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Brass Model Steam Roller Engine 'Old Smoky' Decorative Shelf Art Vintage Toy
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
A lovely Vintage Brass Steam Engine Model. The piece has good scale and in very good condition, a perfect decorative art piece or shelf model.
Made is West Germany, the item dates...
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German Victorian Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass
Studio-Made Modernist Mobile, Small
Located in Dallas, TX
A studio-made modernist mobile; mustard yellow, blue, opium red. This innovative art form, rooted in the principles of modernism, emphasizes minimalism, abstraction, and the intrinsi...
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large Steam Engine Model 'Mamod Steam Wagon' Decorative Shelf Art Vintage Toy
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
A lovely old British Made Vintage Steam Engine Model. The piece has good scale and a beautiful vintage patina, ideal as an art piece or shelf model.
The item dates to circa 1970s wh...
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Victorian Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Copper Mid century sailing ship - MCM
Located in Budapest, HU
Vintage Mid-Century Solid Copper Sailing Ship - Nautical Elegance from the 1970s
Description:
Embark on a journey through time with this stunning...
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German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Early Vintage Paolo Soleri Brutalist Cast Bronze Bell Wind Chime Arcosanti 1970s
By Paolo Soleri
Located in Troy, MI
Early cast bronze brutalist wind bell by Paolo Soleri for Arcosanti
Circa 1970s
Great form with uncommon modernist sun pattern exaggerated chain and original copper fin
Signed
Ov...
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Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Artemide Spyros Melamine Sculpture by Eleanor Peduzzi Riva, 1970s
Located in San Benedetto Del Tronto, IT
Iconic and ultra rare melamine sculpture Spyros by Artemide. Designed by Eleanor Peduzzi Riva in 1976 and conceived as a table ashtray, Spyros features a heavy black sphere that slid...
Category
Italian Space Age Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Stain Glass Dragonfly
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Stain glass dragon fly by a New York City artist named Gilly. I knew Gilly back in the 1970s and he opened a store very briefly in the village called Gil...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Stain Glass Butterfy
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Stain glass butterfly by a New York City artist named Gilly. I knew Gilly back in the 1970s and opened a store very briefly in the village calle...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
1970’s Balancing Mobile
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Balancing acrobats on a chair. Clever nice designed piece that functions and moves gently with a breeze.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass
1970's Charles Taylor Large Modernist Kinetic Sculpture
By Charles Taylor
Located in New York, NY
Fabulous 1970's modernist large Kinetic aluminum sculpture designed by Charles Taylor Model #450 in vintage original condition with minor wear and patina due to age and use.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Innovative Illuminated Acrylic Benches with White Tops and Clear Side Supports
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An interesting Kinetic sculpture with a sinuous brass arm and attached long metal wires with balls on the ends. The entire piece turns on a brass plate mounted on a circular marble p...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Brass
Brass Palm-Banana Tree Sculpture
Located in Toronto, ON
This is a stunning large aged lacquered brass palm banana tree sculpture with removable leaves surrounding a central weighted brass trunk.
Category
Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Scultura cinetica italiana modern in plastica gialla di Franco Costalonga 1970
Located in MIlano, IT
Scultura cinetica composta da un tubolare in plastica giallo senape e una sfera con all’interno una bacchetta di radio che genera fasci di colore giallo.
Realizzata da Franco Costalonga...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Plastic
Abraham Palatnik. Op Art Cat Sculpture in Polyester Resin 1970's
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
Huge Brazilian modern kinetic sculpture made of acrylic resin designed by Abraham Palatnik, part of Artemis Collection made in the 1970's. This is the biggest version of the aforemen...
Category
Brazilian Kinetic Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
"Stier 4" Kinetic Mobile Abstract Sculpture by Otto Monestier & Paolo Tilche
Located in Koper, SI
Rare sculpture called "Stier 4", produced by Arform, the manufacturer founded in Milan in 1955 by Italian architect Paolo Tilche. This piece was designed by Paolo Tilche and Otto Mon...
