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Figures/Groups — Sculpture/Statuary - Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.
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| Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd. | |
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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
| Lots with images: | 96 |
| Prices available: | 96 |
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Figures/Groups
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | Cyrus Edwin Dallin (American, 1861-1944), nude sleeping in the landscape 1903, bronze, signed and dated, inscribed in base: C E Dallin 1903, height 93 cm, width 79 cm, depth 86 cm. Provenance: Springville Museum of Fine Art, Utah. Purchased from the above | *** |  |
| *** | Mark Matveyevich Antokolsky (Russian, 1840-1902), Mephistopheles, bronze, signed in the bronze: Antocolsky, cast by F. Barbedienne, Paris, height 84 cm. Other notes: mark Matveevich Antokolsky was one of the most important Russian realists of the… | *** |  |
| *** | Ettore Ximenes (Italian, 1855-1926) Pescatrice late 19th/early 20th century an important Italian carved Carrara marble figure, depicting a young girl fishing, raised on a verde marble base carved in high relief with entwined dolphins, signed E. Ximenes,… | *** |  |
| *** | Sir Alfred Gilbert M.V.O RA (British, 1854-1934), Comedy and Tragedy: Sic Vita c. 1890-2 (cast later), bronze, rich mid and dark brown patination, on marble base, signed, stamped to bronze base with artists monogram, height 39 cm. Provenance: Private… | *** |  |
| *** | G. Crisell (Italian, 19th century) Susanna Italian, dated 1890 an important carved Carrara marble sculpture, depicting a semi-draped maiden, turning with a look of scorn, raised on an ornately carved verde marble plinth, signed G. Crisell, Roma, 1890,… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Italian marble figure group of Cybele riding a lion signed F. Vichi, Firenze, modelled as a nude classical female figure with drapery to one hand and a garland of grape leaves to her hair, riding a collared lion, raised on a stepped rectangular… | *** |  |
| *** | An Italian white marble copy of the 'Rondanini Medusa', mid 19th century, the winged gorgon's mask wreathed in snakes, on a square sectioned waisted socle, height 60 cm. Other Notes: Thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek 5th century BC original, the… | *** |  |
| *** | Pierre Felix Masseau (French, 1869-1937), L'Emprise c.1897, bronze, dark brown patina, signed to base: Fix Masseau, stamped to base with foundry: Siot Paris, height 80 cm. Provenance: Sotheby's London, European sculpture and works of Art 900-1900, 11 July… | *** |  |
| *** | An Italian white marble figure of the birth of Venus attributed to Ferdinando Andreini (1843-1922), circa 1900, the naked goddess rising from a scallop shell and stylised waves, together with a carved serpentine plinth entwined by a dolphin, overall… | *** |  |
| *** | After Pierre Lapautre (French, 1660-1744) Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius Escaping Troy, patinated bronze, the figure group 87 cm high; the pedestal 90 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | After Marius-Jean Antonin Mercie (French, 1845-1916) Gloris Victis, bronze, depicting the figure fame seizing a dying soldier from the field of combat, signed to base, 81 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco Gilt bronze and ivory 'Hindu Dancer' figure signed Cl.J.R Colinet, the standing figure modelled in a dancing pose with hands face legs and torso of finely carved ivory her clothes and costume of parcel gilt bronze balanced on the tip of her… | *** |  |
| *** | Demetre Chiparus (1886 - 1947), 'Vedette', cold painted bronze on a brown onyx base, circa 1925, the skin and hair of the figure gilt, her costume and jewellery in various textures, colours, and tones, mounted on the original stepped onyx base, the… | *** |  |
| *** | Gilbert Bayes F.R.B.S (English 1872-1953), the Underworld (75) 1913, bronze with gold and black patination, signed and dated in the bronze, on a modern ebonised plinth, height 156 cm (overall), height of bronze 24 cm. Provenance: The fine Arts Society,… | *** |  |
| *** | A life size patinated bronze figure group, depicting a man seated on a park bench, 153 x 121 x 120 cm at the widest point | *** |  |
| *** | Bruno Zach (1891-1945), the umbrella girl c.1920s, bronze model with carved ivory head, shoulders and arms. Depicting a young lady wearing long length gloves and high heel boots, with a monkey face handled umbrella under her arm. Signed script to base… | *** |  |
