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Journey Trees IV, Sara Brennan, hand-woven textile wall sculpture
By Sara Brennan
Located in Wilton, CT
Journey Trees IV, linens and swing threads, 7.5" x 8" x 1", 2021.
This figurative woven textile piece is by UK-based textile artist, Sara Brennan (b. 196...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Linen, Thread
Signed Hebru Brantley Flyboy (Hebru Brantley art toy)
By Hebru Brantley
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley Flyboy, 2018:
A rare example of this coveted Hebru Brantley Flyboy - signed, dated and inscribed on the outer packaging. New in its original packaging.
Medium: Painte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Petit Fille, Bronze Sculpture with Patina
By Auguste Moreau
Located in Long Island City, NY
This bronze sculpture by Auguste Moreau is a beautiful work from the Romanticism period. Auguste was the third son of sculptor and painter ...
Category
19th Century Romantic Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Haitian Folk Art Outsider Art Steel Drum Metal Work Sculpture Murat Brierre
By Murat Brierre
Located in Surfside, FL
Murat Brierre or Murat Briere (1938–1988) was one of Haiti's principal metal sculptors. He was influenced by George Liautaud, but his work acquired its own, highly experimental style, often focusing on multi-faceted and conjoined figures, fantastically personified elements, and unborn babies visible within larger creatures. He sculpted works that reflected both Christian and Haitian Vodou themes.
Murat BRIERRE was born in Mirebalais in 1938. He first worked as a builder, cabinetmaker and blacksmith before being introduced to Le Centre d’Art in 1966. After trying painting with DeWitt Peters, he realized that metal sculpture was best suited for him and studied under Georges Liautaud in order to learn the métier. He also made very beautiful linocuts. Francine Murat quickly recognized his talent and considered Brierre to be one of the best Haitian sculptors. He passed away in 1988 at the age of 50.
Brierre’s works have been exhibited in France, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Mexico and Jamaica, in such places as the Abbaye de Daoulas, the Grand Palais, the Brooklyn Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Mexico and the Musée du Montparnasse. His work is part of the permanent collections at the Waterloo Museum, the Davenport Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Le Centre d’Art, the Musée d’art Haïtien du Collège Saint-Pierre and the Musée de Panthéon National Haïtien.
References
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Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
PAULA BLACKMAN Seated Cat Bronze Sculpture Black Patina 2017 FEMALE ARTIST
By Paula Blackman
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
“Bast” is A limited edition bronze sculpture of a seated black cat on a black marble base.
Black patin
From the limited edition of 8.
Signed 1/8
Paula Blackman has been a bronze scu...
Category
2010s Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Figure vase by Beatrice Wood BEATO
By Beatrice Wood
Located in Morton Grove, IL
A rare and beautiful vase by Beato! Beatrice Wood,
It is signed.
Beatrice Wood (American, 1893–1998) was a painter, draughtsman, and sculptor best known for her luster-glazed ceramic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glaze, Terracotta, Ceramic
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Kinetic Bronze Expressionist Sculpture Skier or Surfer Modernist Sporting Figure
Located in Surfside, FL
Vintage stylized figural sculpture by J James Akston (1898-1983 Poland/New York/Florida) Crafted of cast bronze with a rich dark brown patina. A sports figure, depicting a snow skii...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze Figural Sculpture of Gloria Victis by Antonin Mercié
By Marius Jean Antonin Mercié
Located in New York, NY
Gloria Victis, a winged figure of victory carrying a fallen warrior casted in bronze with brown patina. Inscribed with 'F. Barbedienne. Fonduer' mark and...
