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Blind Faith, Atelier
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 vision...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Cowrie Shell" (2024) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Cowrie Shell" (2015) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts the shell of a cowrie. TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of unusual animals and botanical...
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2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Standing Woman, Bronze Sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh 1911
Located in Long Island City, NY
This bronze sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh, from 1911, is a charming rendering of a young woman draped in an early 20th-century dress. Vonnoh became one of the so-called "White Rabbits", women artists who assisted Lorado Taft on the sculpture program for the Horticultural Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...
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1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Antique Silvered Bronze Rooster, France circa 19th Century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Silvered Bronze Rooster France, circa 1900 10 1/4 x 9 1/2 (H x D) inches A very fine and lively bronze statuette of a preening Rooster. Nicely cast and well-carved and in ex...
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19th Century French School Figurative Sculptures

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Silver, Bronze

Solstice 6/50 - elegant, female, figurative, engineered granite sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The graceful form of a female figure emerges from hand-chiselled black granite in this classically elegant sculpture by Jeremy Guy. The British artist’s contemporary work has long be...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Stone, Granite

Bull IV by Pierre Yermia - Animal bronze sculpture, figurative, dark grey patina
Located in Paris, FR
Bull IV is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 60 × 52 × 32 cm (23.6 × 20.5 × 12.6 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part o...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Julie's Rabbit by Dan Ostermiller
Located in Loveland, CO
Julie's Rabbit by Dan Ostermiller cast bronze rabbit sculpture, 4x7x4" #APJ Available (mold was destroyed so edition is complete) Shipping price includes the custom packing necessar...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Green Dumpster", Miniature paper sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This green miniature, painted, paper sculpture titled "Green Dumpster" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made from paper, wire, enamel, and dry pigments. Through paint and sculp...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Enamel, Wire

Rare African Solid Benin Bronze Ceremonial Throne Chair Multi Figure Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Handmade Benin sculptural tribal bronze figural judgement throne chair. The base of the chair with two tiers of standing figures. The back of the chair with two more tiers of standin...
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Early 20th Century Tribal Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Young Emperor Augustus by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Located in New Orleans, LA
Augustus Saint-Gaudens 1848-1907 American Young Emperor Augustus Marble This extraordinary marble bust by revered American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens is crafted in the class...
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19th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

AFRICAN SENUFO FIGURE
Located in Three Oaks, MI
This is a wooden sculpture of a man by the African Senufo tribe in Africa.
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

The canticle of the stilts (with ibis) by Marine de Soos - Bronze sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
The canticle of the stilts (with ibis) is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 70 × 30 × 25 cm (27.6 × 11.8 × 9.8 in). The sculpture is si...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

''Miss Twiggy'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Hare
Located in Utrecht, NL
After studying Fine Art in the Netherlands Ans Zondag (1959) spent several years abroad in order to explore different artistic areas and to establish which technique suited her best....
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Quis Mihi Iniuriam Facet Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble In Stock I
Located in Utrecht, NL
Sizes including stone pedestal 97 x 22 x 22 cm Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher at a high school, he intensively practises his profession as a sculptor. Only when his work would measure up to his own standards, he decided to present it to the rest of the world. In 1995, he exhibited for the first time with Morren Galleries. Van der Kant desires to sculpt young people who still stand uninhibited and curiously in life. The reason he chooses to sculpt boys is, because he is one himself, this way the subject is closer to him. The anatomy of his figures testify of perfectionism. Van der Kant's subjects show similarities with the sculptures from the Greek and Roman antiquity...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Luctatio Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
Located in Utrecht, NL
Luctatio Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone This sculpture need to be ordered. We will cast a brand new one for you. The edition is 8 (plus 4...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Modern Artifact 001 - NY Baseball Cap
Located in London, GB
Daniel Arsham Modern Artifact 001, 2021 plaster and cast resin 12.7 (h) x 19.5 cm (dia.) Edition of 500 Daniel Arsham's Eroded Series is a captivating exploration of time, memory, a...
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2010s Figurative Sculptures

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Resin, Plaster

Sculpture of Male Head in Terracotta "Giorgi"
Located in New York, NY
Terracotta life-size male head. Rushton sculpts all of his busts using live models over the course of multiple sittings. While realistic and classical in character, his sculptures ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

