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Spanish Art Nouveau Silvered Bronze by Gustavo Obiols

1900

This is one of Antoine Bofill's best models, being a signature Art Nouveau nature form with a beautiful nude nymph gazing upon a bumble bee insect. The patina on this statue figure i...

Franz Bergman Erotic Patinated Bronze Of A Woman Putting On Her Robe. Wearing a shear (almost) see through lingerie under garment; the lady is goi...

Franz Bergman Partial Gilt and Cold-Painted Bronze Figural Groups comprising of a Mother and her children. The nude boy and girl are draped in a cold painted garland all bare foot. A...

Maurice Bouval French Art Nouveau Gilt and Silvered Bronze Figural Vide Poche Cast from a model by Maurice Bouval, cast by Jollet & Cie., Paris, circa 1900 Modeled as a maiden in a ...

Louis Ernest Barrias (French 1841-1905) Nature Revealing Herself La Nature se dévoilant devant la Science Gilt, and silver patinated bronze with blue glass scarab Signed on base “E...

Agathon Leonard (French, 1841 - 1923) Art Nouveau Silvered Bronze A French Art Nouveau gilt bronze sculpture, "Marguerite", by Agathon Léonard of Margeruite, placing a flower in her...

Wonderful miniature bronze cast figurative sculpture of a young barefoot shepherd girl holding a staff by R. Hobold (German, 19th c). The girl is dressed in a flowing peasant dress a...

Late 19th-century bronze figure derived from a work by Jean Michel-Angel Pollet-a Palermo artist of French parents who was a pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen and Peter Tenerani - titled ...

Unsigned bronze buste of a woman, with fine characteristics. The sculpture was mounted on a hand-made ceramic socle with a marble top. Very heavy, solid and qualitative piece.

This stylized figural study captures a young girl restraining a struggling swan trying to take flight purportedly by Marius Jean Antonin Mercié, bearing the incised signature “Mercié” on the base.. The work is quite heavy weighing in about 65 lbs and boasts an opulent dark patina. Unlike his signature work Gloria Victis, that has numerous versions, reproductions and casts, Girl and Swan may be of just a few casts or may be unique. With Barbedienne foundry mark on the tree stump behind the left foot. Mercie used Barbedienne for many of his works. Purchased from Toulouse Antiques...

JUAN CLARÁ AYATS Spanish, 1878 - 1958 ART NOUVEAU SCULPTURAL BRONZE OF A BOY AND GIRL signed "Juan Clara" (on the lower left ) sculptural bronze 4-3/8 x 4-3/8 x 3-1/2 inches (11 X 11 X 9 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Spanish Collector Art Nouveau Bronze sculpture representing a boy and a girl sitting on a stool in a funny and surprised attitude to something they are seeing. Sgned "Juan Clará" lower left with the foundry seal and marks on the right side of the bench Juan Clará Ayats. Olot (Gerona), 6.XII.1875 - Paris (France), II.1958. Sculptor Student of José Berga at the Olot School of Fine Arts, developed his training in France, first at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, in 1896, and from 1901 in Paris. At this stage he lived with his younger brother, José Clará...

JUAN CLARÁ AYATS Spanish, 1878 - 1958 A GIRL SEATED ON A STOOL TYING HER SHOE signed "Juan Clara" and stamped A.G. Paris and marks L.R. 213 (on the stool ) bronze figure 6-3/8 x 3 x 4 inches (16 X 7.5 X 10 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Collector, Madrid A brown patia bronze sculpture of Art Nouveau style, depicting a little girl sitting on a sidewalk tying her shoe. The plasticity that Juan Clará achieves with the bronze when shaping this beautiful little sculpture is wonderful. We notice the effort that the little girl is making to put on her shoe, her gestures and attitudes which moves us and attracts us towards her. Juan Clará Ayats. Olot (Gerona), 6.XII.1875 - Paris (France), II.1958. Sculptor Student of José Berga at the Olot School of Fine Arts, developed his training in France, first at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, in 1896, and from 1901 in Paris. At this stage he lived with his younger brother, José Clará...