Modern Figurative Sculptures
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
"Tiny Two-Toned Jacket, " Steel Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Upon discovering a weathered steel drum that had been warped to resemble the sleeve of a garment, artist Gordon Chandler was inspired to embark on a series of kimono sculptures forme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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 Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modern Bronze Relic Sculpture of figure with 3 legs:
Rhoman Fertility Goddess
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt - Henry Moore, sculpture, modern, british, small
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt
conceived in 1955; cast in 1955
bronze; edition 4 of 6 plus 1 artist’s proof by the Fiorini foundry, London
19 x 9 x 15.5 cm (in...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bird with a Crest - Original Ceramic MADOURA - Edition of 500 (Ramié #173)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo Picasso
Bird with a Crest, 1952
Original ceramic of Pablo Picasso, white faience earth, enamel and oxidized paraffin decoration
Annotated on the Back : Empreinte originale Pic...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Israeli Mod Arts
Crafts Copper Sculpture Bookends Bezalel Schatz Yaad Studio
By Bezalel Schatz
Located in Surfside, FL
Bezalel Schatz, (1912-1978), Yaad Studio Workshop
Mid century modern
The standing part is 6 X 5 inches. The copper sheet is 10 X 5 inches each. This is for a pair. they are copper w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Isabella
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original carved wood sculpture by American WPA artist Avis Zeidler Nemkoff.
"Isabella", is a hand carved wood sculpture measuring 18.5 inches tall, exceptional original condition, originally acquired from the estate of the artist who resided in Northern California.
This is a magnificent one of a kind hand carved wood sculpture, c.1938.
Please contact the gallery for additional information
•Avis Zeidler was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1908.
•It is not known when Zeidler moved to California. However, in the 1930s she majored in art at the University of California.
•Later, she enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts after receiving a scholarship for her studies there. She studied with Ray Boynton, Lucien Labaudt, Karl Eugen Neuhaus, and Ralph Stackpole...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Bowl with Vintage Chair (Made-to-order, Mid-Century, Modern, Vibrant)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Melanie Sherman
Bowl with Vintage Chair
Earthenware, 24K German Gold Luster, Glaze, Underglaze, China Paints, Vintage Transfers, Multiple Cone 6 Firings, Hand-built
2024
Size: 1.75 ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Luster, Paint, Glaze, Underglaze
Bronze Ox Sculpture by Raymond De Meester - (1904 - 1995)
Located in Gent, VOV
Ox
A fine bronze cast with a red brown patina bearing the signature "De Meester Raymond", It does not have a foundry mark.
This fine bronze ox casting boasts a rich red-brown patin...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Femmes Fleurs (Women Pitcher)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Ceramic Femmes Fleurs (Women Pitcher), 1948 A.R. 50 is an elegant turned pitcher highlights the graceful form of the female nude. C...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
$32,000 Sale Price
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Large Gilt Bronze Sculpture of Leopard
Located in Rome, IT
Fantastic gilt brass leopard sculpture . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Large Victor Salmones Bronze Sculpture, Kneeling Figure, 29"W
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Victor Salmones (1937-1989)
Marking(s); notes: signed; ed. 4/11
Country of origin; materials: Mexican; bronze
Dimensions (H, W, D): 13"h, 29"w, 15"d
Ad...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$19,250 Sale Price
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Terracotta Sculpture by Evert Lindfors, Sweden, Similarities with A.Giacometti
Located in Stockholm, SE
Terracotta Sculpture by Swedish artist Evert Lindfors (1927-2016), made in the 1970s.
Evert moved to France in the 1940s where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked from the mid-1950s as a painter in Lacoste in Provence, France. Towards the end of the 1960s, he switched to terracotta sculpture. He met his friend Torsten Renqvist...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Leda and the Swan" Wheeler Williams, Modernist, Classical Myth, American Nude
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams
Leda and the Swan, 1943
Signed, titled and dated on the base
Patinated bronze
11 inches high x 21 1/2 inches wide
Provenance
Private Collection, Queens, New York
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Category
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Cheetahs
Located in Rome, IT
Fantastic pair of gilt bronze Cheetahs sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$11,390 Sale Price
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Untitled Portrait Head (perhaps Arnold Geissbuhler, the artist’s husband)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled Portrait Head (perhaps Arnold Geissbuhler, the artist’s husband), c. 1920s, bronze, signed verso, 11 x 9 x 7 inches (excluding base)
Elizabeth Chase was a sculptor, printma...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Herons
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant pair of gilt bronze heron sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Guido Righetti Bronze Sacred Hamadryas Baboon (Model c. 1917)
Located in Gent, VOV
This rare and striking sculpture by Guido Righetti, titled Sacred Hamadryas Baboon, is a compelling study of the sacred primate rendered in a modern, expressive idiom. Modeled in 191...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Awakening. cast bronze sculpture. Figurative realism. vintage 1994
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sculpture "Awakening." Cast Bronze. 1994 vintage.
