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Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Sol #2/12
Located in Napa, CA
Siri Hollander, born in New York, lived most of her childhood in Andalusia, Spain, where the local community revolved around fairs and fiestas. Influenced by a family of artists and ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Unique Lifesize Wall Mounted Steel Sculpture "Floating Legend"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique, life size wall mounted steel sculpture made of painted aluminium.
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Steel

Composition with Mickey Mouse
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Paul Rousso attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio and went on to earn his BFA from the California College of the Arts in 1981. In his...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Polystyrene, Mixed Media

Elegant Brass Sculptures of Greyhound Dog
Located in Rome, IT
Fine gilt bronze Greyhound dog sculptures. The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting. Excellent condition.
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Terracotta, Plate , Brick, Brown, Black colors by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Gautam Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gautam Das - Untitled - 8.5 x 8.5 inches Gautam Das is a master Terracotta and mural Artist. He studied in the Kala Bhavana and currently presides as th...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Water Tower Sculpture: 'Stool Pigeon'
Located in New York, NY
This image is from a mini fanzine created by the artist and spread through downtown New York. If pigeons could talk would they rat us all out. Instead of framing his work he prefers ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache

It's a Cracker
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Ed. of 20 Felt artist Lucy Sparrow is one of the most exciting and original artists working in the UK today. Her practice is quirky yet subversive, luring the audience in with her soft, tactile, colorful felt creations before hitting them hard with her comment on subjects from the demise of the traditional high street to censorship in pornography. She took the art world by storm in Summer 2014 with the opening of her fully stocked felt Cornershop installation in London’s East End. With queues around the block and wall to wall media coverage, the installation was both a commercial and critical success. In 2016, the BBC commissioned Lucy to recreates the Crown Jewels in felt, to celebrate HRH The Queen’s official 90th birthday. In May 2017, Lucy undertook her first solo show in the US, opening The Convenience Store, a New York bodega stocked with 9,000 felted artworks...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Textile, Felt

Hieronymus Bronze Sculpture Fish Contemporary Brown Patina In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Hieronymus Bronze Sculpture Fish Contemporary Brown Patina In Stock Pieter Vanden Daele was born in Belgium in 1971. He grew up between lakes and the river Scheldt. The river De Sch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Je me cygnerai (with Luna) by Cécile Raynal - Stoneware sculpture, female figure
Located in Paris, FR
Je me cygnerai (with Luna) is a unique smoke-fired stoneware sculpture (cypress wood base, pigment) sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 180 × 60 × 6...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Stoneware, Wood, Pigment

Gaia
Located in Pasadena, CA
Patrick BRUN was born in Paris in 1941. After obtaining his Engineering degree, he began his professional life as a teacher in mathematics and physics. After this period, he started ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Anatomy of a Golfer IV, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The Anatomy of a Golfer lV, Atelier is the fourth in Richard MacDonald's series of golfers that were inspired by the creation of his heroic sculpture,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Joel Urruty - Red stripes, Sculpture 2024
Located in Greenwich, CT
Medium: reclaimed wood, dye , lacquer As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Steel

Anthroposophie
Located in CHAZELLES-SUR-LYON, FR
“Anthroposophy” – A Ceramic Sculpture of Humanity and Heritage “Anthroposophy” presents a human face sculpted in ceramic, mounted on a metal base reminiscent of the pillars of ancie...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Snowshoe - Spring
Located in Bozeman, MT
'We surround ourselves with elements from nature in the form of manicured lawns, sculpted trees, and our domesticated companions. We bend the natural world to our tastes and create a...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Homebody
Located in Greenwich, CT
Homebody is a sculpture in bronze, signed and dated ‘KOSTABI 2022,’ and numbered 4/8 from the edition of ten on the side of the main figure (there were also 2 AP). Mark Kostabi is widely known for his paintings, but the artist has also worked in bronze since the 1980s. Two of his sculptures are permanently installed in Italy – one in the central square of San Benedetto...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Cat Under the Bridge -miniature cat bronze sculpture by NY artist Noa Bornstein
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
"Cat Under the Bridge" is a miniature bronze animal sculpture with a black brown patina. The cat seems to have been suddenly discovered and looks very surprised. It is very life-like...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Large Rusted Steel Wall Mounted Sculpture " A Blue Day for Anabelle"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A life size, rusted steel sculpture, edition 2/5. This sculpture is wall-mounted and is hung on a wall as a painting would be hung. It stands about 20mm away from the wall, creating ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Steel

