain painted, has been stripped and polished.. restrung and set up, new bridge and custom (alcoa) tail piece, original ebony fret board, Sounds amazing. If purchasing to play, wonderful decorative sculpture, Pfretzschner aluminum bass In 1928, The Aluminum Company of America manufactured 50 aluminum double basses...

Stunning white and black Art Deco porcelain penny scale by Navco. Amazing design, reminiscent of a womans cloaked silouette, retains original key...

Of ovoid shape with a short neck, each panel of the body decorated with a single vertical band alternating with a double band filled with spirals and lines in relief. Original wooden box, the lid with an inscription reading Seidô ruimon rokugata kabin (bronze six-corned flower vase with chain pattern), the reverse of the lid with inscription reading Teiten shuppin (displayed at Teiten) Tomiyasu saku and sealed Tomi. A bit about the artist- Aida Tomiyasu...

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...

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...

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 ...

This Hungarian artist; Karl Grossl, Keramin was greatly influenced by The austrian artist Goldscheider. It is from the 30's. The FBS initials on the bott...