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ABSTRACT STYLE

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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Style: Abstract
Terra II : small interior sculpture out of clay

Terra II : small interior sculpture out of clay

By Katie Yang

Located in New York, NY

Katie Yang's abstract ceramic sculptures delve into the unknowable nature of our world, exploring the interplay between control and chance. Influenced by artistic traditions from bot...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Glaze

Knot #19 1/7

Knot #19 1/7

By Damon Hyldreth

Located in Napa, CA

The sculptures of Damon Hyldreth appear both static and fluid, rigid and flexible, strong and smooth, effectively blurring the line between nature and structure. By crafting organic ...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Selkie #5 1/7

Selkie #5 1/7

By Damon Hyldreth

Located in Napa, CA

The sculptures of Damon Hyldreth appear both static and fluid, rigid and flexible, strong and smooth, effectively blurring the line between nature and structure. By crafting organic ...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Abstract culpture  by Dorothy Thorpe
Abstract culpture  by Dorothy Thorpe

Abstract culpture by Dorothy Thorpe

By Dorothy Thorpe 1

Located in Pasadena, CA

Dorothy Thorpe This wonderful piece was designed by Dorothy Thorpe in America during the 1960s Born in Salt Lake City in 1901, Dorothy Thorpe was a mid-century American artist who de...

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1970s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Lucite

Discovery 2018-2, Kug Kyung Oh
Discovery 2018-2, Kug Kyung Oh

Discovery 2018-2, Kug Kyung Oh

By Kug Kyung Oh

Located in Porto, 13

"Discovery 2018-2" by Kug Kyung Oh Medium: Bronze Edition: 3 of 6 Dimensions: 26 x 26 x 129 cm / 10.2 x 10.2 x 50.8 in Year: 2018 "Discovery 2018-2" by Kug Kyung Oh is a sculptural m...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Black Labyrinth - 21st Cent, Marble sculpture, Organic shapes, nature inspired
Black Labyrinth - 21st Cent, Marble sculpture, Organic shapes, nature inspired

Black Labyrinth - 21st Cent, Marble sculpture, Organic shapes, nature inspired

By Noemi Palacios

Located in Barcelona, Catalonia

Noemi Palacios expresses herself through form and matter, a medium through which she has found a deep understanding of her inner self. Her evocative pieces are inspired by the univer...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Marble

L'Escalier Sous La Table bronze wood steps

L'Escalier Sous La Table bronze wood steps

By Jean Adele Wolff

Located in Palm Desert, CA

These sculptures were inspired by the spirituality of the twelve-step programs and the eight-fold path of Buddhism.  Meshing these philosophies with meditation led me to express these small sculptures to achieve the connection between art and spirit. Wire figures...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Coaster
Coaster

Coaster

By Tom Nussbaum

Located in New Orleans, LA

Tom Nussbaum is known for a variety of work including drawings, paper cuts, prints, sculpture, children’s books, animations, functional design objects, and site-specific commissions....

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

DEEP PURPLE metal wood cubist
DEEP PURPLE metal wood cubist

DEEP PURPLE metal wood cubist

By Camey McGilvray

Located in Palm Desert, CA

This wood and metal wall-sculpture is another in McGilvray's several depictions of heavenly bodies in the universe. In this artwork, a primary colored constellation is floating in a deep purple...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Straddle
Straddle

Catherine BohrmanStraddle

$1,440Sale Price|20% Off

Straddle

By Catherine Bohrman

Located in Palm Desert, CA

Catherine Bohrman's bronze sculptures encompass gestural form with figurative elements. Her international style has been noted to possess soft edges that belie the magnitude of their...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Red White All Over - Out", Hand Cut Paper Wall Relief Sculpture, Abstract
"Red White All Over - Out", Hand Cut Paper Wall Relief Sculpture, Abstract

"Red White All Over - Out", Hand Cut Paper Wall Relief Sculpture, Abstract

By Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen

Located in New York, NY

"Red White All Over - Out" by Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen Hand cut 2-ply museum board, gouche This sculptural wall piece can mounted in a plexi box (dimensions: 24" x 20" x 3") Cut Wor...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Paint, Paper, Gouache, Board

"Array of Steel Rods with Brass Chimes"
"Array of Steel Rods with Brass Chimes"

"Array of Steel Rods with Brass Chimes"

By Val Bertoia

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Val Bertoia was born in Santa Monica, California in 1949. In the 1950s, his family moved from California to Pennsylvania where he has lived and worked here ever since. In the1960s, V...

