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Item Ships From: Continental US
"Pompeii, " Mixed Media Sculpture
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Contemporary Sculpture Wall Installation Red White Snake Animal Porcelain
By Bethany Krull
Located in Buffalo, NY
Duo (2022) by Bethany Krull. Porcelain, glaze, aluminum.
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Traveling Landscape (Roundtop Steamer)
By Kathleen Vance
Located in New York, NY
This sculptural installation incorporates running water and and interior light which activates the scene of a streambed along a grassy knoll. Kathleen Vance is an environmental artist who creates projects that connect people to local aspects of nature that are overlooked or under appreciated. With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes with running streams and rivers inside vintage suitcases and trunks...
Category
2010s Conceptual Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Resin, Watercolor
Tu Me Connais - Yunomi (MADE TO ORDER) (Hand-painted, hand-made, porcelain)
By Melanie Sherman
Located in Kansas City, MO
(MADE TO ORDER) (Hand-painted, hand-made, porcelain)
*Lead Time may vary between 1-3 weeks
Melanie Sherman
"Yunomi" - (Du Kennst Mich Series)"
Year: 2021
Porcelain, Glaze, ChinaPain...
Category
2010s Victorian Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Luster, Porcelain, Glaze
"Spirita", Frederick Hart, Acrylic Sculpture, 15x14x7 in., 330/350, white
By Frederick Hart
Located in Dallas, TX
"Spirita" Dimensions: 15" x 14" x 7" Medium: Clear Acrylic Resin Edition of 350 Hart wanted to sculpt light, from which forms move in and out, that defined the very delicate sense of...
Category
1980s Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic Polymer
Rare Belgian Marble Jewish American Modernist Sculpture Chaim Gross Art Deco
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a wonderful original hand carved unique marble sculpture by one of America's most treasured artists, Chaim Gross. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed op...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
DONALD Dollars - Pop Art Sculptures
By Alben
Located in New York, NY
Cheeky references to pop culture and the societal context. Donald Duck is cast in resin with banknotes inside.
Grounded in a postmodern vernacular, Alben’s paintings and sculptures ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media
September Morning, Female Flower Form
By Albert W. Wein
Located in Greenwich, CT
Albert Wein is one of America's foremost sculptors of the Deco period through Abstraction. September Morn is a poetic work that was very singular in his oeuvre as he embraced a sligh...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Monumental, " Springstone Sculpture signed by Shona artist Phineas Masaya
By Phineas Masaya
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Monumental" is an original springstone sculpture by Shona sculptor Phineas Masaya. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features an abstracted figure.
10 1/2" x 4" x 4" art
Shona artists and crafts people have been working in different media for generations. These include paintings, pottery, basket ware, wood carvings, and sculpture done in metal as well as the stone carvings. While there is not a long standing tradition of sculpture in what is now Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia), stone carvings dating from the 15th century were seen in Great Zimbabwe, an excavated temple near Bulawayo. Most of the artifacts from this location have been moved to museums in Cape Town, South Africa or London.
It is generally agreed that Zimbabwean stone sculpture as seen today began during the late colonial period of the 1950's and 1960's. During this period the artists and artisans depicted many of the traditional Shona and other tribal spiritual myths.
Out of all the nations in Africa, the large varieties and abundant supplies of rock formations present throughout the Zimbabwe landscape...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Chocolate Bear
By Alessandra Pierelli
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Thumbtacks and mixed media
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Kneeling Female Zombie
By Amy Young
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Kneeling Female Zombie
Materials : Wood Fired Porcelain
Date : 2016
Dimensions : 5″ x 6.25″ x 5″
Signed
Gallery COA provided
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Amy Young Artist State...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze
Untitled Man With Closed Eyes
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Untitled 1989 Man With Closed Eyes
Bronze on wooden base
WILLIAM LUDWIG (1935-2011)
Education:
University of Connecticut, 1957-1961
Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, 1961-...
Category
1980s Academic Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Keith Haring Bearbrick 400% (Keith Haring BE@RBRICK)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Bearbrick Vinyl Figures: Set of two (400% & 100%):
A unique, timeless collectible trademarked & licensed by the Estate of Keith Haring. The partnered collectible reveals the late iconic artist’s artwork from the mid 1980s wrapping the figure in its entirety. Housed in a standout Keith Haring collectors box. Complete sold out & out of print.