Category
19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"MOVIN' ON UP, Ceramic Sculpture, Apartment Building on Fire, Disaster, Humor
By Andrew Smenos
Located in Toronto, Ontario
From the Apathy Series, Andrew Smenos' recent body of ceramic sculptures, comes "MOVIN' ON UP" – an apartment building in flames and on fire... At 17x11x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Polychrome Bronze Sculpture Jazz Nightclub Piano Player in Tuxedo Bruno Luna
By Bruno Luna
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Bruno Luna (Mexican, b.1963)
Era: 20th century
Dimensions: 14.5"L x 5.25"W x 10"H
Edition Number: 22 of 30
The sculpture, exquisitely fashioned from bronze, portrays a voluptuous jazz cabaret pianist seated at a grand piano, attired in a tuxedo painted to enhance the details. Signed Bruno Luna.
Bruno Luna was born in Mexico City in 1963. (his birth name was Norman Bardavid) Interested in art since his childhood, he completed a painting workshop with Professor Robin Bond, and then on to the Anahuac University of Mexico City to study Architecture and Graphic Design. He was an assistant to Marcelo Morandin, A renowned Mexican Sculptor. Over the years, his work evolved into a very distinct style, A style of voluptuousness influenced by Colombian master Fernando Botero (he calls them Gorditos) along with influences of Mexican tradition, and a cubist, almost Picasso esque treatment of the human figure. Bruno Luna's sculptures carry an undeniable air of joyousness, happiness and vitality. His work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many public and private collections. Among those are the collections owned by Prince Rainier of Monaco, the American actor Chevy Chase, and many others. Bruno Luna's sculptures appeared on Mexican most popular syndicated network, Televisa, in a soap opera called "Mi Abuelo y Yo".
in 1986 he founded the 10/10 Gallery, promoting mainly artists from Mexico...
Category
20th Century Pop Art 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
"Aspen Under Cover" (2023) By Tim Cherry, Bronze Sculpture
By Tim Cherry
Located in Denver, CO
"Aspen Under Cover" By Tim Cherry is an original, handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a pair of rabbits facing each other underneath two branches.
Category
2010s Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dance to Paradiso, Atelier
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In "Dance to Paradiso," Richard MacDonald masterfully captures an exceptional moment of observation as two figures engage in a dynamic dance with utter trust and harmony. This contem...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"SHURA CROSS BW" Ceramic Sculpture 10" x 6.5" inch by Grigorii Gorkovenko
By Grigorii Gorkovenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"SHURA CROSS BW" Ceramic Sculpture 10" x 6.5" inch by Grigorii Gorkovenko
SHURA ceramic
An elegant shape and free lines are combined together to create an image of the Russian matre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Surrealist Figurative Sculpture, "Siren"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist figurative sculpture made from wood by San Diego artist, Debbie Korbel. Its dimensions are 72" x 66" x 42". A...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Driftwood
Stephanie Todhunter, Donna, Mixed Media, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stephanie Todhunter
Title: Donna
Year: 2019
Size: 8"x7"x4"
Material: Plaster of paris, found objects, spraypaint, alcohol inks
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Found Objects, Ink, Spray Paint
Donna in piedi, 2016
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Pair of 19th Century Japanese Bronze Vases
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Pair of large late 19th Century Japanese bronze vases with elephant heads handles, and details in dark brown and green patina as shown on the photos.
Category
Mid-19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Horse at Rest – Contemporary Freestanding Animal Sculpture by Zura
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Horse at Rest captures a moment of stillness that transcends exhaustion or defeat. The sculpture isolates the fallen body of the horse—not as a symbol of failure, but of surrender, m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Northern White Rhino Figure Sculpture – Contemporary Wildlife Art by Zura
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This sculpture honors one of the planet’s most endangered creatures—the northern white rhinoceros. With only two females remaining, the species stands at the brink of extinction. Zur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Horse Torso Sculpture – Abstract Figurative Animal Form by Zura
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A study in strength and fragmentation, Horse Torso isolates the powerful core of the animal, capturing motion held in suspension. Muscular yet abstracted, the sculpture suggests endu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Harriet Frishmuth 1923 Bronze Of The Vine
Located in Dallas, TX
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (American, 1880-1980)
The Vine, 1921
Bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 11.5 inches (29.2 cm) high on a 3/4 inches (1.9 cm) high marble base
Inscrib...
