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Item Ships From: Florida
BANCA ZIGURATICA NINIVESCA DE 3 PLAZAS (SCULPTURE)
By Pedro Friedeberg
Located in Aventura, FL
Wood sculpture with gold color trim. Hand signed and numbered on the underside by the artist. From the edition of 4.
Certificate of Authenticity is included. Artwork is in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist:
Pedro Friedeberg is a contemporary Mexican artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Large Aharon Bezalel Israeli Modernist Bronze Brutalist Puzzle Sculpture Figures
By Aharon Bezalel
Located in Surfside, FL
Aharon Bezalel (Afghani-Israeli, 1925-2012)
Family Grouping
Hand signed in with initials in English
Figures fit together like puzzle pieces in solid cast bronze with original patina.
Aharon Bezalel (born Afghanistan 1926) Born in Herat, Afghanistan in 1926 and immigrated to Israel at an early age. His father, Reuven Bezalel, was a rabbi and kabbalist. As a youth Aharon studied gold and silver casting as well as applied arts and worked in these fields as a silversmith and judaica craftsman, and was a student of the sculptor Zev Ben-Zvi at the Bezalel Academy for Art & Design where he also studied with Isidor Ascheim and Mordecai Ardon. There he absorbed the basic concepts of classic and modernist art and interpreted, according to them, ideas based on ancient Hebrew sources. He also studied miniature carving with the artists Martin and Helga Rost applying himself at their workshop. Aharon Bezalel worked and resided in Jerusalem, he taught art for many years. His sculptures - works of wood, bronze, aluminum, Plexiglas - were shown at his studio in Ein Kerem. “I saw myself as part of this region. I wanted to find the contact between my art and my surroundings. Those were the first years of Jean Piro’s excavations at the Beer-Sheba mound. They found there, for example, the Canaanite figurines that I especially liked and that were an element that connected me with the past and with this place.” “…a seed and sperm or male and female. These continue life. The singular, the individual alone, cannot exist; I learned this from my father who dabbled with the Kabbalah.”
(Aharon Bezalel, excerpt from an interview with David Gerstein)
“The singular in Aharon Bezalel’s work is always potentially a couple if not a threesome, the one is also the many: when the individual is revealed within the group he will always seek a huddling, a clinging together.
The principle of modular construction is required by this perception of unity and multiplicity, as modular construction in his work is an act of conception or defense. His work bears a similarity to Berrocal as well as affinities to Henry Moore, Lynne Chadwick and Kenneth Armitage. Two poles of unity, potentially alone, exist in A. Bezalel’s world: From a formal, sculptural sense these are the sphere and pillar, metaphorically these are the female in the final stages of pregnancy and the solitary male individual. Sphere-seed-woman; Pillar-strand-man. The disproportional, small heads in A. Bezalel figures leave humankind in it’s primal physical capacity. The woman as a pregnancy or hips, the man as an aggressive or defensive force, the elongated chest serves as a phallus and weapon simultaneously.
(Gideon Ofrat)
EIN HAROD About the Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
People (Terra-cotta)
By Seunghwui Koo
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"People", 2015, Terra-cotta on wood panel, 48" x 48" x 4 inches
"People" is comprised of 12,000 handmade pigs. The work has many different topographical features and is visually stri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Untitled #10 Female antique Bust painted and adorned. Infortunios De La Virtud
By Armando de la Garza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled #10 (female bust), 2016
from Los Infortunios De La Virtud series
Antique porcelain bust with the intervention of oil, gold, silver, lea...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Gold
Elegant Kinetic Bronze Sculpture "Antares", by Gianfranco Meggiato, Italy
By Gianfranco Meggiato
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Monumental kinetic bronze sculpture by Gianfranco Meggiato.
The artist shapes his sculptures inspired by biomorphic tissue and the labyrinth, symbolizi...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ermine Brocade (bronze sculpture)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture with hand-applied patina and polished embellishments. Incised Erte signature with stamped numbered edition, foundry and date. From the edition of 375. Published by...