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20th Century Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Brass, Steel

Aria (Red)

Aria (Red)

By Eric Johnson

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Eric Johnson creates enigmatic and sensual abstract sculptures that are constructed with pigment, wood and resin. Johnson’s work seamlessly unites two traditions of Southern California art - the sleek and sexy aesthetic of the Finish Fetish movement and the organic and elegant tradition of woodworking. His handcrafted pieces are sheathed in resin skins, which often reveal glimpses of the wooden architectures encased within. Endlessly fascinated by physics and science, Johnson’s references range from cosmology and astrophysics to the human form. Johnson’s work is deeply personal - in addition to drawing inspiration from his ancestral boat-building heritage (which is Norwegian, Scottish and Cree Native...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia

By Eric Johnson

Located in Santa Monica, CA

The Madame X works exemplify Eric Johnson’s passionate embrace of the sensuality of form. The sculptures are imbued with abstract bursts of color beneath pristine surfaces, which appear to undulate as one moves around their double-helix curves. Seen together, the series is a celebration of the exquisite harmony of depth, structure, color, and lovingly polished surfaces, somewhat blurring the line between painting and sculpture. Interestingly, the Madame X series was inspired by a painting by John Singer Sargent, and pays homage to Sargent’s portrait of the same title, which scandalized the Paris Salon of 1884. While Parisians were shocked by the slip of a dress strap and the alabaster complexion of the portrait’s subject, Johnson was inspired by the sinewy, vertical curves of Sargent’s composition. At the nexus of the L.A. art scene for nearly forty years, Eric Johnson’s work bears a distinctly Southern California hot-rod, materials-based aesthetic. Early on, Johnson was drawn to artists whose work also grew out of L.A.’s surf and car culture sensibilities. Utilizing new materials and industrial products, like resin & plastic, artwork of impossibly slick, sleek character began to emerge and was termed “Finish Fetish”. Johnson’s work is next generation heir to this work, and carries forward the DNA of such legendary Light and Space, Finish Fetish, artists as Craig Kaufman, DeWain Valentine, Billy Al Bengston, Larry Bell, Tom Jenkins and Tony DeLap. Eric Johnson’s works are also acutely personal representations of his life. A severe neck injury, and struggle with intense spinal pain, served as the initial catalyst for his exploration of structural forms, which are also informed by his ancestral heritage - Scottish, Cree Indian, and perhaps a boat-building urge from the Norse. His father, a race-car driver and expert in custom car fabrication, passed on a passion for cars and their restoration. Scouted into the Air Force during the Vietnam war as a fencing instructor (though he never served), Johnson discovered he was color-blind during an eye-exam. Surprisingly, this ignited an interest in color and experiments with layering automotive pigments and clear resins, which Johnson continues with in this series, fabricating molds, which allow him to do multiple iterations of the same shape while investigating variations of color. Eric Johnson attended Valley College; California Institute of Art and received his Masters of Fine Arts degree from University of California at Irvine. Johnson’s work is in many public and private collections, including: Oakland Museum; Laguna Beach Museum; Museum of Art and History (MOAH); Lancaster, CA; C.B.S. Broadcasting, New York, NY; Digital Domain, Venice, CA; Mary Barnes...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Resin, Wood

Jonah & The Whale
Jonah & The Whale

Jonah & The Whale

Located in Milford, NH

This impressionist wooden sculpture of the biblical story of Jonah & The Whale was done by New Hampshire artist Robert Hughes (1915-2004). Hughes was born in...

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20th Century Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Pere Aragay

Located in Barcelona, CT

The sculpture is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Resin

Modernist Abstract Pottery Wall Sculpture
Modernist Abstract Pottery Wall Sculpture

Modernist Abstract Pottery Wall Sculpture

Located in Milford, NH

A colorful modernist abstract pottery polychrome wall sculpture, each piece with varying textures, colors, and shapes by American artist and professor Bruce Lenore (b. 1955). Lenore is not only an artist, but was an art teacher at Smithfield High School in Rhode Island, as well as a teen art instructor at RISD. Lenore is a member of the “Memphis” pottery...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Panier-maison II, Stéphanie Jacques
Panier-maison II, Stéphanie Jacques

