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Lancelot II by Yann Guillon - Male nude bronze sculpture, torso, figurative
By Yann Guillon
Located in Paris, FR
Lancelot II is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 50 × 25 × 17 cm (19.7 × 9.8 × 6.7 in). Height of the sculpture with the base: 60 cm (23.6 in).
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - 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 Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Meditating St.Tropez - Sculpture by Olga Lomaka - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Title: Meditating St.Tropez
Date: 2022
Technique: Recycled Resin (PETG), Chromatic and Candy Paint
Dimensions: 47 x 47,5 x 25 cm
Signature: Hand Signed (Ri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Eléphants en équilibre h cm 200
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 12 copies ( 8 + 4 P.A )
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, metal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Last Heroic Season Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary Mythology
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Last Heroic Season Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary Mythology
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - 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 Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mini-Caryatid - Sculpture by M. Berrocal - 1960s
By Miguel Berrocal
Located in Roma, IT
Nickel Plated 24 Element Puzzle Sculpture, 1968-1969, realized by Miguel Berrocal.
Signature and number engraved. Edition of 9500 pieces.
Ref. Catalogo General/Obras Recientes,197...
Category
1960s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Equestrian Louis of Orleans
By Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in PARIS, FR
Equestrian Louis of Orleans
by Emmanuel FREMIET (1824-1910)
A very fine bronze equestrian group with a gilded patina
Signed " E. Fremiet " on the base
Cast by " F. Barbedienne Fond...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Pichet Têtes, by Picasso, Pitcher, 1950
s, Edition, Black and white, Design
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Geneva, CH
Pichet Têtes, by Picasso, Pitcher, 1950's, Edition, Black and white, Design
Pichet Têtes
Ed. 500 pcs
1956
White earthenware, decoration with oxidized par...
Category
1950s Post-War Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Balloon Dog (After)- Graphite Black
By After Jeff Koons
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
An edition of the famous "Balloon Dog" in graphite black. A popular choice among art-lovers for its ability to blend into every interior, while still stealing the show!
This Limited...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Yves Klein Dying Slave After Michelangelo IKB Sculpture Bright Klein Blue
By Yves Klein
Located in Paris, FR
Yves Klein, Dying Slave after Michelangelo
IKB blue resin in plexiglas, signed Rotraut Klein Moquay and numbered 224/300 on the base on a label.
300 editions numbered from “1/300” to...
Category
1990s Post-War Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plexiglass
Life-size Plaster Statue of The Callipygian Venus or Aphrodite 1920
Located in Rome, IT
Italian life-size plaster sculpture , figure of the Callipygian Venus, after the antique Roman marble statue.
Aphrodite Kallipygos, or Callipygian Venus literally means “Venus of ...
Category
1920s Academic Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
$8,527 Sale Price
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Panther sniffing
Located in PARIS, FR
Panther sniffing
by Georges GUYOT (1885-1972)
Sculpture in bronze with a nuanced greenish black patina
signed on the base " Guyot "
cast by "Susse Frs Edts Paris" (with the foundry ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Bull by Pierre Yermia - Animal Bronze Sculpture, large size, outdoor
By Pierre Yermia
Located in Paris, FR
Large Bull, bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia.
120 cm × 100 cm × 34 cm. Limited-edition of 8 copies and 4 artist's proofs, each signed and numbered.
This m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Suzanne
By Aimé-Jules Dalou
Located in PARIS, FR
Bathing woman drying her right foot
also known as "Suzanne"
by Aimé-Jules DALOU (1838-1902)
A bronze sculpture with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed on the base " Dalou "
A very...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bear standing
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in PARIS, FR
Bear standing
by Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875)
Rare bronze sculpture with a nuanced dark brown patina
Probably cast by Brame (old edition)
France
circa 1880-1890
height 24 cm
A ...
Category
1880s French School Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Balloon Rabbit XL - Silver
By After Jeff Koons
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
An edition of the famous ‘Balloon Rabbit’ After
Material: zinc alloy.
Comes with its original box and certificate of authenticity.
From a Limited Edition of 500, unique number eng...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Elephant running with coiled trunk
Located in PARIS, FR
Elephant running with coiled trunk
Roger GODCHAUX (1878-1958)
Rare sculpture in bronze with a nuanced dark brown patina
cast by SUSSE
France
circa 1930
height 14,2 cm
length 24 cm
...
