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Figurative Sculptures For Sale
Period: 1980s
David Hostetler Torso Sculpture Bronze Nude Mid Century Figurative Brown
Located in Nantucket, MA
David Hostetler created this form originally in ceramic in 1948. He used the mold in the 1980's to cast a bronze. It has a green marble base that measures 2"h x 5.5"w x 4"d. The sculptures David created at the beginning of his career in the late 1940's and 1950's were abstract and in stone and ceramic. He was inspired by Henry Moore, Archipenko, Modigliani and Ancient Greek statues...
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1980s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Keeping the Ball Rolling
Located in Greenwich, CT
Life-size sculpture of a bare-footed boy balancing himself atop a ball.
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1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Woman of Nature and Serenity Original Ceramic Tile Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
​Interesting Pop Art tile Sculpture plaque by Guillermo Wagner Granizo (American, 1923-1995). A colorful woman with a beehive hairdo is surround by a few birds, a modernistic detail ...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Glaze

3 Cubist Art Deco Style Musicians Large Ceramic Sculptures
Located in Oakland, CA
Three Cubist Art Deco style musicians sculptures in ceramic. These large statues are done in a French technique called Craquele (crackle ware). They are signed and numbered “N.R” (Natacha Roche). Groups of ceramic musicians...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Unknown woman
Located in Täby, SE
Inspired by the head of Apollo by Antoine Bourdelle. A woman with strong firm but still vulnerable expresson.
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1980s French School Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Lancelot II by Yann Guillon - Male nude bronze sculpture, torso, figurative
Located in Paris, FR
Lancelot II is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 50 × 25 × 17 cm (19.7 × 9.8 × 6.7 in). Height of the sculpture with the base: 60 cm (23.6 in). ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Le Cavalier
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies Artwork signed Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti Invoice from the gallery Sculpture: bronze, m...
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1980s Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Bronze

Le Cavalier (petit)
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 8 copies Artwork signed Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the Indivision Antoniucci Volti Invoice from the gallery Sculpture: bronze, ...
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1980s Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Bronze

F. Soriano 39 Women Iron Garden coontemporary steel esculpture
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
"Quimeres "original steel unic piece sculpture Sculpture by the Spanish artist FERRAN SORIANO Artist well known for his large format works on the street. Iron and Steel Ferran Sori...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Maternité
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
SEYNI AWA CAMARA (born in 1939) Maternité Terracotta, Unique piece Height 36 cm Width: 16 cm Depth: 18cm In perfect condition. Provenance: Private collection, Le Havre Acquired in S...
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1980s Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

Pair Of Murano Glass Toucans
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Pair of rare Murano handblown glass Toucans sculptures amber and clear color glass 20"and 19" height 15" and 14"wide depth 5" base 4"x4" Artist signed (en...
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1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Prometheus, Modern Bronze Sculpture by Anthony Quinn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anthony Quinn, American (1915 - 2001) Title: Prometheus Year: 1988 Medium: Bronze Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed Edition: 5/8 Size: 22.5 in. x 10.5 in. x 5 in. (57...
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1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

La trompette coupée
Located in Malmo, SE
Signed and numbered XI/XX Free shipment worldwide. Arman wrote, “The bow on the strings releases an explosion of sounds,” in the book Trio à cordes published by GKM Siwert Bergströ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Epigastric torso
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture, 1989 Publisher : Artcurial Gilded bronze 11 x 7 cm Signed and numbered 1111 Certificate of authenticity LCD6358
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1980s Abstract Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Woman Aflame Salvador Dali 1980
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Salvador Dali Femme En FLamme Woman Aflame Artist signed in the mold, edition 141/350 Edition of 350 + 35AP stamped 'Venturi Arte' and Camblest 1981 Edi...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Bollel Child and conch shell. Original multiple bronze sculpture
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
BOLLEL. Child and conch shell. Original multiple bronze sculpture
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1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Kabuki Dancer Custom Framed Wall Tapestry
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5068 Japanese Kabuki dancer hand made wall tapestry signed Eva Set in a custom made frame
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1980s Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Fabric