The inspiration for this sculpture was my beloved wife. One day, I saw her naked in the morning light. Her skin was soft and tender,...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
In Motion Cast Bronze Sculpture, Vintage 1991, Abstract Figurative
Located in Zofingen, AG
The sculpture is called "In Motion." Cast bronze.
This work is one of the first in which I explored the theme of movement—the movement of the human body, the female body, how it app...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
ROBY DWI ANTONO - BIAS II. Limited ed. Sculpture Contemporary Modern Design
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Roby Dwi Antono - BIAS II
Date of creation: 2022
Medium: Glazed ceramic sculpture
Edition: 75 + AP
Size: 24.5 x 29 x 26 cm
Condition: In perfect conditions
BIAS II is a limited-edit...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Suspension Flamenco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Stunning sculpture by Richard Macdonald titled "Suspension Flamenco"
Finely detailed and has captivating movement.
The work is patinated bronze on a mottled marble base.
Signed and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Robot
Located in London, GB
Mixed metal multiple with lightbulb, 1990, signed in black ink, dated, numbered from an edition of 91 unique works, published by Edition Mönchehaus-Museum, Goslar, Germany, height: 5...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$25,276
Fish - Sculpture by Fernando Codognotto - 2024
Located in Roma, IT
Small hand carved wooden sculpture realizd by Fernando Codognotto in 2024.
Engraved signature and year.
Excellent condition.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Victor Salmones QUEEN OF SPACE Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Victor Salmones (Mexican, 1937-1984)
Marking(s); notes: signed; marking(s); ed. 1/10
Materials: bronze
Dimensions (H, W, D): 21"h, 10.75"w, 16.75"d; 36...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$6,650 Sale Price
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Bird in Flight
Located in Washington, DC
German Romanian artist, Otto Scherer, pays homage to one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Brancusi, in his ceramic "Bird in Flight".
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Platinum
KIng David with Harp
By Hana Geber
Located in Surfside, FL
American sculptor Hana Geber (1910 - 1990)
She was born in Prague of Czechoslovakian heritage and eventually settled in New York. Her sculptures deal with Jewish themes
She taught sc...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Silver
Eté
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$46,800
Willitts Designs "Sax Appeal" Musician Cast Resin Sculpture, Signed
Numbered
Located in Plainview, NY
A Collectible Jazz Sculpture By Willitts Designs International and Sheng Lung entitled " Sax Appeal" and numbered 62001. This Amazing Resin Metal Jazz Scul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
"One of a Kind Balloon Dog Sculpture, Modern, 21st Century"
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$8,050 Sale Price
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ROBY DWI ANTONO - KIRA SCULPTURE (BLACK). Limited edition Contemporary Modern
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Roby Dwi Antono - KIRA SCULPTURE (BLACK)
Date of creation: 2021
Medium: Bronze sculpture with black patina finish and crystal resin tears
Edition: 75 + AP
Size: 31 x 26 x 23 cm
Cond...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
La Vierge Noire (The Black Virgin), c. 1975
By Karel Appel
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created around 1975, La Vierge Noire (The Black Virgin) is an acrylic on wood sculpture that is hand-signed ‘Appel’ by Karel Appel (Amsterdam, 1921-Zürich, 2006) in blue on the front...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Judaica Copper Plaque Israeli Artist Mordechai Avniel, Palestine, Bezalel School
Located in Surfside, FL
MORDECHAI AVNIEL
Minsk, Belarus, b. 1900, d. 1989
Mordechai Avniel is best known for his deft and singular landscape work.
He said of his scenes of Israel:
"I loved the Israeli la...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Kossack
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Kossack, c. late 1930s, polychromed cedar and walnut relief sculpture, carved signature under the base of the figure, 15 x 8 x 3 1/2 inches (figure), 10 x 19 inches (board), exhibited at Zeidler's solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art, November - December, 1942 (label verso), label verso reads "Kossack / cedar & walnut / Avis Zeidler"
About the Sculpture
Kossack is typical of Aviz Zeidler’s direct carved wood sculptures of the 1930s. The subject looks directly at the viewer, unfeeling behind a polychromed stare. Seemingly influenced by two of her major teachers, California’s Ralph Stackpole and New York’s William Zorach, Zeidler drew on primitive traditions to create what one critic described as her “gruesome wood sculptures.” Rigid, solid, and unmoving are other words that characterize Zeidler’s statues which often seem to have the deeply rooted ancient power of a totem. Zeidler’s “grimacing artificiality does, indeed, manage to hold a sense of force,” is how The San Francisco Examiner art critic put it in 1938 when describing the artist’s award-winning entry at the San Francisco Art Museum. The same words could have applied to Kossack when it was exhibited at the museum four years later. Perhaps the artist was trying to contain the power of the fearsome Kossacks, the enemy of so many Eastern European peasants, by freezing the image in wood.