The Florist, Free Standing Indoor Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kay Ritter Title: Florist Medium: Papier-mache with metal watering can, glasses, papier-mache flowers Year: 1995 Size: 57 x 24 x 14 in. (...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Jacob Epstein, 1950, Madonna and Child, lead sculpture, signed, British
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jacob Epstein (British / American 1880 – 1959) Madonna and Child, 1950 Sculpture (lead with bronze halos) 34cm. In a bespoke carved oak devotional niche Signed ‘Epstein’ (on the reve...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Mixed Media

20 ML Love pill Combo (Red, Yellow and White) - figurative sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This new work by Tal Nehoray is from her latest body of works called "Happy Pills". All are hand made with ceramic and hand painted with automotive paint. It is a combination of 2 ceramic sculptures each is 19 cm long and 6.5 cm in diameter: Love 20...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Automotive Paint

Large Red Chilli Pepper Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Red Chilli Pepper Artist signed, patinated bronze with black marble (base 8"x8") Randi Grantham was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and now lives in South Florida. He is a sel...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Trisha I - Elegant Original Figurative Bronze Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
German sculptor Nando Kallweit produces figurative bronze sculptures and reliefs with aquiline and a graceful modern appeal. Kallweit is inspired by seemingly disparate cultures; the strength of ancient Egyptian sculptures...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

Bull - playful, modern, abstract, contemporary, tabletop, fibreglass sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The distinctive shape of a bull’s head attached to a horn-like stand pops in glossy bright colours of red, yellow and black in this whimsical sculpture by Benny Katz. As a former gra...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Dionysisch Tors Torso Bronze Sculpture Classical Mythology Contemporary Art
Located in Utrecht, NL
Dionysisch Tors Bronze Sculpture Classical Mythology Contemporary Art The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, NL) show a perfect command of the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Musica
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ULISES JIMENEZ "MUSICA" METAL, SIGNED COSTA RICA, 2022 30 INCHES Ulises Jiménez Obregón was born in La Mansion de Nicoya, Costa Rica, in November 1953. He studied Plastic Arts at the Autonomous University of Central America. 1992 He attended the drawing and painting workshop of the painter Eduardo Barracosa, and followed courses of painting at the ESEMPI School of Art, with the painter Francisco Alvarado Avella. In addition to making sculptures in wood and stone "nicoya marble", he is also a painter. As a sculptor he has around 300 sculptures cataloged and sold all over the world, with works in Europe, Latin America, North America, Canada and Asia. EXHIBITIONS: From 1984 to 2010, he has participated in more than 50 group exhibitions, among others: National Exhibition of Plastic Arts of the Costa Rican Art Museum. Zentic Art Exhibition at the Old Customs National Museum of Costa Rican Art and Embassy of Japan, September 2010. Painting Contest of the North American Costarican Cultural Center. Drawing Contest of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund. He has participated in the following sculpture exhibitions and symposiums: I Meeting of Pacific Sculptors, held in Canton de Orotina in 2006. International Sculpture Meeting in Punta Arenas 2007. Sculptural Encounter of San Ramón 2008. I Symposium of Guadalupe 2009. IV International Credomatic Sculpture Symposium, Barva de Heredia, February 2009. He was selected for the Second Biennial of Painting and Sculpture of the ICE Group, March 2009. II Symposium of Guadalupe, 2010. Sculptural Exhibition 2010 organized by the Municipal School of Integrated Arts of Santa Ana, (March-April 2010). I International Symposium of Plastic Arts, Tejeda, Gran Canaria...
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21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

''Still Rhino'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of a Rhinoceros
Located in Utrecht, NL
Nichola Theakston (1967) has established herself as one of the UK’s foremost contemporary sculptors working within the animal genre. With the ''Sti...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Large wall sculpture: 'Baby Ghost'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Wire

KAWS, Holiday Indonesia Figure (Black)
By KAWS
Located in Manchester, GB
KAWS, Holiday Indonesia Figure (Black), 2023 Vinyl with certified NFC chip of authenticty 12.70 x 17.81 x 29.21 cm Open edition KAWS: HOLIDAY INDONESIA is a vinyl figure by KAW...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Resin, Vinyl

Beginn der Weisheit (Casted 2023 ) Bronze Sculpture Wisdom Abstract In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Beginn der Weisheit Bronze Sculpture Head Figurative Abstract - In Stock Wisdom - Size is including pedestal Stone Each Edition of Casting is different, Each Sculpture is Unique Be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Balloon Monkey (Orange)
Located in Bristol, GB
French Limoges porcelain with chromatic coating Edition of 999 39.2 x 24.9 x 20.9 cm (15.4 x 9.8 x 8.2 in) Signed and numbered New, as issued. Minor imperfections may appear due ...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd "Universal Man" from Huichol ALTERATIONS Series
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS!!! ALTERATION ART . . . is a collaboration process between Rick Wolfryd, fine artist and art dealer with over 40 years experience, and various Mexican Huichol a...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Glass, Resin, Mixed Media