Japanese Buddha Bosatsu-Cast Iron sculpture mask-by Akaoka Copperware-GSY Select
Located in London, GB
The beautiful Japanese Traditional Iron mask of Miroku Bosatsu by Takaoka Copperware is an old item for about 30-40 years ago. It is made in the Noh Mask Tradition with the best qual...
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1980s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Iron

La Terre Bleu, Klein, Blue Earth, Sculpture, Multiples, Pigment, Art, Design
Located in Geneva, CH
Ed. 28/300 pcs 1988 Resin coated with blue pigment 36 x 21.5 x 19.5 cm Provenance : Yves Klein Archives, Paris Literature : Yves Klein : Catalogue des editions et des sculptures,...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Resin, Pigment

Erte " Amazon "
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erte, Russian (1892 - 1989) Bronze Sculpture "Amazon" Circa 1985, Edition #118 of 375 ...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Japanese Suzuribako-Writing Box-Showa Era-Excellect condition-GSY Gallery Select
Located in London, GB
This vintage wooden Writing Box with drawer features beautiful original metal fittings, exuding a charming appeal. Its intricate handing and lid at the top layer add to its beauty, ...
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1980s Showa Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Erte " Rue dela Paix
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erte, Russian (1892 - 1989) Title: Rue de la Paix Year: 1987 Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and numbering on base Edition: 15/350 Size: 14.25 x 7 x 3 in. (36.195 x 17.78 x 7.62 ...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Medusa Large Plaster Sculpture by Brunelli
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
734 Hand made plaster Medusa with necklace. Designed and crafted by Brunelli
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1980s Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Plaster

Venus
Located in Sempach, LU
In this work, the author turned to classical mythology and created the image of the goddess Venus. Goddesses of youth, beauty and love. He created the classical female torso on a mar...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Ting Shao Kuang "Pensive Seated Woman"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ting Shao Kuang (B. 1939) "Pensive Seated Woman" 1989 Cold painted bronze sculpture; signed in casting, stamped "15/250 [copyright symbol] Segal Fine Art 1989" Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (41.9 x 38.7 cm.) Ting Shao Kuang was born in 1939, in Chenggu, a small village located in the Northern province of Shanxi, China. His earliest childhood was marked by the horrors of the Sino-Japanese war that destroyed his land and left him abandoned after the evacuation of his parents to Taiwan. He found his consolation and escape in painting and by the age of 11, he painted on a daily basis, using the cooking oil as a medium for the pigment. Even besides his limited supplies, Ting Shao Kuang managed to use his extraordinary talent and got the opportunity to attend a prestigious high school which was connected with the Beijing’s Central Academy of Arts and Crafts where he later gained his further education. His painting lessons were based on rules of Social Realism without freedom of expression and with the strict prohibition of any foreign influences. After graduation in 1962, Kuang obtained a position to teach at the Yunnan Art Institute in Kunming. Painting the unacceptable abstract paintings during the night, he would destroy every piece of them in the morning, fearing of the arrestment of the authorities of the country. Still, Ting Shao Kuang’s progressive and modern vision did not fail to attract the attention and he was suspended from his work and escaped to northern China, finding the refuge in Buddhist monasteries in Gansu where he studied ancient sculpture and cave paintings on the old Silk Route which had been preserved for centuries. Using the distinctive technique, Ting Shao Kuang’s work combines traditional Chinese influences with the Western art forms. Always turning to the female characters as his favorite subjects, their sophisticated shapes have been created from the artist’s deepest feelings and literature that inspired him. After the death of Mao, Kuang and his colleagues founded the famous Yunnan Shen She Art...
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1980s Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Model Girl
Located in Sempach, LU
Classic female torso inspired by examples of high Greek sculpture. Sculptor explores the lines and shapes of the female body, embodied the diversity, slightly changed the poses. Thi...
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1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stone, Bronze

