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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
W. Melchinger - Bavarian Folksy Scene in Joinery 1956
Located in Berghuelen, DE
W. Melchinger - Bavarian Folksy Scene in Joinery 1956
An original vintage oil painting showing a Bavarian folksy family scene in the joinery. Painted in oil on cardboard, signed by W. Melchinger 1956. A great original painting in naive style.
Alpine oil...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Country Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
1800s Ancient Scandinavian Tankard / Butter Form, Primitive Museum-Quality
Located in Skien, NO
Rare Antique Scandinavian / Icelandic Tankard with Lid (ca. 1830–1850s) – Museum-Quality Collectible
This exceptional Rustic antique is a traditional Icelandic / Norwegian / Scandin...
Category
Early 19th Century Icelandic Folk Art Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Pine
$880 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand-carved 20th century female bust in white Carrara marble, by P. Simoens
Located in Oostende, BE
The bust portrays a woman with very serene and soft features, even with mystic appearance.
The piece is signed, as can be seen on 1 of the pictures.
Category
20th Century Belgian Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Carrara Marble
Vintage Grey Illuminated Letter V , 1970s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
This vintage industrial illuminated letter “ V “ was made in Germany during the 1970s and comes from an old advertising banner. It features a black metal body and a grey plastic cove...
Category
1970s German Industrial Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Zoomorphic Ceramic Sculpture by Pierre Roulot, circa 1960
By Pierre Roulot
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A zoomorphic ceramic sculpture by Pierre Roulot.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed under the base "Roulot".
circa 1950-1960.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Ceramic Vase by François Eve, circa 1980-1990
By François Eve
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A ceramic vase by François Eve with green and white glazes decoration.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed under the base,
circa 1980-1990.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Grey Illuminated Letter E, 1970s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
This vintage industrial illuminated letter “ e “ was made in Germany during the 1970s and comes from an old advertising banner. It features a black metal body and a grey plastic cove...
Category
1970s German Industrial Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$142 / item
Square stoneware pot with abstract decoration by Georges Martin, circa 1970-1980
By George Martin
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Square stoneware pot with abstract decoration by Georges Martin.
Artist monogram under the base. Circa 1970-1980.
Unique piece.
Category
1970s French Beaux Arts Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Rare Engraved Glass on Metal Sign from a London Cigarette
s Seller, circa 1900
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This rare engraved sign is made of glass on metal. This is a a very unusual piece from a London cigarette's seller. English. Circa 1900.
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
An Important Carved Pine Bucket by Lars Kinsarvik (1846-1925), Norway, c.1900
By Lars Kinsarvik
Located in Skien, NO
**An Important Norwegian Folk Art Carved Butter Bucket (Amber Tine) by Lars Kinsarvik (1846-1925), Hardanger, Norway, circa 1900**
This exceptional butter bucket, or *Amber Tine*,...
Category
Early 20th Century Norwegian Folk Art Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Pine, Bentwood
$24,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Ceramic Vase Attributed to Pol Chambost with White Glaze Decoration
By Pol Chambost
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A ceramic vase with white glaze decoration attributed to Pol Chambost.
No signed.
Perfect original conditions.
France, 1930.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Dated 1812 Norwegian Antique Rosemaling Tine Box from Telemark by Leiv Aslestad
Located in Skien, NO
This Rustic antique tine box is hand-crafted from pine wood and features original rosemaling/rose painting from Telemark, Norway. Dated 1812, it includes the initials "P.T.D." on th...
Category
1810s Norwegian Rococo Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bentwood, Pine
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Oil Painting Miraculous Image of Insbruck Maria with Child After Cranach
Located in Berghuelen, DE
An antique oil painting depicting the holy Mother with Child named the Miraculous Image of Insbruck. Oil on canvas with pastell colors. Painted after a painting of Lucas Cranach whic...
Category
Early 18th Century German Early Victorian Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Hand Carved Grain Shovel 19th century, brown color from England
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Hand Carved Grain Shovel 19th century, brown color from England
Category
20th Century English Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$336 Sale Price
20% Off
Big Decorative Ceramic Pitcher Attributed to La Borne Potter
s, 1970-1980
By La Borne Potters
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A big decorative ceramic pitcher attributed to La Borne potters.
Handwritten signature.
Unique piece.
Circa 1970-1980.
Perfect original conditions.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
dark green and brown glazed stoneware vase by Daniel de Montmollin, 1990-2000.