Panier-maison II, Stéphanie Jacques

By Stéphanie Jacques

Located in Wilton, CT

Panier-maison II, Stéphanie Jacques, wood, willow, raw clay coated and limewash, 17" x 20" x 15", 2010. This contemporary abstract mixed media sculpture was done by Belgian artist, ...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Wood

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Pere Aragay

Located in Barcelona, CT

The sculpture is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Resin

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Pere Aragay

Located in Barcelona, CT

The sculpture is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Blue

Blue

By Dennis Leri

Located in New York, NY

Painted steel. Metal sculpture. Abstract sculpture. Blue. About the Artist: I create sculpture for indoor, outdoor, private and public spaces from various materials such as stee...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Vacuum Horizontal Light-Glyph (Silver)
Vacuum Horizontal Light-Glyph (Silver)

Vacuum Horizontal Light-Glyph (Silver)

By Casper Brindle

Located in Santa Monica, CA

With Light Glyphs, Casper Brindle presents two new bodies of work, each involving dramatic investigations into light, color and perspective. The results are poetic, sensual and spat...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Pigment

"what was tonight" - red abstract sculpture
"what was tonight" - red abstract sculpture

"what was tonight" - red abstract sculpture

By Ilanit Vigodsky

Located in New York, NY

This beautiful Laser cut sculpture is part of Ilanit`s Calligraphy series. It is made of laser cut aluminium covered with automotive paint. As all of Ilanit`s works, this work is ba...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

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Metal

"what was tonight" - blue abstract sculpture
"what was tonight" - blue abstract sculpture

"what was tonight" - blue abstract sculpture

By Ilanit Vigodsky

Located in New York, NY

This beautiful Laser cut sculpture is part of Ilanit`s Calligraphy series. It is made of laser cut aluminium covered with automotive paint. As all of Ilanit`s works, this work is ba...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

DAVIDE QUAYOLA "Laocoon Fragment #8_005.003 mixed media iron wood sculpture 2016
DAVIDE QUAYOLA "Laocoon Fragment #8_005.003 mixed media iron wood sculpture 2016

DAVIDE QUAYOLA "Laocoon Fragment #8_005.003 mixed media iron wood sculpture 2016

Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Davide Quayola (Italian, b. 1982) "Laocoon Fragment #8_005.003" 2016 Made of Iron, epoxy, fiberglass, mirror-polished steel & wood. Dimensions: 19.7 x 11 x 15.75 inches (50 x 28 x 40 cm) Base Plate Dimensions: .8 x 23.7 x 23.7 inches (2 x 60 x 60 cm) base From the signed and numbered edition of 3 "Quayola employs technology as a lens to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new. Constructing immersive installations, he engages with and re-imagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Landscape painting, classical sculpture and iconography are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola’s hybrid compositions. His varied practice, all deriving from custom computer software, also includes audiovisual performance, immersive video installations, sculpture, and works on paper. His work has been performed and exhibited in many prestigious institutions worldwide including V&A Museum, London; Park Avenue Armory, New York; National Art Center, Tokyo; UCCA, Beijing; How Art Museum, Shanghai; SeMA, Seoul; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Ars Electronica, Linz; Sonar Festival, Barcelona and Sundance Film Festival. Also a frequent collaborator on musical projects, Quayola has worked with composers, orchestras and musicians including London Contemporary Orchestra, National Orchestra of Bordeaux, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vanessa Wagner, Jamie XX...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel, Iron

Big Yellow Poppies, 2015
Big Yellow Poppies, 2015

Big Yellow Poppies, 2015

By Donald Sultan

Located in Fairfield, CT

Donald Sultan (born 1951), is one of the leading American contemporary still life artists. He currently lives and works in New York. Sultan has been given numerous exhibitions dedica...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

"Where did you say  it feels good?" -  triptych black abstract sculpture
"Where did you say  it feels good?" -  triptych black abstract sculpture

"Where did you say it feels good?" - triptych black abstract sculpture

By Ilanit Vigodsky

Located in New York, NY

This beautiful laser cut sculpture is part of Ilanit`s Calligraphy series. It is made of laser cut aluminium and covered with black automotive paint. The pieces can be hung horizontally or vertically as seen in the images. The length of each piece is 20.5" and each has a different height: 25.5", 27.5" and 28.3". The size written in the description of the work is if all 3 are placed horizontally with 6" gap in between them. The pieces can also be custom sized!!! As all of Ilanit`s works, this work is based on a poem Ilanit wrote. At first, it looks as an abstract wall sculpture, but as you dive into it you start recognizing the Hebrew letter of the poem. The words of the poem that are hidden in this work are: "Excuse/ pardon me miss, Where did you say it feels good...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

