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Item Ships From: Europe
Abstract Bamboo and Brass Sculpture
Located in Vlimmeren, BE
This unique abstract sculpture is made of granite, bamboo and bronze.
Three bamboo sticks are held together by a rough bronze shape, the whole is fixed in a granite base.
This orie...
Category
1980s Belgian Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Bronze Abstract Decorative Item or Paperweight attr. to Carlo Zauli, Italy
By Carlo Zauli
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1960s.
This sculpture is made in bronze.
It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be considered as in excellent original condi...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Concretist Sculpture "P16" by Lars Erik Falk, Sweden, 1969
By Lars Erik Falk
Located in Stockholm, SE
Striking sculpture by Lars Erik Falk, made from black lacquered metal. Interesting angles, different perspectives from different angles. Named “P16”.
Lars Erik Falk (1922-1918) was one of Sweden’s foremost constructivists. He was a painter and sculptor, represented with several public works...
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Two "Room Jewels" artglass by the Swedish designer Mona Morales-Schildt, Sweden
By Mona Morales-Schildt
Located in Stockholm, SE
Two "Room Jewels" artglass by the Swedish designer Mona Morales Schildt (1908-1999) feature cut and polished glass created using the sommerso technique for Kosta. The pieces stand ap...
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Rings v, Clear & Dark Aubergine / Purple Abstract Glass Vessel by Ann Wåhlström
By Ann Wåhlström
Located in London, GB
'Rings V' is a unique glass artwork by the Swedish artist, Ann Wåhlström.
In her career, Wåhlström has designed wares for many international companies; glasses for the likes of Ik...
Category
2010s Swedish Organic Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla White Painted Metal Sculpture Egitto
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
'Her Masters Voice' Totem – by Selma Hamstra
By Selma Hamstra
Located in Amsterdam, NL
The collection of Rotterdam based designer Selma Hamstra was launched during Milan Design Week 2021. 'Her Masters Voice' collection contains glass design...
Category
2010s Dutch Other Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
$3,874 / item
Interesting Plaster Sculpture, circa 1950
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This beautiful interesting sculpture is made of plaster. This is a French work, circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
$1,548 Sale Price
30% Off
'Her Masters Voice' Vase – by Selma Hamstra
By Selma Hamstra
Located in Amsterdam, NL
The collection of Rotterdam based designer Selma Hamstra was launched during Milan Design Week 2021. 'Her Masters Voice' collection contains glass design...
Category
2010s Dutch Other Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
$1,763 / item
Inca 6 Marble Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture Inca 6 Marble made with carved
and polished marble, pole in solid bronze.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$12,912 / item
1986 Italy Post-Modern Mirella Forlivesi Abstract Pewter Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense artwork was created by the Italian artist Mirella Forlivesi. Title "Rosone cometa" translated in Comet.
Mirella Forlivesi was born in P...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Pewter
Italy 1980 Post Modern Abstract Bronze Sculpture by Novello Finotti
By Novello Finotti
Located in Brescia, IT
This enigmatic sculpture is made in cast bronze silver plated. This is a multiple of 1000 copies numbered and signed. The title is "Appearances". It is signed by the author Novello F...
Category
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Eric James Mellon Studio Pottery Raku Glazed Horse Head, 1982
By Eric James Mellon 1
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine stoneware small horse head sculpture raku glazed in bright blue and white glazes with a black craquelure finish by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon...
Category
1980s English Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Late 1970s Sculptures in Resin in the Way of Jean Arp, Picasso, France
By Jean Arp
Located in Paris, FR
Superb pair of resin sculptures on pedestals, with rather organic shapes.
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Abstract, illusionism, modernism and minimalism.
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Late 70s.
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Origine : France.
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In the style of Jean Arp.
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Dimensions :
1st scumpture :
145 cm tall
52 cm wide
2nd sculpture :
120 cm tall
70 cm wide
The bases, in stone, measure 30 cm x 19 cm
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In perfect condition, no lack or crack.
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No apparent signature.
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Perfect indoors and outdoors.
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They look like The Dada movement (also called Dadaism) is an intellectual, literary, artistic and specific movement of the beginning of the 20th century, which is characterized by a questioning of all ideological, aesthetic and political conventions and constraints.
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Indspired by Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
$11,480 Sale Price / set
43% Off
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Rare Super Color Crusty Fat Lava Multi-Color Vase Scheurich, Germany WGP, 1970s
By Scheurich Keramik
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Fat lava art vase, heavy Brutalist glaze
Producer:
Scheurich, Germany
Decade:
1970s
This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s in Germany. It is made o...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Italy 1980 Annamaria Gelmi Oxidized Rust Metal Sculpture Piccolo Eden
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the Italian artist Annamaria Gelmi.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certificate of the artist and the Editor who made the artworks.
