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Travel Light - Figurative Bronze Inspiring Iron Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mireia Serra creates sensuous bronze and iron sculptures showing the beauty of snapshots caught in life which are full of emotions and feelings along the life journey. Her metal artw...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze, Iron

Nuestra Señora del Carmen - Pottery & Ceramics - Mexican Folk Art Clay - Cactus
By Martin Ibarra Morales
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
MASTERPIECE Made with natural clay. Hand-modeled technique and cooked in a wood-fired oven. LISTING =================================== 1 Ceramic Sculpture of a Virgin ============...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay

Chouette, Picasso, Pitcher, Design, 1950's, Ceramic, Black and white, Animal
Located in Geneva, CH
Chouette, Picasso, Pitcher, Design, 1950's, Ceramic, Black and white, Animal Chouette femme Ed. 500 pcs 1951 Earthenware ceramic vase with engobe and ...
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1950s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware, Terracotta

Pair of Japanese Buddhist, Meiji Period Foo-Dogs; Satsuma Kilns, 19th Century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Pair of Buddhist Foo Dogs Polychrome porcelain Japan, Meiji era (1868 – 1912), circa late 19th century Satsuma Kilns 12 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches This exquisite pair of Japanese Foo-dogs ...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

NAOR - 60cm Picsou Uncle Scoodge
Located in PARIS, FR
This artwork will be delivered to you in 3 weeks About the artist : Naor is a French artist from Lyon born in 1988. Completely anchored in his time, he has always traveled a lot aro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

Émile Guillemin (French 1841-1907) Bronze Bust of an Algerian Beauty
Located in New York, NY
Bronze bust with brown patina on marble socle base. Red patina detail on head scarf. In beautiful condition, expertly cast and modeled. Perfect for an art collector looking for European work that depicts Black and African people...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Rose as Sweet, Waiting Woman and Soft Glow. Porcelain Plates. Wall Sculptures
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Her poetic porcelain plates examine and reimagine the history of art in a way that values ​​women not only in body, but in wholeness, power, and love. Focusing on the narrative quali...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

"In Vivo", Airy Woven Grey Black Metal Hand-Made Mural Pendant Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Titled "In vivo", this woven airy sculpture is created and woven by artist Delphine Grandvaux from metal wire. This artwork depicts bubbles of life,...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Wire

Pichet Poule, by Pablo Picasso, Pitcher, 1950's, Design, Blue, Decoration
Located in Geneva, CH
Pichet Poule, by Pablo Picasso, Pitcher, 1950's, Design, Blue, Decoration Pichet Poule Ed. 500 pcs 1954 Shaped piece turned in white faience earth with blue oxide decoration on white enamel 13.5 x 17 x 10 cm Stamped under the base: Madoura plein feu, Edition Picasso, Edition Picasso, Madoura Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre céramique de Picasso de 1947 à 1971, by Alain Ramié, Madoura, 1988, illustrated under no.250, p.133. For this ceramic, Picasso uses...
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1950s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Rise - Large Blue Original Modern Tall Original Geometric Steel Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by dance and weightlessness, Granville Beals' industrial metal sculptures are primarily about relationships. Concerned with form and abstracti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Steel

"Triplets (C-25), " Black Serpentine Stone Sculpture signed by Colleen Madamombe
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Triplets (C-25)" is an original black serpentine sculpture by Colleen Madamombe. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features three women in large, textured dresses, gesturing and standing close to one another. 9 1/2" x 13" x 8" art Colleen Madamombe was born in 1964 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Considered to be among the finest new talents from Zimbabwe, she has won the award of Best Female Artist of Zimbabwe for the past three consecutive years, and is quickly becoming an established figure of the Second Generation of Zimbabwean stone...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Stone

Bronze Female Statue "Le Crépuscule" by Emile Andre Boisseau
Located in New York, NY
Emile-Andre Boisseau (French, 1842-1923) Le Crépuscule signed 'E. Boisseau' (on the base) Bronze height: 29 in. (74 cm.) Emile-André Boisseau was a...
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19th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Adrien Etienne Gaudez. Maiden with a Lute, Patinated Bronze Sculpture .
Located in New York, NY
A maiden holding a lute leaning on a tree trunk dappled with english ivy and cattails, all surmounted on a rouge royal marble base. Beautifully cast, crisp details. Artist: Adrien ...
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19th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Dancer - Jan Wils 21st Century Contemporary Abstract Sculpture Brass
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Jan Wils is an artist born in the city of Eindhoven, in The Netherlands. We would almost call his sculptures ‘outdoor sculptures’, spatial objects that show m...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Brass

