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Period: 1960s
Original 1969 Surrealist Bronze, Marble Sculpture Alma Del Quijote Salvador Dali
Located in Surfside, FL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) –
Surrealist bronze sculpture by Salvador Dalí depicting an interpretation of the soul of Don Quiote. The sculpture is mounted on...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bintou Italy 1969 Abstract Bronze Sculpture by Andrea Picini
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an intense bronze abstract sculpture and it was created by the Italian artist Andrea Picini. This artwork is a multiple of 70 specimens and it is numbered 69/70. It is signed...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Visage au nez noir, Pablo Picasso, Pitcher, Design, Multiple, Atelier Madoura
Located in Geneva, CH
Visage au nez noir
January 9th, 1969
Ed. 176/200 pcs
White earthenware clay, decoration in engobes engraved by knife under partial brushed glaze, grey patina
Stamped and inscribed un...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware
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 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Vintage White Figurative Westmoreland Milk Glass Bowl
Located in East Quogue, NY
Whimsical white vintage 1960s Westmoreland milk glass bowl with figure-shaped lattice detail.
Size: 4" tall x 8" diameter
Great vintage condi...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of 5 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Set of 5 Pumpkins:
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin figures feature the universal polka dot patterns and bold colors for which the ...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Medusa White Porcelain Sicilian Artist Made Sculpture
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1282 Hand made white porcelain Medusa Sculpture
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Pablo Picasso, "Face Plate .130"
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an A.R. round plate by Pablo Picasso, created in 1963. It is made with white earthenware clay plate, decoration in engobes and enamel under glaze in black, red, green, ...
Category
Post-Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Chateau des Oiseaux
By Jean Arp
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jean Arp
Château des Oiseaux
Bronze
Signed "Arp"
Edition 5/5
Provenance: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Conceived in 1963, cast in bronze in an edition of 5 between 1967 and 1969.
J...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of 3 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Set of 3 Pumpkins: Yellow and Black, Red & White and Red & Black
Naoshima:
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures feature the universal polka dot patterns and bold colors for which the artist is perhaps best known. Kusama first used the pumpkin at the 1993 Venice Biennale for the Japanese pavilion and since then it has appeared worldwide in various iterations, to ever rising acclaim and popularity.
Medium: Painted cast resin.
Red/White, Yellow/Black c. 2015. Red & Black Naoshima pumpkin...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Kusama Pumpkin (Kusama yellow & black large plush pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Yellow & Black Pumpkin (plush):
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art piece - this large Kusama plush pumpkin features the universal polka do...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Nylon, Screen
Yayoi Kusama Skateboard deck (Yayoi Kusama MoMa)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Skateboard Deck:
This Kusama skateboard deck features Kusama's Dots Obsession imagery and makes for standout Kusama wall art that ...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Lithograph, Offset
PABLO PICASSO - Petit visage barbu
Located in BRUCE, ACT
PABLO PICASSO (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Petit visage barbu (A.R. 557)
Verso impressed "Madoura Plein Feu" and "Empreinte Originale de Picasso"
Hand-numbered "J139A 9/100"
Size 17.2 X 17...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Latin American Sculpture by Raúl Valdivieso
Located in Washington, DC
Bronze sculpture by Latin American sculptor Raúl Valdivieso (Chilean, 1931-1993). Valdivieso is known for his reinterpretation of the classic organic forms and human figures.
Raúl Valdiveso was born September 9, 1931 in Santiago, Chile. In 1952 he began his studies at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile. There he took to sculpture and studied under professors like Marta Colvin...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kusama Pumpkin pumpkin Red and Black (Kusama Naoshima)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Red & Black Pumpkin 2019:
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art piece - this rare, sought-after red Kusama pumpkin sculpture features the universal polka dot patterns and...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Untitled -- Sculpture, Steel, Minimalism, Contemporary Art by Donald Judd
By Donald Judd
Located in London, GB
Untitled, 1967
Donald Judd
From Ten From Leo Castelli
Folded stainless steel multiple
Signed in black felt-tip pen and numbered from the edition 186 of 200
on a paper label affix...
