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Item Ships From: California
Nureyev, Atelier, Red
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Considered to be one of Richard MacDonald’s greatest achievements, “Nureyev” draws on the artist's highly developed sensitivity for the experience of the dancer, and displays all the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roaring Twenties
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté is largely credited with creating the look of the Jazz Age. The 'Roaring Twenties' is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, but also in London and P...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
American Millionairess
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The inspiration for this sculpture comes from Erté's original costume design entitled "Texas," for the 1917 New York stage production of "The American Millionaires." This spectacular...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Faubourg St. Honoré
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Rue Faubourg St. Honoré is a famous street in Paris's 8th District. While narrow compared to the Champs Elysées, it is considered the capital of Haute Couture due to the presence...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Lovely Leave
By Mike Stilkey
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Original sculpture made of recycled library books with figure painted on the covers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Lisa-Wool Blend
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Original mixed media assemblage found object painting
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Copacabana
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Copacabana presents Erté's vision of fantasy, splendor, and femininity in a statuesque model wearing a cabaret costume. The gown is noted for its luxuriant richness and design. Softe...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mermaid
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Whether in the draping of a silk gown worn by an opera diva, or in the sparkle of an intricately beaded headdress worn by a woman of society, Erté had an exceptionally acute visual memory of every detail of his early design creations. It was no wonder then that his fashion designs were so adeptly applied to the sculpture format.
In Mermaid, we have a fine example of how Erté carried the technical possibilities of the sculpture medium to a new level. This attention to detail added to his legend as one of the Twentieth Century’s foremost artist-designers, with work represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Paris Opera House, the Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Through Mermaid, Erté takes us beyond the female form by choosing the intriguing legendary sea creature whose upper body is that of a woman, and whose lower body is that of an aquatic creature. In quintessential Erté style...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Trumpeter Draped, Atelier
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The Trumpeter represents the very embodiment of joy. With a thousand nuances of form, from her outstretched fingers to the carefree tilt of her head, she conveys a sense of youth and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chinchilla Sleeves
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Chinchilla Sleeves is based on a 1924 fashion design for Harper's Bazaar that showcased Erté's stunning new wraps and gowns for the upcoming season. A velvet gown edged with chinchil...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Leap of Faith, Atelier, Platinum, One Drop Special Edition
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Leap of Faith One Drop Special Edition Atelier is a special platinum Atelier edition of Richard MacDonald's iconic Leap of Faith sculpture, in support of the "One Drop" Foundation. L...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Bronze
On the Avenue
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
On the Avenue was created originally as a gouache and presents a female figure wearing a typical 1920's flapper outfit. During the 1920s, fashion for young women focused less on the ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sisters
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sisters was inspired by a gouache painting from 1921 entitled 'Les baisers pervers ou la brune et la blonde' and is a wonderful example of an invention of Erté's from the early 1920s...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tiger, Sculpture, Natural Onyx Stone, handmade by Garo
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: (Garo) Karapet Balakeseryan
Medium: Natural Onyx Stone, All one piece of work, One of a Kind
Year: 2023
Style: Classic, Impressionism,
Subject: Tiger,
Size: 15" x 11'' x...
Category
2010s Impressionist California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Cabaret
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cabaret, so evocative of cabaret-style shows, was a costume design for a 1940 production entitled 'Dream Waltz' by Oscar Strauss, based on a novella from 1905 by Hans Müller-Einingen...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Wave
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Originally executed as a fashion illustration for Harper's Bazaar, The Wave presents an anthropomorphic vision of feminine beauty borne from the sea while paying homage to Hokusai’s ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Broadway's in Fashion
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté, considered by many as the “Father of Art Deco,” often acknowledged that his love for the theater was a great source of creativity and inspiration. He conveyed in his art a drama with which he lived his life – a dream that came from the very innermost expression of his soul. Just like theater has two faces - comedy and tragedy - Erté was a brilliant showman, as well as a quiet man who sometimes would prefer to be left alone. From a young age, he was immersed in the world of opera, ballet, and theater. When he designed costumes and sets for theatrical productions, it was a lifelong desire that he was fulfilling.
“Broadway’s in Fashion” is a fitting tribute to the legendary Broadway from a man who pursued the theatrical in everything he did. In 1978, Erté was honored by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation at a gala celebration in New York entitled “Broadway’s in Fashion” for which Erté designed the poster. This led to a CBS-TV film on Erté narrated by the legendary Diana Vreeland, and an exhibition of his costume designs at the Boston Center of the Arts. This sculpture, in scarlet and black, with white gold embellishments, incorporates the elements for which Broadway is best known. Her elegant and confident posture reveals her costume, which is itself an homage to Broadway – the scarlet robe with gold tassels evokes the stage curtain as it rises to reveal the first act, the male and female dancers, energetically giving their all for each performance, and the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tribute to Jean Arp
By Jean Arp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tribute to Jean Arp. This decorative piece has been painted by hand on glazed porcelain with an intense red color.
