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KAWS COMPANION 2020: Complete Set of 3 Works (KAWS 2020 set)
By KAWS
Located in NEW YORK, NY
KAWS 2020 Companion: Complete Set of 3 Works:
KAWS COMPANION 2020 was created by KAWS to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his signature figure, Companion — and as cultural commen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
Magnificent Italian Fountain Sculpture of Goddess with Delphines
Located in Rome, IT
Monumental finely carved limestone fountain sculpture of Goddess with a putto figure and three magnificent dolphins .
Proveniente from an important Villa Veneta.
Including a round ...
Category
1930s Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
Cereal Monsters - Set Of 4 By KAWS
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
Cereal Monsters - Set Of 4
By KAWS
KAWS, the pseudonym of American artist Brian Donnelly, is widely recognized for his
distinctive blend of street art and pop culture iconography. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Female Figure Bust
Located in Astoria, NY
Italian School Female Figure Carved Alabaster Bust, late 19th century, the portrait with tied back hair and flowing dress tied at her breast, on a rockwork plinth, unsigned. 26" H x ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Hebru Brantley Gaia (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley GAIA (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia):
Hebru Brantley’s ethereal art toy features his much iconic, Lil Mama character as Gaia, the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Gaia (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley GAIA (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia):
Hebru Brantley’s ethereal art toy features his much iconic, Lil Mama character as Gaia, the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Vinyl
Hebru Brantley Flyboy Hebru Brantley Gaia set of 2 (Hebru Brantley art toys)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley GAIA (Hebru Brantley Lil Mama as Gaia) / Hebru Brantley FLYBOY: a set of 2 works:
Vinyl figures: 2 individual works. c.2017 (flyboy) & 2021 (gaia).
Gaia: 7.5 x 5.5 inches. Flyboy: 9 x 8 inches.
Each new, never displayed; accompanied by original packaging.
Published by Hebru Brantley from a limited series of unknown. Unsigned as issued.
Hebru Brantley Gaia:
Hebru Brantley’s ethereal art toy features his much iconic, Lil Mama character as Gaia, the fabled personification of Mother Earth. Wearing her traditional aviator goggles, Lil Mama glides on a cloud high above everyday life. Brantley has designed Gaia as an amulet that he says, will ‘…provide you and those you love with blessings and protection…’
Hebru Brantley Flyboy: Artist Statement:
"Flyboy came out of characters of colour within popular culture. I hate saying “popular culture,” but it’s really popular culture. I mean you look at cartoons. You’ve got animated sponges and ducks and birds and whatever, and it’s very rare to see a popular character within any medium that is African-American, Latino, even Asian.
What I wanted to do was create that, but in a space of high art and be able to have some historical context to that character. So I looked at the Tuskegee Airmen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Vinyl
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Erotic Sexual Mythological Marble Figural, Nude woman, Bacchante and Satyr Herm
Located in Miami, FL
Bacchic revelry. A sexy and nude curvaceous young Nymph/Bacchante makes amorous advances to a Herm - whose facial expression reflects her erotic touch. The Herm is stylized where his...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Nude Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$21,750 Sale Price
25% Off
Howard Finster Signed “UGA Football Player” Metal Wall Hanging, 1992
Located in Chattahoochee Hills, GA
A playful and spirited metal wall hanging by legendary folk artist Rev. Howard Finster (1916–2001), dated 1992 and numbered 25,000,998. This mixed-media piece features a cartoonish U...
Category
1990s Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Composition with Mickey Mouse
By Paul Rousso
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Mixed Media
Holiday, Thailand. Brown By KAWS
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
Holiday, Thailand. brown
By KAWS
KAWS, the pseudonym of American artist Brian Donnelly, is widely recognized for his
distinctive blend of street art and pop culture iconography. Re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
A French 19th Century Carved Marble Whimsical Figural Urn Fountain with Children
Located in LA, CA
A very fine large, rare and charming, French, 19th century. Belle Époque carved white marble whimsical figural urn fountain depicting children climbing on an urn with flowers and gar...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Basquiat Warhol Haring Bearbrick 400%: set of 6 works (Basquiat BE@RBRICK)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean Michel Basquiat Andy Warhol Keith Haring Bearbrick 400%: set of 6 individual works:
A set of 6 unique, timeless pop art collectibles trademarked & licensed by the estates of Jea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
FERDINANDO VICHI 1875-1945 Selene Female Figural Marble Statue .