Category
1930s French School Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
FishieZ ochre
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hugh Findletar is perhaps best known for his bustlike vases, which he calls "flowerheadz." They are created in glassblowing workshop on Murano, an Italian island near Venice. The "z,...
Category
2010s Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Rennende Neushoorn Running Rhino Bronze Sculpture Animal Grey In Stock
By Evert den Hartog
Located in Utrecht, NL
Rennende Neushoorn Running Rhino Bronze Sculpture Animal Grey In Stock
Evert den Hartog (born in Groot-Ammers, The Netherlands in 1949) followed his education to be a sculptor at t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Spring Woman Lying Down Bronze Sculpture Female Figure
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Spring Woman Lying Down Bronze Sculpture Female Figure
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
IJsbeer met Jong Polar Bear with Child Bronze Sculpture Animal
By Evert den Hartog
Located in Utrecht, NL
IJsbeer met Jong Polar Bear with Child Bronze Sculpture Animal
Evert den Hartog (born in Groot-Ammers, The Netherlands in 1949) followed his education to be a sculptor at the Rotter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cloned Doberman with pet bottle.
By William Sweetlove
Located in Malmo, SE
Edition of 99 ex.
Free shipment worldwide.
Acquired directly from the artist.
William Sweetlove, born in Ostend, Belgium, in 1949, unites dadaism with surrealism and pop art in humo...
Category
2010s Pop Art Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Bird II (Light), 2024 - Minimalist Contemporary Bronze Bird Sculpture
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
21st Century and Contemporary Europe - 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 Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Visage Et Hibou (A.R.407)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed, numbered, and stamped on the base: Edition Picasso, 64/200; Madoura Plein Feu; Edition Picasso
White earthenware, decorated with engobe, knife engraving under partially brus...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Three Ibis by Chésade - Bronze animal sculpture, birds
By Chésade
Located in Paris, FR
Three Ibis is a sculpture, a one-off piece, by contemporary artist Chésade, representing three sea waders.
Dimensions are 27.5 × 55 × 18.5 cm / 10.8 × 21.7 × 7.3 inches.
The sculptu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of a Lady
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of a Lady
by Charles CORDIER (1827-1905)
A rare bust in white Carrara marble
and onyx for the drape
Signed on the backside " C. Cordier "
Presented on a rounded white marbl...
Category
1860s French School Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Lion Lying Down Bronze Sculpture Wild Animal Big Statue Dutch Realism
By Chris Tap
Located in Utrecht, NL
Chris Tap (1973, Amsterdam) attended university where he studied economy and cultural anthropology, before he became a full time sculptor. In the last 12 years he developed his passi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Girl with a Kid / - Caresses of innocence -
By Ary Bitter
Located in Berlin, DE
Ary Bitter (1883 Marseille - 1973 Paris), Girl with Kid, around 1930. Green patinated bronze with cast plinth loosely mounted on a white-veined dark green marble base. Dimensions of the plinth: 5 cm (height) x 80 cm (length) x 24 (width), dimensions of the bronze 28 cm (height) x 72 cm (length) x 18 cm (width). Weight of the bronze 18.2 kg, total weight 39.2 kg. Signed “Ary Bitter.” on the plinth and stamped “L N Paris J L” by the foundry Les Neveux de Jacques Lehmann...
Category
1930s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Grayson Perry - Portrait Plate 1
By Grayson Perry
Located in London, GB
bone china with lustre rim
21 cm diameter
Grayson Perry hallmark on the back.
These decorative plates are inspired by the artwork The Great Beauty, 2024. The original piece is a cab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Female Life-size Mannequin Italian Articulated Sculpture In Beech Mid 1800s
Located in Milano, IT
Female Painter's Manikin Mid-1800s jointed and articulated, life-size Italian sculpture, 167 cm tall 66 Inches, made of beech wood with traces of lacquer preparation. This extraordi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian School Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Tiger and Lion walking
By Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare pair of "Tiger and Lion walking"
by Antoine-Louis BARYE (1796-1875)
A very fine pair of bronze sculptures with a nuanced brown patina
each signed "Barye" on the base
cast by "F...
Category
1870s French School Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Technological Pinocchio - Wooden Sculpture by F. Codognotto - 2007/2008
Located in Roma, IT
Technological Pinocchio is an original decorative object realized between 2007 and 2008 by Ferdinando Codognotto.