Jean Arp Sargadelos Porcelain Vase. last quarter 20th Century sign...
Category
1980s Abstract California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
La Mystérieuse
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
La Mystérieuse was inspired by Erté’s design for a wedding gown published in Harper’s Bazar in 1923. Erté wrote, “The name comes from the effect of mystery of this exquisite outfit. ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tribute to Joan Miró
By Joan Miró
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tribute to Joan Miró, painter, sculptor, engraver and Spanish ceramist, considered one of the maximum representatives of surrealism.
This decorative piece has been painted by hand on glazed porcelain with an intense red colour, cooking in this stage at 800 º C (for third time). For this reason the production process is more laborious.
All hand decorated and finished at its two factories in the region. Homage A Miró...
Category
1980s Abstract California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Angelic Crystal, Marble Dust
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Intrigued by the stature and carriage of a particular figure, MacDonald pursued Angelic Crystal, the study of a ballerina in the studio. Inspired by a continuing appreciation of danc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Boolean, Original Contemporary Figurative Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Boolean
7 x 13 x 9 inches, 15 lbs
Concrete
Artist's Commentary:
This sculpture is about deep connection between woman and man
About the Artist:
In his work Peter is telli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
A Magisterial Mixed Media Cardboard Sculpture, "As the Crow Flies"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 19" x 44" x 10" Magisterial Mixed Media surreal Cardboard Sculpture executed by artist Debbie Korbel. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase...
Category
2010s Surrealist California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cardboard
Allonge, Atelier, Suite
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In his work entitled Allongé – to elongate or stretch - Richard MacDonald has sculpted the powerful lines of the male and female dancers, accentuating the graceful, yet powerful fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Golden Fleece
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté designed Golden Fleece for a Folies-Bergére scene entirtled "The Golden Fleece" and a 1926 George White's Scandals scene entitled "La Toison d'or." Erté, whose artistic style was influenced in part by a childhood admiration of classic Greek art, was always drawn to a good story with a sense of drama – typified by Greek tragedy.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 115, 207).
From the total edition of 462; numbered 215/375 (there were also 50 Roman and 37 AP).
Referring to the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, the Golden Fleece sculpture depicts an elegant woman in a classic Greek garment. The curled horns of the ram style her headdress, elegant in appearance and yet fierce in battle. Descending from these horns is the golden fleece itself, its curly mane covering the woman to her toes. Her gown, a gracefully draped toga, is designed to leave one breast bared, in the folkloric tradition of the Amazon tribe of women warriors...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jacques, Atelier, Red
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A richly flowing cape drapes his shoulders, as he crouches low, eyes looking upward, “Jacques” raises his hands to test the confining walls of his imaginary box. “Jacques” reminds us...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Flutist, Atelier
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The Flutist, Atelier was inspired by Richard MacDonald’s signature Heroic work, Joie de Vivre - the "joy of life." Drawing on his own belief in the irrepressible will of the human s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Butterfly, Atelier
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In Butterfly, Atelier the gesture has a powerful, yet sensitive, conviction of universality, which places it amongst Richard MacDonald’s most distinctive and original works of art. The Baroque spiral of the body and constant motion rises out of swirling earthy beginnings. The patina adds color and dynamic movement by creating tones, values, and pattern to emphasize the concept, and creatively underscore the message of spiritual release and personal freedom. Dawson Cole Fine Art
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Masquerade
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Masquerade is based on an image Erté originally created as a fashion drawing for Harper’s Bazar in 1922.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 119, 207).
From the total edi...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carrara Marble Fountain of Pan
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A Roman, Carrara marble sculpture of the mythological Greek god Pan as a fountain. Italy.
Category
1780s California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Angelic Crystal, Terracotta
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Intrigued by the stature and carriage of a particular figure, MacDonald pursued Angelic Crystal, the study of a ballerina in the studio. Inspired by a continuing appreciation of danc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Starfish
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté originally created this image as a costume design for the "Fonds de la Mer," a presentation of the Folies Bergere in 1919.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 108, 2...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Katherine Bust, Marble Dust
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Katherine Bust Atelier, Marble Dust uses cast carrara marble and draws on Richard MacDonald's unique sensitivity to the experience of the dancer. Based on a classical study for the m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Helen of Troy
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté’s image of Helen of Troy also exists as a gouache painting and a serigraph. Known as "the face that launched a thousand ships" and as Zeus' daughter, her story is one that is intricately intertwined with many of the Greek gods and goddesses...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cornucopia
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cornucopia pays homage to the great goddesses of abundance and fortune, with a modern twist – rather than showing the bounty of the earth overflowing from the horn, this Cornucopia o...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Blind Faith, Atelier, Red
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Blind Faith is an emphatic expression of the call to live life with passion, faith, and courage. Such a life is shaped by vision: not the vision of the eyes, but the unlimited vision...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Hunting
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Hunting is a sculptural interpretation of Autumn, a lithograph from Erté’s The Four Seasons. It represents a beautiful creature – half woman, half animal – wounded by a cruel hun...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Printemps
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté originally created this delightful image representing the feminine energy of Spring for a scene in “Les Rois des Legendes” at the Folies Bergère.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Wor...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Asian Princess
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Erté created many costumes and artworks inspired by his travels and experiences with the countries and cultures of the Asian world. In addition, the French music halls which were an ...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Motherhood
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
Motherhood is based on an image originally created as a costume design for Les Idoles at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in 1924.