Medium: Vinyl Figurine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Unique Ceramic Cubist Bust
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown, in the style of Pablo Picasso
Medium: Painted Terracotta Sculpture
Size: 27 tall x 15 x 12 inches
Category
20th Century Cubist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$20,000
Sancai-Glazed Horse with Cut Fur Blanket
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Chinese, Tang Dynasty, Sancai-glazed, three colors of brown, green and creamy, sculpture of a horse with a cut fur blanket. This Chinese, Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), glazed earthenw...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Glaze
In Her Own Wake No. 2
By Kensuke Yamada
Located in Columbia, MO
Kensuke Yamada (b. 1979) was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. He received his MFA from the University of Montana in 2009 and has a BA from The Evergreen State College, in Olympia, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Quarter Horse
By Ernst Gramatzki
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A life-sized fiberglass sculpture of a horse, unsigned. This specific breed of horse the sculpture is based on is called Quarter Horse. Many visitors to ...
Category
1990s Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass
Nude Girl Venus doves grapes Art Deco Vénus Bronze colombes aux raisins
By Auguste Gilbert Privat
Located in Miami, FL
The present work personifies high-end Art Deco. It has a wonderful deep, rich green patina and commands the eye in any room. It looks better in person and is quite heavy.
signed an...
Category
1920s Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La Musique Patinated Bronze Sculpture by Delaplanche
By Eugène Delaplanche
Located in New York, NY
EUGÉNE DELAPLANCHE
French, 1836-1891
La Musique
Signed E. Delaplanche, F.Barbedienne Fondeur
Patinated Bronze with brown patina circa 1878
Fou...
Category
Late 19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Latin American Sculpture by Raúl Valdivieso
By Raúl Valdivieso
Located in Washington, DC
Bronze sculpture by Latin American sculptor Raúl Valdivieso (Chilean, 1931-1993). Valdivieso is known for his reinterpretation of the classic organic forms and human figures.
Raúl Valdiveso was born September 9, 1931 in Santiago, Chile. In 1952 he began his studies at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile. There he took to sculpture and studied under professors like Marta Colvin...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,660 Sale Price
30% Off
Hebru Brantley Flyboy (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley Flyboy Pop Art Sculpture / Hebru Brantley Beyond the Beyond, 2018. New in its original packaging.
Medium: Painted cast vinyl.
Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 4 inches (22.9 x 20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Hercules and the Centaur Nessus Bronze
Located in New Orleans, LA
This extraordinary Italian bronze embodies all of the hallmarks of the very best Florentine sculptures of the 17th century. The work is crafted in the Mannerist style of the late Ren...
Category
17th Century Mannerist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Giuliano Tosi Large Italian Sculpture - Glass Head with Red Eye
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Fascinating Large Italian Glass Sculpture - Face with Red Eye.
Incised signature on the base - Giuliano Tosi.
Created by the famous Italian glassmaker circa 1970's - 1980's.
The work measures 19 ½ inches high and 11 inches across at the widest point.
It is in excellent condition with no damage and is quite an eye-catching objet d'art.
Master Giuliano Tosi, born in 1942, hails from a lineage steeped in glassmaking tradition dating back to 1483. His journey with glass began at the tender age of 12, under the tutelage of Master Albino Carrara. Recognizing Tosi's burgeoning mastery, Carrara gifted him his corteo, an essential glass-cutting tool, symbolizing a rite of passage and an honor Tosi cherishes to this day.
Tosi's expertise extends beyond traditional techniques, evident in his introduction of the external sbruffi technique in furnaces, a method enhancing color vibrancy and variation. His works have graced galleries worldwide, including Milan's Fashion District, Chicago, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, marking him as a significant figure in Murano's glass history over the past six decades.
His talent for creating art glass pieces has attracted commissions from luminaries such as the Pope, Julia Roberts, Michael Douglas, and Victoria Adams...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Mother Holding Baby Large Clay Sculpture Pre Columbian Style
By Walter Bastianetto
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Mother Holding Baby, large terra-cotta and clay sculpture.
