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Period: 1940s
"Reclining Figure" Louise Nevelson, Modernist, Human Form, Abstracted Body
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson Reclining Figure, circa 1943 Tattistone 8 inches high x 21 inches wide x 9 inches deep With base 10 inches high x 21 3/4 inches wide x 9 1/2 inches deep Provenance T...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Cast Stone

"Couple II" Mid 20th Century Modern Abstract Figurative 1940s European Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"Couple II" Mid 20th Century Modern Abstract Figurative 1940s European Sculpture Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) "Couple II" Bronze signed on the base The sculpture was conceived in 19...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Mixed Media Sculpture Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist mixed media sculpture painting by Duayne Hatchett (1925 - 2015) . Mixed media metal sculpture . Signed on verso.
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Impressionist 1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Modernist Face
By Itzhak Sankowsky
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ITZHAK SANKOWSKY "MODERNIST FACE" WOOD, SIGNED ROMANIAN-AMERICAN, C.1940 24.5 INCHES Itzhak Sankowsky was born in 1908 in Romania. He lived and was active in Philadelphia, Penn...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Sculptures

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Wood

French Modernist Bronze Abstract Figural Sculpture on Mahogany Wood Base
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
9-410 Abstract figural bronzesculpture set on a wood base
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1940s Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty, " Wood, Ivory, Cowry Shells created c. 1940
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Senufo (Gbon) Statute of Royalty" is a sculpture by thr Senufo peoples of Gabon. It is wood, mixed fiber, textiles, and cowry shells. 14" x 8" x 3" The...
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Tribal 1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Found Objects

"Abstract Figure with Face" Louise Nevelson, American Female, Anthropomorphic
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson Abstract Figure with Face, circa 1945 Incised "LN" on the reverse Tattistone 6 inches high x 14 inches wide x 5 1/4 inches deep Provenance The artist The artist's ni...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Cast Stone

Homage to Bela Bartok, Composer
Located in New York, NY
Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer and pianist, is considered to be one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Conceived in 1947 while Wein was in Rome after having been a...
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Art Deco 1940s Abstract Sculptures

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Bronze

Early Murano Glass Free Form Abstract Blown, Cut, Glass Sculpture in Bronze Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
This piece appears unsigned and unmarked. It came from an important estate in the Palm Beach area. It is an abstract flame or torch in a bronze vase. Venetian glass (Italian: vetro ...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Carved Horse Head, " Bas-relief Mahogany Wall Sculpture by Marshall Shields
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carved Horse Head" is a bas relief sculpture hand-carved from mahogany by Marshall "Buster" Shields. In features two horses in profile, one behind the other, rearing back with their...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Mahogany

20th Century Plaster French Art Deco Style Sailor Sculpture, 1940s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
French sculpture from the mid-20th century. Plaster work depicting a Sailor in Art Deco style, copy of the famous Meurice ceramic, Ideal Man scanning the...
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1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Chalk

"Bobo Mask Burkina Fasso-Upper Volta, " Carved Painted Wood created c. 1945
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bobo Mask Burkina Fasso-Upper Volta" is a wood carved sculpture with painted details. It features the image of an abstracted face with a large almost elepha...
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Tribal 1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Large, Cast Bronze Doe
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Substantial, sensitively molded, graceful circa 1940, hand-cast, bronze sculpture of a doe.
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1940s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

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Plate "Black face"
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Vintage Fenton Glass Rose Pink Overlay Powder Jar with Clear Lid
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Untitled
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Untitled
Untitled
H 37 in W 26.75 in D 5.75 in
Visage noir, Edition, Picasso, 1940 s, Design, Interior, Portrait, Character
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Early 1940s Abstract Pottery Vase #1 After George OHR
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1940s Bucchero Vase by Gio Ponti
By Gio Ponti
Located in Brecon, Powys
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