1950s Still-life Sculptures

Madoura round dish of white earthenware clay. From the edition of 100. Dish size 16.5 inches (diameter). Frame size approx 22 x 22 inches. Ramie 332. Inscribed 'C.100' and with ...

Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973 Face Turned Pitcher 1955 Turned Pitcher, A.R. White earthenware clay, decorations in engobes, glaze inside red and black. 12.4H x 4.13 Inches 31.5H x ...

Floral Abstraction (Untitled), c. 1950s, carved and painted wood, signed lower left, 42 x 18 inches “Try to name the ‘famous’ woodcarvers of the world and you probably will not use all the fingers on one hand….take the opportunity to see the accomplishments of Vernon Smith...

Cool Mid-Century Modern Scandinavian 1950s Kosta Boda Rurik clear round textured ashtray in great vintage condition. No chips or cracks. Glass has a nice weight to it —minimal wear c...

Historic Sterling Silver-Gilt Coronation Throne, (in original, fitted, hinged, leather and velvet box) made to commemorate the coronation of Queen...

Leonard Baskin, American 1922-2000 Homage to the Un-American Activities Committee Bronze relief sculpture plaque This is not editioned, nor signed or numbered, on the piece but according to the catalog there was 12 or less. A number of these are in museum and university art collections and one of them was exhibited at MoMA NY. This was done to commemorate the communist witch hunts of the Mccarthy era. An important, historic piece. Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine, small edition, book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Cortege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his signed work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Arman, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover, Edmond Casarella...

This Picasso ceramic pitcher "Têtes, Ramié 368" is one in an edition of 500 and is made of white earthenware clay, decoration in oxidized paraffin and glaze bath. The piece is marked...

Bouquet, Picasso, Multiples, 1950's, Earthenware, Flowers, Still life, Design Bouquet Ed. 450 pcs 29.03.1955 White earthenware clay, decoration in engobes, knife engraved under glaz...

This Picasso ceramic vase "Visage" is executed in an edition of 500, made of white earthenware clay, decorated with engobes with glaze and beautiful hues of red, brown and black. The...

Nature morte, Still Life, Pablo Picasso, 1950's, Polychrome ceramic, Design Ed. 400 pcs 1953 Polychrome glazed ceramic 32 x 39 cm Signed and stamp on the back : Editions Picasso, D'...

This Picasso terracotta pitcher "Pichet Yan" is one in an edition of 400 and is made of red earthenware clay, decoration in engobes. The piece is marked 'E...

Created in 1953, Pablo Picasso Paysage (Landscape) A.R. 208 is an earthenware clay plate, painted in blue, green, brown, white and black. Numbered from...