Sentences with phrase «marble plinths»

The Golden Calf (lot 13, Evening Sale) calf, 18 carat gold, glass, goldplated steel, silicone and formaldehyde solution with Carrara marble plinth 398.9 by 350.5 by 167.6 cm executed in 2008 Sotheby's Estimate # 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 $ 10,120,000 - 15,180,000 US$ 15,800,000 - 23,690,000 Lot Sold.

Dorothy Cross Whale, 2011 Cuvier whale skeleton, cord, wood, rusted bucket and marble plinth dimensions variable

Another installation will include an authentic slave quilt, a gold - plated sewing machine on a custom marble plinth, and a pile of used white jeans.

Handcrafted from slabs of marble with a sturdy wooden frame, RH modern introduces the Marble Plinth Coffee Table.

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Marble finishes are highlighted by intricate wooden screens, while Mughal arches frame the bed on its raised plinth.

In her extraordinary sculpture, Untitled (2010), there's a hint at anthropomorphism in the form of petrified wood mounted on white marble and oak plinth.

Other critically acclaimed works include Alison Lapper Pregnant (2005), a fifteen - ton marble statue of the heavily pregnant and disabled Alison Lapper, exhibited on the fourth plinth at London's Trafalgar Square.

This culminated in his 15 - ton marble statue of Alison Lapper, a fellow artist born with no arms and severely shortened legs, which was displayed on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London from September 2005 until October 2007.

Along with complimentary gray walls and plinths, the setting works as a perfect foil for the first 400 years of gilt - framed and white - marbled works.

Visitors first encountered five black stone monoliths (four made of marble and one of volcanic rock) set on pale plywood plinths.

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London featuring a pregnant woman born with no arms and severely shortened legs.

In other works, traditional cast Bronze figures are placed on colourful Perspex bases and reclaimed plinths, or sculptures are cast in strikingly modern aluminium, and placed on grand marble columns.

A marble sculpture by British artist Marc Quinn entitled «Alison Lapper Pregnant» is seen on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth on September 16, 2005 in London, England.

Sculpture facilitates a potential for a powerful conveyance of movement; sculptors from Bernini to Moore held a Promethean ability to shape a kinetic fluidity from marble that reaches well beyond the plinth.

Other critically acclaimed works include Alison Lapper Pregnant (2005), a fifteen - ton marble statue of Alison Lapper - a pregnant disabled woman - exhibited on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London, and Siren (2008) a solid gold sculpture of the model Kate Moss that was on display at The British Museum, London.

Cornaro structures the gallery space with matte black plinths built at varying heights, which she adorns with objects; an ornamental stone carving covered in lichen, a marble urn, a clay model cottage, rolls of green velvet.

So what makes, say, Wallinger's Ecce Homo — his 1999 fourth plinth work, a white marble resin statue of a bald man, crowned in gilded barbed wire, standing in characteristic Christ pose — different or more worthy of contemporary critical discussion than Johnson's Keith Park?

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