Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
CONCEPTUAL STYLE
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
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Style: Conceptual
Goodfellas
Located in Denver, CO
"Goodfellas" is comprised of 3 individual white statues that are meant to be presented as a trio. Each individual statue is 37" x 14" x 14" and weighs approx 15-20lbs. The sculptures...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Polyurethane
Joseph Beuys, Türkisfarbenes Bild - Unique Sculptural Object, Signed and titled
By Joseph Beuys
Located in Hamburg, DE
Joseph Beuys (German, 1921-1986)
Türkisfarbenes Bild, ca. 1974
Medium: Kraft paper, rope, pencil, ink, stamps, stickers and metal tags
Dimensions: 5 x 18.5 x 12.3 cm
Unique artwork: ...
Category
20th Century Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Foam Boy
Located in BARCELONA, ES
The brutality and density of the brushstroke show us a visceral work, vibrant at times grotesque and primary, but at the same time expressing deep emotions, which refer us to the anc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
It's the Thought that Counts famous limited edition MOMART UK fine art multiple
Located in New York, NY
Mark Wallinger
It's the Thought that Counts, 2001
Mixed media Christmas cracker, colored paper/ cardboard and ribbon with snap
Plate signed by Mark W...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Could AI develop emotions?
Located in MADRID, ES
Ai has no emotions but can simulate them. Maybe there will also be AI with real emotions in the future. At worst, they could look like the sculpture.
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Triangles
Located in MADRID, ES
There are some triangles cruising through my head. These triangles are memories, thoughts and ideas. Some oft them are bright, some are dark. Some triangles have left my head. Not al...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Plywood, Spray Paint
Large Wood Wall Sculpture: "30v"
Located in New York, NY
Eiferman invite’s you to immerse yourself in a world where transformed shapes, lines, and colors are all crafted out of nature's detritus. The inspiration for her drawings come from ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood
Large free standing wood sculpture: "50r"
Located in New York, NY
Eiferman invite’s you to immerse yourself in a world where transformed shapes, lines, and colors are all crafted out of nature's detritus. The inspiration for her drawings come from ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - La Puce
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Le Grand Orchestre
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Boat of the Sun
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - At the Bottom of Pool
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Modern Times
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - In Balance
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Pink Elephant
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Sunrises
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Halleluyah
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Get up and Walk
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Niemand and Soldier Duo
Located in Denver, CO
Niemand and Soldier Duo is part of a limited edition of 25. The Duo will be cast and hand-finished especially for you and shipped directly from the artist's studio in Slovakia to yo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Polyurethane
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Ride of Happy People
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Mutants
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Harvest
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Mythes
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Family Coat of Arms
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The King
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Boost
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - War is Declared
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical scul...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - War and Peace
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical scul...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Sketch
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Bolero
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - La Joie est Là !
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional & classical sculpture & teachings from Nouveaux Réalistes.
Th...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Dream
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Smoothness of Life
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical scul...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Beautiful Blue
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical scul...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Chrysalis on a minimalist Branch (two)
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful chrysalis meticulously hand-sculpted in epoxy clay and painted with high quality metallic paint by New York artist Bethany Krull, hangs delicately from a minimalist branc...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Starry Night - Original Lego Creation
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Homage to Vincent Van Gogh. Made completely of legos.
About the Artist:
Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pi...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Christo, Monuments: Portfolio with Ten Prints and One Sculpture, Signed Original
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo's portfolio of 10 prints and a scale model of ‘5,600 Cubic Meter Package’ for Documenta 4 in Kassel, 1968 (height 68 cm). Sold in white vinyl portfolio box. The portfolio was...
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1960s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Madame X (original lego art with frame)
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Madame X (original lego art with frame). Made completely of legos.
About the Artist:
Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousand...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Sculpture "Bon Sante" by Fernandez Arman, 1996
By Arman
Located in New York, NY
Born in Nice in 1928, Armand Pierre Fernandez (1928 - 2005) showed a precocious talent for painting and drawing as a child. (Inspired by Vincent van Gogh, he signed his early work wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Rare sculpture "Pubelle de Tubes" by Fernandez Arman, 1993
By Arman
Located in New York, NY
Born in Nice in 1928, Armand Pierre Fernandez (1928 - 2005) showed a precocious talent for painting and drawing as a child. (Inspired by Vincent van Gogh, he signed his early work wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Dead Mother
Located in New York, NY
Cast epoxy resin, fluorescent lights, plexi-glass, steel, 21 mink coats, argon-mercury text on wall
Over the course of four decades, Marsha Pels' sculpture practice has drawn both f...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Contemporary Conceptual Ceramic Sculpture German Shepard Turquoise Flower Vase
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original conceptual sculpture by American artist Roberley Bell that will be included in the gallery's presentation for the upcoming NYC based art fair Future Fair this May.
