Academic Nudes of the 19th Century

Sunday, December 30, 2012

December 2012: Sculptures at Auction

I thought I would post some of the backlog of images I have from December. The first selection is from the myriad of sculptures up for auction in the various European Auction houses in December 2012. The lots range from bronzes and ceramics to a few figures in clay. Enjoy.

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French school- Late 19th Century: Krabbenfanger

Monnogrammist "GB" - Standing Nude Boy - ca. 1920

Charles Perron: Two Puti Carrying a Basket - 1880

Janet Scudder (1869-1940): Frog Baby - 1889

Peter Grossbach (1934-1988): Standing Boy

Unknown Artist: Nude Boy in Ivory - 19th Century

George Minne (1866-1941): L'adolescent I

Unknown Hungarian Artist: Nude Boy on a Lilypad - Glass Figure 1900

Unknown Artist: Nude Boy with Fish - Ceramic bowl

Ferdinand Sievert (?): Knabe vom Berge

Istvan Szentgyorgyi (1881-1931): Nude Boy

Unknown Artist (Early 20th Century): Standing Nude Boy

Mark Vedres (1870-1961): Nude Boy Playing The Flute

Unknown Artist - Art Deco Terracotta figure - Female Nude

Unknown Artist - French School - Circa 1900

Unknown Hungarian Artist: Pan baratsag kompozicioval - 1902

Unknown Italian Artist: Roman fighter

Johannes Gotz (1865-1934) Achillies

Unknown Artist - Italian School: Allegorie des Wassers Hohe

emmanuel Hannaux (1855-1934): Buste eines Kriegers mit Helm

Herman Haase (1879-1960): Abschied - Amazons

Paul Juckoff (1874-1936): Der Treueschwur (The Pledge of Allegiance)

Manno Miltiades (1880-1935): Kurzstreckenlaufer beim Start

Rudolf Marcuse (1878-1929): Schwertkampfer

Friedrich Goldscheider (1845-1897): Cast Ceramic Figure (After)

Unknown Hungarian Artist: Kneeling Male Nude

Unknown Italian Artist - Late 19th Century

Victor Heinrich Seifort (1870-1953): Griechischer Krieger mit Schwert

Unknown Artist: Standing Male Nude - ca. 1910-1920

Unknown Artist - Sitting Female Nude

Joseph Uphues (1850-1911): The Hunter

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Small Ceramics from the Rosenthal Factory - Early 20th Century:

Ferdinand Liebermann (1883-1941): All of the above Figures)

Paul Rosanowski (?): Above

Rudolf Marcuse (1878-1930): Female Figure ca. 1920

A. Caasmann (?): Ca. 1929

Monday, December 24, 2012

C. Bull (?): Pan Playing a Flute - Bronze circa 1900

This nice bronze study of the male physique posed as "Pan Playing the Flute" turned up on one of the European eBay auction sites last week .It is signed "C. Bull" and, unfortunately, I could find nothing on the artist. The Lauchhammer Foundry mark appears on the stand. Lauchhammer Foundry is a well known metals foundry in Germany.

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Alfred Waagner (1886-1960): Jugendstil Nudes - Circa 1920

I visited the Boris Wilnitsky Gallery website last week since it has been quite some time since my last visit. They have a discount sale running on many of their artworks for the holidays so if you are interested then please pay them a visit. They have several works by the Austrian painter and commercial artist Alfred Waagner (1886-1960) so I thought I would post them for you. Alfred Waagner was strongly under the influence of another famous Viennese artist, Gustav Klimt. Initially Waagner studied chemistry and mechanical engineering at the Technical Institute in Viennia but by 1907 his interest had changed to art. It was during this time that he became a pupil of the Viennese Art Nouveau artist, Professor Berthold Loeffler and even worked in his studio at the Vienna School of Applied Arts until 1912. He regularly exhibited with the Vienna Secessionists as early as 1913. In 1924, he had his first one-man show in Vienna.

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