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Item Ships From: Santa Fe
Balancing Elephant, Circa 1930s, Art Deco, Louis-Albert Carvin (1875-1951)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Balancing Elephant
Louis-Albert Carvin (France, 1875-1951)
Bronze, marble
Circa 1930s, Art Deco
8 x 7.5 x 2 (4 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 1 7/8 figure) inches
Artist Louis-Albert Carvin, born in Paris in 1875, was exposed to art from an early age through his painter father. Carvin's formal education in art began at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under artists like Émmanuel Frémiet and Georges Gardet. Over the years, artist Louis-Albert Carvin became a renowned sculptor, dedicating his life’s work to the modeling of human and animal figures. He studied under Fremiet and Gardet and became a member of the Société des Artistes Français, exhibiting at the Salon des Artists Francais from 1894 until 1933 winning the Medal of Honor in his first year in 1894.
Remarkably, he sculpted La Muse de l’Aviation, the bronze trophy...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Bolognese Dog- Dresden Porcelain- after Meissen Johann Gottlieb Kirchner
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bolognese Dog- Dresden Porcelain-
After Meissen master artist Johann Joachim Kändler (1706-1775).
Carl Thieme founded Saxon Porcelain Manufactory in 1872 in the city of Pot...
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Early 1900s Rococo Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze
Antique Dog: Bulldog Playing with a Mouse- Henri Émile Adrien Trodoux ca. 1870s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog
Bulldog Playing with a Mouse on Sheaves of Wheat
Henri Émile Adrien Trodoux (1815-1881)
6 1/8 x 3 7/5 inches
Signed on the terrace
Henri Émile Adrien Trodoux (Fre...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Antique Porcelain Dog Portrait Cavalier King Charles-Edmé Samson circa 1860
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Porcelain Dog Portrait: Cavalier King Charles-Edmé Samson
According to the model created by Johann Joachim Kaendler (MEISSEN around 1770).
By the famous factory of Edmé Sams...
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Mid-19th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Porcelain
Antique: Mare Playing with a Terrier Dog (Good Companions) P. J. Mene 1860
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Bronze: Mare in the Stable Playing with a Dog (Good Companions)
Jument à l'écurie jouant avec un chien
Pierre-Jules Mene (French, 1810-1879)
Bronze
19 x 10 inches
One of Mene's most beloved bronze, well-loved early example with beautiful rich patina. A sensitive portrait of a horse nuzzling his companion while the terrier is giving kisses to the horse’s nose.
Cast by Mene’s own foundry and is very well detailed with a medium brown patina.
Pierre-Jules Mêne (1810-1879) was one of the most successful and prolific animalier sculptors of the 19th century, known for his naturalistic representation of animals.
Mêne received no formal education in sculpture but was taught to draw and model by his father and later began casting his own sculptures. He was largely self-taught, possessing a keen observation of nature that enabled him to capture the essence of his animal subjects with remarkable accuracy and vivacity.
His work debuted at the Paris Salon in 1838, and from that point onwards, he exhibited his sculptures regularly. Mêne specialized in small-scale domestic animals, his subjects often including horses, dogs, bulls, and sheep. Interestingly, almost no big game are found in Mêne's ouevre.
Beginning in 1837 as orders started coming in, Mêne worked as Antoine-Louis Barye before him, opening his own foundry where he personally oversaw the manufacture and production of his art. The work produced there bears the hallmark of extraordinary attention to detail and thoughtfulness shown in every element of presentation and assembly. His mastery in the technical aspects of casting bronze without relying on professional founders for the completion of his models gave him a significant advantage in producing his pieces with fine detail and at a lower cost. This operation was expanded in 1852 to handle the casting of models for his new son-in-law, Auguste Cain.
Mêne’s sculptures...
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1860s Realist Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Antique 19th century Bronze Dog Portrait of a Maltese on a Marble Base
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Maltese on a Marble Base
French 19th century
1/2 x 8 x 5 1/2 inches
The chiseled bronze has a nuanced, rich brown patina depicting a Maltese in the round, seated on a quadrangular marble base decorated with very fine gilt bronze flowers and fluted feet. Napoleon III, Louis XVI style. Based on a model by Jacques Caffieri for the Prince de Condé in 1773.
(More images to be added.)
Executed during the nineteenth century, this figure is fully in line with the eclectic taste of the reign of Napoleon III. Indeed, the Empress Eugenie brought the Louis XVI style up to date in her castle of Compiègne. Jacques Caffieri is one of the most famous bronze smiths of the eighteenth century. In 1715 he was admitted as a master caster and chiseler, and worked almost exclusively for the crown castles...
