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
Pinewood Passion
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by E.C. Wynne.
Edition #25/125.
Signed on bronze.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
David
Located in Greenwich, CT
Life-size sculpture of a young boy with sword and heraldic shield.
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tanager
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
The Watcher
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #8/27 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Goose with Outstretched Wings Hand Carved Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, high polished sculpture of a goose with outstretched wings by Dale Eugene Schoth (American, 1925-1984). Appropriate to view in the round. Signed and dated by the artist "Dale Schoth '79" on the base. He was a carpenter and wood carver in Twin Falls Idaho. His grave stone...
Category
1970s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Dreaming girl
Located in Zofingen, AG
"I create this sculpture at the very beginning of my career. I sculpted it from a real model. The girl was very lost in her thoughts or dreamed of something. Her body was relaxed an...
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bison Song
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist's signature inscribed on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
6/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bountiful River
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist's signature inscribed on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
20/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fox Solstice
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist's signature inscribed on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
19/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Union", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 19x11x7 in., Woman & Man
Located in Dallas, TX
"Union" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female and male figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 299/350.
Inspired by The Creation Sculptures of the Washington National Cathedral...
Category
1990s Realist Sculptures
Materials
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...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chickadee Rhondo
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition 12/100. Original bronze bell sculpture by artist James Moore. Inscibed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Out of the Darkness
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze piece signed/etched by Artist on bronze base of sculpture with edition number.
4/25
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Adam Maquette", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Man Sculpture, 21x5x5 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Adam Maquette" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female and male figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 116/350.
“Adam is Everyman, pulled from the waters of baptism, concrete and universal, led by the fire of day by night, and the cloud of night by day — triumphing over the powers of darkness-emergent radiant in light.”After “Ex Nihilo” and “Adam” were carved into Indiana limestone...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Royal Copenhagen Figure Carving Boy / - Immersed in concentration -
Located in Berlin, DE
Christian Thomsen (1860 Kolding - 1921 Copenhagen), Carving boy, design around 1915, execution 1966. model number 905. First choice. Porcelain with underglaze painting. 18.5 cm (heig...
Category
1910s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
MINIATURE DOUBLE DIVER
Located in Aventura, FL
Bronze sculpture with 24K gold leaf caps on granite base. Variant of 48.
Artwork in Excellent Condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Please do not hesitate to ask us any further questions. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Carole A. Feuerman (American, born 1945) is a Hyper-Realist sculptor. Along with artists like Duane Hanson and John DeAndrea...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Wet Paint
Located in Wimberley, TX
Cammie Lundeen’s "Wet Paint" (Edition 29/100) is a captivating bronze sculpture that captures the charm and spontaneity of a young foal in a moment of repose. The piece features a la...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Torso in Drapery
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Classical theme of a Greek art inspires me. I am a big fan of a Greek mythology, so I depict it often". This sculpture shows beautiful woman in wet fabrics that emphasize body curve...
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Stone, 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...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
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
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bing & Grondahl Figure Girl in Jacke / - Arrival and Departure -
Located in Berlin, DE
Claire Weiss (1906-1997), Girl in Jacket, made between 1970 and 1982, model number 2387, first choice. Porcelain with underglaze painting. 18 cm (height) x 9 cm (length) x 7 cm (dept...
Category
1950s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Pendant Poodle sterling silver miniature sculpture/heart Paul Eaton of England
Located in Charleston, US
From Great Britain Paul Eaton VPRMS MAA hand carved a Poodle pendant an elegant sterling-silver miniature dog sculpture made into a jewelry piece you ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Ceramic Wall Sculpture of Crow #12 with Crystal in Beak
By Karla Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cv upon request
Karla Walter is an American artist who explores similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of individuals in our society.
Karla Walter went to ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Seahorse Couple (verdigris)-original wildlife marine sculpture-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 8
In the mesmerizing depths of An...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Zebra Shark -original modern bronze wildlife marine sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Enter the realm of the ocean's...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bontana -original modern bronze wildlife marine sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Step into the underwater realm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Titan Triggerfish -original bronze marine wildlife sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Embark on an aquatic adventure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Murene -original modern bronze wildlife marine sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Delve into the mysterious dept...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sifaka Lemur -original modern wildlife bronze sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Enter the enchanting world of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cameleon -original modern wildlife animal bronze sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Step into the world of camoufl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hippocampus original figurative bronze animal sculpture-artwork-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
This stunning bronze sculpture titled "Seahorse" encapsulates...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
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...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Spot (small)
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Etched signature by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
44/76
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Milk Glass Carved Sculpture Panel Cowboy Indian WPA Artist Americana
By Abraham Harriton
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a carved glass panel. I belive this is milk glass. it is a classic Americana scene of a cowboy or frontier trapper and an Indian or Native American with a feathered headdress...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Glass
King of the Rusted Crown
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Exhibited
"Distilled Beauty: Select Artists from the 14th International Art Renewal Center Salon" at American Legacy Fine...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Quarter Horse
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A life-sized fiberglass sculpture of a horse. This specific breed of horse the sculpture is based on is called Quarter Horse. Many visitors to our galler...
