Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
ART NOUVEAU STYLE
In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.
ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the late 19th century
- Popularity of this modernizing style declined in the early 20th century
- Originated in France and Britain but variants materialized elsewhere
- Informed by Rococo, Pre-Raphaelite art, Japanese art (and Japonisme), Arts and Crafts; influenced modernism, Bauhaus
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
- Sinuous, organic and flowing lines
- Forms that mimic flowers and plant life
- Decorative inlays and ornate carvings of natural-world motifs such as insects and animals
- Use of hardwoods such as oak, mahogany and rosewood
ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.
The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.
The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.
In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers.
The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.
Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass.
Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).
Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.
There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.
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Style: Art Nouveau
Clio Hunecker : "Liberty" (Isadora Duncan), Dancer in bronze- 1899
By Clio Hinton Hunecker Bracken
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Clio Hinton Hunecker BRACKEN (1870-1925, USA) : "Liberty"
Patinated bronze sculpture showing a barefoot veiled woman dancing and an hand shape and patinated stone base
(Might be fa...
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Sculpture "Nature Unveiling" by Ernst Barrias
Located in London, GB
Wonderful late 19th Century Art Nouveau French bronze figure of a seductively draped female figure representing, in allegorical form, Nature revealing her secrets to Science, a fitti...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique German Porcelain Figurine of Dutch Girl with Sand Egg Timer Hourglass
By Katzhütte
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful girl figurine handmade in Germany circa 1900s- 1910s. A beautiful piece for decorating your kitchen. Handmade and hand painted in beautiful colors. Marked Germany.
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glass
Vintage Danish Porcelain Figurine "Girl with Cat" by Bing
Grøndahl
By Ingeborg Plockross Irminger, Bing
Grøndahl
Located in Asaa, DK
Vintage Danish Porcelain figurine "Girl with Cat" by Bing & Grøndahl.
Porcelaine figurine of a young girl feeding a cat. Designed by Ingeborg...
Category
1970s Danish Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$161 Sale Price
30% Off
Terracotta Woman Bust Signed Goldscheider, Austria, circa 1900
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Terracotta woman bust signed Goldscheider, Austria, circa 1900.
Friedrich Goldscheider (1845-1897).
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Erotic bronze sculpture. Austria, early 20th century.
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Erotic bronze sculpture. Austria, early 20th century.
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carrara Marble Sculpture Signed A. Batacchi, Italy, Florence, Late 19th Century
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Carrara marble sculpture signed A. Batacchi, Italy, Florence, late 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Lady in Solid Italian Art Nouveau Marble with Column and Fountain 1910
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Lady in solid Italian Art Nouveau marble with column and fountain 1910
It has some cracks as shown in the photos
Category
1910s Italian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$2,907 Sale Price
30% Off
Tiffany
Co. Luca Madrassi Jeune Couple Bronze
Located in Astoria, NY
Luca Madrassi (Italian, 1848-1919) Jeune Couple, Patinated Bronze Sculpture, late 19th century, retailed by Tiffany and Company, depicting embracing lovers on a naturalistic base, st...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Viking Soldier Decorative Bronze Statue Sculpture, Vienna Austria 1950s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A gorgeous classic decorative Statue or Miniature Sculpture. Some wear with a nice patina, but this is old-age. Made of a kind of metal, we think it's bronze or brass. Very decorativ...
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1950s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Michael Powolny Four Seasons Putti ca. 1906
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
four seasons Putti, Michael Powolny, Wiener Keramik, ca. 1906
Michael Powolny's renowned design is one of the most famous example of Jugendstil ceramics. They were produced by Wiene...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$208,834 / set
Lalique Crystal Female Figurative Sculpture, from Paris, France, circa 1970s
By Lalique
Located in New York, NY
A French Lalique crystal female figurative sculpture piece, circa 1970's, France. A nude crystal female figure sculpture on black glass ba...
Category
1970s Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Crystal
Antique Art Nouveau Figural Young Female Table Lamp with an Art Glass Shade
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This table lamp is completely unmarked but is presumed to have been made in Europe in approximately 1910 in the Art Nouveau period and style. The figural base of the lamp is a young ...
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Spelter
Vienna Art Ceramics Art Nouveau Bowl
Goose Dance
by Michael Mörtl ca 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Nouveau ceramic centerpiece, twelve geese designed in a circle to form a bowl.
White earthenware painted in color and glazed.
Designed by Michael MÖRTL (1878 - 1939) around 190...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
23” Raoul Larche
L
Idée, Allégorie sur un Rocher
Gilt Bronze Inkwell
Located in Dallas, TX
Raoul Larche (1860-1912) Monumental Inwell vide pouch.
