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Item Ships From: USA
American Millionairess
By Erté
Located in Greenwich, CT
The inspiration for this sculpture comes from Erté's original costume design entitled "Texas," for the 1917 New York stage production of "The American Millionaires." This spectacular...
Category
20th Century Art Deco USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Blarney Stone
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Blarney Stone" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of painted paper, wire, chain, and inkjet prints. It measures 11”h x 0.75”w x 7”d.
Drew Leshko is a Phi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paper, Pigment, Inkjet
Genesis by Frederick Hart
By Frederick Hart
Located in Woodmere, OH
Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...
Category
1980s USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Big blue poppies
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairfield, CT
¾ inch thick painted aluminum. Edition of 6. Comes with powder coat painted black aluminum base. A polished stainless steel base is available for an additional charge
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
F. Soriano 55 Women "ALEGORIA" 2007 iron and sheet original sculpture
By Ferran Soriano
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Ferran Soriano - Sculptor (Barcelona, 1944)
Ferran Soriano has been exhibiting his works of art since 1970 around the world (in Spain, Europe and the USA).
He has got works of art in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Iron
"Giving a Sign (C-33)" Black Serpentine Stone Sculpture by Colleen Madamombe
By Colleen Madamombe
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Giving a Sign (C-33)" is an original black serpentine stone sculpture by Colleen Madamombe. The artist signed the piece at the base. This artwork features a woman in a large, textured dress gesturing to her side.
11" x 11" x 6" art
Colleen Madamombe was born in 1964 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Considered to be among the finest new talents from Zimbabwe, she has won the award of Best Female Artist of Zimbabwe for the past three consecutive years, and is quickly becoming an established figure of the Second Generation of Zimbabwean stone...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
#1 Bird, Hand-Welded Bronze, Copper and Iron Sculpture by Delfin
By Victor Delfin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Victor Delfin, Peruvian (1927 - )
Title: #1 Bird
Year: 1978
Medium: Hand-Welded Bronze, Copper and Iron Sculpture
Size: 45 in. x 71 in. (114.3 cm x 180.34 cm)
Category
1970s Modern USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Copper, Iron
Coin Cunt XLII
By Suzanna Scott
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Coin Cunt XLI" is an original artwork made from kiss-lock coin purses and thread by Suzanna Scott. This piece measures approx. 4"x4", size varies
Suzanna Scott is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Thread, Found Objects
Figure sitting on a head
By Linda H. Smith
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Glazed ceramic
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
"Maxwell Street" wall sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
Sandblasted carved glass, cast glass, bronze and wood.
Steve Linn describes himself as a documentary sculptor, conducting meticulous research on each of his selected subjects and choosing which references to interpret for the piece he then creates. "I was born and raised in Chicago," Linn says, "and in 1956 before my 13th birthday, my father took me to Maxwell Street to buy me my first suit. This was a momentous occasion, not because I was getting a suit, but it was my introduction to the blues. Maxwell Street was the center of Jewish pushcart commerce and haberdashery emporiums, it was also where black blues musicians congregated, played, and thrived in harmony with their neighbors. My dad let me stay and listen that day and I became a life-long fan."
The merchants provided electrical extension cords from their establishments to power the amplifiers of the musicians, and in return the musicians were an attraction to lure customers into the shops. Many famous blues musicians got their start on Maxwell Street having migrated to the city from the deep south: Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Bo Diddley, and Howlin...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Ceramic #42" 2017 original handmade signed unique Talavera ceramic 14x14x2in
By Luis Miguel Valdes
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
"Ceramic #42", 2017
Ceramic in Uriarte's Talavera, Puebla, Mexico
34.5 x 34.5 x 3.6 cm. (13.6 x 13.6 x 1.5 in.)
Hand-signed by author
________________...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
"Ceramic #30" 2017 original handmade signed unique Talavera ceramic 18x18x3 in
By Luis Miguel Valdes
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
"Ceramic #30", 2017
Ceramic in Uriarte's Talavera, Puebla, Mexico
44.5 x 44.5 x 6.5 cm. (17.5 x 17.5 x 2.6 in.)
Hand-signed by author
________________...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Kwa-Giulth Thunderbird
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Kwa-Giulth, Thundrbird" 1987 is a wood carving bas-relief by Canadian artist Kevin Cranmer, b.1968 It is signed, titled and dated in...
