Items Similar to Large Salvador Dali Surrealist Bronze Portrait Sculpture Mexican Master Aguilar
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 10
Carlos Aguilar y LinaresLarge Salvador Dali Surrealist Bronze Portrait Sculpture Mexican Master Aguilar
$5,500
£4,188.13
€4,822.52
CA$7,793.98
A$8,383.54
CHF 4,480.41
MX$98,818.11
NOK 56,487.47
SEK 51,640.27
DKK 36,032.40
About the Item
Carlos Aguilar y Linares, Mexican Sculptor (1945-2010)
Sculpture chose him. In his hands and his soul he always had the necessary impulse to create with plasticine, plastic, newspaper and especially bronze, pieces that have crossed borders and conquered unthinkable spaces.
Carlos Aguilar y Linares, “the wizard of bronze” did not imagine becoming a famous sculptor, it was his talent that led him to meet distinguished personalities such as the mime Marcel Marceau and the jazz great BB King, Tony Bennett, Milt Hinton and Ellis Marsalis among many others.
Music was always his greatest inspiration, in it he found the perfect ideas to create memorable sculptures such as those of jazz musicians who are part of his collection “The magic of bronze”, which allowed him to devote himself as one of the greatest sculptors today and occupy a privileged space in important events such as the Jazz Festival in Bern, Switzerland.
Aguilar began his work as a sculptor as a child. “He was wiping out all the objects of that material that were placed in front of him; with a blowtorch it was giving heat until it was transformed into a material malleable enough to shape it. So they were disappearing buckets, covers, brushes, etc.”
It was that need to create new forms that allowed him to reach the Chapultepec Gallery when he was just 22 years old. There was his first exhibition "Sculpture in plastic".
At that time, Carlos did not even imagine that he would become one of the most recognized Mexican sculptors, much less, that he would find in the bronze the magic that characterized him for much of his life.
It was almost 20 years before Carlos Aguilar realized how sculpture would shape his life.
He saw it as a hobby, a great passion and nothing more. “I am having so much fun (with sculpture) that I didn't think it was work,” he once responded to Luis Carbajo, a television host, when he asked him why he had not dedicated himself to that activity before as a profession and not just as hobby. Carlos Aguilar was born a sculptor, in his veins he always carried that love for the creation of new forms but he did not notice it until an aunt taught him the figure of a little king.
One of the main characteristics of Carlos Aguilar's work is the deliberate absence of forms. His sculptures seem inconclusive, but they are more complete than initially believed, thanks to the imagination and interpretation of those who see them.
But how did the sculptor begin to create floating figures? “They gave me a calendar with photographs of jazz musicians, a musician who was playing the bass was very interesting and I decided to do it in sculpture, I made the bass, the hands, the face, but I realized that the background is say the curtain where he was was black and was confused with the black tuxedo that the musician wore, which did not allow his full body to be seen, only the hands, fists, face and his instrument were seen, so only that is what I did, ” described the sculptor.
The bass player was the first musician that Aguilar made floating. Some time later he completed the jazz band with the sculptures of the trumpeter, trombonist, pianist, clarinetist, saxophonist and drummer.
Angélica Gómez de Aguilar, wife of the sculptor, recognized that her husband hardly made sculptures on commission, but in 1997, when the US Embassy asked him to immortalize then President Bill Clinton, it was practically impossible not to accept, because the idea to capture a president linked with music caused him great emotion.
Carlos Aguilar recalled that experience: “ In May 97 I was at the jazz festival in Bern, Switzerland, when I received a call from my daughter asking me when I will return, because they are looking for me from the American Embassy , I answer that I return in three days but that there is nothing pending, I already gave them the sculpture and they paid me and even spent my money. 'Dad, they wanted to send the sculpture to the White House in Washington but just warned that it is coming to Mexico and since the sculpture was bought among several, it seems to them that the right thing is for the sculptor to deliver it.' ”
Days after the delivery, Aguilar received a letter of thanks from Clinton, who said he was very honored "for being the subject of your artistic work."
And indeed, it was no accident, but a consequence of his talent, that Carlos Aguilar became the creator of the sculpture that was delivered to the Jazz Festival in Bern, Switzerland.
In 1994, Aguilar was in the Garden of Art of San Ángel exhibiting his work. A Swiss couple who had traveled New York, Las Vegas and New Orleans approached her to ask for the trumpeter sculpture, they wanted it as an award for the Jazz Festival, but the next day the couple left their flight to Bern, and the sculptor left to Cancun.