Category
1990s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Israeli Pop Art Abstract Cutout Trees Kinetic Gilt Sculpture Menashe Kadishman
By Menashe Kadishman
Located in Surfside, FL
Renowned Israeli sculptor Menashe Kadishman (1932-2015),
CONTINUUM, 1979,
revolving metal sculpture,
Dimensions 16.5 x 10 x 9.25 inches.
Hand signed and numbered on dedication pla...
Category
1970s Modern Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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 Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
Timing, study
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 12 + APs
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Twin Bird V
By Patrice Breteau
Located in Miami, FL
Twin Bird V is a resin sculpture made by Patrice Breteau, a French contemporary artist. This piece is available in eight different colors, all resistant to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Figura Distesa
By Franco Franchi
Located in Miami, FL
Franco Mauro Franchi was born in Castiglioncello (Livorno) on 9 October 1951.
He completed his artistic studies at the Lucca State Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Fl...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Vintage Israeli Judaica Rabbi Klezmer Violinist Sculpture Frank Meisler Art
By Frank Meisler
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Vintage unusual piece.
In this bronze or metal sculpture by Frank Meisler, the artist depicts a Klezmer violin player The figure seems cartoon-like with exaggerated facial featu...
Category
1960s Folk Art Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
Amancio Geometry original Bronze Iron original sculpture
By Amancio Gonzalez Morera
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
" Deconstruccion I " original bronze iron original sculpture
Sculpture by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ
Artist well known for his large format works on the street.
Iron and bro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Blue Moon
By Seunghwui Koo
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"Moon" from the famous Series "People", ceramic and acrylic on wood panel, D: 36 inches
In Korean culture, the moon is a beacon of hope and wish.
Blue Moon i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Tyra Carolina Lundgren Bird Sculpture, Murano
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Provenance: Estate of a noteworthy Italian glass collector from Florida and New York. Reference (similar example): Venini Glass Catalogue 1921-2007, Franco De...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
LIMINAL STATE Smokey quartz crystals, bronze sculpture
Located in Naples, Florida
The sculpture is patinated bronze with naturally occurring smokey quartz crystals.
Unique edition.
Half torso.
The cementitious pedestal base is unique and hand-made in the artists' studio under the watchful eyes of the artist.
The artist is James Edward Lomax who is English in his early 30’s who is internationally recognized for his prodigious talent and individuality
He studied art in Cornwall in the Southwest of England, where he specialized in sculpture. His prodigious talent was soon recognized, and he developed his own unique and exquisite approach to sculpting. He is currently based in Bali, Indonesia where he continues to experiment with different natural materials creating mystical sculptures for his many international collectors. He has exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Show in London for many years and is represented at The Englishman Fine Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Seeking Solace & Sharks in the Water. From the Behind Closed Doors Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In this new series of wall plaques, titled "Behind Closed Doors," the artist reimagines original images from a book titled In Praise of the Backside. The book's collection features w...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Dye Transfer
Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Balancing WPA Artist Mom and Child
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991)
Patinated cast bronze sculpture,
Balancing, Mother and child
signed and editioned 1/6
mounted on black marble plinth
14"h x 11.5"w x 8"d (height w...
Category
1960s American Modern Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hiro Ando 12 Blue Fish "nishikigoi blu" sculpture
By Hiro Ando
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
"" StainlessSteel 50cm, 2015
Stainless Steel Carved Painted & Varnished
50 × 40 × 30 cm
Edition 3/8
Drawing on ideas of collectability and fantasy, Japanese artist Hiro Ando combine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Wall sculpture made from coins "Circle XV" by Kim Seungwoo
By Kim Seungwoo
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Kim Seungwoo is a contemporary Korean sculptor, lives in Seoul, South Korea.
Seungwoo is famous for his sculptures made from coins and buttons. He create...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Getting at the Heart & Eve in Repose. From the Behind Closed Doors Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In this new series of wall plaques, titled "Behind Closed Doors," the artist reimagines original images from a book titled In Praise of the Backside. The book's collection features w...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Dye Transfer
Domino Effect
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9 + APs
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Moon
By Seunghwui Koo
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"Moon" from the famous Series "People", ceramic and acrylic on wood panel, D: 36 inches
"Moon" is comprised of 10,000 handmade pigs. The work has many different topographical feature...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Torso Original resin esculpture
By Fili Plaza
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Torso. Original resin esculpture
Fili Plaza reflects in his work the emotional world of Mediterranean culture, with its sensuality and luminosity.