About the Artist
Avis Zeidler (Nemkoff) was a California-based artist who is principally known for her sculpture and drawings. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but moved to Northern California by the late 1920s where she majored in art at Berkely and studied with Lucien Labaudt, Ray Boynton...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pedro Friedeberg, "Hand Foot", unique sculpture
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pedro Friedeberg
Unique Hand Foot Sculpture
Gilt finished wood
Signed PEDRO FRIEDEBERG on bottom of the foot
12 inches tall, 6 inches wide (base of hand), 3 inches wide (base of foot...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Woman - Sculpture - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Balinese bronze sculpture of woman.
Placed on a wooden pedestal.
Excellent condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Located in Atlanta, GA
With each feather, Alan Derrick has moved his art form into new expressions. He continues to experiment with each stage of the process, producing surprisi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pilots in Plane Painting on Metal Sculpture Wall Hanging Seymour Chwast Airplane
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Chwast (American, b. 1931)
Three Pilots Ready for Take Off
Mixed Media Painted Sculpture
Hand-painted metal, (galvanized steel or aluminum) large wall hanging
Hand signed to ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Leda and the Swan modernist mid century sculpture by French woman artist
Located in Norwich, GB
A unique piece: a hand modelled sculpture by French artist Jeannine Nathan (b.1924). Working in Paris, Jeannine was able to visit Picasso’s studio, and was impressed by the
Master’s ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Dancer, Modern Cast Nickel Sculpture by B.Z. Boobis
Located in Long Island City, NY
B.Z. Boobis, American - Dancer, Medium: Nickel cast sculpture, signature inscribed at base and on bottom, Size: 6.25 x 4 x 1.5 in. (15.88 x 10.16 x 3.81 cm)
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Zofar" Boaz Vaadia, Human Body, Bronze and Stone, Anthropomorphic Sculpture
By Boaz Vaadia
Located in New York, NY
Boaz Vaadia
Zofar, 1997
Bronze, bluestone, and boulder
Overall 20 x 29 x 27 inches
From the edition of 7
Provenance
Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Boaz Vaadia is the in...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bluestone, Bronze
Tête de femme couronnée de fleurs (A.R. 236), Pablo Picasso, Ceramic, Design
Located in Geneva, CH
PABLO PICASSO
Tête de femme couronnée de fleurs (A.R. 236), March 20th, 1954
Ed. 37/50 pcs
White earthenware clay
23 x 15 x 18 cm I 9 1/8 x 5 7/8 x 7 1/8 in
Signed by the artist on ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Monumental Italian Rationalist Marble Sculptures of Young Athletes
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athletes figure , on a cylindrical base . Exaltation of the male strength and beauty, inspired by the trend i...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Boxeur Nain, 2014
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Heavy Bronze Relief Plaque, Young King David with Harp
By Hana Geber
Located in Surfside, FL
American sculptor Hana Geber (1910 - 1990)
She was born in Prague of Czechoslovakian heritage and eventually settled in New York. Her sculptures deal with Jewish themes
She taught s...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Untitled (Roi David)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Marc Chagall Untitled (Roi David), 1954 is a rare and imaginative culmination of the collaboration between Marc Chagall and the Fucina degli Angeli. This work is from the beginning of Chagall’s usage of Murano glass as a means of expression. In 1954, Chagall was invited into the Fucina degli Angeli by Egidio Costantini who was the master glass blower at the time. This stunning and mesmeric sculpture beckons the eyes through the use of vivid, bold colors that blend seamlessly together. Blue, purple, teal and hints of red coalesce in the center of the glass plate, creating the backdrop for a whimsical scene placed in the foreground. A man in a crown kneels in the center of the work, preoccupied with the string instrument delicately constructed in his hands. Gilded flecks of gold are highlighted around the crown and instrument, showing us the depth of the lyrical poet. The transparent glass allows us to follow suite of the man, becoming entranced and lost in thought.
Created in 1954 in the Fucina degli Angeli in Venice, Italy, this Murano glass sculpture was realized by master glass artist Egidio Costantini (Brindisi, 1912- Venice, 1998) in collaboration Marc Chagall, (Vitebsk, 1887 – Saint-Paul, 1985). This work is inscribed ‘M. Chagall E. Costantini 1954 © Fucina degli Angeli’ on verso and is an artist proof.
Catalogue Raisonné:
Marc Chagall Untitled (Roi David), 1954 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).
Egidio Costantini: Il Maestro dei Maestri. Brussels: Espace Kiron and Espace Medicis, 1990. A different Chagall glass...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
$26,250 Sale Price
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3 Faces Cast in Bronze Relief, mid century mystery artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Untitled, 20th century
Bronze with wood and acrylic mounting
Overall: 19 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 1 1/8 in.