Category
Minimalist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Monumental Panel of 15 Brutalist Relief Sculptures by Ron Hitchins
Located in London, GB
Monumental panel of 15 handmade fibreglass relief sculptures from the artist's own home. Each sculpture is signed and unique, with beautiful tarnished...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Paint, Walnut
Untitled (Wheat)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Bertoia's "wheat" pieces are rare and a joy. These works do not make sound when one touches the tines and is meant less to be touched than to convey an organic feel of sunlight rippling through stalks of golden wheat. This is a great size for a table.
An unusual composition for Bertoia, Untitled (Wheat) combines elements with the artist’s more familiar Tonals with those of the Sprays. Typical of the artist’s œuvre however is the pleasant sensation of touch when stroking the ends of the wires. Bertoia’s spray sculptures...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Steel
Curly Haired Face (Visage aux cheveux bouclés), 1968-1969
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This exquisite ceramic impression captures the face of a man. With textured curls cascading down the side of his face and a thin defined nose with wide gazing eyes, he appears to be ...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Ceramic
The Lady maquette, replica of Chicago Picasso sculpture, American Bridge Company
Located in New York, NY
(After) Pablo Picasso
The Lady (Maquette), ca. 1967
Mixed Media Sculpture edition Cor-ten Steel
This maquette is based upon the original Chicago Picasso-a monumental sculpture by Pablo Picasso in Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture, dedicated on August 15, 1967, in Daley Plaza in the Chicago Loop...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Steel
Maquette for Laureate (unique sculpture)
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Lipton
Maquette for Laureate, ca. 1968-1969
Nickel silver on monel metal
Unique
18 × 8 1/2 × 7 inches
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1969
thence by descent
Christie's New York: Monday, June 30, 2008 [Lot 00199]
Acquired from the above Christie's sale This unique sculpture by important Abstract Expressionist sculptor Seymour Lipton is a maquette of the monumental sculpture "Laureate" - one of Lipton's most iconic and influential works located on the Riverwalk in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Laureate is a masterpiece that was commissioned by the Allen-Bradley Company in memory of Harry Lynde Bradley and as an enhancement for the newly constructed Performing Arts Center. It is located on the east bank of the Milwaukee River at 929 North Water Street. The Bradley family in Milwaukee were renowned patrons of modernist sculpture, known for their excellent taste who also founded an eponymous sculpture park. For reference only is an image of the monumental "Laureate" one of Milwaukee's most beloved public sculptures. According to the Smithsonian, which owns a different unique variation of this work, "The full-size sculpture Laureate was commissioned by the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee. In the initial drawings, Seymour Lipton combined details from the architectural plan with a wide variety of images, ranging from musical instruments to a lighthouse on the island of Tobago. He transformed the basic shapes from these sketches into a welded sculpture, which evokes a figure composed of columns, harp strings, and coiled rope. Lipton created this piece to celebrate achievement in the arts. The dramatic silhouette commands your attention, reflecting the title Laureate, which means worthy of honor and distinction. The final version of the piece is over twelve feet high and stands out against the pale, flat buildings of the arts center.,,"
Provenance
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1969
thence by descent
Christie's New York: Monday, June 30, 2008 [Lot 00199]
Acquired from the above Christie's sale
About Seymour Lipton:
Born in New York City in 1903, Seymour Lipton (1903-1986) grew up in a Bronx tenement at a time when much of the borough was still farmland. These rural surroundings enabled Lipton to explore the botanical and animal forms that would later become sources for his work. Lipton’s interest in the dialogue between artistic creation and natural phenomena was nurtured by a supportive family and cultivated through numerous visits to New York’s Museum of Natural History as well as its many botanical gardens and its zoos. In the early 1920s, with the encouragement of his family, Lipton studied electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and pursued a liberal arts education at City College. Ultimately, like fellow sculptor Herbert Ferber, Lipton became a dentist, receiving his degree from Columbia University in 1927. In the late 1920s, he began to explore sculpture, creating clay portraits of family members and friends.