Category
1920s Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Victor Salmones “Torso” Bronze Sculptural Dining / Center Hall Table, A/P
By Victor Salmones
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer: Victor Salmones (Mexican, 1937-1989)
Marking(s); notes: signed, marking(s); Artist Proof
Country of origin; materials: Mexico; bronze, glass
Dimensions: 30″h, 42″dia...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italian Grand Tour Augustus Caesar Carrara Marble Bust 19th Century
Located in Rochester, NY
Carved Carrara marble bust of Augustus Caesar. Italian grand tour. Mid 19th century.
#roman classical greek sculpture not signed . rare. museum paris
Category
Mid-19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Monumental Outdoor Bronze sculpture "Sfera Antares" by Gianfranco Meggiato
By Gianfranco Meggiato
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Beautiful kinetic out-door sculpture by Gianfranco Meggiato. Bronze.
Gianfranco Meggiato was born on August 26, 1963 in Venice, where he studied stone, bronze, wood and ceramics scu...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Listening for Spirit
By Denny Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Listening for Spirit by Denny Haskew
Female nude
Bronze (silver nitrate patina) on sandstone 8x6x10" ed/30 (height is variable based on stone)
si...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone, Bronze
Vintage Art Deco Signed Original Bronze Woman Portrait Limited Edition Sculpture
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed and numbered art deco sculpture by Erte. Painted Bronze cica 1987.
Category
1980s Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"WOOT" Text-based Floral Wall-Hanging with Layered and Cut Paper
By Charles Clary
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"WOOT" is an original wall-hanging sculpture by Charles Clary as part of the artist's popular "Text-i-monial" series. To create the artwork, Clary hand cuts a series of individual sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Wood Panel
Surrealist Hanging Wall Sculpture, "Happy Hour"
By Cheryl Tall
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original wall sculpture by San Diego artist, Cheryl Tall. Its diameter is 12 inches. A Certificate of Authenticity will follow the delivery of this piece.
Th...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
SENTINEL
By Phillip Shore
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Phillip Shore's artwork is informed and influenced by his travels to and the study of the archeological artifacts from Ancient Greece and the relationship between humans and the env...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Iron
Surrealist Sculpture, "Zoom Birthday"
By Cheryl Tall
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original wall sculpture by San Diego artist, Cheryl Tall. It's 26 inches in height, with a length of 18inches and a depth of 4.5 in...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
'ComplexCon: Mr. Dob' (Gold Edition)
By Takashi Murakami
Located in New York, NY
'ComplexCon: Mr. Dob' (Gold), created by Takashi Murakami in 2016, is a sculpture that merges high art, pop culture, and commercialism. Featuring Mr. Dob, a recurring character with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Vinyl
Africa Female Artist Stone Sculpture Figure Celebrate Modern Contemporary Signed
By Colleen Madamombe
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Celebrations (C-56)" is an original black serpentine stone sculpture by Colleen Madamombe. The artist signed the piece, and it weighs 228 pounds. This piece features a woman with a ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
An Exceptional Life-Size Middle Eastern Gold-Inlaid Steel Deer Sculpture
Located in Queens, NY
An Exceptional Life-Size Middle Eastern Gold-Inlaid Steel Deer Sculpture
This extraordinary life-size Middle Eastern deer sculpture exemplifies the pinnacle of artistic craftsmanshi...
