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Period: Mid-20th Century
Mini-Caryatid - Sculpture by M. Berrocal - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Nickel Plated 24 Element Puzzle Sculpture, 1968-1969, realized by Miguel Berrocal.
Signature and number engraved. Edition of 9500 pieces.
Ref. Catalogo General/Obras Recientes,197...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Phi Beta Red Kappa
Located in West Hollywood, CA
American artist Burton Freund worked in Chicago in the 1930's and 1940’s for the FAP (Federal Arts Project) as an illustrator and sculptor.
These original wood sculptures are time capsules of the 1930's and 1940's, hand carved out of solid wood including their bases. Walking the train platform in Chicago in 1938, the artist saw a "Red Cap" porter with a Phi Beta Kappa key hanging around his neck. When asked, the porter...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
“Mother and Children”
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid century modern original terracotta sculpture by the Hungarian artist, Anna Berkovits of a young woman with her two children. Circa 1955. Signed in the inside of the base. Condition is excellent. Parts of the sculpture have been deliberately not been glazed by the artist. Her work rarely becomes available. Provenance: Sarasota, Florida estate.
Anna Berkovits was born in Hungary in 1911 and lived and worked in Budapest. She trained under the art teacher Almos Jaschik in Budapest. Later she was trained in ceramics by the artist Gador Istvan...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
"Nkondi Bakongo Fetish - Zaire, " Wood, Cloth, Nails,
Twine created in c. 1930
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nkondi Bakongo Fetish - Zaire" is a sculpture created out of wood, cloth, nails, and twine in circa 1930. This statue is large and formidable. The figure's limbs are wrapped up in a...
Category
Tribal Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Other Medium
Ceremonial Musician, Chiang Mai Temple, Thailand
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a ceremonial musician from the Chiang Mai Temple in Thailand.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Neoclassic Earthenware Elephants with Obelisks
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Vintage pair of Italian neoclassic garnitures or objects of art depicting elephants carrying obelisks, crafted in ceramic or earthenware with a bisque finish and highlighted with bro...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Playful Girls Large Indoor Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Playful Girls Large Indoor Bronze Sculpture
Artist signed and dated 1969
104"h x 45"w x 28"d base 24"x20"
Carla Lavatelli was born in Rome, Italy, in 1928 - (January 18, 2006) wa...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nude
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "1938-42 Morgan Russell" with monogram on base
cast circa 1982 with permission of the Estate of Morgan Russell
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Else FÜRST (1873-1943), Fasane Foundry stamp of the Berlin foundry Kraas
Located in Berlin, DE
Else Fürst was a
German sculptor and medalist who was murdered by the Nazis.
Biographical data:
Bronze
signed
Foundry stamp of the Berlin foundry Kraas.
25 x 73 cm
Born: June 25,...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Lovers" in Carved Wood, Young But Eternal
Located in San Francisco, CA
We are surrounded by graphic images, songs, greeting cards, and even paintings all created toward the effort of expressing romantic love. While so potent, and even sometimes transfor...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Rare Vintage Israeli Judaica Rabbi Klezmer Violinist Sculpture Frank Meisler Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Vintage unusual piece.
In this bronze or metal sculpture by Frank Meisler, the artist depicts a Klezmer violin player The figure seems cartoon-like with exaggerated facial featu...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
Woman with child. Metal, marble, onyx, 39x51x15 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Maxim Geo
Woman with child
Metal, marble, onyx, 39x51x15 cm
small defect
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
$2,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Two bronze busts of girls
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Two vintage bronze busts of girls by Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thanh Le. The bronze busts have a shiny black patina and are mounted on a wood plinth painted wi...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,045 Sale Price
44% Off
Hollywood
By Philip Paval
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Philip Paval was a sculptor and silversmith who worked primarily in Los Angeles. He was known as a Hollywood Artist, as he affiliated with many of the Hol...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
$14,500
Alfredo Barbini Monumental Italian Glass Double Fish Centerpiece with Bowl
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Alfredo Barbini beautiful bullicante Murano glass double fish figurine with bowl.
This sculptural centerpiece is 24 inches tall and features a double Sommerso
amber and green layer with hundreds of controlled glass bubbles throughout.