The nature of this universe offer...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
ON THE AVENUE (SCULPTURE)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture.. Incised artist signature; stamp numbered with foundry and date. Edition: Of 375.
Certificate of Authenticity is included. Artwork is in excellent condition. All...
Category
1980s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Amancio Man Wood original sculpture
By Amancio González Andrés
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Sculpture by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ
wood
Fantastic piece of art representing Spanish sculpture
Amancio González is a sculptor from Leon and an internationally celebrate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Figura Dormiente
By Franco Franchi
Located in Miami, FL
Franco Mauro Franchi was born in Castiglioncello (Livorno) on 9 October 1951.
He completed his artistic studies at the Lucca State Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Fl...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
When to say When
By Noah Kashiani
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Upcycled Shirts, Resin, Nylon Fibres, Acrylic and Sodium Crystals
Size US: 29 x 15 x 8 in
Size EU: 74 x 38 x 21 cm
Contemporary painter and sculptor Noah Kashiani...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
Small Bronze Sculpture Cast Head After Rodin "Petite tete au nez retrousse"
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Surfside, FL
(after) Auguste Rodin
Posthumous cast
"Petite tete au nez retroussé"
Featuring a bust of a woman.
Limited edition bronze is mounted on a marble base and is signed on the lower right. Great detail.
Dimensions: approx. 7-1/4" tall x 5" across x 5" deep with base
Foundry mark on the reverse, #13 of 299 produced.
François Auguste René Rodin (1840 – 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell. He modeled the human body with naturalism, and his sculptures celebrate individual character and physicality. Although Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, he refused to change his style, and his continued output brought increasing favor from the government and the artistic community.
Rodin became the preeminent French sculptor of his time. By 1900, he was a world-renowned artist. Wealthy private clients sought Rodin's work after his World's Fair exhibit, and he kept company with a variety of high-profile intellectuals and artists. His student, Camille Claudel, became his associate, lover, and creative rival. Rodin's other students included Antoine Bourdelle, Constantin Brancusi, and Charles Despiau.
Rodin entered the studio of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, a successful mass producer of objets d'art. Rodin worked as Carrier-Belleuse' chief assistant until 1870, designing roof decorations and staircase and doorway embellishments. With the arrival of the Franco-Prussian War, Rodin was called to serve in the French National Guard, but his service was brief due to his near-sightedness. Rodin took classes with animal sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye. The teacher's attention to detail and his finely rendered musculature of animals in motion significantly influenced Rodin. Rodin won the 1880 commission to create a portal for a planned museum of decorative arts. Rodin dedicated much of the next four decades to his elaborate Gates of Hell, an unfinished portal for a museum that was never built. Many of the portal's figures became sculptures in themselves, including Rodin's most famous, The Thinker and The Kiss. With the museum commission came a free studio, granting Rodin a new level of artistic freedom.
By 1900, Rodin's artistic reputation was established. Gaining exposure from a pavilion of his artwork set up near the 1900 World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) in Paris, he received requests to make busts of prominent people internationally, As Rodin's fame grew, he attracted many followers, including the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and authors Octave Mirbeau, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Oscar Wilde.
Rodin and Beuret's modest country estate in Meudon, purchased in 1897, was a host to such guests as King Edward, dancer Isadora Duncan, and harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. He left Beuret in Meudon and began an affair with the American-born Duchesse de Choiseul. From 1910, he mentored the Russian sculptor, Moissey Kogan...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bamboo (bronze sculpture)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture. Incised Erte signature with stamp numbered edition, foundry and date. From the edition of 375.
Certificate of Authenticity is included. Artwork is in excellent co...
Category
1980s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Bronze Modernist Sculpture Acrobats 1/3 French German Artist Gerard Koch
Located in Surfside, FL
Untitled (it depicts acrobats, trapeze artists or gymnasts in mid pose)
bronze cast sculpture
signed and numbered from small edition (1 of 3).
