1930s Sculptures

A prototype by Dutch sculptor Wessel Couzyn in plaster depicting a blacksmith with hammer. Signed at base. Couzyn attended the Dutch Royal Academy of Plastic Arts in the late 1930s and was awarded the Prix de Rome in that time to study in Italy. Some bronze works can be found at the Jewish Heritage...

French 1940s Majolica stylized horse with extended legs & head arched towards back in pale blue with white mane & tail (att: PRIMIVERA/GAUDIN)

Stunning Continental bronze sculpture with three quarter female torso in the Roman style.

Art Deco Ceramic sculpture of an idolized man staring in the distance while leaning on a ship's rudder. Makes a great statement on a Console, Sideboard or Fireplace Mantel.

A large and beautifully patinated set of galvanized steel wind turbine blades arranged in a radial pattern and connected by two steel rings.

Wire sculptures of two matching monoplanes. These were made by the same hand as the bicycles listed as item #U120310916064 and automobiles U120310916065. The planes measure 10 1/2" ...

Art Deco figural bronze of a javelin thrower with patina mounted on a black marble base.

Austrian bronze sculpture in the manner of Hagenauer from around 1930. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age, pr...

Gaetano Cecere N.A. was born in New York on November 26th, 1894, to Ralph Cecere and Catherine La Rocca. He studied with Hermon A. MacNeil at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. His service during World War I earned him a Soldier’s Medal...

Gaetano Cecere N.A. was born in New York on November 26th, 1894, to Ralph Cecere and Catherine La Rocca. He studied with Hermon A. MacNeil at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. His service during World War I earned him a Soldier’s Medal...

Hand-carved wooden Folk Art hunter with a sheet metal hat. Original red, white and black paint surface.

These two finely detailed wire sculptures depict slightly different bicycles. The piece on the left is actually a tricycle and on the right is what is called a bonecruncher. Both are...

Gaetano Cecere N.A. was born in New York on November 26th, 1894, to Ralph Cecere and Catherine La Rocca. He studied with Hermon A. MacNeil at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. His service during World War I earned him a Soldier’s Medal...

Rabochy i Kolhoznitza (The Worker and the Collective Farm Girl) by Vera Mukhina (Russian, 1889-1953). An important bronze sculpture after the original mo...

A wonderful carved wood bird in flight mounted on a bronze arm painted black which attaches to a marble base. The person we acquired this sculpture from claimed that it belonged to h...

Art Deco desk lamp by Boris Lacroix - 1930s. The ART DECO table lamp is a remarkable example of early 20th century craftsmanship and style. This exclusive masterpiece from the EZAN...

Delicate Goldscheider Art Déco Ceramic Figurine of 1930s: Gracefully posing dancer in blue costume standing next to an octagonal pedestal: dotted bustier and short front skirt with l...

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...

Animal sculpture of two panthers grooming their fur Sculpture made of spelter (French: Régule), with original green patina Multi-part base with portormarble Original Art Déco, Fran...

French Art Deco goose sculpture by Desbarbieux at Saint-Clement, France, ca.1930. Crackle glaze ceramic. Width: 10"(25.5cm), Height: 6.1"(15.5cm), Depth : 3.5"(9cm). Marked in the mo...

Plaster male mannequin head. A vintage life size head with beard and brown eyes. An elegant man with beautiful painted eyes and lips. Can placed on a mannequin or used as a display....

Monumental six foot Art Deco wood sculpture of a woman. We cannot find any signature but, what a statement. We were told this piece was made in Europe,...

Art Deco sculpture "Seagull flying over a wave" in bronze and marble by Irénée Rochard, France Splendid sculpture representing a seagull flying over a wave, made of bronze and resti...

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...

Art Deco bronze sculpture hoop dancer by Georges Duvernet. Patinated bronze on a Portor marble and onyx base. France 1930. A slightly different version of this bronze is illust...

A beautiful ceramic vase in shape of a classical roman urn, the vase is designed at Upsala Ekeby in the 1930s. It is 21.5 cm (8.6") high and about 18.5 cm (7.4") in diameter and in v...

Art Deco lamp standing nude with ball by Max Le Verrier. This figural table lamp is the smaller version of the famous Clarté model. The statue is executed in Art metal with green pat...

Sculpture, attributed to Georges Lavroff Lady with kitten Bronze with original patina and partial gilding Stepped plinth Original Art Deco, France 1930s Dimensions: Width...

Maurice Prost (1894-1967, France) : "Walking Black Panthera" / "Panthère noire en marche" Black patinated and varnished bronze on a black fine Belgium marble base (Pure black colour stone with no veins) / Sculpture en bronze...

Beautiful and sculptural marble vide poche or small tray. This beautiful antique comes from France and dates to the 1930s. The slab of marble is translucent green with organically wo...

French Art Deco Decorative seated female figure by René Lalique, looking slightly upwards, made of colourless and salmon pink patinated glass. Signed on the bottom "Lalique France". ...

Elegant long shoe horn set with a stylised snake in bronze twisting around the center pole. It can be wall hung in your entrance. It was cast in Denmark circa 1930-40, probably by N....

Amphora, Czechoslovakia. Large hand-painted porcelain figure of a bear. 1930/40's. Measures: 31 x 21 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped.

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...