It sits on a controlled bubble green charger...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
“Expecting”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original terracotta sculpture by the American sculptor William Huppert. Titled “Expecting”. Circa 1960. Post Modern. Overall height 18 inches including base. Base is 6 wide by 5.25 ...
Category
Post-Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
$1,275 Sale Price
29% Off
Figurative Abstract Sculpture of a young woman with Esther Robles Gallery label
Located in Colfax, CA
A great figurative sculpture by American artist Robert Cremean.
Born in Toledo, OH in 1932, Robert Cremean studied at Alfred University, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He also s...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
“Santa Cruz de las Huertas Jalisco”, Ceramic, Glaze, Colors, Mexican Folkart
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
“Santa Cruz de las Huertas Jalisco” is a whimsical, charming and colorfully ceramic rendition painted blue and red of a local bus that traversed the town where the artist Candelario Medrano...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
"Jim Jim" Ebony Sculpture with Dark Patina, Portrait of Detroit Zoo Gorilla
Located in Detroit, MI
"Jim Jim" is an ebony carving by Tom Brun, sculptor and Detroit Zoo Keeper, who cared for the real Jim Jim at the Detroit Zoo. This ebony sculpture is in beautiful condition with slight exposure to the lighter streak of wood sometimes found in ebony. It is said that Tom would often go into a house and pick up one of his sculptures and say that it was unfriendly – meaning that it had not been handled enough.
Morley Driver has said of Brun in a newspaper article from the 1950’s “In Any Animal He Sees Beauty”: No one who has ever seen a Tom Brun hippopotamus will ever again think of it as ugly or ungainly, meaning that the artist not only gives you beauty but teaches you to see it. Tom has said: “Small pieces are like a proverb – a gem of meaning that one can dissect.” They are meant to be picked up, caressed and held. Tom knew Jim Jim from birth and cared for him with love and attention. Brun was a compassionate zookeeper and advocated for less cages and more space for an animal to roam.
Brun was born in England in 1913. A few years after the end of World War I his father moved the family in 1919 to Detroit, Michigan. In 1935 at age 23, he officially became a U.S. citizen. He served in the army during World War II for five years and upon discharge and at the age of 36 took advantage of the GI Bill and applied for admission to Society of Arts and Crafts (now known as the College for Creative Studies) where he was gladly accepted.
While at Arts and Crafts his instructors and established artists such as Sarkis Sarkisian, John P. Foster, Morris Brose, Richard Koslow, Patricia Burnett, Lloyd and Renee Radell...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ebony
Acrobats, Modern Bronze Sculpture by Peter Rockwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Rockwell (1936 - 2020)
Title: Acrobats
Year: 1968
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature engraved
Size: 18 in. x 14 in. x 10 in. (45.72 cm x 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm)
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture Abstract Brutalist Goat or Ram WPA Artist Mounted on Base
By Benedict Michael Tatti
Located in Surfside, FL
Benedict Tatti (1917-1993) worked in New York city as a sculptor, painter, educator, and video artist. He studied stone and wood carving under Louis Slobodkin at the Roerich Museum. He later attended the Leonardo da Vinci School of Art studying under Attilio Piccirelli. In l939 he taught adult classes with the Teachers Project of the WPA and attended the Art Students League for three and a half years on full scholarship. He studied under William Zorach and Ossip Zadkine and later became Zorach’s assistant. Later in his career, he attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts. During World War II, Tatti served in the United States Army Air Force, where he spent three years assigned to variety of projects. In 1948, Benedict Tatti married Adele Rosenberg in New York City.
Throughout his career, Tatti continuously experimented with various media. From 1952-1963, Tatti executed sculptural models of architectural and consumer products for the industrial designers, Raymond Loewy Associates; later he became a color consultant for the firm. In the 1960s, influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, Tatti turned from carving directly in wood and stone to creating assemblage architecture sculptures, using bronze metal and other industrial materials.