Gerard Koch was a French Post War & C...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Judaica Expressionist Sculpture Russian Jewish Shtetl Goose Peddler
By Issachar Ryback
Located in Surfside, FL
A cast bronze sculpture depicting an elderly jewish peddler carrying a basket of geese going to the shtetl market. Signed on base. This is not editioned...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Inflatable Love Doll #9, Concrete Sculpture
By Bernadette Despujols
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Inflatable Love Doll #9 (2015-2017)
Dimensions: 22 in. H x 13 in. W x 12 in. D (70 cm H x 30 cm W x 38 cm D)
Concrete sculpture made with plastic and iron.
A series of feminine cement chests comprised of plastic sex dolls...
Category
2010s Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Iron
Amancio. rude character. original sculpture iron bronce
By Amancio Gonzalez Morera
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Amancio. rude character. original sculpture iron bronce
Sculpture by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ
Artist well known for his large format works on the street.
Iron and bronze
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
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 Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
FLORES BLACK (SCULPTURE)
By Kenny Scharf
Located in Aventura, FL
Shaped aluminum with black flock mounted to a polished stainless steel base with flocked feet. Size: 25 x 21 x .375 inches (base 3.5 x 9 x .25 inches). Engraved artist signature on...
Category
2010s Pop Art Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Stainless Steel
Aurora
By Franco Franchi
Located in Miami, FL
Franco Mauro Franchi was born in Castiglioncello (Livorno) on 9 October 1951.
He completed his artistic studies at the Lucca State Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Fl...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Heavy Bronze Sculpture Austrian Israeli judaica Jewish Couple Bench Nicky Imber
By Nicky Imber
Located in Surfside, FL
Large and heavy with magnificent patina. This is the large version of this piece. we cannot find any markings on it and it might be unique.
Nicky Imber (Vienna, Austria, 1920 -1996) was a multidisciplinary Jewish artist best known for his sculptures on Jewish themes. Grand nephew of Naftali Herz Imber, author of the Israeli national anthem 'Hatikva'.
After escaping the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, he pledged to dedicate his art to perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust. Among his more famous works are "The Hope" and "The Love of Torah". His work can be seen around the world, in Northern Israel, the United States, and the Venezuelan Museum of Natural History in Caracas.
Nicky Imber was born in Vienna, Austria. During his studies at the Academy of Arts in Vienna, he drew anti-Nazi caricatures for Jewish student publications. After several thwarted attempts by the family to leave Vienna, in 1938, in the wake of the 'Anschluss', Imber was deported to Dachau. Witnessing the murders of family and friends, he plotted his escape. Using skills he had learned in art school, he made a face mask out of bread and sand, stole a Nazi soldier's uniform and walked out the front gate unnoticed. In 1940, he boarded a ship headed to Haifa. The ship's passengers were refused entry by the British mandatory authorities and imprisoned in a detention camp in Mauritius.
In 1943, Imber worked out a deal with the authorities for his release by joining the British Army, serving as a war artist and a dental assistant in East Africa. After the war, he opened an art school in Nairobi, Kenya, and worked as a photographer and a safari guide.
In 1949 to 1954, he lived in Venezuela, where he was contracted to do an East African Diorama series. The National Museum added an entire wing to display it.
During this period he got married and had a daughter Raquel, who accompanied and assisted him.
In 1959, Imber was commissioned to create sculptures and dioramas for the Haifa Prehistory Museum at Gan Ha-em in Haifa, Israel. In 1960 he returned to Venezuela to restaured the Phelps series of Dioramas for the Museum in Caracas.
Between 1961 and 1971 he travelled extensively around Europe and after establishing an international name for himself, returned to the United States. In New York he became famous for his realistic oil paintings of portraits of Aga Khan, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Sir Richard Burton...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
JE T'AIME - RED SPLASH (SCULPTURE)
By Mr. Brainwash
Located in Aventura, FL
Acrylic paint on cast resin sculpture. Red and white color. Hand signed, numbered and dated on the underside by the artist. Edition of 20. Each is unique. Includes original box.
