César Baldaccini Art

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...

Colorful abstract ceramic sculpture titled "Mini" by Lauren Skelly Bailey. Glazed stoneware, gold luster. Size: 7 x 5 x 5.5 inches. Artist Lauren Skelly Bailey invites viewers to d...

William King (1925-2015). Reclining figure, ca. 1965. Cast and welded bronze, 7 x 9.5 x 5 inches. Unsigned. William King, a sculptor in a variety of materials whose human figures traced social attitudes through the last half of the 20th century, often poking sly and poignant fun at human follies and foibles, died on March 4 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 90. His death was confirmed by Scott Chaskey, who is married to Mr. King's stepdaughter, Megan Chaskey. Mr. King worked in clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces depicting familiar human poses -- a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking men walking in lock step. But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer's arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment. His subjects included tennis players and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners. Mr. King's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. But the comic element of his work probably caused his reputation to suffer. Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious, displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder. and Elie Nadelman. The critic Hilton Kramer, one of Mr. King's most ardent advocates, wrote in a 1970 essay accompanying a New York gallery exhibit that he was, "among other things, an amusing artist, and nowadays this can, at times, be almost as much a liability as an asset." A "preoccupation with gesture is the focus of King's sculptural imagination," Mr. Kramer wrote. "Everything that one admires in his work - the virtuoso carving, the deft handling of a wide variety of materials, the shrewd observation and resourceful invention - all this is secondary to the concentration on gesture. The physical stance of the human animal as it negotiates the social arena, the unconscious gait that the body assumes in making its way in the social medium, the emotion traced by the course of a limb, a torso, a head, the features of a face, a coiffure or a costume - from a keen observation of these materials King has garnered a large stock of sculptural images notable for their wit, empathy, simplicity and psychological precision." William Dickey King...

Mai (Afterlife) after Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mai (Omai), 2023 15-layer silkscreen on 410gsm Somerset tub-sized radiant white paper 19 9/10 × 14 4/5 in 50.5 × 37.7 cm Editi...

Thomas Morin (1934-2017) Untitled, 1962. Cast iron on wood base. Cast sculpture measures 24 x 7 x 5 inches and weighs 49 lbs. Overall measures 26 inches tall on wood base. Proc...

Colorful blue abstract ceramic sculpture titled "Froth Crinkle" by Lauren Skelly Bailey. Glazed stoneware, gold luster. Size: 10 x 6 x 5.5 inches. Artist Lauren Skelly Bailey invit...

Titled and numbered from the edition of 200 on the front in pencil, additionally dated and numbered on the reverse and signed by Julia Gruen, the executor of the Keith Haring Foundation and Anthony Shriver Best Buddies...

Château de Cheverny in the Loire Valley of France Lithograph in colors depicting an enchanted evening at Cheverny with a horse drawn wagon and carriages on a winter day, Signed in...

Medium: linocut Image size: 12 x 12 inches Edition size: 11 Year: 2022 In Aztec mythology, Xolotl is the god of lightning, death, and fire. He is also considered to be the god of tw...

Elijah David Herschler (1940-2023) Ribbon sculpture, 1985 Chromed metal Signed and dated to one end: elijah david herschler Dimensions: 38" H x 4" Dia. approximately Modern, abstract...

Elijah David Herschler (1940-2023) Ribbon sculpture Chromed metal Signed to curled end: elijah d herschler 29.5" H x 12" Dia. approximately Modern, abstract minimalist free hanging ...

Wes Lang (American, b. 1972) Thoughts For The Free Life #15, 2023 Medium: Screen print on Somerset 280/gsm paper Dimensions: 58.4 × 91.4 cm (23 x 36 in) Edition of 100 + 15 AP: Hand-...