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Art Subject: Wood
Vince
Located in Bozeman, MT
Robin has worked with clay since the age of eleven. Her sculptures have ranged in size from life sized sculptures to the diminutive porcelain pieces. She has been a resident artist a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glaze
Misanthrope
Located in CHAZELLES-SUR-LYON, FR
“Misanthrope” – A Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture of Solitude and Strength
“Misanthrope” is a ceramic bust of a wolf, mounted on a metal base, evoking the timeless structures of huma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
20th Century Terracotta French Sculpture Centrepiece Signed Flamand, 1920s
Located in Vicoforte, IT
French centerpiece from the first half of the 20th century. Finely chiseled terracotta object with masks (faces with different expressions, see photo) and figures of lateral cherubs ...
Category
1920s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Nude Torso
By Lorrie Goulet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A tall dynamic chipped wood standing nude torso mounted on a stone base.
Great form and patina.
Stone, wood and ceramics sculptor Lorrie Goulet, who also makes drawings and lithograp...
Category
1970s Abstract Nude Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Bird of Peace
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist on bronze base of sculpture with an edition number.
1/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bérangère with a Hat
By Patrick Brun
Located in Pasadena, CA
Patrick BRUN was born in Paris in 1941. After obtaining his Engineering degree, he began his professional life as a teacher in mathematics and physics. After this period, he started ...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Presence Horse Animal Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Brown Patina
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Presence Horse Animal Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Brown Patina
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien (Var), France 2014)....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Delicate Small Wood Sculpture, Curved Leaf Shape, 2024 - 'Feuille courbée'
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Victor Giannotta, known as Sepa (b. 1994, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire), is an artist whose journey began in West Africa. His passion for wood and fascination for distant places were nurtu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Mexican Mid-XXst Century Sculpture In Rosewood "Maternity"
Located in Pasadena, CA
Beautifull Mexican Modernist Madonna and Child ;
Maternity Midcentury wood sculpture. Probably caribbean rosewood characteristic of the ext...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
CERAMIC MASK
Located in Dallas, TX
Luis Castillo and Marcelo Guzman. Grey/White Ceramic Mask with Wood Base. Cordoba, Argentina.
Weight: 16.8 lbs., height: 25 in., length: 17 in. width: 10 in.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
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
Flying High
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
1/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Two meters pear tree wrough iron sculpture. Unique piece. In & outdoor sculpture
By Ivan Zanoni
Located in Milan, IT
Pear Tree Sculpture.
Elegant, fine and unique piece, not replicable. Forged on wrought iron. Made by six different branches, easy assembled.
The sculptor is fresh from the success ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
UNNATURAL DECAY SERIES: Wood Wall Sculpture: 'Black Walnut no.1'
By Gin Stone
Located in New York, NY
*Recovered Ghost Gear Data: Retrieval Coordinates: 42° 10ʹ N 69° 52ʹ W
Retrieval Vessel: F/V Donna Marie (Groundfish Trawler/Scallop Dragger out of Provincetown) Water Depth: approx....
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Pheasant
Located in PARIS, FR
Pheasant
by François Pompon (1855-1933)
Exceptional bronze with old gilded patina
Cast by Valsuani
Period cast
France
circa 1930
height 8,2 cm
length 14,2 cm
width 3,6 cm
A similar model is represented in "Pompon, Catalog raisonné", Editions Gallimard, RMN, 1995, page 202, n°95B.
Biography:
François Pompon (1855-1933) is known for his animal sculptures whose innovative style is characterized by the simplification of shapes and polished surfaces. Pompon entered as an apprentice in the workshop of his father, Alban Pompon (1823-1907) who was a "compagnon du devoir" of the carpenter-cabinetmakers. Thanks to a scholarship obtained by the parish priest, he left in 1870 for Dijon where he became an apprentice stonemason with a marble worker. He attended evening classes at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon, first in architecture and engraving with Célestin Nanteuil, then in sculpture with François Dameron (1835-1900).
