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Figurative Sculptures For Sale
Artist: Richard MacDonald
Artist: William Sweetlove
Study for the Head of Piper
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The Piper represents the very embodiment of joy. With a thousand nuances of form, from the wind in her cheek, to the carefree tilt of her head, she conveys a sense of youth and hope ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Angelic Crystal, Terracotta
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Intrigued by the stature and carriage of a particular figure, MacDonald pursued Angelic Crystal, the study of a ballerina in the studio. Inspired by a continuing appreciation of danc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Cheetah Bust, Life Size
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald’s “Cheetah, Bust” reveals an intimate study of “Samburu”, the two and a half year old Nambian cheetah the artist used as the subject for his “Diana and the Coursing...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Transcendance, Atelier, Platinum
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
As with Richard MacDonald’s Cirque series, "Transcendance, Atelier, Platinum" reveals layers of metaphor and meaning that challenge and intrigue. This platinum patina sculpture captu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Platinum
Diana and the Coursing Cheetahs, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Diana, goddess of the hunt, has long inspired artists, but Richard MacDonald’s interpretation in "Diana and the Coursing Cheetahs, Atelier" captures her essence with unmatched power ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Anatomy of Golf I-V, Atelier, Platinum
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The Anatomy of a Golfer l-V, Atelier is the first in Richard MacDonald's series of golfers that were inspired by the creation of his heroic sculpture, MOMENTUM, which marked the 100t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Transcendance, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
As with Richard MacDonald’s entire Cirque series, Transcendance has many layers of metaphor and meaning to challenge and intrigue viewers. Transcendance is a striking example of Rich...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sissone, Half Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
After devoting more than twenty years to the perfection of the human form in bronze, Richard MacDonald focused on a series of sculptures based on his work with dancers from the Royal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Blind Faith, Third Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Blind Faith" is an emphatic expression of the call to live life with passion, faith, and courage. Such a life is shaped by vision: not the vision of the eyes, but the unlimited visi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dancing Waters, Column, Stainless Steel
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“Dancing Waters, Stainless Steel” is a striking new work that captures the movement and fluidity for which the artist has become so recognized. Standing approximately eight feet tall...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Duality, Third Life Column, Red
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald’s sculpture Duality, originally introduced to collectors under the working title of Yin and Yang II, represents a prin...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Showtime, Half Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“A silent medium within a silent medium.” These are the words contemporary master Richard MacDonald uses in describing his world renowned Mime Series. MacDonald’s trademark skill at ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Blind Trust, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“Courage is a kind of salvation.” —Plato.
Nothing worthwhile springs from fear: fear is the serpent in the garden,
the hole in the boat, the flaw in the plan—it can steer us from danger, but ungoverned by courage it is just as likely to steer us toward a bad outcome. We all have the capacity to be brave, and it is by finding our courage that everything we value comes into being—there can be no love without courage, no kindness without courage, no creativity without courage.
As we all face this crisis of unusual scope, we are all living as the figures in Richard MacDonald’s “Blind Faith...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Origins, Two Thirds Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald has always been intrigued by opposites and he has the range to be able to create both sculptures of delicate, archetypal femininity and powerful, athletic masculini...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dance to Paradiso
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In Dance to Paradiso, Richard MacDonald masterfully selects an exceptional moment of observation as two figures dance with utter trust and harmony. Her foot one with his, their legs ...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Romeo & Juliet III, Third Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Richard MacDonald's sculpture, "Romeo & Juliet III." This captivating artwork captures the essence of Shakespeare's timeless tale of love and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Duality
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald’s sculpture Duality, originally introduced to collectors under the working title of Yin and Yang II, represents a prin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Gathering of Graces, Quarter Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Greek mythology records the Three Graces, considered the fairest daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, as representatives of the blessings of nature. Followers believed that each spring, their fertility dance caused seeds to sprout and flowers to bloom. On another creative level, the young goddesses were believed to influence artistic achievement. While Boticelli’s expression of the soft, linear forms inherent in the Three Graces influenced the rebirth of classical mythology, Richard MacDonald is inspired to foster the renaissance of figurative art with his own interpretation of “grace.” Employing the classical tradition of undulating lines, precise contour and soft, fair forms, MacDonald created first his masterpiece “The Three Graces” followed by an exploration into the personae of each of the three sisters, Agalia, Euphrosyne and Thalia. In "The Gathering of the Graces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Orpheo, Lucite
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Some works of art are exploratory; they ask questions, but offer no answers. Some are the distillation of a lifetime of experience, and the answers they give cannot easily be translated into words. Richard MacDonald’s mythological sculpture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Study for the Rose, Half Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“Study for the Rose, Half Life” draws on Richard MacDonald’s highly developed sensitivity for the experience of the dancer, and displays all the quiet beauty of a private moment of reflection.