Large Salvador Dali Surrealist Bronze Portrait Sculpture Mexican Master Aguilar
Located in Surfside, FL
Carlos Aguilar y Linares, Mexican Sculptor (1945-2010) Sculpture chose him. In his hands and his soul he always had the necessary impulse to create wi...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, 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

Walking Hare by Cécile Raynal - Fantasy animal sculpture, Alice in Wonderland
Located in Paris, FR
Walking Hare is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 75 × 37 × 20 cm (29.5 × 14.6 × 7.9 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a limited edition of 8 editions + 4 artist’s proofs, and comes with a certificate of authenticity. This bronze sculpture depicts a hare standing on her back legs, dressed in a basque jacket. The White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Seated Japanese Amida Nyorai Buddha ; Early 20th century.
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Seated Japanese Amida Nyorai Buddha Polychrome porcelain Japan, Meiji era, early 20th century Satsuma Kilns 11 1/2 x 6 1/3 x 6 1/3 inches ...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Enamel

Reclining Figure (woman)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
William King (1925-2015). Reclining figure, ca. 1965. Cast and welded bronze, 7 x 9.5 x 5 inches. Unsigned. William King, a sculptor in a variety of materials whose human figures traced social attitudes through the last half of the 20th century, often poking sly and poignant fun at human follies and foibles, died on March 4 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 90. His death was confirmed by Scott Chaskey, who is married to Mr. King's stepdaughter, Megan Chaskey. Mr. King worked in clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces depicting familiar human poses -- a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking men walking in lock step. But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer's arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment. His subjects included tennis players and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners. Mr. King's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. But the comic element of his work probably caused his reputation to suffer. Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious, displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder. and Elie Nadelman. The critic Hilton Kramer, one of Mr. King's most ardent advocates, wrote in a 1970 essay accompanying a New York gallery exhibit that he was, "among other things, an amusing artist, and nowadays this can, at times, be almost as much a liability as an asset." A "preoccupation with gesture is the focus of King's sculptural imagination," Mr. Kramer wrote. "Everything that one admires in his work - the virtuoso carving, the deft handling of a wide variety of materials, the shrewd observation and resourceful invention - all this is secondary to the concentration on gesture. The physical stance of the human animal as it negotiates the social arena, the unconscious gait that the body assumes in making its way in the social medium, the emotion traced by the course of a limb, a torso, a head, the features of a face, a coiffure or a costume - from a keen observation of these materials King has garnered a large stock of sculptural images notable for their wit, empathy, simplicity and psychological precision." William Dickey King...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Phryne - Marble Bust of a Beautiful Young Woman Perfect Silhouette Art Nouveau
Located in Miami, FL
Emmanuel Villanis was well known primarily for his bronzes of beautiful young women. With Phryne, the sculptor is working in marble. Since stone is not in the least forgiving, it's...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Desktop Ceramic Totem Sculpture by Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Dive into the whimsical realm of mystique with this utterly enchanting totem. Crafted with meticulous detail, this...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Wood, Glaze

French Contemporary Art by Frédérick Mazoir - Magmatisme 28
Located in Paris, IDF
Forged steel Frédérick Mazoir est un sculpteur français né en 1968 qui vit et travaille à Plélan Le Grand en Bretagne, France. Diplômé des Beaux-Arts à Quimper, Reims et Rennes, il ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Steel

"On Dusk 12" bronze sculptural wall installation of murmuring birds
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I live on the coast of a small island in the South Pacific - Waiheke, surrounded by green blue sea and copious amount of sea and bird life. This rich environment influences my work ...
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2010s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Jean-Michel Basquiat Bearbrick 1000% (Basquiat BE@RBRICK)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Bearbrick 1000% Vinyl Figure: A unique, timeless collectible trademarked & licensed by the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The partnered collectible reveals the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Resin, Vinyl