Category
20th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Bronze Female Nude Sculpture Modernist, WPA, New York Chelsea Hotel Artist
By Eugenie Gershoy
Located in Surfside, FL
Eugenie Gershoy (January 1, 1901 – May 8, 1986) was an American sculptor and watercolorist. Eugenie Gershoy was born in Krivoy Rog, Russia (Krivoi Rog, Ukraine) and emigrated to New York City in the United States as a child in 1903. Considered somewhat of a child prodigy, Gershoy was copying Old Master drawings at the age of 5. Her interest and talent in art was encouraged from a very young age. Aided by scholarships, she studied at the Art Students League under Alexander Stirling Calder, Leo Lentelli, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Boardman Robinson. Around this time, she created a group of portrait figurines of her fellow artists, including Arnold Blanch, Lucile Blanch, Raphael Soyer, William Zorach, Concetta Scaravaglione, and Emil Ganso, which were exhibited as a group at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At age 17, she was awarded the Saint-Gaudens Medal for fine draughtsmanship. Early in her career she became an active member of the Woodstock art colony. In Woodstock she experimented by sculpting in the profusion of indigenous materials that she found. Working with fieldstone, oak and chestnut, Gershoy created works based on classic formulae. As she became more interested in the dynamism of everyday life, she found that these materials and her idiom were too restrictive. By the time Gershoy came to Woodstock in 1921 her own individual artistic style was already evident in her sculptures. Eugenie Gershoy worked in stone, bronze, terracotta, plaster and papier-mache. Gershoy’s sculptures were mainly figurative in nature and many of her artist peers such as Carl Walters, Raphael and Moses Soyer, William Zorach and Lucille Blanch, became her subjects. Eugenie Gershoy’s works on paper should not be overlooked. She was the winner of the Gaudens Medal for Fine Draughtsmanship at the tender age of 17. Gershoy married Jewish Romanian-born artist Harry Gottlieb. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the pair kept a studio in Woodstock, New York. There, Gershoy was influenced by sculptor John Flanagan, who lived and worked nearby.
From 1936 to 1939, Gershoy worked for the WPA Federal Art Project. She collaborated with Max Spivak on murals for the children's recreation room of the Queens Borough Public Library in Astoria, New York. She developed a mixture of wheat paste, plaster, and egg tempera, which she used in polychrome papier-mâché sculptures; she was the only New York sculptor to work in polychrome at this time. She also designed cement and mosaic sculptures of animals and figures to be placed in New York City playgrounds. Alongside others employed by the FAP, she participated in a sit-down strike in Washington, DC, to advocate for better pay and improved working conditions for the projects' artists.
Gershoy's first solo exhibition was held at the Robinson Gallery in New York in 1940. She moved to San Francisco in 1942, and began teaching ceramics at the California School of Fine Arts in 1946. In 1950, she studied at the artists' colony at Yaddo.
Gershoy traveled extensively throughout her life. She visited England and France in the early 1930s, and worked in Paris in 1951. She traveled to Mexico and Guatemala in the late 1940s, and also toured Africa, India, and the Orient in 1955.
In 1977, Gershoy dedicated a sculpture to Audrey McMahon, who was actively involved in the creation of the Federal Art Project and served as its regional director in New York, in recognition of the work McMahon provided struggling artists in the 1930s.
Gershoy's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her papers are held at Syracuse University Grant Arnold introduced her to lithography in 1930 and Gershoy depicted many scenes of Woodstock artists and their daily activities through this medium. From 1942 to 1966 Gershoy lived and painted in San Francisco where she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. She traveled extensively, filling sketchbooks with scenes of Mexico, France, Spain, Africa and India. During her later years Eugenie Gershoy returned to New York City and concentrated on numerous well received exhibitions. Her last exhibition in at Sid Deutsch Gallery included many of the sculptures that were later exhibited in the Fletcher Gallery.
John Russell, former chief critic of fine arts for the New York Times, writes about the 1986 Sid Deutsch exhibition:
“As Eugenie Gershoy won the Saint-Gaudens Medal for fine draftsmanship as long ago as 1914 and since 1967 has had 15 papier-mache portrait figures suspended from the ceiling of the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea, she must be ranked as a veteran of the New York scene. Her present exhibition includes not only the high-spirited papier-mache sculptures for which she is best known but a group of small portraits of artists, mostly dating from the 30’s, that is strongly evocative.”
