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Art Subject: Women
"LA ROC Cat Woman" Decorated Graffiti Street Art Mannequin Bust Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful street art, abstract Mannequin Bust decorated by artist Angel Ortiz. Here we find this stylish bust figure with the artist signature tag...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Large Neoclassical White Marble Sculpture Venus Italica mid-19th century
Located in Pistoia, IT
Venus Italica, imposing sculpture in white Carrara marble, mid-nineteenth-century Roman atelier.
Antonio Canova made several sculptures depicting Venus. The first was made as compen...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Pair of Angels Baroque Sculpture “Cherubim”, polychrome and gilded wood
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind pair of cherub high reliefs dating from the 18th century, probably belonging to the Castilian school.
These are two rectangular high reliefs in carved, polychrome, an...
Category
1780s Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Large, Cast Bronze Roman Figures
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of large, detailed cast bronze Roman figures of a senator (likely Julius Caesar) and possibly an emperor. Each in cascading drapery with beautifully rendered facial expression...
Category
1910s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte
Located in New York, NY
RENZO COLOMBO
Italian, (1856-1885)
Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte
Patinated bronze; Signed R. Colombo 1885 on Right Side
22 x 15 inches
Notes:
The...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mountain of a Woman, Portrait, Carved Porcelain Wall Sculpture.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Supporting Perspective Portrait. Carved Porcelain Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Portrait of a Lady
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of a Lady
by Charles CORDIER (1827-1905)
A rare bust in white Carrara marble
and onyx for the drape
Signed on the backside " C. Cordier "
Presented on a rounded white marbl...
Category
1860s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Desequilibre - large, expressive, male, figurative, aluminum outdoor sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Engaging and playful, Quebec sculptor Paul Duval’s artwork often contemplates the idea of balance and imbalance. ‘Desequilibre’ in French actually means ‘unbalance.’
Here a figure st...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Forest Spirit
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Artist Statement
I absolutely love working with clay. Creating forms with a chunk of moist earth is a tangible way to cultivate beauty and delight. Through my work, I hope to touch ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Vintage Blanc de Chine Bird or Parrot Figures
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Striking pair of French blanc de chine porcelain life size parrots or cockatoos casually perched on grapevines.
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Stairway to Nowhere Girl Portrait. Carved Porcelain Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Acrylic
Antique French Neoclassical Rococo Bronze Figural Group of Wine Bacchantes 1762
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique bronze figural group of Bacchantes by Claude Michel (Clodion) ( 1738– 1814).
The bronze depicts a pair of bacchantes, the female followers of Bacchus the Roman god of ...
Category
18th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tree of Life, Bronze Sculpture by Volodymyr Mykytenko, 2022
Located in Zofingen, AG
Volodymyr Mykytenko - Tree of Life (2022)
Tree of Life-a tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden, the fruits of which give eternal life, planted by God along with the Tree of the k...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Baroque Italian master - 17/18th century figure sculpture - The Virgin
Located in Varmo, IT
Carved and painted wooden sculpture - Madonna in Prayer - Italy, 17th-18th century.
25 x 20 x 65 cm.
Made entirely of carved, lacquered, and painted wood. Some signs of wear and pa...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
$2,373 Sale Price
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Allan Houser Marble Sculpture - Two Figures
By Allan Houser
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Wonderful sculpture of two figures by Native American artist Allan Houser (1914-1994).
The work is in excellent condition and measures 19 1/2"h x 12"w x 9"deep.
His signature is seen...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Strength of the Maker maquette 21" high bronze
By Denny Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
"Strength of the Maker" by Denny Haskew
Figurative Bronze with wood base, ed/25 21x21x14"
Signed and numbered 12/25.
This is a sold-out limited edition available on the secondary ma...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pression - large, expressive, person, figurative, aluminum outdoor sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A single figure stands precariously on a narrow ‘ledge’…back pressed against a frame, one leg raised and arms out wide as if trying to find balance. This is the engaging work of Quebec Sculptor Paul Duval. His large outdoor sculptures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Life-Size Bronze Sculpture: "Alms Bowl" Monk by Cheng-Hsiung Chen
Located in Taichung, TW
Artist: Cheng-Hsiung Chen (b. 1942, Taiwan).
Title: "Alms Bowl"
Medium: Bronze with signature stone-like texture.
Dimensions: H 151 × W 43 × D 42 cm (approx. 59.5 × 17 × 16.5 in).
