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Janos Kopitz (Hungarian 1872-1944) "AZ ELIVOTT HETIBER" (Drinking Away the Weekly Wages") signed bronze sculpture cast circa 1910
Dimensions: 25 inches in height by 21 inches in width by 16 inches in depth |
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Paul Darbefeuille (French 1855 - 1933) "La Libellule" The Dragonfly" Darbefeuille was a pupil of Jouffroy, Falguire and Mercie from the Toulouse school of French sculptors of the late 19 th and early 20th century. Art Nouveau dore bronze signed sculpture cast 1896 and exhibited at the Salon of the same year was edited in two sizes this being the larger. Superb quality cast initialed DU and with a foundry seal for Medaille D'Or Paris MD. The sculpture is listed in Benezit page 243, volume 4 .
Dimensions: Total height 17&1/2 inches. Height of sculpture alone 15&1/2 inches. Green Verdigris marble base with bronze circular fitted base 2 inches in height. Width of sculpture 9 &1/2 inches by 8&1/2 inches in depth. |
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Eugene Desire Piron (French1875-1928) Bacchanalian Wine Dance, circa 1920. Signed bronze, olive green/brown patinaed figural group on an unusual striated green marble base.
Dimensions:Total height 13&1/2 (includes 1 &1/2 inch marble base) by 10&1/4 in length |
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Albert Kraemer (German 1889-1962) “Drei Pelikane” (Three Pelicans). Bronze sculpture signed and dated 1936 with foundry Marks for Guss E. Barth. Kraemer was a prolific animalier sculptor known for monumental works in Berlin such as the Bear sculpture on the German Autobahn 12 Bridge.
Dimensions: Height 9 inches by 13&1/4 inches in length by 5 inches in depth |
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Friedrich Seidenstucker (German 1882-1962) Bronze signed sculpture of two snarling panthers. dated 1913-19, foundry marks for BUDERu.WIEBRCH A.N.FRIEDENAU Dimensions: Height 8 inches, by 22 inches in length, by 5 &1/2 inches in width |
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Louis Tuaillon (German 1862-1919) "Hercules wrestling the Erymanthian Boar". Early circa 1901 bronze sculpture from the plaster sketch. Similar versions in The Kunsthale Museum Bremen and in The Darmstadt Museum for the life size version that stands today in the Lutzowplatz Berlin.
Signed and with foundry marks for Martin & Piltzing Berlin, the first foundry to cast this sculpture in bronze. Dimensions: Total height 19&1/4 inches by 16 inches in length by 7&1/2 inches in width |
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Rinaldo Carnielo (Italian 1853-1910) "Lucifero and Faunessa", bronze signed and dated 1879, Unique bronze cast. Dimensions: Length 35 &1/2 inches, by 20 inches in width, by 14 inches in height |
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Sirio Tofanari (Italian 1886-1969) "Thomson's Gazelle". Sirio Tofanari was a self-taught Florentine sculptor and this work dates to 1905-1907. During this time he sent works from his studio in Florence to be exhibited in Berlin , San Francisco , London , Paris and Barcelona . He specialized in the depiction of rare and exotic animals and was in his day considered an important sculptor of the”animalisti artisti” throughout Europe. He studied animals in the two important zoos, London and Antwerp .A large proportion of his sculpture was destroyed during the 1939-1945 bombings of the Second World War. Early examples of this impressionist style are very rare.
The present bronze is a signed sculpture with foundry inscription from "Fonderia G.Vignali Firenze". (The G.Vignali Foundry for cire-perdu was in operation circa 1900 - 1930 and was also favored by the American sculptors Paul Manship Other works by Frederick George Richard Roth also bear the G.Vignali inscription.) Dimensions: Height 9 &1/4 inches 14inches in length by 11&3/4 inches in depth. |
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Antoine Coysevox (After)( French 1640-1720). Late 19th century bronze sculpture of Pan with an oak-leaf crown seated on a stump playing a flute with a small satyr behind him, inscribed Coysevox sculp and G.Sandoz Edit ( foundry ).The present sculpure a bronze reduction of the marble statue executed by Antoine Coysevox in 1708 for the Appartements Verts in the Gardens of Marly (today in the Louvre).