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19th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Fine & Very Large Belle Epoque Porcelain and Enamel Elephant, France circa 1900
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Very Large Porcelain Elephant
France, circa 1900
Porcelain, enamels
28 x 14 1/2 x 9 inches
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Pair of Italian "Alabaster Stone Lions" after Antonio Canova; Mid 19th Century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Pair Recumbent Stone Lions"
after Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
Italian (possibly Florence)
Mid 19th Century
Alabaster, marble
6 x 9 x 4 inches
This is an exquisite pair of Italian alabaster lions on marble bases based on the monumental lions carved by Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the greatest Italian neoclassical sculptor. Canova sculpted the marble lions for the monumental tomb of Pope Clement XIII in St. Peter’s, Rome in 1792
Canova Lions refers to the pair of copies of lion sculptures by Antonio Canova. When Canova created the sculptures in 1792, he installed them on the tomb of Pope Clement XIII. The marble sculptures are some of the most prominent features in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Given the intricacies of creating the original Canova lions, some artists created molds and replicated them. A good example is the pair of lion sculptures...
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1850s Italian School Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Alabaster, Marble
Antique Bronze Miniature Barnyard with a Bull, Sheep & Goat circa 1860, France
By Christophe Fratin
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Miniature Barnyard Scene (Cow, Sheep & Goat)
Christophe Fratin (France, 1801-1864)
Sand cast bronze
5 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches
Highly refined and sensitively modeled miniature bronze representing a small herd of cattle, sheep and cattle on the terrace. Despite its small size, this bronze offers a complete view of a small herd of livestock: a bull is lying in a landscape near a sheep and a goat climbing a tree above a rocky mound. Here we find the skillful hand of the animalier sculptor Christophe Fratin (French, 1801-1864), immensely famous in the 19th century for his thoughtfully crafted animal...
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1840s Romantic Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Rare, Antique, Life-Size Dog Bronze of a Chihuahua "Lydie" Charles Valton. 1890s
By Charles Valton
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Sculpture
Chihuahua "La Petite Belle Lydie"
Charles Valton (French, 1851-1918)
Circa 15 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 7
Lydie is a Chihuahua making her a very rare image from ...
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Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles "Thigley" circa 1905
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Cavalier King Charles
"Thigley"
French School (possibly Franck Burty Haviland)
Lost wax bronze casting
Circa 1910
5 7/8 x 9 x 3 1/4
A sophisticated bronze casting of a Cavalier King Charles spaniel made in lost wax casting (cire perdue) from the beginning of the 20th century by Valsuani Foundry. This an unusual bronze approached in its aesthetic that’s reminiscent of the work of great animal sculptors of the second half of the 19th century except in this presentation which is more avant-garde for the time with a much looser, more impressionistic execution. The patina is a superb bronze color, brown and slightly greenish, going in places towards a more antique green.
The attitude of the dog is extremely well and sensitively rendered with the placement of material unlike the renderings of a bronze by Barye...
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Early 1900s French School Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Antique Horse Bronze Trotting Stallion Isidore Jules Bonheur (France, 1827-1901)
By Isidore Jules Bonheur
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Bronze
Portrait of a Trotting Stallion
Isidore Jules Bonheur (France, 1827-1901)
Cast bronze mounted on a rectangular plinth with dark brown patina,
Signed: I. BONHEUR
17 x 11 3/4
A brilliant exploration of a stallion in full trot. The patina is a deep, warm walnut brown with honey-colored tones.
Isidore Bonheur was best known and the most distinguished of the 19th century French animalier sculptors. Isidore, the younger brother of Rosa Bonheur and older brother of Auguste, began his studies of painting initially with his father, who was friends with Francisco Goya. By 1848 he debuted at the Paris Salon having discontinued animal and landscape painting to concentrate on creating sculptures and in 1849, Bonheur enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He won medals at the Paris Salon in 1859 and did so again in 1865 and in 1869. After entering the Exposition Universelle 1855, he won the Gold Medal in 1889. In the 1870s exhibited in the London at the Royal Academy of Arts where he earned great prestige and won the coveted Medaille d’Or. After winning numerous other medals and prizes, Bonheur was awarded the Legion d' Honneur in 1895 and he was Knighted in Portugal, Spain and France. Bonheur continued exhibiting at the Paris Salon until 1899.
Many of his bronzes were fabricated at the foundry owned by Hippolyte Peyrol, Bonheur's brother-in-law by marriage to Isidore’s youngest sister Juliette Bonheur. The Peyrol casts for both Rosa and Isidore are exceptionally well executed which suggests a strong working relationship between the founder and sculptor. There is little doubt that Isidore Bonheur was an acute observer of nature; his animals were not anthropomorphized but modelled to catch movement or posture characteristics of the particular species he was sculpting. He achieved this most successfully with his sculptures of horses which are usually depicted as relaxed rather than spirited. These figures are among his most renowned works and his equestrian models became very popular, particularly among the British aristocracy.