Original wood sculpture realiz...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Seau à glace "œuf"
By François-Xavier Lalanne
Located in PARIS, FR
EDITION
Monogrammed inside on the nickel silver plaque: FXL
Bears the date-stamp (19)75 in blue from the Manufacture de Sèvres and the mentions in hollow JB 919 P AA9 inside the base...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Vertical Bronze Cibot
By Elisabeth Cibot
Located in Pasadena, CA
Sculpture - original. bronze 6/8
Born in 1960 in a family of artists collecting the bronzes of the Italian Renaissance, sculpture has always been part of the environment of Elisabeth...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Alia Mihi Mens Est Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Nude Boy Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Alia Mihi Mens Est Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Nude Boy Marble Stone
This sculpture need to be ordered. We will cast a brand new one for you. The edition is 4 pieces. The next scu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, 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 Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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 Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Danseuse "Elancée" II by Yann Guillon - Dancer bronze sculpture, ballet, woman
By Yann Guillon
Located in Paris, FR
Danseuse "Elancée" II is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 28 cm × 21 cm × 4 cm (11 × 8.3 × 1.6 in). Dimensions of the metal base: 13 cm x 8 cm x...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
American Contemporary Book Sculpture by Robert Robinson -Shakespeare
s Histories
Located in Paris, IDF
Book Sculpture,
Signed by Robert Robinson
Robert Robinson is an American artist born in 1960 who lives and works in London, UK. He creates 3-D media artworks using comic book encycl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Hello Pablo
By Fernandez Arman
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Free shipment worldwide.
Foundry Bocquel.
Edition of 100 ex.
Arman wrote, “The bow on the strings releases an explosion of sounds,” in the book Trio à cordes published by GKM Siwert Bergström nearly twenty years ago. The words are his own. The book is a tender homage to music and expresses the artist’s predilection for the tones of violin, cello and double bass. Lyrically orchestrated poems are conflated with ingenious detail images: multi-coloured violins and a delicately painted cello are but two of the motifs drawn against the straight lines of the score.
The first steps towards collaboration with GKM Siwert Bergström came with an exhibition in Malmö, when Arman staged a “happening” in Malmö Concert Hall. This was followed by several exhibitions in Malmö, at the Stockholm Art...
Category
1990s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Runner, Contemporary Bronze Figurative Original Sculture
By Michal Kubiak
Located in Warsaw, PL
MICHAŁ KUBIAK (born in 1946)
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan (1967-1972). He received his degree in sculpture in the studio of Olgierd Truszyński. Since 1972 he has p...
Category
2010s Minimalist Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Stag II by Pierre Yermia - Contemporary animal sculpture
By Pierre Yermia
Located in Paris, FR
Stag II is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 83 × 39 × 24 cm (32.7 × 15.4 × 9.4 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bon Santé
By Arman
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Limited Edition 30 ex.
Free shipment worldwide.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Arman explores reality. He strives to transform and sublimate artefacts into works ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Plexiglass
$7,105
Mother and Child, with a base
By Baltasar Lobo
Located in PARIS, FR
Mother and Child, with a base
by Baltasar LOBO (1910-1993)
A bronze group with a dark brownish green patina
Signed on the base " Lobo "
Cast by " Susse Fondeur Paris " (with the fou...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mahout washing his elephant
Located in PARIS, FR
Mahout washing his elephant
by Roger GODCHAUX (1878-1958)
A very rare sculpture in bronze with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed on the base "Roger Godchaux"
Cast by "Susse Frs Edt...
Category
1930s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Apollon III. By Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze sculpture of man with a disc
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Apollon III is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit.
This captivating sculpture features an elegant, elongated figure seated gracefully. The figure, cast in bron...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Forest idyll / - Soulmate -
By Rudolf Kaesbach
Located in Berlin, DE
Rudolf Kaesbach (1873 Gladbach - 1955 Berlin), Forest idyll, around 1915. Bronze, gold and golden brown patina, with cast plinth, mounted on a marble base (5 cm high), total height 36 cm, dimensions of the bronze: 31 cm (height) x 17 cm (length) x 12 cm (width). Weight 4,6 kg, signed on the plinth "R.[udolf] KAESBACH".