"Pair of Lovers" 9.25" bronze sculpture on wooden base by Moshe Sternschuss
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Pair of Lovers" bronze sculpture on wooden base of male and female seated figures by artist Moshe Sternschuss. Signature Sternschuss and edition number 153/200 inscribed on side of ...
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Mother Happiness / - The ecstasy of maternal joy -
Located in Berlin, DE
Johannes Boese (1856 Ostrog - 1917 Berlin), Mutterglück, um 1910. Goldbraun patinierte Bronze auf gegossener rechteckiger Plinthe, montiert auf zweifarbigem Marmorsockel (9,5 cm Höhe...
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1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

HELMET HEAD
Located in Milano, IT
Very rare wooden helmet-bearing head, datable between the 13th and 14th centuries, extraordinary evidence of medieval material culture. This object, carved with essential and primiti...
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15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

La Fontaine
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Melun in 1957, Jager is a French sculptor and painter. Passionate about equitation, he is famous for making representations of horses in plaster and bronze in all their forms. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon and is currently living in France. Rather than just being an artist, he describes himself as a dreamer: unpredictable and passionate. For Frédéric JAGER, beauty is a must. His style, classic, figurative, is stunning in this world of contemporary art. Bringing bronze to life, his works always capture the energy and beauty of the horse “Because unlike men, a horse is always beautiful, always strong, always sad.” Several large companies, such as HERMES, NINA RICCI, goldsmith MELLERIO, CHEVIGNON, SOCIETE GENERALE, HORSE WOOD, watches PEQUIGNET, SWEATERIE, have called upon him for sculptures, decorative objects, advertising works, or trophies for the races. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, and has also participated in a myraid of art fairs such as the ‘Salon International de Saumur’, the Animal Sculpture Biennale of Rambouillet, the Derby Horse in Art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Leda and the Swan
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a magnificent early Art Nouveau bronze by Belgian artist Jef Lambeaux(1852-1908.) “Leda and the Swan”, is an original Art Nouveau Bronze,...
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1880s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Pierre Jules Mene Bronze, "Chien Braque a La Feuille"
Located in Dallas, TX
Pierre Jules Mene (French, 1810-1879) Chien Braque a la Feuille Bronze with brown patina 9.5 inches (24 cm) long 5 inches (12.7 cm) high Inscribed on base: PJ Mene Condition: ...
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1860s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Head of Lust (Tete de la Luxure)
Located in New York, NY
Originally conceived in 1880-82 for the tympanum of the Gates of Hell, where she is cradled in the arms of L'homme qui tombe, as well as crouching in slightly varied form to the lef...
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1880s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

A peacock. Contemporary figurative bronze sculpture, Bird, Polish art master
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative patinated bronze sculpture by Polish art master, Bronislaw Chromy. Artwork depicts a peacock bird. BRONISŁAW CHROMY (1925-2017) Sculptor, medallist, painter...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Stone, Bronze

Bronze Pine Cone 22-555 - nature inspired, still life, forged bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian sculptor Floyd Elzinga finds inspiration for his iconic imagery in nature. From his studio on the rugged Niagara escarpment, he creates beautiful sculptures using natural forms—trees, the maple leaf and pine cones. This new series of pine cones are superbly detailed, and hand forged from bronze. The polished finish lends an elegance to these tabletop pieces. “The natural world is fundamentally my inspiration, and it is strongly reflected in my subject matter.” Floyd Elzinga His pinecone...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Stainless Steel

A sculpture - amulet with two dolphins. 19th century
Located in Firenze, IT
A coral sculpture - amulet with two dolphins, fruits and leaves, symbols of abundance and life. Nineteenth century. Weight 17gr Created from a single sprig of coral, carved, engraved and polished. Italian workmanship of the Trapani tradition, but difficult to place more precisely, as the Trapani artisans moved around Italy over time, forming, among other things, a lesser-known processing center in Livorno (Tuscany), the place of probable creation of this splendid object. Sculpture with two fish, probably two dolphins, or 2 marine monsters, which transform themselves into a kind of cornucopia, from which fruits emerge in abundance. The gift to the newborn therefore had a sense of protection and above all of future male fertility...
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19th Century Naturalistic Figurative Sculptures

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Engraving, Intaglio

Tête Solaire, Pablo Picasso, Unique Ceramic, 1950's, Earthenware, Design, Tile
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête Solaire, Pablo Picasso, Unique Ceramic, 1950's, Earthenware, Design, Tile Tête solaire II Unique work 27.01.1956 Large white earthenware tile, green stripes on white enamel on ...
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1950s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Earthenware

