Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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Style: Mid-Century Modern
David Lee Brown (1939-2016) Abstract Stainless Steel Sculpture, American, 1970s
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
David Lee Brown abstract stainless steel sculpture on veneered white wood base. Brown has many large scale public installations and was a professor for more than 50 years at Pratt. I...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Vintage Rembrandt Bugatti Style Cat With Pale Yellow Glass Eye
By Rembrandt Bugatti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charming vintage Rembrandt Bugatti style decorative statuette capturing a poised sitting cat with soulful presence. Cast in painted cement with a single pale yellow glass eye, the pi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Cement
Small elephant by Walter bosse around 1950s
Located in Wien, AT
Small elephant by Walter bosse around 1950s
Original condition
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Set of 5 Mid-Century Pottery Penguin Figurines from Worspweder Keramik, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century German Studio Pottery Penguin Figurines from Worspweder Keramik, 1960s, Set of 5, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 This piece has an attribution mark.
Addi...
Category
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Travertine owls book holders, Enzo Mari for F.lli Mannelli, Italy 1970
Located in Torino, IT
Travertine owls book holders, Enzo Mari for F.lli Mannelli, Italy 1970
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Travertine
Beautiful Mid Century Boy Head Bust Plaster on Wooden Base German Vintage, 1959
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful mid century modern white plaster boys head bust. Bust with lots of patina. Plaster on a wooden base. A nice addition in every living room. Found at an estate sale in Nuremb...
Category
1950s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Two Walter Bosse Candleholders
Located in Wien, AT
Two Walter Bosse candleholders
Original condition
We not selling the candle she is only decoration.
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass
$225 Sale Price
26% Off
Meow! 25" Tall Brutalist Black Cat Sculpture Abstract Mid Century Modern Art 50s
By Gerald Laing
Located in Peoria, AZ
Brutalist Cat Sculpture
Gorgeous!
25" Tall!
Mid Century Modern
One of the Coolest Cat Sculptures in the World
Metal
Enamel
Circa 1959
This monum...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Cesar Manrique, Model of Ceramique, circa 1960-1970
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Cesar Manrique (1919-1992) ( model of) ceramique circa 1960-1970.
These are small official prints made after Cesar Manrique.
It's not a unique piece mad...
Category
1970s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Fletcher Benton Sculpture, "Folded Circle Zig Zag 1994", Bronze, Granite, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Fletcher Benton Bronze Sculpture, "Folded Circle Zig Zag 1994", Granite, Signed. Medium scale Hard-Edge abstract bronze sculpture by Californian sculptor, Fletcher Benton (1931-2019)...
Category
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
$14,000 Sale Price
60% Off
Mid Century White Poodle Dog Sculpture, Italy, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Painted ceramic, very good original vintage condition. No damages or cracks. Beautiful and unique decorative sculpture. White Poodle Dog Sculpture was produced in Italy. Only one dog...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Signed Kyriakos Rokos Brutalist Bronze Surrealist Abstract Relief Sculpture 1971
By ROKOS
Located in Troy, MI
Kyriakos Rokos (b 1945)
Bronze sculpture on stone base
1971
Abstract bronze sculpture by renowned Greek artist Kyriakos Rokos
Cast relief with perpetual faces and a protruding finge...
Category
1970s Greek Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
1980 Giant Advertising Vintage Wood Black Paintbrush
Located in Brescia, IT
Giant Paintbrush
1980
Black Laquered Wood, Aluminum and Bristles
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Colorful Murano Art Glass Clown on Bicycle 1960s
By Murano 5
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Beautiful murano glass figurine of a clown riding a bicycle, perfect for those collectors who have a special love for them.
high: 40 centimeters
width: 24 centimeters
Depth: 15 cen...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Magnificent C. Jere Raindrop Series Tree Sculpture Mid-Century Modern
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Pemberton, NJ
C. Jere raindrop series tree sculpture, 1970s, brass disks on a trunk of natural wood tree branches with gold finish. This piece is the holy grail of Curtis Jere pieces standing alon...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Mid Century Toucan Sculpture in the Style of Sergio Bustamante Mixed Metals 1970
Located in Toronto, CA
A striking vintage toucan sculpture, handcrafted in Mexico during the 1970s, in the distinctive style of Sergio Bustamante. This life-size bird is beautifully detailed in a mix of co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper, Metal
Bernard Langlais Terracotta Lion
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Small terracotta lion sculpture by prolific artist, Bernard Langlais. This example is uncommon for Langlais, whose avid exploration of the animal kingd...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Headboard with Brutalist Bronze Sculpture by Frigerio, Italy, 1968
Located in London, GB
Headboard with large Brutalist bronze sculpture, model "Aurora" by Frigerio, Italy, 1968.