Girl at Waterfall
Located in Sempach, LU
"This is one of my earliest sculptures. I depicted a naked girl at the waterfall. She bathes under jets of water. The fabric of clothing hugs her body and lies down to her feet. The ...
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1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Torso in Drapery
Located in Sempach, LU
"Classical theme of a Greek art inspires me. I am a big fan of a Greek mythology, so I depict it often". This sculpture shows beautiful woman in wet fabrics that emphasize body curve...
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1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stone, Bronze

Carole Feuerman Hyperrealist Sculpture Installation
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Sculpture in three parts is titled “Bubbles.” Item is accompanied by the artist’s original templates, handwritten installation instructions and correspondence...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Paint, Resin

Eagle
Located in PARIS, FR
Sculptor Alfred Basbous (1924 - 2006) was born in Rachana, Lebanon. His works express a lifelong exploration of the human form and its abstract properties. Throughout his life, Basb...
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1980s Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Hand Carved Painted Wood Folk Art Americana Sculpture Pair American Gothic
Located in Surfside, FL
C. Jeré ( or Curtis Jere) is a metalwork artist of wall sculptures and household accessories. C. Jeré works are made by Artisan House. Curtis Jere is a compound nom de plume of artis...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Vintage Art Deco Signed Original Bronze Woman Portrait Limited Edition Sculpture
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed and numbered art deco sculpture by Erte. Painted Bronze cica 1987.
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

LLongueras Crouched Woman Bronze. sculpture
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Duquesa de Alba. Bronze. sculpture measures with base 20x20x38 cm Lluís Llongueras represents the disagreement that corresponds directly to the personality of the artist, always vers...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Rigoletto, Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990) Title: Rigoletto Year: 1988 Medium: Bronze Edition: 145/375 Size: 19.75 x 18.13 x 5.75 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Incised wi...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Tribute to Jean Arp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tribute to Jean Arp. This decorative piece has been painted by hand on glazed porcelain with an intense red color. Jean Arp Sargadelos Porcelain Vase. last quarter 20th Century sign...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

An Evening in 1922, Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990) Title: An Evening in 1922 Year: 1982 Medium: Bronze Edition: 61/250 Numbered, 12 AP, 9 HC Size: 17 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Artist Fetish, Jim Pallas
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Jim Pallas (1941) Title: Artist Fetish Year: 1987 Medium: Pigmented epoxy on glass jar and brushes Size: 10 x 7.5 x 4 inches Condition: Excellent In...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Epoxy Resin