Unveiling - Sculpture by Maryam Pezeshki - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Unveiling is a contemporary artwork realized by Maryam Pezeshki in 2021 Terracotta sculpture. Original title: Svelamento Maryam Pezeshki was born in Tehran on August 18, 1977. SHe began to paint at the age of three. Her first painting was a Pinocchio. Participate in national and international painting competitions and festivals among Asian and Iranian children, winning first prize each time. At the age of ten she participated in a television program entitled "Little Great Artists". At the age of fourteen she won the prize for the best drawing and sculpture among Iranian teenagers, and she enrolled in the artistic high school, continuing to do her first personal exhibitions of sculpture, painting and drawing. From the age of seventeen to nineteen she won the national prize for best sculpture at the youth festival for three consecutive years. At seventeen he enrolled at the University of Art in the graphics sector and at twenty-one he graduated with full marks. In the same year she began studying for the master of graphics and managed to be among the seven students admitted. At the age of twenty-five she finished his studies and won a competition for teaching drawing and sculpture at the University of Art. In the meantime, visit the European and Indian museums...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Pair of 19th Century Busts by Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Signed: A. Carrier-Belluese Two large bronze matching busts of an unknown male and female 22 x 10 x 11" male 23 x 10 x 9" female Both show signs of wear with their age but are in fa...
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19th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Shadow Dancing
, Kinematic Sculpture with Animated Movement, Chuck Krause
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Chuck Krause (1949) Title: Shadow Dancing
 Year: 2024 Size: 23 x 23 x 2 inches Medium: Motorized curved arms on white archival museum board Condition: Excellent condition Not...
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2010s Kinetic Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

"Boom" Explosive 3D - 4 layer acrylic sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Plastic Jesus is a Los Angeles based street artist that specializes in bold stencil and installation work, inspired by world news events, society, the urban environment, culture and ...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Acrylic Polymer, Wood Panel

Tolla Inbar, Spiral circle of life, Black sculpture
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Tolla Inbar, Spiral circle of life, Bronze sculpture, International artist, Israeli artist, Figurative sculpture, art
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

The Passage by Martine Demal - Contemporary bronze sculpture, abstract, harmony
Located in Paris, FR
The Passage is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Martine Demal, dimensions are 43 × 27 × 24 cm (16.9 × 10.6 × 9.4 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is par...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

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

Unique Wall Mounted Painted Steel Sculpture "Spiralling Out of Control"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique, wall mounted steel sculpture made of painted aluminium.
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Steel

"In My Dreams I Can Fly, " Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Bill Starke's "In My Dreams I Can Fly" is a limited edition, cast and patinated aluminum sculpture created by Bill Starke depicting a male figure free falling through the air. ( 3/99 ) Note: Images 4 and 5 depict additional available patinas. About the artist: Human beings interacting, colliding, cooperating, striving, & achieving are the themes I wish to portray in my sculptures. My observations on the human condition are meant to be both humorous and thought provoking. Bill Starke's "Free Man" is everything that good art should be: technically superb, brilliantly composed, emotionally powerful and visually arresting... like George Stubbs, the 18th century English...
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2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Other Medium

"Bobo Mask Burkina Fasso-Upper Volta, " Carved & Painted Wood created c. 1945
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bobo Mask Burkina Fasso-Upper Volta" is a wood carved sculpture with painted details. It features the image of an abstracted face with a large almost elepha...
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1940s Tribal Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

DONALD Dollars - Pop Art Sculptures
Located in New York, NY
Cheeky references to pop culture and the societal context. Donald Duck is cast in resin with banknotes inside. Grounded in a postmodern vernacular, Alben’s paintings and sculptures ...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media

Albatros - Bronze Sculpture, Bird Sculpture, Garden Sculpture, Monumental
Located in New York, NY
Introducing "Albatros," an evocative sculpture by the late Belgian artist Isabelle Thiltgès. Standing at an impressive 210 cm in height and 30 cm in width, this piece exemplifies Thi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

