Modern Figurative Sculptures
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Untitled, 2017
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Hippo et Papillons
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 12 copies ( 8 + 4 P.A)
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, metal,...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Polish Modernist Prancing Horses Bronze Expressionist Art Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed bronze from small edition of 8. plus 4 artists proofs
Dominik Albiński
(born 1975, South Africa)
He started carving at the age of twelve. When he was eighteen he went to Pari...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Équilibre d'éléphants ( mod.01 )
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Numbered and limited to 45 copies ( 30 + 15 P.A )
Artwork signed
Authenticity: Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Invoice from the gallery
Sculpture: bronze, met...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bambina Impaurita
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Untitled (Roi David)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Marc Chagall Untitled (Roi David), 1954 is a rare and imaginative culmination of the collaboration between Marc Chagall and the Fucina degli Angeli. This work is from the beginning of Chagall’s usage of Murano glass as a means of expression. In 1954, Chagall was invited into the Fucina degli Angeli by Egidio Costantini who was the master glass blower at the time. This stunning and mesmeric sculpture beckons the eyes through the use of vivid, bold colors that blend seamlessly together. Blue, purple, teal and hints of red coalesce in the center of the glass plate, creating the backdrop for a whimsical scene placed in the foreground. A man in a crown kneels in the center of the work, preoccupied with the string instrument delicately constructed in his hands. Gilded flecks of gold are highlighted around the crown and instrument, showing us the depth of the lyrical poet. The transparent glass allows us to follow suite of the man, becoming entranced and lost in thought.
Created in 1954 in the Fucina degli Angeli in Venice, Italy, this Murano glass sculpture was realized by master glass artist Egidio Costantini (Brindisi, 1912- Venice, 1998) in collaboration Marc Chagall, (Vitebsk, 1887 – Saint-Paul, 1985). This work is inscribed ‘M. Chagall E. Costantini 1954 © Fucina degli Angeli’ on verso and is an artist proof.
Catalogue Raisonné:
Marc Chagall Untitled (Roi David), 1954 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).
Egidio Costantini: Il Maestro dei Maestri. Brussels: Espace Kiron and Espace Medicis, 1990. A different Chagall glass...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Victor Salmones Signed Bronze Bust of a Young Child
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An untitled signed bronze sculpture by the Mexican artist, Victor Salmones (1937 - 1989) from an edition of 10. Numbered 1 of 10. Signature "Victor Salmones. 1/10" in cast. In excellent original condition.
Victor Salmones (1937-1989) was the most widely known sculptor living and working in Mexico during his lifetime. His sculptures won him universal acclaim and are held in the collections of museums, corporations, cities, universities and private collectors in some 30 countries. During his career, he was highly sought after and increasingly involved in the execution of commissions for major public works around the world.
Salmones developed his love and talent for creating sculpture by working with clay in high school. He attended the Instituto de Bellas Artes (Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts), where he was an apprentice to the Bauhaus master, Otto Hoffman. He was trained to use the exacting, age-old lost wax method of casting and worked principally in bronze. Hoffman's encouragement led to the opening of Victor's own sculpture workshop in Cuernavaca in 1966.
In 1967, Salmones’ fluid bronze “Adam” won first prize at the Biennale Exposition of the National Museum of Modern Art. His work continued to win the highest critical acclaim at subsequent Biennale expositions, and in 1971, over hundreds of entries, his life-size bronze Narcissus...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Younger brother
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Bronze
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Golden Bench
By Welton Rotz
Located in Napa, CA
California Golden Granite
Welton Rotz sculpts in stone to create beauty and form. With his eye for both nature and design, he interacts with the color and texture of natural stones including granite, marble, limestone and sandstone to create water sculptures...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Large Gilt Bronze Sculpture of Leopard
Located in Rome, IT
Fantastic gilt brass leopard sculpture . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
The man waiting
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
Can de Luxe
Located in Atlanta, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Paseo, from Service Scènes de Corrida, A.R. 416
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1959, Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973) Paseo A.R. 416 is numbered from the edition of 50 on the reverse and stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and ‘EMPREINTE ORIGINALE DE PICASSO' pottery stamps on the reverse.
