Gallery Located within The Palm Beach Art & Design Showroom
MAISON PALM BEACH SCULPTURE GALLERY
Bronze & Plaster Sculpture Gallery
Maison Palm Beach is distinguished for its curated offering of fine 19th, 20th and 21st century art.
The gallery, founded by Mark Lukas in 2024, is now open to the public at the Palm Beach Showroom in Lake Worth.
The gallery’s core offering of medium and large scale sculpture ranges from classical, grand tour works to mid-century abstraction. Our latest addition is a selection of works of art on paper and canvas that are comprised of blue chip and emerging artists.
Today, the gallery exhibits works by artists and firms such as Joan Miro, Richard Diebenkorn, Fernando Botero, Hans Arp, Josef Albers, Ben Sack, Lee Krasner, Ernst Moritz Geyger, Robert Tait McKenzie, Fonderia Chiurazzi, Fonderia Giorgio Sommer, Benedetto Boschetti, Giorgio Zennaro, Atelier de Moulages du Louvre
Plaster Cast & Bronze Sculpture
Seated Mercury
Lifesize Bronze Sculpture
Italian School, (possibly Naples)
Lifesize Bronze Sculpture
Italy
Late 19th Century
48” x 28” x 42”
The Seated Mercury (or Seated Hermes) was discovered on August 3, 1758 during the excavations, in the peristyle garden of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. It’s one of the most famous works discovered in the ancient sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii in the 18th century, and a must-see for Grand Tour travelers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Related works:
Getty Villa in Malibu, California
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Villa San Michele, Anacapri
Orsteds Park, Copenhagen
Inventory #1002
Price $48,500
Messenger of Victory (Nenikhkamen)
Bronze Sculpture
Messenger of Victory (Nenikhkamen)
Max Kruse (1854-1942)
Bronze Sculpture by Gladenback & Son
Germany
Early 20th Century
20.5” x 17.5 x 5”
Depicting the Greek messenger Pheidippides running, the base cast as set of three rough steps, signed to cast Max Kruse Fec and foundry mark H. Gladenbeck & Sohn
Illustrated in H. Berman, Bronzes, Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930, Chicago, 1980 Volume IV, page 905. Nenikikamen is a translation of the ancient Greek 'we have won', and according to legend was the last word of the messenger Pheidippides after he completed his run to Marathon from Athens to report the defeat of the Persians in 490 BC. There is another example of this model in the Berlin Museum entitled Messenger of the Marathon, also cast.
Inventory #1012
Price $4500
Charioteer of Delphi
Lifesize Plaster Cast
Charioteer of Delphi
Atelier de Moulages
Lifesize Plaster Cast
France
Early 20th Century
H80 x W21 x D28
This lifesize plaster cast of the Charioteer of Delphi is at once beautiful and commands a presence. This piece is unique in the world, as it has a custom patina that is inspired directly from the original bronze. This empowers the form and makes it a beautiful addition to both modern and classic interiors.
The Charioteer of Delphi is a lifesize bronze statue from ancient Greece, discovered in 1896 at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. It depicts a charioteer, likely commemorating a victory in a Pythian Games chariot race.
The statue is a significant example of early classical Greek bronze sculpture, notable for its detailed craftsmanship and preservation, and is now housed in the Delphi Archaeological Museum
Inventory #1026
Price $28,500
Athlete, Male Nude
Plaster Maquette
Athlete, Male Nude
Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)
Plaster Maquette, Studio Original, Signed in the Model
Canadian
First Quarter of the 20th Century
H x W x D
Canadian-born physician, educator, and sculptor Robert Tait McKenzie united science, sport, and art in a remarkable career. Trained in medicine at McGill University, he became a pioneer in physical education while pursuing sculpture as a means to study the human body. Largely self-taught, he combined anatomical precision with classical ideals, creating works that celebrated athletic strength, discipline, and movement. From early facial studies of effort to full figures like sprinters, javelin throwers, and competitors, his art reflected both rigorous measurement and expressive vitality. McKenzie’s legacy endures as a rare fusion of medical knowledge and sculptural vision.