The headboard comprises a large Brutalist sand-cast sculpture, overlaid on an arc of textured lacquered metal, which has a deep gold finish.
The piece is in very nice vintage condition. We have left the sculpture unpolished and it has a developed an aged patina, ranging from brown to gold. There are minor losses to the finish of the headboard frame, both the arc and the cross-bars. The sculpture is bolted to the bed frame; it appears it could be unbolted and used separately, though we have not tried to do so.
Approximate dimensions:
Sculpture W 173 cm x H 49 cm
Headboard W 185 cm x H 108 cm
Please be aware this listing is for the headboard only. The remaining three sections of the bed surround...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
$5,257 Sale Price
30% Off
Seguso Murano Teal White Opal Albastro Italian Art Glass Baby Elephant Sculpture
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown opalescent teal blue-green and white opalescent Italian art glass baby elephant sculpture / figurine. It is documented to designer Archimede Segus...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Opaline Glass
Italian Maiolica Seated Cat Sculpture
Located in Astoria, NY
Italian Maiolica Polychrome Glazed Terracotta Seated Cat, with hand-painted floral design. 26.75" H x 9.5" W x 13.75" D. Provenance: From a 50 Central Park West Estate.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Majolica
Large Abstract Stoneware Woodfiring Ceramic Floor Vase David Witehead La Borne
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
David Whitehead - La Borne
Large stoneware ceramic floor vase
Woodfiring ceramic effects and colors
Original perfect condition - signed und...
Category
2010s French Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Miniature Cat Figurine by Walter Bosse, circa 1950s
By Walter Bosse
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Classic mid-century 1950s Vienna bronze figurine by Walter Bosse. Found at an estate sale in Vienna, Austria.
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Traditional Bronze Hotei / "Happy Buddha" Wandering Monk Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
A well cast mid-century traditional bronze "Happy Buddha" wandering monk sculpture, circa 1970s. The piece is in very good vintage condition and measures: 9"W x 6.5" D x 10" H. The ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Brutalist Abstract Organic Bronze
Marble Sculpture signed Marion N
Located in New York, NY
This remarkable Mid-Century Brutalist abstract sculpture, crafted by American artist Marion N. circa 1966, is a stunning representation of organic forms brought to life through the m...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Red Coral Specimen on Lucite
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Lofty red coral specimen with its distinctive sea inspired form and alluring color, created by mother nature and presented on a lucite base to enhance the sculptural elements.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Organic Material
Rare Pair of Wood and Bronze Swan Figurines by Wildwood, Mid Century Modern
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage pair of crane figurines from Wildwood Imports has detailed carved wooden bodies and sculptural bronze heads and necks.
The swans are signed on the bottoms with 2 original st...
Category
20th Century Korean Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Salt and Pepper Shaker Holder Chinese Figurine by Richard Rohac around 1950s
Located in Wien, AT
Salt and pepper shaker holder Chinese figurine by Richard Rohac.
Original condition.
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass
1959 Boeing 707-328B Model - Air France
Located in Bath, GB
A very large model of an Air France Boeing 707 / Château de Chambord dating to c.1959.
Very good condition with minor livery wear, commensurate with age and use.
The wings span 26...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Monumental Sculpture by A. d. S.P
Located in Saint-Ouen (PARIS), FR
Monumental abstract sculpture in patinated metal with a travertine stone base.
Creation signed by the french artist A.d.S.P.
France, 2022.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Travertine, Metal
Mid Century Modern Abstract Organic Biomorphic Carved Wood Totem Sculpture 1960s
Located in Troy, MI
Large hand carved abstract wood sculpture by Oliver De France
Circa 1960s
Carved from a single block of richly grained pine with a dimensional interplay of biomorphic forms and clu...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Pine
Murano Neodymium Sommerso Glass Shell, Flavio Poli for Seguso, Italy, 1960s
Located in Glasgow, GB
A collectible Murano glass conch shell, attributed to the work of Flavio Poli for Seguso Vetri d'Arte, crafted in Italy during the 1960s. This decorative shell exemplifies Poli’s mastery of the sommerso technique—a hallmark of mid-century Murano glass, where translucent layers of coloured glass are submerged within one another to create rich tonal depth.