Category
1990s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass
Allegory of Progress / - The Driving Force of Inspiration -
Located in Berlin, DE
Ernest Rancoulet (1842-1918), Allegory of Progress, around 1890. Bronze-plated metal cast with cast terrain plinth mounted on a wooden base (6 cm high). 64.5 cm (total height) x 28 c...
Category
1890s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Treehouse
By Tim Cherry
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Etched signature by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
AP/18
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
When Pigs Fly (Black-triptych)-original realism wildlife sculpture-contemporary
Located in London, Chelsea
Henk Jan Sanderman's "When Pigs Fly (Black, Triptych)" presents a captivating exploration of whimsy and impossibility. This original artwork seamlessly combines sculpture and paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Reclining Woman" Karl Bitter, Reclining Woman with Reddish Patina
Located in New York, NY
Karl Bitter
Reclining Woman, 1897
Signed: Bitter 97
Stamped: GORHAM M F G CO.
Bronze
10.25 x 10.25 x 4 inches
Initially from Vienna, Karl Bitter first studied art at the city’s Kunstgewerbeschule and the Kunstakademie before being drafted into the Austrian army. He deserted his position in the military while on leave, and departed for New York City where he would discover considerable success. Early on, he won a competition for the Astor memorial bronze gates at Trinity Church, which awarded him enough capital to open his own studio. He went on to execute sculptures of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson at the Cuyahoga Courthouse in Cleveland; he also created portraits of Jefferson for the state of Missouri and the University of Virginia. These commissions caught the attention of sculptor Richard Morris Hunt (who famously designed the façade of the Metropolitan Museum), earning Bitter the duty of producing the portrait medallions that now appear near the top of the museum’s grand face.
Notably, he presented at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and directed the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. Over his career, his artwork became more flexible – his early academy training is easily identifiable within his work, but after moving to America, conventions of Modernism became more prevalent within his sculpture. In addition to many awards, Bitter presided over the National Sculpture Society in 1906-1907, and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Design, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League, and the Art Commission, New York. His public work can be found at the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC; Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA; Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, WI; United States Naval Academy...
Category
1890s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
FLORAL OUD VIII
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Introducing a Series of Ceramic Memorials by Nicolaas Maathuis - an exclusive collection that represents a fusion of artistry and functionality, offering a unique variation of memori...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Into the Blue"
Located in Denver, CO
"Into the Blue" is a digital print on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader.
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Panel, Digital
"Nothing Ventured"
Located in Denver, CO
"Nothing Ventured" is a digital print on 5 acrylic panels by Michelle Jader.
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Panel, Digital
A Figurative Impressionist Bronze Metal Sculpture, "Just A Minute"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 15x15x9 Figurative Impressionist Bronze Metal Sculpture. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery.
Manuelita Brown is a San Dieg...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Field worker with rake / - The Humility of the Farm Worker -
Located in Berlin, DE
Paul Ludwig Kowalczewski (1865 Mieltschin - 1910 Berlin), Field worker with rake, around 1900. Brown and brown-greenish patinated bronze with cast naturalistic plinth mounted on a wh...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dark Timber
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition AP 9/50. Original bronze sculpture by artist Greg Kelsey. Artist inscribed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Field of Blue
Located in Wimberley, TX
George W. Lundeen's Field of Blue is a poignant bronze sculpture that honors the sacrifices of military families with emotional depth. Standing 23 inches high, this limited-edition p...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
In the Rough
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by E.C. Wynne.
Edition #110/125.
Signed on bronze.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Space In Between II
By Lisa Gordon
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Lisa Gordon.
Edition #1/1.
Top two horses have magnetic bases so that they can be moved around
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Squirrel I, Bronze Sculpture by T. Galbreath
By T. Galbreath
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: T. Galbreath
Title: Squirrel I
Year: 1997
Medium: Bronze Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed
Edition: 71/100
Size: 7 in. x 3 in. x 3 in. (17.78 cm x 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm)
Category
1990s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Soaring Eagle / - With eagle eyes -
Located in Berlin, DE
Anonymous, Soaring Eagle, mid-20th century Patinated cast metal mounted on quartz block. 24 cm (total height) x 29 cm (width) x 12 cm (depth).
- Patina heavily rubbed in places, screw connections between sculpture and stone...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"Honesty Candle Holders" (2015) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Honesty Candle Holders" (2015) are original handmade candle holders made from bronze.
TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of unusual animals and botanical subjects. H...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Huntin' Buddies
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original sculpture signed/etched by the Artist on the base. 11/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nina Simone-Feeling Good -Bronze 26"
By Deborah Philips
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Nina Simone- Feeling Good Bronze
If you are a fan of Nina Simone, you know how beautifully the piece is executed.
"Feeling Good" - Birds flying high, Fish...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Winter World
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original sculpture signed/etched by the Artist on the base. 10/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Eucalyptus Candle Holder" (2024) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Eucalyptus Candle Holders" (2024) is an original handmade bronze candle holders that are made to look like eucalyptus plants.
TONY HOCHSTETLER is a sculptor of u...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Hot Wings (8/21)" (2023) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Wall Installation
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Hot Wings Wall Mount (8/21)" (2022) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a bushel of dried peppers with a bat flying downwards.
Tony Hochstetler...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Self-Made Man 19.5"
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signature of the Artist engraved in the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
323/1800
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.