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Jan Anteunis Art Deco Female Statue Belgian Sculptor
Located in Oakland, CA
Art Deco female bronze sculpture by influential Belgian artist Jan Anteunis, who worked primarily in the city of Ghent. It is a large...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Cormorant
Located in PARIS, FR
Cormorant
by Auguste TREMONT (1892-1980)
Rare bronze with a black patina
signed at the bottom of the base "A. Tremont"
old cast by "C. Valsuani, cire perdue" (with the foundry stamp...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ducks
Located in PARIS, FR
Ducks
by Josette HEBERT-COEFFIN (1906-1973)
Sculpture made in stone
signed on the base "J. H. Coëffin"
France
circa 1930
height 10 cm
width 16,5 cm
depth 14,1 cm
Biography :
Jose...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
The Comedy
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre-Marie POISSON (1876-1953)
The Comedy
Bronze sculpture with black patina
signed on the base "P. Poisson"
Cast by Valsuani (with the foundry stamp)
Raised on a stone base
Fra...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hagenauer Modernist Sculpture Josephine Baker Made in Vienna Rare
Located in Oakland, CA
Karl Hagenauer (Austrian, 1898-1956) statue depicting the dancer Josephine Baker, cast brass in chrome finish, circa the 1930s. Stamped ATELIER HAGENAUER WIEN, MADE IN AUSTRIA with W...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Art Deco Diana Huntress and Leaping Antelope by Le Verrier and Demarco Base
By Max Le Verrier
Located in Oakland, CA
This is Diana the Huntress, a theme often repeated in Art Deco folklore. What makes this piece so spectacular: It has the style, small size and all the elements. The quality is of th...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Art Deco Bronze Female Statue by Belgian Artist M. D'Haveloose
Located in Oakland, CA
Bronze dancer, circa1930. Sculpture with black patina, by MARNIX D’HAVELOOSE (1885-1973). This classically interpreted nude dancer is rendered in an elegant Art Deco style. The signa...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Warrior Javelin Thrower by P. Hugonnet French 1930s
Located in Oakland, CA
Large original bronze by P. Hugonnet signed on the marble, it is depicting the classic javelin thrower. This is a very well-detailed and quite intense figure. Look at his face, his h...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Exotic Indian Art Deco Sculpted Head in Wood by Arias
Located in Oakland, CA
Original wood carved Peruvian Indian head in the Art Deco style. Lots of geometric and triangular details integrated within the head-dress. Interesting history imagines the face characteristics seem to be from a South American Indian origin. The piece somehow found its way to Israel where it was purchased on my behalf. The condition is excellent and the pose is very serious and intense. The artist Arias, Inca art...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Walking Figure
By Herbert Kallem
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Materials: bronze, possibly another metal, stone (base)
Dimensions (H, W, D): 16.25"h, 5"w, 4.5"d (base comprises approx. 1.25" of height)
Additional Information: Provenance: Collect...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Two Dancers Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Two Ballet Dancers Bronze Sculpture
Artist signed, AP I artist proof, the sculpture stands on a steel base made to be place in the garden original patin...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abstract Signed Cubist Bronze Sculpture "Cats" Chicago Bauhaus Woman Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
This listing is just for the sculpture. (the picture of the ad is for reference and is not included.)
Marie Zoe Greene-Mercier was an artist, writer and arts activist who worked in t...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Travertine, Bronze
Chest (1968) Sculpture by Allen Jones
By Allen Jones
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Allen Jones
(1937)
Chest (1968)
Sculpture. Silkscreen print on fiberglass published by Xartcollection
14 3/5 × 10 1/5 × 4 7/10 in
37 × 26 × 12 cm
An iconic example of Jones's early w...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass
“Expecting”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original terracotta sculpture by the American sculptor William Huppert. Titled “Expecting”. Circa 1960. Post Modern. Overall height 18 inches including base. Base is 6 wide by 5.25 ...
Category
Post-Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins (set of 4 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkins ceramic & plush (set of 4 works) : Yellow and Black, Red & White
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures & plushes feat...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Young woman seated with drapery
Located in PARIS, FR
Young woman seated with drapery
by Pierre-Marie POISSON (1876-1953)
Bronze sculpture with nuanced green patina
signed on the base "P. Poisson"
old cast
France
circa 1935-40
height...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Molt Clock : Dance of Time - Pate de verre sculpture, Signed - Daum
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) and Daum
Molt Clock : Dance of Time
Original pate de verre sculpture
Edited and handcrafted by the Daum crystal glassworks
Signed in the glass
approx. 10....