Pablo Picasso was an avid fan of bullfighting his entire life, attending his first corridas when he was a child in Spain and gaining a renewed interest in the events when he settled in the South of France after World War II. Undoubtedly the theatrical drama and flashy machismo of the matadors appealed greatly to Picasso's sensibilities and resonated with his Spanish roots. In 1959, Picasso produced an 8-piece plate series, each featuring a different bullfighting scene suggested through lively stipple lines. Paseo A.R. 416 depicts a line of bullfighters highlighted by a streak of yellow. The strokes of blue above and below the figures contrast with the warm of the yellow, creating visual tension that anticipates the drama of the fight.
Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Pablo Picasso Paseo...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Clay, Glaze
David Hostetler Jazz Singer Carved Pale CarvedWood Sculpture Female Contemporary
Located in Nantucket, MA
Jazz Singer V is carved white oak from David Hostetler's Ohio property. It was inspired by his wife Susan, who would sing in Club Davd- his jazz club a...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Oak
Personnage en Mouvement
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy
Personnage en mouvement
1976
Bronze
25 x 12 x 12 in, 63 x 30 x 30 cm
Dated and signed "Ipoustéguy"
Edition 5/8
Private Collection of Didier Marien
...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bird in Flight
Located in Washington, DC
German Romanian artist, Otto Scherer, pays homage to one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Brancusi, in his ceramic "Bird in Flight".
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Platinum
Busto
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Besharat Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Intaglio, Found Objects
La gatta assise
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Eté
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Double Torso
By René Coutelle
Located in New York, NY
René Coutelle
Double Torso
2000
Balkan Onyx
18 x 11 x 7 in, 47 x 28 x 17 cm
Unique Piece
Private Collection of Didier Marien
René Coutelle re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Large Gilt Bronze Sculpture of Leopard
Located in Rome, IT
Fantastic gilt grass leopard sculpture . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Trionfo della Memoria, 2007
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Bronze
Cactus
Located in Washington, DC
This image of infinity is beautifully deceptive because although it appears to be in steel, it is a ceramic piece embellished in platinum.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Platinum
Obsession de Gustave
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jean-Louis Corby was born in 1951 and was predominantly influenced creatively by the 1970s. The 1970s were a period of consolidation and growth in the arts, most often characterised ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Blower, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
In the work of the sculptor and painter Samuel Salcedo, it is possible to raise a deep and at the same time fun reflection on the human condition. He st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Playboy Magazine Cover - College Cheerleaders at Football Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing revolutionary female illustrator/art director Bea Paul creates a three-dimensional mixed media assemblage of cut-out photos, fabric, and cut paper. It depicts two jumpi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Located in Atlanta, GA
With each feather, Alan Derrick has moved his art form into new expressions. He continues to experiment with each stage of the process, producing surprisi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lo sguardo di Alessandro Magno
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he displayed a strong predisposition for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Piccola Kore
By Wladimiro POLITANO
Located in Atlanta, GA
Wladimiro Politano (February 19, 1940 Lago (Cosenza), Italy) is an Italian sculptor, painter and drawer.
