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Medium: Bronze
Money Trap - Avant Garde Modern Abstract Figurative Mixed Media Table Sculpture
Money Trap - Avant Garde Modern Abstract Figurative Mixed Media Table Sculpture

Money Trap - Avant Garde Modern Abstract Figurative Mixed Media Table Sculpture

By Jamie Burmeister

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Nebraka-based Jamie Burmeister is a sculptural artist known for his original artworks incorporating original small bronze figures, standing at just up to 4 inches tall. His unique fi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

After Botero Horse Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary, 20th Century beautiful work
After Botero Horse Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary, 20th Century beautiful work

After Botero Horse Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary, 20th Century beautiful work

By Fernando Botero

Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México

After Fernando Botero – HORSE. Please give us up to 10 working days to organize your delivery. Bronze Sculpture Edition of 50 Roman Numerals, 12 Arabic Numerals, A thru Z Edition T...

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20th Century Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

After Botero Bronze Horse with Saddle Sculpture, Contemporary Edition of 50
After Botero Bronze Horse with Saddle Sculpture, Contemporary Edition of 50

After Botero Bronze Horse with Saddle Sculpture, Contemporary Edition of 50

By Fernando Botero

Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México

AFTER Fernando Botero – Horse with Saddle, WILL BE AVAILABLE IN 2 WEEKS!!!!!!! Bronze Sculpture Edition of 50 Roman Numerals. Edition of 12 Arabic Numerals, and Alphabetical Editio...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Diosa Original bronze multiple. Esculpture Modernist
Diosa Original bronze multiple. Esculpture Modernist

Diosa Original bronze multiple. Esculpture Modernist

Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL

Diosa. Original bronze multiple. Esculpture Modernist Julien Caussé (also given as Cadet-Julien Caussé, Cadet Julien Caussé and Julien Cadet Caussé) (1869–1914) was a prolific French...

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Early 1900s Modern Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

After Botero - Horizontal Nude Woman Bronze Sculpture
After Botero - Horizontal Nude Woman Bronze Sculpture

After Botero - Horizontal Nude Woman Bronze Sculpture

By Fernando Botero

Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México

This AFTER BOTERO sculpture is a very beautiful, faithful reproduction in the style of BOTERO'S work that has sold very well here on 1st Dibs. The edition is 50 in Roman numerals. ...

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20th Century Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Barbedienne Foundry Portrait of a Bearded Man
Barbedienne Foundry Portrait of a Bearded Man

Barbedienne Foundry Portrait of a Bearded Man

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Jean-Baptiste Baujault (1828-1899). Portrait of a Bearded Man, ca. 1880's Cast bronze on bronze base. Measures 12.75 x 5.25 x 4.5 inches. Created by the Ferdinand Barbedienne foun...

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Late 19th Century Impressionist Bronze Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

They Rode to Save Wildlife (Red) 95/100 - Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010
They Rode to Save Wildlife (Red) 95/100 - Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010

They Rode to Save Wildlife (Red) 95/100 - Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010

By Gillie and Marc Schattner

Located in Bloomfield, ON

This contemporary bronze figurative tabletop sculpture featuring animals is by Gillie and Marc. The British/Australian artistic duo of Gillie and Marc’s humorous bronze sculptures h...

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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Reni by Nando Kallweit.  Elegant bronze Sculpture.
Reni by Nando Kallweit.  Elegant bronze Sculpture.

Reni by Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze Sculpture.

By Nando Kallweit

Located in Coltishall, GB

Standing tall and poised, Reni captures a sense of grace with her slender, angular silhouette. Her elongated limbs and subtle curvature of the body evoke a delicate balance between m...