By Ferdinando Vichi
Located in New York, NY
A charming allegory for Dawn
Date: 19th Century
Origin: Italian
Material: Carrara Marble
Signed F. Vichi , Firenze.
Dimensions: 41" H x 10" Diameter
A spellbinding female figural...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Couple. Porcelain vases 2 x h 9 cm
By Ilona Romule
Located in Riga, LV
Unique vases in the shape of human heads made from the finest porcelain by Ilona Romule, leading sculptor in Latvia
The artwork titled "Couple" consists of two porcelain vases. Each...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
$458 Sale Price
20% Off
Hebru Brantley Flyboy Set of 2 (Hebru Brantley art toys)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hebru Brantley Beyond the Beyond, 2018. Set of 2 Hebru Brantley Flyboy’s, each new in original packaging.
Medium: Painted cast vinyl.
Dimensions (applies to each individual figure): 9 x 8 x 4 inches (22.9 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm).
Each new in its original packaging.
From a sold out edition of unknown; published by Hebru Brantley, Billionaire Boys Club & BAIT.
Safely packed and shipped from New York, NY.
Artist Statement:
"Flyboy came out of characters of colour within popular culture. I hate saying “popular culture,” but it’s really popular culture. I mean you look at cartoons. You’ve got animated sponges and ducks and birds and whatever, and it’s very rare to see a popular character within any medium that is African-American, Latino, even Asian.
What I wanted to do was create that, but in a space of high art and be able to have some historical context to that character. So I looked at the Tuskegee Airmen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Resin, Vinyl
The Worry Series, Stoneware head: 'Resolve'
Located in New York, NY
The Worry
This series began in reaction to photos of politicians and world leaders during any number of the current world crises. As news cycles proliferate, these images swirl past ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
NYDIA, THE BLIND FLOWER GIRL OF POMPEII Marble Sculpture 1856-1870
Located in Soquel, CA
Randolph John Rogers (American, 1825 - 1892) Randolph Rogers' Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii debuted in 1856 to critical and public acclaim, solidifying Rogers’ position as a pre-eminent American sculptor and it remains one of the artist’s most celebrated works today. The subject of Nydia is drawn from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii 1834. After touring the ruins of the ancient city in 1833, and inspired by the stories of blinding volcanic ash, he composed the tale of Nydia, a slave who led her master, Glaucus, to safety. Rogers depicts Nydia at the moment that she and Glaucus have become separated in their perilous journey through the rubble and Nydia seeks familiarity in the surrounding chaos, her distress evident in her pained expression. The grace of the sculpture is at odds with the turmoil portrayed; a toppled Corinthian capital lies at her feet and obstructs her next step, indicated by the tilt of her back foot and grip on her walking stick. Examples of this model can be found in major American collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Literature, Millard F Rogers, Jr. Randolph Rogers, American Sculptor in Rome. University of Massachusetts Press, 1971, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1986. Joyce K Schiller. "Nydia, A Forgotten Icon of the Nineteenth Century." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts,
Born in Waterloo, New York, Randolph John Rogers became an expatriate* sculptor of idealized figures, portraits, and commemorative works in Neo-Classical* and Realist* styles. He worked in clay, plaster, marble and bronze, and lived both in Italy and the United States. He made 167 examples of Nydia in two sizes (varies depending on base height) 36" and 54'.