He was included in the important show "Aspects de la Sculpture Americaine", at Galerie Claude Bernard Paris, France, in October 1960 along with Ibram Lassaw, Theodore Roszak, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Danese Corey, Dorothy Dehner, Lin Emery, Lily Ente, David Hayes, Louise Nevelson, Tony Rosenthal, Richard Stankiewicz, Sam Szafran...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Atalanta and Hippomenes - Original signed ceramic, Certificate
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean COCTEAU
Atalanta and Hippomenes, 1958
Original ceramic plate
Signed bottom middle
Limited to 20 copies, numbered on the back
30 cm (c. 12 inch) diameter and about 3cm (c. 1.5 ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Amboseli Elephants" Larry Rivers, Pop Art Sculpture, Blue Sky, Animal Herd
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers
Amboseli Elephants, 1968
Metal with airbrushing, acrylic
26 x 36 x 5 1/4 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, New York. C. 1970
Estate of the above, 2025
Born in Aug...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Andre Derain, Bronze Sculpture by Arbit Blatas
By Arbit Blatas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arbit Blatas, Lithuanian (1908 - 1999)
Title: Andre Derain
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature inscribed on base
Arbit Blatas and his works have been part of the art scene f...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Martyrs - Relief Sculpture - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Martyrs is a modern artwork realized by Artist of 20th century.
Relief on metal decoration artwork depicting a martyrdom scene.
Includes frame.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pichet Têtes, Pablo Picasso, 1950
s, Sculpture, Ceramic, Pitcher, Design
Located in Geneva, CH
Pichet Têtes, Pablo Picasso, 1950's, Sculpture, Ceramic, Pitcher, Design
Pichet têtes
Ed. 500 pcs
1956
White earthenware clay, oxidized paraffin decorati...
Category
Post-Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Moses, Bronze Sculpture by George Gach 1966
By George Gach
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Gach, Hungarian (1909 - 1996)
Title: Moses
Year: 1966
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and date inscribed
Size: 17 x 11 x 10 in. (43.18 x 27.94 x 25.4 cm)
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Patinated Bronze Sculpture of a Kneeling Woman by Guy Charles Revol
1912-1991
By Guy Charles Revol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is an exquisite bronze sculpture depicting a kneeling woman by Guy Charles Revol. Possibly another interpretation of Venus Kneeling, this young woman is kneeling on her left kne...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Boy playing the shawm / - The transience of sounds -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Harders (1875 Mörel - 1955 Berlin), Boy playing the shawm, around 1930. Dark patinated bronze with round plinth on a black marble base (2 cm high), t...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dame Elisabeth Frink Bronze Relief Statue Of Man And Eagle Numbered 1/7 Maquette
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Dame Elisabeth Frink.
English ( b.1930 - d.1993 ).
Maquette For Man And Eagle.
Bronze With Gold Brown Patina.
Signed And Numbered 1/7 Lower Left.
Size 8.7 inches x 10.2 inches ( 22cm x 26cm ).
Depth 2.8 inches ( 7cm ).
Weight 7.1lb ( 3.24KG).
Available for sale; this original bronze plaque with raised relief is by Dame Elisabeth Frink and was conceived and cast in 1967.
The maquette is presented and supplied unmounted. There is the option to hang the plaque from 2 rings applied to the rear when in previous ownership.
This vintage bronze plaque...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Coty Award
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Created C. 1943, award presented in 1965 to Gertrude Seperack for her design work in the fashion induustry.
The bronze portion measures 14 x 8.5 inches.
The Coty American Fashion Cri...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman
s face, terracotta sculpture, 1930s-40s, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981).
Located in Firenze, IT
Woman's face, terracotta sculpture, 1930s-40s, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981). Tuscan Sculptor.
Terracotta modeled by hand by the artist. Unique piece.
Dimensions: Height 27 cm.
The ch...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Owl, Modern Aluminum Sculpture by Antonovici 1958
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original bronze sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his Owl Series. Referenced in "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls", pg 50.
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on February 18, 1911, and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Iasi, Romania, in 1939. In 1940, Antonovici studied in Zagreb with the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovici, until his arrest by Italian fascists. Antonovici himself survived imprisonment in Germany for his refusal to fight on the side of the Nazis. After the war, he continued his studies in Vienna, under the tutelage of Professor Fritz Behn...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
The Princeton Tiger
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: The artist; thence by descent to his granddaughter:
Rhoda Knight Kalt; from whom acquired by:
Private Collection, Pennsylvania, 1995–2025.