...
Category
2010s Street Art Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Amancio man boat argonauta original bronze iron sculpture
By Amancio González Andrés
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Sculpture by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ
bronze.
Series limited to 7 copies.
Fantastic piece of art representing Spanish sculpture
Very popular artist in Europe and Latin Ame...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Frog singing on a log, Original Naturalistic Wood Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Frog singing on a log
2.0 x 5.0 x 10.0, 1.0 lbs
Wood
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"Whimsical frog singing in harmony on a log, as content as can be. This sculpture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Saturia
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
In celebration of the Year of the Rabbit, Hunt Slonem’s iconic muse is revisited in timeless powder-coated aluminum. Each edition is signed, numbered, and comes with a certificate of...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Powder Coating
Judaica Bronze Sculpture "Rabbi" Figure Jewish American Boston Figural Modernist
By David Aronson
Located in Surfside, FL
Aronson, David 1923-
David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of five. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts under Karl Zerbe, a German painter well known in the early 1900s. Aronson later taught at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts for fourteen years and founded the School of Fine Art at Boston University where he is today a professor emeritus. An internationally renowned sculptor & painter, Aronson has won acclaim for his interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Talmud and Kabala. His best known works include bronze castings, encaustic paintings, and pastels. His work is included in many important public and private collections, and has been shown in several museum retrospectives around the country. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th century American artists.
At twenty-two David Aronson had his first one-man show at New York's Niveau Gallery. The next year, six of his Christological paintings were included in the Fourteen Americans exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art where Aronson’s work was included alongside abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell and Isamu Noguchi. In the 1950s, Aronson turned more toward his Jewish heritage for the inspiration for his art. Folklore as well as Kabalistic and other transcendental writings influenced his work greatly. The Golem (a legendary figure, brought to life by the Maharal of Prague out of clay to protect the Jewish community during times of persecution) and the Dybbuk (an evil spirit that lodges itself in the soul of a living person until exorcised) frequently appear in his work.
In the sixties, Aronson turned to sculpture. His work during this period is best exemplified by a magnificent 8’ x 4’ bronze door which now stands at the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Foundation Conference Center for the Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. In the seventies and eighties, Aronson continued his work in pastel drawings, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring religion and the frailties of man's nature. During this time, in addition to a traveling retrospective exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at the Pucker-Safrai Gallery on Newbury Street, Aronson won many awards and became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years ago he retired from teaching to work full-time in his studio in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
included in the catalog
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art
Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974.
Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.
Selected Awards
1990, Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design
1976, Joseph Isidore Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize in Drawing, Albrecht Art Museum
1975, Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design
1973, Samuel F. B. Morse Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1967, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Fine Arts
1967, Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1963, Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Philadelphia
1961, 62, 63, Purchase Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1960, John Siimon Guggenheim Fellowship
1958, Grant in Art, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1954, First Prize, Tupperware Annual Art Fund Award
1954, Grand Prize, Third Annual Boston Arts Festival
1953, Second Prize, Second Annual Boston Arts Festival
1952, Grand Prize, First Annual Boston Arts Festival
1946, Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
1946, Purchase Prize, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1944, First Popular Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
1944, First Judge's Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Bryn Mawr College
Brandeis University
Tupperware Museum, Orlando, Florida
DeCordova Museum
Museum of Modern Art Print Collection, New York
Atlanta University
Atlanta Art...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cuban Master Florencio Gelabert Sculpture Large Wood Carving Bust Man Portrait
Located in Surfside, FL
Florencio Gelabert Y Perez (Cuban, 1904-1995)
Hand carved, signed; 1979
Materials: Cuban wood (mahogany?)
Dimensions 23 X 4 X 4 inches
Label affixed to underside: National Registry of Cultural Assets of the Republic of Cuba Ministry of Culture.
Provenance: Art Master Collection, Miami, Florida.
Florencio Gelabert, with a style reminiscent of Art Deco and Art Nouveau in a Latin American Expressionist stylization. Carved wood sculpture. Depicts a modernist stylized form of a man in a streamline moderne style.