Zigzag an Original Bronze sculpture
Located in Tetbury, GB
An original Bronze sculpture created and cast in the UK. Hywel Pratley is a British sculptor born in 1972. He brings a refined touch to his work as a council member of The Society ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Odalisque", Nude Side Lying Woman Figurative Bronze Sculpture
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This Bronze by Isabelle Jeandot is one edition of a limited series of twelve original sculptures, and it will be delivered with the certificate of aut...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Lady Gaga
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This Lady Gaga marionette sculpture is made of found objects in Pablo Cano's signature style. Some of the elements include: plastic bowl, a metal candy dish, soda cans plastic credit cards, and a potato masher among other found objects. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1961, Pablo Cano was on the last flight out of the country before the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. He has since been a resident of Miami’s Little Havana, and is regarded by art patrons and critics alike as one of Florida’s premier contemporary fine artists. Since childhood, marionettes have fascinated Pablo. At the age of ten, he was mounting elaborate plays for his family featuring puppets constructed of household bric-a-brac. His primary work today continues to center around the marionettes that he fashions from found objects, and the performance pieces he composes to showcase these protagonists. Cano reveals, “I create a dream world where inanimate objects come to life – springing from my imagination in the Surrealist tradition. But my work is founded on Dada ideals. The Dadaists used chance, spontaneity, and childlike innocence in order to create their statement. Their intention, as is mine, was to break with tradition and painting technique and to return to the elemental basics of art; to start from scratch; to allow the process of imagination to unfold and begin anew each time I create.” Influences from the color palette of Russian Constructivist Alexandra Exter...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Found Objects

Dante Meets Virgil - Original Bronze Sculpture by P. Fazzini - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dante meets Virgil - Sculpture is a rare and magnificent artwork realized by the renowned sculptor Pericle Fazzini during the 20th century. Bonded bronze high relief sculpture. Edi...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Ebb- contemporary bronze sculpture of life-size Bikini Woman walking confidently
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Ebb" is a new, large free-standing bronze sculpture, suitable both for the inside and outside. Edition 8, signed, numbered and dated on the bottom. The sculptress Susanne Kraisser...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

SHE, Limited Edition Hand-processed bronze sculpture, classic meets modern
Located in Dallas, TX
"Loves who don't know how to get by in this world (SHE)" is a classic-contemporary hand-processed bronze casting sculpture. It is part of a selected Limited Edition of XXV. It is signed in metallic ink, stamped certified sculpture and artist's certificate of authenticity. Sculpture size: 25x10x10 cm / 9.84x4x4 inches Mint condition: black patina - mirror high polished finish. MATTEO MAURO...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

Figura Seduta
Located in Miami, FL
Franco Mauro Franchi was born in Castiglioncello (Livorno) on 9 October 1951. He completed his artistic studies at the Lucca State Institute of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts in Fl...
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20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Cheerful Chapters" contemporary figurative bronze wall sculpture reading books
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Cheerful Chapters is a wall sculpture paying tribute to those who like reading and enjoy me-time moments. Edition Size: 25. Sculpture for wall easily hung with 2 screws/nails. BIOG...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze, Steel

Dynamics - 1, SS & Aluminium by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Vernika Singh - Dynamics-1 SS, and aluminium 16.5”w x 14.5”h x 10”d ( Inches ) Interested in human figures and the movements which are encountered by the body. It is the most beauti...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Stainless Steel

On the Ball Series, 8" high bronze set of 3
Located in Loveland, CO
On the Ball Series by Craig Campbell Expressionistic Figurative Sculpture full of whimsy 3 Sculptures 7.5" high Bronze Limited edition of 200 Also available individually Over the M...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