Literature: Richard Milner, Ch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Ena Rottenberg Glass Sculpture, 1937, Nude Figure “Modell”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Ena Rottenberg (1893-1952) art glass sculpture titled "Modell.”
Made in Czechoslovakia. Marked “Rottenberg” 13" H.
This piece was awarded the Grand Prix at the World’s Fair Paris, 19...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Sleeping Owl, Bronze Sculpture by Antonovici - Brancusi
s Protege
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Constantin Antonovici, Romanian (1911 - 2002)
Title: Sleeping Owl
Year: 1947
Medium: Bronze with Patina on Marble Base, signature and number inscribed
Edition: 1/9
Size: 29 i...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"Mende Mask, " Carved Wooden Mask created in Sierra Leone c. 1930
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This mask was hand-carved by an unknown artist from the Mende tribe in Sierra Leone, Africa. It depicts a face with its eyes downcast, hair in rows, and two birds on the top.
16" x 10" x 10 1/2"
The Mende people (also spelled Mendi) are one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone. The Mende are mostly farmers and hunters. Much Mandé art is in the form of jewelry and carvings. The masks associated with the fraternal and sorority associations of the Marka and the Mendé are probably the best-known, and finely crafted in the region. The Mandé also produce beautifully woven fabrics which are popular throughout western Africa, and gold and silver necklaces, bracelets, armlets, and earrings.
Masks are the collective Mind of Mende community; viewed as one body, they are the Spirit of the Mende people. The Mende mask...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Visage de femme (Woman
s Face), 1953
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso ceramic Visage de femme (Woman's Face), 1953 is a vibrantly colored pitcher decorated with contrasting saturated greens against chestnut ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Glaze, Engraving
$24,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Soaring Eagle / - With eagle eyes -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anonymous, Soaring Eagle, mid-20th century Patinated cast metal mounted on quartz block. 24 cm (total height) x 29 cm (width) x 12 cm (depth).
- Patina heavily rubbed in places, screw connections between sculpture and stone...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Carved Figurative Girl and Kitten
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century carved marble figurative girl and kitten by Rodney Marshall Winfield (American, b. 1925). Presented in rustic wood frame. Bio on verso. Image, 14"H x 10"W.
Rodney studied at Cooper Union School in New York and worked as a designer at the Emil Frei...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
Seated Woman (1958) by Chana Orloff (1888–1968)
By Chana Orloff
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Chana Orloff (1888–1968)
Seated Woman, 1958
Bronze, Height: 55 cm
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/8
Stamped with foundry mark Susse Fondeur, Paris
A masterful example of Chana Orloff’...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman, Sitting Back on Heels
By Doris Caesar
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, 1892-1971
Doris Porter Caesar was born in 1892 in Brooklyn, New York. Her father’s successful career as a lawyer allowed her to attend Miss Chapin’s School for transferrin...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Blue Tone Tower
: Modernist Vibrant Blues Cubist Sculpture by Bill Low
By Bill Low
Located in Hudson, NY
Cubist style abstract mixed-media sculpture titled 'Blue Tone Tower' was created using various materials including wood, papier-mache, and paint by Bill Low ...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Hmong Ethnic Framed Necklace Silver Plated Metal Laos Thailand
Located in Valladolid, ES
Framed Hmong Ethnic Necklace, Silver Plated Metal, 20th Century – Laos, Thailand
Extraordinary and rarely seen ethnic necklace made of silver plated metal, from Thailand. Recently f...