Category
Late 20th Century Tribal USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Juliet, Atelier
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Juliet, Atelier" by Richard MacDonald captures the essence of Shakespeare’s beloved heroine in a moment of tender longing and quiet strength. Bent forward with arms gently extended ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Crane
By Jane DeDecker
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sculpture of a figure balancing on their hands with their legs bent in the air.
Ed. 4/17
Category
2010s USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,000
Antoine Louis Barye Panther Attacking A Civet Cat
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Dallas, TX
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE (FRENCH, 1795-1875)
Panthère surprenant un zibeth, seconde version (Panther attacking a civet cat, second version)
signed BARYE
bronze, dark-brown patina with r...
Category
1860s USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Bouquet, " Mixed Media Sculpture
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. In his ongoing series of memory jugs, Thompson adorns stoneware vessels with a kaleidoscope of ceramic shards, found objects, and pocket-sized trinkets he collected over the course of his life.
Also known as forget-me-not jugs or spirit jars, memory jugs are African American folk art objects that honor a loved one who has recently passed. Small tokens and mementos of the deceased are gathered and affixed to the exterior of a jug or vase, an abundance of memories that celebrates a life lived to the fullest.
Michael Thompson applies this tradition to his own practice, creating tactile assemblages of this and that. Formed in the manner of collage, each jug honors the lost memories of generations past and his own memories of personally discovering each item. With varied sources for materials including Kyoto, Turkey, and Mexico, a great number of the found shards are 18th and 19th century ceramics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Assemblage in century old excavated book: 'Schatten des Todes''
By Heide Hatry
Located in New York, NY
Heide Hatry is a NYC-based German artist, former rare bookseller, and best known for her work employing animal parts or other discarded, disdained, or “taboo” materials. She has cura...
Category
2010s Assemblage USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
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 USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Margaret Roleke, Barbie Lives In A Police State, 2015, children's toys, wood
By Margaret Roleke
Located in Darien, CT
Roleke creates politically aware work. Her wall reliefs are composed of multitudes of plastic toys, oddly sexualized Disney characters and Happy Meal trinkets. Through investigation ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Spray Paint, Wood Panel
Cabeza de Caballo, Surrealist Iron Sculpture by Victor Delfin
By Victor Delfin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Title: Cabeza de Caballo
Medium: Iron Sculpture
Size: 9 x 7 x 3.5 in. (22.86 x 17.78 x 8.89 cm)
Category
20th Century Modern USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Fine Pair of Patinated Bronze Sculptures by Hippolyte Moreau
By Hippolyte François Moreau
Located in New York, NY
HIPPOLYTE FRANÇOIS MOREAU
French, (1832-1927)
‘Eaves Dropping’ and ‘Consolation’
Patinated bronze; signed ‘Moreau’
25 x 11 inches
Category
1880s USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Robots Work Cheaper" (2024) By David Lipson, Original Mixed Media Sculpture
By David Lipson
Located in Denver, CO
"Robots Work Cheaper" (2024) by David Lipson is an original, handmade mixed media sculpture in a shadowbox made using found objects.
David Lipson assembles robot sculptures from var...
Category
2010s Other Art Style USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Julia
Located in Milford, NH
A fine relief cast and mounted bronze portrait profile of a woman titled “Julia” by American artist George H. Borst (1889-1969). Borst was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became known for his presidential portrait reliefs, including Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge...
Category
1920s USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"An Exact Record Of How It Happened", Green, Red, and White Sculpture
By Jedediah Morfit
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This free-standing sculpture titled "An Exact Record Of How It Happened" is an original artwork by Jedediah Morfit made of plaster, paint, wax, thermoplastic, epoxy, wood, rope. This piece measures 33.25"h x 10"w x 14"d.
BIO Jedediah Morfit received his MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005, where he was awarded the Sylvia Leslie Herman Young Scholarship and the Award Of Excellence. He was a Fellow at the Center For Emerging Visual Artists from 2007-2009, and received a New Jersey Council On the Arts Fellowship for sculpture in 2009. He received the Louise Kahn Award for Sculpture from the Woodmere Art Museum in 2006, and was awarded the Dexter Jones Award for Bas Relief from the National Sculpture Society in 2011 and 2012. In 2013, he was commissioned to create a series of new work for Artlantic:Wonder, which was named one of the 50 best...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Plaster, Paint, Wax, Epoxy Glue, Found Objects
Judaica Silvered Copper Repousse Sculpture Relief Plaque Shtetl Yeshiva Bochur
By Arieh Merzer
Located in Surfside, FL
Arieh Merzer was a prominent Israeli artist and metal worker.