After a short stint in the army in 1875, Pompon arrived in Paris where he became a marble worker in a funeral business near the Montparnasse cemetery. He attended evening classes at the Petite École, the future National School of Decorative Arts. His teachers were the sculptors Aimé Millet (1819-1891) and Pierre Louis Rouillard (1820-1881), also professor of anatomy, who showed him the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes.
In 1890, François Pompon entered the studio of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), where he worked as a practitioner at the marble depot, rue de l'Université. He quickly gained the master's confidence since he ran the workshop in 1893. His role then was to pass on the accounts, pay for the marbles and supervise the work. It is in this same workshop that he met Ernest Nivet and Camille Claudel. He worked for a long time as a practitioner for other sculptors such as Jean Dampt...
Category
1930s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Sculpture of Extinct Carnivorous Marsupial: 'Thylacine Moon'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Brown Gallery, she has exhibited at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Nassau County Museum of Art, The Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach, Florida and the New York Artists Equity Gallery. In 2023, she received a 2023 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in sculpture, and in 2022 was awarded the Alex J...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
"Stallion" - Bronze horse sculpture.
By Luis Filcer
Located in Miami, FL
Filcer made very few sculptures in his artistic career and this is one of his most
special pieces. Limited Edition: 1/10.
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Frog singing on a log, Original Naturalistic Wood Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Frog singing on a log
2.0 x 5.0 x 10.0, 1.0 lbs
Wood
Hand signed by artist
Artist's Commentary:
"Whimsical frog singing in harmony on a log, as content as can be. This sculpture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Derby Bronze
Located in Pasadena, CA
Sculpture Bronze Foundry chapon LC 1/8 Bronze lost wax nuanced patine sand/green sand base polished oak masif.
Born in 1960 in a family of artists collecting the bronzes of the Italian Renaissance...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roofvogel met Muis Prey Bird with Mouse Bronze Sculpture Ltd Edition In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Roofvogel met Muis Prey Bird with Mouse Bronze Sculpture Animal Bird Limited Edition
Evert den Hartog (born in Groot-Ammers, The Netherlands in 1949) followed his education to be a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Donna - hand carved Italian Carrara marble + oak wood sculpture ( 30"x 9"x 19" )
Located in San Francisco, CA
Donna by Lorenzo Vignoli
hand carved marble + oak wood sculpture by contemporary Italian sculptor Lorenzo Vignoli
Sculpture dimensions:
30in W x 9 inch H x 19in D
75cm W x 23cm ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Hyperrealistic wall sculpture, crossing borders, political art, brick concrete
Located in Carballo, ES
Miniature wall sculpture created by Ruth Vidal, currently part of the "Côte à Côte" exhibition at the Vilaño de Camariñas Lighthouse, on the Galician Costa da Morte. The artist focus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Diogenes, terracotta sculpture, 1939, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981).
Located in Firenze, IT
**Diogenes.**
**Terracotta sculpture, 1939, Giorgio Rossi (1894-1981): Tuscan Sculptor.**
**Material:** Hand-modeled terracotta by the artist.
**Unique piece.**
**Dimensions...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Ian Edwards - Leap Within Faith - Original Signed Bronze Sculpure
By Ian Edwards
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Ian Edwards - Leap Within Faith - Original Signed Bronze Sculpure
Dimensions: 170 x 55 x 40 cm
Edition of 12
Edwards’ practice expresses the power and determination of human endea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of bookends with Elephants
By Ary Bitter
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of bookends with Elephants
by Ary BITTER (1883-1973)
A very fine pair of bronze sculptures with a nuanced dark brown patina
Signed " Ary Bitter Sclp " on an original plaque on ...
Category
1930s French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jefe 3/3
Located in Napa, CA
Siri Hollander, born in New York, lived most of her childhood in Andalusia, Spain, where the local community revolved around fairs and fiestas. Influenced by a family of artists and ...
Category
2010s Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Adonis
Located in Somerset West, WC
Adonis is a limited edition bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Cover Jar w/ Rooster, " Stoneware, Bronze, & Feathers signed by Ernst Gramatzki
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cover Jar w/ Rooster" is an original stoneware vase by Ernst Gramatzki.