Category
Tribal Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Petite Femme Chiffonnèe
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, metal, bronze patina
Display: The sc...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
"Naomi" Mid 20th Century American Bronze Sculpture Female Portrait Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Naomi" Mid 20th Century American Bronze Sculpture Female Portrait Figurative
Albert W. Wein (1915-1991)
"Naomi"
Bronze, c. 1960s
Signed
Figure: 19 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 5 inches
Overall he...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bag carrier, bronze, 36x23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Marta Skulme(1890-1962)
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,638 Sale Price
20% Off
"The Trap" Hayward Oubre, Painted Wire Sculpture, Black Artist
Located in New York, NY
Hayward Oubre
The Trap, c. 1960
Painted wire sculpture
40 H. x 16 1/2 W. x 21 D. inches
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Deeply attached to his Souther...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Fregoli - Sculpture by Arrighini Nicola - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Arrighini Nicola (Pietrasanta 1905-1977) a sculptor of Pietrasanta (Italy) in 1930 decided to create, in white Carrara marble on black marble basis, the Mask of Leopoldo Fregoli, o...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$21,543 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Handwoven Tapestry Wool, Metal Folk Art Rug Weaving Wall Hanging
By Olga Fisch
Located in Surfside, FL
Olga Fisch was born in Hungary, studied in Germany and lived in Morocco and Ethiopia before receiving asylum as a Jewish refugee in Ecuador in 1939. For her Indian-inspired designs, Mrs. Fisch uses natural black and white sheep...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wool
Mid Century Carved Marble Flute Player
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century carved marble flute player by Rodney Marshall Winfield (American, b. 1925). Presented in a rustic wooden frame. Unsigned. Image size: 14"H x 10"W. Framed: 20"H x 16"W. Wear to frame and age wear to marble.
A painter in acrylic, designer in stain glass and silver, sculptor and long-time teacher, Rodney Winfield has had a diverse career. He was born in New York City. As a young man, he was artistically inclined and composed music, drew and painted, danced, wrote poetry and created sculpture. Choosing to focus on art, he enrolled in Cooper Union School in New York City.
From 1953 to 1970, he was a stain-glass designer for Emil Frei...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Satyr with Young Faun on his Shoulders - Bronze Sculpture by Aurelio Mistruzzi
Located in Roma, IT
Numbered and signed. Limited edition of 100 pieces.
Excellent conditions.
Aurelio Mistruzzi was an Italian sculptor and medalist.
He attended the Udine School of Art with professor ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Haitian Folk Art Outsider Art Steel Drum Metal Work Sculpture Murat Brierre
Located in Surfside, FL
Murat Brierre or Murat Briere (1938–1988) was one of Haiti's principal metal sculptors. He was influenced by George Liautaud, but his work acquired its own, highly experimental style, often focusing on multi-faceted and conjoined figures, fantastically personified elements, and unborn babies visible within larger creatures. He sculpted works that reflected both Christian and Haitian Vodou themes.
Murat BRIERRE was born in Mirebalais in 1938. He first worked as a builder, cabinetmaker and blacksmith before being introduced to Le Centre d’Art in 1966. After trying painting with DeWitt Peters, he realized that metal sculpture was best suited for him and studied under Georges Liautaud in order to learn the métier. He also made very beautiful linocuts. Francine Murat quickly recognized his talent and considered Brierre to be one of the best Haitian sculptors. He passed away in 1988 at the age of 50.
Brierre’s works have been exhibited in France, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Mexico and Jamaica, in such places as the Abbaye de Daoulas, the Grand Palais, the Brooklyn Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Mexico and the Musée du Montparnasse. His work is part of the permanent collections at the Waterloo Museum, the Davenport Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, Le Centre d’Art, the Musée d’art Haïtien du Collège Saint-Pierre and the Musée de Panthéon National Haïtien.
References
Phyllis Kind...
Category
Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Large Art Nouveau Terracotta Bust Sculpture Goldscheider 19th
Located in Gavere, BE
Terracotta bust of a young girl, the color mimicking the shadow of bronze sculptures,
a feature that established the fame of the Friederich Goldscheider ceramic manufactory in Vienna...
Category
Art Nouveau Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Terracotta
Vintage Signed Animalier Horse Sculpture by Daum
By Daum
Located in Roma, IT
Daum Signed Maurice Legendre Pate-de-Verre Horse Sculpture
Wonderful "Animalier" sculpture Daum Limited Edition
Pate-de-Verre sculpture of a ho...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Portrait of Italo Balbo - Original Wooden Sculpture by Marco Novati - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Signed lower right: Marco Novati
Italo Balbo was one of the key figures of Italian fascism, being among the four quadrumvirs of the March toward Rome whic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Mane (Lion) - Wooden Sculpture by Anne and Patrick Poirier - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Lion is a wonderful contemporary wooden sculpture realized in 1968 by Anne and Patrick Poirier.