Ed...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tolla Inbar, Circle of Life, Bronze sculpture
By Tolla Inbar
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Tolla Inbar, Circle of Life, bronze sculpture, International artist, Israeli artist, Figurative sculpture, art
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II (1 of a kind Swarovski Skull w/ Base and Crown).
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Rare and Important Italian Alabaster Bust Sculpture of Jesus Christ, C. 1860
Located in Queens, NY
A rare and important Italian alabaster bust sculpture of Jesus Christ, C. 1860
A modeled bust of Holy Christ wearing a crown of thorns, exceptional...
Category
19th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Harriet Frishmuth Bronze Sculpture, 1925 - "Crest of the Wave"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Beautiful bronze by N.Y./Connecticut artist Harriet Frishmuth (1880-1980).
It depicts a graceful nude, Frishmuth’s best subject, and is titled “Cre...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ondine
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A French Art Deco dark green patinated metal figure titled "Ondine" by Pierre Le Faguays using his pseudonym Fayral. Beautifully executed and posed, she is holding a draped cloth in ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Spirit of the Night
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Artist Statement
I absolutely love working with clay. Creating forms with a chunk of moist earth is a tangible way to cultivate beauty and delight. Through my work, I hope to touch ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Virgin and Child
Located in Wien, Wien
OUTSTANDING MADONNA
Bavaria
Around 1515/20
Lime wood carved
Original, polychrome version
Height 60 cm
This masterfully carved, full-round Madonna was created around 1515-20 in...
Category
16th Century Medieval Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$180,000
Elegance , Contemporary women bronze.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Sculptor Marsha Gertenbach signed and numbered this bronze sculpture, edition 2/25. Here is the artist's message about this unique piece:
"She has the quality of being graceful and ...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Minerva driving her chariot
Located in PARIS, FR
"Minerva driving her chariot"
by Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910)
Very beautiful group in bronze with old gilded patina
Cast by BARBEDIENNE
France
circa 1900
height : 54 cm
length : 54...
Category
Early 1900s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Madonna Adoring the Infant Jesus Italian School Ceramic White Blue
Located in Sanremo, IT
Cantagalli-manufactured ceramics measuring 125 x 67 cm depicting a sweet Madonna adoring the Child Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Ulisse Cantagalli...
Category
1830s Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bust of a Woman
Located in Wiscasett, ME
"Bust of a Woman", is a bronze sculpture by the Mexican artist, Victor Salmones. This sophisticated piece has an aura of repose and quiet enhanced by the smooth beautiful patina surf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rewind Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Rewind Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss) show a perfect command of the old craft of mod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antonio III by Nando Kallweit. Tall, elegant bronze sculpture of human figure.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Antonio III is a tall, elegant bronze sculpture of a human figure.
Nando Kallweit is a German sculptor working in bronze and oak. Kallweit carves the original piece from a piece ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Curled Girl Portrait. Carved Porcelain Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Capri
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Carole A. Feuerman is an American sculptor and author known for co-founding the Superrealist movement in the 1970s. After having developed works linked to the poetics of the fragment...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
$60,000
Danseuse Rassemblée by Yann Guillon - Figurative sculpture, bronze, dance, woman
By Yann Guillon
Located in Paris, FR
Danseuse Rassemblée is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 26 × 7 × 8 cm (10.2 × 2.7 × 3.1 in). Height of the sculpture with the metal base: 35.5 c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rigoletto, Erté
By Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990)
Title: Rigoletto
Year: 1988
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 345/375 Numbered, 37 AP
Size: 8 x 7 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Incised w...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Dos Mujeres Mayas (Two Mayan Women)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dos Mujeres Mayas (Two Mayan Women)") 1983 is an original Mixograph cast paper bas relief by Costa Rican/Mexican artist Francisco...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
Nude Male Runner Bronze patinated Classical After the Antique
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully proportioned and handsome nude male bronze with Roman classically refined features after the Antique . It looks best with a key lighting th...
Category
20th Century Old Masters Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Adrien-Etienne Gaudez Orientalist Polychrome-Patinated Bronze Princess Busts
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Adrien-Etienne Gaudez (1845-1902)
Origin: French
Date: 19th century
Dimension: 32 in(H) x 21 in(W); 29 1/2 in(H) x 22 in(W)
Adrien-Etienne Gaudez entered the Ecole des Beaux...
