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Sculptures For Sale
Style: Minimalist
Style: American Realist
Drago — miniature glass vase, volume VII
Located in Helsinki, FI
miniature glass vessels with wooden texture, volume VII, limited edition of 12 unique pieces approximate dimensions: 5-6 cm / 75-100 ml These little glass sculptures can be used as ...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Blown Glass

Ruth Bloch, Couple in a window, bronze wall sculpture
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Ruth Bloch, Couple in a window, wall sculpture, Bronze sculpture, two nude figures with a book, classic figures, couple in love, Israeli art , Israeli artist, art
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Yvette Cohen, Ara Pacis - Zen Corner, 2009, Minimalist sculpture
Located in Darien, CT
My work bridges the divide between sculpture and painting and drawing. Paintings are geometric masses of color in oil paint and wood dowels, on shaped canvas. Often grouped in d...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas, Wood

Babel Fluo_viola
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: Babel ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2024 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 13 x 13 x h 87 cm This sculpture is part of an artistic researc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Babel Fluo_verde
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: Babel ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2024 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 13 x 13 x h 87 cm This sculpture is part of an artistic researc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Babel Fluo_rosso
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: Babel ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2024 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 13 x 13 x h 87 cm This sculpture is part of an artistic researc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Babel Fluo_rosa
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: Babel ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2024 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 13 x 13 x h 87 cm This sculpture is part of an artistic researc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Babel Fluo_giallo
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: Babel ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2024 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 13 x 13 x h 87 cm This sculpture is part of an artistic researc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Babel Fluo_blu
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: Babel ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2024 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 13 x 13 x h 87 cm This sculpture is part of an artistic researc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Babel Fluo_arancione
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: Babel ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2024 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 13 x 13 x h 87 cm This sculpture is part of an artistic researc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Aharon Bezalel Israeli Modernist Sculpture 2 Parts Minimalist Aluminum or Steel
Located in Surfside, FL
A suite of 2 sculptures. Lovers, man and woman nestled together. sleek minimalist mod sculpture. polished finish on one side. not sure if theese are stell or aluminium. they are cast...
Category

1970s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Dancers - 1 - Minimal Bronze Abstract Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Dancers - 1 5.5 x 8.2 x 1.5, 1.7 lbs Bronze Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Vangelis Ilias accepts commissions from collectors, interior designers, decorators, archi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Lovers - Minimal Bronze Abstract Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Lovers 3.2 x 6.6 x 1.1, 1.7 lbs Bronze Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Vangelis Ilias accepts commissions from collectors, interior designers, decorators, architects ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twenty Two Sixteen A, 2016, Enamel, Wood, Glue
Located in Darien, CT
Over the past few years, Jesse Hickman has been making minimal abstract paintings on wood with few constraints. He calls this series Notes, thinking of these pieces as drawn sketches...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Enamel

Coming Through The Rye, Remington Bronze
By Frederic Remington
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large-scale bronze of "Coming Through The Rye", after Frederic Remington, American (1861–1909). Frederick Remington was an American painter, sculptor, and illustrator best known fo...
Category

20th Century American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

An Early 20th Century Cigar Store Indian, Carved Wood With Polychrome Decoration
Located in Cotignac, FR
A 20th Century wood carved male figure, a 'Cigar Store Indian' with original polychrome decoration. A now controversial subject, but none the less charming rendition, of a native North American man originally probably used as an advertising figure. Wonderful quality of carving capturing the stance of the man looking out to the distance, hair flowing to his back and plait to the side, all the details of his costume, his native dress and hairpipe breastplate (suggesting he is possibly a Comanche) and chest ornament, apron, trousers, mocassins, shield and arrows. The original Polychrome decoration has weathered beautifully as has the wood itself to present a sculpture that would adorn any collection or interior. Because of the general illiteracy of the populace, early store owners used descriptive emblems or figures to advertise their shops' wares. American Indians and tobacco had always been associated because American Indians introduced tobacco to Europeans. As early as the 17th century, European tobacconists used figures of American Indians to advertise their shops. Because European carvers had never seen a Native American, these early cigar-store "Indians" looked more like Africans with feathered headdresses and other fanciful, exotic features. These carvings were called "Black Boys" or "Virginians" in the trade. Eventually, the European cigar-store figure...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint

Black Labrador Retriever hand cast and hand painted mounted on a wood base
Located in Brookville, NY
The Black Labrador Retriever, one of the most beloved dogs in the world, was made and hand cast and hand painted from the foundry that cast all of the jockeys for the 21 Club in NYC....
Category

2010s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Penche Monet, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Penche Monet is an exploratory piece that reveals the depth of Richard MacDonald’s study of classical ballet as he builds toward the realization of a central coda for a grand monumen...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Rams Head Sculpture in Bronze by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
Charles Rumsey was an avid sportsman, horseman and a child prodigy in sculpting sent to Paris to study as a boy. His life of hunting fishing and ridin...
Category

1910s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Dog Bronze Foxhound Sculpture by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
This beautiful bronze of a Foxhound is a study for what was to be a pair of larger ones used as a pair of Andirons outside fireplace at Harriman House in NYC. The artist, Charles Ru...
Category

1910s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Abstract Minimalist Ceramic Sculpture in White
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Minimalist Ceramic Sculpture in White Organic and minimalist sculpture by "Toki" John Toki (Japanese, 20th Century). This piece was pressed by hand from a mold. There is a ...
Category

1990s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Ziggurat Tower
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: Ziggurat Tower ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2019 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 40 x 40 x h 99 cm This sculpture is part of an artistic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

La torre del silenzio (Omaggio a Palmira)
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: La torre del silenzio (Omaggio a Palmira) ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2017 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 34 x 34 x h 68 cm This scul...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Sharpie
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. The works in the series “From the Street” are carefully crafted, carved and painted, trompe l’oeil depictions of everyday common obj...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Oil

Sinuosity in gold fish orange (wall sculpture minimalist monochrome curvy art )
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; #sinuous, focus on material, sculptural folds, Aldo Chaparro, use of common materials, creased crinkled and wrinkled, angular, abstract sculpture, angular, process-oriented...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Concrete

There is a Block in the Void 1297 - Original Abstract Minimalist Sculptural Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Artist Len Klikunas creates meditative minimalist sculptural artworks that modify experienced reality through visual perception. His art is a mix of art and architecture, hovering be...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Wanted - Modern White Minimalist 3-D Abstract Wall Sculpture Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Artist Len Klikunas paints to modify experienced reality through visual perception. His art is a mix of art and architecture, hovering between painting and sculpture. It employs shiz...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media

Stingaree
Located in Dallas, TX
"Stingaree" by artist David Everett is polychromed mahogany, and measures 43 3/8 x 40 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. It is signed "© D EVERETT 2017". It depicts a mother and child, pelican and...
Category

2010s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Paint, Mahogany

"Athena I" - American Realism - Equine - Horse Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Athena I" is a bonded bronze on black marble base. edition of 50 - bronze w/ other finishes are available. Echoing the spirit of masters of Equestrian art like Stubbs, Gericault, B...
Category

2010s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Bronze Bust of a Gentleman by Nison Tregor
Located in Brookville, NY
Nison Tregor Born in Lithuania of Polish parents, Nison Tregor studied sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. After immigrating to the United State...
Category

1940s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

[Morgan Le Fey]
By Hazel Brill Jackson
Located in Boston, MA
Signed on base: "Hazel Brill Jackson". Also with artist's monogram. In fine condition. Hazel Brill Jackson (Born December 15, 1894, in Philadelphia) spent most of her early childhoo...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Sinuosity in blutonium (wall sculpture minimalist classic blue curvy art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; #sinuous, focus on material, sculptural folds, Aldo Chaparro, use of common materials, creased crinkled and wrinkled, angular, abstract sculpture, angular, process-oriented...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Concrete

