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Maternity Patinated Bronze Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Maternity 1982
Patinated bronze on marble base.
artist signed edition VI/VII; 1982
Filipe Castaneda was born in 1933 in La Palma in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. The area in which...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
White Marble Sculpture Statue by Antonio Piazza
Located in New York, NY
ANTONIO PIAZZA
Italian, (Late 19th/Early 20th Century)
signed 'A. Piazza Carrara'
33 1/2 x 14 in. x 13 in.
Notes: A Fine Italian Carrara Marble Figure of a Boy Holding a Hat
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Bust of an Oriental woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Bust of an Oriental woman
by Emile GUILLEMIN (1841-1907)
Orientalist bronze sculpture with triple patina, gilded, dark reddish brown and silvered.
France
circa 1880
total height 63 ...
Category
1880s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Couple de danseurs from Cibot in resin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Sculpture in Resin from Elisabeth Cibot
Born in 1960 in a family of artists collecting the bronzes of the Italian Renaissance, sculpture has always been part of the environment of...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Antigone Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary Mythology
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Antigone Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary Mythology
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling and sculp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Diana with an arrow
Located in PARIS, FR
Diana with an arrow
by Albert-Ernest CARRIER-BELLEUSE (1824-1887)
Bronze sculpture with a dual light and dark brown patina
signed on the base "Carrier-Belleuse"
inscribed on a front plaque "Diane à la Flèche par Carrier-Belleuse (Sculptr)"
France
circa 1870
height 83 cm
arrow added probably in the 20th c.
Biography :
Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse known as Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887) was one of the most prolific artists of the century and had the greatest successes under the Second Empire, enjoying the personal support of Napoleon III. His work was greatly influenced by the style of the Italian Renaissance and that of the 18th century, which he helped to bring up to date.
In 1837, the young Carrier-Belleuse apprenticed in the workshop of the engraver Bauchery. He was admitted soon after to the goldsmith Jacques Henri Fauconnier. Through François Arago, he met the sculptor David d'Angers who facilitated his admission to the School of Fine Arts. Carrier-Belleuse entered it in 1840. Noted for his skill by the great bronze companies in Paris such as Barbedienne and Denière, he soon received numerous orders for models for candelabras, pendulums, fittings for fireplaces, etc. In 1848, probably at the initiative of François Arago, who became head of state, he received his first public order for a small statue of "Mademoiselle Rachel singing La Marseillaise". In 1851, he appeared for the first time at the Salon of French Artists, where he presented two bronze medallions. From 1851 to 1855, Carrier-Belleuse stayed in England, in Stoke-on-Trent where he served as director of the modeling and drawing school of the Minton house, a large porcelain manufacturer.
Back in France, Carrier-Belleuse moved to Paris in a large workshop located 15 rue de la Tour d´Auvergne. From 1857, he made regular sendings to the Salon and became famous thanks to the success of large marbles, such as the "Bacchante" exhibited at the Salon in 1863, and acquired by Napoleon III, "Angelica" (1866) or even "Hebe asleep" (1869). At the Salon of 1867, his group entitled "Messiah" earned him the medal of honor of sculpture. It was acquired by the State to adorn the Chapel of the Virgin in the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church.
Carrier-Belleuse acquired a great reputation in parallel for his terracotta busts which, in many respects, recall those of 18th century artists. He made portraits of a large number of celebrities of his time. He produced, among others, the busts of Napoleon III, Renan, Thiers, Grévy, Arago, Marguerite Bellanger, Théophile Gautier, Honoré Daumier, Delacroix, Hortense Schneider, Réjane… He also modelled numerous busts of mythological inspiration and historical and artistic portraits like Marie Stuart, Shakespeare or even Mozart.
Carrier-Belleuse used and trained in his workshop in the rue de la Tour d´Auvergne many young talented artists such as Alexandre Falguière, Jules Desbois...
