1950s Sculptures

French Majolica deer tureen signed Caugant, circa 1950.

Mid-century Bulldog & Scottish Terrier cigarette box, France, 1950's. Dogs playing cards. Wood and bakelite. Bakelite cards. Glass eyes. Capacit...

Italian Ceramic Woman Art Deco Style naked african woman enamel and gold Excellent condition Origin Italy Circa 1950 mid century Sealed in its ba...

Bust sculpture by Swedish sculptor Liss Eriksson. Made from Stoneware with oak hairpin and earring. Made during the 1950s. Signed with monogram LE and XXXV/XXXIII. Very good conditio...

A gorgeous classic decorative Statue or Miniature Sculpture. Some wear with a nice patina, but this is old-age. Made of a kind of metal, we think it's bronze or brass. Very decorativ...

This table lamp, is carved in the Olive wood. The wood has this light brown color of this wood, with the old patina. This lamp was made in France, circa 1950. US PLUG ADAPTATOR WIL...

Jared French (American, 1905-1988) Portrait bust of Chuck Howard, 1951 plaster on wood base Titled and signed with “CH" mongram for Howard over the date...

Beautifully cast and engraved sculpture of an Indian camel. Fine engraving in a floral theme makes it distinguished. The form and pose of the subject matter are captured in true prop...

Sculpture "Girl and flowers" by Swedish sculptor Bertil Lengstrand. Hand made ca. late 1950s. Made from forged iron and base in oak. Good vintage condition with age related wear and ...

Large organic free form wood sculpture made by hand in Denmark during the 1950-60s. Made by Danish wood carver or sculptor from a solid piece of maple. Heavy and highly expressive. U...

Incredible Murano glass blue sculptural tree vase circa 1950.

Wonderful painted French statue of a Parisian madam by the artist Josepha The piece is entitled 'Una Dimanche' and comes with a certificate of authenticity Piece is numbered 5 out o...

Incredible Archimede Seguso Murano glass 'rubino oro' circa 1950 cock.

Italian Bronze mid-century modern woman sculpture This study was attributed to the Italian well-known painter/sculptor Bruno Cassinari. Artist: Attributed to Bruno Cassinari Bronze...

Incredible BARBINI Murano glass multicolor with gold circa 1950 cock.

Incredible Fratelli Toso Murano glass bicolor with bubbles circa 1950.

Incredible and modern sculpture by Archimede Seguso 1950 in pink Murano glass pheasant.

Classic mid-century 1950s Vienna bronze figurine by Walter Bosse. This gorgeous small miniature creature with big personality designed by Walter Bosse, an expert craftsman from the golden age of Vienna bronzes is a real beauty. He designed his “black/gold” series of bronze figurines to make “as many people as possible happy.” Excellent example of a Walter Bosse brass figurine...

Incredible Archimede Seguso Murano glass multicolor tall pheasant circa 1950.

Incredible and large pheasant in Murano glass multicolor with air bubbles and gold attributed to Barovier &Toso, perfect. Unique piece.

Stamped by the Swedish artist Torolf Engström. Executed in bronze, number 1 out of 10 editions. Casting by E. Pettersson FUD. The Swedish Modern Nude Sculpture "Model Changes Her Po...

Incredible and large sculptural group of Murano glass by ARCHIMEDE SEGUSO 1950 bicolor with air bubbles fishes.

Incredible Archimede Seguso Murano glass "rubino oro"circa 1950

French Majolica pheasant tureen from Caugant, circa 1950.

Incredible Murano glass tricolor fish vase circa 1950. Perfect.

Bust Of Tutankhamun In Bronze Decorative bust of Tutankhamun in gilded and chiseled bronze. Very detailed and worked on the entire surface. In good condition. Measurements: 40x30x20 cm

Incredible Archimede Seguso 'sfumatto oro' Murano glass with applied parts and gold pheasant circa 1950.

Shoehorn Shows a cat by Walter Bosse around 1950s Original condition.

Very decorative and utterly attractive life-size pair of laquered wrought iron stork sculptures from the 1950s. Each Stork is well finished and both of them have a lovely naturally w...

Incredible BARBINI Murano glass bicolor with gold and bubbles circa 1950 cock.

