Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures

This Golek Puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 22" tall. Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be c...

This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 27" tall. Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be compared to European and North America: most performances revolve around Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses who fight against evil, mystical, beings to (usually) end happily. Three-dimensional Indonesian puppets...

Victor Heinrich Seifert (1870 – 1953) Die Trinkende, c. 1900 H 26.25 in. x W 8 in. x D 11.38 inch Bronze with brown patina Austrian artist Victor Heinrich Seifert is known for his ...

Wonderfully stylish statue of a great Dane, with a black patina, by Gustav Reissmann (1887-1954). The dog is standing still and fully alert. Signed on the side of the base, K. Gustav...

"Mask, Baga Guinea" is a carved wooden mask created c. 1920. Where a face would go in the mask is actually the body of a woman figure. There are two breasts above a hole for the mask wearer...

JUAN CLARÁ AYATS Spanish, 1878 - 1958 A GIRL CLIMBED ON A STOOL HOLDING A DOLL signed "Juan Clara" (on the stool seat) bronze figure 12-1/4 x 3-1/2 X 3-3/8 inches (31 X 9 X 8.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Collector, France Art Nouveau bronze sculpture depicting a young girl standing on a stool with a doll in her right hand, and a shovel on the left hand, the bucket dropped on the stool seat. José Clará...

A pair of African carved wood and cloth ancestral figures from Nigeria. Meant to be sold as a pair, these ancestral figures are meant to convey the achievements of those they represe...

Gustave FONTAINE ( Etterbeek 1877-1952 Bruxelles). misure opera (vedi scheda tecnica) superficie della base d'appoggio 32 x 17 cm Scultore policromo e pittore. Seguì dei corsi a ...

This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 28" tall. Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be compared to European and North America: most performances revolve around Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses who fight against evil, mystical, beings to (usually) end happily. Three-dimensional Indonesian puppets...

"Wilhelm Krieger (1877-1945) The Doe Around 1920 " The DOE. Circa 1920. Good quality bronze model of a doe, probably cast around 1970. Animal standing, looking forward, picking up ...

CARL KAUBA Austrian, (1865-1922) The Scout Patinated bronze; Signed ‘C. Kauba’ 30 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches

This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 23" tall. Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...

Gustave FONTAINE ( Etterbeek 1877-1952 Bruxelles). Opera firmata (vedi dettaglio foto) Misura scultura H42 x 23 x 24 Base appoggio 16 x 16 cm Scultore policromo e pittore. Seguì ...

Gustave FONTAINE ( Etterbeek 1877-1952 Bruxelles). Opera firmata (vedi dettaglio foto) Misura scultura H44 x 34 x 24cm Base appoggio 27 x 15cm Scultore policromo e pittore. Segu...

"Nail Fetish Bacongo-Zaire" is a sculpture made of glass, wood, and metal created circa 1910. He has a top hat upon his head and face paint. Their right ha...

This flat shadow puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. This shadow puppet, 25" high with movable arms, was used in Indonesian Wayang Klitik puppet shows. Wayang (Krama Javanese: Ringgit ꦫꦶꦁꦒꦶꦠ꧀, "Shadow"), also known as Wajang, is a form of puppet theatre art...

Frank Vittor (1888-1966) important bronze of mother and child. Signed by the artist “F. Vittor” and dated 1915. Also bears the foundry mark. Measures 12 1/2"h x 12 ½”w x 9"long. Bronze rests on a 1 ½ inch marble plinth. Artist born in Italy, studied with Rodin. The foundry is the National Art bronze works. The bronze was converted to a lamp at one point, and still bears a threaded tube projecting from the lower base approximately ½ inch. Frank Vittor (January, 6, 1888 - January 24, 1968) was an Italian immigrant to the United States who became famous as a sculptor. Vittor was born in Mozzato, Como, a suburb of Milan, Italy. He studied art in Milan at the Academy of Beres and then traveled to Paris, France to study under Auguste Rodin. When Vittor was 18, in 1906, U.S. architect Stanford White brought Vittor to New York to work on his staff. White, who had designed Madison Square Garden II, was murdered at a performance at The Garden two weeks after Vittor arrived. The youth, having little money and knowing very limited English, decided to stay in America and soon opened an art studio. He met his future wife, Ade Mae Humphreys, a resident of Pittsburgh, and made the move to her home town. Aviator Charles Lindbergh's first solo trans-Atlantic 3,600-mile (5,800 km) flight between Long Island, New York and Paris, France was immortalized in bronze by Vittor with a 50-foot-tall (15 m) sculpture showing a winged youth spanning the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. Congress approved the expenditure in 1928, and the work was completed in 1929. Perhaps no work by Vittor created as much controversy and media coverage as did his nude statue of Henrietta Leaver, Miss America 1935. Though Leaver posed for Vittor, she did so in a bathing suit, accompanied by her grandmother. Upon first viewing the life-size 5-foot 5-inch plaster statue Leaver was shocked that it was a nude and demanded her representation be draped or veiled. Vittor did not agree and called in art experts to judge the work and all agreed it should stay as it had been created. Leaver did not back down and demanded people her own age review The American Venus, as it had originally been called. Unfortunately for Leaver her 60 peers, many of whom were art students, agreed it should remain unveiled. Though the strong disagreement between the two eventually did subside, Leaver, Vittor and the statue resurfaced five decades later in recaps of controversial Miss America mishaps. Baseball player Honus Wagner, one of the first five players inducted into the Hall of Fame, was memorialized by Vittor in a 17-foot-tall (5.2 m) bronze statue, originally on display near the Pittsburgh Pirates Forbes Field. It was moved to Three Rivers Stadium and, when that stadium was imploded in 1971, the statue was relocated to PNC Park.[6] In 1958, one of Vittor's greatest works, a 50-foot-tall (15 m) granite base and bronze statue of Christopher Columbus, was unveiled in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park. Shortly after the statue was placed, the bronze plaque at the base was stolen by vandals. The Sons of Columbus USA desire to replace the plaque with the original wording; however, there exists no record of what Vittor had written regarding Columbus. Charles Lindbergh was the recipient of a second work of art created by Vittor. The artist and sculptor designed a commemorative stamp picturing the pilot and his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. Walter F. Brown, the U.S. Postmaster General, authorized a 175th anniversary commemorative "Battle of Braddock" 2-cent stamp to be designed by Vittor. The artwork he created featured a likeness of Colonel George Washington with the inscription "Battle of Braddock's Field, 1755-1930. In 1936 the U.S. Congress authorized minting a half-dollar coin to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the American Civil War. Vittor was the person selected to design the coin. The obverse depicts the profile of two soldiers, one from the North and one from the South and the reverse holds a symbol of the battle placed between the combatant's shields. The coins were distributed through the Pennsylvania State Commission for Gettysburg. Throughout Pittsburgh and the surrounding communities there exist more than 50 statues and fountains, as well as numerous other works, including a dozen historical panels on County bridges...

