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Luca Madrassi "The Fencer" Patinated Bronze
Located in Astoria, NY
Luca Madrassi (Italian, 1849-1919) "The Fencer" Patinated Bronze Sculpture, late 19th century, the standing figure dressed as a fencer holding his sabre, a mask and glove at his feet...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Reclining Boy
Located in Boston, MA
Initialed and dated: "DVT 61". From the estate of the artist. In fine condition.
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Atlas Shrugged - Greek Mythology Inspired Bronze Sculpture on Granite Base
Located in Chicago, IL
Dean Kugler Atlas Shrugged, 2024 bronze, ed. 9/12 22h x 14.50w x 16d in 55.88h x 36.83w x 40.64d cm ed. 9/12 DK0046 Dean Kugler is a seasoned interdisciplinary artist, painter, and ...
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2010s American Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Surreal Bronze Sculpture by Lorenzo Quinn
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Surrealist bronze sculpture by Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn depicting a male figure with hands reaching into his chest. Published to benefit the World ...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Male Classical Torso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Wood, Walnut

A Monumental French Patinated Bronze Bust of William Shakespeare, after Houdon
Located in New York, NY
A Monumental French Patinated Bronze Bust of William Shakespeare, after Houdon, by F. Barbedienne Foundry, circa 1870. Masterfully and realistically sculpted in solid bronze, this b...
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19th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Woman with Dog, Table-top Bronze Sculpture by Branko Bahunek
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Branko Bahunek, Croatian (1935 - ) Title: Woman with Dog Year: circa 1990 Medium: Bronze Sculpture, Signature 'BB' inscribed Size: 12 x 6 x 5 in. (30.48 x 15.24 x 12.7 cm...
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Louvre, Bronze after P. Julien Executed from a Marble Ordered by Marie-Antoinette
Located in Paris, FR
This splendid sculpture represents Young Girl with a Goat (Amalthea and Jupiter's Goat), after the original by Pierre Julien commissioned by Louis XVI in 1785 and completed in 1787 for the cot of Queen Marie-Antoinette in Rambouillet. The work of the sculptor Pierre Julien decorated the interior of a grotto in a pavilion decorated with bas-reliefs by the same sculptor (acquired by the State by dation in 2003). The work was the main element of a rock basin, which was destroyed during the renovation of the gardens of the small castle. The same sculpture was seized during the Revolution and exhibited in the Louvre from 1829. The terracotta sketch, which belonged to the collector Ernst May, must have adorned his château de la Couharde (Yvelines) before entering the Louvre's collections in 1920. The bronze set with a beautiful gilded patina presented here is a work after the original by Pierre Julien (1731-1804) and dates from the 19th century (around 1850). The superbly preserved sculpture, which has belonged to the same family since its acquisition, is presented on its original base in grey serpentine marble. The quality of this work is doubly certified: - on the one hand it is stamped with a round stamp at the top "A. This stamp is a sign of high quality. Achille Collas (1794 - 1859) was the French engineer, engraver and illustrator, inventor among other things of the patented mathematical reduction process of the 19th century to reproduce sculpted objects in reduction, which was very successful. He was awarded a prize at the 1855 exhibition: his "Procédé mécanique", the name under which he prints all his productions, is easily recognisable by the finesse of its execution and by the famous stamp which appears on the base (terrace) of this sculpture. - On the other hand, an important signature is found on the terrace of the sculpture "F. Barbedienne Fondeur", founder. In 1844, Achille Collas, in order to protect his invention, formed the Société Collas et Barbedienne (Paris) with the art founder Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892), which began to produce and sell famous but smaller sculptures in plaster, wood, bronze or ivory. The first object to be marketed was the Venus de Milo after the original in the Louvre Museum. Other sculptures such as the sculpture of George Washington, of which a bronze bust was made by the Barbedienne & Process Collas foundry, are currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. HEIGHT OF THE SCULPTURE without base 69CM + BASE = 84CM WIDTH OF THE SCULPTURE without base 28 CM + BASE = 30,5 CM LENGTH OF THE SCULPTURE without base 46 CM + BASE 51 CM The Collas