Extremely rare shadow box wall art from the 1950's. Reminiscent of the work of Laurids Lonborg and Richard Galef, but probably Austrian. We had a t...

Incredible Italian Ceramic polychromed Cocker Spaniel natural size circa 1950.

Vintage oversized bronze sculpture of a parrot with green bronze patina after J. Moigniez. This sculpture is meticulously decorated with de...

Incredible Barbini Murano glass multicolor with bubbles and gold circa 1950 cock.

Cat by Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg in the "Lilla Zoo" series, 1950's. H: 9.5cm / 3.7 ″ and W: 11cm / 4.3 ″

Incredible primitive brazilian stool in noble wood representing 'Panther'circa 1950

Sitting boy sculpture, green lustro glazed ceramic. Giordano Tronconi (Faenza, 1932) Italy 1950s A juvenile important work by Giordano Tronconi. Signed Tronconi and numbered on t...

These stylized giraffes are made from two pieces of sheet metal, hand-worked and lightly hammered together to a fine, delicate finish. They stand on 4 tapering feet. The work is akin...

Claude Viseux est un peintre, sculpteur et graveur aquafortiste et lithographe français né le 3 juillet 1927 à Champagne-sur-Oise et mort le 9 novembre 2008 à Anglet. 'est dans les années 1959-1960 que la sculpture de Claude Viseux, qualifiée de « protéiforme, onirique, fantastique » — ami de Max Ernst, Man Ray, Francis Ponge et Henri Michaux, il ne désavoue pas une parenté avec le Surréalisme9 — se substitue à la peinture, ses premières réalisations étant les objets trouvés en bord de mer qu'il pétrifie dans la cire10 d'une part, les empreintes de pierres et d'algues coulées en bronze d'autre part. En 1960, il signe le Manifeste des 121 titré « Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie ». En 1961, ses expérimentations s'orientent vers les corps organiques, notamment avec sa série Ostéales constituée d'assemblages d'os fossilisés qu'il patine ou au contraire décape, qu'il visse, scie, assemble et plastifie. Les Concrétudes ou Coulées directes qui suivent en 1961-1962 sont obtenues à partir de coulées de métal en fusion dans le sable, générant des reliefs qu'il soude sur des plaques d'acier. Il va cependant adopter rapidement l'acier inoxydable — qu'il est avec Pol Bury parmi les premiers à employer en sculpture — comme matériau de prédilection. « Il assemble divers rebus industriels — tuyaux, écrous, boulons, cuves… — pour créer des sculptures à mi-chemin du mécanique et du biologique » restitue ainsi Sophie Serra11. Claude Viseux, qui fréquente alors Jean Tinguely, Piotr Kowalski, Michel Guino, Takis et César, confirme : « Ma récupération de l'élément industriel s'élargit vers les aciers spéciaux, avec un essai de vocabulaire formel : des barres, des profilés, des sphères, des rotules, des fonds de cuves, des chambres à combustion de Boeing, des tubulures, des soupapes de navire »9. « L'artiste entre au cœur de la réalité industrielle, prospecte dans les chaînes de montage de Renault et rôde dans les terrains vaques autour des usines », restitue donc l'encyclopédie Les Muses : « il récupère ferrailles, pièces détachées, débris de voitures, vieux châssis, toute une série d'éléments devenus inutiles. Ils les assemblent, tels quels, sans les modifier. Des créatures agressives ou pathétiques vont surgir de ce combat physique et dialectique que l'artiste livre avec la matière et entrer dans le domaine d'une poétique étrange, surnaturelle5 ». Dans les années 1967-1970, Les « structures actives » en acier inoxydable procèdent ainsi de la production industrielle de série. Elles se répartissent en familles de formes combinatoires composées par addition, soustraction, multiplication, division. Il confirme : « le monde industriel est ma nature, mon bouillon de culture, où je cherche des corps, des familles de corps, des genres, des espèces, dans un aller-retour de l'artificiel au naturel pour confondre les règnes, pour en inventer d'autres selon une géométrie organique qui féconde les différents types de structures, qui aménage la forme concernée par la forme à venir »9. En 1968, Claude Viseux s'installe à la villa Baudran à Arcueil, atelier qu'il conservera jusqu'en 1992. Si des corps imaginaires naissent ainsi des pièces mécaniques que Claude Viseux emprunte à l'automobile, à l'avion et au bateau, en 1972, « la symétrie de ces formes pures en inox », constate Lydia Harambourg, « l'amène à s'interroger sur la notion d'équilibre instable »12. Ses Instables sont de la sorte exposés à la Biennale de Venise en 1972 où, rappelle encore Lydia Harambourg, une salle entière est consacrée « aux dessins qui reprennent son vocabulaire mécanique identitaire de sphères, toupies, hélices, anneaux, astrolabes et balanciers »12. Les Instables sont de même, en 1973, présentés à la galerie Le Point cardinal à Paris où Claude Viseux avait déjà exposé en 1968 avec Henri Michaux et Joaquin Ferrer...