ROBER...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Ceramic, Wood
Contemporary Wood Paint and Jewels Wall Sculpture Installation Snakes Driftwood
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original sculptural installation by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull.
This work titled "Replicating Fading Species" features a series of found driftwood scul...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gesso, Driftwood, Found Objects
Porcelain Dinosaurs, glass aquarium, "Dino Pet Adaptation" by Bethany Krull
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of white porcelain dinosaurs hand built by New York artist, Bethany Krull are contained inside a glass aquarium. The dinosaurs, the vibrant green artificial plants...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Glass, Mixed Media
Pennacchio Argentato, The Algorithm Dream, 2020 -ongoing, sculpture
Located in Ornavasso, IT
The "Algorithm Dream" explicitly quotes Salvador Dali's melted clocks in "The Persistence of Memory", offering a contemporary reinterpretation of Surreali...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Pennacchio Argentato, The Algorithm Dream, 2020, sculpture, blue, green, coin
Located in Ornavasso, IT
The Algorithm Dream (2020 - ongoingo) explicitly quotes Salvador Dali's melted clocks in "The Persistence of Memory", offering a contemporary reinterpretation of Surrealism. There is a link between surrealism and surveillance capitalism, the latter understood as a new economic order that makes human experience a free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction and sale. Surveillance capitalism uses the research algorithm with a parasitic logic in which the production of goods is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral transformation of the individual and the masses. As Kenneth Goldsmith points out, "The web is tinged with surrealism and uses its methods of drift, disorientation, and disjunction as ways to open up new and unfamiliar experiences." The algorithm curates and organizes our desires as a digital libidinal force, we are dreaming the dreams of someone else, of a digital subconscious run by an algorithm and because of this we become increasingly disoriented and helpless. The sculpture represents an enlarged pound that as it melts seems to take a different shape and alter the appearance of the queen. This sculpture is a series that repeats itself in the same form but in different color combinations, like a dream that repeats itself at different times and continues to re-emerge every night.
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Pennacchio Argentato is an artistic duo composed by Pasquale Pennacchio (Caserta, 1979) and Marisa Argentato (Naples, 1977). They work together since they met at Academy of Fine Arts in Naples and later, they studied together sculpture...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Pennacchio Argentato, The Algorithm Dream, 2020 -ongoing, sculpture
Located in Ornavasso, IT
The "Algorithm Dream" explicitly quotes Salvador Dali's melted clocks in "The Persistence of Memory", offering a contemporary reinterpretation of Surreali...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Contemporary Porcelain Sculpture White Skull Animal Bethany Krull Female Artist
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original sculptural installation by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull.
This work titled The Swamp features a series of individual concrete cups each with a se...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Wall Sculpture Crab Animal Flowers Krull Unique Rare Contemporary
Located in Buffalo, NY
A unique wall sculpture by contemporary artist Bethany Krull called "Remnant of a Crab" created in 2020. This work uses porcelain and artificial flora ...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
Contemporary Porcelain Sculpture White Skull Animal Bethany Krull Female Artist
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original hand built porcelain sculpture by contemporary conceptual American artist Bethany Krull.
This work titled Extinction Stack is a prime example of the artist's commentary ...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Of Flesh and Bones
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
Conceptual Sculpture Titled, "Weighed Down By Public Opinion No. 2"
Located in San Diego, CA
One of a kind original sculpture by local San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. This sculpture depicts a figure facedown with gold bricks on their backs. The artist uses gold leaf to highl...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Concrete, Gold Leaf
Spiderman - Lego Original
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Spiderman. Made completely of legos.
About the Artist:
Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pieces, acrylic lac...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Wood Block Printing
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - A New World
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
The Terminator - Original Lego Work of Art
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Figurative, portrait art - The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger. Made completely of legos.
About the Artist:
Joseph Kraham is an "engineering art...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Artie - Pitbull/Boxer - Sculpture
By Will Kurtz
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Fun Dog sculpture from great sculptor. Comes with fun "dog poop"
About the Artist:
Will Kurtz was born in Flint, Michigan and received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture ...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Blue Planet
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
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2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
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Mixed Media
Conceptual figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual figurative sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Tricia Cline, Niki Singleton, and Samuel Yal. Frequently made by artists working with Ceramic, and Porcelain and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual figurative sculptures, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative sculptures made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,630 and tops out at $9,500, while the average work sells for $5,800.
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