1920s Nude Sculptures

Joy of the Waters is more than a beautiful bronze; it's a conceptual work in which a woman acts as if she were a column of water rushing skyward. Frishmuth's carefully crafted young...

Large Early 20th Century Figurative Bronze Sculpture of a Youth Releasing an Eagle Attributed to Otto Poertzel (1876–1963), Germany This striking early 20th-century figurative bronze...

Ahron Ben-Shmuel (American, 1903-1984) Rubenesque Reclining Nude, 1929 Painted plaster Signed and dated 7.5 x 9 x 6 inches Provenance: The Tatti Family Collection Ahron Ben-Shmuel w...

Gaston Lachaise (French, 1882-1935) "La Montagne" [The Mountain, LF 45], Patinated Bronze Sculpture, posthumously cast later, stamped "Lachaise Estate" and numbered edition "2/11", m...

Rare Italian statue in patinated stucco from the first half of the 20th century. The work depicts a vestal with an amphora, probably Hebe, Goddess of youth and handmaiden of the deit...

Breton Wrestlers Plaster Figurative Modern Male Sculpture Female Artist LGBT WPA Malvina Hoffman (American, 1885 - 1966) "Breton Wrestlers" 20 inches high Plaster Signed and titled BRETON WRESTLERS, PARIS, 1929 Stamped "MPI on the back of the base, likely a museum reproduction of the bronze. The Sculpture is recorded in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database under the Control Number: IAS 9E260042. Artist's quote about the subject: "The wrestlers were done from actual Breton athletes, at St. Guenole – the tip end of Finistere in Brittany, France. After I saw them on the beach there I persuaded them to come to Paris where I could finish the details of the three positions and have them authenticated. This form of wrestling, I am told, is no longer permitted, as there were too many serious accidents, and sometimes broken necks." -M. Hoffman April 27, 1962 Born in New York City, Malvina Hoffman was a portrait sculptor of pieces that expressed the fluid movement of dancers and lofty human values. She became especially noted for her hall-of-fame portraits including Paderewski, Pavlova, Wendell Wilkie and Katharine Cornell. Many of her pieces she carved in stone, and some of them were enormous in scale including war monuments. Her masterpiece is considered to be The Races of Man, done in 1933, commissioned by the Marshall Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. It had one-hundred five separate pieces, cast in bronze, depicting people from diverse cultures. She grew up in an art-oriented environment in Manhattan where her father was a pianist and music filled the house. She attended the Brearley School and took private art classes, first studying painting with John White Alexander. Changing to sculpture, she did her first work in 1909, a portrait bust of her father who died that year leaving the family in financial straits. However, his portrait was accepted for the National Academy of Design's annual exhibition and launched her career. She studied with Herbert Adams...

"La Comete" Iconic French Art Deco Silvered Bronze 1920s Female Nude Maurice Guirard-Riviere (1881 - 1947) La Comete Silvered bronze 23 inches wide x 19 3/4 inches high x 5 1/2 inc...

Philip Shelton Sears 1868-1953 was an American tennis player and sculptor. He was the son of Frederic Richard Sears and Albertina Homer Shelton. His brother Richard Sears, was also a...

Alfredo Angeloni (Lucca 1883 – Viareggio 1953), Diana cacciatrice (1926) Scultura in gesso di cm 96 x 96 x 50 firmata e datata 1926 sulla base.

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth Crest of the Wave, 1926 Signed and dated on base: HARRIET W. FRISHMUTH; stamped on base: GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS / QFMP Bronze, brown and green verdigris patina 66 H. x 16 W. x 15 D. inches Edition of 22 Harriet Frishmuth spent much of her youth traveling in Europe with her mother and sisters, attending school in Paris and summering in Switzerland. Her artistic development began in Switzerland when she took lessons in modeling from a Mrs. Hinton-possibly the American painter and sculptor Lucy Brownson Hinton. In Paris, she worked under Henri-Désiré Gauquié, Jean-Antoine Injalbert, and Auguste Rodin; in Berlin, under Cuno von Euchtritz; and in New York, under Solon Borglum and Hermon...

Breton Wrestlers Plaster Figurative Modern Male Sculpture Female Artist LGBT WPA Malvina Hoffman (American, 1885 - 1966) BRETON WRESTLERS, 20 inches, ...

Louise Ochsé (Belgian, 1884-1944) Le Challenge de Gramont, 1925 Bronze Signed and dated on base 21 x 12 x 9 inches Louise Ochsé was a Franco-Belgian sculptor. Born in Brussels, Belgium, she eventually moved to Paris and exhibited her works at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts between 1905 and 1914 and at the Salon de la Libre Esthétique from 1906 to 1912. Examples of her art include a bust of Maurice Ravel...