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Art Subject: Archaeology
Janus I
Located in Boston, MA
Junghans (1956, Recklinghausen) creates abstract sculptures in stone, wood and bronze, mostly torsos and primal portraits, in a primitive, cubic and expressionistic imagery. He also ...
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2010s Sculptures

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Bronze

Discourse VII
Located in Boston, MA
Junghans (1956, Recklinghausen) creates abstract sculptures in stone, wood and bronze, mostly torsos and primal portraits, in a primitive, cubic and expressionistic imagery. He also ...
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2010s Sculptures

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Bronze

"Crow Warrior"
Located in Warren, NJ
This is an Edward Kemeys Sculpture Bronze “crow Warrior” Signed Titled. In good condition. Measures 8x8
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Late 19th Century Sculptures

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Bronze

La Posada
Located in PARIS, FR
La Posada by François-Rupert CARABIN (1862-1932) A bronze group with a silvered patina Signed on the base "R. Carabin" Old cast Numbered "5" France circa 1901 height 24 cm length ...
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Early 1900s French School Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

ANCIENT ROMAN MARBLE ALTAR FRAGMENT, 1ST/2ND CENTURY A.D.
Located in Milan, IT
Roman Marble Altar fragment from the 1st/2nd Century A.D. with the typical element of Roman rituals. Provenance: Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris...
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15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Mother Holding Baby Large Clay Sculpture Pre Columbian Style
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Mother Holding Baby, large terra-cotta and clay sculpture. From the Totonaca culture (state of Veracruz). Modern Pre Columbian style large sculpt...
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1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Terracotta, Resin

Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

''Macaque Icon'', Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of a Primate, Mother and Child
Located in Utrecht, NL
Nichola Theakston (1967) has established herself as one of the UK’s foremost contemporary sculptors working within the animal genre. Primates are Nichola's favorite subject. In her...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Samson, Bronze Sculpture by Arnold Goldstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bronze sculpture of blind Samson collapsing the temple in the ultimate act in the story of Samson and Delilah created by American artist Arnold Goldstein...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Men & Animal, Terracotta, Brown by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Untitled - 31 x 43 Inches ( framed size ) Terracotta Subrata Biswas’s three sculptures ‘Think Green’, ‘Amigo’ and ‘City Bred’ a conscious selection of elements of f...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Terracotta Bust Portrait of a Lady Italy 18th century
Located in Pistoia, IT
Terracotta bust, portrait of young lady, Italy, Tuscany, second half of the 18th century. The bust, entirely hand-molded, depicts a young woman with an intricate hairstyle wearing ...
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Late 18th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Alfreda, The Artist's Daughter - British 1950s plaster bust by Richard Garbe
Located in London, GB
RICHARD LOUIS GARBE, RA (1876-1957) Alfreda, The Artist’s Daughter Signed and dated 1956 Plaster with patinated surface on a wooden base 30 cm., 11 ¾ in. high Provenance: Gifted ...
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1950s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Plaster

Offering Post- Aitos, INDONESIAN , Tetum People, Timor Island
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An Indonesian offer post from the Tetum people of Timor Island. The work is stone and is unsigned.
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15th Century and Earlier Tribal Sculptures

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Stone

GROTESQUE MASK
Located in Milan, IT
GROTESQUE MASK Italy, 15h Century stone 30 x 31 x 20 cm 11 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in
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15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures

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Stone

Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Céramique Art Déco, d’après un modèle de Maurice Guiraud-Rivière
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Sculpture art déco en céramique d’après un modèle du sculpteur Maurice Guiraud-Rivière (1881-1947), réalisée dans l'usine de Boulogne d'André Fau et Marcel Guillard Céramique craquel...
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1920s Art Deco Nude Sculptures

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Ceramic

Horse - Taal Mayon, Sculpture by Ben Gonzales
By Ben A. Gonzales
Located in Long Island City, NY
Title: Horse - Taal Mayon Year: 1981 Medium: Terra Cotta Sculpture, signed and dated Size: 20.5 in. x 23 in. x 6 in. (52.07 cm x 58.42 cm x 15.24 cm)
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1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