A single day passed the marriage in Mexico City. In one day they found what they so longed for: a sculpture for jazz players. They were about to give up when they ran into Aguilar. They found him when they stopped looking for him.
Aguilar confessed that he didn't even remember giving them the phone number to locate him on the beach, "to be honest I didn't get excited, or maybe I didn't believe them."
However, the lady did her best to locate him again, until she succeeded; He told Aguilar that he wanted me to send him three sculptures or better yet, that he himself traveled to Switzerland with all the expenses paid to deliver them.
It was not easy to convince him but finally he decided to make the trip, in which he lived with his jazz idols. Hans and Marianne, the couple who invited him to Switzerland informed him that the mayor of Bern would deliver one of his sculptures as a trophy; the US ambassador would grant the second and he the third.
Milt Hinton, a jazz legend, went to the sculptor who handed him the trophy. “My legs were shaking, I couldn't hold back the tears, that photo of the calendar that had defined my style several years ago, of that bass player whose only face, hands and bass I saw, was in front of me… so many times in everything This time I had wanted to meet him and thank him for that photo in that calendar and there he was smiling in front of me. He was definitely one of the most important people in my career, although he didn't know it. ”
Since 1994, Aguilar sculptures are delivered at the Bern Jazz Festival. In addition to Milt Hinton, renowned musicians such as Louie Bellson, George Wein, Oscar Peterson, Clark Terry, Benny Carter, Stéphane Grappelli, Bob Wilber, Ellis Marsalis, Hank Jones, John Lewis, Illinois Jacquet and Gerald Wilson have received as a trophy the figure of «The trumpet player», created by Aguilar. Undoubtedly one of the most rewarding experiences for Carlos Aguilar began thousands of kilometers away from his home. In 1990, at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, a man ran into a young couple who carried a mime sculpture with them. He asked them where they had obtained it and even asked them to sell it.
The young people told him that they had just bought it at the Garden of Art, and even made a sketch for him to get to that place.
Two years later, the individual traveled to Mexico City and with the sketch in hand arrived at the Garden of Art. He did not find the sculptor, but he was put in contact with him.
Carlos Aguilar went to the hotel where the man was staying. He could not hide his happiness for having achieved a sculptural piece of the series inspired by the famous mime Marcel Marceau and even said: “Did you know that you are the Marcel Marceau of the sculptors, because you make things look where there are none ?
After paying the bronze figure it was time to ask the names. The hitherto unknown man, with a huge smile told Aguilar: "Nice to meet you, I'm Marcel Marceau."
Since 1992, Aguilar and Marceau became great friends; The mime bought two sculptures inspired by him and Aguilar gave him another two. Currently, those four pieces remain in the Marcel Marceau Museum, in Paris, France.
- Creator:Carlos Aguilar y Linares (1945 - 2010)
- Dimensions:Height: 27 in (68.58 cm)Width: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)Depth: 8 in (20.32 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38214809892
About the Seller
4.9
Platinum Seller
Premium sellers with a 4.7+ rating and 24-hour response times
Established in 1995
1stDibs seller since 2014
1,863 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: <1 hour
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Shipping from: Surfside, FL
- Return Policy
More From This Seller
View AllUntitled, Head Of An Artist, Avant-Garde Bronze Sculpture
By Phillip Pavia
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a bronze cast sculpture by Philip Pavia is part of his series of "Imaginary Portraits from the Club" , a one-man exhibition at Max Protetch Gallery, New York in 1982. The approach at rendering the figure is grotesque, and the facial features have been severely distorted to the point were the portrait becomes an abstract interpretation of the subject.
As an artist and writer, Philip Pavia was a committed member of the Abstract Art community throughout his long, distinguished career. Pavia was active in the art world until his death in 2005 and received immense critical praise for his artistic and literary contributions. Recognized for his signature work The Ides of March...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Latin American Art Figurative Abstract Bronze Sculpture Lovers Marcelo Morandin
Located in Surfside, FL
Marcelo Morandin 1933-1996
Untitled (Embracing Couple, Lovers)
Bronze 1988; ed. P/E; Hand signed, dated and editioned to lower edge DImensions: 48.5 x 32 x 21 cm / 18.8 x 12.5 x 8.2 inches (approximately)
PAREJA, Bronce, patinado
Marcelo Morandin (1933 - 1996) was active/lived in Argentina, Mexico.
