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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Who were these sculptures of antiques?

« on: April 03, 2013, 07:26:58 am »

Hey, thanks for the response

I looked at Brancusi... I don't think it is though. Some of his stuff, especially his work of human faces is there, but I think he's perhaps a little too abstract for the artist I'm looking for.

I've done a quick google search.. None of the images are the right one, but quite a lot of them are very similar!

Here's some examples....

http://www.artparks.co.uk/artpark_sculpture.php?sculpture=1893&sculptor=ray_castell

This one is perhaps a little too 'blocky', but the 'essence' is still there ^^

http://www.etsy.com/listing/125415023/brass-bird-sculpture-decorative


http://www.tenthousandvillages.ca/shop/en/sculptures/6109136-inquisitive-bird-sculpture.html

That one is perhaps a little 'too stripped down' .... The maker I'm thinking of didn't go quite so far with making a bird appear minimal....


But yeah.... Sorry I can't be more specific.... I literally saw the episode on TV about 5 years ago or more, and it just randomly popped back into my head the other day!

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Antique Questions Forum / Who were these sculptures of antiques?

« on: April 03, 2013, 05:27:27 am »

Hi people

So I remember years ago, watching an episode or the Antiques Roadshow. On it, and item being shown was a sculpture / model (something like china or porcelain) of some kind of bird. I believe it was a dove.

This model of the Dove was highly streamlined and minimalistic . This was many years ago, so my memory is a little hazy. The expert, as I remember, said this was made by famous guy (or maybe it was brothers?) who (as I seem to remember, was French, but perhaps I'm wrong about that) was known to have a very distinct style, in which he/ they would base their models off things (such as animals and objects ) in the real world, but they would like..... Strip them back, and make the shape of whatever they were modelling as simple as possible.
So in the case of the Dove, it did not have intricate details nor was there any attempt at making it a 100% replica of what a Dove truly looks like. It looked simplistic and smooth, almost kind of cartoony.


So my question is.... Who is the person who made what I've described? I really like the idea of stripping something back to its most simplistic form, and I'd love to find out who this person is, so I could look at other examples of their work