"Witness" (Desert Pronghorn)
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Witness (Dessert Pronghorn)" by Heidi Moller Somsen, ceramic, 14 1/2 X 20 in., $2,000. The desert pronghorn are fascinating creatures, and the only large, plant-eating mammal speci...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic

ANCIENT MONUMENTAL MARBLE LION FOUNTAIN HEAD ROMAN EMPIRE 1ST/2ND CENTURY AD
Located in Milan, IT
Large roman carved marble fountain head representing a lion Rome, I-II Century AC Bonham's London, 22 September 1998, lot 485; formerly in the pr...
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15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Woman - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Busto uomo gesso policromo - Gustave Fontaine 1877- 1952
Located in Stienta, IT
Gustave FONTAINE ( Etterbeek 1877-1952 Bruxelles). misure opera (vedi scheda tecnica) superficie della base d'appoggio 32 x 17 cm Scultore policromo e pittore. Seguì dei corsi a ...
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Early 1900s Figurative Sculptures

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Chalk

Ancient Greek Terracotta Comic Actor Figurine
Located in Milan, IT
TERRACOTTA FIGURINE OF A COMIC ACTOR , Greece, c. 350 B.C. Labeled to the reverse, 'LAWRENCE COLL./LOT 426. SOTHEBY./APR. 1892. P. 816.'; Terracotta height 15.2 cm height 6 in Prove...
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15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta, ABS

Pieta Lime Wood Sculpture Franco Burgundian late 15th century
Located in Pistoia, IT
Beautiful linden wood carving depicting a Pieta. France, Burgundian-Flemish current, late 15th to early 16th century. This theme is not found in the Bible but is derived from apocr...
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15th Century and Earlier Northern Renaissance Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

LARGE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MARBLE CAPITAL, 15th/16th Century
Located in Milan, IT
LARGE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE MARBLE CAPITAL Florence, 15th/16th Century marble 38 x 47 x 47 cm 15 x 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 in
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16th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

"Ex Nihilo Fragment 3", Frederick Hart, Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 43x31x18 in
Located in Dallas, TX
"Ex Nihilo Fragment 3" by Frederick Hart is a figurative bronze with the edition of 61/65. I saw Ex Nihilo (Out of Nothingness) as a single expression of creation, as the metamorphosis of divine spirit and energy. The figures emerge from the nothingness of chaos, caught in the moment of eternal transformation — the majesty and mystery of divine force in a state of becoming. -Frederick Hart Ex Nihilo, Fragment No.3. Detail from the full-scale plaster for the final stone sculpture of Ex Nihilo, commissioned as part of The Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Zeke & Zach 11/18" Abstract Figurative Bronze sculpture of a man and horse
Located in Edgartown, MA
The historic tradition of cast bronze provides a contemporary avenue for the creation of Wayne Salge’s abstracted human and animal figures. Thoroughly modern and distinctly impressio...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

"Calling Head, " Opal Stone Sculpture signed by Shona artist Gift Muchenje
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Calling Head" is an original opal stone sculpture by Gift Muchenje. The artist signed the piece and it weighs 155 lbs. This artwork features a woman with ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Stone

"Bronze Statue - Ife, Nigeria, " Bronze Sculpture created circa 1920s
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bronze Statue - Ife, Nigeria" is a bronze sculpture created in circa 1920. This figure has short legs and a short torso, but a large head. They held out their hands with two objects...
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1920s Tribal Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

French School of the 17th century Large Group in Terracotta
Located in Pistoia, IT
Large terracotta group depicting interior scene, northern France, second half of the 17th century. The fine execution of this delightful family interior takes us back to the product...
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Late 17th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Gothic Renaissance wooden sculpture: bust of a young Saint or Angel
Located in Norwich, GB
This young saint or angel has suffered over the centuries, but his spirit has not been broken - and miraculously, his beautiful face has remained intact. With a gentle face and an al...
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15th Century and Earlier Gothic Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