An acute observer of nature, his sculptures reflect his commitment to the Realist school - with precise detailing of the movements of animals in their natural habitats. Ultimately, His naturalistic studies of animals are now some of the most highly sought after works by any of the animalier. He was possibly inspired by his many visits to the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show...
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1870s Realist Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Antique Silvered Bronze Rooster, France circa 19th Century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Silvered Bronze Rooster
France, circa 1900
10 1/4 x 9 1/2 (H x D) inches
A very fine and lively bronze statuette of a preening Rooster. Nicely cast and well-carved and in ex...
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19th Century French School Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Pair of Japanese Buddhist, Meiji Period Foo-Dogs from the Satsuma Kilns, 19th C.
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Pair of Buddhist Foo Dogs
Polychrome porcelain
Japan, Meiji era (1868 – 1912), circa late 19th century
Satsuma Kilns
12 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches
This exquisite pair of Japanese Foo-dogs ...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Bronze Portrait Draft Horse by Isidore Jules Bonheur (France, 1827-1901)
By Isidore Jules Bonheur
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Portrait of a Draft Horse
Isidore Jules Bonheur (France, 1827-1901)
Circa 1840s
Cast bronze mounted on a rectangular plinth atop a marble s...
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1870s Realist Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Antique Exceptional Bronze Draft Horse by Pierre Jules Mêne (French, 1810-1879)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Bronze
Exceptional Bronze of a Draft Horse
Pierre Jules Mêne (French, 1810-1879)
Circa 1860s
4 3/4 (W) x 3.25 (H)
As Mêne personally ov...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Antique Bronze Dog "Whippet with a Butterfly" Arthur Waagen (1833-1898) 2 of 2
By Arthur Waagen
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait
“La Levrette au Papillon” or “Whippet (Greyhound) with a Butterfly”
Arthur Waagen (Germany, France 1833-1898)
Circa 1860’s
11 x 8 x 4 inches
(2of 2. No...
Category
1860s Academic Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Soft Landing (or crashing and burning) I
By Debra Baxter
Located in Santa Fe, NM
An exact, cast alabaster likeness of one of the components of Albrecht Dürer's 1493 drawing, "Six Studies of Pillows," a drawing which exists on the bac...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Alabaster
Antique 19th cent. Dog Portrait Jack Russell Terrier by Pierre-Albert Laplanche
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait of a Terrier
Pierre-Albert Laplanche (French, 1826-1873)
Signed in script to base "Laplanche"
Stamped "E.V 3753"
8 x 2.75 x 8 1/4 inches
This is a super...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Tux
By Joyce Stolaroff
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Joyce Stolaroff is a Santa Fe-based ceramic and sculpture artist. Her dog sculptures have been used as a catalyst for multiple charitable and fundraisi...
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2010s Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Ceramic
Love Side
By Debra Baxter
Located in Santa Fe, NM
"There's inevitable pain in every form of love." Debra Baxter's new body of work, Love Tears, embodies the entanglement of love, mortality and the natural world. Taking cues from Victorian mourning...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Precious Stone, Glass
Crow Pot
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Gourd pot sculpture made of traditional materials of pine needles with beeswax sealant, gourd lined with pine sap, oil paint on applied primed canvas, cotton cloth, feathers, loom be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Textile, Oil
Rapture Pot
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Gourd pot sculpture made of traditional materials of pine needles with beeswax sealant, gourd lined with pine sap, oil paint on applied primed canvas, cotton cloth, feathers, loom be...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Textile, Oil
Pony Pot
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Gourd pot sculpture made of traditional materials of pine needles with beeswax sealant, gourd lined with pine sap, oil paint on applied primed canvas, cotton cloth, feathers, loom be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Textile, Oil
wow that’s great
By Everett Hoffman
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Everett Hoffman reconfigures found objects to shape scenes of everyday life. The artist engages in a multidisciplinary approach of creation, including combining multiple materials in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Salmon and the Raven
By Clayton Peshlakai
Located in Santa Fe, NM
hand fabricated steel edition 2 of 9
Sculpture size 23.5 x 7 x .75"
with the base is 23.5 x 9.5 x 5"
Clayton Peshlakai was born in the small town of Ft. Defiance, Arizona, on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Although he has no formal art education, Clayton’s involvement in art began at an early age when comic books and graphic novels sparked his interest. A combination of fantastic storytelling and exotic art helped him escape the world he lived in and create a world of his own. He first began drawing with pencil, then pen and ink, eventually incorporating watercolor. He constantly experimented with styles and techniques using watercolor and pen and ink—separately and together—never settling on just one.