| *** | Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947) 'Wheelbarrow' a fine gilt bronze and ivory group figure. In gilt bronze and carved ivory, modelled as three children playfully tumbling out of pushed wheelbarrow by another child, raised from a naturalistic base and mounted on… | *** |  |
| *** | Ferdinand Preiss (1882-1943) A cold painted bronze and ivory figure, 'The Skater', circa 1925 Naturalistically cast as a female ice skater in motion, with hands and head of carved ivory, raised on a banded black mark and onyx base, signed Preiss to base,… | *** |  |
| *** | A patinated bronze and ivory figure signed F. (Ferdinand) Preiss, depicted as a young female golfer in full swing, with ivory head and limbs raised on a chartreuse onyx base, incised signature to lower front, 23 cm high. Reference: Arwas, V., Art Deco… | *** |  |
| *** | A German terracotta statue of the goddess Demeter, Second-half 19th century, the classically draped goddess wearing a wreath of fruit and wheatears holding a cornucopia and (replaced) sickle, standing on a flowerhead moulded square plinth, signed… | *** |  |
| *** | A cast iron life size statue of Bacchus, French late 19th century, probably by the Val D'Osne foundry, the standing naked god holding a flask and drinking from a cup, draped in vine leaves, on an associated pink granite plinth, height 196 cm. Provenance:… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco French bronze and ivory figure of a Dancer signed P. Philippe, circa 1930, the standing figure with face, hair and hands of carved ivory, standing in a dancing pose, her attire with green and red patination, signed P.Philippe R.U.M, raised on… | *** |  |
| *** | A French Art Deco bronze and ivory figure of an exotic dancer signed A. Gory, circa 1920, modelled as a female nude wearing an exotic headdress, kneeling on one knee with back arched and arm extended, dropping an ivory ball from her right hand, raised on… | *** |  |
| *** | A rare Art Deco bronze and ivory figure of a dancer, Gerda Ido Gergado (1906-2004), circa 1925 modelled with her arms outstretched, posing on one foot, dressed in a colourful cold painted costume inspired by the ballet Russe. Mounted on an oval green onyx… | *** |  |
| *** | Pietro Bazzanti, Italian, circa 1900 a Florentine white marble and tinted alabaster figure of a girl, raised on a verde marble pedestal, signed P. Bazzanti, Florence, the statue 105 cm high; the plinth 105 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | Gerald Laing (1936-2011), Tumbling Figure, circa 1988, bronze, 85 x 98 x 68 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal, KCVO, RA (1863-1931), Vesta / signed Mackennel, conception circa 1900, bronze, marble 23 cm high (bronze). Provenance: Private Collection, New South Wales | *** |  |
| *** | Richard MacDonald (b. 1946), 'The trumpeter', cold painted bronze, on a stepped circular marble base, cast with incised signature and edition number to the base: R. MacDonald 8/90, 102.5 cm high, 42 cm wide, 95 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A rare Ferdinand Preiss (1882-1943) Art Deco cold painted bronze and ivory 'Butterfly Dancers' figure, circa 1925, modelled as two intertwined dancers, in a rare cold painted silver and green colour-way, set upon an onyx base, signed F.Priess, 44.5 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | Patinated bronze and ivory figure of a female golfer, cast and carved in cold painted bronze and ivory, with a circular bronze foot and a green onyx base, signed 'F. Preiss' to the base | *** |  |
| *** | A French bronze allegorical group emblematic of Industry, cast from a model by Emile Louis Picault (1833-1915), late 19th century/early 20th century, the naturalistic base inscribed 'E. Picault' on a square canted vert maurin marble base above a… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco bronze and ivory figure, by Gerda Gerdago, circa 1920, the female modelled in a dramatic pose with outstretched ivory hands, painted in polychrome enamel and gold patina, her costume incorporating swirls and scrolls, and a theatrical headpiece… | *** |  |
| *** | Louis Chalon (French, 1866-1940), La Mer, bronze, parcel gilt bronze, verde green marble, signed in bronze: Louis Chalon, height 79 cm. Provenance: gallery 63 Antiques, New York, John Schaeffer, acquired from the above, Christie's, Sydney, 'The John… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco bronze and ivory figure of a dancer, Gerda Ido Gergado (1906-2004), circa 1930 modelled with her arms outstretched in a lunging pose, dressed in a colourful cold painted costume inspired by the ballet Russe. Mounted on an oval green onyx base.… | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt bronze and ivory figure of St. George signed G | *** |  |