ST. ROPER - Sculpture of White Glove, 3D Scanned and Printed
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
ST.ROPER is a 3D-printed sculpture by Ray Padrón created in 2016. The piece belongs to a series of work centering around clothing items and their relation t...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Plastic, Wood

Hank Willis Thomas Love Over Rules Silk Screen Printed Skateboards Set of Three
Located in Draper, UT
Conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas uses photography to explore issues of identity, history, race, and class. Inspired by the works of Carrie Mae Wee...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Wood, Acrylic, Screen

Set of 3 Clay Balloon Sculptures - New Fall Collection
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Set of 3 Handmade ceramic balloon sculptures for wall installation in warm luxurious colors - Latte Brown, Metallic Beige and Red Wine. Crafted from clay and coated with a glossy non...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Glaze

Dark Clays I, Original Ceramic Sculpture, 3D Wall Art, Edmund De Waal Style Art
Located in Deddington, GB
This piece is inspired by my glaze test vessels. As a potter, I am always staggered by how different the same/similar glaze turns out on different clay bodies when it has been fired....
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic

Ian Edwards - Born within Fire - Original Signed Bronze Sculpure
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Ian Edwards - Born within Fire - Original Signed Bronze Sculpure Dimensions: 160 x 60 x 60 cm Edition of 12 Edwards’ practice expresses the power and determination of human endeav...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Dog perched on Hillock, Folk style, Motifs, Bronze, Animal Sculpture "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Untitled - H: 6.5 Inches x W: 5 Inches X D: 3 Inches Bronze Sculpture. There is a fantastic element in the works which is brought about by transforming the motifs o...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Gold Boxer
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1945 Leo Sewell (b. 1945) is an American "found object" artist. His assemblages of recycled material are in over 40 museums and in private collections worldwide. Sewel...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Mixed Media

Men & Animal, Terracotta, Brown by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Untitled - 31 x 43 Inches ( framed size ) Terracotta Subrata Biswas’s three sculptures ‘Think Green’, ‘Amigo’ and ‘City Bred’ a conscious selection of elements of f...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Fish Ceramic Totem - Tall Sculpture for Garden and Indoor by Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. Please note: The base is not included. We will guide you through a simple installation process for outdoor or indo...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Clay, Glaze

Conectados VI - Bronze Figure Emerging From a Collection of Stacked Tiles
Located in Chicago, IL
Jesús Curiá Perez Conectados VI bronze 29h x 9w x 5.50d in 73.66h x 22.86w x 13.97d cm ed. 1 of 8 JCP051 Jesús Curiá's sculptures arouse something more than purely aesthetic pleasur...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze, Steel

"Nuthatch" (2021) By Dana Younger, Original Bas-Relief Still-Life Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Dana Younger's (US based) "Nuthatch" is an original, handmade Bas-relief sculpture on Maple and Niove that depicts a small bird perched on a branch. (Frame included) Dana Younger ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Maple

Bee Cause #50- Kevin Box and Beth Johnson
Located in Napa, CA
“It took two years of tireless experimentation for me to develop the process of casting paper into bronze, another seven years to perfect, and it continues to evolve today.” - Kevin ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Apple Jacks Flattened
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Paul Rousso attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio and went on to earn his BFA from the California College of the Arts in 1981. In his...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Polystyrene

Anatomy of a Golfer I, Atelier
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
The Anatomy of a Golfer l, Atelier is the first in Richard MacDonald's series of golfers that were inspired by the creation of his heroic sculpture, M...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Ian Edwards Creation of Self - Small, Bronze
Located in Naples, Florida
Ian Edwards’ journey as a sculptor began when he left school aged 16 and began an apprenticeship. "The day I walked into the woodcarving shop everything changed. I said to myself the...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Balances - Sculpture by Lorenzo Servalli - 1998
Located in Roma, IT
Intimate Sculpture, in Excellent Condition, created in Hand-painted Wood by Sculptor Lorenzo Servalli in the year 1998, to quietly share The Experienc...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Rough Day
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 45 Jim Rennert was born in 1958 and was raised in the Southwest United States. Rennert began exhibiting his work in 1993 and has since become an important figure in contem...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Brick" Portrait of Man Made Out Layered Paper, Sewn Canvas, and Stone
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Brick" is a unique piece by Eustace Mamba measures approx. 4.5"h" x 2.5"w x 5"d. Mamba creates an abstract portrait from found material, sewn canvas, acrylic, and oil paint. This sc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Textile, Paint, Mixed Media, Found Objects, Canvas, Thread, Brick, Acrylic