Argentinian, Mexican Postwar & Contemporary sculptor Morandin is best known for his monumental sculpture. This is a wonderful, art deco inspired nude couple, the woman appears pregnant).
Marcello Morandín (Marcelo Román Morandín Paroni) was born in 1933 in Argentina. He was an important plastic artist and Argentine architect, distinguished in Mexico for being an excellent sculptor and furniture designer. At the end of his studies at the Faculty of Architecture of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he traveled to Mexico and settled in Xalapa, Veracruz. In this city he was part of several artistic projects and noted for being one of the founders of the Department of Aesthetic Research and Applied Design at the University of Veracruz, as well as the Department of Aesthetic Research at UNAM. Between the years 80 and 90, he carried out several monumental works, among them "La pigeon de la paz" a project for the UN; "The foundation of Tenochtitlan" located in front of the Official Residence of Los Pinos; and "The Kinetic Tower" Of the government of Veracruz that combines the light and the sound with diverse moving parts to the compass of the music of Arnold Schoenberg. (Lily Kassner. Dictionary of Mexican sculptors of the twentieth century. Volume II. Mexico. Conaculta, 1997). Similar in style to Israeli artists Aharon Bezalel and Isaac Kahn.
He has shown with Jose Villalobos, Nicolas Moreno, Pedro...
Category
1980s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Bronze Sculpture "Virtuoso" Figure American Boston Figural Modernist
By David Aronson
Located in Surfside, FL
Aronson, David 1923-
David Aronson, son of a rabbi, was born in Lithuania in 1923 and immigrated to America at the age of five. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts where he studied at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts under Karl Zerbe, a German painter well known in the early 1900s. Aronson later taught at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts for fourteen years and founded the School of Fine Art at Boston University where he is today a professor emeritus. An internationally renowned sculptor & painter, Aronson has won acclaim for his interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Talmud and Kabala. His best known works include bronze castings, encaustic paintings, and pastels. His work is included in many important public and private collections, and has been shown in several museum retrospectives around the country. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th century American artists.
At twenty-two David Aronson had his first one-man show at New York's Niveau Gallery. The next year, six of his Christological paintings were included in the Fourteen Americans exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art where Aronson’s work was included alongside abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell and Isamu Noguchi. In the 1950s, Aronson turned more toward his Jewish heritage for the inspiration for his art. Folklore as well as Kabalistic and other transcendental writings influenced his work greatly. The Golem (a legendary figure, brought to life by the Maharal of Prague out of clay to protect the Jewish community during times of persecution) and the Dybbuk (an evil spirit that lodges itself in the soul of a living person until exorcised) frequently appear in his work.
In the sixties, Aronson turned to sculpture. His work during this period is best exemplified by a magnificent 8’ x 4’ bronze door which now stands at the entrance to Frank Lloyd Wright's Johnson Foundation Conference Center for the Arts in Racine, Wisconsin. In the seventies and eighties, Aronson continued his work in pastel drawings, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring religion and the frailties of man's nature. During this time, in addition to a traveling retrospective exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at the Pucker-Safrai Gallery on Newbury Street, Aronson won many awards and became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years ago he retired from teaching to work full-time in his studio in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
included in the catalog
Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art
Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974.
Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.
Selected Awards
1990, Certificate of Merit, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Design
1976, Joseph Isidore Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1976, Purchase Prize in Drawing, Albrecht Art Museum
1975, Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting, National Academy of Design
1973, Samuel F. B. Morse Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
1967, Purchase Prize, National Academy of Fine Arts
1967, Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1963, Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of Philadelphia
1961, 62, 63, Purchase Prize, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1960, John Siimon Guggenheim Fellowship
1958, Grant in Art, National Institute of Arts and Letters
1954, First Prize, Tupperware Annual Art Fund Award
1954, Grand Prize, Third Annual Boston Arts Festival
1953, Second Prize, Second Annual Boston Arts Festival
1952, Grand Prize, First Annual Boston Arts Festival
1946, Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
1946, Purchase Prize, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
1944, First Popular Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
1944, First Judge's Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art
Selected Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Bryn Mawr College
Brandeis University
Tupperware Museum, Orlando, Florida
DeCordova Museum
Museum of Modern Art Print Collection, New York
Atlanta University
Atlanta Art...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Enrico Donati Abstract Expressionist Brutalist Bronze Sculpture Surrealist Art
By Enrico Donati
Located in Surfside, FL
Enrico Donati (1909 – 2008)
A Brutalist Bronze Surrealist Sculpture Totem.