In addition to providing him with financial security, dentistry gave Lipton a foundation in working with metal, a material he would later use in his artwork. In the early 1930s, though, Lipton’s primary sculptural medium was wood. Lipton led a comfortable life, but he was also aware of the economic and psychological devastation the Depression had caused New York. In response, he generally worked using direct carving techniques—a form of sculpting where the artist “finds” the sculpture within the wood in the process of carving it and without the use of models and maquettes. The immediacy of this practice enabled Lipton to create a rich, emotional and visual language with which to articulate the desperation of the downtrodden and the unwavering strength of the disenfranchised. In 1935, he exhibited one such early sculpture at the John Reed Club Gallery in New York, and three years later, ACA Gallery mounted Lipton’s first solo show, which featured these social-realist-inspired wooden works. In 1940, this largely self-taught artist began teaching sculpture at the New School for Social Research, a position he held until 1965.
In the 1940s, Lipton began to devote an increasing amount of time to his art, deviating from wood and working with brass, lead, and bronze. Choosing these metals for their visual simplicity, which he believed exemplified the universal heroism of the “everyman,” Lipton could also now explore various forms of abstraction. Lipton’s turn towards increasing abstraction in the 1940s allowed him to fully develop his metaphorical style, which in turn gave him a stronger lexicon for representing the horrors of World War II and questioning the ambiguities of human experience. He began his metal work with cast bronze sculptures, but, in 1946, he started welding sheet metal and lead. Lipton preferred welding because, as direct carving did with wood, this approach allowed “a more direct contact with the metal.”[ii] From this, Lipton developed the technique he would use for the remainder of his career: “He cut sheet metal, manipulated it to the desired shapes, then joined, soldered, or welded the pieces together. Next, he brazed a metal coating to the outside to produce a uniform texture.”[iii]
In 1950, Lipton arrived at his mature style of brazing on Monel metal. He also began to draw extensively, exploring the automatism that abstract expressionist painters were boasting at the time. Like contemporaries such as Jackson Pollock, Lipton was strongly influenced by Carl Jung’s work on the unconscious mind and the regenerative forces of nature. He translated these two-dimensional drawings into three-dimensional maquettes that enabled him to revise his ideas before creating the final sculpture.The forms that Lipton produced during this period were often zoomorphic, exemplifying the tension between the souls of nature and the automatism of the machine.
In the years following the 1950s, Lipton’s optimism began to rise, and the size of his work grew in proportion. The oxyacetylene torch—invented during the Second World War—allowed him to rework the surfaces of metal sculptures, thus eliminating some of the risks involved with producing large-scale finished works. In 1958, Lipton was awarded a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale and was thus internationally recognized as part of a small group of highly regarded avant-garde constructivist sculptors. In 1960, he received a prestigious Guggenheim Award, which was followed by several prominent public commissions, including his heroic Archangel, currently residing in Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall.
A number of important solo exhibitions of his work followed at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC (1964); the Milwaukee Art Center and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1969); the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (1972); the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY (1973); the Herbert E. Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY (1973); the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) in Washington, DC (1978); and a retrospective in 1979 at The Jewish Museum in New York. In 1982 and 1984 alone, two exhibitions of his sculpture, organized respectively by the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC) and the Hillwood Art Gallery of Long Island University (Greenvale, NY), traveled extensively across museums and university galleries around the nation. In 2000, the traveling exhibition An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton was first presented by the Palmer Museum of Art of Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Most recently, in 2009, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC mounted The Guardian and the Avant-Garde: Seymour Lipton’s Sentinel II in Context.