Older retro drying helmet on a stand on wheels, model Imperial from the period 1950s. Measurements in cm: H:168

Incredible pair of pheasants in Murano glass bicolor by ARCHIMEDE SEGUSO 1950. Unique pieces. Perfect.

Walter Bosse Figurine Shows the Neptune Sea God, circa 1950s 'marked on bottom' Original condition.

Vintage Studio Art Fish Sculpture made by Jack Whitney for ichthyologist George Sprague Myers circa 1959. This piece is titled The "African Snakewood Fish" and is hand crafted of solid wood. Showcases plenty of patina and vintage charm. Complements Danish modern or mid century decor.

Incredible Murano glass with gold elephant attributed to BARBINI circa 1950.

Incredible Antonio da Ros Murano glass bicolor circa 1950 cock.

Pen holder by walter bosse shows a cat around 1950s The pen is not for sale it is only for the photoshooting Original condition

Small unusual desk sculpture with removable bronze dice. Despite its small size its very heavy. The dice may have been mounted as a hood ornament originally and then made in to a dec...

Incredible and big Archimede Seguso "blue rubino" Murano glass circa 1950 pheasant on tree.

Incredible and big Murano glass in the style CENEDESE tricolor 1950 cock with bubbles.

Incredible ALBARELLI Murano glass representing blue fish circa 1950

Made in Italy, 1950s. This glazed ceramic piece is made by Giovanni Girardi, a famous ceramic artisan from Vicenza that worked for Lenci in Turin. It...

Beautiful pair of brass spread-wing eagle bookends by Virginia Metalcrafters, stamped 1952. The eagle is shown with its wings fully spread and a laurel branch and bundle of arrows clutched in its left talon. The eagle clutches a Union shield across its breast. The Union shield has a chief with three stars and six stripes completing the design. The eagle motif in décor and Folk Art has been widely used throughout our nation's history, most notably as part of our Great Seal. The founders of the United States were fond of comparing their new republic with the Roman Republic, in which eagle imagery, usually the golden eagle, was prominent. On June 20, 1782, the Continental Congress adopted the design for the Great Seal of the United States depicting a bald eagle grasping 13 arrows and an olive branch with its talons. When Charles Thomson put together the final design for the Great Seal, he placed a bundle of arrows in the eagle's left (sinister) talon. The official description specifies the bald eagle holding "in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows." The thirteen arrows are tightly aligned – a symbol of "strength in unity" that's found in the traditional cultures everywhere, from the Romans to the Iroquois— in this case a nod to the unity of the original 13 colonies. William J. Loth founded Virginia Metalcrafters in 1890, under the name Waynesboro Stove Company. The company, which made ornately cast Cook...

Incredible and rare Aureliano Toso Murano glass bicolor with air bubbles Cornucopia 1950.

Incredible ALBARELLI Murano glass multicolor circa 1950 cock.

This stunning life-size bronze sculpture captures the majestic essence of a Bengal tiger in all its untamed glory. The bronze is finished with a dark brown patina, giving this piece ...

Iron Sculpture Roman Chariot with Female Warrior, Italy 1950. Handmade bronze and iron roman female warrior and horse, with incisions. Original condition

Incredible Albarelli style Murano glass multicolor with air bubbles and gold 1950 cock.

Vintage Swedish stoneware horse by Lisa Larson for Gustavsberg, 1950s. This small Scandinavian modern ceramic horse figurine is part of the Small Zo...