'L'Idée, Allégorie sur un Rocher' A Gilt-Bronze Inkwell, circa 1900
Figural Centerpiece, Inkwell and vide pouch.
Gilt-bronze
H...
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1910s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French 19th-20th Century Art-Nouveau Bronze Patinated Bust of Marie Antoinette
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine French 19th-20th century Art-Nouveau patinated bronze bust of "Marie Antoinette" (Queen of France 1755-1793), after the model by Agathon Léonard or Léonard Agathon van Weydeve...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$12,450 Sale Price
34% Off
Austrian Erotic and Naughty Bronze "Treasure Seeker" Carl Kauba, Boy Finds Gold!
By Carl Kauba
Located in Petaluma, CA
This whimsical and sexy bronze (titled Treasure Seeker) was done by the noted Austrian Sculptor of many unusual and sexy and erotic bronzes, Carl Kauba. Signed on the base, and hav...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of head sculptures Franz Hagenauer Werkstatte Hagenauer Wien circa 1981
Located in Klosterneuburg, AT
Pair of head sculptures, Franz Hagenauer, Werkstatte Hagenauer Wien, ca. 1981, marked
Beginning in the 1970s, and inspired by his contact with students at the University of Applied ...
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1980s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Franz Peleschka Art deco bronze
By Franz Peleschka 1
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Franz Peleschka bronze sculpture
Origin Austria Circa 1900
The condition of the bronzes is excellent, its base has been restored by a professional.
Patina raised
It is signed on its ...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Abduction of Europa by Hermann Haase-Ilsenburg
By Hermann Haase-Ilsenburg
Located in New Orleans, LA
A poignant work of extraordinary artistry, this bronze figure captures the mythical tale of Europa, the beautiful Phoenician princess who was kidnapped by the king of the Olympian go...
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20th Century German Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Young woman listening on a rock" by Mathurin Moreau
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Sculpture "Young woman listening on a rock" made by Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) in brown patinated bronze. Signed Moreau, Math, Hors Concours.
France, CIRCA1890.
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1980s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Sunflower Ashtray Silver Plated Bronze S. Agudo 62cm
Located in Poperinge, BE
Beautiful large ashtray in the shape of a sunflower, made of silvered bronze, signed S. Agudo, Spain, circa mid-20th century.
A rare and original object. The petals can be removed a...
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Mid-20th Century Spanish Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze of a Young Barefoot Boy W/Hands in Pockets Is Whistling, Ca. 1889
By V. Szczeblewski
Located in Petaluma, CA
This famous statue always brings a smile, as a young boy with hands in pockets is whistling and is titled "Mousse Siffleur". Nicely cast, and signed by the Polish artist Victor Szcze...
Category
Late 19th Century Polish Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,350 Sale Price
40% Off
Silvered Bronze Bookends Sculptures of a Mermaid and Merman, France, 1900
By Jean Garnier
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Silvered bronze bookends sculptures of a Mermaid and Merman, France, 1900.
This enchanting bronze sculpture is the object of many sailors dreams. Silvered bronze sculptures of a merm...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century Cold-Painted Bronze "Kneeling Man Praying" by Franz Bergman
Located in London, GB
Fabulous cold painted Austrian bronze study of an Arab man knelt on his oriental rug praying, with his walking stick laid beside him. With good rich brown and enamel colours and very...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Articulated Bronze Woman Sculpture by Carl Kauba, 1900s
By Carl Kauba
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Sculpture created by the renowned Austrian sculptor Carl Kauba in the early 1900s, depicting a female figure in bronze with articulated arms that can delicately reveal or conceal her...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze Musicienne Par Flora Sculpture on Marble Base
Located in North Bergen, NJ
Beautiful musicienne par flora sculpt of Female playing the violin. Bronze on marble base signed "musicienne par flora sculpt" having beautiful patina.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Porcelain Group
Capriccio
Boy on Ibex Rosenthal Selb Germany Circa 1914
Located in Vienna, AT
Admirable Art Nouveau Figure Group by Rosenthal.
Naked faun-like boy sitting on the back of an ibex, straining his upper body backwards and supporting himself with both arms on the h...
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1910s German Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Garniture of Bronze Figures by Franz Xaver Bergman
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Garniture of bronze figures, depicting a scene of hunters with an elephant with a dead tiger strapped securely on top of it, accompanied with one hunter and another at his side with ...
Category
1890s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$15,200 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Vintage Royal Haeger "Mother and Child" Pale Pink Ceramic Statue Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Royal Haeger "Mother and Child" Ceramic Statue Sculpture - Pale Pink. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 11.5" H x 14" W x 5.5" D.