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Portrait of Albert Dubarry
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of Albert Dubarry
by Léon-Ernest DRIVIER (1878-1951)
Bronze with a nuanced greenish dark brown patina
signed "Drivier"
cast by "Montagutelli, Paris, cire perdue" (with the ...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Elephant Sculpture on Marble Styled Base
Located in Oakland, CA
Art Deco elephant sculpture on marble stylized base. Spelter metal with ivoroid ( synthetic) tusks is in the lucky position to go upward. This is a great piece, showing style and mov...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
Playboy Magazine Cover - College Cheerleaders at Football Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing revolutionary female illustrator/art director Bea Paul creates a three-dimensional mixed media assemblage of cut-out photos, fabric, and cut paper. It depicts two jumpi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Art Deco Bronze Statue of Man Pulling Boat Sculpture
Located in Oakland, CA
An Art Deco bronze sculpture of a man gripping a rope and pulling a rowboat ashore. It is a strong and unusual image, in contrast to the many images of men throwing spears or bending...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"Dancer" Male Nude, Figurative Sculpture by Davide Hare, Mid-Century Surrealist
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Dancer, circa 1955
Bronze with integral stand
68 high x 17 wide x 13 1/2 deep inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.”
Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp.
In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career.
After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen.
In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941.
World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors.
At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Group of Panthers by the French Artist Dominique Jean Baptiste Hugues
Located in Oakland, CA
Beautiful bronze Art Deco group of two panthers by the French artist Dominique Jean Baptiste Hugues. The sculpture has a lovely patina and stands on a Portoro marble base with onyx i...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Sculpture by Bouraine of Amazon Queen Penthesilea
Located in Oakland, CA
Iconic sculpture by Marcel Andre Bouraine of “Penthesilea, queen of the amazons”, is cast bronze in the rarest original antique silver color patina. Depicted is a nude woman archer i...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Portrait of Suzanne Vérité
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of Suzanne Vérité
by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
Bronze sculpture with a nuanced green patina
signed on the neck "M. Gimond"
cast by "Bisceglia, cire perdue" (with the foundr...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of Pierre Vérité
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of Pierre Vérité
by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
Bronze sculpture with a dark brown patina
signed on the neck "M. Gimond"
cast by "Bisceglia, cire perdue" (with the foundry st...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of a Man
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of a Man
by Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
Bronze with a very nuanced dark brown patina
signed on the neck with the monogram "MG"
period cast by "Meroni Radice, cire perdue, Par...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hagenauer Carved Wood with Bronze Base Sculpture Head of African Woman, 1930
Located in Oakland, CA
Hagenauer wood sculpture Head of African Woman. This beautiful sculpture was designed and manufactured by Hagenauer in Vienna in the 1930s during the Ar...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Charming French Art Deco Bronze Nude by F. Trinque, 1930
Located in Dallas, TX
French Art Deco bronze sitting nude by F. Trinque, 1930. A gorgeous Art Deco woman stretching her arms and drying her back with a towel possibly after a swim or bath with a rich gold...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lucien Gibert Bronze Statue 'The Archer' French Art Deco Sculpture
Located in Oakland, CA
Master sculptor Lucien Gilbert's famous “The Archer” sculpture embraces the finest in French bronze detailing of the period. The size, quality, and weight of this piece are impressiv...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Greyhound Dogs Bronze Sculpture Statue by S. Bizard
Located in Oakland, CA
Two Greyhound Dogs is a nickeled bronze sculpture by French artist Suzanne Bizard. It is a stylized figural and accurate rendering of a pair ...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Egèe assise h cm 140
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Pheasant
Located in PARIS, FR
Pheasant
by François Pompon (1855-1933)
Exceptional bronze with old gilded patina
Cast by Valsuani
Period cast
France
circa 1930
height 8,2 cm
length 14,2 cm
width 3,6 cm
A simila...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Israeli Modernist Arts & Crafts Copper Lion Plaque Bezalel Schatz Yaad Studio
By Bezalel Schatz
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand made in israel handwrought tray, platter in Silver plated copper modernist tray, engraving and hammer work, with a whimsical mod lion and design decorations. From the YAAD works...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Large Art Nouveau Terracotta Bust Sculpture Goldscheider 19th
Located in Gavere, BE
Terracotta bust of a young girl, the color mimicking the shadow of bronze sculptures,
a feature that established the fame of the Friederich Goldscheider ceramic manufactory in Vienna...
Category
Art Nouveau Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Terracotta
François, Marquis de Barbé-Marbois Portrait Sculpture After Honoré Daumier
Located in Plainview, NY
A sculpture of the portrait of François, Marquis de Barbé-Marbois originally crated by Honoré Daumier ( French, 1808 - 1879).
