Above
26h x 15w x 10d
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Danaide
21h x 19w x 12d
Fire and Rose
38h x 16w x 18d
Icara
51h x 22w x 16d
Mountains of the Sun
22h x 17w x 15d
Psyche
18h x 10w x 6d
The Pearl
17h x 10w x 10d
Wings of Love
30h x 9w x 16d
Dream Of Grace
25h x 9w x 19d
Illumina
23h x 19w x 11d
Mountains of the Sun (Sketch)
The Pearl
(Sketch)
INTERNATIONAL MODERN MASTERS EXHIBITION
Ira Reines was born in New York, New York on December 3, 1957 and by the age of five his sculptural talents began to emerge. At nineteen, one of Reines’ sculptures caught the eye of the director of the Medallic Art Company of Danbury, Connecticut who offered him employment sculpting medallions. He gratefully took advantage of this opportunity to learn advanced plaster-working techniques and to hone his sculpting skills.
The worlds of fantasy and mythology and the works of Michelangelo, Rodin, and Bernini fueled the imagination of Reines and encouraged him to create elaborate bronzes and to begin to accept private and commercial commissions.
In 1980, Ira Reines’ career got a tremendous boost when he was hired to work with Art Deco Master Erte, considered by many as the father of Art Deco. Ira worked closely with Erte, translating the master’s two-dimensional designs into seventy bronze sculptures that were sold world-wide. This symbiotic association with Erte lasted eleven years, up until Erte’s death in 1991. During this period, Reines’ skills and personal style in fine art sculpting began to evolve, undergoing a metamorphosis from classical mythological themes to more contemporary ones.
IRA REINES
BRONZE