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Late 20th Century Unknown Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
French Art Nouveau Pair of Large Terracotta Vases Signed F. Citti, 1900-1910
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
A stunning French Art Nouveau pair of large vases with female figures of the era, signed by the Parisian Sculptor F. Citti, Paris 1900-1910.
Measures:
Height 19 in (48 cm)
Width...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
$1,404 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pierre Puget french bronze Art Deco "Faun" circa 1900.
By Pierre Puget
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
Incredible PIERRE POUGET french art nouveau "Faun" bronze circa 1900 on marble base.
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Carrara Marble Sculpture Signed Luca Madrassi, Paris, circa 1890
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Carrara marble sculpture signed Luca Madrassi, Paris, circa 1890.
Art Nouveau period.
Category
1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Bronze Sculpture Signed H. Gauquie, France, Late 19th Century
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Bronze sculpture signed H. Gauquie, France, late 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$11,200 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Cast Bronze Statue of a Nymph Signed by Ferdinando de Luca, Italy
Located in Miami, FL
The famed Italian sculptor Ferdinando de Luca created this incredible cast bronze likeness of a girl in the 20th century. Its stylized Art Nouveau aesthetic has a vibrancy which perf...
Category
Early 20th Century European Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$3,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Austrian Art Nouveau Hand-Carved Meerschaum
Amber Smoking Pipe, Circa 1910
By Josef Niedermoser
Located in New York, NY
Austrian Art Nouveau
Tobacco Smoking Pipe
Hand-Carved Meerschaum
Amber
Circa 1910
DIMENSIONS
Length: 5.5 inches
Width: 1.75 inches
Height: 2 inches
ABOUT
A tobacco smoking...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Maurice Bouval Bronze Art Nouveau
Located in NANTES, FR
Maurice Bouval bronze with gilded patina signed M.Bouval and stamp of founder on a marble base portor.
Length: base 11 cm
Depth: 9,6 cm
Height: 30,...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Sitting Kewpie or The Thinker, Silvered Bronze Car Mascot Hood Ornament, 1910´s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
"Sitting Kewpie" or "The Thinker", Car Mascot Hood Ornament, 1910´s.
Made of silvered bronze, mounted over a green and white mrble base.
Can de used as a desk paperweight.
Originally appearing in the form of magazine illustrations between 1905 and 1909, Kewpie dolls...
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Sculpture Giant Amphora Vase Majolica Hand Painted Four Seasons Art Nouveau
Located in Recanati, IT
Majestic amphora in glazed majolica, handmade and hand painted in central Italy. On the amphora are represented, in great detail, the four seasons personified by graceful women surro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Daum Art Glass Dragon Crystal Ball Decorative Object, France
By Daum
Located in Rijssen, NL
Luxury at its finest, high-end glass ball with a dragon by Daum, France.
A delicate crystal ball with a dragon on top of it - made out of art glass.
Founded in 1878 in Nancy, Franc...
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1970s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Weather Station in Art Nouveau Style Carved Walnut C. Engel
Cie Verviers
Located in Verviers, BE
Wall-mounted weather station in carved walnut made in Verviers Belgium by C. Engel & Cie Opticiens Verviers
High quality mechanism with jeweled movement barometer and thermometer (in...
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1910s Belgian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
Dying Galata Sculpture by F. Barbedienne, Art Nouveau, Circa 1890
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Sculpture "Dying Galata" by the author Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1899), made of bronze, patinated in green with a Belgian black marble base. Made by the Barbedienne foundation (183...
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Belgian Black Marble
Large Bronze Cherub After Auguste Moreau (1834-1917)
Located in Toronto, CA
A stunning sculpture of a cherub holding a cornucopia, after Auguste Moreau. French, early 20th century. At 35" high, this is a beautifully substantial bronze in excellent condition....
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bare On Bear
, Viennese Mechanical Bronze, Beauty On Bearskin, Carl Kauba, 1900
By Carl Kauba
Located in Vienna, AT
Representation of a pretty young lady in a softly falling dress, caressing her body as she stretches backwards, lying on a bearskin-covered divan. When the hinged belt is opened, the...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Joseph D’Aste “Fete Au Village”
Located in Belmont, MA
Joseph d’Aste (1881-1945), Italian born sculptor who lived and worked in France. “Fete au village” (village celebration), gilt bronze on a marble base. S...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Original and Unique Ceramic Fountain by Otto Prutscher and Michael Powolny, 1914
Located in Vienna, AT
Executed by Michael Powolny for the Wienerberger Keramikwerkstätten, ceramic and stoneware, ochre colored, body holding a dish in her outstretched arms standing above a three-tired C...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Peter Tereszczuk Viennese Figural Bronze Sculpture, circa 1910
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming antique Viennese bronze sculpture of a young Dutch boy pulling in a fishing net by Peter Tereszczuk dating from circa 1910. The f...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Daum Art Glass Green Dague Decorative Object, France
By Daum
Located in Rijssen, NL
Luxury at its finest, high-end art glass green dague by Daum, France.
