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Period: Early 20th Century
Terpsichore, Muse of Dance
Located in PARIS, FR
Terpsichore, Muse of Dance
by Pierre-Marie POISSON (1876-1953)
Sculpture with a dark old gold patina
signed on the base "P. Poisson"
Cast by Bisceglia (with the foundry stamp)
Fra...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carved Oak Wood Arts and Crafts Frame with Rabbit, Dog, Bird, Emu Carvings
Located in Miami, FL
One needs to view this work as much as a sculpture as a utilitarian frame.
Handmade Arts & Crafts channeled oak frame with chiseled relief farm animal decoration on each corner, pin and dovetail construction, artist cipher and date carved verso, 45"h x 31.5"w (outside), 37"h x 24"w (inside)
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"Alhambra Facade Model Plaque", Early 20th Century Polychromed Stucco Plaque
Located in Madrid, ES
UNKNOWN ARTIST
Spanish, Early 20th Century
ALHAMBRA FACADE MODEL PLAQUE
polychromed stucco plaque
11 x 7 inches (28 x 17.8 cm.)
framed: 17-1/2 X 13-1/2...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Gesso
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Anton Chotka
By Anton Chotka
Located in New York, NY
ANTON CHOTKA
Austrian, (1881-1955)
Cleopatra and Servants
Austrian Cold-painted Bronze Figures Depicting Cleopatra and Servants
11 inches high
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Leo Berger "Skater" Patinated Bronze
Located in Astoria, NY
Leo Berger (Swiss, 1885-1973) "Skater" Patinated Bronze Sculpture, early 20th century, possibly depicting the Swedish ice skater Gillis Grafstrom, on a marble plinth, signed "L Berge...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,350 Sale Price
27% Off
Louis Ernest Barrias Bronze Sculpture
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
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Bride
By Janet Scudder
Located in PARIS, FR
The Bride
by Janet Scudder (1869-1940)
Bronze with dark brown patina
signed "Janet Scudder" on the base
cast by Alexis Rudier, fondeur Paris (foundry mark)
France
early 20th century
height 28 cm
Biography :
Janet Scudder (1869-1940) was an American sculptor. Born Netta Deweze Frazee, but called Janet, her childhood was difficult. Her mother died at age 38 in 1874. Despite limited financial means, her father sent her to study drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She also studied sculpture with Louis Rebisso. She taught in 1888 women wood...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Franz Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMANN
Austrian, (1861-1936)
Praying at a Mosque
Cold-Painted Bronze Lamp and Sculpture of a man praying in front of a mosque.
30 inches high
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Donal Hord Bronze Sculpture, 1927, “Dying Warriors”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Donal Hord bronze sculpture, 1927. “Dying Warriors”
Sits on a 2" wooden plinth. In excellent condition.
Inscribed “D.H.” underneath the bronze on the plinth.
Measures 11"H x 10"W x ...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$9,200 Sale Price
20% Off
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood
Fabric c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 29" 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...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade with Carved, Painted Wood and Fabric
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 28 1/2" 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...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade with Carved, Painted Wood and Fabric
Located in Milwaukee, WI
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...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
"Dolpo Shamanic Figure, " Carved Wood created circa 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This shamanic figure was created by the Nepalese Dolpo people. It depicts a figure with arms in a possible gesture of prayer.
10 1/2" x 2" x 1 3/4" figure
Dolpo is a region in Nepa...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Seated Woman with a Fan
Located in PARIS, FR
Seated Woman with a Fan
by Auguste Seysses (1862-1946)
Bronze with nuanced light brown patina
cast by HEBRARD
France
Early 20th century
height 49.5 cm
width 47 cm
Biography :
Feli...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Franz Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMANN
Austrian, (1838-1894)
Fetching Water
Arab on a Camel Fetching Water From a Woman
11 inches high
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze By Anton Chotka
By Anton Chotka
Located in New York, NY
A cold patinated bronze model depicting a two Arab men in a tent, pitched with the help of a palm tree, and held open with a shield and flag. The seated figure sits, smoking an long pipe. The standing figure guards the entrance of the tent, with a large rifle in his hands.