Category
1870s French School Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mystiek Portret Mystical Portrait Bronze Sculpture on Stone Classic Contemporary
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Mystiek Portret Mystical Portrait Bronze Sculpture on Stone Classic Contemporary
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Danse Mystique Dance Mystic Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Danse Mystique Dance Mystic Bronze Sculpture Classical Contemporary
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hatter Teapot
By Ahrong Kim
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- Humans are emotional creatures. Individuals feel a diverse range of emotions even during a short time or on a small occasion. Emotion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Luster, Stoneware
$1,800
Artista fiorentino del XVII secolo da Verrocchio putto fontana in terracotta
Located in Florence, IT
Questa statua in terracotta in eccellente stato conservativo considerata l'età e la fragilità del materiale, raffigura un putto nell'atto di soffiare, colto in una posa di intenso p...
Category
17th Century Renaissance Nude Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Antique Buddhist High Priest Polychrome Wood Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Buddhist High Priest in sitting position on lotus flower,
Polychrome Wood Sculpture
Rare early 19th-Century Balinese wood sculpture of the ...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Laura Bronze Sculpture Female Figure Lying Down Woman
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Laura Bronze Sculpture Female Figure Lying Down Woman
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Nude
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "1938-42 Morgan Russell" with monogram on base
cast circa 1982 with permission of the Estate of Morgan Russell
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
16th Century Venetian bronze sculpture of a Young Man in Armour
Located in Milan, IT
16th Century Venetian bronze sculpture of a Young Man in Armour attributed to the Florentine artist Andrea di Alessandri, called Il Bresciano (Fl...
Category
16th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Seated female figure: 'Ngeuse rèflèchie'
Located in New York, NY
‘I have created characters since I was a child.
I studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, but now I have a preference for sculpture.
I do not have an intellectual proc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Young St. John the Baptist by Domenico Menconi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Masterfully carved with remarkable detail, a youthful Saint John the Baptist folds his hands in prayer in this stunning marble by the important Italian sculptor Domenico Menconi. The...
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Seated Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mark Morrison (1895-1964)
Seated Woman, ca. 1950
Carved and polished red Italian marble
4.75" wide, 6 3/8" deep, height is 16.5""
Provenance: Estate of Mrs. Mark Morrison.
Born...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Stone
$5,600 Sale Price
30% Off
Verso Te Italy Bronze Cast Woman Figurine Sculpture by Aron Demetz
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense bronze sculpture was made by the well known Italian artist, Aron Demetz, in 2004, Italy.
This is a lost wax bronze hand painted. The title is "Verso te" translated in "T...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Madame du Barry white marble bust by French sculptor Augustin Pajou (1730-1810)
Located in Bath, Somerset
A 19th century white marble bust of Marie-Jeanne Bécu, the Comtesse du Barry after the 18th century original by the French sculptor Augustin Pajou. ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
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...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Keeping the Ball Rolling
Located in Greenwich, CT
Life-size sculpture of a bare-footed boy balancing himself atop a ball.
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Embrione II - hand carved contemporary figurative Italian marble sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Abstract modern white Carrara marble sculpture by contemporary Italian sculptor Lorenzo Vignoli, interpreting classical references and contemporary Mediterranean influences
Embrione...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Marble, Carrara Marble
Standing female figure: 'Acrobate plongeuse'
Located in New York, NY
‘I have created characters since I was a child.
I studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, but now I have a preference for sculpture.
I do not have an intellectual proc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Fine gilt bronze Figural Mantel clock
By P.G. Philippe Grobe
Located in New York, NY
An ornate rocaille scrolled base with garland swags, centered the enamel white clock face with Roman and Arabic Numerals, the face with, G. Philippe, Palais Royal 66, flanked by two ...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Marc Sijan Hyperrealist Contemporary Plaster Sculpture Woman and Champagne Glass
By Marc Sijan
Located in Surfside, FL
Marc Sijan (American, born 1946)
Hyper realistic wall sculpture. titled and dated on verso
"Champagne Glass"
1986
Limited edition number 14/95. Features a Art Deco style girl in ...
Category
1980s Photorealist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Glass, Plaster
Amoroso Bronze Sculpture Couple Love Beloved Loving Man and Woman Portrait
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Amoroso Bronze Sculpture Couple Love Beloved Loving Man and Woman Portrait
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare Cast Painted Bronze Head Sculpture British Realist Sculptor John Davies
Located in Surfside, FL
John Davies (Cheshire, 1946), British sculptor.
Bronze sculpture head
Unique cast (1/1)
This was shown at Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd in a show called John Davies New Sculpt...