| *** | A 19th century classical marble figure of Julius Caesar, the standing figure wearing an embossed breast plate and classical drapery, with one arm raised, on a circular base. Height 85 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two Art Deco patinated bronze and ivory figures 'Sonny Boy' and 'Hoop Girl' cast and carved from a model by F. Preiss, each with head arms and legs of carved ivory the torso of cold painted bronze raised on a green onyx base inscribed signature F. Preiss… | *** |  |
| *** | A marble male nude torso in the manner of 1st century Rome, realistically carved raised on an ebonised plinth, the torso; 77 cm high, the plinth; 25 cm high. | *** |  |
| *** | A French patinated bronze figure of Prometheus, on pedestal cast from the model by Jean Jules Cambos (1828-1917), late 19th century, signed to the rockwork base 'Cambos', on a rouge griotte marble circular moulded base and an oak pedestal carved to the… | *** |  |
| *** | Frederick William Pomeroy (British, 1856-1924), Dionysus, ?1890-1, cast 1903, bronze, signed and dated, inscribed to base: F W Pomeroy 1903, titled in Greek to base, 40 x 16 x 23 cm. Provenance: Private Collection. Bowman sculpture, London. Acquired from… | *** |  |
| *** | An impressive bronze figural sculpture, 'Gloria Victis', by Ferninand Barbedienne and Marius Jean Antonin Mercie, circa 1875, the beautifully cast and patinated bronze figural group, depicting the figure fame seizing a dying soldier from the field of… | *** |  |
| *** | An impressive classical carved marble sculpture of a seated woman with a marble base, 206 cm high (height with base), by 66 cm wide and 60 cm deep approximately | *** |  |
| *** | An impressive classical carved marble sculpture of a seated woman holding a basket of flowers with a marble base, 206 cm high (height with base), by 66 cm wide and 60 cm deep approximately | *** |  |
| *** | Pietro Bernasconi (1826-1891, Italian), A Child's First Misfortune, white Carrara marble, modelled as a small boy standing rubbing his eyes with his fist in sorrow after his cup has fallen and broken into pieces on the ground, with a pot of flowers behind… | *** |  |
| *** | After Marius-Jean Antonin Mercie, (French, 1845-1916) David Vanquer, bronze, David after his victory over Goliath, signed to base, 73 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of fine 19th century ivory figures, each modelled as a standing semi draped classical female figure with flowers and drapery to their hair and a cherub at their | *** |  |
| *** | An impressive bronze and marble sculpture, 'The Hunter', by Demetre Chiparus (1888-1947), circa 1930, the patinated bronze figural group modelled as an athletic male holding a spear aloft over a snarling panther, all mounted on a stepped portoro marble… | *** |  |
| *** | Ferdinand Preiss (1882 - 1943), Torch Dancer /, circa 1920, bronze and ivory figure on onyx base impressed F. Preiss to bronze restoration to one flame. 38 cm high. Provenance: Sotheby's Melbourne, 19th-20th May, 2003, Lot 383 | *** |  |
| *** | European school 19th century, Venus crouching, marble, after the Hellenistic original, on an integral low rectangular plinth base, 88 cm high, 57 cm wide, 45 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) 'On Parade' a cold painted bronze and ivory figure, circa 1925, the elevated figure modelled in a Pierrette styled costume, painted in a dark green patina with gilded sash and collar, signed in cast to the base, 32 cm high.… | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze figure of 'The Archer' by Ernst Moritz Geyger (1861-1941), the standing naked figure wearing a helmet and drawing a bow, inscribed 'E. M. Geyger Fec.', with Gladenbeck foundry inscription to base, on a verde antico marble plinth. Overall height… | *** |  |
| *** | Eugene Antoine Aizelin (French, 1821-1902), Marguerite c.1884, bronze, brown patina, signed, inscribed to base: Eugne Aizelin, stamped to base with foundry: Reduction Mecanique. A. Collas Brevete, titled, inscribed to base, height 70 cm. Provenance:… | *** |  |
| *** | An Italian marble sculpture of a semi nude female on pedestal, signed Allegrain. The pedestal 95.5 cm high, 40 cm diameter. The figure 86 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | After Paul Dubois, (French, 1829-1905) Tribunal, bronze, cast in the form of a seated Roman soldier, 85 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | After Claude Michel Clodion, (French 1738-1814) Woodland Wildlife, bronze, depicting two dancing satyrs and a maiden, signed to base 'Clodion' on a striated green marble socle, 69 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | Bruno Zach (Austrian 1891-1935), courtesan in chemise and garters, circa 1920. Set on a marble plinth, signed Zach and dedicated to base 'C.C.C Premio Federico Caballero Platillo 1928', figure 37 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | After Pierre Marius Montagne (French, 1828-1879) Hermes Au Repos, bronze, depicting Hermes seated on a rocky outcrop, 82 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A French bronze of Ulysses Bending his Bow, 19th century, after the original by Jacques Bousseau (1681-1740) the naked hero with flowing drapery leaning on a stump preparing to string his bow and slaughter the suitors of Penelope, on a 19th century faux… | *** |  |