Signed "Chotka” on the base
Artist: Anton Chotka...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Franz Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMANN
Austrian, (1861-1936)
A Lounging Concubine
depicting a reclining woman being fanned by her servant. Inscribed ‘Nam Greb’ with foundry mark.
17 inches high
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Franz Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMANN
Austrian, (1838-1894)
Bath Tent
Two nude women in a bathing tent, reverse impressed with "B" within a vasiform mark for Franz Bergman.
17 1/2 inches high
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maximilien Fiot, Bronze +Eagle On A Rock
Located in Gent, VOV
A good quality, early twentieth century bronze model of an Eagle on a rock also 'Perched Eagle’ by Maximilian Fiot (French, 1886-1953). This bronze, signed ‘M. Fiot’, inscribed ‘Suss...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Draught Horses Sculpture By Hager Albert (1857-1940)
By Albert Hager
Located in Gent, VOV
Two draught horses, 1925
A fine bronze sculpture with dark brown patina with a reddish undertone., representing two draught horses one grazing, one looking forward. Documented in En...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Art Nouveau Bronze Sculptural of a Boy and Girl", 20th Century by Juan Clará
Located in Madrid, ES
JUAN CLARÁ AYATS
Spanish, 1878 - 1958
ART NOUVEAU SCULPTURAL BRONZE OF A BOY AND GIRL
signed "Juan Clara" (on the lower left )
sculptural bronze
4-3/8 x 4-3/8 x 3-1/2 inches (11 X 11 X 9 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Spanish Collector
Art Nouveau Bronze sculpture representing a boy and a girl sitting on a stool in a funny and surprised attitude to something they are seeing. Sgned "Juan Clará" lower left with the foundry seal and marks on the right side of the bench
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...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Cold Painted Bronze att to Franz Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMANN
Austrian, (1838-1894)
The Music Lesson
Austrian Cold-Painted Bronze Figures of a boy learning to play the Mandolin.
16 inches high
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"A Girl Sitting on a Stool Tying Her Shoe", 20th Century Bronze by Juan Clará
Located in Madrid, ES
JUAN CLARÁ AYATS
Spanish, 1878 - 1958
A GIRL SEATED ON A STOOL TYING HER SHOE
signed "Juan Clara" and stamped A.G. Paris (on the stool )
bronze figure
6-3/8 x 3 x 4 inches (16 X 7.5 X 10 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, France
Gilded bronze sculpture of Art Nouveau style, depicting a little girl sitting on a sidewalk tying her shoe.
The plasticity that Juan Clará achieves with the bronze when shaping this beautiful little sculpture is wonderful. We notice the effort that the little girl is making to put on her shoe, her gestures and attitudes which moves us and attracts us towards her.
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...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mabea Mother and Child Sculpture from old French Collection
Located in brussel, BE
Standing Fang Mabea Maternity of Museum quality, holding a pestle with both her hands. The mother's head is slightly turned to the left, while the child, which she carries on her bac...
Category
Tribal Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Winged Victory
Located in PARIS, FR
Sculpture in bronze with a nuanced greenish brown patina
Signed " F. Sicard " on the base
With the foundry stamp " Fumière et Cie Sucrs, Thiébaut Fres, Paris "
Stands on its original green marble base
With a dedication to the wellknown French chef Edouard Nignon : "A Mr Nignon, ses fournisseurs. En souvenir de son élévation au grade de Chevalier dans la Légion d'Honneur. Paris le 7 mai 1921"
France
cast around 1920
height 100 cm
Biography :
François-Léon Sicard (1862-1934), known as François Sicard, was a French sculptor. Originally from Tours, he obtained a municipal grant to study at the Fine arts Schoool in Paris. He learned sculpture there under the direction of Jules Cavelier and Louis-Ernest Barrias and became a laureate of the Prix de Rome in 1891. As a resident of the Villa Medici in Rome from 1892 to 1895, he befriended Adolphe Déchenaud who painted his portrait.
