Realist Figurative Sculptures
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Squirrel I, Bronze Sculpture by T. Galbreath
By T. Galbreath
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: T. Galbreath
Title: Squirrel I
Year: 1997
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed
Edition: 71/100
Size: 7 in. x 3 in. x 3 in. (17.78 cm x 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm)
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Mouse and Antler (12/15)" (2016) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Mouse and Antler" (2016) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a mouse standing on a deer antler.
TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of unusual anima...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Honesty Candle Holders" (2015) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Honesty Candle Holders" (2015) are original handmade candle holders made from bronze.
TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of unusual animals and botanical subjects. H...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Eucalyptus Candle Holder" (2024) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Eucalyptus Candle Holders" (2024) is an original handmade bronze candle holders that are made to look like eucalyptus plants.
TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of u...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Kuznetsov porcelain - Butter dish duck, porcelain h 13 cm; L 19 cm; W 10 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Kuznetsov porcelain - Butter dish duck, porcelain h 13 cm; L 19 cm; W 10 cm
Kuznetsov Porcelain Factory in Riga was founded in 1841 as a factory ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Hot Wings (8/21)" (2023) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Wall Installation
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Hot Wings Wall Mount (8/21)" (2022) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a bushel of dried peppers with a bat flying downwards.
Tony Hochstetler...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Royal Copenhagen Figure Girl in Bornholm costume / - Only the braid -
Located in Berlin, DE
Lotte Benter, Girl in Bornholm costume, design around 1925, execution 1967, model number 1323, First choice. Porcelain with underglaze painting. 21 cm (height) x 12 cm (length) x 10 ...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Masked
By Bela Bacsi
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
Masked suggests a sense of mystery and eccentricity, and begs the question: Who is the man behind the mask? ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Mayan Warrior
By Peter Brooke
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
Peter Brooke's Mayan Warrior depicts a solemn and dignified military subject. Historically, few Mayan warrior...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pointer / - The elegance of the hunting dog -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anton Büschelberger (1869 Eger - 1934 Dresden), Pointer, around 1930, made by the Karl Ens porcelain manufactory in Volkstedt (Thuringia), model number 2478, 6. Porcelain with underg...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Edward Carter Preston - Athena - 20th Century British Plaster Sculpture Figure
Located in London, GB
EDWARD CARTER PRESTON
(1885-1965)
Athena
Signed: E CARTER PRESTON
Bronzed plaster
59 cm., 23 ¼ in. high
Edward Carter Preston is best known as the designe...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Royal Copenhagen Figure Peasant girl with goose / - The Mother Goose -
Located in Berlin, DE
Christian Thomsen (1860 Kolding - 1921 Copenhagen), Peasant girl with goose, design c. 1910, execution 1966. model number 527. First choice. Porcelain ...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bing & Grondahl Figurine Youthful audacity / - Dancing Kiss -
Located in Berlin, DE
Bing & Grondahl / Weiss, Claire, Youthful audacity
Bing & Grondahl figurine by Claire Weiss (1906-1997), Youthful audacity, made between 1970 and 1982, model number 2162, first choic...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bing & Grondahl Figure Playing Girl / - Seriousness of the game -
Located in Berlin, DE
Adda Bonfils (1883-1914), Playing Girl, designed c. 1920, made between 1966 and 1969, model number 1995, first choice. Porcelain with underglaze painting. 13.5 cm (height) x 9 cm (le...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bing & Grondahl Figure Standing boy with trumpet / - The Fanfare -
Located in Berlin, DE
Michaela Ahlmann, Standing boy with trumpet, made between 1970 and 1982, model number 1792, first choice. Porcelain with underglaze painting. 18.5 cm (height) x 8 cm (length) x 7 cm ...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Figure Milkmaid / - The dignity of the farmer's wife -
Located in Berlin, DE
Christian Thomsen (1860 Kolding - 1921 Copenhagen), Milkmaid with stool and milk jug, designed around 1910, executed between 1975 and 1979. Model number 899. First choice. Porcelain ...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Another Drink
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition 11/25. Original bronze sculpture by artist Greg Kelsey. Inscribed by artist at base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Wild Running Horse Three-Dimensional Painting Sculpture on Wood 40HX30" W
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Wild Running Horse Three-Dimensional Painting on Wood 40H X 30" W
2019 in Los Angeles
Collaborative Artwork - Irena Orlov-Zeev Orlov
SPECIFICATIONS:
Combines Painting and Sculptur...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
"Awake" by Bronze sculptor "Renzo", Larry Renzo Lewis, 58x26x16 in, 2009, Figure
Located in Dallas, TX
This masterpiece, "Awake" by Renzo was created in 2009, and intricately weaves together the essence of Symbols, Stones, Bindings, Nudity, and Masks to offer a profound reflection on ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vikki
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Note: Bronze available
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Commute (man)
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9
American, b. 1958
National Sculpture Society Fellow
Jim Rennert was born in 1958, and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah. After ten trying years o...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
British Relief Bronze Portrait of Sir Henry Irving by Albert Toft
Located in London, GB
ALBERT TOFT
(1862-1949)
Relief Portrait of Sir Henry Irving
Indistinctly signed l.r.: Albert Toft
Bronze, dark brown patina, on wooden base
Diameter 24....