Rogers was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and as a young man did woodcuts* for the local newspaper, The Michigan Argus, and also worked as a baker's assistant and a dry goods clerk. In 1847, he moved to New York City, where he hoped to find work as an engraver*, but failing to do so, worked in a dry goods store owned by John Steward...
Category
1850s Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Holiday, Thailand. Grey By KAWS
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
Holiday, Thailand. Grey
By KAWS
KAWS, the pseudonym of American artist Brian Donnelly, is widely recognized for his
distinctive blend of street art and pop culture iconography. Ren...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Set of 6 Poetic Porcelain Plates. Wall Sculptures
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Her poetic porcelain plates examine and reimagine the history of art in a way that values women not only in body, but in wholeness, power, and love. Focusing on the narrative quali...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
A Roy Good Times
By Paul Rousso
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Mixed Media
The Disremembered II
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of her work...
Arrested Symphony is an exhibition incorporating sculptures, reliefs, drawings and hanging works that explore the theme of injustice that is at the roots of the predatory gem and mineral excavation industry. While at a residency in Knoxville, Tennessee, I discovered that Oakridge was only 30 miles away. Oakridge played a key role in the development of the Atom Bomb and the Manhattan Project. I began an exploration and comparison of Uranium and Emeralds. These minerals look very much alike, beautiful but dangerous on their effect on civil conflict. Colombia my birthplace, has the finest Emeralds in the world. The mining of Emeralds was an important element in the continued colonization of the region. Emeralds have helped to fund the more than 60-year conflict which has taken over 450,000 lives and displaced about 5.7 million people. Uranium has brought destruction to a level which altered the future of warfare. The developments made during the Manhattan Project led to the death of about 700,000 people and its effects are still felt around the world. I use Colombia as an example, however this situation is repeating itself in many parts of the world. Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo are all involved in brutal civil conflicts fueled by Blood Diamonds. This project will make visual the human cost extracted with these minerals, once exposed to the light of day they can never be unearthed.
My practice is an ongoing object-based exploration through which I create artworks which are organic and improvisational constructions that are infused with hope and renewal. The hand-crafted artworks are poetically and intricately crafted, creating an intimate repository for the individual and collective memory and implement the human body as a symbol and expression of nature, vulnerability and power. The work encourages viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives especially when dealing with the aftermath of Colonialism and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion.
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Smack Mellon Gallery, Neuberger Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Queens Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park and White-box Gallery in New York City. Nationally Cortes exhibitions include Cleveland Art Museum, OH, CSU Galleries at Cleveland University, OH, Helen Day Art Center, VT and The Lorenzo Homar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
$2,400
Italian Marble Sculpture Statue of a Nude Beauty by Aristide Petrilli
Located in New York, NY
ARISTIDE PETRILLI
Italian, (1868-1930)
Flora (Allegory of Spring)
Signed Prof Pedrilli; Galleria Bazzanti Firenze
49 inches high (Statue); 32 3/4 x 19 1/4 inches (Pedestal)
Notes: Finely carved Italian carrara marble of a nude beauty signed Prof Petrilli...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
NAOR - 30cm Teddy CH Tribute Vogue
Located in PARIS, FR
Naor is a French artist from Lyon born in 1988. Completely anchored in his time, he has always traveled a lot around the world. If travels form youth, Naor was inspired by it. From t...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
In Her Own Wake No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
Kensuke Yamada (b. 1979) was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. He received his MFA from the University of Montana in 2009 and has a BA from The Evergreen State College, in Olympia, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Squid Game Chul-su Tribute
By KAWS
Located in PARIS, FR
Technique: Material: Vinyl, with a fluorescent moon component
Size : 38cm length
Weight: 1.5kg
Certificated NFC chip of authenticity
Packaging box with special fluorescent paint
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Vinyl
Holiday, Thailand. -Complete Set Of 3 By KAWS
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
Holiday, Thailand. -Complete Set Of 3
By KAWS
KAWS, the pseudonym of American artist Brian Donnelly, is widely recognized for his
distinctive blend of street art and pop culture ic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Early 19th century Romantic marble sculpture - Kiss figures
Located in Varmo, IT
White marble sculpture - The Kiss. 19th century.