Category
19th Century Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Forest idyll / - Soulmate -
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Kaesbach (1873 Gladbach - 1955 Berlin), Forest idyll, around 1915. Bronze, gold and golden brown patina, with cast plinth, mounted on a marble base (5 cm high), total height 36 cm, dimensions of the bronze: 31 cm (height) x 17 cm (length) x 12 cm (width). Weight 4,6 kg, signed on the plinth "R.[udolf] KAESBACH".
- a few rubbed areas, overall in excellent condition for its age
- Soulmate -
The bronze sculpture depicts a young woman in an intimate exchange with a deer that accompanies her. The animal pauses to turn toward her, while the nude beauty slows her pace to look into the deer's eyes and tenderly caress it with her hand. The woman and the deer are in inner harmony. Even though her lips remain motionless, she speaks the language of the animal with which she is deeply connected.
The golden patina, which contrasts with the more naturalistic coloring of the deer, gives the young woman the appearance of a saint, even if she cannot be identified as such. At the same time, she evokes memories of Diana, the goddess of the hunt, or a nymph. But she lacks the ferocity. In her innocent naivety, she is more like a vestal virgin, who is not at home in the solitude of the forest. And yet, the young beauty, moving unclothed in the heart of nature, looks like a priestess with her hair tied up and a carefully carried bowl on her way to a sacred grove.
In order to open up the above-mentioned associations, Kaesbach deliberately designed the female figure in such a way that she cannot be identified as a specific person. He has created an allegory of natural femininity, characteristic of Art Nouveau, in which the deer is far more than a companion animal. It displays the same gracefulness as the young woman, and the inner resemblance between the two makes the deer appear as her other self. In animal terms, it embodies her inner being, which also gives the deer an allegorical character.
About the artist
Rudolf Kaesbach studied sculpture at the Hanau Academy and worked in a bronze foundry in Paris in 1900. In order to work as an independent artist, he opened a workshop in Düsseldorf, where he cast bronzes from models he designed. In 1902 he made his debut at the German National Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf. The following year Kaesbach went to the academy in Brussels. There he was inspired by contemporary Belgian sculpture, especially the work of Constantin Meunier. He moved to Berlin, where he opened a studio in the villa district of Grunewald and devoted himself to life-size marble sculptures and the design of bronzes. From 1911, he regularly presented his works at the major art exhibitions in Berlin, as well as in Düsseldorf and Malmö. Between 1936 and 1939, he also created models for the Rosenthal porcelain factory. From 1939 to 1944, Kaesbach was represented at the major German art exhibitions in Munich.
GERMAN VERSION
Rudolf Kaesbach (1873 Gladbach - 1955 Berlin), Waldidyll, um 1915. Gold und goldbraun patinierte Bronze mit gegossener Plinthe, auf einem Marmorsockel montiert (5 cm Höhe), Gesamthöhe 36 cm, Maße der Bronze: 31 cm (Höhe) x 17 cm (Länge) x 12 cm (Breite). Gewicht 4,6 kg, auf der Plinthe mit „R.[udolf] KAESBACH“ signiert.
- vereinzele beriebene Stellen, insgesamt in einem altersgemäß ausgezeichneten Zustand
- Seelenverwandtschaft -
Die Bronzeplastik veranschaulicht eine junge Frau im innigen Austausch mit einem sie begleitenden Reh. Das Tier hält inne, um sich zu ihr hochzuwenden, während die nackte Schönheit ihren Schritt verlangsamt, um dem Reh ebenfalls in die Augen zu schauen und es zärtlich mit der Hand zu liebkosen. Die Frau und das Reh sind in einem inneren Gleichklang. Auch wenn ihre Lippen unbewegt bleiben, spricht sie die Sprache des Tieres, mit dem sie auf eine tief empfundene Weise verbunden ist.
Die im Kontrast zur naturalistischeren Einfärbung des Rehs aufstrahlende goldfarbene Patina lässt die junge Frau wie eine Heilige erscheinen, auch wenn sich nicht als Heilige identifizierbar ist. Zugleich ruft sie Erinnerungen an die Jagdgöttin Diana oder eine Nymphe hervor. Dafür fehlt ihr allerdings die Wildheit. In ihrer unschuldigen Naivität gemahnt sie vielmehr an eine Vestalin, die freilich nicht in der Waldeinsamkeit zu Hause ist. Und doch wirkt die sich unbekleidet im Herzen der Natur bewegende junge Schönheit wie eine Priesterin, die sich mit hochgebundenem Haar und der vorsichtig getragenen Schale und dem Wege zu einem Heiligen Hain befindet.