Rotation, Cast Sculpture of Ballet Dancers in Movement, 20th Century Metal Art
Located in Denver, CO
Cast sculpture titled 'Rotation' by artist Eric James Bransby (1916-2020) depicting six ballet dancers in motion and a flying cupid above them to the right. Sculpture measures 12 3/4 x 25 1/4 x 1/2 inches. Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Eric Bransby About the Artist: Born New York, 1916 Eric James Bransby was a muralist, painter, illustrator, and teacher. Bransby studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center in Colorado under Thomas Hart Benton, Jean Charlot, Boardman Robinson, and Josef Albers. He also studied at the Yale School of Fine Art. Bransby painted the Rockhurst Library Triptych Mural at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, where he was an associate professor of art. Bransby has also painted murals at Brigham Young University, the Air Force Academy, Colorado College, and the Air Defense Command. Bransby was a longtime resident of Colorado Springs and a member of the National Society of Mural Painters. In 1997, the University of Colorado awarded him a doctorate of humane letters, and the Colorado College Alumni Association honored him with a medal for lifetime achievement in 1998. Exhibited: Association of American Art, 1941; Kansas City AI, 1940; Joslyn Art Museum, 1940; Oakland Art Museum, 1940; Oklahoma Art Center, 1945 (solo); Denver Art Museum, 1951; Library of Congress, 1944, 1951; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, 1951. Works held: Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.; Princeton University; Oklahoma Art Center; Brigham Young University; murals, Command and Genl. Staff Sch., USA, Ft. Leavenworth, Kans.; Colorado College; USAF, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Hq. NORAD, Colorado Springs; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; Medical Center, Colorado Springs; University of Illinois. Further Reading: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Vol. I. Peter Hastings Falk, Georgia Kuchen and Veronica Roessler, eds., Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999. 3 Vols. ©David Cook Galleries...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Large Romanesque Cistercian marble capital. Northern Italy.
Located in PARIS, FR
Large romanesque capital with water leaf in red Verona marble. This type of capital is typical of 12th century Cistercian abbeys and represents a tr...
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15th Century and Earlier Medieval Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Gandharan Frieze with Scenes from the Life of Buddha
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A schist stone carving from 2nd/3rd Century Gandhara depicting scenes from the life of Buddha. Provenance: Spink and Sons LTD, 1985.
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15th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures

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Stone

Homage à Kahnweiler / - The Appearance of Genius-
Located in Berlin, DE
Irmgard Biernath (1905 Waldheim in Saxony - 1998 Mainz), Hommage à Kahnweiler, 1984. Terracotta relief, burnished red body, 43.5 x 38 cm, mounted on support plate, in wooden frame 57 x 49.5 cm, monogrammed "IB" at lower right. - Isolated patina losses, but overall good condition, frame slightly bumped. - The Appearance of Genius- This homage to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler shows the gallerist and art theorist as Pablo Picasso portrayed him in his lithographic portrait of 1957. As an innovative Parisian gallery owner, Kahnweiler had exclusively represented Picasso since 1911, while Picasso had painted his famous portrait of Kahnweiler the previous year as a major work of Cubism. And it is Picasso who appears at the centre of Irmgard Biernath's image. Here, his face echoes the features of the self-portrait he painted in 1907 in the Prague National Gallery. His eyes are wide open as he gazes into the distance, surrounded by the works of his artistic vision that have already taken shape. On the right is the bronze "Man with Sheep...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

Portrait - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

JAMES BROWN Moroccan VI - 1993 Bronze abstract Sculpture of Head - small edition
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
From the signed and numbered edition of 6. James Brown's artwork can be found on the collections of: Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris Musee Cantini, Marse...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

This American Life 4/9
Located in Napa, CA
jd Hansen creates art that explores the juxtaposition of vulnerability and strength using the human and animal form. Her work excavates the intricacies of human psychology, non-verba...
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2010s Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Altorilievo in Marmo della Montagnola Senese Profilo Siena XIV secolo
Located in Pistoia, IT
Altorilievo in marmo della Montagnola Senese raffigurante un profilo femminile a mezzo busto, Siena, XIV secolo. L'altorilievo, nella tradizione senese del XIV secolo, si caratter...
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15th Century and Earlier Medieval Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