"GREEN BROKE" G. HARVEY SCULPTURE. BRONZE TEXAS BRONC BUSTER SCULPTURE
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 27 inches tall Medium: Bronze Sculpture 1983 "Green Broke" Bronco Buster G. Harvey, known for paintings closely linked in mood and subject matter to Edouard Cortes [1882-1962], G Harvey creates romanticized street scenes of turn of the century towns in America. Rain slick streets reflect urban lights, and the weather is obviously cold. He grew up in the rugged hills north of San Antonio, Texas from where herds of longhorn cattle were once driven up dusty trails to the Kansas railheads. His grandfather was a trail boss at 18 and helped create an American legend for his grandson. So, the American West is not only the artist's inspiration but his birthright. Harvey's early interest in sketching and drawing slowly evolved into a passion for painting in oils. After graduating cum laude from North Texas State University, Harvey took a position with the University of Texas in Austin, but he soon realized that weekends and nights at the easel did not satisfy his love of painting. He abandoned the security of a full-time job in 1963 and threw his total energy into a fine art career. Harvey paints the spirit of America from its western hills and prairies to the commerce of its great cities. His original paintings and bronze sculptures are in the collections of major corporations, prestigious museums, the United States government, American presidents, governors, foreign leader and captains of industry. The Smithsonian Institution chose Harvey to paint The Smithsonian Dream, commemorating its 150th Anniversary. The Christmas Pageant of Peace commissioned Harvey to create a painting celebrating this national event. He has been the recipient of innumerable awards and the subject of three books. Today, G. Harvey lives in Fredericksburg, Texas, with his wife Pat in a 150-year-old stone home built by German settlers. His studio and residence are nestled within the Historic District of Fredericksburg. It is obligation of fine artists to present us with more than pretty pictures. They must also make us feel. Among the western painters of today, there is none more capable of accomplishing this than G. Harvey. In his paintings, the viewer into only sees the physical elements of his subject, but also senses the mood that surrounds them. It is a remarkable aspect of fine art, which few artists are able to master. Gerald Harvey Jones was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1933. His grandfather was a cowboy during the trail-driving era when legends grew up along the dusty trails north from Texas. Family stories of wild cattle and tough men were absorbed by a wide-eyed boy and became the genesis of G. Harvey's art. A graduate in fine arts at North Texas State University, Harvey taught full-time and painted nights and weekends for several years. It was through painting that he found his greatest satisfaction, and his native central Texas hill country provided the inspiration for most of his earliest work. With the development of his talent and the growth of his following, Harvey began to expand his artistic horizons. He left teaching and concentrated on a career in fine art. He sought the essence that is Texas and found it not only along the banks of the Guadalupe, but in cow camps west of the Pecos, and in the shadows of tall buildings in big Texas cities. The streets of Dallas once echoed with the sound of horse's hooves and the jingle of spurs. Historic photographs reveal what it looked like, but only an artist like Harvey can enable a viewer to experience the mood and flavor or the time. Contemporary west art has too often centered on the literal representations from its roots in illustrations. Artists like G. Harvey take us a step further, to the subjective impressions that are unique to each great talent, and which constitutes something special and basic to fine art expression. Harvey is a soft-spoken and unassuming man who cares deeply about what he paints without becoming maudlin or melodramatic. We sense there is more in each Harvey painting than just that which is confined to the canvas. Resources include: The American West: Legendary Artists of the Frontier, Dr. Rick Stewart, Hawthorne Publishing Company, 1986 Artist G. Harvey grew up in the rugged hills north of San Antonio, Texas from where herds of longhorn cattle were once driven up dusty trails to the Kansas railheads. His grandfather was a trail boss at 18 and helped create an American legend. So, the American West is not only the artist's inspiration but his birthright. Harvey's early interest in sketching and drawing slowly evolved into a passion for painting in oils. After graduation cum laude from North Texas State University, Harvey took a position with the University of Texas in Austin, but he soon realized that weekends and nights at the easel did not satisfy his love of painting. He abandoned the security of a full-time job in 1963 and threw his total energy into a fine art career. Two years as a struggling artist followed, but 1965 brought acclaim for the artist's first prestigious show, The Grand National exhibition in New York, and the American Artists' Professional League presented him with their New Master's Award. President Lyndon Johnson discovered his fellow Texan's talent, became a Harvey collector and introduced John Connally to the artist's work. Connally was enthusiastic about Harvey's art, and, on one occasion, he presented a G. Harvey original to each governor of Mexico's four northern states. Harvey paints the spirit of America from its western hills and prairies to the commerce of its great cities. His original paintings and bronze sculptures are in the collections of major corporations, prestigious museums, the United States government, American presidents, governors, foreign leader and captains of industry. The Smithsonian Institution chose Harvey to paint The Smithsonian Dream commemorating its 150th Anniversary. The Christmas Pageant of Peace commissioned Harvey to create a painting celebrating this national event. He has been the recipient of innumerable awards and the subject of three books. Through his art, our history lives. Today, G. Harvey lives in Fredericksburg, Texas, with his wife Pat in a 150-year-old stone home built by German settlers. His studio and residence are nestled within the Historic District of Fredericksburg. Gerald Harvey Jones, better known as G. Harvey, grew up in the Texas Hill Country listening to his father and grandfather tell stories about ranch life, frontier days in Texas, and driving cattle across the Red River. Early in his career, he began to draw inspiration from that collective memory for paintings that would eventually earn him the reputation as one of America's most recognized and successful artists. His art is rooted in the scenic beauty of the land he grew up in and the staunch independence of the people who live there. He says, "My paintings have never been literal representations. They are part first-hand experience, and part dreams generated by those early stories I heard. They are a product of every place I have been, everything I have ever seen and heard." G. Harvey graduated from North Texas State University. He taught in Austin, but continued to study art in his spare time, eventually devoting full time to his painting. The year 1965 was a turning point when he won the prestigious New Masters Award in the American Artist Professional League Grand National Exhibition in New York. It is often said that in viewing a work of art, one is granted a unique look into the thoughts and expressions of values that give meaning to the artist work. Nowhere does this ring truer than the art of G. Harvey. Though Harvey has had nearly two decades of sell-out shows, an outstanding honor came with a series of one-man shows in Washington, D.C. in 1991. The first was at the National Archives featuring his paintings of the Civil War era, then a selection of paintings of notable Washington landmarks was exhibited at the Treasury Department, culminating in a one-man show of 35 paintings at the Smithsonian Institution during their exhibition of The All-American Horse. His work was featured in Gilcrease Museum exhibitions from 1992-1997. In 1987 his alma matter...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