From the Totonaca culture (state of Veracruz).
Modern Pre Columbian style large sculpt...
Category
1990s Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Terracotta, Resin
28” Orpheus Antique Bronze Sculpture Male Nude with Lyre by George Mattes 1900
Located in New York, NY
For sale is the great looking large male nude bronze sculpture of Orpheus by German Artist Professor George Mattes (1874-1945). Orpheus is seen along ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
AFRICAN SENUFO FIGURE
Located in Three Oaks, MI
This is a wooden sculpture of a man by the African Senufo tribe in Africa.
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Antique Indonesian Sculpture
Located in Rochester, NY
Exotic carved teak sculpture. The sentinel with his sword drawn. 19th century architectural artifact.
Category
19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Hot Dog Man, Found Objects and Paper Mache by Kay Ritter
By Kay Ritter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kay Ritter
Title: Hot Dog Man
Medium: Papier-mache Figure Sculpture with Mixed Media Found Objects, signed
Year: 1981
Size: 48 x 16 x 15 in. (121.92 x ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Papier Mâché
Bronze Abstract Space Age Book Sculpture LA California Modernist Charna Rickey
By Charna Rickey
Located in Surfside, FL
Charna Rickey 1923 - 2000 Mexican-American Jewish Woman artist.
Signed Bronze House of Books, Architecture Bronze sculpture, signed Charna Rickey and on the front "House of the book." It depicts an open Torah. Original patina.
Approx. dimensions: 7 in. H x 9 in. W x 8.5 in. D. Weight: 13.1 lbs.
Modernist Judaica Sculpture
Born Charna Barsky (Charna Ysabel or Isabel Rickey Barsky) in Chihuahua, Mexico, the future artist lived in Hermosillo and immigrated to Los Angeles when she was 11. She was educated at UCLA and Cal State L.A., she married furniture retailer David Rickey and explored art while raising their three daughters. Moving through phases in terra cotta, bronze, marble and aluminum, she found success later in life. Rickey became one of the original art teachers at Everywoman's Village, a pioneering learning center for women established by three housewives in Van Nuys in 1963. She also taught sculpture at the University of Judaism from 1965 to 1981.
As Rickey became more successful, her sculptures were exhibited in such venues as Artspace Gallery in Woodland Hills and the Courtyard of Century Plaza Towers as part of a 1989 Sculpture Walk produced by the Los Angeles Arts Council. Her sculptures have also found their way into the private collections of such celebrities as Sharon Stone.
Another of Rickey's international creations originally stood at Santa Monica College. In 1985, her 12-foot-high musical sculpture shaped like the Hebrew letter "shin" was moved to the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The free standing architectural Judaic aluminum work has strings that vibrate in the wind to produce sounds. Rickey also created art pieces for the city of Brea. They commissioned some amazing art pieces by Laddie John Dill, Walter Dusenbery, Woods Davy, Rod Kagan, Pol Bury, Niki de Saint Phalle, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Larry Bell, John Okulick...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Gymnast (bust), Bronze Sculpture
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture with marble base. Incised artist signature and date. Sculpture size 13.5 x 7 x 6 inches (including base). Sculpture is in excellent condition (marble base has a c...
Category
1980s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$4,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Pablo Picasso 'Yan petites têtes' (A. R. 515) Little Faces Madoura Pitcher 1963
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Miami, FL
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Yan petites têtes (A. R. 515)
Terre de faïence pitcher, 1963, numbered 142/300, inscribed 'Edition Picasso' and 'Madoura', painted, with the Madoura stamp.
Category
1960s Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
Basquiat Warhol Haring Bearbrick 400%: (set of 3 works)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Basquiat Bearbrick 400%: set of 3 works (c. 2019-2021):
Unique, timeless Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat collectibles, each trademarked...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
$1,125 Sale Price
25% Off
Queen of Owls, Modern Marble Sculpture by Antonovici
By Constantin Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original carved marble sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his Owl Series. Referenced in "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls", pg 51. signature and date inscribed verso.
...