With a great patina and both rough and high polished textured bronze.
Signed on side
Dimensions: height ...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ted Egri Taos Modernist Judaica Cubist Bronze Sculpture Rabbi
Torah WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Ted Egri (American, 1913-2010)
Bronze sculpture
Rabbi
Signed Egri and numbered 4/30 on side.
Dimensions: 12"L x 8.5"H x 6.75" D
Born in New York city in 1913 to a Hungarian Jewish emigre family (both of his parents were born in Hungary), Egri was first exposed to music later dropping that for art. He studied with Howard Giles at the Master Institute of the Roerich Museum in New York where he was introduced to Oriental arts, Chinese and Japanese art forms, and later with Hans Hofmann. He worked for the Federal Arts Project, the WPA, making mural paintings and silkscreen prints as well as easel painting. Once WWII began, Egri signed up to serve as a map maker for the Navy, and was witness to some of the fiercest battles in the Pacific. As an artist, he painted many important depictions of his wartime experiences and these works have all be donated to the U.S. Naval Museum.
Already a practicing painter and instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute, Ted Egri came to Taos, New Mexico with his wife Kit in 1950 to continue his study of painting at Ribak's Taos Valley Art School on the GI Bill. Louis Ribak quickly introduced Egri to Eulalia Emetaz, the owner of La Galleria Escondida, who gave him his first one-person show in 1951.
A prolific and versatile artist, as well as arts organizer and advocate, Egri's contributions to underserved African American, Native American, Hispanic and women were honored by two Taos mayors, with no less than two Ted Egri days during his 50-year art career in Taos. Egri remained in Taos. He became widely known for his sculpture, influenced by cubism and painting, with his style ranging from abstract to realistic. Egri had incredible draftsmanship - charcoal, pencil, pastel, watercolor, oils, mixed media, pen and ink, acrylic, gouache Over time his work gradually shifted from its focus on human struggle to an exploration of natural elements and the changes that come about as a result of living in a physical environment like Taos. "The impact of the majestic Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range and the vast spaces of the mesas directed me toward space and form. I moved into sculpture," Egri said in a 1987 interview with ARTSPACE magazine. He was included in a show at Stables Gallery along with Emil Bisttram, Louis Catusco, Edward Corbett, Lawrence Calcagno, Keith Crown, Andrew Dasburg, John De...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Cast Painted Bronze Head Sculpture British Realist Sculptor John Davies
Located in Surfside, FL
John Davies (Cheshire, 1946), British sculptor.
Bronze sculpture head
Unique cast (1/1)
This was shown at Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd in a show called John Davies New Sculpt...
Category
1990s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
You May Also Like
Bronze Sculpture – The Surrealist Angel – Salvador Dalí
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
The Surrealist Angel is a bronze sculpture inspired by Salvador Dalí, depicting an angel with elongated forms and stylized wings, representing the balance between the earthly and the...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze Sculpture – The Anthropomorphic Cabinet – Salvador Dalí
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
The Anthropomorphic Cabinet is a bronze sculpture inspired by Salvador Dalí, depicting a stylized human body transformed into a cabinet with multiple drawers. Each drawer, positioned...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze Figurative Sculpture After Salvador Dali
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Miami, FL
Bronze figurative sculpture after Salvador Dali (1904-1989) mounted on black marble pedestal.
Measures: 17.75" High x 4.25" Deep x 8.50" Wide
This eye-catching bronze figurative sc...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$1,432 Sale Price
34% Off
Salvador Dalí Birdman Surrealist Bronze Sculpture 79/99
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Brescia, IT
"Birdman"
Salvador Dalí
Visual Art
2004
Bronze with Green Patina
Exemplar 79/99
Dalí Signed on the back.
Excellent Condiction
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Assyrian King - Resin and Metal Surrealist Bust Sculpture of a King
By Angelo Canevari
Located in New York, NY
Angelo Canevari’s Assyrian King is a 25 x 14 inch mix media surrealist sculpture. It is made of metal, resin, automotive paint, and cardboard. It is a surrealist interpretation of a bust of an Assyrian King. The use of metal and wires to develop a tridimensional sculptural quality, as well as the expressionistic outcome of the imagery, has echoes in some contemporary African sculpture...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Bronze Sculpture – The Anthropomorphic Cabinet – Salvador Dalí
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
The Anthropomorphic Cabinet is a bronze sculpture depicting a stylized human body with integrated drawers, symbolizing layers of the unconscious and repressed memories. The piece ref...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