Shaped as a spiral conch shell, the piece features rare neodymium-infused sommerso glass. Its purple base subtly shifts to blue under different lighting conditions—a distinctive property of neodymium—and is balanced by a soft pink interior at the shell’s opening. This optical variation makes it a dynamic object under natural and artificial light, characteristic of collectible Murano neodymium...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Hal Fromhold Midcentury Studio Ceramic Sculpture
By Hal Fromhold
Located in Norwalk, CT
This unique, whimsical sculpture is circa 1960s, from California.
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Salt and Pepper Shaker Ceramic by Limoges France White gold Color 20th Century
By Limoges
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Salt and Pepper Shaker Ceramic by Limoges France White gold Color 20th Century
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Small Italian Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Cheetah Sculpture Matte Finish
Located in Toronto, CA
This stunning Mid-Century Modern ceramic cheetah sculpture from Italy captures the sleek elegance and grace of the majestic feline. Expertly ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Whispers from the Pond - Curated Set of 6 Artisan Duck Figurines Ceramic
Wood
Located in Bochum, NRW
🦆 Curated Collection of Artisanal Duck Figurines – Ceramic, Wood & Wicker (Set of 6)
A poetic flock, hand-selected and thoughtfully composed, Whispers from the Pond is a collection ...
Category
1980s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Wicker, Wood, Glass
Midcentury Wood Crucifix
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice midcentury wood crucifix with a brass Jesus on the cross, circa 1970s. Nice detail and patina. #1285.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass
$100 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-century Murano Gold Fleck Multicolored Art Glass Cockatoo Scultpure
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Mid-century hand-blown Murano Art Glass Cockatoo Bird features cobalt blue feathers with striped red streaks. The Cockatoo is perched on a wave-shaped base, where gold flecks elegant...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Murano Glass Aquarium Sculpture Block Alfredo Barbini Cenedese Art Glass Fish
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare genuine large murano glass aquarium sculpture by renowned murano glass artist Alfredo Barbini for Cenedese circa 1950. featuring four colorful fish swimming through multicolored...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Uranium Glass, Sommerso, Murano Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage metal Brutalist sculpture Bird by Salvino Marsura, Italy 1957
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Rare mid-century modern metal Brutalist sculpture "Bird" by Salvino Marsura, made in Italy in the 1957. Salvino Marsura is an Italian artist born in Treviso in 1938. His career began...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Showcase with Stone Specimen, Decomposition of Rocks, circa 1930
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Showcase with Stone Specimen - Decomposition of Rocks, ca. 1930
The vintage natural scientific specimen diorama shows the decomposition of rocks behind glass in a wooden case. It wa...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Seguso Glass Pigeon
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A Classic Seguso pigeon in beautiful amber heavy glass. Signed on the side.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Glass
$750 / item
Lladro "Teaching to Pray" Collectible #04779 Retired Glazed Finish
By Lladro
Located in Greer, SC
Retired #01004779 Lladro Teaching to Pray Figurine.
In excellent used condition
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bronze Statuette of a Kouros from the Sanctuary of Hera, Samos, Museums Replica
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Offered is a Mid-Century Modern Greek patinated sculpture. This Etruscan Greek Statue is an iconic Mid-Century Modern item of decor. It would look fabulous on a console table, in a b...
Category
1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Walter Bosse Brass Cat Figurine Pen Holder Stand, Baller Austria, 1950s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Classic early 1950s Austrian Bosse cat Figurine Collectible. Nice addition to your room or just for your collection of Austrian bronze items. Found at an estate sale in Vienna, Austr...
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Bust Solid Brass Gold Sculpture Depicting Egyptian Emperor Italian Design, 1950s
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Bust solid brass gold sculpture depicting Egyptian emperor Italian design, 1950s.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass
$747 Sale Price
30% Off
Aldo Londi for Bitossi Vintage Italian Modernist Blue Green Partridge Bird Hen
By Aldo Londi
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Large scale partridge bird created by Aldo Londi for Bitossi of Italy. Bird has great coloration of blue and green with golden yellow and black accents...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pietro Cenedella, Biomorphic Carrara Marble Sculpture, Italy, 1970s
Located in Brescia, Brescia
An extraordinary signed sculpture by Pietro Cenedella, carved from luminous Carrara marble in the 1970s. Resting on a rectangular marble plinth, the work unfurls in a dynamic, shell-...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Unique Big Aluminium 1970 Wall Sculpture by Salvatore Messina
Located in Weesp, NL
Salvatore Messina — Monumental Aluminium Wall Sculpture, Italy, 1970s
Please note that Art imported into the U.S. is exempt from all import tariffs....