His career earned him numerous public and private commissions and Sicard received various awards at fairs and exhibitions, including the medal of honor at the 1900 World's Fair and the medal of honor at the 1905 Salon.
Having become a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, François Sicard was elected member of the Institute in 1924 and president of the Fine arts Academy in 1930. He was the appointed sculptor of Georges Clemenceau, of whom he sculpted the bust, the group statue of Sainte-Hermine, and which commanded him the Minerva in blond Egyptian stone...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The vocal lesson
Located in PARIS, FR
"The vocal lesson"
Pierrot's Getting His Cats To Sing
by Ernest Wante (1872-1960)
Sculpture in bronze with a dark brown patina
Signed "E. Wante" on the b...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italian Sculptor - Early 20th century marble sculpture - Masonic Altar
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian sculptor (early 20th century) - Masonic altar.
56 x 52 x h 105 cm.
Entirely in finely carved white marble, two snakes are depicted wrapping a skull and a game with the Eye ...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$7,105 Sale Price
25% Off
Dreams
Located in Roma, RM
Giovanni Nicolini (Palermo 1872 - Rome 1956), Dreams
Bronze sculpture 63 x 35 x 35 cm signed and located Rome on the back; in the wooden base is a ...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Combat: Indian, Horse and Buffalo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Combat: Indian, Horse and Buffalo: Arthur Putnam (September 6, 1873 – May 27, 1930) was an American sculptor and animalier who was recognized for his bronze sculptures of wild animals. Some of his artworks are public monuments. He was a well-known figure, both statewide and nationally, during the time he lived in California. Putnam was regarded as an artistic genius in San Francisco and his life was chronicled in the San Francisco and East Bay newspapers. He won a gold medal at the 1915 San Francisco...
Category
Romantic Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Snake Dancer
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed and stamped “Cire Perdue, Bisceglia F-es, Paris”
Biography
Paul Landowski was a French monument sculptor who was Polish. His parents were Polish refugees. He created over 35 monumental sculptures in the city of Paris. Landowski is known for the 1931 Christ the Redeemer...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Going into Battle
By Carl Kauba
Located in Missouri, MO
Carl Kauba
"Going into Battle" c. 1920s
Bronze with Brown Patina
Signed
approx 10 x 10 x 4 (including wooden base)
This Austrian sculptor was born in Vienna in 1865. His teachers were Karl Waschmann (1848-1905), known for his ivory sculptures and portrait plaquettes of contemporary celebrities, and Stefan Schwartz (1851-1924), who exhibited in Paris, including the Exposition Universelle of 1900 where he won a gold medal. Kauba's intricate bronzes, imported to the United States between 1895 and 1912, were cast at the Roman Bronze Works. Kauba was part of the nineteenth-century tradition of polychrome bronze sculpture. There were several types of patinas on a single statue: he could render the color of buckskin, variously tinted shirts, blankets, feathers, as well as beaded moccasins. Reportedly, Kauba came to America around 1886. Inspired by the Western tales of German author Karl May, he traveled to the West and made sketches and models. Critics, however, pointed out inaccuracies of costume and other details. For instance, the guns that his "mid-nineteenth-century" figures use are models produced after 1898. Apparently he did all of his works back in Vienna.