Gnomon
Located in Lawrence, NY
Liquitex on shaped canvas Exhibited: Waddell Gallery, New York, Artists for the Scholarship, Education, and Defense Fund, April 28-May 6, l967. Butchkes, who spent much of his care...
Category

1960s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Canvas

Troublemaker, Bolting Horse without Rider
Located in Brookville, NY
Kathleen Friedenberg began her professional career as a veterinary surgeon in England, and came to the United States, on a Thouron scholarship, studying human and equine orthopaedics...
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Early 2000s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Eve" minimalist sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This version of Archie Held's "Eve" sculpture in aluminum offers a slick vertical sculpture for a contemporary setting indoors or outdoors. "Eve" is also a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Metal

"Notched Wave" water sculpture
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
"Notched Wave" in stainless steel and bronze is a beautifully minimalist vertical water sculpture. With its own stainless steel water containment, the self-contained fountain is perfect for a contemporary setting indoors or outdoors. Archie Held...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Bronze, Stainless Steel

Indian Huntress
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles Cumberworth (1811-1852) Indian Huntress Bronze with double patina Vittoz chiseller Old cast France circa 1850 height 52 cm Biography: Charles Cumberworth (1811-1852), son...
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1850s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Foxhound
Located in Brookville, NY
The sculpture of Marilyn Newmark is a vital artistic expression of her love & devotion to horses, around which most of her life revolves. This love of ...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Bronze Polo Player John Fell by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, born in Buffalo, NY in 1879. His interest in sculpture appeared and was encouraged at an early age. The most significant encouragement came when the boy was tak...
Category

1910s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Bronze Cat Swatting a Fly "The Fly"
Located in Brookville, NY
Kathleen Friedenberg began her professional career as a veterinary surgeon in England, and came to the United States, on a Thouron Scholarship, studying human and equine orthopedics ...
Category

Early 2000s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Dog Scratching Bronze of a Dog Scratching
Located in Brookville, NY
Charles Cary Rumsey attended Harvard University, studied art in Paris at the Academie Julian and at Boston School of Fine Art under Bela Pratt. His public works are found worldwide, such as the frieze at the Manhattan Bridge, Zion Park...
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1910s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Fox Hound After the Hunt, Bronze Sculpture by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, born in Buffalo, NY in 1879. His interest in sculpture appeared and was encouraged at an early age. The most significant encouragement came when the boy was taken by his parents to Paris in 1893. After graduating from Harvard in 1902, Rumsey returned to Paris where he took a studio in the Latin Quarter and enrolled and the Julian and Colarossi Academies. One professor, Emmanuel Fremiet, a specialist in equestrian statuary, devoted special emphasis to the study of the horse, and his training was to have a decisive influence on the young Rumsey. Apart from sculpture, horses were the great passion of his life. He was an excellent horseman and an 8 goal polo player with Meadowbrook Polo Club Long Island NY. Rumsey’s specialties included equestrian sculptures – portraits of polo players and prize horses, as well as of cowboys, cattle and horses as metaphors. He worked principally in bronze and stone, often employing mythology and historical themes articulated in private commissions for freestanding statuary and in public monuments. His 40-foot bas relief panels of Indians, horses and buffalos for the Manhattan Bridge and the heroic subject matter of Rice Stadium commission are examples. The estate of Charles Rumsey...
Category

