The Dying Gaul Or Dying Gladiator
The Dying Gaul sculpture is an ancient Roman marble statue now in the Capitoline Museum in Rome and it is a copy of a now lost sculpture from the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC) thought to have been made in bronze and may have been commissioned at some time between 230 and 220 BC by Attalus I of Pergamon to celebrate his victory over the Galatians, the Celtic or Gaulish people of parts of Anatolia (modern Turkey). The original sculptor is believed to have been Epigonus, a court sculptor of the Attalid dynasty of Pergamon. The sculpture of the Dying Gaul is also called The Dying Gladiator, The Dying Galatian, Galata Morente in Italian.
The sculpture is beautiful in details showing the bleeding wound of the gladiator in his right side ribs from a sword, the veins in his arms, his hair and his overall musculature.
The base features an inscription: "Galata Morente/After Pietro Angeletti/1758-1786"
Dimensions:
Height: 31 cm / 12.20 inches
Width: 60 cm / 23.62 inches
Weight: 11.9 Kg / 26.23 lbs.
Man Drinking From Jar By Nachum Gutman
A bronze statue of a man drinking from a jar by Nachum Gutman, one of the most famous and prolific early Israeli artists. Nachum Gutman was born in 1898 in Bessarabia and immigrated to Israel in 1905 when under the Ottoman Empire's rule. Gutman was influenced by biblical stories as well as the everyday life of the Arab population, especially in Jaffa and the now city of Tel-Aviv.
This bronze statue of a man drinking from a jar is sculpted in a primitive style where parts of material are added on to one another forming the shape without much smoothing or finishing touches.
Specifications:
Height: 32 cm
Width: 27 cm
Weight: 5.5 Kg
Year Made: 1961
Marked: 6/7 with Nachum Gutman signed in Hebew נחום גוטמן
Warsaw Ghetto By Kenneth Treister
Warsaw Ghetto is a cast bronze brutalist style sculpture by Kenneth Treister, architect of the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach in Florida. The sculpture is a depiction of the famous photograph in which the last surviving Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were taken out of a bunker and surrendered to the Nazi troops. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising occurred from the 19th of April to the 16th of May 1943, in which about 13,000 Jews were killed and German casualties were 150. The photograph has been one of the most iconic depicting the Holocaust and one of the most influential in the 20th century.
This Warsaw Ghetto sculpture by Kenneth Treister is of the first and original batch of bronze plaques signed in the back and is 122/150 made on August 1969.
Length: 19 cm (7.48 inches)
Height: 12 cm (4.72 inches)
Weight: 1.9 Kg (4.18 lbs)
Noodle Symphony By Seth Vandable
Noodle Symphony by Seth Vandable is a bronze sculpture featuring a nude man holding a large catfish that has its tail wrapped around him. The Noodle Symphony seems to celebrate the fishermen who work hard at catching fish from waters of all kinds to provide nourishment for all. The bronze sculpture has a beautiful yellowish-golden patina on the nude man and a blueish shade on the fish. The sculpture is attached to a black marble base. This Noodle Symphony bronze sculpture is signed by the artist and is the 3rd out of 350 made of this creation. The Noodle Symphony bronze sculpture by Seth Vandable includes a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Height: 12 1/8″ (30.8 cm) including the base which is 2 5/8″ (6.66 cm)
Width: 5″ (12.7 cm)
Depth: 5″ (12.7 cm)
Weight: 10 lbs (4.53 Kg)
Artist: Seth Vandable
Harvest Gold by Seth Vandable
Harvest Gold by Seth Vandable is a bronze sculpture featuring a nude man holding a sickle in one hand and a sheaf of wheat in another. To us this is a pure representation of a farmer harvesting what he worked so hard to produce. The bronze sculpture has a beautiful yellowish-golden patina emphasizing the color of the golden harvest. The sculpture is attached to a black marble base. This Harvest Gold bronze sculpture is signed by the artist and is the 7th out of 350 copies produced of this creation. The Harvest Gold bronze sculpture by Seth Vandable includes a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Height: 15" (38 cm) including the base which is 2" (5.08 cm)
Width: 5" (12.7 cm)
Depth: 5" (12.7 cm)
Weight: 10 lbs (4.53 Kg)
Artist: Seth Vandable