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

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!

 

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

 

Date above is 1993, not 33.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

similarities, but dont know where the lister got their info.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gabriel-Grun-Yantorno-100-Bronze-Lady-Liberty-Head-/274666182533

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Misinformation on the internet? Say it isn't so!

 

OMG! What a dummy I am

 

I am going to contact her to check!

 

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

 

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

 

Thank goodness! I thought I was loosing it