Early 1900s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a bronze sculpture by Bill Nebeker. Signed on reverse base "Bill Nebeker CA 6/30". The full size is 23 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Bill Nebeker is an American artist ...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Road Builder" 20th Century Modern WPA Labor Bronze WPA Depression-Era Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Max Kalish The Road Builder inscribed M. KALISH 23, with Meroni-Radice foundry mark, on top of base bronze with dark brown patina, on an ebonized rectangular plinth Height: 13 1/8 in...
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1920s American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Halo Orb Squared - Minimalist Dimensional Architectural Wall Sculpture Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Artist Len Klikunas paints to modify experienced reality through visual perception. His art is a mix of art and architecture, hovering between painting and sculpture. It employs shiz...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Minimalist Abstract Color Field Painting in Light Brown, Beige, Gray (C20-3)
Located in Hudson, NY
Nature-Inspired Minimalist Abstract Color Field painting on three wood panels in shades of light brown, beige, and gray Acrylic on 3 panels Each panel is 8 x 24 x 2 inches Panels can be oriented or stacked horizontally or vertically, recommended spacing between panels is 1-2 inches Overall measurement for vertical install with 1 inch spacing: 28 x 24 x 2 inches We are amazed by this artist's ability to achieve multiple flawless layers of acrylic paint, wiping it on and off with cotton cloth, to create a subtle yet distinctive woven texture on a smooth surface. The artist's work is inspired by patterns found in nature such as tree rings, rock lines, ethereal horizons, or water ripples. It appears as though a light source is originating behind the panel, glowing softly in a pale, dreamy green palette. This unique surface spreads all the way to the very edge of each panel. The 2 inch deep sides are cleanly painted white for a seamless finish. These panels hang flush to the wall by resting on two nails on either side of the panel, and can be arranged in any number of ways, highlighting the work's sculptural element. Artist's Statement: My paintings merge the detailed textures and colors found in the natural world with the linear and geometric patterns visible in industrial and architectural structures. The interplay of these elements drives the work and provides a platform for constant change and narrative. By simultaneously layering and removing paint with rags instead of brushes, my hand is directly involved with the process. Each piece contains multiple panels that evoke a nuanced and evolving universe. Ginny Fox builds up each non-representational piece with overlapping streaks of paint that frequently span two or three panels. Working with rags instead of brushes, Fox’s hand moves along parallel paths, emergent colors cascading gently towards the edges of the composition's plane. There’s something vaporous to the outer layers of the work, the interwoven strands of color offering glimpses at the painting’s earthy base and hinting at the artist’s gradual process. Having received her education from New York University in the 1970s, Fox has since exhibited throughout the United States, especially in New York City and the northeastern U.S. RESUME Solo Exhibits 2019 Winterscape Soho20 Bushwick, New York 2017 Perpetual Earth Soho20 Bushwick, New York 2015 Intimate Universe Soho20 Chelsea New York...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Hakuin (Japanese Zen Buddhist) sculpture on plinth, ex GE art collection
By William Crovello
Located in New York, NY
William Crovello Hakuin, 1984 Mirrored, reflective brass sculptue on plinth De-accessioned from the GE Corporate Art Collection Signed and dated Crovello '84 Measurements: 13 x 13-3/4 x 2-1/4 inches (33.0 x 34.9 x 5.7 cm) (work) 1 x 17-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches (2.5 x 44.5 x 26.7 cm) (plinth) This work is named after a legendary, Japanese Zen Buddhist Hakuin Ekaku, a major historical figure William Crovello Biography (written by Marshall Price, Nasher Museum Curator and former curator of the National Academy Museum): Best known for his large public sculpture. New York City native William Crovello initially studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1947 to 1951. He entered the air force in 1952 and was stationed in Japan from 1954 to 1955. Following his military duty, Crovello, seeking his expressive muse, returned to Japan in 1957 for four years and became enchanted with the rich tradition of classical calligraphy. The artist absorbed both the deep philosophy and technical execution of the ancient script by immersing himself in calligraphic study. After returning to New York in 1961, the artist moved to Spain in 1968 and shifted from painting to sculpture, creating forms whose presence activated three-dimensional space. His stone and metal works draw directly from the smooth strokes of the Japanese brush, echoing the graceful brevity and elegant fluidity of an ancient tradition. Following the movement of the calligraphic stroke, Crovello created numerous public sculptures, such as the painted steel Cubed Curve installed in 1972 outside of the Time-Life Building in New York City, and the Swedish...
Category

1980s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Brass

Figurative Ceramic Sculpture. Pearl.
Located in Sempach, LU
Figurative Ceramic Sculpture. Pearl. During the course of life, each of us tries to find something valuable in the outside world. But there comes a moment when a person realizes that...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Clay