- a few rubbed areas, overall in excellent condition for its age
- Soulmate -
The bronze sculpture depicts a young woman in an intimate exchange with a deer that accompanies her. The animal pauses to turn toward her, while the nude beauty slows her pace to look into the deer's eyes and tenderly caress it with her hand. The woman and the deer are in inner harmony. Even though her lips remain motionless, she speaks the language of the animal with which she is deeply connected.
The golden patina, which contrasts with the more naturalistic coloring of the deer, gives the young woman the appearance of a saint, even if she cannot be identified as such. At the same time, she evokes memories of Diana, the goddess of the hunt, or a nymph. But she lacks the ferocity. In her innocent naivety, she is more like a vestal virgin, who is not at home in the solitude of the forest. And yet, the young beauty, moving unclothed in the heart of nature, looks like a priestess with her hair tied up and a carefully carried bowl on her way to a sacred grove.
In order to open up the above-mentioned associations, Kaesbach deliberately designed the female figure in such a way that she cannot be identified as a specific person. He has created an allegory of natural femininity, characteristic of Art Nouveau, in which the deer is far more than a companion animal. It displays the same gracefulness as the young woman, and the inner resemblance between the two makes the deer appear as her other self. In animal terms, it embodies her inner being, which also gives the deer an allegorical character.
About the artist
Rudolf Kaesbach studied sculpture at the Hanau Academy and worked in a bronze foundry in Paris in 1900. In order to work as an independent artist, he opened a workshop in Düsseldorf, where he cast bronzes from models he designed. In 1902 he made his debut at the German National Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf. The following year Kaesbach went to the academy in Brussels. There he was inspired by contemporary Belgian sculpture, especially the work of Constantin Meunier. He moved to Berlin, where he opened a studio in the villa district of Grunewald and devoted himself to life-size marble sculptures and the design of bronzes. From 1911, he regularly presented his works at the major art exhibitions in Berlin, as well as in Düsseldorf and Malmö. Between 1936 and 1939, he also created models for the Rosenthal porcelain factory. From 1939 to 1944, Kaesbach was represented at the major German art exhibitions in Munich.
GERMAN VERSION
Rudolf Kaesbach (1873 Gladbach - 1955 Berlin), Waldidyll, um 1915. Gold und goldbraun patinierte Bronze mit gegossener Plinthe, auf einem Marmorsockel montiert (5 cm Höhe), Gesamthöhe 36 cm, Maße der Bronze: 31 cm (Höhe) x 17 cm (Länge) x 12 cm (Breite). Gewicht 4,6 kg, auf der Plinthe mit „R.[udolf] KAESBACH“ signiert.
- vereinzele beriebene Stellen, insgesamt in einem altersgemäß ausgezeichneten Zustand
- Seelenverwandtschaft -
Die Bronzeplastik veranschaulicht eine junge Frau im innigen Austausch mit einem sie begleitenden Reh. Das Tier hält inne, um sich zu ihr hochzuwenden, während die nackte Schönheit ihren Schritt verlangsamt, um dem Reh ebenfalls in die Augen zu schauen und es zärtlich mit der Hand zu liebkosen. Die Frau und das Reh sind in einem inneren Gleichklang. Auch wenn ihre Lippen unbewegt bleiben, spricht sie die Sprache des Tieres, mit dem sie auf eine tief empfundene Weise verbunden ist.
Die im Kontrast zur naturalistischeren Einfärbung des Rehs aufstrahlende goldfarbene Patina lässt die junge Frau wie eine Heilige erscheinen, auch wenn sich nicht als Heilige identifizierbar ist. Zugleich ruft sie Erinnerungen an die Jagdgöttin Diana oder eine Nymphe hervor. Dafür fehlt ihr allerdings die Wildheit. In ihrer unschuldigen Naivität gemahnt sie vielmehr an eine Vestalin, die freilich nicht in der Waldeinsamkeit zu Hause ist. Und doch wirkt die sich unbekleidet im Herzen der Natur bewegende junge Schönheit wie eine Priesterin, die sich mit hochgebundenem Haar und der vorsichtig getragenen Schale und dem Wege zu einem Heiligen Hain befindet.