11 3/4" x 4 1/2" art
Ernst Gramatzki is a world renowned artist, sculptor, potter, painter and poet. Some of his work is in the Smithsonian Institute in D.C. as well as in art galleries in both the U.S and Europe.
Ernst was born in Koenigsverg, Germany, in the Russian sector near the Baltic Sea. The area is also referred to as Kaliningrad and is the birthplace of philosopher Emanuel Kant.
His interest in art is the result of two Hungarian art students taken in as borders by his family following the Hungarian revolution. One, who is still well known throughout Europe, was a potter.
"I shared half of the garage with him," said Ernst, who attended the School of Art in Hamburg.
It was in 1961 that Ernst immigrated to the United States, taking a position with the Milwaukee Public Museum. He has lived in Rochester for nearly 30 years.
Each room of his home is dedicated to a different art form. A room at the top of the stairs is filled with oil paints and multi-paneled works that are still in progress. In the basement, wet clay sits ready to be molded by inspired hands.
Ernst still does work for museums, which sometimes directs where he focuses his energy each day.
"I try to juggle the things I have to do with the things I want to do," he said. "One is always at the expense of the other.
"I like to blow things up that people are too busy to look at," he said of his oil paintings. "You have to sit and look at things. You don't need to name things. That limits people in their imagination and what they would like it to be."
An entire painting may be devoted to the stains on the bottom of a coffee mug, or a close-up view of a twig.
Ernst said his inspiration can come from anything around him. He found a use for a dried-up grapefruit by using it as a mold for a clay stamp. Nothing, including an old corn cob, is overlooked as an artistic tool.
"I dream lots of things. It's like turning on the TV as soon as I hit the sack," he said, working the surface of a clay toad he had sculpted the following day, using a walnut to stamp out some eyes.
Most of his pottery takes the form of covered jars, each of which has its own number and entry in a journal that includes a sketch and to whom the piece were sold. The covers of the jars have small bronze sculptures for handles.
Recently, Ernst has shifted gears and has been creating dozens of clay bird...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Elegant Brass Sculptures of Greyhound Dogs
Located in Rome, IT
Fine pair of gilt bronze Greyhound dog sculptures.
The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
Excellent condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Dreams of Ecstasy", Martin Eichinger, Figurative, Bronze, Romance, 70x12x17 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
Immerse yourself in a world where emotions run high and desires are laid bare with our stunning Dreams of Ecstasy sculpture. Crafted with exquisite detail, this towering masterpiece ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modular Movement III
By Lisa Gordon
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Lisa Gordon.
Edition #1/1.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lacy
By Sharon Levy
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This piece is very intricate and has a fairytale forest feel, though it was based off of photographs I took of real trees.
Keyword...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Plywood
Soaring , Contemporary bronze sculpture.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Sculptor Marsha Gertenbach signed and numbered this bronze sculpture, edition 11/50. Here is the artist's message about this unique piece:
'I’ve often thought about what the experie...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cathedral by Delphine Brabant - Contemporary abstract bronze sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Cathedral is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Delphine Brabant, dimensions are 43 × 17 × 9 cm (16.9 × 6.7 × 3.5 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Power Horse Bronze Sculpture Brown Animal In Stock
By KOBE
Located in Utrecht, NL
Power Horse Bronze Sculpture Brown Animal In Stock
KOBE, pseudonym of Jacques Saelens, was a Belgian artist (Kortrijk, Belgium 1950 – Saint-Julien (Var), France 2014).
He combined...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pietro Fish Bronze Sculpture Animal Water In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Pietro Fish Bronze Sculpture Animal Water In Stock
Pieter Vanden Daele was born in Belgium in 1971. He grew up between lakes and the river Sc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bison Tondo
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of piece with edition number.
3/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Contemporary Stainless Steel Sculpture-Unique work - Tree is not Wood #2
Located in Beijing, CN
Stainless Steel Sculpture by Chen Zhiguang
Title: Tree is not Wood #2
Material: Stainless Steel
Dimension: 92 x 104 x 48 cm
Date: 2021
About the artwork:
Bonsai (Potted landscape)...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Apex IV
By Lisa Gordon
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Lisa Gordon.