Cuts in Orange
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are based on simple geometric principles: the circle, the square...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Raw Linen, Acrylic

Pointing Out As Green Grey
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are based on simple geometric principles: the circle, the square...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Raw Linen, Acrylic

Pointing Out As Blue Grey
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are based on simple geometric principles: the circle, the square...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Linen, Acrylic

Pointing Out As Yellow Grey
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are based on simple geometric principles: the circle, the square...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Linen, Acrylic

DOREATHA
Located in Tallahassee, FL
A sweet woman who loved people (especially babies), animals and honeysuckle.
Category

20th Century American Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

ἌΡΗΣ / ARES
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Andrey and Aleksey Kulibin "ἌΡΗΣ / ARES"
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Fabric, Mirror

#3
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The artworks of 2031 series bring up the subject of epochs clash and the search for balance in a modern technological world. Symbolic accents in this series are even more contrasting...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Mirror, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Abstract Minimalist Geometric Sculpture
By Adolph Dioda
Located in Surfside, FL
Adolph T. DIODA (1915-1991) Birth place: Aliquippa, PA Lived in West Aliquippa, PA; Detroit, MI; Phila. & Jenkintown, PA Profession: Sculptor, educator Studied: Carnegie Inst Tech...
Category

1970s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Stone, Marble

Torre d'Ercole
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: Torre d'Ercole ARTIST: Giuliano Cataldo Giancotti YEAR: 2019 MEDIUM TYPE: Sculpture MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Iron DIMENSIONS: 37 x 37 x h 110 cm This sculpture is part of an artist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Iron

Sextant
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful minimalist sculptural work explores the evocative power monochrome color. Originally working as a painter, Thompson focused on Minimalism. In his sculptural work, mono...
Category

2010s Minimalist Sculptures

Materials

Polyurethane

Nude, Abstract and Figurative Sculptures for Sale

The history of sculpture as we know it is believed to have origins in Ancient Greece, while small sculptural carvings are among the most common examples of prehistoric art. In short, sculpture as a fine art has been with us forever. A powerful three-dimensional means of creative expression, sculpture has long been most frequently associated with religion — consider the limestone Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt — while the tradition of collecting sculpture, which has also been traced back to Greece as well as to China, far precedes the emergence of museums.

Technique and materials in sculpture have changed over time. Stone sculpture, which essentially began as images carved into cave walls, is as old as human civilization itself. The majority of surviving sculpted works from ancient cultures are stone. Traditionally, this material and pottery as well as metalbronze in particular — were among the most common materials associated with this field of visual art. Artists have long sought new ways and materials in order to make sculptures and express their ideas. Material, after all, is the vehicle through which artists express themselves, or at least work out the problems knocking around in their heads. It also allows them to push the boundaries of form, subverting our expectations and upending convention. As an influential sculptor as much as he was a revolutionary painter and printmaker, Pablo Picasso worked with everything from wire to wood to bicycle seats.

If you are a lover of art and antiques or are thinking of bringing a work of sculpture into your home for the first time, there are several details to keep in mind. As with all other works of art, think about what you like. What speaks to you? Visit local galleries and museums. Take in works of public art and art fairs when you can and find out what kind of sculpture you like. When you’ve come to a decision about a specific work, try to find out all you can about the piece, and if you’re not buying from a sculptor directly, work with an art expert to confirm the work’s authenticity.

And when you bring your sculpture home, remember: No matter how big or small your new addition is, it will make a statement in your space. Large- and even medium-sized sculptures can be heavy, so hire some professional art handlers as necessary and find a good place in your home for your piece. Whether you’re installing a towering new figurative sculpture — a colorful character by KAWS or hyperreal work by Carole A. Feuerman, perhaps — or an abstract work by Won Lee, you’ll want the sculpture to be safe from being knocked over. (You’ll find that most sculptures should be displayed at eye level, while some large busts look best from below.)

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