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
Frammento
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
Minimal Sculpture of Rabbit with message: 'I Was Here"
By Ivy Naté
Located in New York, NY
Ivy Naté uses universally recognizable objects in non-traditional ways. She creates both large-scale installations and smaller works. Yet, each express Ivy’s captivation with raw hum...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
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
Contorsionniste XXIII N2/8
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
Well dressed 2 - Arman, bronze, sculpture, decorative, green, female, figure
By Arman
Located in London, GB
Pierre Arman (1928-2005)
Well dressed 2
2005
bronze with green patina and coat hooks
162 x 52 x 37 cm
signed on base (beside right foot)
numbered 19/30
Price:
£35,000 GBP
Provenanc...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Profile Pitcher, Cubist Bronze Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown, possibly Russian
Title: Profile Pitcher
Medium: Bronze Sculpture with Patina
Size: 26.5 in. x 9 in. x 5 in. (67.31 cm x 22.86 cm x 12.7 cm) Base: 2.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 i...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
$39,000
Hen, Gilded Hen in Polished Bronze
Located in Brookville, NY
This Sculpture "Hen" by William Zorach in polished bronze is numbered 3/6 although according to the artist son, only 4 were ever cast. Executed in 1946, signed on the reverse and nu...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ballerina 2015. Porcelain, 12x19 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ballerina 2015. Porcelain, 12x19 cm
(3 of 3)
The Ballerina figurine is a charming piece of porcelain art created in 2015. It features a sitting ba...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Contortionniste au Masque Minnie
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
Petit Plasir
By Laure Krug
Located in Atlanta, GA
Laure Krug. Contemporary French artist
Holder of a license in plastic arts, she naturally turns to sculpture.
Materials: She begins by working the soil and masters the different co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Acrylic
$8,450
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
Big Ibex
Located in Washington, DC
This dramatic ceramic sculpture references the horns of an ibex in an homage to native culture.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Platinum
$17,000
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
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
$10,000
Wizzard, 1978
By Karel Appel
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Dating from 1979, this acrylic on wood relief is hand-signed 'Appel' by Karel Appel (Amsterdam, 1921 - Zürich, 2006) in red in the lower left. From an edition of 8, this work was pub...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
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
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
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
$7,800
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
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
$46,800
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
$70,200
Learning the Ways, 2010
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
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
Birthday
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Troyes, France and raised in New York, his interest in art dates from pre-grammar school. After moving to Miami, he studied art at the University of Miami, Florida State University, and in several European countries.
By 1970, he was working full-time as a metal sculptor. Even though he is familiar with current trends and techniques in art, he prefers to be an outsider artist, and has developed a style that is very much his own. Publications that have featured his work include: Holiday...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$11,700
Cavallo
Located in Atlanta, GA
Nicola Domenici was born in 1969 in Viareggio (Lucca). After the University and several experiences in the fields of jewellery and goldsmithery, he dec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$18,720
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
Loreley
Located in Atlanta, GA
In life, every time you do or make something you have the opportunity to make something creative and original. Take something, add to it and pass it on; that’s the creative process. The world around us is an infinite source of inspiration.
My art is influenced by a combination of the styles of the Symbolist, the Surrealist, and the contemporary Realist and is the result of a compulsive motivation to make things.
After several years serving in the U.S. Navy and several fits and starts with college, David graduated from Georgia State University in 1977 with a BFA concentration in sculpture. Since then he has continued to produce art in a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, furniture, ceramics and drawing. Craftsmanship is a motivational force in all his work.
Group shows David has participated in include:
GA ARTISTS juried exhibit, Abernathy Arts Center May 201 1
National Juried Show, SAAG Blue Ridge GA. 201 1 , 2015
National Juried Show, SAAG Blue Ridge GA. 2010 Honorable Mention award “Simply Drawn”, Juried show Roswell Arts Center, 2010
STARBRUST; Sandy Springs, GA Best of Show, 2009
Blue Moon Brewing Co. art project, 1st place, 2008
S. Cobb Arts Alliance National Art Exhibition 2008
National Juried Exhibit, Rome Art Coterie 2008
“Arts Guild” Louisville GA 2007, 2008
“Best in Show” Taylor Kinzel Gallery 2007
“Body of Art” Taylor Kinzel Gallery 2006
“ROAR” Roswell GA 2005
“The Bowl-Inside & Out” Spruill Center for the Arts, 2002
D’ Vas at the Roosevelt, 1990
“On Display- Faces”, at the Southern Bell Center, 1986
DeKalb Mardi Gras for the Arts, Juried Show, 1986, 1988 “Expressions in Wood” Rizzoli Gallery & Omni International, 1983 Lagrange National, Juried show, 1977, 1979
In 2001 David incorporated his art business under the name Chippewa Falls Studio and he continues to work on commissions for murals, trompe l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$5,720
Monument to mankind
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dario Tironi is the artist that evades the classic canons of Frilli Gallery's sculptures.
But we could not remain indifferent to his fantastic, incredi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
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
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
The Bride
By Janet Scudder
Located in PARIS, FR
The Bride
by Janet Scudder (1869-1940)
Bronze with dark brown patina
signed "Janet Scudder" on the base
cast by Alexis Rudier, fondeur Paris (foundry mark)
France
early 20th century
height 28 cm
Biography :
Janet Scudder (1869-1940) was an American sculptor. Born Netta Deweze Frazee, but called Janet, her childhood was difficult. Her mother died at age 38 in 1874. Despite limited financial means, her father sent her to study drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. She also studied sculpture with Louis Rebisso. She taught in 1888 women wood...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
$9,100
Frog singing on a log, Original Naturalistic Wood Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Frog singing on a log
2.0 x 5.0 x 10.0, 1.0 lbs
Wood
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"Whimsical frog singing in harmony on a log, as content as can be. This sculpture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Le saut de mouton
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
Iron, Bronze
$93,600
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
$15,600
Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Herons
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant pair of gilt bronze heron sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
What's New
By Laure Krug
Located in Atlanta, GA
Laure Krug. Contemporary French artist
Holder of a license in plastic arts, she naturally turns to sculpture.
Materials: She begins by working the soil and masters the different co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Polyester, Acrylic
$8,450
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
Hormiga con Hoja
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
Mort de fatigue
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
Resin, Wood
Evasion
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
$37,200
Ballons Red, White and Green
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
Resin
Weight Scale, 2008
Located in Atlanta, GA
Unknown Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
Un Monde Bouillonnant
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
Medusa
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
Resin
$5,200
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
Younger brother
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Bronze
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vestige
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
Iron
$132,600
Elegant
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
$13,000
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
Ceramic, Found Objects
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
$4,900
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
Ken (Spout with pearls)
By Matt Smith
Located in London, GB
MATT SMITH
Ken (Spout with pearls), 2021
Black Parian, Freshwater pearls
16 x 12 x 6 cm
6 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Found Objects
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
Ceramic, Found Objects
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
Torso, 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
Mannequin II
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
$14,300
Hormiga n°2 con cereza
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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