Artist Hand
Located in Vancouver, CA
"Ai Weiwei's 'Artist Hand' is a striking sculpture that boldly presents a cast of the artist's hand with his middle finger extended. More than just a gesture, it encapsulates Ai Weiw...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

Oso Quemado
Located in Bozeman, MT
Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies from archetypes of mysticism. We explore found truths from modernity and a personal historical perspective. A process-drive...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Limited Edition Mild Steel Sculpture "Rude Arm: Black"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A limited edition, black powder coated mild steel sculpture on a white steel base. The sculpture is typical to Uwe Pfaff's tongue in cheek approach, depictin...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Steel

Fish Lovers, Terracotta, Brown by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Untitled - 31 x 41 Inches ( framed size ) Terracotta Subrata Biswas’s three sculptures ‘Think Green’, ‘Amigo’ and ‘City Bred’ a conscious selection of elements of f...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Thinking Man, 13"high bronze
Located in Loveland, CO
"Thinking Man" by Denny Haskew Figurative Bronze (After Egon Schiele) 13x11x7" ed/15 "Thinking Man puzzeled over this being a flock of clouds are in my head. people are everywhere, ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Granite, Bronze

Leaves - The Mystical Link, Liquid Metal Coating, Composite of Stone Glass
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Divyendu Anand - Leaves - The Mystical Link - H 32 x W 20 x D 18 inches Edition 3/8 Liquid Metal Coating over Composite of Stone Glass and Polyester Res...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Stone, Marble, Granite, Metal

Antonio by Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze sculpture, Edition of 25
Located in Coltishall, GB
Antonio is an elegant figurative sculpture of the male form by Nando Kallweit. Modelled on modern postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Gold glossy ceramic balloon sculpture handmade for wall, ceiling installation
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
This gold glossy ceramic balloon sculpture is a balloon for life and an art collectors piece. Its Vivid glossy color enhances sophisticated and cheerful space environment. handmade i...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic, Glaze

Red, White, & Blue Ice Bar
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Peter Anton’s (b. 1963, New Haven, Connecticut) primary subject matter is food with an emphasis on chocolates and other sweets. Anton creates giant realistic sculptures and is best known for his bigger-than-life boxed chocolates. Declaring, “I like to create art that can lure, charm, tease, disarm and surprise,” Peter Anton produces oversized, lushly detailed and delicious-looking sculptures of food...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Mixed Media

Couple with a Child Bronze by Michel Serraz
By Michel Serraz
Located in Pasadena, CA
Wax lost bronze. 3/8. Founder CHAPON. Michel SERRAZ was born on August 2, 1925 in Paris he knows the price and importance of work and is constantly in a harmonious relationship wi...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Concrete Head Unique Figurative Abstract Geometric Figure Grey In Stock 2024
Located in Utrecht, NL
Concrete Head Unique Figurative Abstract Geometric Figure Grey Contemporary In Stock Concrete head is a figurative, abstract, geometric, figure, grey po...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Concrete

"00:03" Resin Sculpture 73" x 71" x 27.5" inch Edition 2/8 by Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"00:03" Resin Sculpture 73" x 71" x 27.5" inch Edition 2/8 by Huang Yulong ABOUT THE ARTIST Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bache...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Concrete

Snowshoe - Fall
Located in Bozeman, MT
'We surround ourselves with elements from nature in the form of manicured lawns, sculpted trees, and our domesticated companions. We bend the natural world to our tastes and create a...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Contemporary figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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. If you’re looking to add figurative sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including KOBE, Richard MacDonald, Beth Carter, and Evert den Hartog. Frequently made by artists working with Metal, and Bronze and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary figurative sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available.

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