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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

French Bronze Bust of Diana the Huntress, Neoclassical, Signed, 19th Century
French Bronze Bust of Diana the Huntress, Neoclassical, Signed, 19th Century

French Bronze Bust of Diana the Huntress, Neoclassical, Signed, 19th Century

By Jean-Antoine Houdon

Located in Beachwood, OH

After Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, 1741-1828) Bust of Diana Bronze Signed on side, Susse Frères foundry stamp on base 28.5 x 16.25 inches Jean-Antoine Houdon's bust of Diana is an 1...

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19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Teckio by Jacques Owczarek - Animal bronze sculpture of a dog, dachshund, black
Teckio by Jacques Owczarek - Animal bronze sculpture of a dog, dachshund, black

Teckio by Jacques Owczarek - Animal bronze sculpture of a dog, dachshund, black

By Jacques Owczarek

Located in Paris, FR

Teckio is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Jacques Owczarek, dimensions are 19,5 × 48 × 28 cm (7.7 × 18.9 × 11 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a li...

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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Art Nouveau Italian Signed Dated and Inscribed Original Bronze
Art Nouveau Italian Signed Dated and Inscribed Original Bronze

Art Nouveau Italian Signed Dated and Inscribed Original Bronze

By Constantino Barbella

Located in Roma, IT

Wonderful Art Nouveau "Ebrezza" bronze sculpture of a woman lying on a bed of roses. It bears at the base the signature Barbella and the wording “Rome Palm Sunday 31 III 1912” Brand...

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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Figure of Crouching Venus/Naked Aphrodite, 19th Century Italian School Sculpture
Figure of Crouching Venus/Naked Aphrodite, 19th Century Italian School Sculpture

Figure of Crouching Venus/Naked Aphrodite, 19th Century Italian School Sculpture

Located in Beachwood, OH

Bronze Figure of Crouching Venus, or The Naked Aphrodite, 19th Century Italian School Bronze raised on a marble base 21 in. h. x 10 in. w. x 7 in. d., overall 18 in. h. x 8.5 in. w....

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19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Late 19th Century Bronze Bust of Napoleon Sculpture, Italian Artist
Late 19th Century Bronze Bust of Napoleon Sculpture, Italian Artist

Late 19th Century Bronze Bust of Napoleon Sculpture, Italian Artist

Located in Beachwood, OH

Raphaël Nannini (Italian, 1852-1925) Napoleon Bust, Late 19th Century Bronze on marble base Signed on back 17 x 11 x 8 inches Raphael Nannini was born in Florence. He exhibited at t...

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Late 19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Yearning 3/9 - male, nude, figurative, statuette, bronze sculpture
Yearning 3/9 - male, nude, figurative, statuette, bronze sculpture

Yearning 3/9 - male, nude, figurative, statuette, bronze sculpture

By W.W. Hung

Located in Bloomfield, ON

At once expressive and elegant, William Hung creates dynamic sculptures that explore the human condition. With this intimate piece, cast in a rich bronze, an athlete balances on one ...

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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century
Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century

Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century

Located in Beachwood, OH

Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century Porphyry marble & gilt bronze 20 x 4.25 x 4.25 inches Porphyry is an igneous rock, not marble, known for its...

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19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

1960s Pop Art Unique Cast Bronze Sculpture Americana Folk Art William King
1960s Pop Art Unique Cast Bronze Sculpture Americana Folk Art William King

1960s Pop Art Unique Cast Bronze Sculpture Americana Folk Art William King

By William King (b.1925)