The sculpture made of carved wood is signed in the bott...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Maternitè allongee (petite)
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
French Art Deco Panther Leopard Panther Bookends by Maurice Frecourt, Statue
Located in Oakland, CA
Art Deco leopard panther bookends by the French artist Frecourt on a marble base. Fine animal detailing work is signed on the metal with the artist's name, France, and initial C.R. T...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Portrait of the Neapolitan actor Raffaele Viviani
Located in Roma, RM
Raffaelle "Lello" Scorzelli (Naples 1921 - Rome 1997), Portrait of Neapolitan actor Raffaele Viviani (1942)
Terracotta sculpture 38 x 51 x 26 cm signed and dated 1942 on the back of...
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Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Popeye Sailor European Sculpture Ebony and Metal Art Deco Hagenauer
Located in Oakland, CA
Popeye the Sailor is a European sculpture in the Hagenauer style made of Ebony wood and metal in the Art Deco style. We have had a few pieces in this treatment, including style and materials. They are scarce to find. This one is exciting since it is an homage to the character of Popeye. This sculpture has a slightly cubist feeling with black ebony and silver treatment, including the navy anchor on its arm, obviously inspired by the original Popeye.
It’s not a widely known fact that a natural person inspired E.C. Segar, the creator of Popeye. We have discovered that it was fashioned to resemble this man, Frank “Rocky” Fiegel, whose parents immigrated from Poland to the United States. Rocky was born in 1868-1947, and as an adult, he joined the Navy. He was considered very strong and smoked a pipe, one of the characteristics of the cartoon Popeye, which became such an essential icon of protection, not allowing bullying or being bullied.
This Popeye Sailor sculpture...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Bronze Art Deco Pair of Leaping Gazelle on Marble Base
Located in Oakland, CA
Bronze Art Deco Pair of Leaping Gazelle on Marble Base. This unique silhouette-style bronze piece showing the natural movement of these animals is from Europe. I always love the leap...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze Art Deco Lion Sculpture
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an Art Deco bronze statue of a lion with a great marble base of three tones inlaid in geometric shapes. The lion is powerfully rendered, and its expression and musculature ar...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Madonna of Notre Dame
Located in Täby, SE
This is a unique sculpture made of a bulding block in limestone from Notre Dame in 1949 by Einar Norman.
Gustav Einar Norman, born 12 February 1896 in Avesta, died 28 October 1950 i...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Panthers in the Jungle Art Deco Carved Gilt Wood Panel by N. R. Brunet
Located in Atlanta, GA
This sumptuous engraved wooden panel depicting panthers in the bush was created by N.R. Brunet (France, 20th Century). Art Deco design typical of the period, N.R. Brunet is known for...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold
After Alberto Giacometti, Man Standing Up, Bronze Figure
Located in Pasadena, CA
Modern bronze with gold patina figural sculpture, in the style of Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901-1966), not signed, depicting abstract nude male a figures, in a parcel gilt finish, ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maternité Allongée cm 90
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Reaching (bronze hand)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Reaching, ca. 1980. Cast bronze. Signed in lower region on wrist.
A rare example from the artist's later period influenced by figurative abstraction with expressionist tendencies.
James Edward Lewis (August 4, 1923 – August 9, 1997) was an African-American artist, art collector, professor, and curator in the city of Baltimore. He is best known for his role as the leading force for the creation of the James E. Lewis Museum of Art, an institution of the HBCU Morgan State University. His work as the chairman of the Morgan Art Department from 1950 to 1986 allowed for the museum to amass a large collection of more than 3,000 works, predominantly of African and African diasporan art.[1] In addition, he is also well known for his role as an interdisciplinary artist, primarily focused on sculpture, though also having notable examples of lithography and illustration. His artistic style throughout the years has developed from an earlier focus on African-American history and historical figures, for which he is most notable as an artist, to a more contemporary style of African-inspired abstract expressionism.