and Barbedienne company was highlighted at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, the objects of the Barbedienne foundry received a medal and sales soared. At the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, the Barbedienne company again presented a large number of its compositions, including the large neo-Renaissance clock of 1878. This clock, which was part of the Leblanc-Barbedienne estate, was donated by his heirs to the city of Paris, and is kept in the city hall. Pierre Julien (20 June 1731 - 17 December 1804) was a French neo-classical sculptor who worked in the full range of rococo and neoclassical styles. He had an early apprenticeship in Le Puy-en-Velay, near his native village of Saint-Paulien, and then at the École de Dessin in Lyon, before entering the Paris workshop of Guillaume Coustou le Jeune. In 1765, he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a bas-relief panel depicting a subject from Antiquity and entered the Royal School for Protected Pupils, which offered a special curriculum under the direction of the painter Louis-Michel van Loo. He was a boarder at the Académie de France in Rome from 1768 to 1773, where he was influenced by the wave of neoclassicism affecting his fellow students. As boarders were required to do, he sent back to France a slightly reduced marble copy of the so-called Cleopatra, the Sleeping Ariadne from the Vatican, which survives in Versailles. Back in France and with his former master, he worked on the sculpture of the mausoleum of Louis, the Grand Dauphin, in the cathedral of Sens. After a failed attempt in 1776, with his Ganymede, he was accepted by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1778, with a Dying Gladiator. He was appointed one of the first members of the Institut de France in 1795, and knight of the Legion of Honour in 1804. He was commissioned by the Count of Angiviller, director of the King's Buildings, on behalf of Louis XVI, to paint the figures for a series of life-size portraits of the great men of France: he produced a Jean de La Fontaine and a Nicolas Poussin, whom he chose to depict in a nightgown, similar to the draperies of a Roman toga. While fulfilling commissions in Paris, for the church of Sainte-Geneviève (now the Panthéon, Paris), or for the Pavillon de Flore in the Louvre, he sculpted in 1785 a virtuoso marble set representing the nymph Amalthée and Jupiter's nurse goat for the Queen's Dairy at the Château de Rambouillet; for his model, he adapted the pose of the famous Venus of the Capitoline. The bas-reliefs of the Dairy, considered his masterpieces, were sold at auction in 1819, but were recovered by the State in 2005, thanks to a gift from the son of the great dealer-collector Daniel Wildenstein. 19th century French school, after Pierre Julien (1731-1804)Amalthea and Jupiter's Goat Bronze with a light brown patina and gilding, reduction made after the marble by Pierre-Julien 1785 executed for Marie-Antoinette at the Laiterie du parc du château de Rambouillet in the Louvre Museum. Among his major works: - Dying Gladiator, marble, 1779, Musée du Louvre. - Ganymede pouring nectar to Jupiter changed into an eagle, [4] marble group, 1776-1778, Paris, Musée du Louvre. - Jean de La Fontaine, marble, 1783-85. Musée du Louvre - Nicolas Poussin, marble, 1789 - 1804. Musée du Louvre - Sketch of a model in terracotta by Nicolas Poussin, ca. 1787 - 1788. Musée du Louvre - Amalthea and Jupiter's goat, marble group, 1787 for the Rambouillet Dairy. The Queen's Dairy at Rambouillet - The girl with the goat, terracotta statuette, 1786. Louvre Museum - Sainte Geneviève restoring her mother's sight, terracotta bas-relief, 1776. Musée du Louvre The works of the famous sculptor Pierre Julien have been referenced in several books and catalogues, including The exhibition catalogue. Gilles Grandjean and Guilhem Scherf. "Pierre Julien 1731-1804". Le Puy-en-Velay, France: Musée Crozatier, 2004. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press, 1981), cat. no. 24, pp 184-87). Michael Preston Worley, 2003. Pierre Julien: Sculptor to Queen Marie Antoinette. The first modern monograph. Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution, a catalogue from the libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online in PDF format), which contains information on Julien. 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19th Century Rococo Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Italian Stone Garden Sculpture of Roman Mythological subject Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in Vicenza limestone of Apollo and Minerva Excellent condition from an estate of Veneto. Measurements: Statues cm 150, base cm 85.
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20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures

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Limestone

Eroded Varsity Jacket Porcelain Sculpture Light Sconce (Wall Mountable or Stand)
Located in Draper, UT
Eroded Jacket, 2020 Porcelain sculpture 11 x 11-3/8 x 5-1/2 inches (27.9 x 29 x 14 cm) Ed of 150 Published by Case Studyo, Belgium Accompanied with a sign...
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2010s Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Crusader with shield and mace / - Ready to strike -
Located in Berlin, DE
Josef Moest (1873 Cologne - 1914 Rath), Crusader with shield and mace, around 1910. Bronze on a black marble pedestal (19 cm high). 57.5 cm (total height) x 21 cm (width) x 12 cm (de...
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1910s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Lucifer Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology Male Figure Wings Angel
Located in Utrecht, NL
Lucifer Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology Male Figure Wings Angel The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Untitled Portrait Head (perhaps Arnold Geissbuhler, the artist’s husband)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled Portrait Head (perhaps Arnold Geissbuhler, the artist’s husband), c. 1920s, bronze, signed verso, 11 x 9 x 7 inches (excluding base) Elizabeth Chase was a sculptor, printma...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

The Foundry Worker
Located in San Francisco, CA
This sculpture "The Foundry Worker" c.1925 is a bronze sculpture by German artist Albert Caasmann, 1886-1968. The signature is impressed in the bronze. The subject size is 11.15 x 8.15 x 3.15 inches, including marble base, the size is 13.15 x 8.15 x 5 inches. It is in excellent condition. about the artist: Albert Caasmann (2 June 1886 – 23 March 1968) was a German sculptor and porcelain artist. Caasmann designed toy figures for the Berlin toy company Lineol and from 1919 to 1952 was the lead designer and production manager for the company. He designed figurines for the porcelain companies Rosenthal AG and Volkstedt. Caasmann's work for the company Rosenthal are exhibited in the Porzellanikon's Rosenthal Museum. Lineol toy figures modeled by Caasmann are in the Historical Toy Museum in Freinsheim and the Toy museum in Havelland. Albert Caasmann was born on 2 June 1886 in Berlin, Germany. From 1909 to 1919, he worked as a freelancer for the Berlin toy company Lineol, founded by Oskar Wiederholz in 1906. After service as a soldier in the First World War, he became the leading designer and production manager of Lineol from 1919 to 1952. He designed over 600 figures for Lineol, including soldiers, animals, Indians, knights, fairy figures, and railroad figures. His toy figures were widely used in the region by children. Lineol ceased operations in 1965, and in 1985 the company Lineol Duscha has the trademark rights to Lineol. Lineol Duscha reproduces Lineol figures modeled before 1945. Lineol toy figures modeled by Caasmann are in the Historical Toy Museum in Freinsheim and the Toy museum in Havelland. Caasmann spent time in the Berlin Zoo, where he modeled his animal models. He made a model for a porcelain cheetah...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

The Kiss
Located in PARIS, FR
The Kiss by Alfred PINA (1887-1966) Bronze group with a brownish dark green patina signed on the base "A. Pina" cast by "A. Valsuani" (foundry stamp) France circa 1927 height 51,5...
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1920s French School Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

French Neoclassical Bronze Of Androcles and the Lion
Located in Rochester, NY
Large French Neoclassical sculpture of Androcles and the Lion. Exceptional quality casting and patina. Mid 19th century. The runaway slave ...
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19th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Large, Cast Bronze Roman Figures
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of large, detailed cast bronze Roman figures of a senator (likely Julius Caesar) and possibly an emperor. Each in cascading drapery with beautifully rendered facial expression...
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1910s Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