15 x 20 x h 20 cm including base, 12 x 17 x h 18 cm excluding base.
Entirely in white marble, some small breaks and repairs.
- ...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$2,378 Sale Price
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Kidrobot X Andy Warhol Foundation 4 ft Marilyn Kiss Dunny Sculpture
Located in Austin, TX
Unique One-OF Dunny sculpture by Kid Robot and The Andy Warhol Foundation. This Dunny was created for the LOVE MUSEUM Pop-Up in L.A. as the ultimate social media photo opportunity. T...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Italian Carrara Marble Sculpture by L. TOLDUCCI
By L. Tolducci
Located in New York, NY
L. TOLDUCCI (ITALIAN SCHOOL)
19th Century
La Lezione Di Lettura
Finely Carved Italian Carrara Marble Sculpture of a Girl Reading. S...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Fine gilt bronze Figural Mantel clock
By P.G. Philippe Grobe
Located in New York, NY
An ornate rocaille scrolled base with garland swags, centered the enamel white clock face with Roman and Arabic Numerals, the face with, G. Philippe, Palais Royal 66, flanked by two ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bee Cause #50- Kevin Box and Beth Johnson
By Kevin Box
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Six Sculptures From The In Light of Her Series Porcelain with handpainted detail
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The three series that make up her thesis show all center around the woman as an art historical trope who becomes a contemporary archetype of tenderness and tenacity with her own narrative. The tradition of the woman as muse or object is questioned and turned upside down as she gives her women the position of subject, i.e., the position of power. The jars, which uphold pairs of women, are the ultimate overturn of male dominance as she removes and replaces all male characters from famous artworks with women...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold
Chimera Cowboy
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua Goode travels the world performi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
Couple, Romantic, Terracotta by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Untitled - 20.5 x 32 Inches ( framed size)
Terracotta
Subrata Biswas’s three sculptures ‘Think Green’, ‘Amigo’ and ‘City Bred’ a conscious selection of elements of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Nude of Woman - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Marble sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childhood years ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
THE SPRING
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful La Belle Epoque marble in nive vintage condition.
Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) was a French sculptor in the academic style. He was born in Dijon, first exhibited in the 1848 Salon, and finally received a medal of honor...
Category
1890s Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$5,700 Sale Price
40% Off
ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL MARBLE BAS-RELIEF PLAQUE
Located in Milan, IT
ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL MARBLE BAS-RELIEF PLAQUE Italy, 19th Century
marble
22 x 29.5 cm
8 3/4 x 11 1/2 in
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
The Wind II by Chésade - Allegorical figure, one-off bronze sculpture, blue tone
By Chésade
Located in Paris, FR
The Wind II is a unique bronze sculpture by contemporary French artist Chésade, dimensions include the rod and the base are 22 × 15 × 17 cm (8.7 × 5.9 × 6.7 in).