A beautiful green dague. On top of the dague, there is a head of a horse looking downward. We have another dagu...
Category
1970s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Italian Neoclassical 19th Century White Carrara Marble Sculpture Guglielmo Pugi
Located in Miami, FL
Important 19th century sculpture carved on white Carrara marble. The female figure is dressed in a stunning Art Nouveau costume and rests on a pyramidal-shaped pedestal. Magnificent ...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
$19,250 Sale Price
30% Off
Russian Dancer Sculpture by Paul Philippe, Art Nouveau, Circa 1910
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
"Russian Dancer" by Paul Phillipe (1870-1930). Bronze sculpture and marble base.
Alberto Shayo (2016) "Statuettes of the Art Deco Period" p. 212.
CIRCA 1910.
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1910s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Spelter Sculpture, Signed: Prof. R. Volpi 2359 Made in Belgium
Located in Verviers, BE
Art Deco
His studio was located in Schaerbeek (Belgium), where he worked as a sculptor for a
company called "Carli et Fréres".
Modeled and cast as two Two Geese with a Child
Beautif...
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1920s Belgian Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Spelter
French Art Nouveau Gilded and Patinated Figural Bronze Vase by Maurice Bouval
Located in Sarasota, FL
French Art Nouveau figural bronze vase by well listed sculptor Maurice Bouval (1863-1916). Signed in casting.
Category
1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A fine original hand carved sculpture of a woman signed F. Vichi
Located in New York City, NY
An exquisite example of a late 19th early 20th century hand carved sculpture of a semi -robed nude signed F. Vichi. The statue portrays a coy yet sensuous female figure, bare breaste...
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Liberty Sculpture in Bronze and Marble, Signed: Beer
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Liberty sculpture in Bronze and marble.
French-Austrian sculptor, Friedrich Solomon Beer (1846-1912)
Friedrich Salomon Beer (1846-1912) was a promin...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Lalique Crystal Female Figurative Sculpture
By Lalique
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Beautifull Lalique Crystal Female Figurative Sculpture
A French Lalique crystal female figurative sculpture piece, circa 1970's, France. A nude crystal female figure sculpture on bl...
Category
1970s French Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Crystal
Art Nouveau Vintage Sculpture , Girl with Violin , after A. Moreau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine detailed Figurine of a young girl playing the Violin standing on a Base with a plaque of small children around the base . Base is approx 5" in height and is a painted li...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Spelter
Pair of French Art Nouveau Patinated Spelter Sculptures
By Auguste Moreau, George Maxim
Located in London, GB
Pair of French Art Nouveau patinated spelter sculptures
French, early 20th century
Measures: Figure with lyre: Height 92cm, width 48cm, depth 38cm
Other figure: Height 90cm, width 52cm, depth 33cm
The spelter works in this pair are after two of the leading Art Nouveau period sculptors: George Maxim and Auguste Moreau. The sculptures portray young women in animated, dance-like postures, wearing flowing dress that recalls Greek wet drapery. One figure holds a musical instrument, while the other spreads her arms as if to music. The figures stand on integral rocky bases above matching marble plinths. Each piece is affixed with a plaque, one reading ‘Libellule par Geo Maxim...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Spelter
Stunning Art Nouveau Style Bronze Piece / Vase
Located in Tarry Town, NY
A truly stunning gilt bronze Art Nouveau style decorative piece / vase with Exterior hand carved design details. The piece / vase is in great condition . Minor wear consistent with a...
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19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Round Bronze Plaque Depicting a Male Profile on Wooden Stand
Located in Catania, Sicilia
Round Bronze Plaque Depicting A Male Profile On A Wooden Support From The 1900s. Particular and signed object. Not easy to find, as it was commissioned by...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sandstone Sculpture by Jens Jacob Bregnø Female Venus Figure, Illums, 1930s
Located in Odense, DK
Large beautiful figurative sculpture by Danish artist Jens Jacob Bregnø in jugend style. The sculpture is made of raw sandstone and is signed by the ...
Category
1930s Danish Vintage Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone
Art Nouveau figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Art Nouveau figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage figurative sculptures created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, bronze and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Art Nouveau figurative sculptures made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Austria pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original figurative sculptures, popular names associated with this style include Meissen Porcelain, Franz Bergmann, Goebel Company, and Rosenthal. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for figurative sculptures differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $25 and tops out at $160,819 while the average work can sell for $3,499.
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