Kingfisher Fugue
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 9/50
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Bronze
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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Kingfisher Fugue
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. 9/50
Bronze
$68,720Sale Price|20% Off
"The Muses Suit" Bronze Collection of Dance, Music, Poetry, and Theater, 42/65
Located in Dallas, TX
Step into the world of artistic elegance with our exclusive offer on the Muses suite by master sculptor Frederick Hart. Each bronze head, representing Dance, Music, Poetry, and Theat...
Bronze
$1,500
Snap
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/engraved by Artist on bronze base of sculpture with an edition number. Open Edition #4
Bronze
Broken Words, Broken Peace
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number on the bronze base of the piece. 12/30
Bronze
Sittin' Duck
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture engraved with the Artist's signature and edition number. Open Edition
Bronze
Morning Melody
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Melissa Cooper. Edition #7/35. Signed on base.
Bronze
Hippos on the Mara
By Peter Brooke
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Description The picturesque Mara River flows through the plains of Tanzania and Kenya and lies across the Serengeti/Maasai Mara reserve. The area is famous for its Great Migration...
Bronze
The Allegory of Spring
Located in New York, NY
Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) A Belle Epoque bronze statue depicting an Allegory of Spring with a seated maiden looking over to view two birds as a putto gathers a bundle of flowers...
Bronze
Alpine Pikas
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture engraved with the Artist's signature and edition number. 28/45
Bronze
$9,295
The march of the crabs, series of wrought-iron sculptures by Italian blacksmith
By Ivan Zanoni
Located in Milan, IT
Ivan Zanoni's expert craftsmanship shows us this composition of 5 handmade and unique sculptures that provide the effect of watching crabs emerge from the sea. The measure written a...
Iron
FLORAL OUD IX
Located in Winterswijk, NL
FLORAL OUD IX is a ceramic memorial urn by Dutch artist Nicolaas Maathuis. The rounded vessel rises into a narrower, elongated neck covered with individually crafted ceramic flowers,...
Ceramic
Kestrel
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist has inscribed their signature and edition number into the bronze base of the piece. 4/35
Bronze
King of the Coop
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of piece with edition number. 14/65
Bronze
$32,650
"Liberty & Sacrifice", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 36x28x22 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Liberty and Sacrifice" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 14/50. "The figures of Liberty and Sacrifice are used in an allego...
Bronze
Nuthatch Glissando
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed by the Artist with a signature and edition number on bronze base. 12/100
Bronze
Raven Song Bell
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze signed/etched into base by Artist. 7/20
Bronze
Coming Through the Rye - Reproduction
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Reproduction Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature.
Bronze
Turtle Pond Urn
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze signed/etched into base by Artist. 8/200
Bronze
$4,387Sale Price|25% Off
"Reclining Figure", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 7x14x7 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Reclining Figure" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female and male figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 54/65. Frederick Hart was an American sculptor. His is best known for his Three Soldiers statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Ex Nihilo (1983) depicting Creation scenes above the doors of the Washington National Cathedral...
Bronze
$2,500Sale Price|50% Off
Cinnamon Bear
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964) Cinnamon Bear, ca. 1950 Carved red granite 11" wide, 11" deep, height (including wood base) is 15" Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison. Born: ...
Granite
Mr. Remington's Cowboy
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze inscribed with the Artist's signature and an edition number. AP (Artist's Proof)
Bronze
Horses Come First
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist into the base of bronze with edition number. 2/30
Bronze
On the Edge
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by George Walbye. Edition #8/60. Signed on bronze sculpture.
Bronze
Bison Tondo
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of piece with edition number. 3/35
Bronze
The Measure of a Man
By Bill Nebeker
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed/signed by the Artist on the bottom portion of the bronze piece with an edition number. 11/20
Bronze
$2,100
Eternity
By Dan Chen
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #17/75 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen. Signed on bronze sculpture.
Bronze
$1,950Sale Price|35% Off
Mountain Goat
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964) Mountain Goat, ca. 1950. Carved granite. 6.25" long, 3.25" wide, height is 6.25" Born: Kingfisher, OK Education: University of Missouri John Flannag...
Granite
"Porcelain Pattern Sphynx 1" - Hand-Painted Resin Cat Sculpture, 2024
Located in Denver, CO
Nana Williams’ "Porcelain Pattern Sphynx 1" is a captivating resin sculpture that merges delicate craftsmanship with intricate surface decoration. This 2024 original work is a resin cast, hand-painted with acrylic gouache, standing at 5.50 x 2 x 3.50 inches (13.97 x 5.08 x 8.89 cm). Inspired by the elegance of fine porcelain, the piece mimics the timeless beauty of blue-and-white ceramic motifs...