The iron oxidized rust sculpture...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Torc, a limited edition patinated bronze sculpture by Vivienne Foley
By Vivienne Foley
Located in London, GB
'Torc' is a limited-edition (3 + 2AP) patinated bronze sculpture by the British artist Vivienne Foley. Two have been sold and so there is only one piece left from the edition.
Vivie...
Category
2010s British Organic Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abstract red Ceramic Studio Pottery Vase by Gerhard Liebenthron, Germany, 1970s
By Gerhard Liebenthron
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic pottery object
Designer and producer:
Gerhard Liebenthron
Information:
Gerhard Liebenthron, Bremen
1925 †2005
Decade:
1960s
This origi...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Pair of Free Form Cast Aluminum Abstract Sculptures, Italy, 1970s
Located in Milan, IT
Set of two cast aluminum abstract sculptures.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Per Lütken for Holmegaard. Sculpture in green art glass. 1960s
Located in København, Copenhagen
Per Lütken for Holmegaard. Sculpture in green art glass.
Organic form.
Denmark, 1960s.
Perfect condition.
Dimensions: Height 20.0 cm x Width 11.0 cm x Depth 5.0 cm.
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Abstracted Land Aqua Blue over Grass Green, a cut glass artwork by Kate Jones
By Kate Jones
Located in London, GB
'Abstracted Land Aqua Blue over Grass Green' is a unique handblown and cut glass artwork by the British artist, Kate Jones of Gillies Jones.
In the artist's own words:
“This new bo...
Category
2010s British Organic Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Elegant Brass and Agate Sculpture
Located in Vlimmeren, BE
This extraordinary sculpture is surely made in the 1970s. You recognize the influences of the Art Nouveau in this era: Organic structures and fluid forms, often in combination with h...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Agate, Brass
1980 Italy Post-Modern Alessandro Guerriero Abstract Sculpture Portabuono Quo
By Alessandro Guerriero
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered.
The set is forged in aluminum and...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Italy 1980 Abstract Multiple Bronze Cheese Shape Forma Formaggio
By Urano Palma
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging bronze sculpture on black wooden base, well represents a cheese shape, but the artist jokes with the shape and the words to obtein a conceptual sense of it.
The artist ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture by Karel Hladik Depicting a Bull
By Karel Hladík
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
KAREL HLADIK (1912-1967)
Decorative plaque depicting a bull
Bronze sculpture
Signed and titled
Karel Hladik (27 June, 1912 - le 27 April, 1967) is a Czech sculptor and uni...
Category
20th Century Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chrome Metal Sculpture with Light, Netherlands, circa 1980
Located in Wilnis, UT
Stunning chrome metal sculpture with integrated light, designed in the Netherlands, circa 1980.
The sculpture stands on a black wooden base, beautifully contrasting the chrome tha...
Category
1980s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Chrome, Metal
1980 Italy Post-Modern Abstract Sculpture Alessandro Guerriero Portabuono Qua
By Alessandro Guerriero
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered.
The set is forged in aluminum and...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Bronze Sculpture "Chapelle de l’Âme" 1995, by Catherine Val
By Catherine Val
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bronze with green patina, 2/8, Christophe Lalloz's Foundry.
Bibliography:
- 18th International Impact Art Festival, 1997, Kyoto (Japon), page 13
- Pierre Descargues, Le Jardin ...
Category
20th Century French Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ceramic Sculpture Entitled "Entre-Deux" by Pierre Martinon, circa 1991
By Pierre Martinon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Ceramic sculpture entitled « Entre-deux » by Pierre Martinon.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed and dated at the base "Pierre Martinon 1991".
Unique piece.
Far from t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Fat Lava Ceramic Pottery Vase Heinz Siery Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany, 1970s
By Carstens Tönnieshof, Heinz Siery
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic pottery vase
Origin:
Germany
Designer:
Heinz Siery
Producer:
Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany
Decade:
1970s
This original vintage...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Ottorino Tonelli Eva
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Ottorino Tonelli. Title "Eva"
Ottorino Tonelli was born in 1948 in Carrara, where he lives and works. A...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Escape Bronze Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture Escape Bronze all in solid
bronze in brown bronze finish. Inside
in raw polished bronze finish.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$24,994 / item
Pair of Small Black and Grey Marble Obelisks, Napoleon III Style, 20th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of small black and grey marble obelisks in the Napoleon III style, 20th century.