ANTIQUE ITALIAN LION FOUNTAIN HEAD, 19th Century
Located in Milan, IT
LION HEAD, Italy, 19th Century marble 40 x 26 x 20 cm 15 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in
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Early 19th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Jaguar Bronze Sculpture Polished Wild Animal In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Jaguar Bronze Sculpture Polished Wild Animal In Stock Chris Tap (1973, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) attended university where he studied economy and cul...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Ancient Roman Marble Altar Fragment with Cupid, Roman Empire, 2nd/3rd Century AD
Located in Milan, IT
Roman marble altar fragment with cupid Provenance: Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva
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15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Bust of Pope Innocent XI Odescalchi by Domenico Guidi
Located in New Orleans, LA
This monumental bust is a museum-quality example of Roman Baroque sculpture. Crafted by the legendary Domenico Guidi and carved from Carrara marble, the impressive portrait captures the visage of Pope Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi (1611-1689). It presents a larger-than-life example of Guidi’s remarkable skill as a sculptor, which ultimately made his workshop one of the most important in Rome during his age. Today, his works are rarely found on the market, particularly his extraordinary works in marble. Pope Innocent XI was born Benedetto Odescalchi into an Italian noble family of prominent bankers. Spending his early years in banking, he eventually turned to the law, earning his doctorate in 1639. His background would serve him well in his service to the papacy, and he became known as a frugal and devout member of the Church. In 1676, he was unanimously elected Pop after the death of Clement X. During his nearly 13-year reign, he instilled his own personal ideals of austerity and frugality onto the Church, with a deep commitment to reform and piety. He is captured here by Guidi in his traditional Pope’s mozzetta and camauro cap. A wide stole is draped over his shoulders, ornamented by acanthus leaves and the coat of arms of the Odescalchi family. It displays Guidi’s mastery over the chiaroscuro effect, particularly in the high level of contrast in his cheeks and his eyes, which Guidi achieved through various methods of high polish. A very similar portrait sculpture of Pope Innocent XI by Guidi can be found in the collection of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The Warsaw bust belongs to a series of portraits of popes which the Odescalchi family commissioned from Domenico Guidi in the 1690s. Compared to that example, the present bust is far more dramatic, with deeper cut lines and a more precise expression. It is likely that the present piece was seen by the Odescalchi family, who ordered a similar one to be made. The piece was almost certainly intended to be displayed in a niche, given its dramatic cutting and its roughly carved back. Others of Guidi’s busts can be found in important collections throughout Italy, England and the United States, though many of these are lesser bronze repetitions. A bronze bust of the Pope Alexander VIII by Guidi is currently in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), while a terracotta version of the same is in the Los Angeles County Museum. A bronze of Pope Alexander VIII can be found in the Princely Collection of Lichtenstein, and his impressive marble papal bust of Clement IX graces the pope’s tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore. The present bust of Pope...
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17th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

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

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Bronze

20th Century White Marble Italian Sculpture The Emancipation of Slavery, 1930
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Refined white marble statue from the first half of the 20th century. This is a very high quality copy of a work by the great Italian sculptor Giacomo Ginotti (1845-1897). Known as Th...
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1930s Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Don Quixote
Located in PARIS, FR
Fabbri was born in Quarrata (Tuscany). At the age of 12, he attended the Scuola d'Arte in Pistoia and then, under the instruction of the painter Fabio Casanova, he decided to embark on an artistic career and created his first sculptures, mainly using the wax and plaster. In 1932 Fabbri, in order to continue his education at the Accademia di Belle Arti, moved to Florence where he frequented the artists' Caffè Giubbe Rosse, meeting point for the intellectuals known as the Ermetici Group (Eugenio Montale, Carlo Bo, etc.) and also came into contact with the painter Ottone Rosai and the poet Mario Luzi. At the end of the year he moved to Albisola (Savona), where he worked in the La Fiamma...
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1970s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

The Song
Located in PARIS, FR
"The Song" by Félix Charpentier (1858-1924) A very fine bronze sculpture with nuanced dark brown patina Signed "Fx. Charpentier" Cast by "E. Colin & Cie Paris" France around 1900 he...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

2049 Rider Big Model Bronze
Located in Pasadena, CA
Bronze 1/3 black patina or gold leaf Korten steel base leaving sculpture on wheels, water jet engraving QR coded cartridge. Born in 1960 in a family of artists collecting the br...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Silvered Bronze Figure of Psyche
Located in New York, NY
MATHURIN MOREAU French, (1822-1914) Silvered Bronze Figure of Psyche Silvered bronze; Signed ‘Moreau Mathurin’ 30 3/8 x 15 x 13 inches
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Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Haïku" , Green Patinated Bronze Tree&Human Sculpture on a Black Granite Base
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
"Haïku" is a bronze sculpture by Isabelle Jeandot, one of a limited edition series of twelve original sculptures. It will be delivered with a certificate of authenticity issued by th...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Kneeling Female Zombie
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Kneeling Female Zombie Materials : Wood Fired Porcelain Date : 2016 Dimensions : 5″ x 6.25″ x 5″ Signed Gallery COA provided ------------------------ Amy Young Artist State...
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2010s Contemporary Sculptures