Um die gennannten Assoziationen zu eröffnen, hat Kaesbach die Frauenfigur bewusst so gestaltet, dass sie nicht als konkrete Person identifizierbar ist. Damit hat er eine für den Jugendstil charakteristische Allegorie natürlicher Weiblichkeit geschaffen, bei der das Reh weit mehr als ein Begleittier ist. Es weist dieselbe grazile Anmut wie die junge Frau auf und der innere Gleichklag der beiden lässt das Reh als ihr anderen Ich erscheinen. Es verkörpert – ins Animalische übertragen - ihr inneres Wesen, wodurch auch dem Reh ein allegorischer Charakter zukommt.
zum Künstler
Rudolf Kaesbach studierte an der Akademie Hanau Bildhauerei und war im Jahr 1900 in einer Pariser Bronzegießerei tätig. Um sich als eigenständiger Künstler betätigen zu können, eröffnete er in Düsseldorf eine Werkstatt, in der er Bronzen nach selbstentworfenen Modellen goss. 1902 debütierte er auf der Deutschen Nationalen Kunstaustellung in Düsseldorf. Im Folgejahr ging Kaesbach an die Akademie nach Brüssel. Dort wurde er von der zeitgenössischen belgischen Bildhauerei, insbesondere vom Werk Constantin Meuniers, inspiriert. Zurückgekehrt zog er nach Berlin, wo er im Villenviertel Grunewald ein Atelier eröffnete und sich neben dem Entwurf für Bronzen der lebensgroßen Marmorbildhauerei widmete. Ab 1911 präsentierte er seine Werke regelmäßig auf den Großen Berliner Kunstausstellungen, aber auch in Düsseldorf und Malmö. Zwischen 1936 und 1939 fertigte er zudem Modelle für die Porzellan-Manufaktur Rosenthal an. Von 1939 bis 1944 war...
Category
1910s Jugendstil Europe - 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...
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1930s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Sculptures
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Watercolor
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s head. Contemporary bronze sculpture, Limited edition, Italian artist
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Located in Warsaw, PL
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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rewind Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Rewind Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss) show a perfect command of the old craft of mod...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Florentine singer / - The Renaissance of the Renaissance -
By Paul Dubois
Located in Berlin, DE
Paul Dubois (1829 Nogent-sur-Seine - 1905 Paris), Florentine singer, 1865. Light brown patinated bronze with cast round plinth mounted on a square marble base (3.5 cm high). Total height 53 cm. Bronze dimensions: 49.5 cm (height) x 20 cm (length) x 10 cm (width), weight 5.6 kg. Inscribed on the plinth "P.[aul] DUBOIS", dated "1865", with the foundry's mark "F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR" and the signet "REDUCTION MECANIQUE A. COLLAS".
- Patina very occasionally darkened, lute with loss of one tuning peg, otherwise in excellent condition.
- The renaissance of the Renaissance -
The bronze is a precisely executed and masterfully cast contemporary reduction of Paul Dubois 155 cm tall masterpiece "Florentine Singer", which is exhibited in the Musée d'Orsay and for which the artist was awarded the Medal of Honor at the Paris Salon in 1865. The work acted as a beacon, and was followed by a plethora of depictions of juveniles.
Inspired by Donatello and Luca della Robbia, but also by painters such as Piero della Francesca, Benozzo Gozzoli, and Pinturicchio, the "Florentine Singer" is not an epigonal work that pays homage to a vanished era, but a successful attempt to draw vitality from the art of the past and thus give it new life.
The effect of vitality is the core of Italian Renaissance art theory. In order to fulfill itself as art, art had to appear like nature. This naturalism also characterizes the "Florentine Singer". The young man appears to have been taken from life, which is reinforced by the momentary nature of his action. He has just struck a now fading chord. In addition, the natural appearance is enhanced by the detailed shaping of the figurative details, such as the laces with the slightly curved leather of the shoes, the belt buckle, or the ornamentation on the body of the lute. Even the fingernails are clearly defined. Unlike the Renaissance, however, the effect of liveliness here is not based on the "discovery" of nature and the human body, but primarily on the rediscovery of the art of the Quattrocento. The liveliness of the artwork is therefore at the same time a revitalization of this art, so that we can speak of a Renaissance of the Renaissance, just as the Pre-Raphaelites in England at the same time transferred the Quattrocento to contemporary art.