Since 2004, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has been the exclusive representative of the Estate of Seymour Lipton and has presented two solo exhibitions of his work—Seymour Lipton: Abstract Expressionist Sculptor (2005) and Seymour Lipton: Metal (2008). In 2013, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presented Abstract Expressionism, In Context: Seymour Lipton, which included twelve major sculptures by the artist, along with works by Charles Alston, Norman Bluhm, Beauford Delaney, Willem de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Michael Goldberg, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, Norman Lewis, Conrad Marca-Relli, Boris Margo, Alfonso Ossorio, Richard Pousette-Dart, Milton Resnick, Charles Seliger...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Silver
Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Pendant Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Modernist Jewelry
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 4.25 X 2.25 inches. Box frame is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not kn...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Liberty vs Slavery Van Loen Bronze Abstract Chess Set Modernist Museum Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Alfred Van Loen signed 32 piece chess set. In heavy solid bronze.
Rare Chess Game: Liberty versus Slavery
Dimensions:
a) Joy-Tenderness H. 6 3/16 in. a...
Category
Expressionist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Panel of 9 Original Modernist Relief Sculptures by Ron Hitchins
Located in London, GB
Stunning original panel made of 9 handmade fibreglass relief sculptures from the artist's own home. Each sculpture is unique, with beautiful rust and copper tones, and several are signed by the artist.
This very large, striking piece has a great Brutalist and Modernist feel. It is particularly notable as an example of Hitchin’s mastery of finishing techniques in simulating aged metal. The relief sculptures were visible outside of Ron’s house and became a Hackney landmark. They were carefully removed by the artist's estate after Ron passed away.
Year: unknown (Ron was active from the mid 1960s to the early 2000s)
Colour: Rust and copper tones
Signature: 5 of the relief sculptures bear the artist's trademark initials “RH”
Framing: The sculptures have been carefully mounted on a cotton covered board with a walnut wood trim and a hidden subrame on the reverse for ease of hanging.
Authenticity: This piece was purchased directly from the Artist's Estate and comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the sole executor of the Ron Hitchins...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Fiberglass, Paint, Board
Large Brutalist Mirror with 144 Terracotta Tiles and Metal Frames - Ron Hitchins
Located in London, GB
Stunning original mirror made by the artist, with 144 uniquely handmade terracotta tiles. Signed by the artist in one of the tiles. This large, striking mirror has a great Brutalist and Modernist feel. Another slightly smaller mirror of the same style is available on our page.
Year: unknown (Ron was active from the mid 1960s to the early 2000s)
Colour: Tuscan red...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Bronze Sculpture on Wood Base by Leonardo Nierman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leonardo Nierman
Title: Untitled (Sculpture B)
Year: circa 1968
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, raised on Wood Base, signature and number inscribed
Edition: III/VI
Size: 32 x 9.25 ...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Original Modernist Relief Sculpture by Ron Hitchins
Located in London, GB
A striking and completely unique abstract fibreglass sculpture from the artist's own home.
Year: unknown (Ron was active from the mid 1960s to the early 2000s)
Colour: Concrete
Fram...
Category
Outsider Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Fiberglass, Paint, Board
Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Pendant Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 5.25 X 3.75 inches. Box is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not know if ...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Bronze
1967 Pop Art, May Wilson, Surrealist Feminist Junk Assemblage Painted Sculpture
By May Wilson
Located in Surfside, FL
May Wilson (1905–1986) was an American artist and figure in the 1960s New York City avant-garde art world. A pioneer of the feminist and mail art movement, she is best known for her Surrealist junk assemblages and her "Ridiculous Portrait" photo collages.
Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into an underprivileged family. Her father died when she was young. She was reared by her Irish Catholic mother, who sewed piecework at home. Wilson left school after the ninth grade to become a stenographer/secretary to help support her family. When she turned 20, she married a young lawyer, William S. Wilson, Jr., and give birth to her first child. She continued to work until the birth of her second child, after which she devoted her energies primarily to mothering and homemaking. In 1942, the couple had prospered enough to move to Towson, Maryland, where she began to take correspondence courses in art and art history from several schools, including the University of Chicago. In 1948, after the marriage of their daughter, the couple moved to a gentleman's farm north of Towson, where she pursued painting and gave private art lessons to neighbors. She exhibited her paintings, scenes of everyday life painted in a flat, purposefully primitive manner in local galleries and restaurants. In 1952 and 1958, she won awards for work submitted to juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
In 1956, her son, the writer Williams S. Wilson, gave to Ray Johnson, the founder of the New York Correspondence School, his mother's address. This began a friendship and artistic collaboration between Johnson and Wilson, which would last the remainder of her life. Wilson became an integral part of Johnson's mail art circle and was initiated into the New York avant-garde through letters and small works that she exchanged with Robert Watts, George Brecht, Ad Reinhardt, Leonard Cohen, Arman, and many others.
When her marriage dissolved, she moved to New York City in the spring of 1966, aged 61, taking up residence first in the Chelsea Hotel and then in a studio next door, where she threw legendary soirées and became known as the "Grandma Moses of the Underground". By the time she arrived, Wilson was already working with photomontage collage techniques. Encouraged by Johnson, who had sent her magazines through the mail, she scissored patterns into images of pin-up girls and muscle men until they resembled doilies or snowflakes, as Wilson called them. She decorated her hotel room and later her studio on West 23rd Street with these and other manipulated, found object images. Around this time, she also began her series of neo Dada "Ridiculous Portraits", for which she would ride the subway to Times Square, where she made exaggerated faces in photo booths. She then would cut and paste her photo-booth face onto postcards, along with Old Master reproductions, fashion shoots, and softcore Playboy magazine pornography. Long before artists such as Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura embarked on similar critical projects, Wilson's "Ridiculous Portraits" sent up the ubiquitous sexism and ageism that exists in popular and fine-art images of women.
At the age of 70, she converted a nude photograph of herself into a stamp that she pasted on envelopes. Her collages and humorous self-portraits were made as gifts and mail-art items for her friends and were not widely known until after her death. Her work was contemporaneous with the Arte Povera artists Jannis Kounellis and Michelangelo Pistoletto. She was also an innovator of junk art assemblages that incorporated real objects, such as high-heel shoes, bed sheets, sauce pans, toasters, liquor bottles, ice trays, and wrapped baby dolls. Her sculptures were inspired by Surrealist and Dada practices and are similar in spirit to Yayoi Kusama's contemporary accumulations. Wilson was the subject of a 1969 experimental documentary by Amalie R. Rothschild, "Woo Hoo? May Wilson".
Since her death, May Wilson's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and retrospectives at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York; the Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J.; the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City; and The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
Selected Exhibitions
2010 "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968", University of the Arts, Philadelphia (traveling exhibition)
2008 "1968/2008: The Culture of Collage", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, City
2008 "Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson", Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
2008 "Woo Who? May Wilson", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City
1995 [Retrospective], The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
2001 "May Wilson: Ridiculous Portraits and Snowflakes", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, City
2001 "Inside Out: Outside In-The Correspondence of Ray Johnson and May Wilson", Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, California
1991 "May Wilson: The New York Years", Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City
1973 "Sneakers", Kornblee Gallery, New York City
1973 "Small Works: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art", RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
1971 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1970 "Sculpture Annual 1970", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1965 The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
1962 The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
1957 Bookshop Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Public collections
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City)
The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, Maryland)
Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York)
References
William S. Wilson, "May Wilson: Constructing Woman (1905-1986)", in Ann Aptaker, ed., Ridiculous Portrait: The Art of May Wilson, ed. Ann Aptaker, Morristown, N.J.: Morris Museum,
Camhi, Leslie, "Late Bloomer", Village Voice, December 18, 2001
Giles, Gretchen, "Cosmic Litterers: Artists Ray Johnson and May Wilson: Taking the Cake", "Northern California Bohemian," June 14–20, 2001
McCarthy, Gerard, "May Wilson: Homespun Rebel", Art in America, vol. 96, no. 8, September 2008, pp. 142–47
Sachs, Sid and Kalliopi Minioudaki, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968. Philadelphia: The University of the Arts, 2010, ISBN 978-0789210654
Wilson, William S. Art is a Jealous Lover: May Wilson: 1905-1986, andy warhol...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By Tony Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
This stunning Mid Century Modern welded bronze sculpture was realized by the esteemed 20th Century artist Tony Rosenthal circa 1965. Signed and dated by the artist (and with an inclu...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Brutalist Mexican Sculpture Pendant Surrealist Stone Necklace Pal Kepenyes
By Pal Kepenyes
Located in Surfside, FL
Chain is 23.5 inches long.