This plaster maquette is signed in the model and is expressive of his passion for proportion, classicism and the beauty of the male athlete.
Inventory # 1027
Price $ 1,450
THE WRESTLERS
Lifesize Plaster Cast
Brussels Atelier de Moulages
Lifesize Plaster Cast
Belgium
Mid-19th Century
H45 x W38 x D26
The Atelier de Moulage was established in the 19th century under King Leopold II when the fashion for displaying plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture in private houses, museums, and academies was at its height in Europe. These casts provided teaching tools and substituted classical marbles in Italian collections.
The Wrestlers was originally an ancient sculpture that was refined and reproduced by the Neo-classical maestro, Antonio Canova, in the 18th century…his work has become the standard of excellence and refinement. Canova’s work served as the inspiration for the plaster cast made in Brussels.
Inventory #1006
Price $28,500
BIRDMAN
Large Bronze Sculpture
Otto Poertzel
Large Bronze Sculpture
Brussels
1925
45” x 9” x 9”
An impressive portrayal in bronze of a youth releasing an eagle to hunt. Otto Poertzel trained as a porcelain modeller at Kister Factory in Scheibe. In 1893, he studied at the Technical Academy for Porcelain in Sonneberg under Prof. Möller. From 1900, he was an independent sculptor in Coburg. In 1908, he had his own studio in Munich and attended the Academy of Art under Prof. Hildebrand. In 1913, he was a professor.
Participant in significant exhibitions, including exhibits of his larger pieces at the world fairs in St. Louis and Brussels.
Inventory #1007
Price $7500
PILINE
Plaster Maquette, Original Model
Raymond Sudre
Plaster Maquette, Original Model
Belgium
1900
H16 x W14.5 x D9
A Symbolist bust that exudes the dream-like expression of the movement. This Original Model of Piline in plaster was realized the studio of Raymond Sudre. The faraway look in her eyes makes for a compelling work of art.
Symbolism is an artistic style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. It originated in late 19th century France and Belgium.
Early in his career, Sudre was tutored by sculptors Antonin Mercié and Alexandre Falguière.
Inventory # 1017
Price $ 1,500.00
Neapolitan Fisherman
Bronze Sculpture
Fonderia Giorgio Sommer
Bronze Sculpture
Italy, Naples
Third Quarter of the 19th Century
20.5” x 13” x 12”
The Grand Tour Bronze cast as a Neapolitan Fisherman after the original excavated in 1823 at Pompeii in the Casa della Fontana piccola (House of the small fountain). The finely cast Sculpture is seated upon a rocky outcrop with a Bacchus mask fountain spout beneath him. The figure barefooted wearing a loose-fitting tunic and straw hat leans forward with his hands poised.
The Grand Tour Bronze dates to the late 19th century, circa 1875, and is signed around the Bacchus fountain mask G. Sommer Napoli.
Inventory #1013
Price $6500
Polished Bronze Modernist Bust
Charles Delporte (1928-2012)
Polished bronze bust, Signed and Numbered 34/100.
France
Mid-20th Century
13” x 5” x 5”
This modernist bust takes on an abstract form, as it resembles a mask. The work is influenced by the Symbolist movement, notably in its organic form and poetic expressiveness. The fluid style also evokes a certain kinship with the classical idealization of the female face.
Charles Delporte was a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, known for his painting, sculpture and writings. He developed a humanist art, imbued with spirituality and science, aiming to connect man with the universe. His work, marked by great sensitivity, seeks to transcend reality through beauty and symbolic reflection.
Numbered 34/100.
Inventory #1010
Price $2450
Scipion Africanus
Plaster Relief
Atelier de Moulages
Plaster Relief
France or Belgium
Late 19th Century
24” x 15.5” x 4”
This beautiful and accurate plaster cast is of a Renaissance era relief of Scipion Africanus by Andrea del Verrochio. The level of refinement of the visage and the Roman armor is nothing short of extraordinary.