This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 28" tall. Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...

Gustave FONTAINE ( Etterbeek 1877-1952 Bruxelles). Opera firmata (vedi dettaglio foto) Misura scultura (vedi scheda tecnica) Base appoggio 32 x 29 cm Scultore policromo e pittore....

This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 24" tall. Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...

Bronze Gladiator Figure, Wounded Gladiator in dark patina bronze, early 1900s Italian sculpture in good condition. The work is inspired by the Hellenistic sculpture depicting the Dyi...

Europe & Zeus (divine love) Europa the daughter of the Phoenician king of Tyre, Agenor and Zeus in love in the shape of the bull. Bronze, on onyx pedestal Signed: Bruno Zach

Max Blondat (1872 - 1925) Mael Figure 1915 Terracotta 30 x 21 x 14 cm Signed and dated on the neck on the left: Max Blondat 1915

A large-scale bronze high relief with a depiction of a young undressed woman and two old men. The scene takes place in an architectural setting inspired by antiquity, with a suggeste...

Great Dane Wonderfully stylish statue of a great dane, with a black patina by Gustav Reissmann (1887-1954). The dog is standing still and fully alert. Signed on the side of the base...

Henri Godet (French, 1863-1937) "La Reveil de L'Aurore" [The Awakening of Dawn] Patinated Bronze Sculpture, early 20th century, on a circular base with applied plaque "La Reveil de L...

FRANZ BERGMANN Austrian, (1838-1894) The Harem Revolving figures of a man holding a sword and a seated half nude woman. 13 1/4 inches high

Fine quality Bronze Goat statue by the esteemed French sculptor Ary Bitter (1883-1973), depicting a mother goat tenderly accompanied by her two young kids...

Goat and rabbit A fine bronze sculpture of a goat eating a salad, which is being "helped" by a rabbit.  This statue by Josuë Dupon (1864 -1935) has a brown patina with golden undert...

Lying Cat Théophile-Alexandre STEINLEN (1859-1923) A bronze sculpture with a nuanced dark brown patina Signed on the base "Steinlen" Old posthumous cast Presented on its original r...

"Purity" also known as "Bust of a young girl" by Joseph BERNARD (1866-1931) Bust in bronze with a nuanced dark brown patina Signed “ J Bernard ” and marked “ N 3 ” Sand cast Cast by the artist Raised on a wooden base France circa 1910 height of the bronze : 24 cm total height with its base : 29 cm width : 22,5 cm depth : 13,5 cm The model of this head is a study made for the pink marble bust...

The Mockers by Victor PROUVE (1858-1943) Rare bronze group with nuanced reddish brown patina SIgned on the side of the base " V. Prouvé " Cast by " Union de Maîtres Sculpteurs – édi...

A fine bronze cast of a panther on the lookout, by Georges Gardet (1863-1939). An old cast with a dark brown shaded patina with some green undertones. Signed G. Gardet. Foundry Barbe...

A chic, signed and dated, 1928, cubist style cast bronze sculpture, "L' Etudiente" by highly regarded Austria-Hungarian born artist, József Csáky (1888-1971), who was among the most ...