Pair of small Napoleon III style obelisks, 20th century, in black and grey marble.
H: 40cm, W: ...
Category
20th Century French Napoleon III Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Endless Wall" Sculpture by Einar Höste, Sweden, 1970s
By Einar Höste
Located in Hägersten, SE
"Endless Wall" sculpture by Swedish painter and sculptor Einar Höste. Wood and acrylic, circa 1970s.
From Einar Höstes own estate.
Category
1970s Swedish Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Beech
Mid Century Modernist Abstract Stone Sculpture Signed A. Tihen
Located in London, GB
A bold, mid-20th century carved stone sculpture of angular, modernist form, signed ‘A. Tihen’.
Europe, c. 1960s.
Category
20th Century European Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Paradise 10 Arabica, a plum, red, pink & gold glass sculpture by Amy Cushing
By Amy Cushing
Located in London, GB
'Paradise 10 Arabica' is a unique glass sculpture created using hybrid hand-made glass techniques by the British artist, Amy Cushing.
Combining mouth blown glass with kiln formed gl...
Category
2010s British Organic Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Cut Glass
Lubos Metelak for Moser, Czech art glass artist. Unique glass sculpture.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Lubos Metelak for Moser, Czech art glass artist.
Unique glass sculpture designed in clear and frosted glass, with a purple front. Abstract design featuring circles.
Signed and dated...
Category
1970s Czech Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Sculptural Studio Pottery Vase Object by Otto Meier, Worpswede, Germany, 1970s
By Otto Meier
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic object
Designer and producer:
Otto Meier, Bremen in Germany
Information:
Otto Meier (born March 18, 1903 in Dortmund, † June 1, 1996 in Worpswede) was a German ceramist.
Otto Meier, the silent master of the 20th century, is still considered a role model to many ceramists. His works are represented in important public and private collections.
Decade:
1970s
This original vintage Studio Ceramic Object was designed by Otto Meier and produced in his own Studio in the 1970s in Bremen, Worpswede in Germany. It is made of solid ceramic pottery and has a very unique brown and beige, coloration and surface structure. The bottom is marked with typical Otto Meier Producer signature OM. a very collectible and very rare item of the Meier Collection. the object has a very sculptural form and in its size of 14x11cm, it is very impressive.
straightforward and minimalistic design of the 1970s design era. This item is a wonderful addition to every modern home.
Dimensions:
Height 11cm
Diameter 14cm.
Condition:
This item is in a very good vintage condition with patina.
VITA Otto Meier:
Since 1924 Otto Meier studied architecture and sculpture at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dortmund. A visit to Bernhard Hoetger in Worpswede in 1925 brought him to ceramics. In Hoetger's workshop he began an apprenticeship under Willi Ohler...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Eduardo Chillida (Spanish, 1924-2002) 'Reflections', Ivory Press, 2002
By Eduardo Chillida
Located in London, GB
Number 180 from an edition of 200 plus one prototype.
Essays by Carlos Fuentes and John Berger; translations by Professor Alfred MacAdam and photographs by Ferdinando Scianna...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Mid-Century Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper
$13,793 Sale Price
47% Off
1970s Hand-carved Abstract Sculpture in Greenish Marble of an Embracing Couple
Located in Marbella, ES
This contemporary sculpture abstractly depicts a couple in an intimate embrace. Carved from greenish marble, it combines polished and rough surfaces that enhance its fluid lines and ...
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Old Wooden Decorative Bamana Storage Room Lock
Located in Leuven , BE
An old classic Bamana lock , decorated with engraved lines, representing antilope horns ,legs bent appearing at the bottom and a beautiful dark patina a...
Category
20th Century Malian Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè
By Riccardo Dalisi
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi.
All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certificate of the artist and the Editor who made the artworks.
The black painted metal sculpture...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large Abstract Wooden Hand Carved Sculpture by E. Robson
Located in London, GB
Dynamic abstract oak wooden sculpture on a black and gold marble plinth.
hand-carved and signed by E. Robson 1971, England.
Category
1970s British Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Bronze Sculpture "Sortie de chaos, avec silhouette" 2005, by Catherine Val
By Catherine Val
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bronze sculpture, Got Foundry, signed.
Bibliography: Sur l’invitation et l’affiche de l’exposition à la Galerie de Gustave Got, 2006.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Alex Berdal, "Les Raisins"
By Alex Berdal
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
ALEX BERDAL
Nature Morte, les Raisins, 20th century
Measures: Height : 37 cm
Length : 26 cm
Depth : 20 cm
Reproduced in the catalog BERDAL, Sculptures, éditions Le Chardon...