The sculpture is si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of Lady Lucy Henderson
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
John Edward Jones (Irish – 1806-1862)
“Portrait of Lady Lucy Henderson”
Signed and dated London 1858, and inscribed, “Lucy Henderson, Nee Durham”
28 ½” high x 20 ½” wide x 11” deep
Provenance: Collection Saratoga Springs, NY
About
John Edward Jones was born in Dublin on May 2nd, 1806. He was the son of a miniature painter Edward Jones. He was trained as an engineer under Alexander Nimmo and worked with him on many important works in Ireland, including the building of the bridge at Waterford between 1829 in 1832, of which he was in charge. A taste and an aptitude for sculpture induced him to relinquish his prospects as an engineer and he commenced practice in London as a sculptor. He achieved considerable success, especially in portrait busts, and was employed by many notable persons of the time. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844 and continue to do so until his death. He executed a considerable number of bust of Irish personages. He paid occasional visits to Dublin where he contributed to the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1847, 1852,1853 and 1854. A full-length statue by him of Sir Robert...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
La Vierge Noire (The Black Virgin), c. 1975
By Karel Appel
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created around 1975, La Vierge Noire (The Black Virgin) is an acrylic on wood sculpture that is hand-signed ‘Appel’ by Karel Appel (Amsterdam, 1921-Zürich, 2006) in blue on the front...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Italian Marble Sculpture Statue of Lovers by F. Vichi
Located in New York, NY
FERDINANDO VICHI
Italian, (1875-1945)
Lovers
22 1/2 inches high
Notes:
The finely carved Italian white marble sculpture of lovers surmounted ...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Relief, Face, Bronze Sculpture, Green by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Relief - 10.5 Inches Diameter
Bronze Sculpture
Subrata Biswas’s three sculptures ‘Think Green’, ‘Amigo’ and ‘City Bred’ a conscious selection of elements of folk f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
In Her Own Wake No. 1
Located in Columbia, MO
Kensuke Yamada (b. 1979) was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. He received his MFA from the University of Montana in 2009 and has a BA from The Evergreen State College, in Olympia, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Roman 18th century terracotta model for the sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis
Located in London, GB
This remarkably fluid terracotta bozetto was made in preparation for Pietro Pacilli’s most important public commission, a large-scale marble statue of San Camillo de Lellis for the nave of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Expressively modelled, this terracotta sculpture is a rare and significant work made by a major Roman sculptor at a transformative moment of European sculpture. Pacilli began his working life on the great Baroque decorative projects initiated in the seventeenth century, but he found success as a restorer of ancient sculpture working to finish antiquities for a tourist market, becoming an important figure in the emergence of an archaeologically minded Neoclassicism. Pacilli trained Vincenzo Pacetti and provided important decorative work for the Museo Pio-Clementino, at the same time he is recorded restoring some of the most celebrated antiquities excavated and exported during the period.
Pacilli was born into a family of Roman craftsmen, his father Carlo was a wood carver, and Pacilli is recorded working with him on the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni Laternao as early as 1735. In 1738 his terracotta model of Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife won the first prize in the second class of the sculpture concorso at the Accademia di San Luca, this is particularly notable as Bartolomeo Cavaceppi came third. He worked as a carver and stuccoist completing works for the churches of San Marco and SS. Trinita dei Domeniciani Spagnoli. Pacilli operated as a sculptor and restorer of antiquities from his studio at the top of the Spanish Steps, close to Santa Trinita dei Monti, where he is listed as a potential vendor to the Museo Pio-Clementino in 1770.
In 1763 Pacilli completed a silver figure of San Venanzio for the treasury of San Venanzio. He is recorded as Pacetti’s first master and it was evidently through Pacilli that he began to acquire his facility as a restorer of ancient sculpture. Pacilli, at his studio ‘poco prima dell’Arco della Regina alla Trinita dei Monti,’ exercised, what the nineteenth-century scholar, Adolf Michaelis called ‘rejuvenating arts’ on several important pieces of classical sculpture, including in 1760 the group of a Satyr with a Flute for the natural brother of George III, General Wallmoden, Hanovarian minister at Vienna. In 1765, Dallaway and Michaelis record that Pacilli was responsible for the restorations, including the addition of a new head, to the Barberini Venus which he had acquired from Gavin Hamilton. The Venus was then sold to Thomas Jenkins, who in turn passed it on to William Weddell at Newby Hall. In 1767 Pacilli exported a series of ancient busts ‘al naturale’ including portraits of Antinous, Julius Ceaser and Marus Aurelius, also a statue of a Muse and a Venus. As early as 1756 Pacilli seems to have been operating as an antiquarian, helping to disperse the collection of the Villa Borrioni. Pacilli supplied sculpture to notable British collectors, including Charles Townley, who on his first trip to Italy purchased the Palazzo Giustiniani statue of Hecate from Pacilli. Pacilli was involved with the Museo Pio Clementino from its conception, supplying busts of Julius Ceaser and a Roman Woman as well as completing stucco putti surmounting the arms of Pope Bendedict XIV to signal the entrance to the new Museo Critiano.