Um die gennannten Assoziationen zu eröffnen, hat Kaesbach die Frauenfigur bewusst so gestaltet, dass sie nicht als konkrete Person identifizierbar ist. Damit hat er eine für den Jugendstil charakteristische Allegorie natürlicher Weiblichkeit geschaffen, bei der das Reh weit mehr als ein Begleittier ist. Es weist dieselbe grazile Anmut wie die junge Frau auf und der innere Gleichklag der beiden lässt das Reh als ihr anderen Ich erscheinen. Es verkörpert – ins Animalische übertragen - ihr inneres Wesen, wodurch auch dem Reh ein allegorischer Charakter zukommt.
zum Künstler
Rudolf Kaesbach studierte an der Akademie Hanau Bildhauerei und war im Jahr 1900 in einer Pariser Bronzegießerei tätig. Um sich als eigenständiger Künstler betätigen zu können, eröffnete er in Düsseldorf eine Werkstatt, in der er Bronzen nach selbstentworfenen Modellen goss. 1902 debütierte er auf der Deutschen Nationalen Kunstaustellung in Düsseldorf. Im Folgejahr ging Kaesbach an die Akademie nach Brüssel. Dort wurde er von der zeitgenössischen belgischen Bildhauerei, insbesondere vom Werk Constantin Meuniers, inspiriert. Zurückgekehrt zog er nach Berlin, wo er im Villenviertel Grunewald ein Atelier eröffnete und sich neben dem Entwurf für Bronzen der lebensgroßen Marmorbildhauerei widmete. Ab 1911 präsentierte er seine Werke regelmäßig auf den Großen Berliner Kunstausstellungen, aber auch in Düsseldorf und Malmö. Zwischen 1936 und 1939 fertigte er zudem Modelle für die Porzellan-Manufaktur Rosenthal an. Von 1939 bis 1944 war...
Category
1910s Jugendstil Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Apostel group
Located in Wien, Wien
APOSTLE GROUP
ORIGINAL VERSION
Flemish/Brabant
Around 1500
Oak wood carved
Height 37.5 cm, width 12 cm,
Depth 12.5 cm
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$19,800
Trio Amigos Disney Sculpture, Pop Art, Resin and Glitter, 21st Century
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic, Glass, Wood, Glitter, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Union", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 19x11x7 in., Woman
Man
Located in Dallas, TX
"Union" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female and male figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 299/350.
Inspired by The Creation Sculptures of the Washington National Cathedral...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Musidora
Located in PARIS, FR
"Musidora"
by Odoardo FANTACCHIOTTI (1809-1877)
Sculpture made in white Carrara marble
signed on the side on the base " O. Fantacchiotti "
Italy
around 1862
height 110 cm
diameter ...
Category
1860s Italian School Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
The Secret
Located in PARIS, FR
The Secret
by Pierre-Félix FIX-MASSEAU (1869-1937)
Sculpture in bronze with a gilded patina
Signed on the side " Fix-Masseau "
Cast by " Siot-Paris " (with the foundry mark)
France...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Merchant, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture by Franz Bergmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Franz Bergmann, Austrian (1861 -1936) - Merchant, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Cold painted Bronze sculpture, Size: 5.75 x 9.5 x 6 in. (14.61 x 24.13 x 15.24 cm)
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Noche Crist Goddess Sculpture
Located in Washington, DC
Wonderful and one of a kind nude sculpture by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Sculpture is made from polyester resin. Catalogue of a postumous retrospective in 2008 at the American Universi...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Nude Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
$600 Sale Price
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Pair of Exceptional Italian Sphinx Limestone Statues
Located in Rome, IT
Designed as entrance guardians, this pair of mythical lady sphinx statuary display the head and chest of a neoclassical woman and the body of a recu...
Category
2010s Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Florentine singer / - The Renaissance of the Renaissance -
By Paul Dubois
Located in Berlin, DE
Paul Dubois (1829 Nogent-sur-Seine - 1905 Paris), Florentine singer, 1865. Light brown patinated bronze with cast round plinth mounted on a square marble base (3.5 cm high). Total height 53 cm. Bronze dimensions: 49.5 cm (height) x 20 cm (length) x 10 cm (width), weight 5.6 kg. Inscribed on the plinth "P.[aul] DUBOIS", dated "1865", with the foundry's mark "F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR" and the signet "REDUCTION MECANIQUE A. COLLAS".
- Patina very occasionally darkened, lute with loss of one tuning peg, otherwise in excellent condition.
