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Item Ships From: England
Luna by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Luna has a minimalist yet powerful design, featuring an elongated female figure poised with arms outstretched. Dominating the composition is a circular disc representing the moon in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Seahorse -original figurative bronze marine sculpture-artwork-contemporary Art
By Andrzej Szymczyk
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hera II by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Hera II is a figurative bronze sculpture in a relaxed pose by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt - Henry Moore, sculpture, modern, british, small
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Mother and Child: Petal Skirt
conceived in 1955; cast in 1955
bronze; edition 4 of 6 plus 1 artist’s proof by the Fiorini foundry, London
19 x 9 x 15.5 cm (in...
Category
1950s Modern England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Fall
Located in London, GB
Bronze
Numbered 1/10
83cm × 22cm × 46cm (incl. base)
Ian Rank-Broadley is one of the foremost sculptors working today. His effigy of the late Queen Elizabeth II appears on all UK an...
Category
2010s English School England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
High Density by Lesley Hilling - Contemporary salvaged wood Sculpture
Located in DE
About the Artist:
Lesley Hilling is a self-taught English artist known for her intricate constructions made entirely from salvaged wood and found objects. Her work reflects a deep c...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
A Private Meeting by Neil Wood Figurative Contemporary Bronze Sculpture
By Neil Wood
Located in DE
Neil Wood is a professional sculptor and fine artist with many years' experience lecturing in fine art and sculpture at institutions in the UK. He has worked in various settings; in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th century Grand Tour bronze of the Dancing Faun
Located in Bath, Somerset
A 19th century 'Grand Tour' bronze figure of the Dancing Faun, standing on a bronze square plinth. The faun balances on his toes and pivots, his horned head raised, his hair wreathe...
Category
Late 19th Century England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
ORIGINAL PERIOD BRONZE HEAD SCULPTURE PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: artist unknown, dates to circa 1970's period; there are possibly markings to the underside.
Title: Head sculpture of the American President, Richard Nixon (1913-1994).
Medium: exceptionally heavy bronze
Size: height: 14.5 inches
depth : 9 inches ( back of head...
Category
20th Century Impressionist England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
REARING HORSE II by Tom Hiscocks - horse sculpture stainless steel
By Tom Hiscocks
Located in DE
Medium: stainless steel.
Edition of 8
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Tom Hiscocks is a sculptor whose work explores themes of identity...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Ubik by Lesley Hilling - Contemporary salvaged wood Sculpture
Located in DE
This piece gradually transitions in tone from white through grey into black, creating a delicate and intricate structure that houses small artifacts of memory. The found objects and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
DRINKING HORSE IV by Tom Hiscocks - horse sculpture stainless steel
By Tom Hiscocks
Located in DE
Medium: stainless steel.
Edition of 8
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Tom Hiscocks is a sculptor whose work explores themes of identity...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
DRINKING HORSE VI by Tom Hiscocks - horse sculpture stainless steel
By Tom Hiscocks
Located in DE
Medium: stainless steel.
Edition of 8
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Tom Hiscocks is a sculptor whose work explores themes of identity...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Folded Arms Study (Full Figure)
Located in London, GB
Bronze
Numbered 5/9
87cm × 44cm × 21cm (incl. base)
Pratley is a Sculptor working from life models in his West London studio. His inspirations range from ancient Greek masterpieces ...
Category
2010s English School England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maddison by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative bronze of a female in yoga pose
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Maddison captures the essence of balance and poise. Standing on one leg in a tree pose, reminiscent of a modern dance form. Her elongated limbs and abstract form exude grace and flui...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Leda and the Swan modernist mid century sculpture by French woman artist
Located in Norwich, GB
A unique piece: a hand modelled sculpture by French artist Jeannine Nathan (b.1924). Working in Paris, Jeannine was able to visit Picasso’s studio, and was impressed by the
Master’s ...
Category
1960s Modern England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Family XII by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative bronze sculpture of a couple.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Family XII is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture portraying a couple in love by Nando Kallweit.