Pendant is 3.75 X 2 X 1 inches
This piece is not signed. but the chain matches completely with the signed one that I have.
Pal Kepenyes is a sculptor and researcher of Hungarian art, whose artistic production includes sculptures of small and medium format, jewelry and miniature decorative pieces, all made by hand, without any machinery.
Wearable art. Sculptural pendant on matching chain cast in polished bronze or brass. Reminiscent of Harry Bertoia. Organic Modernism. Mod, space age, handmade artisan, studio jewelry.
Pal Kepenyes, wearable art pioneer. sculptor, goldsmith, jeweler, artist, was born in 1926 in Hungary. His creative talent, specifically in creating sculpted works, was evident early on. He moved to Budapest, where he first studied at the University of Arts and Crafts and later at the Academy of Fine Arts. His professor, Beni Ferenczy was one of Hungary's most influential sculptors. Pal Kepenyes (20/21st century) is active/lives in Hungary, Mexico. Pal Kepenyes is known for sculpture, jewelry making, miniature decorative pieces especially influenced by Mexican folk art and folklore. His work also includes animals, lions, tigers, fish, nude figures and milagros.
He began his studies at the School of Decorative Arts in Budapest, and then was a prisoner of war during the Stalinist regime. In 1956, at the end of the Hungarian Revolution, he finally was released and left the country for Paris, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts.
In 1956, he also traveled to Mexico, a country to which he has been devoted for the rest of his life because of his attraction pre-hispanic cultures. Along with Pedro Friedeberg, Arnold Coen, Vladimir Cora, Byron Galvez, Mathias Goeritz, Leonardo Nierman, Gabriel Orozco...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of 3 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Set of 3 Pumpkins: Yellow and Black, Red & White and Red & Black
Naoshima:
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures feature the ...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of 2 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Set of 2 Pumpkins: Red & White and Red & Black
Naoshima:
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures feature the universal polka do...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Oculist witnesses (après Marcel Duchamp) glass sculpture with silver screenprint
Located in New York, NY
"The Arts Council of Great Britain asked Richard Hamilton to organise a Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1966. The almost complete works of Marcel Duchamp opened on 18 Ju...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Kusama Pumpkins (Set of 2 works)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Set of 2 Pumpkins: Yellow and Black & Red & Black Naoshima:
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art set - these small Kusama pumpkin sculptures feature the universal polka...
Category
Pop Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Girl Seated a la Japonaise Bronze Sculpture Morris Singer Foundry.
By Helaine Blumenfeld
Located in Surfside, FL
Girl Seated a la Japonaise, 1964, polished bronze. It was exhibited at The Chapman Gallery NYC in 1968. Cast at Morris Singer Foundry and numbered 4/6 signed with the artists monogram.
Helaine Blumenfeld OBE (born, New York 1942) is an American Sculptor working in Britain and Italy, best known as an artist who has pioneered new methods of carving in stone and for her semi-abstract marble, granite and bronze sculptures which are located around the world as Public art. Her forms are often abstractions of human forms and of elements in nature. She is widely recognized as the most significant sculptor of her generation and "the heir apparent to HenryMoore and Barbara Hepworth."
