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Kneeling Female Nude, Bronze By Mario Korbel
Located in Norwood, NJ
Joseph Mario Korbel (Czech/American, 1882-1954). Period fine example bronze, dark brown patina, modeled as a nude female kneeling and tying her sandal, raised on a stepped black marb...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Quotas
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood
$2,600
Danseuse de Flamenco – Bronze by Joanny Durand (1886–1955)
Located in Gent, VOV
This captivating bronze sculpture by French artist Joanny Durand (1886–1955) depicts a flamenco dancer in mid-motion, her body swirling with grace and energy. The composition capture...
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Victim of War (WWII)" Signed, Stainless Steel Sculpture
Located in Chesterfield, MI
This dramatic stainless steel sculpture titled "Victim of War" by Marian Owczarski depicts a falling figure reaching towards the sky. The figure is suspended by a single leg which Ow...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
$580 Sale Price
20% Off
Mexican indian woman with Water Pot (In the style of Francisco Zúñiga)
Located in Guadalajara, Jalisco
Mexican Indian Woman with Water Pot (In the style of Francisco Zúñiga)
Unknow Artis
Lost Wax Bronze
45 x 35 x 35 cm
1960, MX
No base
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roman Warriors pair
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Cast iron wall plaques of Roman Warriors
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Iron
$3,800
Bauer, Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Bauer
8 x 8 x 19 inches, 5 lbs
Mixed media
Hand signed by the artist
Artist's Commentary:
"Bauer is a tv series of a bold and tough FBI agent. I see in life many people acting str...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Fighting over
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ruan Hoffmann uses ceramic earthenware as his preferred medium. Ruan Hoffmann chooses familiar objects such as plates as his canvases, however the resulting works are not presented a...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Glaze
Composition with Doublemint
By Paul Rousso
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Paul Rousso attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio and went on to earn his BFA from the California College of the Arts in 1981. In his...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Ron Zohar, Mother, Bronze
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
In this bronze sculpture o mother and child the artist wishes to explore the relations between men and animal, how different are we really from one another? We often use animals to s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
This Is Not A Manet II - Wood Colored Panel Yellow Green White Blue Orange
By Eric Liot
Located in Sofia, BG
"This Is Not A Manet II is a decorated wood sculpture.
It is created by the French artist Eric Liot.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Mixte, Low reliefs, wood assemblage, collage, ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Matriarchal peace of mind, Bronze
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Matriarchal Peace of mind was conceived to reflect the certainty of its existence. It offers a more feminine gaze of our existence, aspired from an ancient wisdom.
Edition of 9
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Genesis by Frederick Hart
Located in Cleveland, OH
Frederick Hart is America's greatest figurative sculptor. Not only did he create works of great beauty and gravitas, he was singularly responsible for restoring to American public mo...
Category
1980s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Warner Bros - Wood Colored Panel Green White Blue Orange Red
By Eric Liot
Located in Sofia, BG
"Warner Bros" is a decorated wood sculpture.
It is created by the French artist Eric Liot.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Mixte, Low reliefs, wood assemb...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade with Carved, Painted Wood and Fabric
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 23" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
The Laughers (Version 1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Dirk Staschke is a full time studio artist who is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ceramics. His current body of work explores the s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bunny Girl
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Irina Daylene’s sculpture eloquently expresses notions of playfulness, femininity, and sexuality. By ingeniously melding the characteristics of a bunny with those of a human woman, Daylene artfully engages with the concept of objectification in a lighthearted and humorous manner. The bunny exudes an air of enjoyment amidst the attention, transforming the narrative into one of empowerment rather than marginalization.
The artist has also recently received some media attention, with “Bunny Girl...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Ceramic Sculpture of elephant: 'Samantabhadra' (Sanskirt for Universal Worthy)
Located in New York, NY
'Samantabhadra', Sanskrit for ‘Universal Worthy'. This recent work by Kenjiro Kitade emphasizes his awareness of the plight of elephants and their endangerment. Sitting on top is a b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
'Angel' original black stone Shona sculpture signed by Felix Mlungisi
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Angel' is original black serpentine sculpture signed by the Zimbabwean artist Felix Mlungisi. In this work, the angel is stylized in the manner of the Shona s...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Hustling
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sculpture of a man rushing, carrying a briefcase
Edition of 9
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$16,500
Gin Fizz - slim figurative bronze statue
Located in London, GB
Sara trained under Ken Hughes, a pupil of Henry Moore, at Bath Academy of Art. There she achieved a first class honours degree in Sculpture and was awarded the Henry Moore Foundation...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Beth
By Joe Brubaker
Located in Park City, UT
Joe Brubaker was born in Lebanon, Missouri and raised in Southern California. He received his B.A. from Sacramento State University, then attended UCLA where he earned his MA and MFA...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
$7,100
Russian Contemporary Sculpture by Alexander Sviyazov - School Child
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Maät Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Maät Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling and sculpting, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Patinated and Gilt Bronze Sculpture by Emile Peynot
Located in New York, NY
EMILE PEYNOT
French, (1850-1932)
Young Female with Doves
Signed 'E. Peynot' on base
33 3/4 in x 12 1/2 in.