In half-life size the supple and delicate form of the ballerina has real substance—an almost-breathing presence that immediately draws us to wonder at the thoughts of the ballerina toying with the ribbon on her shoe. Her youth and preoccupation give a sense of life and warmth to the sculpture; the beautiful line of her arm draped over the bar is a study in the effortless grace of the well-trained dancer. Her soft cheek rests on her shoulder, and we feel the tenderness of her childish daydream—yet she holds the posture of an accomplished professional. A study in contrasts, this piece has the timeless appeal associated with the ballet works by Degas, with the unmistakable character that can only be attributed to Richard MacDonald himself.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Diana and the Coursing Cheetahs
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In Diana and the Coursing Cheetahs, myth is brought to the present. MacDonald portrays the female at her height during the close of the 20th century as a synthesis of physical streng...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Brazilian Feathers, Red
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Brazilian Feathers" does not spring from the refined world of ballet, but from the elemental, tribal rhythms of a far earlier form of dance. Bedecked w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Elena Study II, Extended Drapery
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Like all of Richard MacDonald’s most important works, Elena Study II transcends the definition of it’s initial concept and becomes a metaphor of wide ranging meaning: different for e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chroma, Third life, Column
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
After devoting more than twenty years to the perfection of the human form in bronze, Richard MacDonald focused on a series of sculptures based on his work with dancers from the Royal Ballet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Orpheus Ascending
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Some works of art are exploratory; they ask questions, but offer no answers. Some are the distillation of a lifetime of experience, and the answers they give cannot easily be translated into words. Richard MacDonald’s latest mythological sculpture, “Orpheus Ascending...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Capeo Flamenco
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Some say the word Flamenco comes from the Spanish, flama, or “flame.” Richard MacDonald’s Flamenco Series employ that definition on many levels. While the studies depict a male figur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Ritual Female Dancer
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In “The Ritual, Female Dancer”, a wave of energy moves up the linear column and erupts from the architectonic strata of time to express the sensual, rhyt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
First Ribbons
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
First Ribbons draws on the artist's highly developed sensitivity for the experience of the dancer, and displays a personal moment of accomplishment. We witness the young dancer holdi...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pas de Deux Elegance
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
After devoting more than twenty years to the perfection of the human form in bronze, Richard MacDonald focused on a series of sculptures based on his work with dancers from the Roy...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Origins
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald has always been intrigued by opposites and he has the range to be able to create both sculptures of delicate, archetypal femininity and powerful, athletic masculini...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rain, Heroic
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Continuing in the spirit of his classical mimes, Richard MacDonald’s work entitled “Rain, Life Size” offers us an experience with rain, wind, movement, and joy. We feel the wind blow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sisters, Half life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
In Sisters, Half life it is happiness in its purest, most youthful form-- without thought or care -- sparked by nothing more than the beauty of the dance, the thrill of movement, and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Transcendance, Platinum
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
As with Richard MacDonald’s entire Cirque series, Transcendance has many layers of metaphor and meaning to challenge and intrigue viewers. Transcendance is a striking example of Richard MacDonald’s rare...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jacques, Half Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A richly flowing cape drapes his shoulders, as he crouches low, eyes looking upward, “Jacques” raises his hands to test the confining walls of his imaginary box. “Jacques” reminds us...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nightfall Third Life, Red
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Cloaked in mystery, the female form of “Nightfall” intrigues us. Concealed is a beautiful face, but like nightfall itself, all is not revealed. The globes in each hand suggest the ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Katherine Bust
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Katherine Bust draws on Richard MacDonald's unique sensitivity to the experience of the dancer. Based on a classical study for the masterwork Dance the Dream...