Early and personal life
James E. Lewis was born in rural Phenix, Virginia on August 4, 1923 to James T. Lewis and Pearline (Pearlean) Harvey.[5] Lewis' parents were both sharecroppers. Shortly after his birth, his father moved to Baltimore for increased job opportunity; James E. was subsequently raised by his mother until the family was reunited in 1925. They lived for a short time with distant relatives until moving to a four-bedroom house on 1024 North Durham Street in East Baltimore, a predominantly African-American lower-class neighborhood close to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Lewis' primary school, PS 101, was the only public school in East Baltimore that served black children. Lewis grew up in a church-going family, his parents both active members of the Faith Baptist Church, devoting the entirety of their Sundays to church activities. His parents worked a variety of different jobs throughout his youth:[6] his father working as a stevedore for a shipping company, a mechanic, a custodian, a mailroom handler,[6] and an elevator operator.] His mother worked as both a clerk at a drugstore[7] and a laundress for a private family.[4]
Lewis' primary exposure to the arts came from Dr. Leon Winslow, a faculty member at PS 101 who Lewis saw as "providing encouragement and art materials to those who wanted and needed it." In fifth grade, Lewis transferred to PS 102. Here, he was able to receive specialized Art Education in Ms. William's class under the guidance of Winslow. He was considered a standout pupil at PS 102 as a result of his introduction to the connection between the arts and the other studies. His time spent in Ms. Pauline Wharton's class allowed for him to experiment with singing, to which he was considered a talented singer. His involvement in this class challenged his earlier belief that singing was not a masculine artistic pursuit. He was able to study both European classics and negro spirituals, which was one of his earliest introductions to arts specific to American black culture. Under Ms. Wharton's direction, he was also involved in many different musical performances,[6] including some works of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project.[8] Lewis attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, where his love of the arts was heightened through his industrial art class with Lee Davis...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Two Figures
By Robert Chester Thomas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Two Figures, 1949, ebony wood, 24 x 7 x 5 inches, unsigned, but comes from Thomas' daughters ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Ebony
Vestale debout d'après Volti
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 1 copy ( 1/1 )
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Brutalist Hand Forged Iron Mosaic Sculpture Menorah Israeli David Palombo
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand Forged Iron Stone Mosaic Hanukah Menorah Candelabra
David Palombo was an Israeli sculptor and painter. He was born in Turkey to a traditional family and immigrated to the Land of Israel with his parents in 1923. They lived in the Nahalat Shiva neighborhood of Jerusalem. In 1940 he began his studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and from 1942 was a student of sculptor Ze’ev Ben-Zvi. For a period of time, Palombo was an assistant at Ben-Zvi’s studio and also taught at Bezalel. During this period he was also a member of the “Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed” (The General Federation of Students and Young Workers in Israel). In the 1940s he took art lessons at night. In 1948 he went to Paris, where he visited the studio of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi whose work influenced him. Around 1958 he married the artist Shulamit Sirota. In 1960 he quit his job to devote himself to art. In 1964 he married for the second time to the artist Yona Palombo. The two of them went to live in an abandoned home on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. In 1966 he was killed when the motorcycle on which he was riding ran into a chain stretched across the street to prevent the desecration of Shabbat. His widow opened a museum in their home that was active until the year 2000.
Work by Palombo is included in the Judaic collection of the Jewish Museum (a well known Hanukkah menora). Palombo executed the impressive metal gates of the Tent of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem, the memorial to the martyrs of the holocaust, as well as the gates to the Knesset Building the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco award) awarded him a scholarship for study in Japan. He worked in marble, granite, bronze, iron and steel. as well as with glass mosaic tiles. Palombo’s early works, in the 1950s, were influenced by modernist sculptors such as Brancusi. These works were composed of abstract images from nature and were carved out of stone or wood. At the end of the 1950s he began making metal sculptors, using the technique of welding. His work took on a more abstract and expressive character.
Education
1940 Painting with Isidor Ascheim, New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts, Jerusalem
1942 Sculpture with Zeev Ben Zvi, Jerusalem
1956 Mosaic, Ravenna, Italy
1958 Welding Course
Awards And Prizes
1966 UNESCO Award
Exhibitions:
Sculpture in Israel, 1948-1958 Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
Artists: Zvi Aldouby, Yitzhak Danziger, Arieh Merzer, Dov Feigin, Aaron Priver, David Palumbo, Menashe Kadishman, Kosso Eloul, Yehiel Shemi, Zahara Schatz.
The Spring Exhibition of Jerusalem Artists, Artists' House, Jerusalem
Artists: Palombo, David Bezalel Schatz, Mordechai Levanon, Fima, Ludwig Blum
12 Artists, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
Avraham Ofek, Aviva Uri, Avigdor Arikha, Yosl Bergner, Lea Nikel, Palombo, Ruth Zarfati...
Category
Arte Povera Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Iron
Femme Fleur
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 Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Egee debout h cm 50
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Red Starfish - ceramic tile - 1954
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador DALI (after)
Red Starfish
Handpainted ceramic tile
Signed in the pattern
8 x 8" (20x20cm)
Edited in 1954 by Maurice Duchin and hand crafted in atelier MPG under the control...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Femme chiffonnée monumentale
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Egee assise h cm 70
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Petite Femme Chiffonnèe
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, ...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Mid Century Sgraffito, Saltimbanque and the Card Player, Circle of Picasso.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
DeGroot Brutalist MCM Brass & Metal Owl Sculpture, Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
A brutalist Mid- Century Modern sculpture of an owl by Willem DeGroot ( Netherlands, 20th Century ). The sculpture is made of brass and metal and showing an owl stating on a branch ...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper
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