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Modern Sculptures

MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Alfa e Romeo
Alfa e Romeo

Alfa e Romeo

By Miguel Berrocal

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Known for his fascination with analytic geometry and tactile, interlocking art, Berrocal designed this piece using welded wrought iron, bronze, and integrated elements like a carbon ...

Category

20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Horn Player
Horn Player

SEMION RABINKOVHorn Player, 1995

$2,113Sale Price|34% Off

Horn Player

Located in Los Angeles, CA

SEMION RABINKOV "UNICYCLE HORN PLAYER" BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 1/9 MOLDOVAN-AMERICAN, C.1990'S 27.5 INCHES Semion was born in Chisinau, Moldova, 1954...

Category

1990s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Room 102

Room 102

By Mauro Corda

Located in Atlanta, GA

Mauro Corda’s figurative sculptures maintain a reverence for classical and modernist traditions, while also expressing the artist’s voice. Though born in France, the artist hails fro...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Sculptures

Materials

Resin

After Mickey

After Mickey

By Carlos Tirado

Located in Atlanta, GA

Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

La grande cascade, 2006

La grande cascade, 2006

By Bernard METRANVE

Located in Atlanta, GA

Born in 1949 in Mézières, Bernard Métranve was convinced from early childhood that he would become a visual artist and that he would follow the path of artists like Brancusi, and Moo...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Metropolis
Metropolis

Metropolis

By Maxine Kim Stussy 1

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Presenting a monumental original wood assemblage sculpture by American artist Maxine Kim Stussy(1923 - 2020) "Metropolis", is an original unique wood assemblage using solid wood mac...

Category

1950s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Lady with Bird
Lady with Bird

Lady with Bird

By Carlo Wahlbeck

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Woman with Bird" c.2000 is an original cast paper bas relief by noted Swedish/American artist Carlo Wahlbeck, b. 1933. It is hand signed a...

Category

Early 2000s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Other Medium

Vintage Jerusalem Western Wall Relief Sculpture Model Diorama Painting Judaica
Vintage Jerusalem Western Wall Relief Sculpture Model Diorama Painting Judaica

Vintage Jerusalem Western Wall Relief Sculpture Model Diorama Painting Judaica

By Manobla

Located in Surfside, FL

Joseph Manobla, (Israeli, 1930-1979), The Western Wall (The Wailing Wall), Painted diorama sculptural relief, 12.5 x 15.75 inches (relief), 17 x 20.25 inches (including original painted artist’s frame), Signed lower right. titled verso "the Wailing Wall". I am not sure of the material used. I have seen some described as jerusalem stone and some as composition. Provenance: The Engel Gallery Jerusalem. The Engel Gallery was founded in Jerusalem in 1955. Rafi Lavi, Arieh Aroch, Aviva Uri...

Category

20th Century Modern Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

"Jim Jim" Ebony Sculpture with Dark Patina, Portrait of Detroit Zoo Gorilla
"Jim Jim" Ebony Sculpture with Dark Patina, Portrait of Detroit Zoo Gorilla

"Jim Jim" Ebony Sculpture with Dark Patina, Portrait of Detroit Zoo Gorilla

Located in Detroit, MI

"Jim Jim" is an ebony carving by Tom Brun, sculptor and Detroit Zoo Keeper, who cared for the real Jim Jim at the Detroit Zoo. This ebony sculpture is in beautiful condition with slight exposure to the lighter streak of wood sometimes found in ebony. It is said that Tom would often go into a house and pick up one of his sculptures and say that it was unfriendly – meaning that it had not been handled enough. Morley Driver has said of Brun in a newspaper article from the 1950’s “In Any Animal He Sees Beauty”: No one who has ever seen a Tom Brun hippopotamus will ever again think of it as ugly or ungainly, meaning that the artist not only gives you beauty but teaches you to see it. Tom has said: “Small pieces are like a proverb – a gem of meaning that one can dissect.” They are meant to be picked up, caressed and held. Tom knew Jim Jim from birth and cared for him with love and attention. Brun was a compassionate zookeeper and advocated for less cages and more space for an animal to roam. Brun was born in England in 1913. A few years after the end of World War I his father moved the family in 1919 to Detroit, Michigan. In 1935 at age 23, he officially became a U.S. citizen. He served in the army during World War II for five years and upon discharge and at the age of 36 took advantage of the GI Bill and applied for admission to Society of Arts and Crafts (now known as the College for Creative Studies) where he was gladly accepted. While at Arts and Crafts his instructors and established artists such as Sarkis Sarkisian, John P. Foster, Morris Brose, Richard Koslow, Patricia Burnett, Lloyd and Renee Radell...

Category

1950s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Ebony

The Weight of Your Head Porcelain Cup, Sgraffito Detailing, Unique
The Weight of Your Head Porcelain Cup, Sgraffito Detailing, Unique

The Weight of Your Head Porcelain Cup, Sgraffito Detailing, Unique

By Alex Hodge 1

Located in Miami Beach, FL

This cup is one of 48 that make up the installation, “Fragments of Our Love Story.” These cups feature feminine forms which recall the Venus of Willendorf and other historical fertil...

Category

2010s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Clay, Porcelain, Paint, Underglaze

Man and Woman Erotic, Modern Bronze Table Sculpture by Lee Stoliar
Man and Woman Erotic, Modern Bronze Table Sculpture by Lee Stoliar

Man and Woman Erotic, Modern Bronze Table Sculpture by Lee Stoliar

By Lee Stoliar

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Lee Stoliar, American (1956 - ) Title: Untitled Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature inscribed Size: 6.5 in. x 7 in. x 9 in. (16.51 cm x 17.78 cm x 22.86 cm)

Category

1980s Modern Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Modern sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.

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