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Angelic Crystal, Platinum
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Crystal is a young ballerina who has posed for Richard many times. She has a quiet radiance, a pure and thoughtful quality that gives her grace an added dimension. She is lithe and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Venus, Column
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The myth of Venus as the goddess of love and sexuality is well integrated into the latest masterwork by Richard MacDonald - Venus, 2019. Venus stands with both strength and grace, ex...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Female Allonge, Third life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Allonge captures the line and athleticism of a world-class dancer and we are reminded of the essential perfection of the human form. Beckoning a sense of joy, youth, and hope, Allong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Juliet, Third Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Inspired by the ballet Romeo and Juliet and the intensity of the love portrayed by the principal dancers, Juliet, Third Life embodies youthful passion and romance. Her elegant femini...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
O-Turu
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald’s “O” Works, based on his interaction with the artists and performers of Cirque du Soleil’s world-renowned show “O”, takes hold of the imagination and blurs the lin...
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Liberty, Column
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Richard MacDonald was born in California and has spent more than 25 years creating a body of work that has changed the contemporary understanding of Figurative sculpture. Among his g...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cloned big Polar Bear with pet bottle
Located in Malmo, SE
Original sculpture 8 ex.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
William Sweetlove, born in Ostend, Belgium, in 1949, unites dadaism with surrealism and pop a...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Cloned giant Pig
Located in Malmo, SE
Original sculpture 8 ex.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Exposed at:
Musée d’art contemporain. Saint-Martin – Montélimar. France
28 June – 26 October 2014.
William Sweetlove, bor...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Anatomy of Golf I, IV and V
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
From the 100th playing of the US Open at Pebble Beach, CA 2000.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cloned Chihuahua
Located in Malmo, SE
Original sculpture 8 ex.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
William Sweetlove, born in Ostend, Belgium, in 1949, unites dadaism with surrealism and pop a...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Nureyev, Half life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Considered to be one of Richard MacDonald’s greatest achievements, “Nureyev” draws on the artist's highly developed sensitivity for the experience of the dancer, and displays all the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bring Figurative Sculptures into Your Home
Figurative sculptures mix reality and imagination, with the most common muse being the human body. Animals are also inspirations for these sculptures, along with forms found in nature.
While figurative sculpture dates back over 35,000 years, the term came into popularity in the 20th century to distinguish it from abstract art. It was aligned with the Expressionist movement in that many of its artists portrayed reality but in a nonnaturalistic and emotional way. In the 1940s, Alberto Giacometti — a Swiss-born artist who was interested in African art, Cubism and Surrealism — created now-iconic representational sculptures of the human figure, and after World War II, figurative sculpture as a movement continued to flourish in Europe.
Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were some of the leading figurative artists during this period. Artists like Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan propelled the evolution of figurative sculpture into the 21st century.
Figurative sculptures can be whimsical, uncanny and beautiful. Their materials range from stone and wood to metal and delicate ceramics. Even in smaller sizes, the sculptures make bold statements. A bronze sculpture by Salvador Dalí enhances a room; a statuesque bull by Jacques Owczarek depicts strength with its broad chest while its thin legs speak of fragility. Figurative sculptures allow viewers to see what is possible when life is reimagined.
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