There is an intimacy to the piece that celebrates the shared joy between two peop...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Trevor. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture of a female.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Janne is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Apollon #IV by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Crafted in a minimalist style, Apollon features elongated limbs and a prominently spherical head. The figure's posture, with one leg crossed casually over the other and one arm grace...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Torso of Amici by Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze sculpture of the torso of a man
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Torso of Amici (friend) is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture of the male human body by Nando Kallweit. He is often paired with the Torso of Donna (a lady) - a female figure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
ANCIENT ROMAN ALABASTER BUST OF THE GOD SERAPIS, ROME CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Located in Milan, IT
Wearing a chiton with a himation draped at the left shoulder, and a modius on the crown of his head, the god's characteristic luxuriant wavy hair falling in ri...
Category
15th Century and Earlier England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Reni by Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze Sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Standing tall and poised, Reni captures a sense of grace with her slender, angular silhouette. Her elongated limbs and subtle curvature of the body evoke a delicate balance between m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Silvi by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Nando Kallweit's Silvi captures a minimalist, abstract female figure seated in a casual, cross-legged pose.
The bronze sculpture exhibits a sleek, matte finish that enhances its mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chul-Su (Monotone)
By KAWS
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Chul-Su (Monotone)
By KAWS
2025
AllRightsReserved x Netflix, for the return of Squid Game Season 3
Vinyl
38 cm / 15 in
Open Edition (Sold Out)
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Vinyl
Untitled (Coca Cola) By AI Weiwei
By Ai Weiwei
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Untitled (Coca Cola)
By AI Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a renowned Chinese contemporary artist and activist whose diverse body of work spans sculpture, installations, and social commentary...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Siamese Fighter Fish-original bronze wildlife sculpture-artwork-contemporary art
By Andrzej Szymczyk
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Seahorse Couple (verdigris)-original wildlife marine sculpture-contemporary Art
By Andrzej Szymczyk
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Siamese Fighting Fish II, Gold-original bronze marine animal wildlife sculpture
By Andrzej Szymczyk
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Octopus-Green Patina-wildlife-bronze table top sculpture-modern-Contemporary
By Andrzej Szymczyk
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hippocampus-original figurative bronze animal sculpture-artwork-contemporary Art
By Andrzej Szymczyk
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bonnie. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture of a male.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Bonnie is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modern Artifact 001 - NY Baseball Cap
By Daniel Arsham
Located in London, GB
Daniel Arsham
Modern Artifact 001, 2021
plaster and cast resin
12.7 (h) x 19.5 cm (dia.)
Edition of 500
Daniel Arsham's Eroded Series is a captivating exploration of time, memory, a...
Category
2010s England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plaster
ANCIENT MONUMENTAL MARBLE LION FOUNTAIN HEAD ROMAN EMPIRE 1ST/2ND CENTURY AD
Located in Milan, IT
Large roman carved marble fountain head representing a lion
Rome, I-II Century AC
Bonham's London, 22 September 1998, lot 485; formerly in the pr...
Category
15th Century and Earlier England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Female Torso on Base
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original, penny sculpture.
Fascinating Sculpture, each penny intricately welded together to create this figurative piece.
Beautifully crafted, this incredible sculpture compliments ...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Eustace-Hyacinthe Langlois, called Langlois de L
Arche
Located in London, GB
Plaster
480 mm; 19 inches diameter
Inscribed: ‘H. Langlois du Pont de l’Arche Archeologue Peintre Graveur
par son ami P. J. David (D Angers) 1838’
Collections:
Sotheby’s, 22nd May...
Category
19th Century Old Masters England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Figure in the Trees by Barry Flanagan
By Barry Flanagan
Located in Dubai, Dubai
The Cricketer
By Barry Flanagan
Barry Flanagan (1941–2009) was a British sculptor best known for his dynamic bronze hares, which often appear in playful, human-like poses. His work...
Category
1990s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Summer Bird II (Large), 2023 - Bold Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of Bird
By Emma Maiden
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Emma Maiden has exhibited her sculptures throughtout the UK since the mid-1990s, with shows including The Fine Art Society, London; the RWA Bristol; West Wales Arts Centre, Fishguard...
