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Remarkable Collection of 3 Rare Artfully Handmade Large Puppet Marionettes
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Set of three amazing rare artfully handmade 19th century marionettes from a theatre house in
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19th Century Italian Folk Art Used Marionettes

Materials

Textile, Rope, Wood

1939 Folk Art John Carr s Jacquard Puppets Marionette Heavyweight Boxers
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A charming pair of hand crafted puppets by John Car, depicting two heavyweight boxers, a fold up boxing ring, sponge & bucket, ring side stool and basket. Developed late in 1939,...
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1930s English Used Marionettes

Materials

Fabric, Pine

Collection of Early 20th Century German Punch Judy Puppets Marionettes
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fine collection of five European (likely German) Punch & Judy puppets Carved from soft wood, likely pine, gessoed and hand painting, the feet and hands are also carved from woo...
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Early 20th Century German Folk Art Used Marionettes

Materials

Softwood

A Late 19th Century Hand-Carved Wood Sicilian Head of a Saracen Marionette
Located in Catania, Sicilia
A Sicilian Marionette head depicting a Saracene, it's a part of " Opera dei Pupi " inspired by The
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Late 19th Century Sicilian Medieval Used Marionettes

Materials

Iron

Vintage Chinese Opera Theatre Marionette, Yellow Silk Robe, Red Pom Poms
Located in New York, NY
Chinese opera marionette male doll, circa 1920s. The head of this puppet is carved in a soft wood
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1920s Chinese Ming Used Marionettes

Materials

Metal

Vintage Chinese Opera Theatre Marionette, Red Silk Robe, Orange Pom Poms
Located in New York, NY
Chinese opera marionette male doll, circa 1920s. The head of this puppet is carved in a soft wood
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1920s Chinese Ming Used Marionettes

Materials

Metal

Vintage Chinese Opera Theatre Marionette, Red Silk Robe, Pink Pom Poms
Located in New York, NY
Chinese opera marionette male doll, circa 1920s. The head of this puppet is carved in a soft wood
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1920s Chinese Ming Used Marionettes

Materials

Metal

Enamel Marionette "White Tie Tiger" Statement Earrings By Lunch At The Ritz
By Lunch at the Ritz
Located in McKinney, TX
- Vintage item - Collectible costume jewelry piece from the '90s - Each earring measures approximately 3.5" tall - Gold plated - Enameled - Crystal rhinestone accents - Bead da...
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1990s American Modern Used Marionettes

Art Deco Sculpture Puppetes by Pierre Le Faguays
Located in Miami, FL
puppets "Les Marionettes". Signature: Le Faguays
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Used Marionettes

Materials

Belgian Black Marble, Bronze

19th Century Chinese Opera Puppet
Located in Chicago, IL
A 19th century Chinese opera marionette puppet with finely carved and painted face, with silk
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19th Century Chinese Used Marionettes

Materials

Silk, Wood, Paper

"Hillside" Sculpture by Le Roy Benjamin
By Leroy Benjamin
Located in Pasadena, CA
the sculptor and manipulator of the marionettes as well as the voice impersonator for a vaudeville and
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Used Marionettes

Materials

Plaster

Lenny Kislin Marionetta Artwork Title "She"
By Lenny Kislin
Located in New York, NY
Unique assemblage 1900 Marionette artwork by well known Woodstock, NY artist Lenny Kislin tittle
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21st Century and Contemporary American Folk Art Used Marionettes

Materials

Boxwood

Glazed Ceramic Wall Plaque with Puppeteer, Sweden 1960s
Located in Benalmadena, ES
marionette, crafted in a vitrified enamel with crackled effects and a geometric style rooted in Scandinavian
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1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Used Marionettes

Materials

Ceramic

Collection of two 19th C French Glove Puppets in original condition.
Located in Leuven , BE
Rare untouched examples of hand crafted early 19th century marionette puppets, French in origin
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Late 19th Century French Folk Art Used Marionettes

Materials

Fabric, Hardwood

Collection of two 19th C French Glove Puppets in original condition.
Located in Leuven , BE
Rare untouched examples of hand crafted early 19th century marionette puppets, French in origin
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Late 19th Century French Folk Art Used Marionettes

Materials

Fabric, Hardwood

Collection of three 19th C French Glove Puppets in original condition.
Located in Leuven , BE
Rare untouched examples of hand crafted early 19th century marionette puppets, French in origin
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Late 19th Century French Folk Art Used Marionettes