Category
1990s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Four Season Extraordinary Set of Italian Stone Term Figure Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
Four Term Figure sculptures with classically draped figures and their distinguishing symbols in carved Vicenza stone. Autumn, winter, spring and summer. Measures: Height with squar...
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
TAULA DAVANT DEL MAR. HOMENATGE A ERIC SATIE
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Gran plafón en cerámica esmaltada inspirada en la obra de Salvador Dalí titulada: "Taula davant del mar,
Homenatge a Eric Satie".
Firmada.
Realizado por Grisline Corp en el año 1981,...
Category
1980s Surrealist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Portrait of Lincoln, bronze relief sculpture by Pedro Quesada Sierra
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rendered in bronze, this bas-relief portrait of the 16th president of the United States is from a limited run of only two editions. The wall-mounted artwork is signed in the metal ve...
Category
1960s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hyperrealistic Bronze Female Head Lost-Wax Sculpture, Hollow Skull, Contemporary
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Hyperrealistic bronze female head sculpture with hollowed skull evokes mystery and organic patina. Soño (24 × 17 × 22 cm) by Aldonza is cast by the artist using the traditional lost-...
Category
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
THE LAST DAYS OF NAPOLÉON BY
Located in New Orleans, LA
This highly evocative bronze by Vincenzo Vela captures the deposed Emperor Napoléon on his deathbed, holding a map of Europe and lost in thought about what might have been. Remarkable among most portrayals of the exiled leader, this highly detailed sculpture depicts Napoléon at his most vulnerable. Nonetheless, Vela perfectly captures his still-heroic bearing, which imparts to this work a monumental quality and quiet dignity. The mate to this figure is the colossal marble at the Musée du Château de Malmaison, which was shown at the Paris Salon of 1867.
The founder of the verismo movement in Italy, Vela was one of the great exponents of realism in sculpture. Born in Ligornetto, Switzerland in 1820, he studied under celebrated sculptor, Benedetto Cacciatori. He was also influenced both by the work of Tuscan sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, who seamlessly combined neoclassicism with naturalism and the romantic painting of Francesco Hayez...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
RAKEL WAJNBERG - Malab’art Frida 33cm
Located in PARIS, FR
Born in Paris in 1971, Rakel lives and works in Boulogne Billancourt, close to Paris. Rakel draws and paints since her early childhood. Passionate about fashion, drawing, traveling a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plexiglass, Acrylic
Married Love by Oscar Nemon
Located in New Orleans, LA
Oscar Nemon
1906 - 1985 Croatian
Married Love
Signed “Nemon” (on reverse)
Bronze resin with green patina
This rousing and sentimental sculpture, commis...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Man met Kraag Man with Collar Unique Bronze Sculpture Contemporary
By Erwin Meijer
Located in Utrecht, NL
Man met Kraag Man with Collar Unique Bronze Sculpture Contemporary
The statues of Erwin Meijer are subtle with a recognizable, personal handwriting.
They breathe the atmosphere of a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Patinated Bronze Sculpture of a Girl with Doll by Auguste Moreau
Located in New York, NY
LOUIS AUGUSTE MOREAU (French, 1834-1917)
Signed ‘auguste moreau’
19th Century
24 1/2 in. x 11 in. x 11 in.
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
SOPHIA: “The Birth of Culture” Peter Brenner - Bronze sculpture, mythology
Located in Paris, FR
Sophia: “the Birth of Culture” is a sculpture by Guatemalan artist Walter Peter Brenner, dimensions are 100 × 41 × 21 cm (39.3 × 16.1 × 8.3 in).
This sculpture is part of a limited...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"The Source", Frederick Hart, Bronze Sculpture & Fountain, Half Life Size, 1995
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Source" by Frederick Hart is a figurative bronze with a glass orb and a working water fountain with edition 94/175. This edition has been Sold out from the creation date of 1995...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Woman - 21st Century, Contemporary Bronze Figurative Sculpture, Female Nude
Located in Warsaw, PL
RYSZARD PIOTROWSKI (born in 1952) Sculptor. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His works include intimate, small forms in marble, bronze and silver. He specializes in repoussage. In the 1970s and 80s he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jose Cardona Ferro Bronze Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jose Cardona Ferro: 1878-1923. Well listed Spanish artist also known as just Jose Cardona. He has had auction prices over $4000. This charming bronze of a...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Stingaree
Located in Dallas, TX
"Stingaree" by artist David Everett is polychromed mahogany, and measures 43 3/8 x 40 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. It is signed "© D EVERETT 2017". It depicts a mother and child, pelican and...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany, Paint
$22,000
The Hunt Large Bronze Sculpture Ferdinand Barbedienne Fondeur Napoleon III
Located in Pistoia, IT
Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) "The Hunt.