In 1973, Blumenfeld, who had recently moved to England, exhibited at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge England. These early sculptures, which were mostly cast in bronze were largely figurative work in the tradition of sculptors such as Constantin Brâncuși, Jacob Epstein, Jean Arp, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore and of course her one time teacher Ossip Zadkine. In 1985, the Alex Rosenberg Gallery in New York showed her sculpture in dialogue with Henry Moore
In 1978, Blumenfeld's first visit to Pietrasanta in Italy marked a turning point in her work as she started carving in marble, mostly at Studio Sem, founded in the 1950s by Sem Ghelardini (1927-1997) who gained international notoriety producing the large scale works of Henry Moore, César Baldaccini, Emile Gilioli, Joan Mirò, Georges Adam and many other celebrated sculptors during the first wave of modern abstract sculpture in the 1960s.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Blumenfeld's sculpture, now less clearly figurative but still often of portraying couples and family units in multiple configurations, was exhibited at the Bonino Gallery in New York and in solo and group shows around the world. A member of the Visual Arts Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain between 1981 and 1988, Blumenfeld was elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1993.
Blumenfeld has created over 80 large scale sculptures in bronze, granite, marble and steel in Europe and the United States for private and public clients, including the British Petroleum headquarters in London, the Lincoln Center in New York the Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood and Family (Blumenfeld) at the Henry Reuss Plaza in Milwaukee and The Lancasters at Lancaster Gate in London. At Cambridge University, her sculpture has been commissioned by Clare Hall (Flame, 2004) and Newnham College...
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1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Gilt Bronze Sculpture Brooch Wearable Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 3.75 X 3.5 inches. Box is 11 X 11 inches. (Piece is in excellent condition. box frame has some minor wear and piece might need to be remounted, it has been removed and...
Category
Surrealist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Necklace Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 4 X 3.75 inches. Box frame is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not know ...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold, Bronze
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin (Kusama large plush pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin (plush):
An iconic, vibrantly colored pop art piece - this large (21.5 x 21.5 in.) Kusama plush pumpkin features the universal polka dot patterns and bold colors...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Nylon, Screen
Mid Century Modern Vintage Assemblage Abstract Wall Sculpture Female Artist
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mid Century modern vintage assemblage abstract wall sculpture by Mary Kremer.
Category
Assemblage 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Helios, 1967
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This magnificent work by Victor Vasarely displays an intricate interplay of green optical figures against a clear background in a three-dimensional medium. It offers a fascinating vi...
Category
Op Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass, Screen
The Throne, Unique Enamel Painted Chair Sculpture by Alan Siegel
By Alan Siegel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alan Siegel, American (1938 - )
Title: The Throne
Year: 1967
Medium: Enamel On Laminated Wood, signed on bottom
Size: 40 x 23.5 x 20 in. (101.6 x 59.69 x 50.8 cm)
Category
Contemporary 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"The Trap" Hayward Oubre, Painted Wire Sculpture, Black Artist
Located in New York, NY
Hayward Oubre
The Trap, c. 1960
Painted wire sculpture
40 H. x 16 1/2 W. x 21 D. inches
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Deeply attached to his Souther...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Homage to Kenneth Noland
Located in Washington, DC
Exceptional wood sculpture by Andrea De Zerega (1916-1990). Titled "Homage to Noland." Signed and dated 1968. Base is weighted for stability. Exhibit...
Category
Color-Field 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
"Tool Relief II, " Original Stoneware Cylinder Vase signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Tool Relief II" is an original sculptural stonework vase by David Barnett. It is signed and dated on the bottom.
13" H x 3.50 D
David Barnett, an artist, collector, appraiser and ...
Category
Contemporary 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Untitled (Suspended Willow)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Harry Bertoia. "Untitled (Suspended Willow)" is an abstract, steel and steel wire sculpture by Post War artist Harry Bertoia. The willow form is one of Harry Bertoia's...
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Post-War 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Wire
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile, Terracotta, Design, Sculpture, Unique, Mythology
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête de faune, Picasso, Tile, Terracotta, Design, Sculpture, Unique, Mythology
Tête de faune
Unique work
27.02.1961
Red terracotta tile, painted and glazed white
15 x 15 cm
20 x 15 ...