Edition #5/12.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Three Ducks In Flight - Original John Louw 3D Copper Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
Three Ducks In Flight - Original John Louw 3D Copper Sculpture
Vintage 3D Pressed Copper Sculpture of Waterfowl Ducks, ‘Ducks in Flight’ by John Louw (South African, 1949). Three du...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Girl Sitting on Panel-contemporary bronze sculpture, nude female on rustic panel
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Sitting Girl on Panel" is a bronze sculpture of a nude sitting female on a rustic panel. Edition 30, signed, numbered and dated on the back. The rustic panel can be hung on a wall ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carved and Painted Wood Parrot Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Life size, life like wood parrot expertly carved and painted with inspired accuracy, perched on an organic wood stand.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Between Heaven and Earth
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze signed/etched into base by Artist. 5/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sleepy Head
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original sculpture signed/etched by the Artist on the base. 19/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Teton Tom
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist into the base of bronze with edition number.
16/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
'Boxing Hares' Sterling Silver Limited Edition Sculpture by Lucy Kinsella
Located in London, GB
Height 20.5cm x length 20cm
1187 grams
A 'Boxing Hares' sterling silver sculpture by Lucy Kinsella, the limited edition pair of long eared brown hares caught mid boxing match, with ...
Category
2010s Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Pair of Carved Wood Lions from Minas Gerais
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and remarkable pair of mid century lions in repose hand carved, in a stylized modern form, from the Cammatillo tree or Kingwood grown in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Medium Sail Boat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Pedro's sculpture's are whimsical and sophisticated. The sailboat series is affordable for the work involved in creating them. His use of mixed media gives the sculptures a unique ...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Golf Bug
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Andrea Wilkinson.
Edition #6/30.
Signed on bronze sculpture
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Small Bear Armchair by Eric Valat - Functional sculpture, polyester, wild animal
By Eric Valat
Located in Paris, FR
Small Bear Armchair is a polyester sculpture by contemporary artist Eric Valat, dimensions are 130 × 80 × 90 cm (51.2 × 31.5 × 35.4 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a limited edition of 8 editions + 4 artist’s proofs, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Available colours:
*black
*red
*blue
*white
This sculpture represents a seating bear, with its arms on its knees. This functional sculpture of wild animal can be used as an armchair. The bear makes an appearance in Eric Valat's bestiary of scribal vocabulary straight out of childhood. Eric Valat is attempting to reimagine the traditional bear representation in the wake of the wolf and panther benches...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Polyester
"Rough Skinned Newt" (2023) By Tony Hochstetler, Original Bronze Sculpture
Located in Denver, CO
Tony Hochstetler's "Rough Skinned Newt" (2022) is an original handmade bronze sculpture that depicts a newt curiously looking upwards.
Tony Hochstetler is a sculptor of unusual anim...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Bronze
The Scholars
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #1/1 - Original bronze sculpture and acrylic painting by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
By Leonard Wells Volk
Located in London, GB
Leonard Wells Volk was a famous American sculptor. He went to posterity after making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. I...
Category
1860s Victorian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Frolic, Mini
Located in Wimberley, TX
Cammie Lundeen’s “Frolic, Mini” is a joyful bronze sculpture capturing the exuberance of a young foal mid-leap. Standing just 8 inches tall, this finely crafted piece bursts with ene...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Liberty & Sacrifice", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 36x28x22 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Liberty and Sacrifice" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 14/50.
"The figures of Liberty and Sacrifice are used in an allego...
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bat Series III 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
César franchissant le Rubicon
Located in PARIS, FR
"Caesar crossing the Rubicon"
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)
Bronze with triple patina, gilded, brown and dark brown
Cast by SIOT
France
circa 1900
height 38 cm
length of the bas...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Buckaroo Ball II
By Lisa Gordon
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Lisa Gordon.
Edition #9/30.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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