Resin, Acrylic, Gouache
Summer Breeze
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist on base of bronze with an edition number. 9/35
Bronze
Jumpin' Jack
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #28/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar. Signed on bronze sculpture.
Bronze
$12,500Sale Price|24% Off
"The Farewell Kiss"
Located in Southampton, NY
This is a beautiful original bronze casting by the foremost Russian sculptor of his day Evgeny Lanceray. Artist signed on the base in Cyrillic (image 5) and is also inscribed on the ...
Bronze
Bird's Eye View
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Melissa Cooper. Edition #8/35. Signed on base.
Bronze
Pale Blues
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Melissa Cooper. Edition #7/35. Signed on base.
Bronze
Bust of a young woman / - Beauty of youth -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anonymous, Bust of a young woman, c. 1900, artificial marble and gray onyx marble. 37 cm (height) x 37 cm (width) x 22 cm (depth), weight 17.2 kg. Signed “GURRINI” on the reverse. -...
Marble
Carpeaux etnic bronze : Le chinois (1868). N1 (scetch) Observatory fountain
Located in Gent, VOV
JEAN-BAPTISTE CARPEAUX 1827 - 1875 Le Chinois N°1 (study for Asia) (1868). Model from the observatory fountain. Sketch Height ca.60 cm A similar copy auctioned on June 22, 2023, at ...
Bronze
Ebb and Flow
By Dan Chen
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 8/26
Bronze
$11,618
Altar boy
Located in Roma, RM
Alfio Castelli (Senigallia 1917 – Rome 1992), Altar boy Bronze sculpture of 58 x 40 x 20 cm signed lower left.
Bronze
"Awake" by Bronze sculptor "Renzo", Larry Renzo Lewis, 58x26x16 in, 2009, Figure
Located in Dallas, TX
This masterpiece, "Awake" by Renzo was created in 2009, and intricately weaves together the essence of Symbols, Stones, Bindings, Nudity, and Masks to offer a profound reflection on ...
Bronze
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original wall-hanging bronze sculpture by artist Andrea Wilkinson.
Bronze
Going Out
Located in Greenwich, CT
Bruno Lucchesi Biography Italian, b. 1926 Born in 1926 in the village of Fibbiano Montanino, Lucca, Italy, Bruno Lucchesi has been called “the last of the Renaissance sculptors.” A...
Bronze
Donut - Unique 3 foot Large Frosted Donut with Sprinkles sculpture/sign
Located in New York, NY
Donut with Sprinkles – Large 3-Foot Pop Art Sculpture 🍩✨ 📏 Size: 3 Feet (36 Inches) – Oversized Statement Piece 🎨 Style: Pop Art, Americana, Vintage Advertising, Retro Decor 🏗 Material: Durable, Hand-Painted This large, eye-catching donut sculpture...
Steel
$2,400Sale Price|40% Off
Embryo Lizard
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964) Embryo, ca. 1940. Carved Italian granite. 12.5" wide, 8.5" deep, height is 5" Measurement are for stone form alone. It sits 12.5 inches tall at a pitch ...
Granite
Grupo
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Grupo" 1982 is an original Mixograph cast paper bas relief by Costa Rican/Mexican artist Francisco Zuniga, 1912-1998. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 24/10...
Other Medium
Antique French Sevres Terracotta Ceramic Monkey Snail Animalier Statue Sculpture
Located in Portland, OR
A finely detailed antique French terracotta monkey statue by the French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet (1824–1910), signed and dated 1905. This whimsical and humorous sculpture depicts ...