“Eden”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original hand cast bronze dual figure of a hollow dressed torso of a male and female representing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The bronze sculpture is attributed to the American sculptor Judith Shea. This piece is a maquette for a life size bronze executed by this artist that is located in an outdoor space in Buffalo, New York. Both are titled “Eden” and were done in 1987. Condition is excellent. Unsigned. Label on the bottom of the thick pine base states the artist and title of the artwork. Provenance: A Long Island, New York collector. Judith Shea has been a notable presence in the New York art world since the 1970s. Trained as a designer at Parsons, she soon found the fashion industry too restrictive and abandoned it in favor of making art. For her first solo show, at The Clocktower in 1976, Shea made a work based on color theory, using transparent silks in a spectrum of colors, worn by a live model. Other early work referenced clothing and its construction, first as flat, minimalist pattern and later as molded draping over implied, absent figures. In the 1981 Whitney Biennial, Shea showed three simple forms that evoked iconic clothes of the 1950s and 60s—the overcoat and the simple sheath dress—which hung from the wall as if on hangers. Five related works were included in the Hirshhorn’s Directions 83 survey. All of these works evoke human presence, felt as absence, as if the clothes were placeholders for missing persons. Thinking about her earlier clothes-based works, Shea has said that she “was looking for characters, for personae, really, to occupy them. I used clothes as stand-ins for people.” With the support of NEA grants, Shea began to learn bronze casting, and she was able to also spend time in Paris studying the statuary of its parks and gardens. This research led to several hollow-figure compositions from the 1980s that were designed to be sited in public spaces, such as Eden (John Hancock Tower, Chicago), Shepherd’s Muse (Oliver Ranch), Shield (Sheldon Museum of Art), and Without Words (Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, after a residency at Chesterwood—the site of Daniel Chester French’s studio in Stockbridge—Shea began to use woodcarving to make monumental public sculpture. The first of these full-scale wooden figures were shown in 1992 at the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris in New York. In 1994 her wooden equestrian statue The Other Monument, a monumental image of a black man on a black horse, was installed at Doris Freedman Plaza in New York, in the same plaza as the William Tecumseh Sherman...
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1980s Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Codina Corona Hunt cartridge belt. wood. sculpture original realistic
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
CANANA original realistic wood piece unique sculpture Josep Maria Codina Corona (Igualada, 1935 - Barcelona, ​​​​2006) was a Catalan sculptor. He goes to study at the Escola de la L...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Tribute to Joan Miró
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tribute to Joan Miró, painter, sculptor, engraver and Spanish ceramist, considered one of the maximum representatives of surrealism. This decorative piece has been painted by hand on glazed porcelain with an intense red colour, cooking in this stage at 800 º C (for third time). For this reason the production process is more laborious. All hand decorated and finished at its two factories in the region. Homage A Miró...
Category