Category
Early 1900s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Quiet Descent"
Located in Denver, CO
"Quiet Descent" is a digital print on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader.
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Panel, Digital
EDWARD BOHLIN 1920s-1930s SILVER ART PARADE SADDLE HOLLYWOOD WESTERN ARTIST VAIL
Located in San Antonio, TX
Circa Late 1920s - Early 1930s. It is all Bohlin made and marked to include the saddle, the headstall and the breast collar. All made in Hollywood California. The only non-Bohlin ite...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Nehemiah 1
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Description
Slatoff’s sculpture is a biblical reference to the central figure in the book of Nehemiah, which describes a ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Gentlemen of the Jury", Scott Rogers Bronze Sculpture, 24x20x17, ed. 16/30
Located in Dallas, TX
"Gentlemen of the Jury" by Scott Rogers is not merely a sculpture; it is a delightful narrative frozen in bronze, inviting viewers into an 18th-century courtroom where humor and huma...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A la fontaine
By Émile Nestor Joseph Carlier 1
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Nice 19th-century cast with rich, brown patina by French sculptor Emile-Joseph-Nestor Carlier. Carlier frequently created large, multi-figural group sculptures. These are dramatic an...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mother and Child - 20th Century British terracotta figure by Lady Muriel Wheeler
By Lady Muriel Wheeler
Located in London, GB
LADY MURIEL WHEELER, PSWA
(1888-1979)
Mother and Baby
Signed and indistinctly dated 19-4
Terracotta on wooden base
44 cm., 17 ¼ in. high including base
Muriel Bourne was born in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"Calming Chaos"
Located in Denver, CO
"Calming Chaos," is a digital print on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader.
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Panel, Digital
"Discover"
Located in Denver, CO
"Discover," is a digital print on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader.
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Panel, Digital
"Embracing Impermanence"
Located in Denver, CO
"Embracing Impermanence" is a digital print on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader.
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Panel, Digital
"Ready, Steady, Go"
Located in Denver, CO
"Ready, Steady, Go" is a digital print on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader.
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Panel, Digital
"Just Out of Reach"
Located in Denver, CO
"Just Out of Reach" is a digital print on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader.
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Panel, Digital
Girl holding a Mirror, Painted Bronze Sculpture by Richard Shiloh
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Shiloh, Polish/Israeli (1949 - )
Title: Girl holding a Mirror
Year: Circa 1975
Medium: Bronze with Painted patina, signature inscribed
...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Hippopotame
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom.
She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Doubt" figurative sculpture bronze limited at 8 pieces 16x16x16cm 2009
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
"Doubt" bronze figurative sculpture limited at 8 pieces 16x16x16cm left n° 3/8 certificate emmanuelle vroelant
in 2009 Emmanuelle Vroelant decided to start scu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Alfreda, The Artist's Daughter - British 1950s plaster bust by Richard Garbe
Located in London, GB
RICHARD LOUIS GARBE, RA
(1876-1957)
Alfreda, The Artist’s Daughter
Signed and dated 1956
Plaster with patinated surface on a wooden base
30 cm., 11 ¾ in. high
Provenance:
Gifted ...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Father and Son - Late 19th Century Stone Statue
Located in Carmel, CA
Carved stone sculpture with incredible detail. Father and Son was created by an unknown artist in the Late 19th Century.
This sculpture boasts incredible craftsmanship and attention to detail carved throughout the stone.
The statue comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal.
Shown in the American Art Gallery...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"SAM HOUSTON" HORN CARVING 1936 TEXAS CENTENNIAL AMAZING WORK
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dan Super "SAM HOUSTON"
(1873-1953)
Houston Artist
Image Size: 3 3/4 inches tall
Medium: Carved Horn of Sam Houston to celebrate the Texas Centennial.