Eugenie Gershoy is an artist to take note of for several reasons. She was a woman who received great awards and recognition during a time when most female artists were struggling to hold their own against their male counterparts. As a young girl she won a scholarship to the Arts Student League where she met Hannah Small...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Writer - Figurative Bronze Inspiring Books Iron Metal Wall Sculpture
By Mireia Serra
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mireia Serra creates sensuous bronze and iron sculptures showing the beauty of snapshots caught in life which are full of emotions and feelings along the life journey. Her metal artw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Iron
Javier Calleja Mickey Mouse grey (Javier Calleja art toy)
By Javier Calleja
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Javier Calleja Little Mickey Grey:
A standout limited edition Javier Calleja Mickey Mouse art toy created by the artist in conjunction with the noted 2021 J...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Vinyl
Amancio. Man Leteo. Original sculpture bronze
By Amancio Gonzalez Morera
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Sculpture by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ
Artist well known for his large format works on the street.
Iron and bronze.
AMANCIO Gonzalez ( Leon 1965 )
Amancio González is a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kneeler
By Joy Brown
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 8
Artist Statement:
My figures speak to me of that peaceful place in myself - calm, open, aware.
My art reflects the influence of my childhood in Japan and of the rigor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$16,000
Antique Italian Carved Wooden Statue of a Man
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique, hand-carved statue of a man with traces of silver gilding.
Category
18th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Next Wave
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1958
Jim Rennert was born in 1958, and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah. After ten trying years of working in business, Rennert was inspired to ex...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$14,000
Balloon Dog (Magenta)
By Jeff Koons
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed and numbered with certificate of authenticity (signature and edition number are fired onto the verso)
Dimensions: 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 5"
Material: Porcelain
©Jeff Koons
Produc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Restored POG Chainmail
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
EveryThing (Flag) 2015
By Doug Aitken
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Doug Aitken
EveryThing, 2015
Mirror, Fibreglass & resin
92.5 x 119.5 x 12.5 inches
Edition of 4 plus 2 AP's
Provenance:
NB: Available on sale
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mirror, Resin, Fiberglass
Pierre Lepautre "Aeneas Carrying Anchises" Bronze
Located in Astoria, NY
After Pierre Lepautre (French, 1660-1744) "Aeneas Carrying Anchises with Ascanius Out of Troy" Patinated Bronze Sculpture, late 19th century, on a squa...
Category
Late 19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roland Masson Abstract Organic Bronze and Marble Sculpture, circa 1990
Located in Atlanta, GA
Discover a striking work of art by acclaimed French sculptor Roland Masson: a rare, limited-edition abstract bronze sculpture of extraordinary beauty and elegance.
Meticulously cast ...
Category
1990s Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nehemiah 2
By Christopher Slatoff
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
Slatoff’s sculpture is a biblical reference to the central figure in the book of Nehemiah, which describes a ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Art Deco Walnut Sculpture of a Nude Woman, circa 1920
Located in Rochester, NY
Exceptional and expressively carved solid walnut near life Size statue of nude woman raised on attached fluted column pedestal base in overall beautifully aged original rich surface ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Walnut
The Acrobats, 2010
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jean-Louis Corby was born in 1951 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1970s. The 1970s were a period of consolidation and growth in the arts, most often characterised ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Showtime, Atelier
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“A silent medium within a silent medium.” These are the words contemporary master Richard MacDonald uses in describing his world renowned Mime Series. MacDonald’s trademark skill at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Nothing is more delightful than depictions of people from the turn of the century that convey a distinguished sort of elegance, composure and dignity. Gone today is the concept of "...
Category
1910s Realist Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Beyond the Visible (multi dimensional tower sculpture)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Aventura, FL
Multi dimensional tower sculpture (polymorph screen print on folded PVC) on brass base. Hand signed by Yaacov Agam. Hand numbered 66/150 (slightly faded - see pic). Size: 34.25 x ...
Category
1970s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Screen, PVC
$25,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Charles Levy "Salome" Patinated Bronze Sculpture
By Charles Octave Levy
Located in Astoria, NY
Charles-Octave Levy (French, 1820-1899) "Salome" Patinated Bronze Sculpture, late 19th century, the standing figure holding a sword between her hands, on a plinth, signed to base. 32...