Category
2010s England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gilbert Ledward - 1930s Watercolour Design for a Decorative Sculptural Frieze
Located in London, GB
GILBERT LEDWARD, RA, PRBS
(1888-1960)
Tennis, Golf, Shooting, Ice-Skating, Dreaming – Proposed Design for Decorative Frieze in the Italian Drawing Room at Eltham Palace, commissioned by Stephen Courtauld
Signed and dated July 9th 1933
Watercolour and pencil
12.5 by 49.5 cm., 5 by 19 ½ in.
(frame size 36 by 67 cm., 14 ¼ by 26 ¼ in.)
Exhibited:
The artist’s daughter;
London, The Fine Art Society, A Centenary Tribute, Feb 1988, no. 43.
Gilbert Ledward was born in London. He was educated at St Mark’s College, Chelsea. In 1905 he entered the Royal College of Art to study sculpture under Edouard Lanteri and in 1910 he entered the Royal Academy Schools. In 1913 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture, the Royal Academy’s travelling award and gold medal, which allowed him to travel in Italy until the outbreak of the Wold War I. During the war he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery and was appointed as an official war artist in 1918.
Following the war he was largely occupied as a sculptor of war memorials including the Guards Division memorial in St James’s Park and the Household Division’s memorial in Horse Guards Parade. In 1934, supported by Eric Gill and Edwin Lutyens, he established a company called Sculptured Memorials and Headstones, which promoted better design of memorials in English churchyards. His war memorials after World War II include one in Westminster Abbey to the Submarine Service, Commandos and Airborne Forces.
Ledward was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1927-1929) and in 1937 was elected at Royal Academician. He became President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a trustee of the Royal Academy.
The present work is a design for an intended decorative frieze for the Italian Drawing Room of Eltham Palace. In 1935 the remains of the medieval royal palace of Eltham was rescued from decay by Stephen and Virginia Courtald who built an ultra modern Art Deco house to adjoin the existing Great Hall. They employed the architects John Seeley and Paul Edward Paget and the fashionable Mayfair interior designer the Marchese Peter Malacrida to design the strikingly glamorous 1930s interiors of the new house. The dramatic entrance hall was created by the Swedish designer Rolf Engstromer...
Category
1930s Art Deco England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Watercolor
Cracked Bear - Pink
By Daniel Arsham
Located in London, GB
Cracked Bear - Pink, 2019
Fabric, plaster, and pigment
Edition of 500 + AP with a holographic label verifying its edition number and authenticity.
24.76 x 20 x 20 cm
In mint conditio...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Plaster, Pigment
Guardian - contemporary, sculpture, bronze, patina and iron, 21st C.
By Javier de la Rosa
Located in London, GB
Original 4/8 2018
Javier was born in 1984 and graduated in Fine Arts in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2007.
The essence of his work is the union with the feeling of life...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
En Amore III by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative bronze sculpture of a couple
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
En Amore III is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture about love and companionship by Nando Kallweit.
The sculpture is of two elongated, abstract figures in close communion. The mi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Eduardo Paolozzi:
Fist
plaster sculpture
By Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Located in London, GB
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Category
1990s Modern England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Clean Slate - Artist Proof - Bronze Sculpture - KAWS contemporary collectable
By KAWS
Located in Manchester, GB
KAWS, Clean Slate (Bronze) (Artist's Proof), 2022
Bronze Sculpture
14.5 x 7.1 x 7.4 cm (5.7 x 2.8 x 2.9 in)
AP number 30/50 - aside from a main edition of 250
Signature and Date...
Category
2010s England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bob. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Bob is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-infl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jessy. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Jessy is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Scarlett. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture of a male.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Scarlett is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fabio. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Fabio is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cody By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Cody is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-inf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mich. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
John is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-inf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
John. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
John is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-inf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carl. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Carl is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-inf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Family I by Nando Kallweit - Bronze sculpture of a couple with a baby. Parents
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Family I is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture portraying parents and a babe in arms by Nando Kallweit.
There is an intimacy to the piece that celebrates the shared joy and prot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ball Bearing Torso
Located in Nottingham, GB
This stunning sculpture of a torso has been created from ball bearings, with a beautiful pearlized finish that change colour in the light, making this piece beautifully unique.
