New Orleans - Nude Sculptures

Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824-1904 French Bacchante à la grappe (Bacchante with grapes) Signed "J.L. GÉRÔME" with founders marks Gilt and patinated bronze with green onyx base A testamen...

Salvador Dalí 1904-1989 Spanish Vénus de Milo aux tiroirs (Venus de Milo with drawers) Signed "Salvador Dalí EA III/IV" (on base) Bronze One of th...

Antonin Mercié 1845-1916 French David vainqueur de Goliath (David Conquering Goliath) Signed "A.Mercié" Bronze Created by the hailed French sculptor Antonin Mercié, David vainqueur de Goliath stands among the artist's crowning achievements in sculpture. An exceptional rarity capturing a timeless biblical tale, the larger-than-life sculpture is one of only three large-scale bronzes of Mercié's David ever produced; one greets visitors as they enter the famed Musée d'Orsay in Paris, while the other stands proudly in front of the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse. When the artist Antonin Mercié showcased his grand plaster depicting David and Goliath at the 1872 Paris Salon, it overjoyed both the critics and the visitors and won First Prize. Impressed with the superb model, the French state commissioned two bronzes from his plaster. Because of the purchase by the French state, all further casts were prohibited, with the singular exception being a bronze the artist...

Antonio Frilli 1860-1902 Italian The Three Graces Signed “A. Frilli C / Firenze (Italia)” (on base) Marble Three nude women stand in an intimate embrace, their shapely bodies and...

A gorgeous patinated bronze of a young woman reclining, her arms wrapped around a candle holder taking the form of a large blossom with leaves that extend beneath her body. Probably...

Talk about a conversation piece! A beautifully-wrought sculptural group of a mother satyr with her two children - yes, complete with their hairy legs and hooves! Of course this goes ...

This gorgeous marble sculpture falls in that magic area between abstraction and representation. It loosely depicts a woman combing her hair, but really is about the beautiful curves and lines. Stunning veined alabaster. A substantial sculpture, weighing in at 50 pounds. I've included a shot showing the striations the artist carved into the woman's hair. Comes mounted on a wooden base. Here are some biographical details about the artist gleaned from AskArt, very impressive to know his work was shown at the Met, arguably America's premier art museum, in 1951, and to be called "preeminent among American sculptors" by a critic at a major paper is also notable! Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art, New Orleans, with our firm guarantee of satisfaction. "Ralph N. Hurst September 4, 1918 - December 7, 2003 Since his first major competitive exhibition "American Sculpture 1951" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and "Art USA: '58" at Madison Square Garden in New York, Ralph Hurst...

Signed, numbered, dated, and stamped with foundry mark “Degas / 6G / 1998 / CIRE C.VALSUANI PERDUE” Bronze This extraordinary bronze sculpture of a dancer in motion was conceived by the great Impressionist Edgar Degas. Entitled Fourth Position Front, on the Left Leg, the bronze exhibits an exceptional level of balance and poise. Her graceful carriage and seemingly effortless control over her body is enhanced by the expressivity of her execution - the most minute details and textures of Degas' original wax are beautifully translated in the superb bronze cast. Degas pursued the art of sculpture during the latter years of his career, crafting in wax all of his favorite subjects, from horses to women to dancers of the ballet. It was his dancers that most intrigued him in sculptural form, and of the seventy-four wax sculptures he is known to have created, over half of them depicted dancers. These creations emerged as a stunning three-dimensional representation of his highly expressive late painting style, and the present figure is no exception. Caught mid-movement in a common ballet pose, she appears arrested in time, a picture of grace and elegant movement captured in bronze. The work is a sought-after rarity in terms of Degas’ sculptures. Not only are his dancers the most desirable of his work, but this bronze is also distinguished by the fact that it is a Valsuani bronze, meaning it faithfully records Degas’ wax version’s pose as it appeared at the time of its creation. Most Degas' bronzes that are found on the market were cast by Hébrard – these serialized bronzes are surmoulages, or “aftercasts,” that were cast from the modèle bronzes currently in the Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena). Because these bronzes are second generation, they are smaller and far less detailed that the current bronze. This example, however, was cast by Valsuani from a plaster that was taken directly from Degas’ waxes, according to scholarship by the art historian Dr. Gregory Hedberg. These plasters were created by Degas’ sculptor friend Albert Bartholomé shortly after Degas completed his wax figurines. Thus, they record the earliest versions of Degas’ wax sculptures, before they were damaged by time or handling, and before Degas himself altered the works. The Hébrard bronzes...

The winged figure of Psyche is the subject of this exquisite marble by the great French Salon sculptor Alfred Boucher. Entitled L'Hirondelle Blessée, Boucher exhibited the work at th...

A gorgeous patinated bronze of a young woman reclining, her arms wrapped around a candle holder taking the form of a large blossom with leaves that extend beneath her body. Probably...

A stunning solid bronze cast sculpture by accomplished sculptress Sandra Oreck, evoking Cubism, yet (unusually for Cubism) emotional and poignant at the same time. Has a wonderful "...

Le Poète et la Sirène is regarded as the masterpiece of Émmanuel Hannaux's impressive oeuvre. Created for the French Salon of 1903, the intricately ca...