In 1750 Il Diario Ordinario del Chracas announced that Pacilli had begun work on a sculpture of San Camillo de Lellis for St Peter’s. Camillo de Lellis founded his congregation, the Camillians, with their distinctive red felt crosses stitched on black habits in 1591. Having served as a soldier in the Venetian army, Camillo de Lellis became a novitiate of the Capuchin friars, he moved to Rome and established a religious community for the purpose of caring for the sick. In 1586 Pope Sixtus V formerly recognised the Camillians and assigned them to the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Rome. Camillo de Lellis died in 1614 and was entombed at Santa Maria Maddalena, he was canonised by Benedict XIV on June 26, 1746. It was an occasion that prompted the Camillians to make a number of significant artistic commissions, including two canvases by Pierre Subleyras showing episodes from San Camillo’s life which they presented to Benedict XIV. In 1750 Pacilli was commissioned to fill one of the large niches on the north wall of the nave with a sculpture of San Camillo.
The present terracotta bozetto presumably had two important functions, to enable Pacilli to work out his ideas for the finished sculpture and at the same time to show his design to the various commissioning bodies. In this case it would have been Cardinal Alessandro Albani and Monsignor Giovan Francesco Olivieri, the ‘economo’ or treasurer of the fabric of St Peter’s. Previously unrecorded, this terracotta relates to a smaller, less finished model which has recently been identified as being Pacilli’s first idea for his statue of San Camillo. Preserved in Palazzo Venezia, in Rome, the terracotta shows San Camillo with his left hand clutching his vestments to his breast; the pose and action more deliberate and contained than the finished sculpture. In producing the present terracotta Pacilli has expanded and energised the figure. San Camillo is shown with his left hand extended, his head turned to the right, apparently in an attempt to look east down the nave of St Peter’s. The model shows Pacilli experimenting with San Camillo’s costume; prominently on his breast is the red cross of his order, whilst a sense of animation is injected into the figure through the billowing cloak which is pulled across the saint’s projecting right leg. The power of the restrained, axial contrapposto of bent right leg and outstretched left arm, is diminished in the final sculpture where a baroque fussiness is introduced to the drapery. What Pacilli’s terracotta demonstrates, is that he conceived the figure of San Camillo very much in line with the immediate tradition of depicting single figures in St Peter’s; the rhetorical gesture of dynamic saint, arm outstretched, book in hand, head pointed upwards was perhaps borrowed from Camillo Rusconi’s 1733 sculpture of St. Ignatius...
Category
18th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Neo Jomon: Blue Headache By En Iwamura
By En Iwamura
Located in London, GB
Neo Jomon: Blue Headache
By En Iwamura
En Iwamura (born 1988, Kyoto, Japan) is a contemporary artist renowned for his innovative ceramic sculptures that blend traditional Japanes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Figure in Yellow - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
26 Cubes
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born March 15, 1943 in Szekelyudvarhely, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania), Marton Varo studied sculpture at Ion Andreescu Institute of Arts in Cluj, Romania from 1960 to 1966. In...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
$25,000
Italian Marble Statue of a Young Maiden by Cesare Lapini
Located in New York, NY
CESARE LAPINI
Italian, (1848-1893)
Segreto Al Cuore
Signed Prop ta Fratelli; Lapini; Firenze
29 1/4 x 8 x 11 inches
Notes:
A fine quality white marble sculpture of a you...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Standing female figure: 'Acrobate plongeuse'
Located in New York, NY
‘I have created characters since I was a child.
I studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, but now I have a preference for sculpture.