Meti...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Damien Hirst - Abacus, hirst, skull, silver, sculpture, contemporary art
By Damien Hirst
Located in London, GB
Damien Hirst (b.1965)
Abacus - The Dream is Dead
2007
silver
14.5 x 14 x 21 cm
incised, titled and numbered ‘Abacus Damien Hirst The Dream is dead 2/12’ (on the verso)
edition 2/12
Price:
$85,000 USD
Provenance:
White Cube, London
Private collection, New York
Sale: Christie’s London, 29 June 2011, lot 114
Private collection, London (acquired at the above sale)
Notes:
‘I remember I was thinking that there were four important things in life: religion, love, art and science. At their best, they’re all just tools to help you find a path through the darkness. None of them really work that well, but they help. Of them all, science seems to be the one right now. Like religion, it provides the glimmer of hope that maybe it will be all right in the end.’ (D. Hirst, quoted in conversation with S. O’Hagan in New Religion Damien Hirst, exh. cat., British
Council, London, 2006, p. 5)
Born in 1965 in Bristol, Hirst grew up in Leeds and subsequently went to Goldsmith's College in London. Between 1988 and 1990 he curated a series of exhibitions of work by his contemporaries including the highly acclaimed group shows Freeze, Modern Medicine and Gambler.
In his own work Hirst has continually challenged the boundaries between art, science, the media and popular culture. A 12-foot tiger shark, a cow and her calf sawn in two, pharmaceutical bottles...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Ancient Roman Marble Altar Fragment with Cupid, Roman Empire, 2nd/3rd Century AD
Located in Milan, IT
Roman marble altar fragment with cupid
Provenance: Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva
Category
15th Century and Earlier England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Nailed It
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original Sculpture.
Fantastic sculpture made entirely from nails with a beautiful pearlized finish that changes colour in different light
This sculpture sits on a steel base.
Incr...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Virginia Woolfe Fabric Sculpture, whimsical and literary, by Anne Valérie Dupond
By Anne Valérie Dupond
Located in Dallas, TX
ANNE-VALÉRIE DUPOND
(b. 1976, France)
Anne-Valérie Dupond, born in 1976, studied at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, and obtained her Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2000. Since...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Trimming
Pan and Maidens
By Ary Bitter
Located in London, GB
Silvered bronze with marble base
Category
1920s England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$30,284
Nailed it
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original Sculpture, Artist Proof, edition of 9
Fantastic sculpture made entirely from nails, this unique sculpture has been Chromed to create a beautiful shine.
Each nail has been ...
Category
2010s Contemporary England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Roman 18th century terracotta model for the sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis
Located in London, GB
This remarkably fluid terracotta bozetto was made in preparation for Pietro Pacilli’s most important public commission, a large-scale marble statue of San Camillo de Lellis for the nave of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Expressively modelled, this terracotta sculpture is a rare and significant work made by a major Roman sculptor at a transformative moment of European sculpture. Pacilli began his working life on the great Baroque decorative projects initiated in the seventeenth century, but he found success as a restorer of ancient sculpture working to finish antiquities for a tourist market, becoming an important figure in the emergence of an archaeologically minded Neoclassicism. Pacilli trained Vincenzo Pacetti and provided important decorative work for the Museo Pio-Clementino, at the same time he is recorded restoring some of the most celebrated antiquities excavated and exported during the period.
Pacilli was born into a family of Roman craftsmen, his father Carlo was a wood carver, and Pacilli is recorded working with him on the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni Laternao as early as 1735. In 1738 his terracotta model of Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife won the first prize in the second class of the sculpture concorso at the Accademia di San Luca, this is particularly notable as Bartolomeo Cavaceppi came third. He worked as a carver and stuccoist completing works for the churches of San Marco and SS. Trinita dei Domeniciani Spagnoli. Pacilli operated as a sculptor and restorer of antiquities from his studio at the top of the Spanish Steps, close to Santa Trinita dei Monti, where he is listed as a potential vendor to the Museo Pio-Clementino in 1770.