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Russian Contemporary Sculpture by Alexander Sviyazov - Granny Shura
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$8,800 Sale Price
20% Off
"Skulls Alphabet Nr. J" Bronze and Steel Sculpture 1/1 by Sergii Shaulis
Located in Culver City, CA
"Skulls Alphabet Nr. J" Bronze and Steel Sculpture 1/1 by Sergii Shaulis
9.5" x 6" x 8'' inch
Weight: 14 lbs
SKULLS "ALPHABET" series:
The project i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Stainless Steel
"Cinquieme Essai" Bronze rounded figure with a hula hoop in green patina
Located in Edgartown, MA
The tiny "baigneuses" or bathers, in bronze by Véronique Clamot are sculpted with loads of appetite and feel absolutely comfortable with their round forms. Chubby women at the seaside, caught off guard, they display a realism drenched in universal truth. Sharp observations, brought to life by the skillful hands of the artist using the traditional lost wax method.
The Eisenhauer Gallery...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Stages of Self Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary Nude Female
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Stages of Self Bronze Sculpture Mythology Classic Contemporary Nude Female
The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, the Netherlands) show a perfect command of the old craft of mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Thetis, Goddess of the Sea
Located in New York, NY
PIERRE-EUGÈNE-EMILE HÉBERT
French, (1828-1893)
Thetis
Patinated Bronze; Thetis, goddess of the sea and the leader of the fifty Nereides, mother of Ach...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mani Incontrando Hands Meeting Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Mani Incontrando Hands Meeting Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Classic Mythology.
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
Anglers
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 50
American, b. 1961
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 t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bust of veiled woman
Located in Roma, RM
Giulio Tadolini ( Rome 1849 - 1918 ) ( attr. to ), Bust of veiled woman
Bronze 61 x 37 x 22 cm.
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$5,372
Amore Randagi, 2004 - 2013
By Hugo Rivas
Located in Atlanta, GA
“Making sculpture is a very complex matter. A word added to a form, ultimately helping to better define it. And ultimately helping to understand the whole.”
Ugo Riva is probably the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Dancing Nude Bronze of a Woman "Femme Dansant, 1910"
Located in Brookville, NY
Dancing Nude Bronze by Charles Rumsey is one of many figures he depicted of women. He has usually been known for his sculptures of horses, polo players, wildlife and dogs, mainly due to the fact that he was an avid sportman, hunter, and renowned polo player. However, he often depicted women in flattering if not loving ways. Often in movement, sometimes in reflection, in small sizes such as this one of Dancing Nude and also in large outdoor sculptures...
Category
1910s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Charge D'une Croix, Hand Carved Wooden Sculpture by Constantin Antonovici
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charge D’une Croix
Constantin Antonovici, Romanian (1911–2002)
Date: circa 1950
Hand-Carved Wooden Sculpture
Size: 18 x 15 x 3 in. (45.72 x 38.1 x 7.62 cm)
Category
1950s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Figurative mythological bronze statuette in Florentine Mannerist style of the 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
Small gilt bronze objet d'art on wooden base depicting a young sea creature, most likely a newt.
These types of objects were very common in aristocratic homes, often kept in the lord...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La Coppia Bronze Sculpture Set The Couple Heads Figurative Abstract In Stock
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
La Coppia Bronze Sculpture Set The Couple Heads Figurative Abstract In Stock
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien (Var), F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Russian Contemporary Sculpture by Alexander Sviyazov - October Piggy
Located in Paris, IDF
Bronze
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$8,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Rough Day
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 45
Jim Rennert was born in 1958 and was raised in the Southwest United States. Rennert began exhibiting his work in 1993 and has since become an important figure in contem...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hamlet
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Andrea Wilkinson.
Edition #2/10.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
American Story, Tulsa May 30, 1921
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles.
Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Male Figure 2/3
By Sharon Loper
Located in Napa, CA
Bronze, Edition of 3
Sharon Loper creates transitory sculptures out of bronze, stone, and wood and views her work as landscapes of thought based on organic principles.
As a classically educated, third-generation Rodin sculptor, Loper’s work is elongated and expressive. She seeks to sculpt an emotional experience rather than a physical reality.