By Daniel de Montmollin
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
dark green and brown glazed stoneware vase by Daniel de Montmollin.
Artist signature under the base.
Circa 1990-2000.
H : 13.4’ x 9.4’ inches.
Category
Late 20th Century French Art Deco Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
E.S. Ritchie
Söns Boston Brass Compass on Teak Socket
Located in Vienna, AT
E.S. Ritchie & Sons, Boston. Patinated brass nighthouse on solid lacquered teak plinth. Transport box for compass, included. Measures: H. 106 cm. Ø. 31 cm....
Category
1920s American Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Ceramic Vase with White Glaze Decoration, Signed Lion, circa 1920-1930
By Eugène Lion
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A ceramic vase with white glaze decoration.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed "Lion" under the base,
circa 1920-1930.
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Ere Ibeji Pair of Commemorative Figures, Abeokuta, Yoruba People Nigeria, 20th C
By Yoruba People
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Yoruba people have one of the highest incidents of twin births in the world. As a result, twin children are regarded as extraordinary, divine beings protected by Sango, the deity of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nigerian Tribal Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Wooden Carved Sculpture of a Saint, circa 1850
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Wooden Carved Sculpture of a Saint, circa 1850
A beautifully hand carved and hand painted sculpture of a saint with a palm-branch. It is made most probably in Armenian or Georgian a...
Category
Mid-19th Century Unknown Black Forest Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Ceramic Vase by Annie Maume, to Sancerre, circa 1980-1990
By Annie Maume
Robert Heraud
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A ceramic vase by Annie Maume to Sancerre.
Perfect original conditions.
Unique piece.
Signed at the base.
Circa 1980-1990.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Bronze Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Dogon People, Burkina Faso, 19th c. - No 5
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19th-century bronze currency bracelet / Manilla in horseshoe form with fixed opening. Intricate graphical swirled rope work design and tips are shaped with large flat ends with geome...
Category
Mid-19th Century Burkinabe Tribal Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Antique "Latin-Français" Lexicon by Emile Chatelain – 1890 - 3Y20
Located in Bordeaux, FR
This rare 19th-century Latin-Français lexicon by Emile Chatelain, published in 1890 by Hachette et Compagnie in Paris, offers a valuable linguistic reference for scholars and collect...
Category
1890s Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Dated 1800/1844 Antique Butter Bucket, Norway - Museum Quality Folk Art
Located in Skien, NO
Norwegian Antique Amber Butter Bucket (Tine Box) - Telemark, 1800
A museum-quality primitive butter bucket from Telemark, Norway, hand-carved and scorched with intricate details. Th...
Category
Early 1800s Norwegian Folk Art Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Bentwood, Pine
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Wacky Bull Bone Throne Chair, circa 1930
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Large Wacky Bull Bone Throne Chair, circa 1930
A great piece of fantasy furniture - a large throne chair made of original bones from the male cattle (Bos taurus). All parts are made...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bone
Ceramic Vase by Jacques Pouchain and L
Atelier Dieulefit
By Jacques Pouchain and Atelier Dielufit
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A ceramic vase by Jacques Pouchain and l' Atelier Dieulefit.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed under the base.
Circa 1970-1980.
Unique piece.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Rare Monumental Ceramic Vase by Daniel Maes, circa 1992
By Daniel Maes
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A rare monumental ceramic vase by Daniel Maes.
Perfect conditions.
Signed and dated at the base,
circa 1992.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Norwegian Rosemaling Ale Bowl – Hand-Painted Telemark Folk Art (1987)
Located in Skien, NO
"One-of-a-Kind" Norwegian Rosemaling Ale Bowl – Hand-Painted Telemark Folk Art (1987)
A Stunning Masterpiece of Traditional Norwegian Craftsmansh...
Category
Late 20th Century Norwegian Folk Art Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Bentwood, Pine
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Erotic folk art walking stick depicting a man in act of praying, England 1850.
Located in Milan, IT
Erotic folk-art walking stick, made from a single carved fruitwood branch. The knob depicts a man standing in the act of praying with folded hands and a large caricature head with a ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Joli tableau peinture acrylique sur bois "Bricolage 2" Signé J.Boving - 2Y574
Located in Bordeaux, FR
Discover the artistic allure of "Bricolage 2," a delightful acrylic painting on wood signed by Mâconnais artist J. Boving. This genre scene composition captures a unique perspective ...
