Harold Cousins Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Harold Cousins Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 23, 2024
COUSINS HAROLD (1916 - 1992) - LA BÊTE
Est: €8,000 - €10,000
COUSINS HAROLD (1916 - 1992). LA BÊTE. BIBLIOGRAPHY Harold Cousins, Sculptures- Beeldhouwwerken 1950-1975, Brussels, 1976, p.14 (wrong measurements) EXHIBITIONS Maison de la Culture-Harold Cousins, Brussels 18 March - 19 April 1976 PROVENANCE Private collection, Switzerland. 24,00 x 30,00 x 5,00 cm.
Capitolium Art
Oct. 03, 2024
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Flight.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Flight. Welded steel, mounted on a wooden base, 1952. Approximately 241x222x89 mm; 9½x8¾x3½ inches. Incised signature, lower right edge. Provenance: personal collection of the artist; thence by descent, family of the artist, Kenmore, New York; purchased from the family of the artist, private collection (2006). This striking steel sculpture by Harold Cousins comes from an important early body of modernist work, made during his first decade in Paris. Born and raised in Washington, DC, Cousins attended Howard University and served in the Coast Guard during World War II. Cousins then moved to New York, enrolled at the Art Students League and focused on creating sculpture. While there, Cousins studied under William Zorach, Will Barnet and Reginald Marsh, and also met his wife Peggy Thomas. They moved to Paris in October of 1949. Cousins first studied with Ossip Zadkine, and became close friends with artists Karel Appel and Shinkichi Tajiri, a fellow student of Zadkine's. Cousins also joined a community of expatriate African American artists in Paris including Ed Clark, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry and Larry Potter. With funding from the GI Bill, many American artists moved to Paris to be at the forefront of the post-war art world. Flight is an excellent example of Cousins's mature postwar practice in Paris, and epitomizes his mid-century practice. Inspired by the Spanish modernist Julio Gonzalez, the first artist of the era to explore a new technique of welding steel, Cousins created delicate, expressive sculptures, which brought him great acclaim in Europe. Flight is constructly similarly with both plate and steel wire, and with the same whimsy as many of Cousins's early 1950s sculpture. The nonfigurative Flight recalls his breakthrough 1952 "drawing in space" and the abstract Composition, 1952. The first major exhibition of these steel sculptures was at Galerie Raymond Creuse in Paris in 1954. A group of these early works were reunited in 1996 in the Studio Museum in Harlem traveling exhibition Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965. Early 1950s steel sculptures by Cousins are in several museum collections today, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. In 2023, the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery organized an important survey of Harold Cousins sculpture with Harold Cousins: Forms of Empty Space. Holman-Conwill pp. 62-63.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 06, 2024
Harold Cousins: Untitled
Est: €10,000 - €15,000
COUSINS, HAROLD 1916 Washington D.C. - 1992 Brussels Title: Untitled. Date: 1959. Technique: Iron, welded. Measurement: 140 x 21.5 x 24cm. Notation: Signed, inscribed and dated on the base: H. Cousins Paris '59. Provenance: - Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf - Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 313. Auction 10.06.1995, lot 107 - Private collection Southern Germany - An important representative of post-war American abstract art - From his well-known series of works "plaitons", which he began in 1957 - In 1959, Cousins takes part in documenta II in Kassel with similar works Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. Explanations to the Catalogue Harold Cousins USA Post-War Art Sculptures 1950s Abstract Object Metal
Van Ham Kunstauktionen
Apr. 30, 2024
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) Grille de fenêtre
Est: €15,000 - €20,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) Grille de fenêtre Circa 1962 Métal soudé peint en noir et socle en bois Zwartgelakt gelast metaal en houten basis Welded metal painted black and wooden base 91 x 229,5 cm
Bonhams
Jun. 07, 2023
Harold Cousins, Untitled, 1961-1963
Est: €10,000 - €15,000
Signed and dated (scratched) 'H. Cousins 1961-63' on one of the metal elements.
