Mid Century Era Cold-Painted Cast Metal Horse Racing Jockey Sculpture

This vintage stylized horse sculpture is unsigned, with no indication of where it was made, but presumed to date to approximately 1965. This stylized horse sculpture appears to be a ...

This pair of cast and cold-painted sculptural horse head bookends are unsigned, but presumed to have been made in England in approximately 1960 in a realistic style. The well execute...

This large and substantial signed and numbered cast bronze sculpture was made in the early 20th century and is presumed to originate from France or England. There is a signature with...

Early 20th century bronze on Marble slab sculpture of a bronco rodeo cowboy on horse by Austrian artist Carl Kauba. Weighing a heavy 18 pounds with a solid marble base, Kauba has amazing intricate detail from the reins to the cowboys face and horses hoofs. Carl Kauba (1865-1922) Carl Kauba was born August 13, 1865 in Vienna, Austria. The son of a shoemaker, Kauba chose to follow his calling into the world of art. Collectors now rank him in a class with Remington and Russell as one of the great portrayers of American Western. His subjects were typically Native American Indians, Cavalrymen, Cowboys, and Roughriders. In addition to his American bronzes, Kauba produced a lifetime’s worth of Austrian statuary. His work became fully appreciated on both sides of the Atlantic. Carl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under professor Laufenberg. Later he would study at the academies under Carl Waschmann and Stefan Schwartz. Next, he went to Paris in 1886 to further study before he set off for the U.S. Kauba’s fascination with the West was fired by the stories of the German writer, Carl May, whose tales of Western adventure were well known throughout Europe. Most authorities feel that he was about twenty-five years old when he traveled widely throughout the American West. He then returned to Austria with voluminous notes, sketches, and several models of Western sculpture...

Austrian desk striker of a race horse with a jockey. Fabulous art deco desk smoker's striker, created in Vienna Austria, back in the 1915. The sculptural desk match striker has been...

Austrian desk striker of a race horse with a jockey. Fabulous art deco desk smoker's touch-tip striker, created in Vienna Austria during the Edwardian period, back in the 1915. The ...

American 1940s painted metal table lamp with jockey figure standing on ebonized square wood base with horseshoe finial.

Wonderful carved wood sculpture of a thoroughbred horses racing with jockey aboard, circa 1990s. Great detail and patina on wood base! The piece is ...