Arie Merzer, an artist who worked in hand-hammered copper, was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1905, the scion of a large Has...
Category
Mid-20th Century USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Hunter, Bronze and Wood Sculpture by James McCain
By James McCain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James McCain, American (b. 1944)
Title: Hunter
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Bronze Sculpture on Wooden Base, signature and numbering inscribed
Edition: 85/250
Size: 12.5 x 6 x ...
Category
1980s American Modern USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Mind Your Manner" Abstract Relief Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mind Your Manner" Abstract Relief Sculpture.
Carved sculpture and painting by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). This large-scal...
Category
1990s Outsider Art USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper, Found Objects
Horse Carrying Fire by Hilton McConnico
By Daum
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A mythical piece of Daum's legacy, "Horse Carrying Fire" is inspired by legend. This magnificent horse with its fine silver embellishment appears to have stepped straight out of a th...
Category
20th Century Art Deco USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Standing Figure
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1988. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 11.5 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base.
Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho.
Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Latex
Maurice Bouval Gilt and Silvered Bronze Art Nouveau Figure
Located in Dallas, TX
Maurice Bouval
French Art Nouveau Gilt and Silvered Bronze Figural Vide Poche
Cast from a model by Maurice Bouval, cast by Jollet & Cie., Paris, circa 1900
Modeled as a maiden in a ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Doves, Atelier, Red
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald has always been intrigued by opposites and he has the range to be able to create both sculptures of delicate, archetypal femininity and powerful, athletic masculini...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sappho Leaning Against a Column Holding Her Lyre by Pradier in French Bronze
Located in New York, NY
French bronze of Sappho Leaning Against a Column Holding Her tortoise Lyre, Original rich brown patina intact.
Artist: Jean Jacques Pradier (Swi...
Category
Mid-19th Century USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Standing Pamela
By Curt Brill
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This nude figurative sculpture, "Standing Pamela," stands with one hand on her hip and the other hand resting over the ponytail falling down her back. The bronze figure with dark pat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Gold
Columna - Small Bronze Sculpture with Patina - Tower of Balancing Figures
By Jesus Curia Perez
Located in Chicago, IL
Jesús Curiá
Columna
bronze
33.50h x 9w x 9d in
85.09h x 22.86w x 22.86d cm
JCP076
Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely aesthetic pleasure. We can analyze his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nightfall, Atelier
By Richard MacDonald
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Cloaked in mystery, the female form of Nightfall intrigues us. Concealed is a beautiful face, but like nightfall itself, all is not revealed. The globes in each hand suggest the arri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Louis Ernest Barrias Bronze Sculpture
By Louis Ernest Barrias
Located in Dallas, TX
French dore bronze depicting a seated figure of a boy with tablet by Louis Ernest Barrias, French(1841-1905) Circa 1912
Modeled as a partially nude youth seated with a tablet and p...
Category
1910s USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Made-To-Order Tile (Hand-Painted, Gold Luster, Platinum Luster, Vintage Imagery)
By Melanie Sherman
Located in Kansas City, MO
Melanie Sherman
Made-To-Order Tile (Hand-Painted, Gold Luster, Platinum Luster, Vintage Imagery)
(Decal Example)
Porcelain, Glaze, Decal
Year: 2025
Size: 7.75 x 15.75 x 0.125 inches...
Category
2010s Modern USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze
Bird Feeder Totem By Marc Zimmerman
By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
-----This ceramic totem sculpture is a more minimal expression than usual The simplicity emphasizes the subtle translucent blu glaze and its strong support colors. The adaptation to...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Glaze
Beyond
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9
Jim Rennert was born in 1958, and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah. After ten trying years of working in business, Rennert was inspired to explore ...
Category
2010s USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$14,000
Freedom
By Jane DeDecker
Located in Greenwich, CT
Children running and their shadows
Edition of 31
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Bruno Zach
By Bruno Zach
Located in New York, NY
Cold Painted Austrian Bronze Table Lamp and Sculpture of a lounging Arab man.