Politano's work has been exhibited in the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Study for a Head
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stephen Angell I found my voice in marble. Carving stone is a de-constructive approach to conception, which is a physical and mental concentration whose...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Torso
By Shazia Imran
Located in Palm Beach, FL
"I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'Cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again
Oh yes, I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong
I am invincible
I am woman
You can bend but never break me
'Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
'Cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul"
Helen Reddy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Grande Contorsionniste V
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Study in Green, 2021, Black Parian, Found Ceramic
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
MATT SMITH (BRITISH)
Study in Green, 2021
Black Parian, Found Ceramic
32 x 21 x 11 cm
12 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
(MS200)
UK-born Matt Smith is well known for his site-specific work ...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Ceramic
Reliquia: Omaggio a Simone Martini
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Visage d’homme (Man’s Head), 1968-1969 A.R. 570
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Visage d’homme (Man’s Head), 1968-1969 A.R. 570 showcases the artist’s unrivaled ability to illustrate human nuance. Each aspect of the man’s face, from his furrowed brow to his side gaze is carefully illustrated. The crowding of horizontal lines on his brow and vertical lines on his nose bring a sense of tension to his face, which compounds the furrowed brow.There are only two colors on the plaque, black and red, but the semi circle of hair atop the mans head...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Clay
Mannequin
By Jean Tannous
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian.
Artistic journey
Early days (1970-1975)
Paris (1976-2001)
Quebec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Niños en cuerda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Frammento di Venere
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he displayed a strong predisposition for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Ipazia
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he displayed a strong predisposition for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Il senatore di Caligola
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jacopo Scassellati was born in Sassari (Sardinia) in 1989 where he still resides today. His family is originally from Umbria. Very early on, he displayed a strong predisposition for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Nude Statue, 20th Century Carved Oak
Located in London, GB
Carved Oak, 20th Century European School Nude Statue
Height: 21 3/4 inches
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Oak
Combined Effort
By Brad Rude
Located in Bozeman, MT
Artist Brad Rude was born in Montana and has lived in Walla Walla, Washington most of his life. His journeys through his grandfather's folk art studio left...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Janus, 2014
Located in Atlanta, GA
Joaillier de haute-fantaisie, artiste, poête, chef cuisiner, photographe
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
untitle
Located in Atlanta, GA
Patrizio Moscardelli born in Ripatransone (A.P.) in 1959 actively participates in the national life of art, obtaining recognition and acclaim in various competitions from the most qu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Foam, Polyurethane
Untitled
Located in Atlanta, GA
Béatrice Bissara was born in 1972; the visit of museums and the atmosphere of the auction houses marked her childhood. After her studies in history of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Aspiration
By Tolla Inbar
Located in Atlanta, GA
Tolla Inbar is an international sculpture artist. Born in Germany in 1958, Tolla attended the Merz school in Stuttgart until 1971. There she specializing in the art of ceramics and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bilancia
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Buste Africaine
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Love Disenchantment, 2018
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Papier Mâché
Arrastro, from Service Scènes de Corrida, A.R. 423
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1959, Pablo Picasso Arrastro, from Service Scènes de Corrida A.R. 423 is numbered from the edition of 50 on the reverse and stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and ‘EMPRE...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Ceramic, Glaze
Single-Seater II, 2005
Located in Atlanta, GA
Uses versatility of techniques and materials to create sculptures adorned with irony and contemporary beauty in accordance with urban art. Throughout his life, he has been accompanie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
All my Time, 2009
By Debra Fritts
Located in Atlanta, GA
As a child, I had dirt under my fingernails. I continue to allow the earth to feed me information for my art and for daily living. My expression is basic yet intrigues me to continue...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Study in Burgundy, 2021 Black Parian, Found Ceramic, Black Freshwater Pearls
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
MATT SMITH (BRITISH)
Study in Burgundy, 2021
Black Parian, Found Ceramic, Black Freshwater Pearls
32 x 16 x 14 cm
12 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
(MS...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Ceramic
Ode à la rivière bleue
Located in Atlanta, GA
Trained with Master ceramic sculptors: statuary technique with Maitre Guémard from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Catherine Benoit sculptor from Saint-Tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
After Mickey
Located in Atlanta, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
The Ray
By Mauro Corda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Trapola per Angeli, 2010
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Cuando il cielo ti accarezza, 2010
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the most eminent and affirmed artist represented by the Frilli Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Bronze
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