Bronze plate: 17 5/8 x 5 3/4 in.
Numbered lower left: 7/30
Initialed l...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jerusalem Rabbi, Repousse Sculpture Relief Plaque Israeli Judaica
By Arieh Merzer
Located in Surfside, FL
Arieh Merzer was a prominent Israeli artist and metal worker.
Arie Merzer, an artist who worked in hand-hammered copper, was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1905, the scion of a large Has...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Estasi Napoletana
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the most eminent and affirmed artist represented by the Frilli Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$49,920
Bronze Sculpture American Modernist Art Stanley Bleifeld Girl with Bass or Cello
Located in Surfside, FL
Retaining a fine patina and in overall good condition.
Signed with initials SB.
I believe the edition size was 7 But I cannot find a mark.
Stanley Bleifeld (1924 – 2011) was an American sculptor.
Stanley Bleifeld was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Bleifeld earned bachelor of fine arts, bachelor of science in education and in 1949 a master of fine arts degree in painting at Tyler School of Art of Temple University. After a trip to Rome in 1959 or 1960 he gave up painting for sculpture. He began his fine-art career as a painter. However, a visit to Italy and exposure to the bronzes of Donatello, Michelangelo, and Ghiberti changed his direction He worked with the Art Foundry of Massimo del Chiaro and alongside artists such as Lucchesi, Harry Marinsky, Fernando Botero, Igor Mitoraj and Ivan Theimer. Many of his early pieces were religious subjects, and reflected both painting and sculptural techniques in bas reliefs* that had "liquid landscapes in undulating reliefs and free-flowing portraits reminiscent of classical fragments" (166-167). He later turned from these abstract pieces to more realistic figures in bronze.
Bleifeld was a National Academician in Sculpture, and a member of the National Academy of Design, and helped set policy for that organization. He was also President of the National Sculpture Society. Past presidents of the society have included John Quincy Adams Ward, James Earle Fraser, Chester Beach, Wheeler Williams, Leo Friedlander, Neil Estern, and Cecil de Blaquiere Howard. The first woman to gain admission into the NSS was Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, in 1893. She was followed a few years later by Enid Yandell and Bessie Potter Vonnoh in 1898; Janet Scudder in 1904; Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1905 and Evelyn Longman and Abastenia St. Leger Eberle in 1906. In 1946, Richmond Barthé was likely the first African-American to be admitted.
In 1994, the NSS held their first exhibition outside the United States at the Palazzo Mediceo Di Seravezza in Italy. Titled “100 Years of the National Sculpture Society of the United States of America in Italy” it ran from the 16th of July through the 4th of September and was curated by Nicky and Stanley Bleifeld along with Costantino Paolicchi, Lodovico Gierut and Paolo Giorgi. Among the 60 notable American sculptors whose work was selected for the exhibition were Stanley Bleifeld, Andrew DeVries, Neil Estern, Leonda Finke...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Satyr and Baby - Bronze after Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Satyr and Baby is a bronze statue created by the artist Aurelio Mistruzzi.
Edition of the 1980s.
Engraved signature on the marble base.
31x32.5 cm.
Good conditions
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Metamorphosis, Figurative, Wood
Metal by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Rakesh Sadhak - Metamorphosis
Wood & Metal, H 32 x W 21 x D 16 inches
Born : 1970
Qualification:
B.V.A. in Sculpture from Govt. College of Art & Craft 2012
M.F.A. in Sculpture from ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Cavalier #Tous2024, 2019
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Large Ceramic Clay Sculpture Of Striped Shirt In Man Size On Piedestal
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
Large sized sculpture of a standing shirt including large piedestal.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Hunter, Bronze and Wood Sculpture by James McCain
By James McCain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James McCain, American (b. 1944)
Title: Hunter
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Bronze Sculpture on Wooden Base, signature and numbering inscribed
Edition: 85/250
Size: 12.5 x 6 x ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Latin American Raúl Valdivieso Bronze Organic Abstract Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
Striking bronze organic sculpture by Latin American sculptor Raúl Valdivieso (Chilean, 1931-1993). Valdivieso is known for his reinterpretation of the ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,650 Sale Price
40% Off
Large Brass Sculptures of Herons
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant pair of brass heron sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
World Bronchology Foundation, Surreal Bronze Sculpture by Lorenzo Quinn
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Surrealist bronze sculpture by Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn depicting a male figure with hands reaching out of his chest. Designed and cast to benefit ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rise. From The Inner Light Box series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In INNER LIGHT, Eduardo Rezende transforms the silhouette into a threshold — a boundary between the visible self and the hidden territories that dwell inside each person. Photographe...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Archival Pigment, LED Light, Textile
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