Featured Wanted to show you my thrift store find yesterday - cool, bronze NYC skyline sculpture!

Discussion in 'Art' started by journeymagazine, Feb 26, 2021.

  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I found this yesterday - and paid $100(!) for it - at a thrift store. It's bronze & a sculpture of the New York City skyline circa 1993 (twin towers are there!).

    It was created by Gabriel Yantorno - and I like how he made it round; it's suppose to represent the planet!

    Thanks for looking!

    ART SCULPTURE BRONZE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE BY YANTORNO 1AAZZ.JPG ART SCULPTURE BRONZE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE BY YANTORNO 3AAZZ.JPG ART SCULPTURE BRONZE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE BY YANTORNO 5AaAZZ.JPG ART SCULPTURE BRONZE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE BY YANTORNO 4AAZZ.JPG ART SCULPTURE BRONZE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE BY YANTORNO 7AAZZ.JPG ART SCULPTURE BRONZE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE BY YANTORNO 8AAZZ.JPG ART SCULPTURE BRONZE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE BY YANTORNO 8AAAZZ.JPG
     
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  2. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    I'm confused, the twin towers in 1933? Creative license??
     
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  3. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Date above is 1993, not 33. ;)
     
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  4. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    I think that's fun.

    Interestingly, Gabriel Yantorno's one of those artists about whom nothing is found on the internet except a few examples of his recently sold work, all using the same personal descriptor ("well-known Argentinian-American artist.") Guess he does exist; found this on Google Argentina.

    Debora

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  5. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    It's signed "Yantorno." How did you connect that to Gabriel Yantorno? I think there could be some confusion somewhere. There's an Argentinian artist named Gabriel Grün Yantorno who's a figurative painter but he goes by Gabriel Grün (Grün being his father's last name and Yantorno being his mother's.) You can see his work here. Doesn't appear that he produces sculpture.

    http://gabrielgrun.blogspot.com

    Debora
     
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  6. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    I think maybe there was a typo since corrected. I recall seeing 1933, too.

    There are a number of similar looking bronze/blue sculpture signed "Yantorno" pieces on Ebay, no idea but they all say "Gabriel Yantorno". Also several under sold. Who knows whether correct.
     
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  7. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I only saw the 1993 numbers, but it could have been the others and corrected.

    As for the "sculpture," I'm not a fan. I don't think I would have guessed it was supposed to be NY.
     
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  8. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Hum... I did find another Argentine artist, Graciela Martínez Yantorno, a sculptor. She produced this medal for the Argentine government in 1980. The signature is set though, not hand drawn, so can't also credit her as maker of the other Argentine medal above which has the same signature as your piece. Still, hard to image more than one Argentine artist making medals.

    http://www.moviarg.com/medallas/MHRP.html

    Debora

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  9. mmarco102

    mmarco102 Well-Known Member

  10. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Think just a straw-grasp after a quick internet search. Gabriel Grün signs his work (paintings) with a triangular monogram. (See lower right. Sometimes it is embellished.)

    Debora

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  11. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I got his name by searching & finding 2 other ones like mine that had sold & both said it was by him?
     
  12. DragonflyWink

    DragonflyWink Well-Known Member

    But you understand that sales descriptions are often unreliable, frequently filled with inaccuracies resulting from poorly done research, and subsequently spread online - right?

    Debora has done quite a bit of work for you, showing the blog of the originally presumed artist, which makes him seem unlikely as the maker, and then found someone who actually works in bronze, in a similar style to your piece (even a city skyline present), with a very similar signature...

    ~Cheryl
     
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  13. wiscbirddog

    wiscbirddog Well-Known Member

    Misinformation on the internet? Say it isn't so!
     
  14. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    OMG! What a dummy I am :eek:
     
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  15. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I am going to contact her to check!
     
  16. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    I couldn't find any contact information for her. But you could easily contact Grün's gallery to confirm they're not works by him.

    Debora
     
  17. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    @Marie Forjan check my note above. I think there was a typo that got corrected.
     
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  18. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    Thank goodness! I thought I was loosing it :confused:
     
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