I do not have an intellectual proc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
"Couple II", Figurative Free-Standing Sculpture, White Resin, Imagined Animal
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This white free-standing figurative sculpture titled "Couple II" is an original artwork by Clémentine Bal made of polystyrene, resin, mas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Polystyrene, Paint
Ceramic Sculpture of a Woman Inner Balance
Located in Zofingen, AG
When I sculpted this sculpture of a woman, I wanted to convey the state of her openness. She enjoys the space around her and accepts any of its manifestations: sun, wind, rain, smells .. This woman is in a state of inner balance, she is happy. There is a small Swarovski crystal in the center of the chest.
I left the pink clay texture on purpose. Clay is also alive and breathes through its pores.
Sve...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Portrait of boy, terracotta sculpture, 1930s-40s, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981).
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of boy, terracotta sculpture, 1930s-40s, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981). Tuscan Sculptor.
Terracotta modeled by hand by the artist. Unique piece.
Dimensions: Height 31 cm.
The...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
"Tigre atacando" 1/20, mini sculpture, special edition, art toy, tiger, Mexican
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
A piece from the exhibition "Cosmic Duality" by artist Mr. Mitote.
Mitote is a term we use today to describe a lively, noisy, and excessive gathering. It’s also used to depict tumultuous gatherings marked by disorder, commotion, and sometimes even quarrels. In the colonial past, mitote was a celebration commemorating the establishment of the New Spain kingdom, blending local pride with imperial solemnity. However, throughout both ancient times and the present day, mitotes serve as rituals embedded in the culture and religiosity of various indigenous groups in Mexico, such as the Nahua, Cora, Tepehuan, and Huichol. Adorned in rich attire, gathered around a fire amidst the sounds of musical instruments, and under the intoxicating influence of alcoholic beverages, mitotes serve as occasions to invoke sacred beings—whether protective deities of nature or Christian saints associated with agriculture—to pray for bountiful harvests. Mitotes encompass and have always embodied rites, myths, and life.
In homage to the artist’s name, this exhibition is presented as a mitote: a celebration displaying the intimate mythologies of its creator through various artistic expressions such as sculpture, artwork, and video. Cosmic Duality is a concept wherein Mr. Mitote delves into memories of his childhood from a contemporary perspective. His mother introduced him at a young age to the traditions and customs of her native Maltrata, Veracruz, a town steeped in the memory of a noble past wherein it fought for its autonomy. Every year on January 1st, to invoke prosperity, the dance of the huehues (meaning “old people” or “elders” in Nahuatl) is performed. According to oral and local traditions, these characters embody foes in a mocked and vanquished manner, dancing beneath the lash of a tiger or devil. Their costumes feature pre-Columbian symbols merged with elements evoking nature, alongside nods to contemporary entertainment culture.
Through the observation and interpretation of nature, numerous ancestral cultures created dual cosmologies. Far from viewing opposites, they conceived of dual complementary systems such as chaos-order, cold-heat, humidity-drought, feminine-masculine, and life-death, among others, to uphold cosmic order. Placed within the context of Mexico City, Mr. Mitote reimagines these enduring principles from ancient religious practices alongside contemporary languages. He does so through vibrant entities that blend tradition and innovation, memory and fantasy, past and present, ancestral ceremonies, and urban rituals. Each artwork serves as a reminder that across all latitudes and human territories, culture thrives, tradition evolves continuously, the past is revitalized, and the present shapes the path forward into the future.
The body has served as the quintessential conduit bridging two dual dimensions: the human and the divine, the earthly and the celestial, the microcosm and the macrocosm. In several of his artworks, Mr. Mitote invokes propitiatory dances, and ritual practices, aimed at attracting abundant rain and fostering good harvests, many of which entail risking the physical well-being and even the lives of participants. The tiger hunt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Sculpture: Friar's Club Award for Tony Bennett, Hand signed by Romero Britto
Located in New York, NY
Romero Britto
Friar's Club Award for Tony Bennett, 2016
Mixed Media Enamel and Iron Sculpture on marble base
This sculpture is signed by the artist with permanent marker on the base ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Enamel, Iron