Category
20th Century Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Charming Acrylic Painting "Le Bonheur à Portée de Main" Signed Mystery - 2Y572
Located in Bordeaux, FR
Delight in the subtle charm of this acrylic painting titled "Le Bonheur à Portée de Main," skillfully created and signed by the artist Mystery. Featuring an animal-themed composition...
Category
20th Century Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage 20th Century Set of 18 "Marbrier" Lithographic Prints - 2Y566
Located in Bordeaux, FR
Immerse yourself in the industrial charm of this rare vintage set of 18 lithographic prints titled "Marbrier." Dating from the 20th century, these engravings embody the artistry and ...
Category
20th Century Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Paper
African Bwa leper mask Burkina Fasso 20em S
Located in Paris, FR
Bwa mask from Burkina Fasso
Burkina Faso, Black Volta River region
Culture: Bwa peoples
Provenance: Private Swedish collection
Bwa plank masks are conceive...
Category
Mid-20th Century Burkinabe Tribal Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Christian Cross by Danish Artist Ejvind Nielsen
By Ejvind Nielsen
Located in Odense, DK
EJVIND NIELSEN
Born 1940. Teacher's exam 1967, specially trained theologian 1978, subject consultant in Christianity at the Århus School System. Priest...
Category
1990s Danish Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Stone, Iron
Kuduo - Bronze Gold Dust Vessel, Asante People, Ghana, 1940s
By Akan Ashanti
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A beautiful bronze vessel, lidded pot on three legs, made by the Asante People, Ghana. Nicely cast lid with 4 reptiles and a bird. Several faces are depicted on the side of the vesse...
Category
1940s Ghanaian Tribal Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of Hector Berlioz – Acrylic Painting by J. Boving, Mâconnais - 2Y562
Located in Bordeaux, FR
This intriguing acrylic portrait, attributed to French artist J. Boving, presents a compelling depiction believed to be the renowned composer Hector Berlioz. Painted with expressive ...
Category
20th Century Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Big Ceramic Vase by Lucien Arnaud, to Saint- Amand-en-Puisaye, circa 1920
By Lucien Arnaud
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A ceramic vase by Lucien Arnaud with glaze decoration.
Signed under the base " Lucien Arnaud ".
Circa 1920.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Picture Portrait from 1853
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
We present picture portrait from 1853.
Highly recommended item will be perfect complementation of the rooms in not only Classic style, but also Art Deco and modern.
Category
1850s Unknown Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Brutalist Trivet by David Marshall, Spain, 1970
By David Marshall
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Superb and large brutalist trivet designed and created by the artist David Marshall in the 70s in Spain. bronze and aluminum structure. Rare design object that will decorate your int...
Category
1970s Spanish Hollywood Regency Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Vintage 20th-Century Faragui Bottle Crate - Decorative French Design - 2Y546
Located in Bordeaux, FR
Step back in time with this authentic 20th-century Faragui bottle crate, a decorative and practical piece of French design history. Constructed from durable plastic, this vintage ite...
Category
20th Century Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Plastic
Traditional Hardwood Crocodile Carving, Nigeria, cira 1970s
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Decorative Folk Art hand-carved hardwood crocodile, with lots of details in the carving. Nigeria, circa 1970s.
Category
Mid-20th Century Nigerian Folk Art Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood
Italian Hand Painted Ceramic Vase in Lustro Glaze by Riccardo Gatti Faenza 1950s
By Bottega Gatti, Riccardo Gatti
Located in Morazzone, Varese
Beautiful unique ceramic vase made by Bottega Gatti in Faenza, most probably during the 1950s or earlier.
The vase is hand painted, hand carved and glaz...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Rare Antique Ukrainian Pile Rug With Floral Garlands in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare Ukrainian pile rug woven with a pattern characteristic of Aubusson and Savonnerie French carpets. Carpets such as this one were woven at a time when the classical French style was extremely in favour among the Russian aristocracy, who decorated their homes with period French furniture...
Category
1870s Ukrainian Bessarabian Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Oil Painting by Arne Heuser, 1966
Located in Limhamn, Skåne län
Oil Painting by Arne Heuser, 1966
Additional Information:
Style: Mid century, Scandinavian
Dimensions (W x H): 98 x 148 cm
Condition: Good vintage condition, with signs of usage
Category
20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Antique 20th Century North African Clay Pot Signed Sabiha - 2Y526
Located in Bordeaux, FR
This antique North African clay pot, signed Sabiha, is an authentic and unique piece from the 20th century. Crafted from clay, it reflects traditiona...