Plaster casts were made in the 18th and 19th centuries for the Grand Tour traveler. They were made to allow a collector to live with the beauty of the best examples of French and Italian art. They were also collected by museums in far flung places, so their patrons could experience the beauty of classical art in their local museum.
Inventory #1008
Price $8,500
Peplophoros
Polished Bronze Sculpture
Italian School
Polished Bronze
Italy
Late 19th or Early 20th Century
14.25” x 5” x 5”
Called a Peplophoros, this small sculpture is inspired by Greek originals of about 470 B.C. It portrays a woman wearing a peplos, a garment that was pinned at the shoulders and belted at the waist, creating straight, heavy folds to the feet. Her raised arms imply that she may be dancing. The cobra at her feet adds interest and intrigue, possibly from a lost ceremony.
Inventory #1015
Price $1850
MARSYAS
Lifesize Plaster Cast
Brussels Atelier de Moulages
Lifesize Plaster Cast
Belgium
Mid-19th Century
H51 x W15 x D11
Marsyas is a figure from Greek mythology, a satyr known for his musical skill, particularly with the aulos (a double-piped wind instrument). He famously challenged the god Apollo to a musical contest and, upon losing, was brutally punished by being flayed alive by Arrotino (knife sharpener).
Inventory #1020
Price $9,500
Arrotino (Knife Sharpener)
Lifesize Bronze Cast
Arrotino (Knife Sharpener)
Fonderia Artistica Chiurazzi
Lifesize Bronze Bust on Socle
Naples, Italy
Mid to Late 19th Century
22” x 10” x 10”
Finest 19th century quality bronze from Naples, this masterpiece by Chiurazzi depicts the knife sharpener. The original marble Arrotino resides in the Tribune at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Arrotino is sharpening his knife, as he is about to flay the satyr Marsyas, who lost a flute competition with the gods. For his hubris, he was strung up and will have his skin removed, according to the myth.
This extraordinary work has a strong presence, as the artist has projected the head forward…which renders a dynamic and energized bust that is rarely found.
Inventory #1011
Price $9500
THE ARCHER
Bronze Sculpture
Ernst Moritz Geyger (1861-1941)
Bronze Sculpture
1909
42” x 27.5” x 10”
The Archer is Geyger’s most celebrated work. The Gladenbeck foundry acquired the rights to cast reductions in bronze and edited them in three sizes, with one such model appearing on the front of their 1903 catalogue. While Geyger's inspiration ultimately derives from antiquity and more specifically from an ancient torso of a wrestler in Berlin, his particular achievement lies in the fresh and modern reinterpretation of the Ideal, harnessing a stylised male physique in a composition full of the undiluted energy in the split second before the release of the archer’s arrow.
Inventory #1003
Price $28,500
Spinario (Boy with Thorn)
Mid-19th Century Bronze Sculpture
Benedetto Boschetti, Roma
Bronze Sculpture
Italy
Mid-19th Century
19.75” x 9.25” x 13”
A large-scale and very finely modeled Grand Tour bronze sculpture. The Greco-Roman "Spinario" or the "Boy with Thorn", in the Capitoline Museum of Rome is the original that inspired this sculpture. The beautiful verdigris patina is the natural result of being outside in a garden for several decades.
Boschetti ran an important shop on the via Condotti in Rome from about 1820-1860. He won a medal at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. Works signed Boschetti rarely come to market.
Signed to the plinth: B. Boschetti - Roma
Inventory #1001
Price $12,500
Number 14
Large Bronze Abstract Sculpture
Number 14
Giorgio Zennaro (1926-2005)
Large Bronze Abstract Sculpture
Pietrasanta, Italy
1972
23.25” x 46” x 18.5”
Giorgio Zennaro’s sculpting career began early with his participation from 1953 to 1965 in all the Group Sculpture Exhibitions of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. In 1955, he won the first prize of the Municipality of Venice.
Number 14 is from a show that he created in 1973…to highlight new forms, both large and small…in bronze, marble and lucite.
Inventory #1004
Price $32,500
ROMAN SOLDIER
H20 x W7 x D4