Sculpture
A branch of the visual arts traditionally typified for being solid and three dimensional. Media used to create sculpture including stone, bronze, pottery and wood. In their appearance, sculptures may be divided into two categories, either free-standing (in the round) or adjoined to a background surface (relief).
With the development of plastic art in the 20th and 21st century, the definition of sculpture was broadened to include works specifically concerned with the three-dimensional form.
Funding pledge for Your Sculpture project
01 December 2014A project to create a free, comprehensive photo catalogue online of all the sculptures held in UK public collections has moved a step closer thanks to a £2.84m pledge of support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Where did you get that €1.5m hat?
26 November 2014Arguably the most famous historic figure in French history and a princely provenance proved an irresistible combination earlier this month in France when a collection of Napoleonic memorabilia formed by the Grimaldi dynasty of Monaco went under the hammer.
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Claudel launches new home for Paris étude
12 November 2014Piasa are not the only Paris étude to have moved to new premises this autumn. Cornette de Saint Cyr have now opened their new saleroom in a 19th century hôtel particulier on the avenue Hoche near the Parc Monceau.
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Giacometti’s Chariot leads the charge at Sotheby’s $370m record sale
10 November 2014Works by Édouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Alberto Giacometti and Amedeo Modigliani were the highlights of the latest series of Impressionist & Modern art series in New York.
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Sotheby’s return to Chatsworth
24 September 2014Beyond Limits is Sotheby’s annual outdoor exhibition of monumental sculpture in the historic gardens of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
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Roman life in clay at £9500
27 June 2014The Roman artist Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835) is best known as a prolific engraver, selling to tourists his prints portraying the everyday life and costumes of characters encountered in and around the Piazza della Rotonda.
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€900,000 – the price on emperor’s head
20 May 2014An ancient Roman marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian that had been in the same private collection for over half a century was the runaway highlight in a recent sale held by Tessier Sarrou & Associés at Drouot in Paris.
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New York series posts record auction total
16 May 2014There was no slowing down in the Contemporary art market as the latest sales in New York posted a record for any auction series.
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The easiest way to shoe a horse
15 May 2014Thomas del Mar’s second sale of items from the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection on May 7 included a number of related items, such as this 3ft 7in (1.1m) high panted limestone carving of St Eligius or Eloi, patron saint of horses and farriers.
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Asian buyers prominent during New York sales
12 May 2014A reported increase in Asian buying was the most notable feature of a somewhat underwhelming series of Impressionist & Modern art auctions in New York last week.
£17m statue stand-off as London councils persist in rival claims
13 November 2013The ownership dispute over a Henry Moore sculpture dubbed Old Flo looks set to rumble on despite one side claiming victory and making plans to sell it.
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Thieves take another publicly displayed Moore
28 October 2013Another Henry Moore sculpture has been taken in the latest in a spate of thefts targeting works by the artist.
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War sculpture takes £46,000 at Duke’s
10 October 2013This small sculpture conveying the raw horror of the First World War attracted serious competition at Duke’s of Dorchester.
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17th century sculpture returned to church after withdrawal from sale
01 July 2013This c.1614 polychrome alabaster sculpture lost from a London church during the Blitz has been returned to its original location.
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Bromsgrove Guild garden statue takes £35,000
19 March 2013This lead copy of Louis Weingartner’s 19th century bronze ‘Dryad and Boar’ was found hidden away in an overgrown garden before it was recently consigned to auction.
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Swiss statue in Stourbridge
07 March 2013Originally cast in bronze by Swiss sculptor Louis Weingartner in 1892, this 20th century lead statue by the Bromsgrove Guild entitled ‘Dryad and Boar’ will be offered at Fieldings Auctioneers in Stourbridge on March 9.
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Two jailed as dealer returns £500,000 Moore sold for £46
10 December 2012Two men have been sentenced to a year in jail after admitting the theft of a sundial sculpture and bronze plinth from the Henry Moore Foundation.
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16th century Flemish carving in Doncaster
23 November 2012Known as specialists in early oak and vernacular works of art, Wilkinson’s will host their next sale on November 25 at The Old Salesroom in Doncaster.
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American buyer poaches top Black Forest carving
05 November 2012This carving of a poacher signed by Johann Huggler (1834-1912) of Brienz, Switzerland was the highlight of a collection of 28 ‘Black Forest’ type carvings sold at the latest sale held by Sworders.
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Chiparus bronze in Suffolk sale
10 October 2012This 17in (43cm) high bronze by Demetre Chiparus has been consigned by an elderly lady who had owned it from new to Durrants’ sale on October 12 in Beccles, Suffolk.
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