In 1763 Pacilli completed a silver figure of San Venanzio for the treasury of San Venanzio. He is recorded as Pacetti’s first master and it was evidently through Pacilli that he began to acquire his facility as a restorer of ancient sculpture. Pacilli, at his studio ‘poco prima dell’Arco della Regina alla Trinita dei Monti,’ exercised, what the nineteenth-century scholar, Adolf Michaelis called ‘rejuvenating arts’ on several important pieces of classical sculpture, including in 1760 the group of a Satyr with a Flute for the natural brother of George III, General Wallmoden, Hanovarian minister at Vienna. In 1765, Dallaway and Michaelis record that Pacilli was responsible for the restorations, including the addition of a new head, to the Barberini Venus which he had acquired from Gavin Hamilton. The Venus was then sold to Thomas Jenkins, who in turn passed it on to William Weddell at Newby Hall. In 1767 Pacilli exported a series of ancient busts ‘al naturale’ including portraits of Antinous, Julius Ceaser and Marus Aurelius, also a statue of a Muse and a Venus. As early as 1756 Pacilli seems to have been operating as an antiquarian, helping to disperse the collection of the Villa Borrioni. Pacilli supplied sculpture to notable British collectors, including Charles Townley, who on his first trip to Italy purchased the Palazzo Giustiniani statue of Hecate from Pacilli. Pacilli was involved with the Museo Pio Clementino from its conception, supplying busts of Julius Ceaser and a Roman Woman as well as completing stucco putti surmounting the arms of Pope Bendedict XIV to signal the entrance to the new Museo Critiano.
In 1750 Il Diario Ordinario del Chracas announced that Pacilli had begun work on a sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis for St Peter’s. Camillo de Lellis founded his congregation, the Camillians, with their distinctive red felt crosses stitched on black habits in 1591. Having served as a soldier in the Venetian army, Camillo de Lellis became a novitiate of the Capuchin friars, he moved to Rome and established a religious community for the purpose of caring for the sick. In 1586 Pope Sixtus V formerly recognised the Camillians and assigned them to the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Rome. Camillo de Lellis died in 1614 and was entombed at Santa Maria Maddalena, he was canonised by Benedict XIV on June 26, 1746. It was an occasion that prompted the Camillians to make a number of significant artistic commissions, including two canvases by Pierre Subleyras showing episodes from San Camillo’s life which they presented to Benedict XIV. In 1750 Pacilli was commissioned to fill one of the large niches on the north wall of the nave with a sculpture of San Camillo.
The present terracotta bozetto presumably had two important functions, to enable Pacilli to work out his ideas for the finished sculpture and at the same time to show his design to the various commissioning bodies. In this case it would have been Cardinal Alessandro Albani and Monsignor Giovan Francesco Olivieri, the ‘economo’ or treasurer of the fabric of St Peter’s. Previously unrecorded, this terracotta relates to a smaller, less finished model which has recently been identified as being Pacilli’s first idea for his statue of San Camillo. Preserved in Palazzo Venezia, in Rome, the terracotta shows San Camillo with his left hand clutching his vestments to his breast; the pose and action more deliberate and contained than the finished sculpture. In producing the present terracotta Pacilli has expanded and energised the figure. San Camillo is shown with his left hand extended, his head turned to the right, apparently in an attempt to look east down the nave of St Peter’s. The model shows Pacilli experimenting with San Camillo’s costume; prominently on his breast is the red cross of his order, whilst a sense of animation is injected into the figure through the billowing cloak which is pulled across the saint’s projecting right leg. The power of the restrained, axial contrapposto of bent right leg and outstretched left arm, is diminished in the final sculpture where a baroque fussiness is introduced to the drapery. What Pacilli’s terracotta demonstrates, is that he conceived the figure of San Camillo very much in line with the immediate tradition of depicting single figures in St Peter’s; the rhetorical gesture of dynamic saint, arm outstretched, book in hand, head pointed upwards was perhaps borrowed from Camillo Rusconi’s 1733 sculpture of St. Ignatius...
Category
18th Century Baroque England - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta





