Manhattan - Nude Sculptures

Medium - Lego brick, tile, plate and slope. Pop artist Andre Veloux's unique and captivating work is inspired by social change. His vibrant art combines two and three-dimensional el...

The most extraordinary relics discovered by Joshua Goode and the Aurora-Rhoman Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics during recent archaeological expeditions. The first eviden...

"Wrestlers" 1936 Olympic Porcelain Gay Mid 20th Century Art Deco WPA Modern LGBT Hungarian porcelain sculpture designed by Bela Pankotai Farkas for the 1936 Berlin Olympics...

Finely carved antique white Carrara marble sculpture featuring a seated female nude looking down on a rocky plinth. Artist: Antonio Piazza (1875-1925) Signed on base A. Piazza - Car...

Laurence Perratzi is a French figurative artist exploring the body’s expression. Her work is a reflection on movement strongly influenced by her ath...

Nijinski Dance Ballet Russes American French Woman Sculptor early 20th Century , Bronze 12 1/2 “ x 6 1/4” H x 6” W Sculpted c. 1912 while Hoffman with studying with Rodin. In 1912 she won First Prize the Paris Salon for her new modern way of sculpting movement in bronze with Russian Dancers (Anna Pavlova). Hoffman was the first, other followed her style. About the sculpture Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950). This bronze is a study from the dance L’apres-midi d’un faune (1910) with music by Debussy. It was a scandalous ballet performed with the Ballet Russes and Paris was in an uproar over his new modern style of choreography and overt sexuality. At the end of the ballet after toying with some nymphs Nijinski pleasures himself on stage with one of their scarves creating the scandal. Paris was in an uproar. Nijinski begged Auguste Rodin to help him calm the critics. Rodin who was known for his eroticism, wrote a letter to the editor of Le Figaro explaining how great Nijinsky danced and exploded into well… you know. Anyway the French public now turned their energy against Rodin, forgetting Nijinsky. France was negotiating with Rodin to purchase his studio which would become the Musee Rodin after his death and they almost shut those talks down because of his letter to the editor. Sculptor Malvina Hoffman...

A Monumental, Striking and "Academic" Patinated Bronze Figure of Two Athletic Male Nude Erotic Lovers Holding Hands by Adolf Jahn Two fighting men is from the work "Der Kampf" by Adolf Jahn Circa 1920 Signed on base by artist "Jahn" A plaster version of this model was exhibited in Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1918. Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1918, 14.Sep. to November 17, 1918 in the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin W. Pariser Platz 4 Publisher: The Otto Elsner Akt. Ges., Berlin Jahn, Adolf, Schöneberg 166 (The fight) , plaster. Of monumental size and superb quality casting, this academic-erotic bronze is one of a kind. We have not seen another one in all our years. We have sold many sculptures of single male nude figures. Having a monumental sculpture like the one presented here, with two male nude...

Laurence Perratzi is a French figurative artist exploring the body’s expression. Her work is a reflection on movement strongly influenced by her ath...

Large neoclassical Italian green porphyry veneered model of a Male Torso, after the antique, early 20th century. Very decorative torso, extremely att...

Benoit Rougelet, F. Barbedienne, a charming French white marble sculpture of a Putti and Turtle, circa 1870. Extremely life-like and charming, this white marble sculpture depicts ...

Antique large Grand Tour white metal Italian Borghese gladiator sculpture, circa 1870. Extremely high quality. Depicting a male nude, posing...

Exceptional neoclassical Italian alabaster and iridescent polychrome metal sculpture of Paulina Bonaparte Borghese, circa 1880. This iconic, elegant sculpture depicts Paulina Bonaparte as Venus Victrix (Venus (Victorius) after the famous model by Antonio Canova which is now at the Borghese Gallery in Rome. The nude figure reclining on an iridescent polychrome rainbow chaise lounge holding an apple in her hand on a black marble base with bronze paw feet. This iconic marble figure is after the celebrated sculpture by Antonio Canova of Pauline Borghese, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte and wife of Prince Camillo Borghese. It was commissioned by Camillo, her second husband and executed in Rome from 1805-1808, after her marriage into the Borghese family in 1803. It was moved to the Galleria Borghese in Rome circa 1838 where it still resides. Canova was renowned for his neoclassical sculpture which skillfully intertwined antique influences with modern artistic ideals, in this case representing the famed Roman Princess...