Category
Italian Space Age Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Torch Cut Floral Arrangement from Brotman's Sausalito
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Hanover, MA
Torch cut brass and mixed metal kinetic floral spray in the style of Curtis Jere retailed through Brotman's Village Fair in Sausalito, CA circa 1970
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Large Modernist Abstract Kinetic Metal Hanging Sculpture
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large 60" x 60" Modernist Abstract kinetic metal hanging sculpture. Attributed to Yaacov Agam. Eight metal squares graduating in size. Sculpture has been outside for 40-50 years show...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Nelson Rockefeller Mottahedeh India Brass Bell
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Nelson Rockefeller Collection reproduction brass bell by Mottahedeh
Very unusual bell with three bells in one.
Very heavy for the size....
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass
David Elijah Herschler Hanging Abstract Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
David Elijah Herscler abstract chrome plated steel hanging sculpture. Contemporary sculpture inspired by elements of nature and space this is from his space ribbons series, signed an...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Chrome
Moving Sculpture of I Ching Energies by Equipo Zarpa, 1970s
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Fascinating steel sculpture composed of a rotating body where to place the twelve rods that will form the trigrams resting on the marks on the base. The origin of the IChing comes fr...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Modernist Curvilinear Sculpture in Brushed Aluminum w/ Onyx Base Signed Curtis J
By Curtis Jeré
Located in New York, NY
This sophisticated brushed aluminum modernist sculpture was realized in the United States in 1979. Created by an unheralded, but masterful artist, and signed Curtis J, the piece suggests a deconstructed Kandinsky painting...
Category
American Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
Large Curtis C Jere Brass Spray Sculpture on Marble Base
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Wayne, NJ
Large Curtis C Jere brass spray sculpture on marble base ribbon forms with rods. Unsigned. many times from cleaning, the signature gets worn off through ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
Clessidra Hourglass, Paolo Venini, Venini Murano 'Italy'
By Venini, Paolo Venini
Located in Brussels, BE
The hourglasses designed by Paolo Venini in 1957 were exhibited at the Triennale di Milano the same year.
This piece is a large and rare model. The two parts have a conical shape a...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Mid-Century Modern Hand Carved Grisaille Granite Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This dynamic and refined Mid-Century Modern sculpture was realized in the United States, circa 1970. It features a totem hand-carved form consisting of various tiers of grisaille gra...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Joseph Burlini Kinetic Mobile Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Midcentury Kinetic mobile sculpture by Joseph Burlini made of chrome and painted metal. Three rods suspends on a dome shaped hanger with each ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Holmegaard Handmade Glass Relief / Sun Catcher Abstract Motif "Summer", 1975
By Holmegaard, Per Lütken
Located in Odense, DK
Large handmade glass relief or sun catcher made for Holmegaard Glassworks 150th anniversary in 1975. Mounted in original cast iron holder. "The Seasons" we...
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Table Top Acrylic Spray Sculpture
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Fun table top kinetic acrylic and wire spray with small brass tips. Cube measures 2.25" with the diameter of the spray reaching out to 32" diameter. Top on arches measure around 11"....
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Brutalist Kinetic Balancing Man Sculpture by Strauss, 1970’s
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Mid-Century Modern Curtis Jere style Brutalist tabletop or book shelf counter balance sculpture constructed of welded metal and nails. This kinetic t...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Monumental Chandelier by Architect Paolo Soleri
By Paolo Soleri
Located in Chicago, IL
Monumental Chandelier Hand-Crafted by Architect Paolo Soleri,Brutalist Design. Bronze Cast from the Arcosanti
foundry Yavapai County, Arizona 19...
Category
American Brutalist Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Agam Kinetic Space Divider Sculpture Limited Edition Artist Proof & Lucite Stand
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Artist: Yaacov Agam, Israeli (1928-)
Title: Space Divider
Medium: Polished metal kinetic sculpture
Edition: 19/25
Rotates at top
Signed on side of piece - Agam on the underside is the number.