Dubois takes on the most difficult of all subjects, the depiction of singing through silent sculpture. He was preceded in this by Luca della Robbia and Donatello with their pulpits of singers created in the 1430s in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence. Compared to these works, the physiognomy of Dubois singer is far less animated, yet he also depicts singing in a convincing manner. He uses the whole body. He takes the ancient contrapposto, which was essential to Renaissance sculpture, and transforms the standing leg-playing posture into a late medieval S-swing, giving the body an elegant beauty and at the same time setting it in melodic motion. In the equally elegant finger position, the music is expressed in a much more literal way with the beating of the lute. Finally, the musicality of the sculpture culminates in the face with the mouth open to sing.
Through the act of singing, which is a great challenge to the artistic will to depict perfect beauty, the gracefulness of the classical face is not diminished, but enhanced. Starting from the face with the singing mouth and the gaze absorbed by the sounds, the inner vitality spreads, giving the bronze sculpture an intense aura, enhanced by the music. Dubois transfers the beauty of the Renaissance to the musical, sublimating the visible sculpture to the invisible of music.
He took up the challenge of transcending the Renaissance with the Renaissance, thus responding to the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, which arose at the end of the 17th century around the French Academy and remained virulent into the 19th century, in which antiquity was regarded either as an unattainable ideal or as a standard to be surpassed. With his work, Dubois proved that the Renaissance, which had championed the art of the ancients, could lead to a new renaissance of art.
About the artist
Paul Dubois' great-uncle was the famous French Baroque sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, in whose footsteps the talented great-nephew followed. When he debuted at the Paris Salon in 1858, he signed his work "Dubois-Pigalle". At his father's request, however, he first studied law before devoting himself to sculpture under the tutelage of François Christophe Armand Toussaint in 1856 and entering the École des Beaux-Arts in 1858. From 1859 to 1863, he lived in Rome and traveled to Naples and Florence. Inspired by Florentine art of the quattrocento, Dubois initiated a school-forming neo-Florentine style that combined the elegantly simple forms of youthful grace with a precise wealth of detail.Two purchases by the French state (“envois de Rome”) were made during his stay in Rome, which brought him recognition in Paris. After his return there, he quickly became an internationally sought-after artist.
Dubois was also active as a creator of monuments. His most famous work is the equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (1896) on the forecourt of Reims Cathedral. He was also a sought-after portraitist who produced around 50 busts and - Dubois was also a passionate painter - around 100 portraits in oil.
From 1873 to 1878 he was curator of the Museum du Luxembourg, in 1876 he became a member of the Institut de France and from 1878 to 1905 he was director of the École des Beaux-Arts.
In 1865, Dubois was awarded the Paris Salon Medal of Honor for his “Florentine Singer”. In 1867 he became Chevalier, in 1874 Officier, in 1886 Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, which awarded Dubois the Grande Croix in 1896.
Selected Bibliography
Stole, Elmar: Paul Dubois. In: Saur. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 30, Munich - Leipzig 2001, pp. 677-678.
GERMAN VERSION
Paul Dubois (1829 Nogent-sur-Seine - 1905 Paris), Florentinischer Sänger, 1865. Hellbraun patinierte Bronze mit gegossener runder Plinthe auf quadratischem Marmorsockel montiert (3,5 cm Höhe). Gesamthöhe 53 cm. Maße der Bronze: 49,5 cm (Höhe) x 20 cm (Länge) x 10 cm (Breite), Gewicht 5,6 kg. Auf der Plinthe mit „P.[aul] DUBOIS“ bezeichnet, auf „1865“ datiert, mit dem Gießereistempel „F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR“ und dem Signet „REDUCTION MECANIQUE A. COLLAS“ versehen.
- Patina sehr vereinzelt nachgedunkelt, Laute mit Verlust eines Stimmwirbels, ansonsten ausgezeichnet erhalten.
- Die Renaissance...
Category
1860s Realist Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Monumental Pair of White Marble Sculptures of Classical Figures
Located in Rome, IT
Standing figure of Julius Caesar wearing a Tunic and holding a billowing drapery with a composition marble square-section pedestal.
. The other figure is of Hannibal.
Provenance fro...
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Late 20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Sculptures
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The Rape of Sabine Iconic Bronze Sculpture 1930
Located in Rome, IT
Fine Group of Sculptures in Bronze after Jean de Boulogne (Giambologna)
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Category
1920s Mannerist Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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$6,632 Sale Price
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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
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Category
2010s Europe - Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plaster
Nude
By Ybah
Located in Pasadena, CA
After studying fine arts, a need for contact with solid material was needed. Ybah took a classic artistic path from an academic education from the Louvre reproductions, learning at t...
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