Texas Centennial 1936
"Sam Houston Pin Cushion Holder"
Biography
Dan Super (1873-1953)
Dan E. Super, Jr. (1873 – 1953) Dan Super had the eye of a sculptor, envisioning and then creating hundreds of objects from the elongated form of a Texas Longhorn’s tusk. At the age of six, Dan Super carved his first drawing into a piece of the horn of a Texas Longhorn. Over the next 56 years, he made utilitarian pieces like pencil cups, pin cushions, and backscratchers, realistic replicas of animals and birds, and imaginative carvings of elegant nudes. While these carvings resemble the traditional art of scrimshaw, carvings from whale bone, we’ve not been able to identify another carver who used the Texas Longhorn as his material. “My work is done with an ordinary pocketknife, hacksaw file and rasp,” Super wrote in 1937. He used the horn in every way conceivable; whole, allowing the shape to define the object he was making, flattened to make mosaic or inlay work. He incised and pierced it and carved in the round. His own hands polished the horn to a sheen. Daniel Super, Jr. was born in Houston on August 22, 1873. His father owned stock years, D. Super and Brothers Co., providing the young Super with ready access to his raw material. Throughout his life, he worked in the businesses key to the identity and success of young, booming Houston, cattle, oil, real estate and rail. In 1896 he married Lula, and took over the family business, expanding it to include a grocery. He closed the company in 1912 and got into the oil business...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
Happy Hog
Located in Wimberley, TX
Cammie Lundeen’s Happy Hog is a charming bronze sculpture that exudes warmth, humor, and personality. The pig sits upright with a sense of quiet contentment, its rounded form full of...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Native American On Horseback Bronze Sculpture Daro Flood
By Daro Flood
Located in Norwood, NJ
Native American on horseback. Signed and numbered 24/30, artists cypher.
Daro Flood (1954 - 2017) was active/lived in Arizona. Daro Flood is known for Portrait bust Indian and cowboy sculpture...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rarin' to Ride
Located in Wimberley, TX
George Lundeen's Rarin' to Ride is a captivating bronze sculpture that embodies the youthful exuberance of a young cowboy, eagerly anticipating his next adventure. Standing at 16.5 i...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Saint Mark's Theater
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique terracotta sculpture of Saint Mark's Theater.
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Commute (woman)
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9
American, b. 1958
National Sculpture Society Fellow
Jim Rennert was born in 1958, and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah. After ten trying years o...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The march of the crabs, series of wrought-iron sculptures by Italian blacksmith
By Ivan Zanoni
Located in Milan, IT
Ivan Zanoni's expert craftsmanship shows us this composition of 5 handmade and unique sculptures that provide the effect of watching crabs emerge from the sea.
The measure written a...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Yawning Hippopotamus Bronze EA IV/IV
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom.
She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature and real life with a zest of fancy. Without humanizing the model, respecting the uniqueness of each one in its biodiversity. After studying three years of art history at the Ecole du Louvre, it was with her uncle and her aunt veterinarians, that her love for animals truly took shape in the clay; as with the first models animals on the examination table...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Quarter Horse
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A life-sized fiberglass sculpture of a horse. This specific breed of horse the sculpture is based on is called Quarter Horse. Many visitors to our galler...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass
Altar boy
Located in Roma, RM
Alfio Castelli (Senigallia 1917 – Rome 1992), Altar boy
Bronze sculpture of 58 x 40 x 20 cm signed lower left.
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Grand Tour Marble Bust of a Young Apollo
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Grand Tour Marble Bust of a Young Apollo (Late 19th Century)
Marble bust on a swivel marble base
Unsigned
24 ½" high x 21" wide x 9 1/2 " deep...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Hippopotamus "lace" Bronze 6/8 by Sophie Martin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom.
She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature and real life with a zest of fancy. Without humanizing the model, respecting the uniqueness of each one in its biodiversity. After studying three years of art history at the Ecole du Louvre, it was with her uncle and her aunt veterinarians, that her love for animals truly took shape in the clay; as with the first models animals on the examination table...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Girafe in Terracotta
Located in Pasadena, CA
Nicole DORAY SOULARD.
Animal ceramic sculptures, works centered on the forward. Nature and the study of bodies are sources of inspiration for her. She produces animals from all over...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Bronze Yawning Hippopotame
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom.
She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bing & Grondahl Figure Boy playing the flute / - The lightness of tones -
Located in Berlin, DE
Vita Birgitte Thymann, Boy playing the flute, between 1952 and 1957. model number 2344. First choice. Porcelain with underglaze painting. 13 cm (height) x 11 cm (length) x 12 cm (dep...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Ball Elephant Bronze by Sophie Martin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom. She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maki in terracotta
Located in Pasadena, CA
Nicole DORAY SOULARD.
Animal ceramic sculptures, works centered on the forward. Nature and the study of bodies are sources of inspiration for her. She produces animals from all over...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Wild Running Horse Three-Dimensional Painting on Wood 40H X 30" W
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Wild Running Horse Three-Dimensional Painting on Wood 40H X 30" W
2019 in Los Angeles
Collaborative Artwork - Irena Orlov-Zeev Orlov
SPECIFICATIONS:
Combines Painting and Sculptur...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Pug
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture by artists Bill and Renee Shisler. Edition 4/25.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sea Turtle Serenade
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition 5/30. Original bronze bell sculpture by artist James Moore. Inscribed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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