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Porcelain, Glaze

Faure de Brousse "Mephistopheles & Monkey" Bronze
Located in Astoria, NY
Vincent Desire Faure de Brousse (French, 1876-1908) "Mephistopheles and Monkey" Patinated Bronze Sculpture, late 19th century, the standing figure in Renaissance costume and accompan...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Bronze #116 by Hanneke Beaumont
Located in Cleveland, OH
Bronze #116 by Hanneke Beaumont Beaumont's sculptures are realized in terracotta, bronze and cast iron, and she is known for sculpting figural life-s...
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Early 2000s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Antoine Louis Barye Ocelot Carrying off a Heron
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875) Ocelot emportant un héron (Ocelot carrying off a heron) bronze sculpture, dark-brown patina, Signed “Barye” and “F. Barbidienne Fondeur Paris”...
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1880s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Oops.. by Helle Crawford, Contemporary frog bronze animal sculpture
Located in DE
Even though Helle Rask Crawford often refers to classic myths in her sculptures, sh is not a classical sculptor in the neoclassical sense. Rather, Helle Crawford could be defined as ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures

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Gold, Bronze

Francisco Zuniga Bronze Sculpture, 1964, "Desnudo Acostada"
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Francisco Zuniga bronze sculpture, Nude Lying Down. Edition: 3. #377 in the Zuniga catalog raisonne. Titled: "Desnudo Acostado". Measures: 6 7/8" H x 18" L x 19" W not including the...
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1960s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Job
Located in Boston, MA
Edition of 12. Signed and inscribed on front right of base: "De LUE sc '86 © 1987 4/12 Tx". Cast at the Tallix Foundry in Beacon, NY. "Job, as much as any work of De Lue, shows t...
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20th Century Art Deco Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Jose Cardona Ferro Bronze Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jose Cardona Ferro: 1878-1923. Well listed Spanish artist also known as just Jose Cardona. He has had auction prices over $4000. This charming bronze of a...
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Early 1900s Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Burman Fisherman III by Marine de Soos - Bronze sculpture, figurative, man
Located in Paris, FR
Burman Fisherman III is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 27 × 77 × 21 cm (10.7 × 30.3 × 8.3 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered,...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Nude Male Runner Bronze patinated Classical After the Antique
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully proportioned and handsome nude male bronze with Roman classically refined features after the Antique . It looks best with a key lighting th...
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20th Century Old Masters Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

"Dancer" David Hare, Male Nude, Figurative Sculpture, Mid-Century Surrealist
Located in New York, NY
David Hare Dancer, circa 1955 Bronze with integral stand 68 high x 17 wide x 13 1/2 deep inches “Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.” Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp. In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career. After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt. As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen. In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941. World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors. At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

De Gave The Gift Big Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary Mythology
Located in Utrecht, NL
De Gave The Gift Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary Mythology The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

La Posada
Located in PARIS, FR
La Posada by François-Rupert CARABIN (1862-1932) A bronze group with a silvered patina Signed on the base "R. Carabin" Old cast Numbered "5" France circa 1901 height 24 cm length ...
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Early 1900s French School Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Walking the Tightrope
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sculpture of a man in a suit walking carefully across a precarious edge. Edition of 45, 1 left from the edition and 1 AP Signed to the leg Jim Rennert Biography American, b. 1958 ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze, Steel

Francois Bosio "Henry IV" Patinated Bronze
Located in Astoria, NY
After Francois-Joseph Bosio (French, 1768-1845) "Henry IV of France" Patinated Bronze Sculpture, late 19th century, depicted as a child, on a square base, inscribed "Bosio". 46" H x ...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Water, 72" high bronze
Located in Loveland, CO
Water by Jane DeDecker Allegorical Element Figurative Bronze 72x25x15" bronze ed/17 (available patina is a darker blue-grey hue) Shipping price includes the custom packing/crating n...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Jokwe Maternity, Angola, " Carved Wood created in Africa circa 1910
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Jokwe Maternity, Angola" is a wood sculpture from Africa created circa 1910. The figure kneels on the ground holding a baby in her arms. Her eyes are closed and she is wearing a com...
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1910s Tribal Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Austrian Cold Painted Bronze by Bergmann
Located in New York, NY
FRANZ BERGMAN Austrian, (1861-1936) A Fine Quality Austrian cold-painted Bronze Table Lamp and Sculpture Depicting an Arab merchant, stamped...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Which hand by Helle Crawford, Contemporary bronze woman frog animal sculpture
Located in DE
Even though Helle Rask Crawford often refers to classic myths in her sculptures, sh is not a classical sculptor in the neoclassical sense. Rather, Helle Crawford could be defined as ...
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2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures

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Gold, Bronze

Keeping the Ball Rolling
Located in Greenwich, CT
Life-size sculpture of a bare-footed boy balancing himself atop a ball.
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1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Ex Nihilo Fragment 3", Frederick Hart, Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 43x31x18 in
Located in Dallas, TX
"Ex Nihilo Fragment 3" by Frederick Hart is a figurative bronze with the edition of 61/65. I saw Ex Nihilo (Out of Nothingness) as a single expression of creation, as the metamorphosis of divine spirit and energy. The figures emerge from the nothingness of chaos, caught in the moment of eternal transformation — the majesty and mystery of divine force in a state of becoming. -Frederick Hart Ex Nihilo, Fragment No.3. Detail from the full-scale plaster for the final stone sculpture of Ex Nihilo, commissioned as part of The Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Expressionist Wood Sculpture 1920's
Located in Berlin, DE
Expressionist completely hand carved wood sculpture ca. 1925-1927, unknown artist. Monogrammed with C Sch on the base. Expressively carved base. Small damage on the hand. Measuremen...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Dies Irae - Boxwood Sculpture
Located in Milano, IT
Magnificent boxwood sculpture from the late 18th century, an extraordinary allegory of human transience. The work, 60 cm high, features a refined composition of two carved skeletons ...
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18th Century and Earlier Italian School Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Clown Holding Teddy Bear, Unique Bronze Expressionist Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Agnes Yarnall LePage, began studying sculpture at the age of 6 at the Liberty Tadd School of Modeling. She went on to study with Charles Grafly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before opening her own studio in the late 1920s, with the support of her parents, Anna B. Coxe and Charlton Yarnall. Over the years, Ms. Yarnall's work included numerous portraits, human figures and animal sculptures. Among her proudest achievements were busts of George Washington and General Lafayette, displayed at the Valley Forge Historical Society, and of Abraham Lincoln, at the Union League of Philadelphia. She also counted among her premier accomplishments busts she sculpted of Ronald Reagan, Jack Nicklaus and Pope John Paul II. One reviewer who had seen her depictions of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dame Judith Anderson, Carl Sandburg and Sir John Gielgud lauded her work for its ''sensitivity, grace and dynamism," her family said. During her early career Ms. Yarnall studied and worked with such great artists as Boris Blai, Paul Manship and Alexander Archipenko. In addition to her long career in sculpture, she also was an accomplished poet. Her books included Indian Summer, Hesperides and Other Poems and Pandora and Other Poems. In 1987 Ms. Yarnall was presented with the Living Legacy Award as ''Evocatrix Extraordinary" by the Women's International Center, joining such honorees as Dame Judith Anderson, Clare Boothe...
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20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Contemporary Sculpture Hybrid Animal Bright Blue Orange Plaster Acrylic
By Polly Little
Located in Buffalo, NY
Hybrid II by Polly Little (2022). Plaster and acrylic paint.
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Plaster, Acrylic

20th Century Carved Exotic Wood Oriental Sculpture Fisherman and Fish, 1960s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Oriental sculpture from the mid-20th century. Finely carved and crafted exotic wooden object depicting a fisherman with fish, of good quality. Sculpture made from a single wooden blo...
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1960s Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

#David, Cult series, Edition of 70
Located in Edinburgh, GB
In the Cult series, the key plot is the clash of two human paradigms. On one side - conscious and independent Human, with unlimited potential for development and evolution, on the ot...
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2010s Figurative Sculptures

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Mirror, Wood, Acrylic

This Impact - Contemporary Bronze Nude Male Sculpture in Action Pose
Located in Chicago, IL
The beauty of the human form is captured is this dynamic bronze sculpture of a Muay Thai Fighter. Dean Kugler This Impact (Muay Thai Fighter) bronze 18h x...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Encased by Isabel Ritter - Contemporary wood carved sculpture
Located in DE
Hand carved sculpture by artist Isabel Ritter. Beautiful encased female sculpture. Stunning on a plinth or a shelf. About the Gallery: Folly & Muse was ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Sculptures

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Wood, Acrylic

Petit Fille, Bronze Sculpture with Patina
By Auguste Moreau
Located in Long Island City, NY
This bronze sculpture by Auguste Moreau is a beautiful work from the Romanticism period. Auguste was the third son of sculptor and painter ...
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19th Century Romantic Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

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