Category
Late 20th Century Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture "Chapelle du soleil et de la paix" 1995, by Catherine Val
By Catherine Val
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bronze with white and green patina
Lalloz Foundry
Unique piece
Category
20th Century French Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Contemporary Glass sculpture - Neve by Perrin & Perrin
By Perrin & Perrin
Located in Paris, FR
Névé by Perrin & Perrin, 2022
Build in glass sculpture
One-off
Martine and Jacki Perrin sculpt together as one, forming a duo enriched by their individualities. For over a decade th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Rare "PROTOTPYE GLAZE" Fat Lava Multi-Color Vase Scheurich, Germany WGP 1970s
By Scheurich Keramik
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Fat lava art vase, PROTOTYPE GLAZE
Producer:
Scheurich, Germany
Decade:
1970s
This original vintage vase was produced in the 1970s in Germany. It is made of ceramic pottery in fat lava optic with abstract illustration in very strong colorations of different glaze tones. Super rare in this coloration as this is a PROTOTYPE Glaze test...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Female Figure, Glazed Terracotta Sculpture, Italy, 1960s
Located in Naples, IT
Polished glazed terracotta sculpture and marble base, Italy 1960, in the mood of Lucio Fontana and Leoncillo Leonardi.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Ancient Bactrian Marble Idol Staff Sceptor
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A large Bactrian marble staff circa late 3rd-2nd millennium BCE. The Bactrian culture was discovered by Soviet archeologists in the 1970s in Afghanistan. Also called the Oxus culture...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Antique Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world”. Femininity and sensuality are exalted. Inspired by the body, before and after birth, or simply the sea, the parts of the sculpture conjugate around a mysterious interior cavity, secret and troubling. The interior wall doesn’t correspond to the exterior, and has its own volumes, deformities, and intimacy. The pieces present two kinds of interior: one open, and partially uncovered, the other totally hidden inside. The differences of their respective deformation reinforce the impression of life : the subjective representation of muscles and bones, of bulges pushed by an interior force, like a visceral movement of respiration. The surface of the ceramic is crackled but soft and fine, even reflecting light like the skin. The nuances of color reinforce the expression of sensuality.
The alignment of technique and what it causes one to see and feel has rarely been so intimately successful.
Wayne Fischer perfected his technique in the 1970s and has remained faithful to it. He adds fibers to porcelain clay that has been chosen for its whiteness to create and accentuate volume around empty space, by assembling slabs or thrown pieces. Then, he makes another piece that takes its place inside; both parts are formed with no hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Bottles
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa.
This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosoph...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Figure of ancestress "Jonyeleni" in wood Bamana Art MaliThird Quarter of the 20th cent
By Non-Standard Furniture and Lighting
Located in Milano, IT
A figure of remarkable formal harmony and compactness with large rounded breasts that allude to fertility and nurturing capacity, but also to the loveliness of the girl that promotes...
Category
1980s Malian Other Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$8,704 Sale Price
20% Off
Handcrafted TOTEM 002 by Lovebuch
Located in Geneve, CH
Handcrafted TOTEM 002 by Lovebuch
Dimensions: Ø 28 x H 20 cm
Materials: Sandstone, handcrafted piece
Katia works with wood and clay, these raw, powerfully expressive materials are shaped to create a poetry of objects that inhabit our daily lives. Sculptural ceramics...
Category
2010s French Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone
$512 / item
Carlo Ramous, Abstract Composition
By Carlo Ramous
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Carlo Ramous
(1926-2003)
Abstract Composition
Bronze sculpture, with a brown patina.
Signed ‘C Ramous’ and numbered 1/4.
Height : 42 cm
Width : 42 cm
Depth : 12 cm
Pe...
Category
20th Century Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture "The Shell" 1988, by Jacques Tenenhaus
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bronze with brown patination. Signed the back "Jacques Tenenhaus - 1/8". Landowski Foundry's Mark, 1990.
Category
20th Century Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
105 Ltr Forms 25 Yellow Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
105 Ltr Forms 25 Yellow Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio
One Of A Kind
Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 25 cm.
Materials: Hand-blown glass.
Every glass object is blown, defo...
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Bill Culbert 'New Zealand' Light Sculpture, 'Cubic Projections', 1968
Located in London, GB
Bill Culbert (New Zealand, 1935-2019),
'Cubic Projections', 1968.
Exhibited by the Lisson Gallery, a plastic ball with pinholes all-over, radiating lights, this example from the original edition sold at the time of the exhibition.
Measure: 60cm diameter
Literature: David Mellor...
Category
1960s New Zealand Vintage Europe Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
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