Located in Surfside, FL

Mid-Century Modern wrought iron sculpture a person with oversize top, shorts, and carrying a hat, signed, artist's monogram and cipher, further mounted on a plaster base. 28" H. This a unique piece. It is interesting in that it speaks of a transition, leading into the later aluminum public pieces that kind of defined his work in the 70's. According to his estate this is most probably cast bronze. It might possibly be wrought iron.. William Dickey King was born in 1925 in Jacksonville, Florida and grew up in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami. As a boy, William King made model airplanes and helped his father and older brother build furniture and boats. “I was 19, 20, my mother gave me a hundred bucks, says, ʻGet out of this state and don’t come back until you’re 65; there is nothing here for you,’ ” Bill King recalled in a video interview for the Smithsonian museum. He came to New York, where he attended the Cooper Union and began selling his early sculptures even before he graduated. He later studied with the sculptor Milton Hebald and traveled to Italy on a Fulbright grant. He was a contemporary, at the Cooper Union, of Alex Katz and Lois Dodd, his first wife, and remained close in many ways to their common aesthetic grounding, shared also with younger sculptors such as Red Grooms and Marisol Escobar. The hallmark of King’s early work was radical experiment keeping company with social connection and hedonism. The mix of big, important, innovative ideas and immediate, sensory, in-the-moment experience was a kind of visual jazz. For this was not just the time of Franz Kline’s big open defiant brushstrokes and Jackson Pollock’s all-over mists of intricately drooling line, but of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. If we look at the works that King made in the early 1950s when he got back from his Fulbright to Italy we see free, experimental, open forms that take their cue from jazz as much as art in their fusion of virtuosity and cool.American sculptor King is most noted for his long-limbed figurative public art sculptures depicting people engaged in everyday activities such as reading or conversing. He created his busts and figures in a variety of materials, including clay, wood, metal, and textiles. 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. Mr. King’s work often reflected the times, taking on fashions and occasional politics. In the 1960s and 1970s, his work featuring African-American figures (including the activist Angela Davis, with hands cuffed behind her back) evoked his interest in civil rights. 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. His first solo exhibit took place in 1954 at the Alan Gallery in New York City. William Dicky King was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003, and in 2007 the International Sculpture Center honored him with the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Mr. King’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. 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 New York Times critic Holland Cotter once described Mr. King’s sculpture as “comical-tragical-maniacal,” and “like Giacometti conceived by John Cheever.” From an article by David Cohen "In a career that ran in tandem with the hegemony of formal abstraction in sculpture, Bill King inevitably struggled with the prejudice that sculpture full of humanity and humor can’t be quite as serious as sculpture devoid of them. But the tide has clearly turned in ways that ought to work in King’s favor, with an increasing number of sculptors, fêted internationally, who are producing work that looks remarkably close in spirit, if not quite as regal in sheer mastery of form, as his own. When art historians of the future connect the dots of modern sculpture then artists like Franz West, Stephan Balkenhol, Huma Bhabha...

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1960s Pop Art Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

19th Century Grand Tour Figure of Sophocles after the Antique, F. Barbidienne
19th Century Grand Tour Figure of Sophocles after the Antique, F. Barbidienne

19th Century Grand Tour Figure of Sophocles after the Antique, F. Barbidienne

Located in Beachwood, OH

19th Century Grand Tour after the Antique Figure of Sophocles Bronze with green patination Signed F. Barbidienne, Fondeur 25 x 8.5 x 6.5 inches Standing figure of the Greek poet, we...

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19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

After Botero Seated Nude Woman Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary 20th Century
After Botero Seated Nude Woman Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary 20th Century

After Botero Seated Nude Woman Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary 20th Century

By Fernando Botero

Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México

After Fernando Botero – SEATED NUDE WOMAN Bronze Sculpture Edition of 50 This beautifully executed bronze sculpture is an After Fernando Botero work, created in faithful homage t...

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20th Century Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Chariot. Llimited edition: 1/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze
Chariot. Llimited edition: 1/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Chariot. Llimited edition: 1/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Located in Riga, LV

In Greek mythology, the chariot stands as a powerful, multifaceted symbol - representing heroic valor, destiny, and even cosmic order. One iconic image is Achilles charging into batt...

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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century Italian School
Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century Italian School

Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century Italian School

Located in Beachwood, OH

19th Century Italian School Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Dionysus, 19th Century Bronze with black-green patination 24 x 10 x 10 inches Dionysus, in Greco-Roman religion, a nature ...