Ceramic, Terracotta
Pasture Pal
By Curt Mattson
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 8/20
Bronze
Dung-Beetle Bookends
By Dan Chen
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature and edition number. 26/32
Bronze
DeCoy
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture engraved with the Artist's signature and edition number. Open Edition
Bronze
Chevre Allongee (Reclining Goat)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Chevre Allongee (Reclining Goat)" c. 1860, is bronze sculpture after renown French artist Antoine Louis Barye, 1796-1875. Signature is impressed in the bronze. The subject size is 4.25 x 7 x 3.35 inches, including marble base is 5.25 x 4 x 7.75 inches. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Antoine-Louis Barye lived his entire life in Paris and may never have left France. He was born in 1795 (a date revised in the 1990s from 1796 as a result of Martin Sonnabend's recalculation of the Revolutionary calendar). He is reported to have had minimal formal schooling even in reading, and to have acquired his extensive liberal-arts education on his own. His initial professional training was in metalwork: first with his father, a goldsmith from Lyons, then with a metal engraver in military equipment, and finally with Martin-Guillaume Biennais (active 1800-1832), then master goldsmith to Napoleon. After serving in the army from 1812 to 1814, Barye trained in the fine arts with sculptor François-Joseph Bosio (1768-1845) and painter Baron Gros (1771-1835). He then studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1818 to 1823. His miniature medallion, Milo of Crotona Devoured by a Lion, won an honorable mention in metal engraving in 1819, but he failed to win the Prix de Rome. He worked as a craftsman for the goldsmith Jacques-Henri Fauconnier (1779-1839) from 1823 to 1831 and made his Salon debut in 1827 with a selection of busts. Barye made his critical and public mark as a sculptor four years later, in the Salon of 1831, with groups representing predatory violence in the wild. His first government commission came soon after, precisely for such a subject. The Minister of the Interior purchased Barye's monumental plaster Lion (since called Lion Crushing a Serpent), shown in 1833, and had it cast in bronze by Honoré Gonon and shown in 1836, before placing it in the public Tuileries Gardens (now Musée du Louvre, Paris). In 1834 Barye was chosen for a project that was never executed, the colossal eagle as the crowning element of the triumphal arch at the Etoile. Around 1836 the government commissioned him to execute the emblematic animal decoration on the July Column at the place de la Bastille, inaugurated in 1840. He produced a monumental effigy of Saint Clotilde for the Church of the Madeleine, Paris, in the early 1840s. In 1846 the government commissioned a pendant Seated Lion for the Tuileries Lion Crushing a Serpent (1847, bronze, Portal, Pavillon de Flore, Palais du Louvre, Paris). During these same years the royal family began buying and commissioning small-scale works from Barye for their private collections. Around 1834, the duc d'Orléans commissioned a highly publicized surtout de table representing hunts of different regions and historical periods, possibly one of several tabletop projects that he ordered from Barye. The duc's sister Marie d'Orléans allegedly commissioned a lost-wax bronze of Barye's Charles VI Surprised in the Forest of Le Mans (location unknown; later serial variants), a model first shown in the Salon of 1833; his brother, the duc de Montpensier, apparently commissioned a pair of figurative...
Bronze
Troubetzkoy Paulo (1866 - 1938)+ Bronze Cowboy Sculpture
Located in Gent, VOV
This striking bronze cowboy sculpture by renowned artist Paolo Troubetzkoy depicts a cowboy riding a bucking bronco. Cast in bronze and featur...
Bronze
$7,800Sale Price|22% Off
Wild Running Horse Three-Dimensional Painting Sculpture on Wood 40HX30" W
By Irena Orlov
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wild Running Horse Three-Dimensional Painting on Wood 40H X 30" W 2019 in Los Angeles Collaborative Artwork - Irena Orlov-Zeev Orlov SPECIFICATIONS: Combines Painting and Sculptur...
Alabaster
$3,040Sale Price|31% Off
Bronze Hippopotame
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom. She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature a...
Bronze
The Victorious David / - The melancholy of the radiant hero -
Located in Berlin, DE
Henri Honoré Plé (1853 Paris - 1922 Paris), The Victorious David, around 1890. Red-brown and brown patinated bronze with terrain plinth mounted on a round base. 62 cm (total height) ...
Bronze
Seated Figure
By Peter Brooke
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Exhibitions Beauty and the Power of Sculpture, American Legacy Fine Arts, Octobe...
Plaster
$18,000
"Jules Bastien LePage" Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bas Relief of French Painter
By Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Located in New York, NY
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Jules Bastien LePage Bronze 14 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in 1848 in Dublin, Ireland. His father, Bern...
Bronze
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...
Bronze
Girl playing the quitar. Realism, solid bronze sculpture
Located in Zofingen, AG
A girl playng the guitar. Sculptor created the classical figurine on a stone basement. Posture, movement, body lines - everything shows the beauty and lirical mood. The bronze look...
Stone, Bronze
Balancing Act
By Dan Chen
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #20/27 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen. Signed on bronze sculpture.
Bronze
Ralaxing moment.
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Classical ballet was my main source of inspiration. Grace and beauty of ballerinas combining with extremely hard work they do. This combination is shocking and inspiring in the same...
Bronze
The Bather
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique sculpture of a swimmer delicately balanced on the edge of a pool, represented by a blue stone with wave carvings. Bruno Lucchesi (1926–2026) was a highly celebrated Italian-...
Marble, Bronze
"Reflection"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The sculpture “Reflection” is a contemporary abstract work crafted from shiny golden metal. Its form resembles parts of the human body or armor, yet its interpretation remains open t...
Bronze