Materials

Fabric, Hardwood

Antique Folk Art Carved And Painted Articulated Horse Puppet
Located in Bristol, GB
NAIVE CARVING HORSE MARIONETTE An extremely charming and charismatic depiction of a horse with an
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Late 18th Century German Used Marionettes

Materials

Brass

Late 19th Century Pine Puppet Heads
Located in London, GB
Late 19th Century pine puppet heads A wonderful set of four hand carved pine Italian marionette
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Early 1900s Italian Victorian Used Marionettes

Materials

Pine

Early 20th Century Burmese Horse Puppet
Located in Chicago, IL
century. Using marionette puppets controlled by strings, master puppeteers created the illusion of
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Early 20th Century Burmese Used Marionettes

Materials

Steel

Enrico Baj Untitled 1989 Signed Lithograph Framed
By Enrico Baj 1
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
political. In 1989 he designed thirty marionettes for Le Bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir, an opera by Italian
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1980s Used Marionettes

Materials

Paper

Indira with Red Hair. Photograph mounted on aluminum and plexiglass
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets
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2010s Other Art Style Used Marionettes

Materials

Other Medium, Plexiglass, Archival Pigment

BS Staring (Mixed Media on Photograph)
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer
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2010s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Ink, Paint, Pigment

Teresa Staring
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer
Category

2010s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Aluminum

Gustave Baumann Color Woodblock, “Hopi Katcinas, ” 1925
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Phoenix, AZ
prints and also carved saints and marionettes. His woodcut subjects are church figures, scenes of sacred
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Early 20th Century Used Marionettes

Materials

Paper

Nude Girl Hips with Plastic and Tights Archival Pigment print mountd on aluminum
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
seem borrowed from Oskar Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their
Category

2010s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Metal

BS profile (canvas- with intervention by te artist)
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
borrowed from Oskar Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their
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2010s Modern Used Marionettes

Materials

Canvas, Pigment, Acrylic

Nude Girl s Head, Hips, and Waist with Plastic and Tights Triptych
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
costumes that seem borrowed from Oskar Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes
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2010s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Metal

"Twins Naked", 2009
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in his surreal
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Early 2000s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Metal

Black Plastic and Smoke A unique object/Archival pigment photo print on Aluminum
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in his surreal
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2010s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Metal

Black Plastic and Nails A unique object Archival pigment photo print on aluminum
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in his surreal
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2010s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Metal

Black Plastic and Cigarette. Unique object / Archival pigment photograph print
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
borrowed from Oskar Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation
Category

2010s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Metal

Antique Italian Oil on Board Painting by Pompeo Massani "Slighted", 19th Century
Located in Big Flats, NY
lively public scenes, including Al teatro delle Marionette, Al circo equestre; Al teatrino; Il giocoliere
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19th Century Italian Used Marionettes

Materials

Wood

"Man in the Yellow Shirt" Oil Painting by Mary Spain
By Mary Spain
Located in Palm Desert, CA
marionette like qualities with blocky, out of proportion limbs, suggesting that perhaps they are not entirely
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1980s American Used Marionettes

Materials

Wood, Paint

Girl Who Just Went Along for the Night Ride by Mary Spain
By Mary Spain
Located in Palm Desert, CA
construction of her figures. Many figures have marionette like qualities with blocky, out of proportion limbs
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Used Marionettes

Materials

Wood, Paint

Single Twin Reclined.Unique object / Archival pigment photo printed onto canvas
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in
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2010s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Canvas, Archival Tape, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil

Magic Man Oil on Canvas by Mary Spain
By Mary Spain
Located in Palm Desert, CA
construction of her figures. Many figures have marionette like qualities with blocky, out of proportion limbs
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1980s American Used Marionettes

Materials

Wood, Canvas

"Raising Roof, " Marianne Appel, Midwest Americana, Beer Illustration, WW2
Located in New York, NY
Refregier, LaLiberte and Shimin. Her work for Bil and Cora Baird’s marionette company led to a later job
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1940s American Realist Used Marionettes

Materials

Oil, Board

With Yves Coat II. Photograph on canvas.
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets
Category

2010s Other Art Style Used Marionettes

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

Teresa with Mask of Roses
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets
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2010s American Other Used Marionettes