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Daum France Crystal Canada Goose Glass Sculpture on Stone
By Daum
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Daum France Signed Art Glass Crystal Sculpture of a Canada Goose In Flight—no chips, cracks, or repairs.
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Crystal
Eduardo Torres MCM Wire Newspaper Reader Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
The Brendan Bass Estate Collection pays homage to the beauty of vintage and antique
pieces, each artfully concealing endless stories collected through the generations in which they ...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Mid-Century Modern Bronze TOTEM Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine mid-century bronze sculpture.
In the form of a stylized totem.
With a round plinth supported by 3 legs (and thus a little prone to tipping).
Simply a wonderful sculp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
1960s French Terracotta Elephant Sculpture
Located in Antwerp, BE
A ceramic terracotta decoration from 1960s Italy in the shape of an white elephant. Can be used as a plant stand or side table as well as a chair.
Weight 25 kg.
Width 27.1" - 69 cm....
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Arnaldo Pomodoro Gilded Bronze Multiple 96/500 "Disco Del Sole" 1985 Italy
Located in Palermo, IT
Gilded bronze multiple "Disco Del Sole" by Arnaldo Pomodoro, created for the 75th anniversary of Banque Sudameris in 1985, produced in an edition of 500 by Stefano Johnson. The disc ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Plaster Sculpture “Étude Guernica – La Femme qui Pleure” after Pablo Picasso
Located in Barcelona, ES
Plaster Sculpture “Étude Guernica – La Femme qui Pleure,” after Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, France, circa 1960
Expressive mid-century plaster bust titled “Étude Guernica – La Femme qui Pleure,” produced in Vallauris, France circa 1960 after Pablo Picasso. A powerful homage to the weeping-woman motif associated with Guernica, mounted on a wooden base.
Evocative plaster sculpture titled “Étude Guernica – La Femme qui Pleure,” created after Pablo Picasso in Vallauris, France, circa 1960. The piece bears an incised cartouche reading “ÉTUDE GUERNICA – LA FEMME QUI PLEURE – Picasso Vallauris,” indicating subject and place of production. The dramatic profile and incised detailing channel the anguish of Picasso’s Weeping Woman...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Rare Large Curtis Jere Abstract Brass Sculpture
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Redding, CT
Rare Large Curtis Jere Abstract Brass and Marble Sculpture. Amorphic articulating sculpture that can rotate on an axis . Great addition to any modern home. Original Curtis Jere Artis...
Category
1980s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Brass
Daum Dolphin On Standard Clear Crystal Glass Sculpture, France
By Daum
Located in Rijssen, NL
Luxury at its finest, high-end glass sculpture by Daum, France.
The sculpture is a dolphin. The dolphin, made from clear crystal glass, is in motion on a sleek chrome standard.
Fou...
Category
1860s French Antique Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Crystal
Set of 2 Fat Lava Pottery Vases Heinz Siery Carstens Atelier, Germany, 1970s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Ceramic pottery vases set of 2
Origin:
Germany
Designer:
Heinz Siery
Producer:
Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany
Decade:
1970s
This origin...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Centerpiece Rare Wood Fruit Bowl Mid 20th Century American Craftsman Design
By Emil Milan
Located in Hyattsville, MD
An iconic rare wood elongated bowl in African Teak (Bubinga) by Mid-Century master Emil Milan.
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Teak
Stoneware Sculpture on Steel Base with Glaze in Grey-White-Black, signed ZAULI
By Carlo Zauli
Located in Salzburg, AT
Abstract, turned stoneware sculpture on a steel base with iridescent glaze in grey-white-black.
Lively object with different structures and glazes, signed Zauli
Carlo Zauli was b...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Lot of Four Tiny Terracotta Garden Gnomes, Germany ca. 1950s
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Lot of Four Tiny Terracotta Garden Gnomes, Germany ca. 1950s
A whimsy set of four tiny garden gnomes made in Germany ca. 1950s probably by Heissner. They are made of terracotta and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Mid-century Modern sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Mid-Century Modern sculptures for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage 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, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Mid-Century Modern sculptures made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original sculptures, popular names associated with this style include Walter Bosse, Herta Baller, Curtis Jeré, and Joel Escalona. 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 sculptures differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $34 and tops out at $295,000 while the average work can sell for $1,322.
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Bronze Stallion
Cain Bronze
Cats Ceramic 1960
Chinoiserie Horse
Crocodile Head
Crystal Elephants