Edgard Degas: Horse Clearing an Obstacle (work 48 /certified by Comité Degas)
Located in Gent, VOV
Horse Clearing an Obstacle (work number 48) Bronze with dark brown green patina bearing the stamp of the signature "Degas", Numbered IV/IX and dated 1998 Posthumous lost wax casting as of 1998. Stamp of Valsuani. Signed Degas The work is a sought-after rarity in terms of Degas’ sculptures. This bronze is distinguished by the fact that it is a Valsuani bronze, meaning it faithfully records Degas’ wax version’s as it appeared at the time of its creation. Most Degas' bronzes that are found on the market were cast by Hébrard – these serialized bronzes are surmoulages, or “aftercasts,” that were cast from the modèle bronzes currently in the Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena). Because these Hebrard bronzes...
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1880s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

2006 Bronze Sculpture by Ugo Riva Innocente Provocazione
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an intense bronze sculpture created by the Italian artist Ugo Riva, in 2006. Lost wax bronze on iron basement. The title of this artwork is "I...
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Early 2000s Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Birds
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original one of a kind hand carved and painting wall sculpture by Israeli artist David Gerstein. David Gerstein is an Israeli painter and sculptor. He began as a figurative pai...
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1990s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Oil, Wood

Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Erekle Tsuladze - Elephant
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial stone & stainless steel
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Stone, Stainless Steel

Balloon Swan ( After ) - Graphite Black
By After Jeff Koons
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
A one time exclusive re-edition of 500 pcs from the highly popular "Balloon Swan". Cold cast resin, comes with its original box and certificate of authenticity. From a Limited Editi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Stainless Steel Wall Sculpture: YOU ARE FIRE V
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Positive street signs and mindful messages characterize the work of multidisciplinary artist Scott Froschauer. Froschauer utilizes a practice called "cultural jamming," which appropr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Steel

CHRISTMAS
Located in Milano, IT
CITES Documentation: IT/CE/2023/MI/00454 Exceptional composition with ivory microsculptures and landscape made of semi-precious stones, shells, and small corals in coeval carved and...
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18th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures

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Precious Stone

Large Rearing Horse by Eric Valat - Animal sculpture, outdoor, white, polyester
Located in Paris, FR
Large Rearing Horse is a polyester sculpture by contemporary artist Eric Valat, dimensions are 200 × 145 × 60 cm (78.7 × 57 × 23.6 in). The sculpture is available in white, black, re...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Polyester

Antique Bust of Roman Emperor Vitellius
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Substantial, hand carved, solid marble bust of Roman Emperor Vitellius (24-69 C.E.) on a custom, iron base. Likely a 16th century copy of a 2nd century o...
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16th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Pear With Leaf Patinated Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Pear with a leaf. Artist signed, patinated bronze, on black marble base 8"x8" Randi Grantham was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada and now lives in South Florida. He is a self ta...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Limestone figure of Virgin and child, Lorraine, 14th century, French Gothic
Located in PARIS, FR
Virgin and Child with Goldfinch Workshops of Metz, Lorraine, circa 1330 Limestone carved in the round with remains of polychromy Height: 61 cm The sculpture of the Virgin and Child ...
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15th Century and Earlier Gothic Figurative Sculptures

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Limestone

Standing ballerina
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sculpture from the Ballet series. The series is dedicated to classical ballet and includes over 30 sculptur...
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Early 2000s Academic Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

Palm Tree
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 15 For over a decade, Joshua Jensen-Nagle has captivated the viewer with his evocative large-scale photographs. Best known for his dreamy aerial beaches...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Stainless Steel

Gymnast, Eighth Life
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Created by artist Richard MacDonald for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, Flair Across America celebrates the triumph of the human spirit and the idealization of the human form. Wh...
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1990s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Eyes on the Horizon"contemporary figurative bronze wall sculpture girl freedom
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Eyes on the Horizon is a wall sculpture paying tribute to being free and relax ourselves by allowing our eyes to take in a wider panorama. Seeing the horizon gives hope and shapes a...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze, Steel