ANTIQUE ITALIAN ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS WITH CHIMERAS
Located in Milan, IT
ARCHITECTURAL RELIEFS WITH CHIMERAS Central Italy, 16th Century green marble 26 x 25 cm 10 1/4 x 9 3/4 in
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16th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Bird - Sculpture by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Nude
By Ybah
Located in Pasadena, CA
After studying fine arts, a need for contact with solid material was needed. Ybah took a classic artistic path from an academic education from the Louvre reproductions, learning at t...
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20th Century Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Nude
Nude
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Earth, midsize
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sculpture of a woman representing the element of earth.
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Vos Fox Bronze Sculpture Girl with Fox Figure People Animal
Located in Utrecht, NL
Vos Fox Bronze Sculpture Girl with Fox Figure People Animal The statues of Erwin Meijer are subtle with a recognizable, personal handwriting. T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Boris Lovet-Lorski Limestone Art Deco Head, circa 1930
Located in New York, NY
White stone head in the art deco style. Born in Lithuania at the end of the nineteenth century, Boris Lovet-Lorski studied art at the Imperial Academy of Art in St. Petersburg before working briefly as an architect. He immigrated to New York in 1920 and became an American citizen five years later. His sculptures epitomize the ideals of the Art Deco decades: comprised of sleek lines and smooth surfaces, the streamlined compositions reflect the new technological forms of the machine age. Despite their modernist treatment, Lovet-Lorski’s elegant, stylized figures reference both ancient and classical sources and are characterized by a universal and serene sensibility. Concentrating on figural busts, familial groups, and standing female nudes as his subject matter, the artist rendered them in a variety of media. The materials range from the traditional bronze and marble to exotic woods and unusual stones; each is carefully selected so that its surface texture and color contribute to the emotive aura of the work. Carved out of a block of limestone, Untitled (Head) depicts a female visage nearly androgynous in its idealization. The delicate features of her face, the long, straight nose, thin pursed lips and high cheekbones, are made even more diminutive by the massive bulk of the stone that serves as their backdrop. The prominent widow’s peak of her hairline and the strong arch of her brow, two of Lovet-Lorski’s most distinctive characteristics, are elongated to accentuate the linear rhythms of the composition. The layers of her hair are delineated by stepped striations reminiscent of archaic precedents, which meld into structural columns and connect the form architecturally to the stone’s mass. Unlike the majority of Lovet-Lorski’s sculptures, in which the heads of the figures are tilted to the side or downward to convey a pensive mood, the woman in Untitled (Head) looks straight ahead. Her frontal positioning gives the composition a nearly perfect symmetry, in turn endowing the work with a still, eternal sensibility. The notched surface of the surrounding limestone stands in sharp contrast to the smoothness of her skin. In the twenties, the artist tended to finish his sculptures to a highly polished degree of refinement, but in the thirties he began to experiment with contrasts of texture and the aesthetic of the fragment. In this respect, the work is vaguely evocative of Egyptian funerary sculptures, in which the figures were carved with an eye for three-dimensionality but were left intact in a larger piece of stone to give them physical durability and permanence. Embodying classical ideals of stoicism and universal beauty, the sculpture ultimately exudes a surface allure that is difficult to resist. A similar example of this approach can be seen in the 1937 sculpture Diana, which resides in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Carved from a piece of black Belgian marble, the work is a stylized bust of the Greek goddess Diana...
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1930s Figurative Sculptures

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Limestone

Life Size Sculpture of Female Head in Terracotta Clay "Klaudia"
Located in New York, NY
Terracotta life-size female head. Rushton sculpts all of his busts using live models over the course of multiple sittings. While realistic and classical in character, his sculpture...
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2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta, Clay

Head of Avalokiteshvara, KHMER, Cambodia, Bayon Style
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A gray sandstone head of Avalokiteshvara, Khmer, Cambodia, Bayon Style from the 13th century. The artwork is unsigned. Provenance: Charles Craig, Privat...
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15th Century and Earlier Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Seated Woman (1958) by Chana Orloff (1888–1968)
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Chana Orloff (1888–1968) Seated Woman, 1958 Bronze, Height: 55 cm Signed, dated, and numbered 3/8 Stamped with foundry mark Susse Fondeur, Paris A masterful example of Chana Orloff’...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Life Size Sculpture of Male Head in Patina Bronze "Giorgi"
Located in New York, NY
Bronze life-size male head with a dark brown patina. Rushton sculpts all of his busts using live models over the course of multiple sittings. While realistic and classical in charac...
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2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Ceramic Foo Dogs: 'Guardian Dogs'
Located in New York, NY
Guardians of temples or shrines placed on each side of entrance, believed to ward off Evil Spirit’s. They look Angry, but not at You. They are Protecting you from Bad Spirits! The m...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Glaze, Underglaze