Dimensions:Height 27&1/2 inches by 12 &1/2 inches in width and depth |
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Toma Rosandic (Serbo-Croatian, 1879-1959) "Devica" Unique signed bronze bronze circa 1917. Provenance: From the collection of Sir Edward Maufe (best known for designing Guildford Cathedral). Exhibited in London 1930 and Fine Arts Society London 1986. Toma Rosandic, a Serbo-Croatian artist, was born in Split on the Dalmatian coast, the son of a stone worker. During the early years in Split, Croatia, Rosandic learned to carve in wood as well as stone .He toured Italy and exhibited in Milan and Belgrade in 1906 and 1912. With the outbreak of war Rosandic left for London where he exhibited at the Grafton Galleries in 1917 and later in Brighton and Edinburgh. It was here in the same year at the Grafton that he first exhibited the original model of Devica, which he had carved in walnut wood and from which one unique cast was authorized by Rosandic. Sir Hugh Casson commented that in this work one can appreciate the originality and personal style of Rosandic better than in any other. Many of his bronze projects at this time were cast at the Vozdovac Foundry. The Toma Rosandic Memorial Museum Belgrade, has a superb collection of his works including the original wood sculpture of Devica.This sculpture is illustrated in many books of early 20th century sculpture.
Dimensions: 66in high
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Toma Rosandic (back) |
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Leonard Craske (American 1882 -1950) "The Joy of Life " Marble signed and dated 1929 ( Exhibited at the California Legion of Honor Lincoln Park San Francisco April 27th, 1929, exhibition # 1325)
Dimensions: height 26 inches by 18 inches wide by 15 inches deep
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19th Century carving (After the Antique Giambologna Venus), Carrara marble
Dimensions: 52&1/4 inches high, octagonal base is 12&1/4 inches wide |
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After Johann Heinrich Von Dannecker (German 1758-1841)"Ariadne on the Panther" A circa 1900 Italian carved alabaster souvenir of the Grand Tour group, finely carved, the nude lady seated on a panther, holding a drape in her left hand
Dimensions: 23&1/2 inches high by 20 inches long by 10 inches wide |
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Antoine Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875) signed Barye twice, inscribed F. Barbedienne Fondeur Paris with gold foundry seal Collection F. Barbedienne |
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"Thesee Combatant Le Centaure" (Theseus and the Centaur) rear view
Dimensions: 30 & 1/2 inches high, by 25 & 1/2 inches wide, by 10 &1/2 inches deep
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Holme Cardwell (English 1815-1887) "Sabrina" A tour de force bronze cast with superb hand finishing signed and dated 1865 "Fecit Roma" Holme Cardwell was born in Manchester England and attended London's Royal Academy Schools in 1834, at the age of 19 winning a silver medal in 1839. He moved to Paris in 1841 and studied under David d'Angers (1788-1856), exhibiting with distinction at the Académie Royale In 1850. He settled in Rome in 1858, sending works to England for exhibition at the Royal Academy . The marble version of this sculpture was first exhibited at the Royal Academy London 1855 inventory number 1225 Roma (notating that the artist lived abroad) and Titled "Sabrina" and was displayed with the accompanying poem by John Milton. Sabrina Fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair, Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save. Dimensions: Total height 25 inches by 16 inches in diameter. (With accompanying wood pedestal made at a later date- 39 inches in height) |
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Marcel Bouraine (French 1886-1948),"Forest Nymph" Large and rare bronze sculpture with green patination, the robe silver leafed and brown enameled, Signed.
Dimensions: Total height 21&1/2 inches by 24 inches in length |
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Karoly Szekely (Hungarian 1882-1942)" Toilete de Venus", signed and dated 1931, bronze on pink marble base
Dimensions: height of bronze 15 1/2 inches and height of marble base 3 inches |
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Unsigned (German/Austrian Circa 1910 )"Bather", bronze
Dimensions: 23 inches high by 11 inches wide |
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Eugène Marioton (French 1854-1933) “Femme Jouant de la Double-Flute.” Bronze signed sculpture circa 1890.
Dimensions: Height 32 inches by 16&1/2 inches in width, diameter of base 6&3/4 inches. |
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Josef Vaclav Myslbek (Czech 1828-1922) "Music" Bronze. Early maquette circa 1892 cast from an original studio plaster.
Dimensions: Height 26&1/2 inches
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Géza Hiesz Szentesi (Hungarian1896-1975) Bronze sculpture signed and dated 1920.
Dimensions: Height 23 inches by 15 inches in width, Diameter of base 8&3/4 inches |
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