Signed on the back. Includes authenticity certificate.
The passage of time, the trac...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Evening Paper, Modern sculpture by Bruno Lucchesi
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Modern figurative sculpture by Bruno Lucchesi of a man reading his even paper with fascination.
Evening Paper
Bruno Lucchesi, Italian (1926)
Date: 1961
Bronze Sculpture, signed
Si...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modernist Hand Forged Iron Mosaic Sculpture Animal Ram Israeli David Palombo
Located in Surfside, FL
Heavy Hand Forged Brutalist Iron Ram or Goat Sculpture
David Palombo was an Israeli sculptor and painter. He was born in Turkey to a traditional family and immigrated to the Land of Israel with his parents in 1923. They lived in the Nahalat Shiva neighborhood of Jerusalem. In 1940 he began his studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and from 1942 was a student of sculptor Ze’ev Ben-Zvi. For a period of time, Palombo was an assistant at Ben-Zvi’s studio and also taught at Bezalel. During this period he was also a member of the “Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed” (The General Federation of Students and Young Workers in Israel). In the 1940s he took art lessons at night. In 1948 he went to Paris, where he visited the studio of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi whose work influenced him. Around 1958 he married the artist Shulamit Sirota. In 1960 he quit his job to devote himself to art. In 1964 he married for the second time to the artist Yona Palombo. The two of them went to live in an abandoned home on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. In 1966 he was killed when the motorcycle on which he was riding ran into a chain stretched across the street to prevent the desecration of Shabbat. His widow opened a museum in their home that was active until the year 2000.
Work by Palombo is included in the Judaic collection of the Jewish Museum (a well known Hanukkah menora). Palombo executed the impressive metal gates of the Tent of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem, the memorial to the martyrs of the holocaust, as well as the gates to the Knesset Building the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco award) awarded him a scholarship for study in Japan. He worked in marble, granite, bronze, iron and steel. as well as with glass mosaic tiles. Palombo’s early works, in the 1950s, were influenced by modernist sculptors such as Brancusi. These works were composed of abstract images from nature and were carved out of stone or wood. At the end of the 1950s he began making metal sculptors, using the technique of welding. His work took on a more abstract and expressive character.
Education
1940 Painting with Isidor Ascheim, New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem
1942 Sculpture with Zeev Ben Zvi, Jerusalem
1956 Mosaic, Ravenna, Italy
1958 Welding Course
Awards And Prizes
1966 UNESCO Award
Exhibitions:
Sculpture in Israel, 1948-1958 Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
Artists: Zvi Aldouby, Yitzhak Danziger, Arieh Merzer, Dov Feigin, Aaron Priver, David Palumbo, Menashe Kadishman, Kosso Eloul, Yehiel Shemi, Zahara Schatz.
The Spring Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
Artists: Palombo, David Bezalel Schatz, Mordechai Levanon, Fima, Ludwig Blum
12 Artists, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
Avraham Ofek, Aviva Uri, Avigdor Arikha, Yosl Bergner, Lea Nikel, Palombo, Ruth Zarfati,
General Exhibition, Art in Israel 1960 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Artists: Naftali Bezem, Nachum Gutman, Shraga Weil, Shraga, Marcel Janco, Ruth Schloss
Category
Arte Povera Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Girl Torso, Modern Marble Sculpture by Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original carved marble sculpture by Constantin Antonovici from his Torso Series. Referenced in "Constantin Antonovici: Sculptor of Owls", pg 79
Antonovici was born in Neamt, Romania on February 18, 1911, and graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Iasi, Romania, in 1939. In 1940, Antonovici studied in Zagreb with the famous Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovici, until his arrest by Italian fascists. Antonovici himself survived imprisonment in Germany for his refusal to fight on the side of the Nazis. After the war, he continued his studies in Vienna, under the tutelage of Professor Fritz Behn...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