Category
Post-War 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"Hitch Hiked" Hayward Oubre, Painted Wire Sculpture, Southern Black Artist
Located in New York, NY
Hayward Oubre
Hitch Hiked, 1960
Signed on Base: OUBRE 60
Painted wire sculpture
45 H. x 21 W. x 19 D. inches
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Deeply at...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Petit masque central, Pablo Picasso, 1960's, Unique, Design, Plate, Theater
Located in Geneva, CH
Petit masque central, Pablo Picasso, 1960's, Unique, Design, Plate, Theater
Petit masque central
Unique work
16.5.63
Painted and partially glazed ceramic
D. 25.4 cm / 9.8 in.
D. 33 ...
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Post-War 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Untitled by Yuko Nasaka. Resin and lacquer on board (1984) (abstract sculpture)
By Yuko Nasaka
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yuko Nasaka
(1938)
Untitled
Resin and lacquer on board
45.5 x 45.5 cm (17.9 x 17.9 in) not considering the frame
Executed in 1963
About the Artist:
Born in Osaka in 1938, Yuko Nasak...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Lacquer, Board
Glacier
Located in PARIS, FR
"The Glacier"
by Emile GILIOLI (1911-1977)
"Perlino rosato" polished marble
signed to underside "Gilioli"
and dated "61"
France
1961
height 27 cm
width 29 cm
depth 20 cm
Provenance :
World House Galleries, New York, 1962;
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1962-1966;
Donation to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington;
Christie's, sold by order of the trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum, 1994.
Biography :
Émile Gilioli (1911-1977) was a French sculptor. He was one of the leaders of French post-war abstract sculpture, alongside Brancusi and Arp. Born into a family of Italian shoemakers living in Paris, they moved to Nice after the World War I. In 1932, Émile Gilioli took lessons at the School of Decorative Arts in Nice, notably with the future artist Marie Raymond...
Category
Abstract 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
NB 11, 1968
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Victor Vasarely NB 11, 1968 is a glazed porcelain relief that is hand-signed by Victor Vasarely (Hungary, 1906 – France, 1997) on label affixed on verso.
Category
Op Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Architectural Apparition
Located in New York, NY
Émile Gilioli
Architectural Apparition
1964
Bronze
40 x 6 x 6 in, 101 x 16 x 16cm
Inscribed “Gilioli” & numbered “2/6”
Edition 2/6
Gilioli’s ...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Alat
By Kosso Eloul
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Kosso Eloul (1920-1995) is one of our favorite sculptors and an important contributor to public art in Toronto.
In addition to the numerous public sculptures in Toronto by Eloul, his works can be found in many other prominent open spaces around the world, from California to Israel.
Most familiar with Eloul associate his work with his signature forms; large brushed aluminum (or steel) angled rectangles.
However his earlier work was realized in stone. This fine sculpture, a form that is revisited and eventually created in metal, is made of Jerusalem Stone...
Category
Minimalist 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Masque Oiseau
By Jean Arp
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jean Arp, also known as Hans Arp (1886-1966), was an important contributor to the avant-garde movements of the 20th century. Arp was active during the crucial years that shaped Europ...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Petite Vibration Brique et Noir
Located in Miami, FL
Petite Vibration Brique et Noir (1966)
Painted wood with a painted metal rod and nylon thread
Edition Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich Ed. 16 / 35
20 x 18 x 18 in
Provenance:
Galerie Elke Dröscher, Hamburg
Galerie Meißner, Hamburg (1976)
Private collection, Baden-Württemberg
Lempertz Auction. Contemporary Art...
Category
Op Art 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"White Construction, " 1960s Modern Abstract Wall Sculpture
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern abstract piece by Stanley Bate is a wood panel sculpture that has been painted white. Three-dimensional that are reminiscent of architectural pieces are tightly stacked w...
Category
Modern 1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oil, Wood