In his junior high school wood shop Clayton was exposed to drafting. To him technical drawing was a new form of art. It was rooted in discipline and education—two things he needed when there seemed to be no direction in life. His desire to excel in drafting boosted his grades, and Clayton was invited to attend a college prep high school for “gifted” Native Americans. Here he studied architecture, then went on to the local community college to pursue electrical engineering.
While in college Clayton worked in numerous construction fields to support himself, gaining valuable experience that would benefit him later as a professional artist. Inspired by pipeline construction welders and their ability to manipulate and fuse metal, Clayton’s interest shifted from designing to building. Within a year he became a code-certified welder, obtaining the skills necessary to work with an assortment of metals. Over the next eight years he honed his craft in a variety of industrial fields.
Clayton was introduced to sculpture fabrication in the early 1990s. As a project manager for a small metal art fabrication shop, he worked with artists of various backgrounds, including the late Allan Houser, Dan Namingha, and Bill Barrett, to help create their visions in metal. Art fabrication was a refreshing change from the industrial world and reconnected Clayton with his true passion of working with metals.
As a metal fabricator Clayton was satisfied with the challenges presented to him. But when he was contracted as an artist’s assistant for painter William Debilzan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Steel
Antique Pair of Russian Wolf Hound/Borzoi Dog Portrait Sculptures circa 1930's
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Pair of Russian Wolfhounds/Borzois Dog Portrait Sculptures
by Scalini (aka Scali; Italian, 20th century)
circa 1930's
Patinated spelter
9 x 14 inches (on bases)
Though rath...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Cast Stone, Bronze
Painted Cast-Metal Tiger circa 1900
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Painted Cast-Metal Tiger
Continental School, circa 1900
8.75 x 19.5 inches
Ex. Collection Interior Designer Joseph Cicio
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Joseph Cicio followe...
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Early 20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Metal
Antique Bronze Dog "Whippet with a Butterfly" Arthur Waagen (1833-1898) 1 of 2
By Arthur Waagen
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog Portrait
“La Levrette au Papillon” or “Whippet (Greyhound) with a Butterfly”
Arthur Waagen (Germany, France 1833-1898)
Circa 1860’s
11 x 8 x 4 inches
(1 of 2. ...
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1860s Academic Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Orientalist African Hunter Leaning on His Shield 19th cent. Black Forest, German
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Orientalist African Hunter Leaning on His Shield
Black Forest, School Switzerland 19th century
Carved Wood
21 inches
This is an exceptionally beautifu...
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19th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Wood
Pair of 19th Century Busts by Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
By Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Signed: A. Carrier-Belluese
Two large bronze matching busts of an unknown male and female
22 x 10 x 11" male
23 x 10 x 9" female
Both show signs of wear with their age but are in fa...
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19th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Dreamer
By Igor Melnikov
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Russian born artist, Igor Melnivok, upends traditional associations with portraiture through his haunting and intrinsically psychological paintings of emotionally ambiguous children ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Paint, Wood
Prisma
By Walter Robinson
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Working in a range of materials— wood, epoxy, metal, and found materials— Walter Robinson hand-fabricates and assembles objects, signage and tableaux that investigate the mechani...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood
Ambassador
By Wanxin Zhang
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mixed iconography come together seamlessly in this romanesque style ceramic bust.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Ceramic
Snow Day
By Wanxin Zhang
Located in Santa Fe, NM
A meditative figure sits in contemplation .
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Ceramic
The Waves
By Wanxin Zhang
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Wanxin appropriates traditional imagery from his Chinese heritage and radically alters them into contemporary statements.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Bronze Head of Shakyamuni Buddha, Burma 19th century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Very fine 19th century bronze Buddha from Burma.
13 3/4 inches x 10
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19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Bronze
Indian Pink Sandstone Figure of a Deity, Central India, 11th/12th century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Indian Pink Sandstone Torso of Brahma
Central India, ca. 12th century
Pink Sandstone
22 inches, 25 inches on base
In the Hindu pantheon Shiva i...
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15th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Sandstone
Dog with Bird
By David L. Deming
Located in Sante Fe, NM
David L. Deming’s world of lively canine sculptures captures the artist’s love for dogs and presents a whimsical look at four-legged behavior at its best.
His extensive and unique collection of painted steel and lacquered steel dog sculptures...
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1990s Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures in Santa Fe
Materials
Steel
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