Kunsthaus Lempertz KG
Apr. 23, 2023
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) - Plaiton avec Racine
Est: €10,000 - €15,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) Plaiton avec Racine 1968 Signé, daté et situé ‘Bruxelles’ en bas à droite. Fer soudé. Pièce unique Rechts onderaan getekend, gedateerd en gelocaliseerd ‘Brussels’. Gelast ijzer. Uniek stuk. Signed, dated and located ‘Brussels’ lower right. Welded iron. Unique piece 62 x 41 x 12 cm
Cornette de Saint-Cyr-Bruxelles
Apr. 19, 2023
Harold Cousins, Bakota
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Harold Cousins Bakota 1951 wood, brass, cord, wire 32 h x 6.5 w x 6 d in (81 x 17 x 15 cm) Carved signature and date to verso 'H. Cousins 3/51 Paris'. Provenance: The Artist | Acquired from Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago in 2006 by the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Nov. 22, 2022
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) Gothic Plaiton Alix welded iron with brown patin
Est: €8,000 - €12,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) Gothic Plaiton Alix welded iron with brown patina, on a stone base sculpture: 161.5 x 63 x 13cm. overall: 165 x 65 x 23cm.
Christie's
Nov. 19, 2022
Harold Cousins, untitled
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Harold Cousins untitled 1969 iron sculpture with black patina on a wooden base 12-1/2 x 7 x 5 inches (without base) signed, dated, and inscribed, "Bxl, 69" Provenance: the collection of Benedict Goldschmidt, Brussels, Belgium
Black Art Auction
Nov. 19, 2022
Harold Cousins, 1916-1992, untitled
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
Harold Cousins 1916-1992 untitled 1969 iron hanging relief sculpture with black patina 13 x 20-7/8 x 2-5/8 inches signed, dated, inscribed, "Brussels, 7/69" Provenance: the collection of Benedict Goldschmidt, Brussels, Belgium
Black Art Auction
Oct. 06, 2022
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Viking.
Est: $30,000 - $40,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Viking. Welded steel, mounted on a wooden base, 1952. Approximately 787x533x203 mm; 31x21x8 inches. Incised signature, mid-center. Provenance: the estate of the artist; Marc Cousins, New York, private collection (2006). Exhibited: on loan and view at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 2013-2022. This significant steel sculpture by Harold Cousins comes from an important early body of modernist work, made during his first decade in Paris. Born and raised in Washington DC, Cousins attended Howard University and served in the Coast Guard during World War II. Cousins then moved to New York, enrolled at the Art Students League and focused on creating sculpture. While there, Cousins studied under William Zorach, Will Barnet and Reginald Marsh, and also met his wife Peggy Thomas. They moved to Paris in October of 1949. Cousins first studied with Ossip Zadkine, and became close friends with artists Karel Appel and Shinkichi Tajiri, a fellow student of Zadkine's. Cousins also joined a community of expatriate African American artists in Paris including Ed Clark, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry and Larry Potter. With funding from the GI Bill, many American artists moved to Paris to be at the forefront of the post-war art world. Viking is an iconic example of Cousins's mature postwar practice in Paris. Inspired by the Spanish modernist Julio Gonzalez, the first artist of the era to explore a new technique of welding steel, Cousins created delicate, expressive sculptures, which brought him great acclaim in Europe. Viking is similar to Cousins's La Reine, 1952, in the collection of the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University - its dynamic form takes on strikingly different shapes from different view points. The first major exhibition of these steel sculptures was at Galerie Raymond Creuse in Paris in 1954. A group of these early works were reunited in 1996, and included in the Studio Museum in Harlem traveling exhibition Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965. Early 1950s steel sculptures by Cousins are in several museum collections today, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. Holman-Conwill pp. 62-63.
Swann Auction Galleries
May. 21, 2022
Cousins Harold - Composition
Est: €8,000 - €12,000
Hanging sculpture - Steel and brass - Sig. "H. Cousins / BXL"
De Vuyst
May. 10, 2022
Harold Cousins (American, 1916-1992) Untitled Composition (Gothic Plaiton Type),
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Harold Cousins (American, 1916-1992) Untitled Composition (Gothic Plaiton Type), 1962 Welded steel rods and plates 51-1/2 inches (130.8 cm) high on a 5 inch (12.7 cm) high grey marble base Inscribed on center square: Cousins / 3/62 Black Art of a Distinguished Collector Primarily celebrated as a sculptor, Harold Cousins worked in a variety of mediums including stone, wood, metal and terracotta, and in a variety of styles from realism to total abstraction. In the 1950s and 1960s, he expressed his political views about racial integration in America with figurative works including Political Prisoner (1954) , Slave (1963), and Standing Figure (1963), a silhouette suggestive of the Ku Klux Klan. By the time he left for Europe in his 30s, the artist had already established a professional reputation in America. He grew up in northwest Washington, D.C. in an area known as "Black Broadway". In 1943, he began studies at Howard University and was much influenced by Alaine Locke, art historian and writer who encouraged pride and interest in African art. From 1943 to 1945, Cousins served in the U.S. Coast Guard working with Sonar, and then returned to his job at the U.S. Post Office, while studying sculpture in night classes. In 1948, determined to further his art studies and taking advantage of the GI Bill, he moved to New York City and enrolled at the Art Students League where his teachers were William Zorach, Will Barnett and Reginald Marsh. He met sculpture student Peggy Thomas, and they remained partners for the next thirty years. The coupled moved to Paris, leaving in October 1949, and there by pre-arrangement, he studied with Ossip Zadkine in a class of a dozen students. He also exhibited at Galerie Huit, the Salon des Independents and Salon de Jeune. His early works in Paris, influenced by Zadkine, were solid forms with classical and religious themes. Included were terracotta pieces titled Salomé, Seated Old Man, Gladiator and A La Pensée, and wood carvings Orphéus and A La Pensée. Wood carving such as Tree Spirit and "Poisson Vert" showed strong African-art influences. Among his close friends were Karel Appel, who, in turn, used his influence to get Cousins involved in a project for the Hunstzaal Hamel in Amsterdam to produce a series of terracotta and wood masks for his first European one-person show. During this period, his work became increasingly abstract, and his mediums included mixed-media facilitated by oxygen-acetylene welding that he learned from Shinkichi Tajiri, a fellow student at Zadkine's studio. However, this experimentation, which allowed him to assemble odd-seemingly unrelated pieces, earned the disapproval of Zadkine, and led to a distancing of their relationship. Cousins associated with many modernists and was part of The Parisian School, the European avant-garde that included Appel as well as Americans Paul Jenkins, Sam Francis and Joan Mitchell. Cousins also became much influenced by the work of Julio Gonzalez, whose work he saw first-hand due to a friendship with the daughter of Gonzalez, who had her father's private collection and freely shared it with Cousins. The last two decades of Cousins' live were marred by his ill health from oral cancer, which some attribute to his refusal to use a mask when he worked with oxygen-acetylene. However, he continued to exhibit and even did theatre sets for the production of "Four Penny Opera". In 1996, the Studio Museum in Harlem held a posthumous traveling exhibition of his work: "Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965". In 2000, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired his sculpture, Torso (1952). HID01801242017
Heritage Auctions
May. 01, 2022
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) - Sans titre, 1972
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) Sans titre, 1972 Fer soudé. Signée et daté sur la base. Gelaste ijzer. Op de basis gesigneerd en gedateerd. 35 x 23,5 x 11 cm
Cornette de Saint-Cyr-Bruxelles
Dec. 05, 2021
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) - Sans titre, 1978
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) Sans titre, 1978 Fer soudé. Signé, daté et situé Bruxelles sur la base. Gelaste ijzer. Op de basis gesigneerd, gedateerd en gesitueerd in Brussel. 31 x 15.5 x 10 cm Provenance / Herkomst : Collection privée, Bruxelles
Cornette de Saint-Cyr-Bruxelles
Dec. 05, 2020
Cousins Harold (1916 - 1992) Belgium - Untitled (1963)
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Sculpture - Metal - Painted black - On a wooden base - Sig. with date 6/'63
De Vuyst
Oct. 22, 2019
HAROLD B. COUSINS (1916-1992) - SANS TITRE, CIRCA 1962
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
HAROLD B. COUSINS (1916-1992) SANS TITRE, CIRCA 1962 Métal Pièce unique 96,5 x 112,5 cm - 37.99 x 44.29 in. Steel Unique piece Provenance : - Ancienne collection Alla et Bénédict Goldschmidt, Bruxelles - Collection particulière, Bruxelles
Cornette de Saint-Cyr
Jun. 25, 2019
Harold B. Cousins (1916-1992) Solid Platon Fer soudé. Monogrammé sur la b
Est: €1,000 - €1,500
Harold B. Cousins (1916-1992) Solid Platon Fer soudé. Monogrammé sur la base. Gelast ijzer. Op de basis gemonogrammeerd. H: 24 cm
Cornette de Saint-Cyr-Bruxelles
Apr. 05, 2018
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Composition.
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Composition. Welded and patinated steel, mounted on a black marble base, 1961. Approximately 457x152x76 mm; 18x6x3 inches. 600 mm; 23 5/8 inches high, including the base. Incised "H. Cousins, Paris, 1961" on verso. Provenance: private collection, France. This striking, modern sculpture comes from an important body of work the artist made in Paris. In New York, Cousins studied under William Zorach, Will Barnet and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League, where he also met his wife Peggy Thomas. The couple moved to Paris in October 1949, where he first studied with Ossip Zadkine, and became close friends with Karel Appel. But it wasn't until he had befriended the sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri and learned to weld steel with oxygen-acetylene that his work became completely abstract. The artist assembled metal rod formations in the early 1950s, which he called "forests," free-standing groupings of linear and flattened forms. This series brought him his first critical success in Paris. He then began to add the metal plates or plaitons in 1957. In 1996, many of these early works were included in the Studio Museum in Harlem's traveling exhibition Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965. Mercer pp. 62-63.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 21, 2017
Harold B. COUSINS (1916 - 1992), Composition, Paris 1961
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
In patinated steel with black marble base. Signed, dated and located. 60 x 14,5 x 13 cm cm
Haynault
Oct. 25, 2016
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) GRILLE ANIMEE (LARGE), 1962 De la série des forê
Est: €10,000 - €15,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916-1992) GRILLE ANIMEE (LARGE), 1962 De la série des forêts Métal soudé et bois 212 x 130,5 x 44 cm Cette oeuvre est référencée et reproduite sur le site de l'artiste (Bibliography, page 4)
Cornette de Saint-Cyr
Jun. 12, 2012
Harold Cousins (1916- ), American UNTITLED; Welded steel sculpture with golden brown patination; stamped signature.Together with:UNTITLED; A smaller bronze with golden patination; incised signature12" x 12" - 30.5 x 30.5 cm.; 3" - 7.6 cm.
Est: $4,500 - $6,000
Harold Cousins (1916- ), American UNTITLED; Welded steel sculpture with golden brown patination; stamped signature.Together with:UNTITLED; A smaller bronze with golden patination; incised signature12" x 12" - 30.5 x 30.5 cm.; 3" - 7.6 cm.
Waddington's
Oct. 08, 2009
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Composition.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Composition. Welded steel, mounted on a granite base, 1952-53. Approximately 360x558x315 mm; 14x22x12 1/2 inches. Engraved signature and date on the far left horizontal plate. Provenance: the artist; Danielle and Marc Cousins, Alexandria, VA; private collection. Exhibited: Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945 - 1965, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, January 18 - June 2, 1996; Chicago Cultural Center, June 29 - August 29, 1996; New Orleans Museum of Art, September 14 - November 10, 1996; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, January 12 - March 23, 1997; Milwaukee Art Museum, April 11- June 1, 1997. Illustrated: Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945 - 1965, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, fig. 23, p. 64. One of his earliest steel sculptures to come to auction, Harold Cousins's Composition is a remarkable example of mid-century abstraction in sculpture. This abstract composition comes from the artist's first year of working in steel in Paris. In New York, he had studied under William Zorach, Will Barnet and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League, where he also met his wife, Peggy Thomas. The couple moved to Paris in October 1949, where he first studied with Ossip Zadkine, and became close friends with Karel Appel. But it wasn't until he had befriended the Japanese-American sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri and learned to weld steel that his work became completely abstract. Composition shows the light and open nature of his subjects in scrap metal before he began the plaitons series in the latter half of the decade. Cousins had his first solo exhibition of these steel works two years later in 1954 at Galerie Creuze in Paris.
Swann Auction Galleries
May. 04, 2009
Harold Cousins, (American, 1916-1992), Political Prisoner, 1954
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Harold Cousins (American, 1916-1992) Political Prisoner, 1954 polychromed terra cotta inscribed Height 29 1/2 inches.
Hindman
May. 04, 2009
Harold Cousins, (American, 1916-1992), Man, 1949
Est: $800 - $1,200
Harold Cousins (American, 1916-1992) Man, 1949 carved wood and wire signed and dated
Hindman
Feb. 17, 2009
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Untitled.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Untitled. Welded steel, with golden brown patina, 1963. Approximately 281x308x102 mm; 12 1/8x15x4 inches. Incised "H Cousins/Paris" and dated lower right, on the base. This sculpture comes from a body of work the artist made during his residence in Paris in the 1960s. In New York, he had studied under William Zorach, Will Barnet and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League, where he also met his wife, Peggy Thomas. The couple moved to Paris in October 1949, where he first studied with Ossip Zadkine, and became close friends with Karel Appel. But it wasn't until he befriended the Japanese-American sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri and learned to weld steel with oxygen-acetylene that his work became completely abstract. In the early 1950s, the artist started assembling metal rod formations, which he called "forests," free-standing groupings of linear and flattened forms. This series brought him his first critical success in Paris. Holman-Conwill pp. 62-63.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 02, 2008
HAROLD B. COUSINS (AMERICAN 1916-1992)
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
HAROLD B. COUSINS (american 1916-1992) UNTITLED Inscribed 'H Cousins/Paris' on base, welded steel with brown and golden brown patinas 12 1/8 in. (30.8cm) (height) 15 in. (28.1cm) (width) 4 in. (10.2cm) (depth)
Freeman's
Feb. 19, 2008
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Untitled (Abstract Composition).
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
HAROLD COUSINS (1916 - 1992) Untitled (Abstract Composition). Welded steel, painted black, circa 1957-9. Approximately 130x300x130 mm; 5x12x5 inches. With the artist's incised signature on the back. Provenance: ex-collection the artist; William Lieberman, New York; the current owner. This abstract steel sculpture comes from a body of work the artist made during his first decade in Paris. In New York, he had studied under William Zorach, Will Barnet and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League, where he also met his wife Peggy Thomas. The couple moved to Paris in October 1949, where he first studied with Ossip Zadkine, and became close friends with Karel Appel. But it wasn't until he had befriended the Japanese-American sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri and learned to weld steel with oxygen-acetylene that his work became completely abstract. The artist assembled metal rod formations in the early 1950s, which he called "forests," free-standing groupings of linear and flattened forms. This series brought him his first critical success in Paris. He then began to add the metal plates or plaitons in 1957. In 1996, many of these early works were included in the Studio Museum in Harlem traveling exhibition Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965. Holman-Conwill pp. 62-63.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 08, 2005
Harold Cousins (American, b. 1916)
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Don Quichotte signed and dated 'H. Cousins Paris '54' (on top of a circular iron element) iron and iron wire 96 cm. high This piece is unique.
Christie's
Jul. 13, 2004
Harold Cousins (b. 1916)
Est: $3,000 - $3,500
Sculpture welded iron 54 in. (137.2 cm.) high, including base Executed in 1958
Christie's
Jul. 13, 2004
Harold Cousins (b. 1916)
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Plaiton, Long Standing signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'H Cousins Plaiton, long standing Paris 58' (on the underside) metal and wood construction 8 1/4 x 13 in. (21 x 33 cm.) Executed in 1958
Christie's