José Florencio Gelabert Pérez (Caibarien, 1904 - Havana, 1995) Cuban musician, sculptor, draftsman and teacher. He graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He received numerous awards, mentions and recognitions in Fine Arts Halls and Circles. His works are in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Florencio Gelabert is a renowned sculptor, who made more than twenty solo exhibitions beginning in 1929, several in the National Museum of Fine Arts, and participated in more than thirty collectives in Cuba, Spain and Brazil, the latter in the Sao Paulo Biennial. he traveled from Caibarién to Santa Clara in 1928 to audition to enter the famous San Alejandro Fine Arts School in Havana. He obtained one of the five vacancies. Already in the Cuban capital, he combined fine arts and music. When he graduated, he became a professor in San Alejandro and the academy’s principal in 1960.
With a calling common to wood sculptors –which began with his primary school carving carpentry classes and the active life of his home town’s shipyards, his chisels and gouges feverishly turned mahogany, “ácana” and ebony into female heads with black African features dating back to 1930.
In 1938 he used his savings to explore Europe: France (Paris, Marseilles), Italy (Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice), Belgium (Malina). His encounter with the works by Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Ossip Zadkine, Constantin Brancusi and even with Wifredo Lam, who was also born in another Cuban coastal area, Sagua la Grande, and his encounter with the nude marble David sculpture...
Category
1970s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Carole Feuerman Hyperrealist Sculpture Installation
By Carole Feuerman
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Carole Feuerman (b. 1945)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1981
Country of origin; materials: American; painted cast resin
Dimensions (H, W, D): overall dime...
Category
1980s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint
Bollel Child and conch shell. Original multiple bronze sculpture
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
BOLLEL. Child and conch shell. Original multiple bronze sculpture
Category
1980s Realist Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Codina Corona 15 Hunt cartridge belt. wood. sculpture original realistic
By Josep Maria Codina Corona
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
CANANA original realistic wood piece unique sculpture
Josep Maria Codina Corona (Igualada, 1935 - Barcelona, 2006) was a Catalan sculptor. He goes to study at the Escola de la L...
Category
1980s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
DIANA (GLASS)
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Limited edition encased glass Art Deco vase with raised and etched design in frosted and cranberry glass colors. Holds Erte signature to lower right of figure. Stamp numbered with fo...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Getting at the Heart of the Matter, Hand built sculpture plate with sgraffito
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In this new series of wall plaques, titled "Behind Closed Doors," the artist reimagines original images from a book titled In Praise of the Backside. The book's collection features w...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Dye Transfer
Atlantis Egg "Zen"
By Patrice Breteau
Located in Miami, FL
Atlantis Egg "Zen" is a resin sculpture made by Patrice Breteau, a French contemporary artist. This piece is available in eight different colors, all resistant to UV exposure and out...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Flying Automobile
By Jeon Kang Ok
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Jeon Kang Ok currently lives and works in South Korea.
Her work resides in permanent collections of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
/ Pohang Museum of ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel, Iron
Lovers Tribute to Chagall Murano Glass Sculpture
By Walter Furlan
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Amanti (Lovers) Tribute To Chagall
Signed, artist logo stamp, and title.
Walter Furlan was born (1931-2018) in Chioggia, a small town near Venice. He started to work in a furnace c...
Category
1980s Expressionist Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
GIGI HADID. Wall Sculpture Tridimensional Portrait
By Hunter & Gatti
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Inspired by the power traditionally attributed to image, Hunter & Gatti wanted their works to perpetuate the wildfire velocity of fashion and the fast cycle of this industry which vo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment
Polish Sculpture Granite Stone, Metal Judaica Jewish Holocaust Memorial Art
By Lubomir Tomaszewski
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1923, alumnus of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Student of the Warsaw University of Technology, is an extraordinary artist, searching for his own artistic way. Ambitious,...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Iron
Large Masterwork Haitian Folk Art Steel Drum Metal Work Sculpture Murat Brierre
By Murat Brierre
Located in Surfside, FL
This work is hand signed. It is not dated.
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 was known for his recycling of surplus steel oil drum lids.