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19th Century Italian School Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Gedimin. Llimited edition: 1/2. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze
Gedimin. Llimited edition: 1/2. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Gedimin. Llimited edition: 1/2. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Located in Riga, LV

The work was created in 2019 as one of the competition entries for the city of Lida – a representation of the founding prince of Lida Castle. This equestrian composition is executed ...

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2010s Realist Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Grand Tour Bronze Figure of Seated Hermes, Early 19th Century After the Antique
Grand Tour Bronze Figure of Seated Hermes, Early 19th Century After the Antique

Grand Tour Bronze Figure of Seated Hermes, Early 19th Century After the Antique

Located in Beachwood, OH

Large Figure of Seated Hermes, Grand Tour Bronze, Early 19th Century 19th Century Continental School After the Antique The large size figure well cast, with brownish green patination...

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Early 19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Mercury Standing on the Breath of Zeus, Antique Grand Tour
Mercury Standing on the Breath of Zeus, Antique Grand Tour

Mercury Standing on the Breath of Zeus, Antique Grand Tour

By Giambologna

Located in Beachwood, OH

After Giambologna (Italian, 1529-1608) Mercury Standing on the Breath of Zeus Bronze 27.5 x 14.25 x 5.5 inches The sculpture depicts Mercury wearing his winged helmet and sandals and holding a caduceus. Created after one of Giambologna's most celebrated sculptures in the Renaissance, Mercury, was designed as part of a fountain for the Villa Medici in Rome.The head on which Mercury steps symbolizes the figure being “exhaled, purified, unburdened.” When the Giambologna sculpture...

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19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

After Botero Bronze Sculpture of Man on Horse, Dark Patina, Edition 50 beautiful
After Botero Bronze Sculpture of Man on Horse, Dark Patina, Edition 50 beautiful

After Botero Bronze Sculpture of Man on Horse, Dark Patina, Edition 50 beautiful

By Fernando Botero

Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México

This AFTER BOTERO sculpture is a very beautiful, faithful reproduction in the style of BOTERO'S work that has sold very well here on 1st Dibs. Please give us up to 10 working days to...

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20th Century Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Iron horse. Llimited edition: 3/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze
Iron horse. Llimited edition: 3/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Iron horse. Llimited edition: 3/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Located in Riga, LV

When a child learns to ride a bike, it's challenging, sometimes frustrating, and a big milestone. The object transforms into a trusty steed, becomes part of play and imagination – th...

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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

Large Bronze Bust Sculpture of Diane de Poitiers, 18th Century
Large Bronze Bust Sculpture of Diane de Poitiers, 18th Century

Large Bronze Bust Sculpture of Diane de Poitiers, 18th Century

Located in Beachwood, OH

After Jean Goujon (French, 1510-1568) Bust of Diane de Poitiers, 18th/19th Century Bronze 14 x 7 x 5 inches 22 x 8 x 7 inches, with base Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and prominent courtier. She wielded much power and influence as King Henry II's royal mistress and adviser until his death. Her position increased her wealth and family's status. She was a major patron of French Renaissance architecture...

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Late 18th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Marlene III by Nando Kallweit. Tall, elegant bronze sculpture of human figure.
Marlene III by Nando Kallweit. Tall, elegant bronze sculpture of human figure.

Marlene III by Nando Kallweit. Tall, elegant bronze sculpture of human figure.

By Nando Kallweit

Located in Coltishall, GB

Marlene III is a tall, elegant bronze sculpture of a human figure. Nando Kallweit is a German sculptor working in bronze and oak. Kallweit carves the original piece from a piece of oak using a chainsaw. The oak marque is then used to create a cavity in clay and sand into which the bronze is poured. The resultant bronze is particularly organic and tactile. The wood grain is apparent, as are the cut marks where the chainsaw has bitten into the wood. As a young boy, Kallweit was inspired by the beauty and antiquity of a bust of Nefertiti...