| *** | An Italian white marble statue of the Medici Apollo (Apollino), 19th century, after the antique, the naked deity with his right arm behind his head, standing by a stump from which is slung his quiver and arrows, on integral oval marble base. Height 150 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | Louis Sosson (French 1905-1930) gilt bronze and ivory 'Cymbalina' figure, modelled in a dancers pose with cymbals, set upon marble pedestal base, 29 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | Fine gilt bronze and ivory figural group by Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947), modelled as three children being pushed in a gambolling wheelbarrow by another child, each in 1920s dress, the whole raised on a naturalistic base with a chamfered rectangular vert… | *** |  |
| *** | A large Josef Lorenzl patinated bronze figure, circa 1925 cast in the form of a naked girl adopting a stylish pose, raised on a marble base, incised Lorenzl to the bronze dais, 50 cm total height. | *** |  |
| *** | A carved blackwood portrait of an Indigenous Australian woman, twice signed and dated 1922, long bust-length, carved in very high relief, modelled undraped and with a pensive expression, stained dark brown, incised signature and date 'R. Prenzel south… | *** |  |
| *** | An Italian white marble head of a young angel, probably Venice, late 15th century, with curled hair and an open smiling mouth, on an ebonised turned wood and porphyry socle, overall height 30 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A French bronze sphere shaped time piece adorned with gilt cherubs and serpents, circa 1860. 46 cm high, 22 cm wide, 22.5 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | Theodore Charles Alphonse Colle (French, 1857-1935), The Prodigal Son, bronze, signed: A. Colle, foundry mark to base, height 62 cm. Provenance: Sotheby's, Sydney, the collection of Mr and Mrs Rene Rivkin, 3 June 2001, lot 428. Other Notes: Alphonse Colle… | *** |  |
| *** | Sir Alfred Gilbert M.V.O RA (British, 1854-1934), offering to Hymen, bronze, on later octagonal wood base, height 29 cm. Provenance: Robert Bowman, London. Literature: R. Dorment, Alfred Gilbert: Sculptor and Goldsmith, exh. Cat. Royal Academy of Arts,… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine pair of rare Venetian polychrome painted and glazed terracotta blackamoor figures, modelled as two male court figures, dressed in bold patterns, each standing on rock formations. 173.5 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | Large bronze sculpture of an Australian soldier, 'London Leave', by William Wallace Anderson, early 20th century | *** |  |
| *** | An Italian Carrara marble allegorical figural statue, circa 1880 depicting a standing bearded male, possibly representing Hercules, draped in an animal skin, supporting a winged male figure in his arms, raised on a naturalistic base, 92 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | British school (19th century), classical figure of a hunter with a fawn (Agamemnon), plaster cast figure on ebonised base, sculpture: height 148 cm, base: height 35.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Pierre Le Faguays French 1892-1962, female dancer, cast bronze on marble, modelled partially nude in a dancing pose, holding a staff with entwined grape vine and grapes, inscribed signature to base 'Le Faguays', along with 'Et Ling Paris'. 55 cm high, 49… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco bronze and ivory figure of a dancer, by Gerda Gerdago, circa 1920, the female modelled in a graceful sweeping pose with one arm extended upward, painted in polychrome enamel and gold patina, her costume incorporating scroll and leaf motifs, a… | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco bronze and ivory figure of a dancer with cymbals, by Gerda Gerdago, circa 1920, the female modelled in a spirited dancing pose holding a cymbal in each hand, painted in polychrome enamel and gold patina, her costume incorporating geometric… | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Raphael Peyre (1872-1949), a Russian Dancers figural tableaux bronze, ivory, onyx, marble impressed signature to bronze. 40.5 cm high (bronze) | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze statue of Poseidon signed Caffieri, seated on a receptacle of flowing water and on a naturalistic circular base, 62 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A classical style bronze male nude torso, naturalistically cast, raised on a steel plinth, the torso; 110 cm high, the plinth; 45 x 86. 5 x 45. 5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze Bacchanalian figure group modelled as a temptation scene, replete with grapes and vine leaves, raised on a separate base, 78 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | Albert Ernst Belleuse, French 1824-1887, painted bronze and ivory figure 'La Liseuse', third quarter of the 19th century, modelled as the reader in Renaissance dress, set upon a stepped bronze plinth with plaque, cast signature to base, 40.5 cm in height. | *** |  |