Facetime - tall, colourful, abstracted figures, aluminum outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Colourful. Engaging. Minimalist. Theatrical. That describes the work of Robert Clarke-Ellis. The Toronto sculptor creates accessible pieces that although playful in form often speak ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Bronze of Pluto Abducting Proserpine after François Girardon
Located in New Orleans, LA
After François Girardon 1628-1715 French Pluto Abducting Proserpine Bronze This High Baroque period composition captures the famed narrative of Pluto and Proserpine from Roman mythology. The late 17th-century patinated bronze, created after François Girardon's marble composition, captures the very moment that Pluto seizes Proserpine. The anguished goddess reaches skyward, attempting to escape the god’s grasp while Pluto’s stoic face betrays his knowledge that his ploy will succeed. This pivotal moment in the mythological tale has captured the imagination of many art historical greats, from Bernini to Rubens. François Girardon’s version of the climax demonstrates incredible finesse and artistry, modeled expertly in bronze in the present work by a later sculptor. The statue brings a twist of intertwined bodies into a dynamic frenzy, paralleling the tension of the legendary story. In ancient Roman mythology, Proserpine, the beautiful daughter of Ceres — known as Persephone in Greek mythology — was picking flowers in the fields when she was suddenly abducted by Pluto, the god of the underworld, and taken to his kingdom. Consumed with grief, her mother Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, scorches the earth, stopping the growth of grain and fruit. Jupiter attempts to intervene and secure Proserpine’s return to earth, negotiating a compromise with Pluto and the Fates that allows Proserpine to be released for part of the year before returning to Pluto’s underworld. Proserpine’s journey back and forth is an allegory for the changing seasons; when Prosperine is with her mother, the earth warms and provides bountiful harvests. Upon her annual return to the underworld, however, the earth once again becomes cold and barren. After returning to France after years of training in Rome, François Girardon quickly rose to become one of the greatest artists in France. He was elected a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1657 and would become Chancellor of the Royal Academy in 1695. The artist was approached frequently for royal commissions and Girardon’s Pluto was originally commissioned by Louis XIV for the gardens at his Palace of Versailles. It was one of four monumental marble groups intended to decorate the corners of Charles Le Brun’s never completed garden at the chateau, the Parterre d’Eau. Each group of three figures symbolized one of the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. Pluto’s association with hell made him the apt...
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Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Hugging, Maquette (B/08/05)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 9 Sophie Ryder was born in London in 1963 and lives in the heart of the Gloucestershire countryside with her family. She studied visual arts at the Royal Academy Schools and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

19th century Bronze Sculpture of Cupid After Pierre Chenet
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century Bronze Sculpture of Cupid After Pierre Chenet Base diameter 6" 9"W x 23"H
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19th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Group of four 18th century Venetian wooden sculptures - Singer and musicians
Located in Varmo, IT
Four table sculptures - Concertino with musicians and singer. Venice, late 18th century. 9 x 7 x h 20 cm each. Entirely in wood, finely carved and painted in polychrome. Condition...
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Late 18th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures

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Wood, Paint

NAOR - 35cm Teddy Lamborghini Tribute, Green
Located in PARIS, FR
About the artist : Naor is a French artist from Lyon born in 1988. Completely anchored in his time, he has always traveled a lot around the world. If travels form youth, Naor was ins...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

KISS OF FIRE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"Kiss of Fire" (Bronze) by Erte Type: Sculpture Media: Patina on Bronze Image Dimensions: 21" High Year Produced: 1984 Edition Size: 300 Numbered, 30 AP, 9 HC Condition: Excellent
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Willitts Designs International The Drummer Cast Resin Sculpture, Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
An exceptional drummer sculpture by Willitts Designs International and Shen Lung. The sculpture is cold painted and made of hand cast resin. The drumm...
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Early 2000s Folk Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Palabres by Marine de Soos - Large bronze sculpture, human figure, man, nude
Located in Paris, FR
Palabres is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 150 × 80 × 65 cm (59.1 × 31.5 × 25.6 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is par...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Woman - XXI century Contemporary figurative bronze sculpture, Classical, Realism
Located in Warsaw, PL
RYSZARD PIOTROWSKI (born in 1952) Sculptor. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His works include intimate, small forms in marble, bronze and silver. He specializes...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Hercules Italian Stone Sculpture of Classical Torso with Base
Located in Rome, IT
This reproduction of a classical Hellenistic sculpture of Hercules . A timeless piece for interior and a garden decoration. We can raise with a base on request .
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20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures

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Limestone

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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