Grand Poisson (Big Fish) Clay Dish
Located in Aventura, FL
Madoura round dish of white earthenware clay. From the edition of 100. Dish size 16.5 inches (diameter). Frame size approx 22 x 22 inches. Ramie 332. Inscribed 'C.100' and with ...
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1950s Cubist Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Earthenware

Sorbe Small Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Drinking Male Figure Marble Stone
Located in Utrecht, NL
Sorbe Small Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Drinking Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher at a high sc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Gunnel Bobbing 1/3 - surrealist, canoe, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This surrealist, canoe, figurative, wood, bronze, sculpture was created by Canadian artist Roch Smith. It is an old game. Gunnel or ‘gunwale’ bobbing. Two people stand on the gunnel...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Gazelle by Pierre Yermia - Large animal bronze sculpture, outdoor, elegant, slim
Located in Paris, FR
Gazelle is a bronze monumental sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 240 × 120 × 40 cm (94.5 × 47.2 × 15.7 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered,...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Vintage Jerusalem Sculpture Wall Plaque 1930's Palestine Israeli Bezalel School
Located in Surfside, FL
Repousse sculptural plaque from the original Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. This is marked "Made in Palestine" as it is from the British Mandate period. It is in an Orientalist design of the Tower of David. marked in Hebrew and English. Jerusalem's Bezalel School The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, was founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz. In 1903, Schatz met Theodore Herzl and became an ardent Zionist. At the Zionist Congress of 1905, he proposed the idea of an art school in the Yishuv (early Jewish settlements), and in 1906 he moved to Israel and founded the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem. Bezalel, which was a school for crafts as well as for graphic art, became successful very rapidly. Schatz’s vision was to develop useful arts and crafts among Palestinian Jews, thereby decreasing the dependence on charity. At the same time, he sought to inspire his students to create a Jewish national style of the arts, in order to promote the Zionist endeavor. The inhabitants of 19th-century Palestine, both Jewish and non-Jewish, had produced mostly folk art, ritual objects and olive-wood and shell-work souvenirs, as well as oil painting, sculpture, tapestry and mosaics. So the founding of Bezalel provided a professional and ideological framework for the arts and crafts in Jerusalem. The school employed workers and students, of whom there were 450 in 1913, in manufacturing, chiefly for export, decorative articles ranging from cane furniture, inlaid frames and ivory and wood carvings, to damascene and silver filigree and repousse work. A major part of Schatz’s school was the workshops, which, starting with rug-making and silversmithing, eventually offered 30 different crafts. Workshops included the "Menorah" workshop where they designed relief and souvenirs made of terra-Cotta, and the Sharar, Stanetsky and Alfred Salzmann workshops where Menorah lamps...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Large Standing Figure VI by Pierre Yermia - Contemporary bronze sculpture, human
Located in Paris, FR
Large standing figure VI is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 148 × 26 × 26 cm (58.3 × 10.2 × 10.2 in). The sculpture is signed and numb...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Fade into You Gold" contemporary small figurative bronze table sculpture love
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Fade into You - Standby your loved one, enjoy the time being together, fade into you, we are together as one. This Gold edition of Mireia is made of bronze with black patina (the oce...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Lioness Turning
Located in PARIS, FR
Lioness Turning by Roger GODCHAUX (1878-1958) A very fine bronze sculpture with nuanced dark brown patina Signed " Roger Godchaux " on the base Marked and stamped by the bronze fou...
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1930s French School Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Touching Victory
By Maurice Blik
Located in Tetbury, GB
Born in Amsterdam in 1939, Blik is an Anglo-Dutch artist whose work is exhibited at major London and international art fairs. Having spent the majority of his 40-year career creating...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Flemish Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra Bronze
Located in New Orleans, LA
This remarkable early 17th-century Flemish bronze of Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra exudes classic Baroque grandeur and beauty. Flanders was one of the richest artistic and cultural...
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Early 17th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Ausum Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Male Figure
Located in Utrecht, NL
Ausum Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Male Figure Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher at a high scho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

“Mother and Children”
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid century modern original terracotta sculpture by the Hungarian artist, Anna Berkovits of a young woman with her two children. Circa 1955. Signed in the inside of the base. Condition is excellent. Parts of the sculpture have been deliberately not been glazed by the artist. Her work rarely becomes available. Provenance: Sarasota, Florida estate. Anna Berkovits was born in Hungary in 1911 and lived and worked in Budapest. She trained under the art teacher Almos Jaschik in Budapest. Later she was trained in ceramics by the artist Gador Istvan...
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1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

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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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