1980s Abstract Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

"IXTAPAN BURRO" G. HARVEY SCULPTURE. BRONZE DONKEY IN G. HARVEY BOOK
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 9 inches across Frame Size: 10 inches tall Medium: Bronze Sculpture Dated 1982 "Ixtapan Burro" G. Harvey, known for paintings closely linked in mood and subject matter to Edouard Cortes [1882-1962], G Harvey creates romanticized street scenes of turn of the century towns in America. Rain slick streets reflect urban lights, and the weather is obviously cold. He grew up in the rugged hills north of San Antonio, Texas from where herds of longhorn cattle were once driven up dusty trails to the Kansas railheads. His grandfather was a trail boss at 18 and helped create an American legend for his grandson. So, the American West is not only the artist's inspiration but his birthright. Harvey's early interest in sketching and drawing slowly evolved into a passion for painting in oils. After graduating cum laude from North Texas State University, Harvey took a position with the University of Texas in Austin, but he soon realized that weekends and nights at the easel did not satisfy his love of painting. He abandoned the security of a full-time job in 1963 and threw his total energy into a fine art career. Harvey paints the spirit of America from its western hills and prairies to the commerce of its great cities. His original paintings and bronze sculptures are in the collections of major corporations, prestigious museums, the United States government, American presidents, governors, foreign leader and captains of industry. The Smithsonian Institution chose Harvey to paint The Smithsonian Dream, commemorating its 150th Anniversary. The Christmas Pageant of Peace commissioned Harvey to create a painting celebrating this national event. He has been the recipient of innumerable awards and the subject of three books. Today, G. Harvey lives in Fredericksburg, Texas, with his wife Pat in a 150-year-old stone home built by German settlers. His studio and residence are nestled within the Historic District of Fredericksburg. It is obligation of fine artists to present us with more than pretty pictures. They must also make us feel. Among the western painters of today, there is none more capable of accomplishing this than G. Harvey. In his paintings, the viewer into only sees the physical elements of his subject, but also senses the mood that surrounds them. It is a remarkable aspect of fine art, which few artists are able to master. Gerald Harvey Jones was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1933. His grandfather was a cowboy during the trail-driving era when legends grew up along the dusty trails north from Texas. Family stories of wild cattle and tough men were absorbed by a wide-eyed boy and became the genesis of G. Harvey's art. A graduate in fine arts at North Texas State University, Harvey taught full-time and painted nights and weekends for several years. It was through painting that he found his greatest satisfaction, and his native central Texas hill country provided the inspiration for most of his earliest work. With the development of his talent and the growth of his following, Harvey began to expand his artistic horizons. He left teaching and concentrated on a career in fine art. He sought the essence that is Texas and found it not only along the banks of the Guadalupe, but in cow camps west of the Pecos, and in the shadows of tall buildings in big Texas cities. The streets of Dallas once echoed with the sound of horse's hooves and the jingle of spurs. Historic photographs reveal what it looked like, but only an artist like Harvey can enable a viewer to experience the mood and flavor or the time. Contemporary west art has too often centered on the literal representations from its roots in illustrations. Artists like G. Harvey take us a step further, to the subjective impressions that are unique to each great talent, and which constitutes something special and basic to fine art expression. Harvey is a soft-spoken and unassuming man who cares deeply about what he paints without becoming maudlin or melodramatic. We sense there is more in each Harvey painting than just that which is confined to the canvas. Resources include: The American West: Legendary Artists of the Frontier, Dr. Rick Stewart, Hawthorne Publishing Company, 1986 Artist G. Harvey grew up in the rugged hills north of San Antonio, Texas from where herds of longhorn cattle were once driven up dusty trails to the Kansas railheads. His grandfather was a