On stand 47” tall 7” x 7”
Piece only 7” wide by 9” by 2 7/8” wide
normal tarnish and wear
It comes with the magazine cover of the artist and the custom made Lucite base.
Artist Biography from the Guggenheim
Yaacov Agam
B. 1928, RISHON-LE-ZION, PALESTINE
Yaacov Agam was born in Rishon-le-Zion, Palestine (now Israel), in 1928, the son of a rabbi and kabbalist, Yehoshua Gibstein. He studied at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem under Mordecai Ardon in 1946, moved to Zurich and then Paris, and studied at the Atelier d'art abstrait and at the Académie de la grande chaumière. While in Zurich, he met and was influenced by artist and teacher Johannes Itten, who was propagating Bauhaus ideas; he also found inspiration in Vasily Kandinsky's defense of abstraction, ber das Geistige in der Kunst. Insbesondere in der Malerei (On the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular, 1911).
His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Craven in Paris in 1953, entitled Peintures en Mouvement (Paintings in movement), where he showed two series of early work. In one, grids of painted strips that incorporated different designs on opposite sides created images that merged and changed as spectators shifted their viewing position (a type of lenticular print that eventually became known as an Agamograph). In the other, his Transformable Pictures (Images transformables, 1953–61), viewers could manually activate works and rearrange their visual elements. While not the first Optical-Kinetic artist, Agam encouraged spectator participation at a time when such strategies were rare. He exhibited, along with other pioneers of Kinetic art including Alexander Calder and Jean Tinguely, at the Le mouvement (Movement) exhibition at the Galerie Denise René in 1955.
He continued to produce abstract, Kinetic work that incorporated light, sound, and viewer participation. He also produced many public commissions, including a moving salon environment at the Elysée Palace in Paris in 1972. In the space, walls were covered with lenticular imagery; transparent doors were included; and a sculpture was placed on a Kinetic carpet. In all, the environment shifted according to the viewer's position. In 1979, Agam was asked to make a work of art to commemorate the peacemaking efforts between Anwar el-Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
Category
Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Wire Spray Table Sculpture by Dave Grossman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A super cool stainless steel kinetic wire sculpture by Dave Grossman in the 1970s. It's a nice size table sculpture. Features a stainless cylindrical base with 100's of wires.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
1970s Lucite Sculpture
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
1970s Lucite clear sculpture with red movement.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Cubo di Teo Illuminated Sculpture by James Rivière
Located in Barcelona, ES
Iluminated sculpture named Cubo di Teo designed by James Rivière in 1970's and edited by Centro Ricerche di Arte Industria Lissone, Italy. Colored acrylic ...
Category
Italian Kinetic Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic
Wall Sculpture in Stainless Steel, Signed Orvan, France, 1972
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Magnetic panels in stainless steel whose Various elements are fixed by magnets.Geometric compositions in stainless steel and lacquered colors gives an abstract pictorial art.
Signed Orvan,1972.
In october 1970,the artist Orvan exhibited his works at the fifth biennial of antique dealers in Paris,alongside Cesar and Paco Rabane.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Rare Bill Curry Cattail Room Divider / Sculpture for Design Line 29 Cattails
Located in Buffalo, NY
Extremely rare Cattail Sculpture / Room divider designed by Bill Curry for Design Line,,Featuring 29 metal rods with beautifully shaped and painted oval ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Bronze Horse Sculpture by Miguel Berrocal
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Sculpture of a horse in bronze numbered and signed
Miguel Berrocal.
Good condition with a nice patina.
Good quality of cast.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Modern Hanging Sculpture Mobile Wind Chime
Located in Miami, FL
Twenty-four discs hanging from a spiral, true midcentury sculpture.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Gilded Steel and Onyx Tabletop Sculpture by Curtis Jeré
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A original 1970s brass sculpture on a solid onyx base by Curtis Jeré.