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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Iron wolf. Llimited edition: 4/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze
Iron wolf. Llimited edition: 4/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Iron wolf. Llimited edition: 4/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Located in Riga, LV

"The work is entirely based on the Lithuanian myth of Prince Gediminas' dream, in which he saw an iron wolf – a vision that led him to establish Vilnius as the capital of his grand d...

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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

When Lambs Become Lions. Llimited edition: 5/6. Bronze
When Lambs Become Lions. Llimited edition: 5/6. Bronze

When Lambs Become Lions. Llimited edition: 5/6. Bronze

Located in Riga, LV

Sergey Oganov was born in 1974 in the family of the famous Belarusian sculptor Lev Oganov. Sergey began his first steps in the world of art while still being a schoolboy, helping hi...

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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

Eileen III by Nando Kallweit. Tall, elegant bronze sculpture of human figure.
Eileen III by Nando Kallweit. Tall, elegant bronze sculpture of human figure.

Eileen III by Nando Kallweit. Tall, elegant bronze sculpture of human figure.

By Nando Kallweit

Located in Coltishall, GB

Eileen III is a tall, elegant bronze sculpture of a human figure. Nando Kallweit is a German sculptor working in bronze and oak. Kallweit carves the original piece from a piece o...

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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Figure of a Royal Navy Seaman, 19th Century British Firm Elkington & Co.
Figure of a Royal Navy Seaman, 19th Century British Firm Elkington & Co.

Figure of a Royal Navy Seaman, 19th Century British Firm Elkington & Co.

Located in Beachwood, OH

Elkington & Co (British, 19th Century) Figure of a Royal Navy Seaman Bronze with warm brown patination on stepped wood base Stamped Elkington & Co 21 inches high including ba...

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19th Century Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Last Supper. Llimited edition: 5/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze
Last Supper. Llimited edition: 5/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Last Supper. Llimited edition: 5/5. Sculpture by Sergey Oganov. Bronze

Located in Riga, LV

"Last Supper" is a visual manifesto of solitude, choice, and the premonition of sacrifice. Time has frozen in the moment after betrayal – when inevitability has settled in, and the c...

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2010s Realist Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

En Amore II by Nando Kallweit.  Elegant figurative bronze sculpture of 2 women
En Amore II by Nando Kallweit.  Elegant figurative bronze sculpture of 2 women

En Amore II by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative bronze sculpture of 2 women

By Nando Kallweit

Located in Coltishall, GB

En Amore II is a bronze figurative sculpture about love and companionship by Nando Kallweit. The sculpture is of two elongated, abstract figures in close communion. The minimalist...

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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Reclining Figure (woman)
Reclining Figure (woman)

Reclining Figure (woman)

By William King (b.1925)

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 Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Pheonix XIII by Nando Kallweit.  Elegant figurative sculpture.
Pheonix XIII by Nando Kallweit.  Elegant figurative sculpture.

Pheonix XIII by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.

By Nando Kallweit

Located in Coltishall, GB

Pheonix XIII embodies the essence of movement and freedom through its dynamic portrayal of a human figure seamlessly merging with avian elements. It shows grace and balance, while ex...

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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Dogman thought a bird in the hand is always better 22/50 - bronze sculpture
Dogman thought a bird in the hand is always better 22/50 - bronze sculpture

Dogman thought a bird in the hand is always better 22/50 - bronze sculpture

By Gillie and Marc Schattner

Located in Bloomfield, ON

This contemporary figurative bronze tabletop sculpture featuring a dogman is by Gillie and Marc. Fanciful and fun, Gillie and Marc’s art is designed to be accessible. Their popular ...

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2010s Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Bronze figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Bronze figurative sculptures available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add figurative sculptures created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, yellow and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Richard MacDonald, KOBE, Nando Kallweit, and Jane DeDecker. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Modern, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Bronze figurative sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available