Impressive bronze sculpture with brown patina, 98 cm tall. Signature "E. Barrias" on the rock; "F. Barbedienne fondeur Paris" and mechanic...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Earth
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 17
Jane DeDecker’s energetic and dynamic bronze sculptures serve as a reflection of her own life experiences and those of her closely-knit family. Her twelve nieces and ne...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$40,500
Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) Figural Bronze statue of The Allegory of Spring
Located in New York, NY
Allegory of Spring
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...
Category
Late 19th Century Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italian Bronze Sculpture of Nude Woman, Mid 20th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mario Spampinato (Italian 1912–2000)
Nude
Bronze
Signed on base
17.5 in. h. x 5.75 in. w. x 6 in. d.
The artist was born, raised and trained in Italy. During one of his exhibits (at San Marcos in Rome) the Director of a New York Gallery asked him to come to New York to work for him. The American Consul, before issuing his visa, asked Spampinato to create a bust of him. In exchange, the Consul paid for his passage on the boat to New York. In New York, he worked with his brother Clemente Spampinato who is a well known sculptor as well.
After moving to Chicago in 1954, he discovered that there was no foundry in the Midwest that could cast his bronzes. So, he opened his own foundry called the Spampinato Art Foundry, casting in the lost wax process. He also started his own private school (Spampinato Art Workshop, Ltd) and did some teaching at the University of Chicago and conducted seminars at Lawrence University in Kansas.
Many of his own works are pictured and cataloged in Volumes 2 & 3 of Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930 by Harold Berman.
Between 1959 and 1967, Spampinato recast a number of Charles M Russell...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Bust of a Gentleman by Nison Tregor
Located in Brookville, NY
Nison Tregor
Born in Lithuania of Polish parents, Nison Tregor studied sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. After immigrating to the United State...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bogota's Glory
Located in PARIS, FR
Bogota's Glory
by Henri Bouchard (1875-1960)
Sculpture in bronze with a nuanced yellow-brown patina
Signed "H. Bouchard" on the base
Cast by "Siot" (stamp)
France
circa 1927
height...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Superb Neoclassical White Marble Bust of Flora France 1850 '
Located in Rome, IT
Superbly carved white statuary Carrara marble bust of Flora, the goddess of flowers.
Flora was often associated with the coming of spring and th...
Category
1850s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Who needs Wings Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary Female Portrait
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Who needs Wings Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary Female Portrait
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Disremembered II
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of her work...
Arrested Symphony is an exhibition incorporating sculptures, reliefs, drawings and hanging works that explore the theme of injustice that is at the roots of the predatory gem and mineral excavation industry. While at a residency in Knoxville, Tennessee, I discovered that Oakridge was only 30 miles away. Oakridge played a key role in the development of the Atom Bomb and the Manhattan Project. I began an exploration and comparison of Uranium and Emeralds. These minerals look very much alike, beautiful but dangerous on their effect on civil conflict. Colombia my birthplace, has the finest Emeralds in the world. The mining of Emeralds was an important element in the continued colonization of the region. Emeralds have helped to fund the more than 60-year conflict which has taken over 450,000 lives and displaced about 5.7 million people. Uranium has brought destruction to a level which altered the future of warfare. The developments made during the Manhattan Project led to the death of about 700,000 people and its effects are still felt around the world. I use Colombia as an example, however this situation is repeating itself in many parts of the world. Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo are all involved in brutal civil conflicts fueled by Blood Diamonds. This project will make visual the human cost extracted with these minerals, once exposed to the light of day they can never be unearthed.
My practice is an ongoing object-based exploration through which I create artworks which are organic and improvisational constructions that are infused with hope and renewal. The hand-crafted artworks are poetically and intricately crafted, creating an intimate repository for the individual and collective memory and implement the human body as a symbol and expression of nature, vulnerability and power. The work encourages viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives especially when dealing with the aftermath of Colonialism and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion.