Signed with one of Zach's pseudonyms "K. Salat"
Size: 16 1/2 inches high
Artist Bio:
Bruno Zach (6 Ma...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cwtch, hug, hearts, sculpture, by Kerry Green, turquoise, blue, silver, new
By Kerry Green
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Cwtch, hug, hearts sculpture by Kerry Green, turquoise,blue, silver,contemporary
Since childhood, Kerry Green has always been creative; painting, drawing, sculpting, and sewing. Her family provided her with materials and encouraged her efforts. She literally grew up in her parents’ art galleries, and with them toured the U.S.,
Europe, Mexico, Japan, and New Zealand, seeing museums and visiting artists’ studios. Growing up in Arizona and New Mexico gave her the opportunity to explore the Native reservations there where she has made life-long friendships. Several of her very early influences were Dr. Harry Wood...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Just My Luck..." Hyperrealistic kitten sculpture, throwing darts, wall-hanging
By Darla Jackson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Just My Luck" is an original artwork made from fired clay, acrylic, darts by Darla Jackson. This piece measures 16"h x 16"w x 4"d.
This piece, featuring a kitten ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Found Objects, Clay
Joie de Vivre (Joy of Living), A.R. 346
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1956, this oval dish of white earthenware clay is numbered from the edition of 100. This work is stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO' ...
Category
1950s Modern USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware
$18,000 Sale Price
28% Off
Ocean Library, Stack 1
By Joan Hall
Located in Boston, MA
Signed on 2nd book. The Ocean Library stacks incorporate physical and emotional reminders of Hall’s husband, Mark S. Weil, while also reflecting upon en...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Allan Houser Marble Sculpture - Two Figures
By Allan Houser
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Wonderful sculpture of two figures by Native American artist Allan Houser (1914-1994).
The work is in excellent condition and measures 19 1/2"h x 12"w x 9"deep.
His signature is seen...
Category
Late 20th Century USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Two Beauties
By Hippolyte François Moreau
Located in New York, NY
HIPPOLYTE FRANÇOIS MOREAU
French, (1832-1927)
Two Beauties
Patinated bronze; Signed, The base inscribed H.MOREAU, surmounted on a green marble base. ...
Category
Late 19th Century USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Muse of Dance, Early 20th century French bronze sculpture of woman
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Armand Bardery (French, 1879-1952)
Muse of Dance
Bronze with green and brown patination
Signed and stamped with foundry mark
18 x 6 inches
Louis Armand Bardery was a student o...
Category
Early 20th Century USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Defi a Newton
By Arman
Located in Palm Beach, FL
ARMAN 1928 - 2005
Bronze sculpture, 2004
Polished bronze with black patina, 2004, stamped with foundry stamp and numbered, published by Venturi Arte, Bologna
Signed and numbered...
Category
Early 2000s Realist USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
$21,000
Timing, study
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 12 + APs
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Little Zen (Turquoise Patina) 1/99
By Giuseppe Palumbo
Located in Napa, CA
Giuseppe Palumbo’s whimsical, anthropomorphic sculptures delve into the human psyche through irony, wit, and humor. By applying classical techniques to his contemporary subjects, Pal...
Category
2010s Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Greco
By Robert Kvenild
Located in Napa, CA
Robert Kvenild took his BA from the UC Santa Cruz and went on to SF State University for his MA. His whimsical, colorful ceramic pieces have been in many solo and group shows through...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
$1,500
Spartico E Il Leone, Art Nouveau Porcelain Sculpture by Tiziano Galli
Located in Long Island City, NY
Tiziano Galli, Italian (1908 - 1986) - Spartico E Il Leone, Medium: Porcelain sculpture, signature and title inscribed, Size: 18 x 12 x 9 in. (45.72 x 30.48 x 22.86 cm)
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Nouveau USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Woman Reading on Smooth Rock" miniature bronze figure on smooth river rock
By Noa Bornstein
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
A miniature bronze woman is reading. She found the perfect rock to settle on! This is number 4 in an edition of 12, but each edition number varies slightly due to the unique found ro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
L'Echauffeuse Hot Lips
Located in Atlanta, GA
Louis Durot was born in Paris on April 22, 1939. He was something of an enfant terrible, and managed to be expelled from various schools for bad conduct. His ambition, as stated to his parents, was to earn money without having to work, and for a time, he was an “escort-boy” for a Parisian Grande Dame. He did, however, manage to get a good education in spite of himself, and received his Baccalaureate degree from Lycee Louis Pasteur in 1956.