FRANZ BERGMAN Austrian, (1861-1936) A Fine Quality Austrian cold-painted Bronze Table Lamp and Sculpture Depicting an Arab merchant, stamped...

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904) FRENCH BELLUAIRE OR PLAUDITE CIVES. This sculpture shows the scene of a Roman coliseum where a gladiator just finished his battle with a large lion. ...

Early 20th-century Art Nouveau decorative bronze depicting a smiling mermaid carried by a wave above a fountain with a mask. The reference is to the fairy tale by writer Hans Christ...

Bronze sculpture of a Chinese sailfish A marvelously elegant statue of a Chinese sailfish. A fine early 20th-century bronze model by Rachel Van Dantzig (1878 - 1949). This sculpture...

Glazed ceramic, Bruno Cambone

This porcelain sculpture is a playful rendering of a juggling monkey. The monkey's costume lends the animal a sense of performance, and engages the viewers' childhood imagination. ...

Cornelio Palmerini, born in the heart of Versilia, was a sculptor trained between Tuscany (Pietrasanta, Carrara and Florence) and Rome, the city where he went in 1913 to the studio o...

Silvered bronze with marble base

A large Charles Paillet French (1871-1937) bronze of two playful goats "Medaille D'or" Here we have a fun and whimsical statue sculpture of two young goats playing in the grass. One...

Alfredo Biagini (Rome 1886 - 1952), Female Face Bronze sculpture 23 x 17 x 21 cm signed at bottom.

Giorgio Ceragioli (Italian, 1861-1947) "Danza dei Flori" [Dance of the Flowers] Patinated Bronze Sculpture, 1910, the draped standing figure clutching a rose, on a circular base, tit...

Peacock Vase by Léopold SAVINE (1861-1934) A rare vase made in gilded bronze in form of two peacocks with their raised plumage. Signed on the base " L....

Antoine Bofill "Little Red Riding Hood" Bronze Inkwell 6H x 10W x 6D Signed Inscribed: 25 Septembre 1920 Antoine Bofill was born in Barcelona i...

OLouis Chalon (French, 1866-1940) "Valkyrie" Gilt Bronze Sculpture, early 20th century, depicting a Valkyrie leading the charge to Valhalla, on a...

Profile of young woman by Henry CROS (1840-1907) Polychrome glass paste presented on a wooden panel France circa 1900 height 24,5 cm width 16,5 cm panel : 29 x 21 cm Biography : ...

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...

Georges GARDET (1863-1939) Two young Lions Bronze group with a nuanced dark brown patina Signed on the base " G. Gardet " Cast by " Siot-Paris " (with the foundry mark) France circ...

Small gilt bronze objet d'art on wooden base depicting a young sea creature, most likely a newt. These types of objects were very common in aristocratic homes, often kept in the lord...

English School Early 20th Century Head of a Young Boy Bronze with stone base Height: 12 3/4 inches (32.5 cm)

Antique Female Mask by Henry CROS (1840-1907) Polychrome glass paste presented on a wooden panel France circa 1900 height 16 cm width 10 cm panel : 25,4 x 19,4 cm Biography : Cés...

JUAN CLARÁ AYATS Spanish, 1878 - 1958 A GIRL BUST signed "Juan Clara" and Buenos Aires stamp mark (on the back ) bronze figure 6-3/8 x 4-1/8 x 4-1/8 inches (16 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm.) 8 x 4-1/8 x 4-1/8 inches (20 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm.) base included PROVENANCE Private Spanish Collector Art Noveau bronze...

La Posada by François-Rupert CARABIN (1862-1932) A bronze group with a silvered patina Signed on the base "R. Carabin" Old cast Numbered "5" France circa 1901 height 24 cm length ...

JUAN CLARÁ AYATS Spanish, 1878 - 1958 A GIRL SITTING ON A HIGH CHAIR signed "Juan Clara" (on the back of the chair ) bronze figure 8-3/4 x 7-1/8 x 4-3/4 inches (22 X 18 X 12 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Spanish Collector A young girl sitting on a high chair, with a naughty attitude that wants to escape from the high chair. She is making a great effort to get rid of the bars of the high chair, just as her whole body accompanies her to this effort. The candid and innocent attitude of the girl, but at the same time fun and mocking we love and conquer. Juan Clará Ayats. Olot (Gerona), 6.XII.1875 - Paris (France), II.1958. Sculptor Student of José Berga at the Olot School of Fine Arts, developed his training in France, first at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, in 1896, and from 1901 in Paris. At this stage he lived with his younger brother, José Clará...

"The Song" by Félix Charpentier (1858-1924) A very fine bronze sculpture with nuanced dark brown patina Signed "Fx. Charpentier" Cast by "E. Colin & Cie Paris" France around 1900 he...

Vitaliano Marchini (Melegnano 1888 - 1971), Ardito (Portrait of a Man), 1919 Carrara marble sculpture 43 x 26 x 15 cm signed on the right on the base: V. MARCHINI Exhibitions: Pala...

FRANZ BERGMANN Austrian, (1861-1936) Playing the Mandolin Cold-painted Austrian Bronze Lamp and Sculpture of a Woman playing the Mandolin....