Catalogue - Erté: The Last Works (Dutton, pgs. 179, 207...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Arabian Nights
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
In 1919, Erté began work with the greatest French music-hall star of her day, Gaby Deslys. It was for Ms. Deslys’ appearance in the production of Les Rois des Legendes that Erté crea...
Category
20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Guardian Red, Atelier
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Long fascinated by the brilliant spectacle of Cirque du Soleil, Richard MacDonald has brought sculptures to life that have the intrigue, allure and beauty that has made Cirque du Sol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roman Carrara Marble Lioness
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Magnificent hand carved Carrara marble sculpture of a lioness head from Rome. Mounted on a metal base. Base 13.75"W x 12.25"D.
Category
Mid-19th Century California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
Music (attributed)
By Philip Kran Paval
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Music (attributed), brass and wire construction, c. 1936, 28 x 14 x 5 inches; perhaps exhibited at Hollywood Riviera Gallery, 1936 (third prize); provenance includes Estate of Jon Spencer Helfen (Los Angeles, CA
About the Sculpture
In 1935, Philip Paval bought a box of metal in a “blind auction.” Paval, a painter, sculptor, and jeweler, had hoped the box contained silver. To his dismay, it was brass. Seeing an opportunity, Paval started to make sculptures from the brass sheets. His subjects included Cinema, Hollywood, Radio, Dance, Aviation and Music. The works were well-received with the Hollywood crowd and critically acclaimed. Actor and comedian, Ben Bard, purchased four of them for his theater, and novelist and screenwriter, Vicki Baum ordered four more for her drawing room. Movie director King Vidor also purchased them. Los Angeles Times art critic, Arthur Millier, described Paval’s “contraptions” as “ingenious, decorative, different.” Paval exhibited these works for several years in the late 1930s, including at the American Artists’ Congress Gallery in Los Angeles in an exhibition called Formalism and Abstraction in 1938 and at a solo show at Stendahl Galleries in 1939. The appeal of these works must have been irresistible, as a 1936 Los Angeles Times article noted, “Two feet of brass art has been stolen from the Hollywood Riviera Galleries. The work is an abstraction. It portrays the spirit of music and rested on the grand piano in the main hall. The work of Philip Paval, it won third prize in the current gallery exhibition at the gallery.” One can only wonder whether this is the “contraption” which was pilfered from the gallery nearly one hundred years ago. Given the description of the work, its subject matter and size, it seems likely.
About the Artist
Philip Paval was a sculptor, painter, and jeweler. Born in Denmark, Paval was apprenticed to a silversmith and studied art in Denmark. He immigrated to the US in 1919 and first worked as a merchant seaman in New York. The following year, Paval settled in Los Angeles where he later opened his own jewelry shop featuring works he designed and produced. Paval became a favorite in the entertainment world, making a good living selling silver...
Category
1930s Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Trumpeter Nude, Half life
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The Trumpeter represents the very embodiment of joy. With a thousand nuances of form, from her outstretched fingers to the carefree tilt of her head, she conveys a sense of youth and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Figurative Impressionist Bronze Metal Sculpture, "Just A Minute"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 15x15x9 Figurative Impressionist Bronze Metal Sculpture. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery.
Manuelita Brown is a San Dieg...
Category
2010s Realist California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
O-Flier, Atelier
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“O-Flier” is one of the more dynamic works to spring from the inspiration Richard MacDonald has found in the creative choreography and the artistic physicality of the extraordinary p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Zina
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative sculpture made from clay.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Ula (Celtic-Jewel of the Sea)
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative sculpture from porcelain.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Blue Ulric (German-Wolf Ruler)
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative sculpture of a figure mad in cast glass.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Taki (Japanese-Waterfall)
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative porcelain sculpture.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Ulric (German-Wolf Ruler)
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative sculpture in bronze with a blue patina.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kei (Japanese-Reverant)
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative sculpture made from porcelain and found iron.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Donna (Italian-Lady)
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative sculpture of porcelain.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Nix
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative sculpture made from cast clay fired into stoneware.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Cari II (Turkish-Gentle Stream)
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative sculpture of cast clay fired into stoneware.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Taki II
By Nancy Legge
Located in Mill Valley, CA
A figurative sculpture using porcelain and found iron.
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Winged Male Figure - Apollo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Winged Male Figure - Apollo, c. 1930s, polychrome bas-relief of cast aggregate, 12 x 26 inches; the...
Category
1930s Art Deco California - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
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