In 1960, he enrolled in the Facultie de Sciences, where he studied mathematics. He terminated his math studies in 1963, and turned his attention to engineering, working for Equipel, where he was responsible for calculating and measuring resistance for prototype nuclear generators. Equipel became a research facility, and offered Durot the opportunity to study organic chemistry.
Durot directed numerous research projects for Equipel between 1966 and 1972. During this time, in fact, starting in 1964, he made many friends in the art world, gathering together artists from a variety of disciplines to form an artists commune — the Freelane Studio. Among the members were jazz journalist Gilles Brinnon, and a young painter, Jean Ihallero — a friend of the painter Maxime Defert.
Through them, he met the artist Francois Arnal, who was interested in Durots’ engineering expertise for his sculptures. They got on well, and worked together for two years. Also in this circle were the actress Micheline Presle and the actor Daniel Gelin. In 1968, Arnal and Presle created Le Festival de Theatre de Chateauvallon, and through this, Durot became friends with the noted film director Ulysse Reynaud.
In 1966, Francois Arnal introduced Durot to the artist Cesar, with the idea that Durot’s talents as a chemical engineer would be useful. Durot spent a year helping Cesar to master the techniques of working with polyurethane foam, with Durot searching for ways to make this fragile and ephemeral substance more stable and permanent, and more amenable to control. Cesars’ first works in this medium were flat, due to the difficulty of controlling the foam, but he went on to create his famous “expansions”.
In 1968, Durot conceived a project to create more three-dimensional sculptures following a simple and precise design. It was during this time that Durot made his first polyurethane sculptures — the Champignons and Plantes Carnivores. Also in 1968, he He opened his first technical studio at 35, rue Leon.
In order to support this new endeavor,( he needed more space, equipment, time and money), he created La Societe Durgalith. 1971 saw the Durat’s first works exhibited at the Salon Batimat in Paris. With this exhibition, Durot was hoping to attract the attention of architects with whom he could collaborate.
Between 1971 and 1974, Durot created sixty sculptures inspired by fantastical “alien” life, mushrooms, and carnivorous plants. In 1974, Durot”s Societie Durgalith ran into problems with the Italian firm that owned Batimat. Credit Lyonnaise seized his studio and many of his sculptures, and quite a number of them were destroyed. This same year, Durot worked with the architects Sloan and Lecouter on an inflatable structure for the Pavillion Franaise in Osaka. Unfortunately, the project was never realized.
Durot continued to pursue his research on polyurethanes, and gained world-wide recognition for his developments in this field. In 1977, a “student prank” had un-expectedly bad consequences. Durot was employed as an engineer at L’Usine Francaise de la Monnaie (the French mint) in Pessac. He took three kilos of “blanks”, and used them for playing slot-machines. For this, he spent seven weeks in jail, which was ended by an amnesty granted by Mitterand in 1981. During Durot’s time in prison, he took up weight-lifting, and also designed his next generation of sculptures. The spirals, feet, lips, and a series of erotic chairs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Spirit of the Night
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Artist Statement
I absolutely love working with clay. Creating forms with a chunk of moist earth is a tangible way to cultivate beauty and delight. Through my work, I hope to touch ...
Category
2010s Folk Art USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Happy Accident Koons resin contemporary silver pop art wall sculpture
By Joe Suzuki
Located in New York, NY
Joe Suzuki is represented by Krause Gallery in NYC
this sculpture is a unique 1/1
I consider my work to be artifacts of my own particular culture, which is not the generalized Japa...
Category
2010s Pop Art USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Paseo, from Service Scènes de Corrida, A.R. 416
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1959, Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973) Paseo A.R. 416 is numbered from the edition of 50 on the reverse and stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and ‘EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO' pottery stamps on the reverse.
Pablo Picasso was an avid fan of bullfighting his entire life, attending his first corridas when he was a child in Spain and gaining a renewed interest in the events when he settled in the South of France after World War II. Undoubtedly the theatrical drama and flashy machismo of the matadors appealed greatly to Picasso's sensibilities and resonated with his Spanish roots. In 1959, Picasso produced an 8-piece plate series, each featuring a different bullfighting scene suggested through lively stipple lines. Paseo A.R. 416 depicts a line of bullfighters highlighted by a streak of yellow. The strokes of blue above and below the figures contrast with the warm of the yellow, creating visual tension that anticipates the drama of the fight.
Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Pablo Picasso Paseo...
Category
1950s Modern USA - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Earthenware, Glaze
$24,000 Sale Price
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