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Smack Mellon Gallery, Neuberger Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Queens Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MoMA PS1, Socrates Sculpture Park and White-box Gallery in New York City. Nationally Cortes exhibitions include Cleveland Art Museum, OH, CSU Galleries at Cleveland University, OH, Helen Day Art Center, VT and The Lorenzo Homar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Flower Fairy, Bronze Sculpture by Volodymyr Mykytenko, 2009
Located in Zofingen, AG
Volodymyr Mykytenko - flower Fairy (2009)
flower Fairy-Flower fairies are graceful creatures that wield the magic of nature to promote the growth of flowers. Fairies live in the for...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Eye Glow Mask" Woman with Kaleidoscopic Pattern on Dimensional Structure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Eye Glow Mask" is an original painted dimensional work by Sarah Detweiler and is part of Detweiler's "Spectrum of Curiosities" series, featuring whimsical portrait...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Mirror, Wood, Oil
"Ex Nihilo Figure 3", Frederick Hart, Bronze Sculpture, Figurative Man
Located in Dallas, TX
Ex Nihilo Figure 3 is a full scale plaster from the final stone sculpture of Ex Nihilo, commissioned as part of the The Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$144,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Femme de Mequinez
Located in New York, NY
HENRI-HONORÉ PLÉ
French, 1853-1922
Femme de Mequinez
An important orientalist polychrome patinated bronze bust sculpture with gilt highlights surmounted on rouge marble.
H 26 ...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Douceur Bronze Sculpture Sweetness Head Portrait Black Female
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Douceur Bronze Sculpture Sweetness Head Portrait Black Female
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Ju...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Do Not Touch
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 2020, this painted resin and steel multiple with accompanying acrylic painting on canvas with original wood crate is signed by Javier Calleja (Spain, 1978 - ) in black ink...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$18,000 Sale Price
28% Off
The Song
Located in PARIS, FR
The Song
by Félix CHARPENTIER (1858-1924)
Bronze sculpture with a very nuanced dark brown patina
Signed on the base " Félix Charpentier "
Cast by "E. Colin & Cie Paris" (foundry ma...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Nude 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...
Category
18th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
A late 17th Italian carved limewood figure of Mermaid, circle of Filippo Parodi
Located in PARIS, FR
A late 17th c. Italian carved figure of Mermaid,
Circle of Filippo Parodi (Genoa, 1630 – July 22, 1702)
Dimensions: h. 29.13 in, w. 30.31 in, p. 18.9 in (at the base)
Magnificent Italian Baroque sculpture depicting a mermaid seated on the rock.
All the virtuosity of the sculptor unfolds in this carved group. The fantastic creature is featured seated, the upper part of the body darting forward, the head looking upwards. Sophisticated hairstyle with rows of pearls intertwined in her hair, her loose locks fly in the wind and bring movement to the whole sculpture.
The wide-open eyes with hollowed-out pupils make it possible to follow the mermaid's gaze, towards the sky. The half-open mouth further magnifies this bewitching and seductive attitude.
Its long double tail ending in fins wraps on either side of a rocky mound strewn with objects evoking the underwater world: seashells and shells, branches of coral.
The ornamental richness combined with the great care taken in its execution make it a work in which the splendor of Italian Baroque art unfolds in such characteristic scenic movement.
The composition betrays a strong influence from Filippo Parodi, the leader of Genoese Baroque sculpture, and points to an artist from his circle.
Our sculpture was probably part of a decorative monumental palace.
The iconographic theme evoking the marine world finds its application in the numerous fountains and artificial grottos, designed in Italian palaces at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Giacomo Filippo Parodi (Genoa 1630 – July 22, 1702) was an Italian Baroque sculptor of the Genoese school, who introduced Bernini's aesthetic to Genoa.
In his youth fathers a first apprenticeship with a carpenter, he went to Rome where he became a pupil of Bernini.
He had the opportunity to admire in person the works and style of the French sculptor Pierre Puget...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
$20,984 Sale Price
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Cochiti Drummer
By Doug Hyde
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of sculpture with an edition number.
7/21
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Tribal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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