Realist Sculptures
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Pride
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #32/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Grand Tour Marble Bust of a Young Apollo
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Grand Tour Marble Bust of a Young Apollo (Late 19th Century)
Marble bust on a swivel marble base
Unsigned
24 ½" high x 21" wide x 9 1/2 " deep...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Marble
A Bit of Shade
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #35/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Branching Out
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Melissa Cooper.
Edition #15/35.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Buffalo Pot
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by George Walbye.
Edition #75/100.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chien Braque (Tom)
Located in Missouri, MO
Pierre Jules Mene
"Chien Braque" (Tom)
Bronze
approx. 5 x 9 x 4.25
Signed
PIERRE JULES MENE (1810-1879)
Pierre Jules Mene, (P. J. Mene), was born in Pa...
Category
1860s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hamlet
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Andrea Wilkinson.
Edition #2/10.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
River King
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Andrea Wilkinson.
Edition #5/20.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Construction Crew
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #5/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Boat with Sunset Sail
Located in Fairfield, CT
Pedro's sculpture's are whimsical and sophisticated. The sailboat series is affordable for the work involved in creating them. His use of mixed media gives the sculptures a unique ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Medicine Bow Lodge
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by George Walbye.
Edition #11/60.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
You Lookin' At Me?
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Andrea Wilkinson.
Edition #13/50.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Oil
Roxie
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Andrea Wilkinson.
Edition #2/20.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Built to Last
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by E.C. Wynne.
Edition #2/50.
Signed on bronze.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Breakin' Out
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #30/75 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Circle of Friends
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Melissa Cooper.
Edition #10/35.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Awakening
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #1/15 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Buttercup
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Melissa Cooper.
Edition #19/35.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Scottie
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Mark Dziewior.
Edition #3/10.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Shar Pei
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Mark Dziewior.
Edition #3/20.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Where the Hare
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #10/27 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Autumn Stroll
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #1/1 - Original bronze sculpture, and acrylic painting on deer skin by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Rooster
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #3/15 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Yard Patrol
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #1/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tallgrass Prairie
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #7/20 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
River Companions
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #17/100 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Puma Prowl
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #18/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bachelor Pad
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #10/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Above All
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #28/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
PAULA BLACKMAN Horse Bronze Sculpture small edition 2017 Female Artist Sculptor
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
A limited edition bronze Horse on a black marble base.
From the limited edition of 8.
Signed 1/8
Paula Blackman has been a bronze sculptor for 30 years working in Cleveland Ohio. ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Little Red Riding Hood Inkwell
Located in Missouri, MO
Antoine Bofill
"Little Red Riding Hood"
Bronze Inkwell
6H x 10W x 6D
Signed
Inscribed: 25 Septembre 1920
Antoine Bofill was born in Barcelona i...
Category
1920s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dreams of Salmon
By Tim Cherry
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original sculpture signed/etched by the Artist on the lower bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
AP/18
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ballerina
Located in Greenwich, CT
Terracotta sculpture by Bruno Lucchesi of a ballerina.
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Afterlife
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed by the artist on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
7/33
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Continuum
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Dance of Balance
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
"Traditions", James Muir, Bronze, A&M, 6 Core Values, Figurative Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
As the six core values are perceived to be inseparable in the formation of character. I see them to also be inseparable in the rendering of a physical artistic depiction. I view them...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"The Artist's Wife", Frederick Hart, Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 25x21x13 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Artists Wife" by Frederick Hart is a figurative Bronze sculpture bust of Frederick Hart's wife numbered 23/25. His wife blissfully sits with a drapery over her shoulders and loo...
Category
Early 2000s Realist 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 Sculptures
Another Kodiak Moment
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Andrea Wilkinson.
Edition #8/30.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Prosperity - Goldfish Tray
By Tim Cherry
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the sculpture with an edition number.
Open Edition
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lovey Dovey
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the sculpture with an edition number.
7/45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Desert Bloom
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the sculpture with an edition number.
6/45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Take a Look-See
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the sculpture with an edition number.
37/100
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Resting
Located in Greenwich, CT
Ed. 2/6.
Bronze sculpture by Bruno Lucchesi of a woman sitting.
Category
1970s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Puppy Love
Located in Greenwich, CT
"This piece was commissioned by the American Animal Hospital Association as an award for the best veterinary hospital in animal care. After a lot of ha...
Category
Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tiny Dancer
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by the Artist on lower bronze base with an edition number.
2/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
I Love Ewe
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by the Artist on lower bronze base with an edition number.
1/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Best Buds
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
1/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Good Foundations
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
2/10
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Spring Fun
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
3/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Two Chicks
By Kent Ullberg
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
20/100
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Snap
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/engraved by Artist on bronze base of sculpture with an edition number.
Open Edition #4
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Classic Equine
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of piece with edition number.
3/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tembo Trail
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist in the bronze base with an edition number.
1/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cocktail
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze piece signed/etched by Artist on bronze base of sculpture with edition number.
11/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rock Star
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist on base of bronze with an edition number.
29/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Summer Breeze
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist on base of bronze with an edition number.
9/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Realist sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist 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, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Frederick Hart, Gary Alsum, SOPHIE MARTIN, and Peter Brooke. Frequently made by artists working with Metal, and Bronze and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist sculptures, so small editions measuring 1 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 $550 and tops out at $935,000, while the average work sells for $7,200.