| *** | Art Deco spelter and ivorine figure of Diana and her hounds with the face and hands in moulded ivorine, a flowing patinated dress, a leash in each hand, two hounds, a rectangular green and brown onyx base and an inscribed signature on the base, 'G. Gori' | *** |  |
| *** | Cast after a model by Sir Alfred Gilbert M.V.O RA (British, 1854-1934), study of a head (head of a girl), bronze on stone plinth, height 48 cm. Provenance: The Maas gallery, London. Purchased from the above in 2013. Other Notes: This sculpture is an… | *** |  |
| *** | Francisque Joseph Duret (1804-1865), Vendangeur Improvisant sur un Sujet Comique 1839, bronze, signed on the barrel: Duret, titled on the base: Improvvisatore, height 54.5 cm. Other Notes: after the original in the Louvre, Duret won the Prix de Rome at… | *** |  |
| *** | A carved marble figure of crouching Venus on pedestal, after the antique, signed P. Barranti, Florence, 19th century, raised on a verde marble pedestal, 52 cm high (figure) excluding stand | *** |  |
| *** | A French Art Deco bronze figural sculpture by Rene Abel Philippe, circa 1925. 46 cm high, 47.5 cm wide, 11 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An Italian marble sculpture of the Dying Gaul, after the antique, circa 1870. 40 cm high, 79 cm wide, 33 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A fine carved marble figure of an athlete 19th century, modelled as a reclining classical male nude seated with one leg outstretched, leaning on his right arm, next to which is a Roman sword, raised on a naturalistically carved plinth base, relief… | *** |  |
| *** | A late 19th century patinated bronze figure of Duke Giuliano de Medici (1453-1478), after the original by Michelangelo, stamped pastille Reduction Mecanique, A. Collas Brevete, the seated figure dressed in full armour with his head averted, a club resting… | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Venetian style cast iron blackamoor figural lights, each modelled as a standing flamboyantly attired nubian figure wearing a feathered turban and holding a gilded torchere in one hand, raised on a naturalistically modelled quadripartite platform… | *** |  |
| *** | Josef Lorenzl (Austrian, 1892-1950), Kristina, cold-painted bronze on green onyx plinth, signed to base: Lorenzl, height including plinth 76 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Eugene-Antoine Aizelin (French, 1821-1902), Nymphe de Diane, bronze, signed lower right: Eug Aizelin, titled to base: Nymphe de Diane, foundry mark to rear base F. Barbedienne / Fondeur. Paris, height 57 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A pair of Italian gilt and white painted figural stands 18th century, comprising two putti in mirrored poses, with upraised arms, drapery over shoulders and waist, a flared openwork basket resting on tasselled cushion on his head and standing on a rock… | *** |  |
| *** | Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947) 'Leap Frog' ivory and bronze group figure, circa 1920's, in cold painted bronze and carved ivory, incised signature to bronze, 26 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A large classical style bronze figure of Asatyr, signed Sommer Napoli, 19th century, the figure posed upon a rectangular base with one hand raised above, signature to base, 81 cm high. | *** |  |
| *** | A Demetre H. Chiparus (1886-1947) gilt-bronze and ivory figure, 'The Accordian Player', circa 1920, depicting a boy singing and playing the accordion, set upon a marble plinth, engraved H.Chiparus Etling Paris, 15.5 cm high. | *** |  |
| *** | Affortunato Gory, Italian 1895-1925, rare gilt bronze and ivory figure holding a cat, number 829 cast after a model in a tunic holding a cat, set upon a stepped marble plinth, signed to the plinth and with cast number 829, 24.5 cm in high | *** |  |
| *** | A life-size antique-style bronzed metal sculpture of the young Bacchus, 20th century, possibly bronze, the figure modelled standing holding a chalice in one hand and a horn in the other, on a classical plinth with figures of cherubs and dolphins, the… | *** |  |