- The renaissance of the Renaissance -
The bronze is a precisely executed and masterfully cast contemporary reduction of Paul Dubois 155 cm tall masterpiece "Florentine Singer", which is exhibited in the Musée d'Orsay and for which the artist was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Paris Salon in 1865. The work acted as a beacon, and was followed by a plethora of depictions of juveniles.
Inspired by Donatello and Luca della Robbia, but also by painters such as Piero della Francesca, Benozzo Gozzoli, and Pinturicchio, the "Florentine Singer" is not an epigonal work that pays homage to a vanished era, but a successful attempt to draw vitality from the art of the past and thus give it new life.
The effect of vitality is the core of Italian Renaissance art theory. In order to fulfill itself as art, art had to appear like nature. This naturalism also characterizes the "Florentine Singer". The young man appears to have been taken from life, which is reinforced by the momentary nature of his action. He has just struck a now fading chord. In addition, the natural appearance is enhanced by the detailed shaping of the figurative details, such as the laces with the slightly curved leather of the shoes, the belt buckle, or the ornamentation on the body of the lute. Even the fingernails are clearly defined. Unlike the Renaissance, however, the effect of liveliness here is not based on the "discovery" of nature and the human body, but primarily on the rediscovery of the art of the Quattrocento. The liveliness of the artwork is therefore at the same time a revitalization of this art, so that we can speak of a Renaissance of the Renaissance, just as the Pre-Raphaelites in England at the same time transferred the Quattrocento to contemporary art.
Dubois takes on the most difficult of all subjects, the depiction of singing through silent sculpture. He was preceded in this by Luca della Robbia and Donatello with their pulpits of singers created in the 1430s in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence. Compared to these works, the physiognomy of Dubois singer is far less animated, yet he also depicts singing in a convincing manner. He uses the whole body. He takes the ancient contrapposto, which was essential to Renaissance sculpture, and transforms the standing leg-playing posture into a late medieval S-swing, giving the body an elegant beauty and at the same time setting it in melodic motion. In the equally elegant finger position, the music is expressed in a much more literal way with the beating of the lute. Finally, the musicality of the sculpture culminates in the face with the mouth open to sing.
Through the act of singing, which is a great challenge to the artistic will to depict perfect beauty, the gracefulness of the classical face is not diminished, but enhanced. Starting from the face with the singing mouth and the gaze absorbed by the sounds, the inner vitality spreads, giving the bronze sculpture an intense aura, enhanced by the music. Dubois transfers the beauty of the Renaissance to the musical, sublimating the visible sculpture to the invisible of music.
He took up the challenge of transcending the Renaissance with the Renaissance, thus responding to the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, which arose at the end of the 17th century around the French Academy and remained virulent into the 19th century, in which antiquity was regarded either as an unattainable ideal or as a standard to be surpassed. With his work, Dubois proved that the Renaissance, which had championed the art of the ancients, could lead to a new renaissance of art.
About the artist
Paul Dubois' great-uncle was the famous French Baroque sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, in whose footsteps the talented great-nephew followed. When he debuted at the Paris Salon in 1858, he signed his work "Dubois-Pigalle". At his father's request, however, he first studied law before devoting himself to sculpture under the tutelage of François Christophe Armand Toussaint in 1856 and entering the École des Beaux-Arts in 1858. From 1859 to 1863, he lived in Rome and traveled to Naples and Florence. Inspired by Florentine art of the quattrocento, Dubois initiated a school-forming neo-Florentine style that combined the elegantly simple forms of youthful grace with a precise wealth of detail.Two purchases by the French state (“envois de Rome”) were made during his stay in Rome, which brought him recognition in Paris. After his return there, he quickly became an internationally sought-after artist.
Dubois was also active as a creator of monuments. His most famous work is the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (1896) on the forecourt of Reims Cathedral. He was also a sought-after portraitist who produced around 50 busts and - Dubois was also a passionate painter - around 100 portraits in oil.
From 1873 to 1878 he was curator of the Museum du Luxembourg, in 1876 he became a member of the Institut de France and from 1878 to 1905 he was director of the École des Beaux-Arts.
In 1865, Dubois was awarded the Paris Salon Medal of Honor for his “Florentine Singer”. In 1867 he became Chevalier, in 1874 Officier, in 1886 Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, which awarded Dubois the Grande Croix in 1896.
Selected Bibliography
Stole, Elmar: Paul Dubois. In: Saur. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 30, Munich - Leipzig 2001, pp. 677-678.
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