Category
1970s Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Vintage Jerusalem Western Wall Relief Sculpture Model Diorama Painting Judaica
By Manobla
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Manobla, (Israeli, 1930-1979), The Western Wall (The Wailing Wall), Painted diorama sculptural relief, 12.5 x 15.75 inches (relief), 17 x 20.25 inches (including original painted artist’s frame), Signed lower right. titled verso "the Wailing Wall".
I am not sure of the material used. I have seen some described as jerusalem stone and some as composition.
Provenance: The Engel Gallery Jerusalem. The Engel Gallery was founded in Jerusalem in 1955. Rafi Lavi, Arieh Aroch, Aviva Uri...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Red Indian #3 (Tomahawk) by Yoram Wolberger, 2008
By Yoram Wolberger
Located in Orange, CA
Red Indian #3 (Tomahawk) by Yoram Wolberger, 2008
Additional information:
Medium: Reinforced cast fiberglass composite and pigmented resin
Dimensions: 84 × 65 × 29 in (213.4 × 165....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Pigment, Resin
Vintage Arthur Court Aluminum Sculpture Cast Bouquet Flowers, Ladybug Home Decor
Located in Surfside, FL
A designer decor bouquet of aluminum floral forms by Arthur Court Designs (California). Produced 1989. Includes: four (4) aluminum flowers on stems; and...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"SEER" GESSO CARVED OIL ON WOOD PANEL HOUSTON ARTIST MID CENTURY MODERN
Located in San Antonio, TX
David Adickes
(1927 - present)
Houston Artist
Image Size: 10 x 8
Medium: Gesso, Carved, Oil on Wood Panel
"Seer"
Biography
David Adickes (1927 - present)
Adickes spent most of his professional life teaching, painting, and creating small bronzes. Now mainly known as a creator of giant sculpture, A commission for Houston's Performing Art Center in 1982 marks the beginning of his giant sculpture design. After the 36-foot tall cellist called the Virtuoso in a cubist style, he created a number of abstract works, including a giant cornet for the jazz stage at the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sculptor David Adickes is known for a major project titled Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he created 42 portraits bust of American presidents. Each sculpture is twenty feet tall, and their size was the subject of much protest and controversy. However, a court ruling allowed them to stay. President of Texas, followed by his 42 statue tribute to United States Presidents. Adickes has degrees in mathematics and physics which serve him well in the engineering of his works. Working on a giant sculpture series which includes the Beatles, and he hopes to end with a 280-foot tall cowboy statue...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Gesso, Oil
Bust of Albert Einstein, Plaster Sculpture 1964
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine patinated plaster sculpture Albert Einstein mounted to a painted wooden base. The sculpture is signed illegibly and dated on the re...
Category
1960s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Family, Modern Bronze Sculpture by Nili Carasso
By Nili Carasso
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nili Carasso
Title: Family
Year: circa 2001
Medium: Pair of Bronze Sculptures on Base, signature and numbering inscribed
Edition: 2/25
Size: Man: 11 x 7 x 4 inches ; Woman: 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Amancio. 24 The First rock- original sculpture bronze iron.
By Amancio González Andrés
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
The First rock- original sculpture bronze iron.
by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ
bronze.
Fantastic piece of art representing Spanish sculpture
AMANCIO Gonzalez ( Leon 1965 )
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Whistle A Happy Tune: shadow box painting & collage w/ figures & found objects
By Richard J. Watson
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a shadow box construction approx. 13" x 9" x 2.5" with painted and collaged materials and found objects. Encased in a dark wood frame under glass. It is signed and dated twice, at different orientations.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Found Objects, Acrylic
Jackson Pollock Bearbrick 1000% figure (Jackson Pollock BE@RBRICK)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jackson Pollock 1000% Bearbrick Figurative Sculpture:
A nicely sized (27 inch heigh), highly collectible Bearbrick Jackson Pollock statue piece, splattered from head to toe in Pollo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
A Step Ahead
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
A businessman trying to stay a step ahead of a large ring that appears to me rolling towards him.
Edition of 45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Miniature Bronze Sculpture of a Young Girl Holding a Doll
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Miniature Bronze Sculpture of a Young Girl Holding a Doll
Charming bronze atop a marble base
The overall dimensions are 2" wide x 2" deep x 5.75" high
Signed at the b...