Category
Late 19th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"IF WISHES WERE HORSES" WESTERN BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in San Antonio, TX
John Bennett
(Born 1952)
Fredericksburg, Texas Artist
Image Size: 27 tall x 12 x 8
Medium: Bronze Sculpture
"If Wishes Were Horses" Western
John Bennett (Born 1952)
John Bennett was ...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
'Can't Get Her Off My Mind' Ceramic Sculpture
By Steven Kemenyffy
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Can't Get Her Off My Mind" is an original ceramic sculpture created by Steven Kemenyffy.
43"x30"x14"
Ceramic
Steven Kemenyffy (born 1943) is an American ceramic artist living and working in Pennsylvania. He is most recognized for his contributions to the development of the American ceramic raku tradition. He has served as a Professor of Ceramic Art at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (formerly Edinboro State College) since 1969. He Has retired from teaching, but continues to produce artwork at his home studio in McKean, Pennsylvania. Kemenyffy is often characterized in regard to his contributions to American experimental ceramics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. More specifically, Kemenyffy’s contributions to American raku techniques are often cited. Kemenyffy has stated that his interest in raku came out of practical considerations: “We [Steven and Susan] were doing a variety of workshops in a variety of different media. Raku was always an official way of making pieces in a short period of time…In raku it seems to compress all the firings into one.” Kemenyffy, himself, describes his early work as “Biomorphic forms alluding to old ceramic traditions such as tiles, vases, and containers.” These works were often in excess of six feet tall and many times included mixed media elements. In 1974, Kemenyffy wrote about the work he was producing; “For several years now, my work has dealt with certain formal considerations. Chief among these is using clay in such a way as to crystallize the moment and permanentize the impermanent. These have been among the primary concerns of all potters since the earliest times.” Today, Kemenyffy continues his pursuit of biomorphic imagery and themes. He writes, “Personally I am most challenged by the business of transforming porous organics into porcelain.” For much of Kemenyffy’s career, he has worked in tandem with his wife, Susan Hale Kemenyffy. In 1987 Susan stated about their collaborative works: “Steven is the [sculptor], I am the drawer. These works would not exist if it weren’t for the sculpture; if it weren’t for the clay. The clay entity comes first and my drawings come second.” James Paul Thompson further clarifies this relationship (as observed in 1987): “Steven Kemenyffy uses patterns as a point of departure for his work, while Susan Kemenyffy...
Category
1980s Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Fiber wall sculpture: 'Vicino'
By Federica Patera and Andrea Sbra Pereg
Located in New York, NY
Federica Patera & Andrea Sbra Perego, bridge language and cosmogony. Starting from a single linguistic element like a verbal root, they trace its evolution around the world and throu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"Bambara Queen, Rep. Mali, " Wood created in Africa in c. 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bambara Queen, Rep. Mali" is a carved wood sculpture with abstracted human and animal figures.
20" x 6" x 3"
The Bambara are a Mande ethnic group native to West Africa, primarily ...
Category
1940s Tribal Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Double Walking Figure
By Ernest Trova
Located in Boca Raton, FL
rnest Trova was an artist whose signature creation, a gleaming humanoid known as “Falling Man,” appeared in a series of sculptures and paintings and became a symbol of an imperfect humanity hurtling into the future. Mr. Trova was largely known as a sculptor, but his “Falling Man,” a standard of Pop Art, began life as a painted figure, taking shape on his easel in the early 1960s. Faceless, armless, with a hint of a belly and, its name notwithstanding, of indeterminate sex, the figure struck a variety of poses, sometimes juxtaposed with other like figures, sometimes with mechanical appendages.
In October 1963 his one-man show, “Falling Man Paintings,” was the inaugural exhibition of the Pace Gallery on West 57th Street in Manhattan; it sold out, with the works purchased by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the architect Philip Johnson and others. In three dimensions, the “Falling Man” figure was made from different materials over the years — nickel and chrome-plated bronze, enamel on aluminum, stainless steel — and often, like the Oscar statuette, was polished to an industrial sheen. It was clearly a space age creation, a forerunner of C3PO, the golden robot in “Star Wars.”