Category
20th Century Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Clay
Composed pair of original mid 17th/early 18th century Cavalry basket Stirrups
Located in TEYJAT, FR
An interesting composed pair of original mid 17th/early 18th century cage or basket Stirrups.
Superbly hand forged and of the period in wrought iron with openwork branches and foot plate, one with a rotating attachment eye, good general condition and a little oxidation.
The main suspension arch resembles that of a horse shoe, the front branches look like those of a sword guard...
Category
17th Century European Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage Men
s Hoodie by DEHA, 2007 Collection, Size S, 2C14
Located in Bordeaux, FR
This stylish vintage hoodie from DEHA’s 2007 collection combines Italian craftsmanship with timeless design. Made from 100% cotton, it offers comfort and durability, making it perfec...
Category
Early 2000s Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Men
s T-Shirt by United Colors of Benetton, 2015 Collection, Size M, 2C13
Located in Bordeaux, FR
This sleek men’s t-shirt from United Colors of Benetton’s 2015 collection combines comfort and style. Designed with a fabric blend of 65% polyester and 35% Pamuk (cotton), it offers ...
Category
2010s Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Cotton, Polyester
Vintage Caucasian Floral Qarabagh Rug in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
The floral ornamentation typical of French and English carpets of the 18th-19th century has influenced specific oriental carpet families. In the Caucasus this style became extremely ...
Category
1930s Russian Bessarabian Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Ceramic Vase with Glaze Decoration Attributed to Sainte, Radegonde, circa 1960
By Sainte Radegonde
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A ceramic vase with white, green, black glazes decoration, attributed to Sainte Radegonde.
Perfect original conditions.
Circa 1950-1960.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Baby Cradle by Elin
Jarl Heger, 1960s
By Jarl Heger
Located in Nørre Aaby, DK
Charming and beautifully designed baby cradle from the 1960s by Danish designers Elin & Jarl Heger. Made from natural rattan and bamboo, this piece showcases elegant curves and light...
Category
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wicker
Small 19th Century French Elm Bowl
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A small 19th century French Elm bowl. Lovely grain and patina.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Victorian Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Elm
A Roman bronze head attachment of a youth
Located in UTRECHT, UT
A finely detailed appliqué with the face of a youth, wavy hair framing the circular face, with well defined eyes, pierced for inlays.
5.5 cm (h)
Provenance:
Ex Jean-Phillipe Mariaud de Serres...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world”. Femininity and sensuality are exalted. Inspired by the body, before and after birth, or simply the sea, the parts of the sculpture conjugate around a mysterious interior cavity, secret and troubling. The interior wall doesn’t correspond to the exterior, and has its own volumes, deformities, and intimacy. The pieces present two kinds of interior: one open, and partially uncovered, the other totally hidden inside. The differences of their respective deformation reinforce the impression of life : the subjective representation of muscles and bones, of bulges pushed by an interior force, like a visceral movement of respiration. The surface of the ceramic is crackled but soft and fine, even reflecting light like the skin. The nuances of color reinforce the expression of sensuality.
The alignment of technique and what it causes one to see and feel has rarely been so intimately successful.
Wayne Fischer perfected his technique in the 1970s and has remained faithful to it. He adds fibers to porcelain clay that has been chosen for its whiteness to create and accentuate volume around empty space, by assembling slabs or thrown pieces. Then, he makes another piece that takes its place inside; both parts are formed with no hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture "Solctice", by Mart Schrijvers, 2023
By Mart Schrijvers
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Porcelain sculpture entitled "Solstice" .
Unique piece.
Signed under the base.
2022.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Dutch Wall Art “Luminosity” on Linen by Frank Guitjens, 2019.
Located in Eindhoven, Noord Brabant
Hi,
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Big Ceramic Vase by Lucien Arnaud, to Saint- Amand-en-Puisaye, circa 1920
By Lucien Arnaud
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A ceramic vase by Lucien Arnaud with glaze decoration.
Signed under the base " Lucien Arnaud ".
Circa 1920.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
African Metal Currency Exchange Object
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Exceptional African Currency Object in Patinated Metal,
Congo from around 1970,
the metal has a beautiful Green colored patina and shine and
has the correct signs and marks of use a...
Category
1970s Congolese Vintage Continental Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Copper
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