trail boss at 18 and helped create an American legend. So, the American West is not only the artist's inspiration but his birthright. Harvey's early interest in sketching and drawing slowly evolved into a passion for painting in oils. After graduation cum laude from North Texas State University, Harvey took a position with the University of Texas in Austin, but he soon realized that weekends and nights at the easel did not satisfy his love of painting. He abandoned the security of a full-time job in 1963 and threw his total energy into a fine art career. Two years as a struggling artist followed, but 1965 brought acclaim for the artist's first prestigious show, The Grand National exhibition in New York, and the American Artists' Professional League presented him with their New Master's Award. President Lyndon Johnson discovered his fellow Texan's talent, became a Harvey collector and introduced John Connally to the artist's work. Connally was enthusiastic about Harvey's art, and, on one occasion, he presented a G. Harvey original to each governor of Mexico's four northern states. Harvey paints the spirit of America from its western hills and prairies to the commerce of its great cities. His original paintings and bronze sculptures are in the collections of major corporations, prestigious museums, the United States government, American presidents, governors, foreign leader and captains of industry. The Smithsonian Institution chose Harvey to paint The Smithsonian Dream commemorating its 150th Anniversary. The Christmas Pageant of Peace commissioned Harvey to create a painting celebrating this national event. He has been the recipient of innumerable awards and the subject of three books. Through his art, our history lives. Today, G. Harvey lives in Fredericksburg, Texas, with his wife Pat in a 150-year-old stone home built by German settlers. His studio and residence are nestled within the Historic District of Fredericksburg. Gerald Harvey Jones, better known as G. Harvey, grew up in the Texas Hill Country listening to his father and grandfather tell stories about ranch life, frontier days in Texas, and driving cattle across the Red River. Early in his career, he began to draw inspiration from that collective memory for paintings that would eventually earn him the reputation as one of America's most recognized and successful artists. His art is rooted in the scenic beauty of the land he grew up in and the staunch independence of the people who live there. He says, "My paintings have never been literal representations. They are part first-hand experience, and part dreams generated by those early stories I heard. They are a product of every place I have been, everything I have ever seen and heard." G. Harvey graduated from North Texas State University. He taught in Austin, but continued to study art in his spare time, eventually devoting full time to his painting. The year 1965 was a turning point when he won the prestigious New Masters Award in the American Artist Professional League Grand National Exhibition in New York. It is often said that in viewing a work of art, one is granted a unique look into the thoughts and expressions of values that give meaning to the artist work. Nowhere does this ring truer than the art of G. Harvey. Though Harvey has had nearly two decades of sell-out shows, an outstanding honor came with a series of one-man shows in Washington, D.C. in 1991. The first was at the National Archives featuring his paintings of the Civil War era, then a selection of paintings of notable Washington landmarks was exhibited at the Treasury Department, culminating in a one-man show of 35 paintings at the Smithsonian Institution during their exhibition of The All-American Horse. His work was featured in Gilcrease Museum exhibitions from 1992-1997. In 1987 his alma matter...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Piano surréaliste, Salvador Dali
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Title: Piano surréaliste Year: 1984 Medium: Bronze Edition: 34/350, plus proofs Size: 26.3 x 15.7 x 12 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Inci...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Jerusalem Wall Hanging Hand Embroidered tapestry Israeli Craft Judaica Folk Art
By Esther BenSimon
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an artistic weaving depicting the old city of Jerusalem. Signed in Hebrew and dated verso. it is all Hand Woven. Esther Bensimon is a native of Argentina. She graduated from ...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Sculptures