"The World in a Grain of Sand" Abstract Paper Wall Sculpture, Mixed Media
"The World in a Grain of Sand" Abstract Paper Wall Sculpture, Mixed Media

"The World in a Grain of Sand" Abstract Paper Wall Sculpture, Mixed Media

By Joan Giordano

Located in New York, NY

"The World in a Grain of Sand" by Joan Giordano Mixed media, international archival newspapers, encaustic on canvas Museum shown and collected artist Joan Giordano is known for her ...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

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Paper, Mixed Media, Magazine Paper, Newsprint, Canvas, Encaustic

"It's Never Really Black and White" Abstract Paper Wall Sculpture, Mixed Media
"It's Never Really Black and White" Abstract Paper Wall Sculpture, Mixed Media

"It's Never Really Black and White" Abstract Paper Wall Sculpture, Mixed Media

By Joan Giordano

Located in New York, NY

"It's Never Really Black and White" by Joan Giordano Mixed media, archival newspapers, corrugated cardboard Museum shown and collected artist Joan Giordano is known for her unique h...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Magazine Paper, Newsprint, Cardboard

Moonrise

Moonrise

By Damon Hyldreth

Located in Napa, CA

The sculptures of Damon Hyldreth appear both static and fluid, rigid and flexible, strong and smooth, effectively blurring the line between nature and structure. By crafting organic ...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Fluorescent Orange Abstract Metal Sculpture, 21st Century
Fluorescent Orange Abstract Metal Sculpture, 21st Century

Fluorescent Orange Abstract Metal Sculpture, 21st Century

By Shayne Dark

Located in Montreal, Quebec

In 1914, a group of intrepid young men set forth into the northern wilderness with the ambition to document the uncharted territory of the Canadian collective unconscious. Their medium was that of sketchbooks and paint, and with these they rendered a vast and previously unknowable landscape into a tangible national identity. One could call their distinct style picturesque, as it cohered to many of the attributes prescribed by 18th century thinker William Gilpen – for capturing nature so as to make it both palatable and empowering for the viewer. During the romantic period in Europe, certain visual tropes emphasized the beauty of the natural landscape despite the rapid advancements of industrialism. As such, the picturesque, when applied properly, enabled the viewer to apprehend and revel in the vastness of change and opportunity with which they were presently confronted. It is at a similar juncture that we contemplate the works of contemporary sculptor and installation artist Shayne Dark, who’s large scale arborescent schemes present a striking encapsulation of both the magnitude as well as the limits of our natural resources. In an age where the re-assessment of our modes of production and consumption has become a main constituent of our identity, his work serves as a potent reminder of this position’s precarity. One piece resembling a cluster of branches, for example, balances in a tenuous fashion, relying on the equal distribution of weight among all its parts to stay upright. In another work, the boughs extend upwards from a base so small it threatens to tip over. As opposed to the romantic and idealized conceptions of a nature as realized in the compositions of the Group of Seven, Dark, by working in the industrial material of hot forged steel, acknowledges the imprint of the human hand on our surroundings. As art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - ZAP II
American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - ZAP II

American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - ZAP II

By Scott Troxel

Located in Paris, IDF

Artwork made by acrylic & texture on solid maple, mahogany & matte clear coat Scott Troxel draws on the aesthetics of bygone technology and the forward-looking designs of th...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

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Acrylic, Mahogany, Maple

American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Thrush
American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Thrush

American Contemporary Sculpture by Scott Troxel - Thrush

By Scott Troxel

Located in Paris, IDF

Artwork made by acrylic on birch, stain & satin lacquer finish Scott Troxel has exhibited his work at numerous fairs and exhibitions across the United States, including The Other Ar...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic, Birch, Lacquer

Abstract sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Scott Troxel, John Van Alstine, Marty Mackenzie, and Stephen Walling. Frequently made by artists working with Wood, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.38 inches across are also available. Prices for sculptures made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $1,400,000, while the average work sells for $4,500.