An award-winning sculptor, photographer, and printmaker, Sharon Loper developed her sculptural practice through two decades of study, both at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and in private studio practice. At Otis, she worked with and learned from artists such as Charles White, Joseph Mugnaini...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$56,500
Au loin
Located in CHAZELLES-SUR-LYON, FR
“In the Distance” – A Ceramic Bas-Relief of Reflection and Legacy
“In the Distance” is a ceramic bas-relief depicting a majestic gorilla, sculpted with remarkable precision and text...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bronze Contemporary Statue: 'Death Eater'
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
The most extraordinary relics discovered by Joshua Goode and the Aurora-Rhoman Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics during recent archaeological expeditions. The first eviden...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bat Series IV 6/8
Located in Napa, CA
A self-taught sculptor, Copper is drawn to what she considers the “misunderstood” animal, and much of her work centers on bats and burros. Pushing the barrier between animal and huma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Saturday Night with Jimmy Who? - slim figurative bronze statue
Located in London, GB
Sara trained under Ken Hughes, a pupil of Henry Moore, at Bath Academy of Art. There she achieved a first class honours degree in Sculpture and was awarded the Henry Moore Foundation...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Je flotte
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
It started with a gift!
Some Breton friends sent me a piece of driftwood inlaid with an inspiring piece of granite.
This imaginary nose sculpture is an ...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Marble Bust of Roman Leader
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An 18th c. hand-carved, solid Carrara marble bust, likely of a holy Roman Emperor on a specimen marble base of the period. Inscribed "OTTONI".
Category
18th Century Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Tranquil Trinity
Located in New York, US
Marco Olivier is a renowned South African artist and owner of a bronze foundry in Cape Town. He is widely known for his original art in resin and bronze,...
Category
2010s Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pilgrim polychrome stone figure
Located in PARIS, FR
Pilgrim or saint Jacques figure in sculpted and polychromed limestone. He holds a calabash in his left hand. He probably held the pilgrim's staff in his missing right hand. Very beau...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Gothic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
"Leader 3" Bronze Sculpture 26" x 9.5" x 7.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong
By Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"Leader 3" Bronze Sculpture 26" x 9.5" x 7.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi Province. As one of the new generation of Chinese artists and part of the ‘post-80s generation’ and ‘only child’ generation, Huang is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of foreign culture in China, which he combines with his fascination with pottery and the material world. Huang is best known for his sculptures of Buddhas in hoodies, displaying an exchange of Eastern tradition and Western contemporary style. He was selected by “Complex” as “25 Contemporary Chinese Artists You Need to Know” in 2013. His sculptures have been exhibited at Niubi Newbie Kids II, at Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong; “Zeitgeist” Huang Yulong’s Solo Exhibition at Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Chinese Artist / Marseille Artist at Marseilles, France; The 4th International Contemporary Art Exhibition at Gwangju Biennale Korea, Art Beijing Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
iBone 1/9
Located in Napa, CA
Bronze with iPhone, Edition of 9.
Bjorn Sjoling has worked in many mediums, including oil painting, stained glass, wrought iron design and traditional s...
Category
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Female torso
Located in Täby, SE
This female torso represents the young woman's strength and vulnerability. It´s was conceived in the 70ths and is signed with the artists initials on a thumbprint.
Gunnar Knut Nilsson, born 1904 in Karlskrona, died 1995 in Versailles in France, was a Swedish sculptor. Gunnar Nilsson studied watercolor painting and modeling at the Technical Vocational School in Karlskrona in 1918-19 and on his own in addition to working as a clerk at Finspångs Metallwerk. His debut exhibition was in Finspång in 1927. With the help of a local fundraiser, and after the encouragement of Carl Eldh, he traveled to Paris in 1928 to study sculpture for, among others, Charles Despiau and Paul Niclausse. In Paris he socialized with Bror Hjorth, whose former studio he also rented, Carl Frisendahl and Alberto Giacometti. He came to belong to "Le groupe des Neuf'' with Paul Cornet...
Category
1950s French School Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Two Bust's on Pedistool: Petit face a face
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
Tranquility
Located in Somerset West, WC
Tranquility is a limited edition bronze sculpture.
Created with the lost wax casting process.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
All my Time, 2009
By Debra Fritts
Located in Atlanta, GA
As a child, I had dirt under my fingernails. I continue to allow the earth to feed me information for my art and for daily living. My expression is basic yet intrigues me to continue...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Bronze Polo Player John Fell by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
CHARLES CARY RUMSEY, born in Buffalo, NY in 1879. His interest in sculpture appeared and was encouraged at an early age. The most significant encouragement came when the boy was tak...
Category
1910s American Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maximilien Louis Fiot 'Fr 1886 - 1953' Combat Des Aigles
Located in Dallas, TX
Maximilien Louis Fiot (French, 1886 - 1953)
A very large bronze animalier sculpture of combatant eagles in flight above an outcropping or rocks. The Eagles are fighting for their li...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Childhood play , Bronze Sculpture, Green Blue Patina "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Subrata Biswas - Childhood Play - H 9.5 x W7 x D2.75 Inches
Bronze Sculpture .
The work is a full bronze work with colored patina .
Subrata Biswas’s three sculptures ‘Think Gree...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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