Dimension: 33.25" high 31" wide 15" deep.
The onyx base is 6" high 5" ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Onyx, Steel
Carmelo Cappello Bronze Kinetic Sculpture, Signed, Numbered, Dated
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Traditional style sculpture for the well known Italian artist Carmelo Cappello. This is signed and dated 37/99 and 1978. The work shows patina of age and the work seats lose on the b...
Category
Italian Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Brass
Italian Mid-Century Modern Kinetic Sculpture by Franco Costalonga, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian Mid-Century Modern Kinetic sculpture by Franco Costalonga, 1970s
Kinetic sculpture composed of a mustard yellow plastic tube and a sphere wi...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Plastic
Eugenio Carmi Light Box, Signed Artwork, 1970, Italy
Located in Brussels, BE
Eugenio Carmi (1920-2016) "Segnale Immaginario Elettrico 23" artwork, 1970, Italy.
Black, white, multicolor plexiglass light box.
Turns off and on again at regular intervals (more or...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Plexiglass
1972 A.R.D.I.T.I. Wall Lamp Chromed Steel and Movable Lights for Sormani, Italy
Located in Arosio, IT
Extremely rare, modular, sculptural large wall lamp BT1 in stainless steel with low-voltage lights with magnetic, movable Perspex/Lucite cylinders and a movable cube, that can be det...
Category
Italian Space Age Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel, Magnets
Giò Pomodoro Sculpture for Architects
By Gio Pomodoro
Located in Milan, Italy
Plumb line sculpture in brass and wood produced in 1970.
Numbered and signed Giò Pomodoro.
Produced for the company Torno S.P.A.
Category
Italian Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Giò Pomodoro Sculpture for Architects
By Gio Pomodoro
Located in Milan, Italy
Brass and wood sculpture "Livella" produced in 1970.
Numbered and signed Giò Pomodoro.
Produced for the company Torno S.P.A.
Category
Italian Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Sculpture by Yaacov Agam, Entitled "Reflecting Space"
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A stunning sculpture by Yaacov Agam Isreali, b. 1928 - Entitled "Reflecting Space", 1978.
Category
Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Original Wire Sculpture in Plexi Box by M. Gelfman Pereira
Located in East Hampton, NY
This American artist (Marilyn Gelfman-Karp) created this unique and beautiful wire art in 1970. She was the wife of famed art dealer and Pop Art Pioneer Ivan Karp. This is made of soldered wire sculpture in a plexiglass display...
Category
American Organic Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Wire
2 William King Midcentury Modernist Aluminum Puzzle Sculptures of Acrobats
By William King
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Event and The Test - a group of 2 Mid-Century Modern aluminum acrobat sculptures.
William D. King (1925-2015)
These interlocking aluminum sculptures were part of a series, which w...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
1970s Formula 1 Car Sculpture Made with Assorted Old Mechanical Metal Pieces
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s Formula 1 car sculpture made with assorted old mechanical metal pieces: cars, bikes, lawnmowers, etc.
Category
Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Monumental Modernist Mixed Metal Kinetic Floor Sculpture by Irving Lehman
Located in Buffalo, NY
Titled Galaxy 79, which I believe to be the year? Amazing mixed metal sculpture, consisting of copper, brass, aluminum steel and wood. Aluminum frame consisting of five moving abstra...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper, Cut Steel, Aluminum
Solid Marble Kinetic Sculpture
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An amazing solid Kinetic marble sculpture from the 1970s.
We are not sure on who designed this. The sculpture is in two sections you are able to rotate the top section 360 degrees. ...
Category
Unknown Modern Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Mixed Metal Abstract Sculptures by French Artist Chevallier
Located in New York, NY
Stunning mixed metal abstract sculptures by South of France artist Chevallier, circa 1970s. These distressed metal sculptures - one of copper, aluminum and brass and the larger of al...
Category
French Vintage 1970s Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Brass, Copper