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Wool, Cotton

Keith Haring Pop Shop radio 1985 (Keith Haring Pop Shop 1985)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Pop Shop 1986: A very well preserved Keith Haring Pop Shop radio accompanied by its original packaging. Sold at the Pop Shop in New ...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

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Offset, Plastic

WILLOW TREE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"Willow Tree" (Bronze) by Erte Type: Sculpture Media: Patina on Bronze Image Dimensions: 24 3/4" x 12" x 5 1/2" Year Produced: 1989 Edition Size: 375 Numbered, I-L Roman Numerals, 37...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

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

ERTE (ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF) 'THE WEDDING' BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
ERTE "The Wedding" Signed/Numbered BRONZE SCULPTURE Type: Sculpture Media: Patina on Bronze Image Dimensions: 16 in X 18 in X 5.5 in. Year Produced: 1985 Edition Size: 251/375 Condit...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

BAMBOO (SCULPTURE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture. Incised Erte signature with stamp numbered edition, foundry and date. From the edition of 375. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Artwork is in excellent co...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Homage à Kahnweiler
Located in Berlin, DE
Irmgard Biernath (1905 Waldheim in Saxony - 1998 Mainz), Hommage à Kahnweiler, 1984. Terracotta relief, burnished red body, 43.5 x 38 cm, mounted on support plate, in wooden frame 57 x 49.5 cm, monogrammed "IB" at lower right. - Isolated patina losses, but overall good condition, frame slightly bumped. - The Appearance of Genius- This homage to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler shows the gallerist and art theorist as Pablo Picasso portrayed him in his lithographic portrait of 1957. As an innovative Parisian gallery owner, Kahnweiler had exclusively represented Picasso since 1911, while Picasso had painted his famous portrait of Kahnweiler the previous year as a major work of Cubism. And it is Picasso who appears at the centre of Irmgard Biernath's image. Here, his face echoes the features of the self-portrait he painted in 1907 in the Prague National Gallery. His eyes are wide open as he gazes into the distance, surrounded by the works of his artistic vision that have already taken shape. On the right is the bronze "Man with Sheep...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

ERTE 'RUE DE LA PAIX' SIGNED & NUMBERED BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
ERTE "Rue de La Paix" Signed/Numbered BRONZE SCULPTURE By Erte Type: Sculpture Media: Patina on Bronze Image Dimensions: 14 x 6.75 x 3.25 inches Year Produced: 1987 Edition Size: 241...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

ERTE "LA DANSEUSE" 1986, BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"Femme de luxe" (Bronze) by Erte Type: Sculpture Media: Patina on Bronze Dimensions: 13 3/4" High Year Produced: 1986 Edition Size: 500 Numbered, 35 AP Edition Number: 13/500 In Exce...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Post Soviet Non Conformist Russian Cast Paper Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Mihail Mikhailovich Chemiakin (or Shemyakin, Russian: Михаил Михайлович Шемякин, born 4 May 1943) is a Russian painter, stage designer, sculptor and publisher, and a controversial re...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Sculptures

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Rag Paper

ERTE "THE MYSTIC" 1984, BRONZE SCULPTURE
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
"The Mystic" (Bronze) by Erte Type: Sculpture Media: Patina on Bronze Dimensions: 17 x 14 x 9 1/4" Year Produced: 1989 Edition Size: 375 Numbered, 37 AP Edition Number: 92/375 In Exc...
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1980s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Contemplation
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Frederick Elliott Hart (American, 1943-1999) "Contemplation", 1985 Media: Lucite, Acrylic resin sculpture Initialed, dated, copyright-marked, numbered "12...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Acrylic Polymer, Resin

Evolution Painted Bronze Sculpture
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Angelo Basso (Italy, 1943 – 2011) Evolution Signed and marked IX / XXXIII Beauty & Mythology Collection Sculpture 23″ inches tall (Base 5″ Siren 18″) Box size 20″ x 17″ x 27″ ...
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1980s Baroque Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Nymph and Goat" Modern Abstract Mythological Bronze and Marble Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract sculpture of a woman and goat by renowned artist Reuben Nakian. The work features a female nymph figure lying back as a goat figure approaches in Nakian's iconic bloc...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Sculptures

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Granite, Bronze

CAT Catalogue Raisonne Ref: Knight, CR-406 cast bronze sculpture by famed artist
Located in New York, NY
Gerald Laing Cat, 1983 Cast bronze (hollow core cast) Bears artists full incised signature, artist's copyright logo, as well as stamped signature on the front, Edition 1/9 13 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches A magnificent cast bronze sculpture, rarely seen on the market by Gerald Laing, one of the leading British artists of his generation. Catalogued as CR-406 in the 2017 Catalogue Raisonne published by Lund Humphries and the Estate of Gerald Laing. One of only nine editions. This work was acquired from the Estate of distinguished Pop Art collector Arthur C. Carr of Columbia University , who befriended many of the artists whose works he collected. Editions of this work were exhibited in the following venues: GERALD LAING: SCULPTURE 1968 - 1999 The Fine Art Society 148 New Bond Street London UK 22 March - 15 April 1999 GERALD LAING Albert Totah Gallery 152 Wooster Street New York City New York USA, 24 January - 21 February 1987 GERALD LAING PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE 1963-1983 Herbert Art Gallery Jordan Well Coventry UK 10 September - 9 October 1983...
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

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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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