Category
Late 19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Surreal Contemporary Figurative Mixed-Media Sculpture Found-Object American
Located in Buffalo, NY
One of a kind mixed-media sculpture by Philip Kuznicki from the Spirit exhibition. Comes in its original frame. Born in Dunkirk NY, Kuznicki started his career working for artists su...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
$1,012 Sale Price
20% Off
St Paul's Cathedral
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A new work by the artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
$390 Sale Price
40% Off
Large Judaica Copper Repousse Sculpture Relief Plaque Arie Merzer Bezalel Era
By Arieh Merzer
Located in Surfside, FL
Arieh Merzer (Israeli, 1905-1966)
Copper relief sculpture panel in gilt frame
Framed dimensions 18 X 26.25, copper 14.5 X 22.5
Arieh Merzer ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Copper
"Dancer" David Hare, Male Nude, Figurative Sculpture, Mid-Century Surrealist
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Dancer, circa 1955
Bronze with integral stand
68 high x 17 wide x 13 1/2 deep inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.”
Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp.
In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career.
After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen.
In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941.
World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors.
At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
Category
1950s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
PAX (BETWEEN TIMES) - Geometric Sculpture Vintage Salvaged Building Materials
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Brian Russell Jobe (American, b. 1981) is an artist and non-profit director based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Jobe's studio practice is focused on sculptur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Marble
Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Leo Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Minna Rothenberg Harkavy (1895-1987) Estonian-American
This is not signed
bronze portrait bust
Provenance: Estate of the artist by descent
Minna Harkavy (1887 – 1987) (birth occasio...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Keeping the Ball Rolling
By Jane DeDecker
Located in Greenwich, CT
Life-size sculpture of a bare-footed boy balancing himself atop a ball.
Category
1980s Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
KAWS GONE & KAWS BFF Companions (set of 2 works)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS GONE Grey & KAWS Pink BFF Companions (set of 2 works 2017-2019):
Medium: Vinyl paint & Cast Resin (applies to each work). Published 2017 & 2019, respectively.
GONE: 14.25 x 7 i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
"Jokwe Maternity, Angola, " Carved Wood created in Africa circa 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Jokwe Maternity, Angola" is a wood sculpture from Africa created circa 1910. The figure kneels on the ground holding a baby in her arms. Her eyes are closed and she is wearing a com...
Category
1910s Tribal Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"CALL NOW WHILE SUPPLIES LAST", Ceramic Sculpture, Sinking Ship, Disaster, Humor
By Andrew Smenos
Located in Toronto, Ontario
From the Apathy Series, Andrew Smenos' recent body of ceramic sculptures, comes "CALL NOW WHILE SUPPLIES LAST" – a cargo ship sinking slowly... At 6x3x3"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Charles Perron "Woman with Iris" Patinated Bronze
By Charles Perron
Located in Astoria, NY
Charles Theodore Perron (French, 1862-1934) "Woman with Iris" Gilt and Patinated Bronze Sculpture, late 19th century, the standing figure upholding Irises, on a circular base, signed...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte
Located in New York, NY
RENZO COLOMBO
Italian, (1856-1885)
Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte
Patinated bronze; Signed R. Colombo 1885 on Right Side
22 x 15 inches
Notes:
The...
Category
Late 19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Bronze Bust Sculpture of Diane de Poitiers, 18th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
After Jean Goujon (French, 1510-1568)
Bust of Diane de Poitiers, 18th/19th Century
Bronze
14 x 7 x 5 inches
22 x 8 x 7 inches, with base
Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and prominent courtier. She wielded much power and influence as King Henry II's royal mistress and adviser until his death. Her position increased her wealth and family's status. She was a major patron of French Renaissance architecture...
Category
Late 18th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
VV - Vinyl Vador - Resin Sculpture Pop Art inspirée by Star Wars
By Alben
Located in New York, NY
Cheeky references to pop culture and the societal context.
Grounded in a postmodern vernacular, Alben’s paintings and sculptures are a pastiche of art historical moments including P...
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media
David Hostetler Bronze Sculpture African Figurative Female By Commission
By David Hostetler
Located in Nantucket, MA
Tribal Figure is a bronze cast from a wood carving. The bronze base is cast from an antique mill stone and it is attached to a steel disk to bolt do...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