“He found the space age both inspiring and dehumanizing,” Arne Glimcher, who founded the Pace Gallery, now PaceWildenstein, said in an interview on Friday. By the end of the 1960s, “Falling Man” had become Mr. Trova’s trademark, provoking Hilton Kramer, the art critic of The New York Times, to write that Mr. Trova had subjected his favorite figure “to almost as many variations as the Kama Sutra describes for the act of love.”
Ernest Tino Trova Jr. was born in St. Louis on Feb. 19, 1927. Shortly after his high school graduation his father, an industrial tool designer and inventor, died, and young Ernie, as he was known, went to work, most significantly as a window dresser for a department store. His early paintings were in the Abstract Expressionist mode, but his attentiveness to the mannequins had an influence on his art. Through the 1970s and 1980s he continued with “Falling Man,” though he also became interested in formalized, almost mechanical-seeming landscapes, and the figures began to appear, reduced in size, within the context of abstractly rendered gardens.
A self-taught artist with an impish wit and an eccentric turn of mind, Mr. Trova craved the recognition that was available to artists only in New York City, but he never visited for more than a week at a time and made almost no friends among New York artists. He did befriend Ezra Pound. As a fevered fan of Julio Iglesias, he went to the singer’s concerts all over the United States. “Ernie had a fabulous fantasy life,” Richard Solomon, the president of Pace Prints, the publishing arm of PaceWildenstein, said in an interview. “He had a persona he used to hide behind that he called ‘Junior Person.’ He was a wonderful man, but an oddball to beat the band.”
Mr. Trova left the Pace Gallery in the mid-1980s and signed with an inexperienced dealer in St. Louis. His profile went into decline, except in his hometown, where his donation of many of his works helped create the Laumeier Sculpture Park. He continued to work until shortly before his death. Most recently he was making collages using magazine...
Category
20th Century Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Emile Picault "Joueur de Luth" Patinated Bronze
Located in Astoria, NY
Emile-Louis Picault (French,1833-1915) "Joueur de Luth" [Lute Player] Patinated Bronze Figural Sculpture, late 19th century, the standing figure in Renaissance style costume playing ...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Art Style Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Reclining Figure (woman)
By William King (b.1925)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
William King (1925-2015). Reclining figure, ca. 1965. Cast and welded bronze, 7 x 9.5 x 5 inches. Unsigned.
William King, a sculptor in a variety of materials whose human figures traced social attitudes through the last half of the 20th century, often poking sly and poignant fun at human follies and foibles, died on March 4 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by Scott Chaskey, who is married to Mr. King's stepdaughter, Megan Chaskey.
Mr. King worked in clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces depicting familiar human poses -- a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking men walking in lock step.
But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer's arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment.
His subjects included tennis players and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners.
Mr. King's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. But the comic element of his work probably caused his reputation to suffer.
Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious, displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder. and Elie Nadelman.
The critic Hilton Kramer, one of Mr. King's most ardent advocates, wrote in a 1970 essay accompanying a New York gallery exhibit that he was, "among other things, an amusing artist, and nowadays this can, at times, be almost as much a liability as an asset."
A "preoccupation with gesture is the focus of King's sculptural imagination," Mr. Kramer wrote. "Everything that one admires in his work - the virtuoso carving, the deft handling of a wide variety of materials, the shrewd observation and resourceful invention - all this is secondary to the concentration on gesture. The physical stance of the human animal as it negotiates the social arena, the unconscious gait that the body assumes in making its way in the social medium, the emotion traced by the course of a limb, a torso, a head, the features of a face, a coiffure or a costume - from a keen observation of these materials King has garnered a large stock of sculptural images notable for their wit, empathy, simplicity and psychological precision."
William Dickey King...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Continental US - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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