Materials

Other

With Yves Saint Laurent Coat I II. Mixed media Fashion Photographs on canvas.
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets
Category

2010s American Other Used Marionettes

Materials

Other

M with Bra. One of a kind intervened photograph mounted on aluminum
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in his surreal
Category

2010s American Other Used Marionettes

Materials

Other

Teresa Staring, One of a kind intervened photograph mounted on aluminum
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets
Category

2010s American Other Used Marionettes

Materials

Aluminum

"BS Staring 1", 2009 This of one of a kind intervened artworks produced in 2009
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Canvas, Archival Tape, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Pencil

Teresa in Black Origami 1 Archival pigment print mounted on aluminum
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in
Category

2010s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Archival Tape, Acrylic, Pen, Pencil, Archival Pigment

Teresa Standing. Intervened photograph mounted on aluminum
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in his surreal
Category

2010s Other Art Style Used Marionettes

Materials

Other Medium, Acrylic, Archival Pigment

Panurge Portfolio by Le Corbusier
By Le Corbusier
Located in New York, NY
contact, spirit, body, health… This is why Panurge in those August days in 1961 was and became “marionette
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1960s Modern Used Marionettes

Materials

Lithograph

Black Girl in Origami Dress with Rooster I and II, Diptych
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation recalls the puppets Hans Bellmer featured in
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2010s American Other Used Marionettes

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled ( Fig. 32)
By Adam Markovic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
and Belgium, and by the Oeno Gallery. "Inspired by thumb puppets and marionettes, I began this
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Archival Paper, Charcoal

Untitled (Fig. 49)
By Adam Markovic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
and Belgium, and by the Oeno Gallery. "Inspired by thumb puppets and marionettes, I began this
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Archival Paper, Charcoal

Untitled Figure (No. Forty-Two)
By Adam Markovic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
and Belgium, and by the Oeno Gallery. "Inspired by thumb puppets and marionettes, I began this
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Archival Paper, Charcoal

Tony Sarg Hand Colored Whimsical Map of Nantucket, circa 1926
By Tony Sarg
Located in Nantucket, MA
. Sarg was also extremely important as the reviver of marionette theater in America. In 1935 he also
Category

1920s American Folk Art Used Marionettes

Materials

Paint

Black Girl Melting in Origami Head Piece.One of a kind artwork
By Efren Isaza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
borrowed from Oskar Schlemmer’s triadic ballet make the ballerinas look like marionettes. Their dislocation
Category

2010s American Other Used Marionettes

Materials

Other

Shannon II
By Adam Markovic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
and Belgium, and by the Oeno Gallery. "Inspired by thumb puppets and marionettes, I began this
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Archival Paper, Charcoal

Pair of Mid-Century Armchairs by Raffaella Crespi for Mobilia, Italy, 1960s
By Mobilia, Raffaella Crespi
Located in Utrecht, NL
in the Weimar Republic” at the Palazzo delle Stelline in 1979 and “Puppets, marionettes and puppets
Category

1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Used Marionettes

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Paladini - Original Oil on Canvas by Laura D Andrea - 1998
By Laura D Andrea
Located in Roma, IT
objects of the Sicilian culture: Paladini, indeed, are the typical marionettes of Sicilian theatre. The
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1990s Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Oil

Unraveled
By Adam Markovic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
drawing with his body. "Inspired by thumb puppets and marionettes, I began this project by drawing from
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Used Marionettes

Materials

Mixed Media, Panel

"A Quiet Corner" Wood Block print by Gustave Baumann, Signed 4 of 125
By Gustave Baumann
Located in Van Nuys, CA
, Baumann produced woodcuts, paintings, furniture, sculpture, toys and marionettes and wrote poetry and
Category

1930s American Used Marionettes

Materials

Paper

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Used Marionettes For Sale on 1stDibs

An assortment of used marionettes is available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, fabric and metal, all used marionettes available were constructed with great care. There are all kinds of used marionettes available, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. Used marionettes made by Folk Art designers — as well as those associated with Victorian — are very popular at 1stDibs. Many used marionettes are appealing in their simplicity, but Jane Knight and Milos Kasal produced popular used marionettes that are worth a look.

How Much are Used Marionettes?

The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $1,200, while they’re typically $80 on the low end and $18,000 highest priced.