Besides the variety of color, Kauba's bronzes show a great range of textures and his style is highly naturalistic. The sculptor loved ornament, some of which he rendered with coiled wire for reins, rope and feathers in headdresses. He successfully rendered figures in motion and often executed compositions with more than one figure. Berman (1974) illustrates non-Western subjects by Kaula, such as the pendants Where? and There (ca. 1910), a seated Scottish couple, impressive in the expressions and the details on patterned fabrics of both sitters. Another genre piece is Buster Brown...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Native American in Canoe
By Carl Kauba
Located in Missouri, MO
Carl Kauba (1865-1922)
"Native American in Canoe"
Polychrome Bronze
Signed
approx 5.5 x 10 x 2.75 inches
This Austrian sculptor was born in Vienna in 1865. His teachers were Karl Waschmann (1848-1905), known for his ivory sculptures and portrait plaquettes of contemporary celebrities, and Stefan Schwartz (1851-1924), who exhibited in Paris, including the Exposition Universelle of 1900 where he won a gold medal. Kauba's intricate bronzes, imported to the United States between 1895 and 1912, were cast at the Roman Bronze Works. Kauba was part of the nineteenth-century tradition of polychrome bronze sculpture. There were several types of patinas on a single statue: he could render the color of buckskin, variously tinted shirts, blankets, feathers, as well as beaded moccasins. Reportedly, Kauba came to America around 1886. Inspired by the Western tales of German author Karl May, he traveled to the West and made sketches and models. Critics, however, pointed out inaccuracies of costume and other details. For instance, the guns that his "mid-nineteenth-century" figures use are models produced after 1898. Apparently he did all of his works back in Vienna.
Besides the variety of color, Kauba's bronzes show a great range of textures and his style is highly naturalistic. The sculptor loved ornament, some of which he rendered with coiled wire for reins, rope and feathers in headdresses. He successfully rendered figures in motion and often executed compositions with more than one figure. Berman (1974) illustrates non-Western subjects by Kaula, such as the pendants Where? and There (ca. 1910), a seated Scottish couple, impressive in the expressions and the details on patterned fabrics of both sitters. Another genre piece is Buster Brown...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
La Cothurne
Located in Missouri, MO
"La Cothurne" 1901
Gilt Bronze
Approx 21.5" High (to raised hand)
Signed and Dated
Foundry Mark "Susse Freres"
Originally modeled in white biscuit porcelain this Greek dancer is a from a set of eight created for a dining table. They were immediately successful when they were exhibited in the Sevres pavilion at the 1900 Exhibition. Individual figures could be ordered and "La Cothurne" proved the most popular. Their success led to the firm of Susse buying the right to cast versions in metal.
Agathon Leonard (1841-1923) is one of the well-known French Art Nouveau sculptors. Born in Lille in 1841, he first studied there before moving to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Eugene Delaplanche.
He gained recognition at the annual Expositiones Universelles, winning a Silver Medal there in 1889 and gold in 1900. His most important piece, Jeu L'echarpe, was the best known series of Sevres production at the turn of the century and sold out at the 1900 Expo in Paris and later was given as a gift by the French Gov't to Nicholas II at the Hermitage.
His bronzes were cast at the Susse Freres Editeurs Foundry. He worked also in marble, quartz and ivory. He also produced Art Nouveau medallions...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Nuska, Portrait of a Girl, unique bronze portrait by Isamu Noguchi 1924
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Nuska, Portrait of a Girl, bronze portrait, 1924, unique
Isamu Noguchi (Japanese American 1904 - 1988); "Nuska, The Deaf Girl"; cire perdu cast bronze with complex dark patina on bronze base; 15 x lOx 8 inches; base 4.5 x 5.75 x 5,75 inches; signature quilled under and at back - "Isamu"; foundry stamp quilled in wax at the back - "Roman Bronze Works N.Y."
Excellent condition.
"Nuska, The Deaf Girl" is included in the Catalogue Raisonne of Noguchi's sculpture by Nancy Grove and Dianne Botnick (Garland, 1980) as Number 21. It is currently listed in the digital catalogue being assembled by the Isamu Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York as Number 10. This is apparently a unique casting, not part of an edition.
This is an apparently early, cire perdu bronze cast by Roman Bronze Works, probably when the foundry was located in the Louis Comfort Tiffany red...
Category
Contemporary Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Satyr
By Max Zeitz
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an early hand hammered copper sculpture, "Satyr", by Dutch artist Max Zeitz.
"Satyr", is an original, very early (1910) hand h...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Price Upon Request