Terracotta Galloping Horse. Signed by Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981)
Located in Firenze, IT
  Terracotta galloping horse. Signed on the base by the sculptor Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981). Period: 1930-40 Terracotta modeled by hand by the artist. Unique piece. Dimensions: Heigh...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Ducks in a Row
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist on bronze base of sculpture with edition number. 2/35
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Bedouin Mother with Child
By Céline Lepage
Located in PARIS, FR
Bedouin Mother with Child by Céline LEPAGE (1882-1928) Bronze with a dark greenish brown patina signed on the base "Lepage" cast by "Alexis Rudier, fondeur, Paris" (with the foundry...
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1920s French School Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

'Bronze, Seated Nude', Paris, Académie Chaumière, Salon D'Automne, LACMA, Woman
By Caroline Lloyd
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Seated Nude', Paris, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Salon D'Automne, Woman Artist, LACMA, GGIE, Jeu de Paume Signed 'Lloyd' for Caroline Lloyd (Americ...
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1930s Modern Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

Bronze Sculpture Wall Relief Judaica Jewish Matriarchs Modernist Leonard Baskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) Jewish Matriarchs, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah with Hebrew calligraphy Bronze, 1998 9.5 X 9 inches Judaic biblical bronze of Jewish mothers. Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Arman, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Antique Italian Terracotta Figure Of The Child Hercules, Rome, 18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
After Alessandro Algardi (Bologna, 1585 - Roma,1654) YOUNG HERCULES, Italy, 18th Century terracotta 44 x 25 x 25 cm 17 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in This lovely sculpture represents the young Hercules, seated with his legs crossed, gently holding a bird with his right hand, raised in the air, while supporting his own weight with his left hand. The artwork refers to the notorious Roman sculpture of the young Hercules killing the snakes sent by Hera, exhibited at the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Academics have identified the young emperor Caracalla or, more recently, Annio Vero, son of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, in the portrait of the sculpture. During the 16th Century there has been an increasing interest of patrons towards the theme of mythology and several acclaimed Italian sculptors worked on the creation of sculptures and depictions of Roman Gods. Among them, the distinguished baroque artist Alessandro Algardi worked on the restoration of several ancient sculptures...
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18th Century Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Terracotta

Head Bronze Sculpture Big Portrait Green Patina Face Human
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Head Bronze Sculpture Big Portrait Green Patina Face Human KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien (Var), France 2014). He c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Bronze Blower, 2011
Located in Atlanta, GA
In the work of the sculptor and painter Samuel Salcedo, it is possible to raise a deep and at the same time fun reflection on the human condition. He st...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL MARBLE BAS-RELIEF PLAQUE
Located in Milan, IT
ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL MARBLE BAS-RELIEF PLAQUE Italy, 19th Century marble 22 x 29.5 cm 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 in
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Early 19th Century Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

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The world’s top designers explain how they display art to elicit the natural (and supernatural) energy of home interiors.

Chryssa’s 1962 Neon Sculpture Was Way ahead of the Art-World Curve

By working with lettering, neon and Pop imagery, Chryssa pioneered several postmodern themes at a time when most male artists detested commercial mediums.

How to Spot a Fake KAWS Figure

KAWS art toys have developed an avid audience in recent decades, and as in any robust collectible market, counterfeiters have followed the mania. Of course, you don’t have to worry about that on 1stDibs, where all our sellers are highly vetted.

A Giant Wedding Cake Has Us Looking at Portuguese Tiles in a New Light

At Waddesdon Manor, artist Joana Vasconcelos has installed a three-tiered patisserie inspired by the narrative tile work of her homeland. We take a look at the cake sculpture and how Portuguese tiles have been used in architecture from the 17th century to today.

These Soft Sculptures Are Childhood Imaginary Friends Come to Life

Miami artist and designer Gabriela Noelle’s fantastical creations appeal to the Peter Pan in all of us.

Hideho Tanaka Carefully Stitched Together Pieces of Paper to Make This Sculptural Textile

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