Brierre worked as a brick mason, cabinetmaker, tile setter, and blacksmith. He was born in Mirebalais or Port-au-Prince, Haiti and was the younger of two brothers. His older brother, Edgar Brierre, was a painter and sculptor. The brother's signed their works with only their last name, creating some confusion within their professional circles about the authorship of their work.
Brierre's sculptures typically ranged from three to six feet in length and reflected Christian, Haitian Vodou, and folklore themes. Brierre was also a painter, but ultimately chose to work with metal because he felt that the material was saturated with spiritual energy. It was a laborious process. The oil drum lids were hammered flat, drawn onto, then cut with a razor. The sheet was then cut with a chisel before finishing was completed with a file. By the mid1970s, Brierre's sculptures included pronounced areas of cut outs surrounding long curved lines of metal. Brierre's iron sculpture titled Chien de Mer overlays a dog head onto the body of a fish.
Haiti has long celebrated a rich artistic and cultural heritage. Georges Liautaud (1899–1991) ignited the Haitian metal sculpture movement in the 1950s in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti. A blacksmith by trade, he fashioned crosses for public cemeteries before creating more elaborate cut-metal works. Liautaud disseminated the distinctly Haitian art form to emerging artists, such as Murat Brièrre (1938–88) and the Louisjuste brothers, Sérésier, Janvier, and Joseph (1940–89). They, in turn, taught others in Croix-des-Bouquets, including Gabriel Bien-Aimé (b. 1951) and Serge Jolimeau (b. 1952), Haiti’s two leading metal sculptors working today.
Discarded steel oil drums have historically served as the base material for Haitian metal artists. The drums’ lids are cut open with a chisel and hammer and a long vertical split is made along the side of the drums. The interiors are filled with dried sugarcane or grass and lit on fire to remove any grime; once cool, the drums are flattened into sheets. Designs are chalked on; pieces are then cut and sculpted using only hand tools and further enhanced by hammering, embossing, cutting holes, and bending the metal. Sculptures reflect everyday life portraits, imaginative themes, and motifs of Haitian Vodou, an African Diasporic religion. Some of the many forms that appear include angels and winged creatures, mermaids and other aquatic figures, musical bands, animals, and earthly, paradisiacal scenes.
Solo exhibitions
1967 – Haitian Art Gallery, New York
1968 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Bradley Galleries, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Georgetown Graphics Gallery, Washington D.C.; Menschoff Gallery, Chicago; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Roko Gallery, New York
1969 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Showcase Gallery, Washington D.C.; Botolph Group, Boston
1970 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1972 – Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Roko Gallery, New York
1979 – Areta Contemporary Design, Boston
Group exhibitions
1969 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa
1974 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa
1978 – Brooklyn Museum, New York (traveling)
1982 – Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
1983 – Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
1985 – Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa
1987 – Musée du Panthéon National, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1988 – Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris
1989 – Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
2006 – Phyllis Kind Gallery in conjunction with the Outsider Art Fair, New York
2024 Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance, Luhring Augustine, Tribeca, New York
2023 Haitian Metal Sculpture, SFO Museum, California, USA
2015 Celebrating African American Art, Flomenhaft Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
An important exhibition of works by outstanding African American artists. Included were: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Murat Brierre, Beverly Buchanan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Brutalist Ceramic Sculpture Vase Bronze Lustre FInish California Expressionist
By Jenik Cook
Located in Surfside, FL
Jenik Cook
Handmade ceramic vase or pot sculpture
Hand signed by the artist.
Fired clay with a luster bronze painted finish
Jenik Esterm Simonian Cook is a painter and ceramicist ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Luster, Paint
Botero's Womans
By Fernando Botero
Located in Miami, FL
FERNANDO BOTERO (Medellín, Colombia, 1932) for ARTIKA.
"Botero's women", 2018.
Unique, limited, and numbered edition of 2998.
Includes Art Book, Study Book and sculpture-case.
Meas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Handmade Paper
Untitled I, Wall sculpture tridimensional portrait
By Hunter & Gatti
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Inspired by the power traditionally attributed to image, Hunter & Gatti wanted their works to perpetuate the wildfire velocity of fashion and the fast cycle of this industry which vo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment