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Tolla Inbar
Forty-nine Tolla Inbar bronzes are live on the site right now, and size is the most dramatic thing about the collection — some pieces sit comfortably on a bookshelf, others top eight feet and need floor space of their own. Prices run $3,100 to $102,850, median $23,000.
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Forty-nine Tolla Inbar bronzes are live on the site right now, and size is the most dramatic thing about the collection — some pieces sit comfortably on a bookshelf, others top eight feet and need floor space of their own. Prices run $3,100 to $102,850, median $23,000.
Dark figures, gold rope, a story every time
Inbar's work returns to the same two elements in different configurations: a dark-patina bronze human figure, paired with something in a warmer gold patina — a rope, a second figure, a puzzle piece — that the dark figure is climbing, trusting, or reaching toward. The long-running "Circle of Life" series (we currently carry numbers 9, 11, 12, and 13) stacks figures into a wheel with no visible start or end. "Puzzled" and "Puzzled Small" turn the same idea into figures navigating oversized interlocking pieces. "Free Motion" has two figures scaling a coiled gold rope. It's a tight, recognizable visual language across a genuinely large body of work.
Size breaks down clearly across the collection: 16 pieces run under 100cm, 22 more sit in the 100–150cm range, 9 from 150–200cm, 16 from 200–250cm, another 16 from 250–350cm, and 3 that run past 350cm — true monuments. "Sky High II," at over eight feet, shows the visual language at its most dramatic: a dark bronze figure dives horizontally through space, tethered only by a golden rope held by a steadfast figure below. The finish varies too — mostly a dark bronze patina, though a few pieces use verdigris instead, the pale blue-green surface that develops on aged bronze.
Sizing and lead time, not scarcity
Most of these designs come in more than one size — the variant list for a single piece can run 100cm, 110cm, 115cm, 120cm and up, so the same design is often orderable at more than one scale rather than existing as one fixed cast. We don't track a shrinking on-hand count against this collection the way we do a tight limited edition; what matters more here is which size you want and how long it takes to get to you, not "how many are left."
No one I've sold a Tolla to has ever called back with regret. That's easier to believe once you've seen one of these delivered — a dark bronze figure at this scale changes how a room feels, in a way a product photo just doesn't get across.
Anything over 200cm ships crated, usually by freight rather than parcel carrier. Call us before you order something that size and we'll talk through what it takes to get it through your door and settled on your floor.
— Steve Schlag, founder, Dolphin Galleries