Keeping the Ball Rolling
By Jane DeDecker
Located in Greenwich, CT
Life-size sculpture of a bare-footed boy balancing himself atop a ball.
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rolling Ball Sculpture
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In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)
By Winslow Homer
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)" is a painting by Winslow Homer. The painting is signed, lower left, "Homer 1873". The framed piece measures 29 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 2 7...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Victorian Firescreen with Taxidermy Hummingbirds by Henry Ward
$229,073Sale Price|33% Off
H 51.19 in W 55.12 in D 201.58 in
Rare Victorian Firescreen with Taxidermy Hummingbirds by Henry Ward
By Henry Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
England, third quarter of the 19th century On two scrolling foliate feet with casters, above which a rectangular two-side glazed frame, with on top a two-sided shield with initial...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Mid-Victorian Moorish wrought & cast iron pergola or decorative garden structure
$115,273
H 240 in W 552 in D 120 in
Mid-Victorian Moorish wrought & cast iron pergola or decorative garden structure
Located in London, GB
A monumental Moorish mid-Victorian wrought iron Pergola or Decorative Garden Structure, a unique masterpiece in High Victorian Ironwork design. Our research confirms it is French, da...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century European Moorish Architectural Elements
Materials
Wrought Iron
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be on one of its covers. The e...
Category
1970s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jason KimesPositive Capability - large, rust, male figure, Corten steel outdoor sculpture, 2019
$38,000
H 100 in W 42 in D 33 in
Positive Capability - large, rust, male figure, Corten steel outdoor sculpture
By Jason Kimes
Located in Bloomfield, ON
American artist Jason Kimes is best known for his compelling and beautiful figurative outdoor work. This imposing sculpture (254 cm high) of a nude male in a classic yoga pose–arms c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Set of Extraordinary Italian Stone Statues Representing the Four Seasons, 1970
$93,979
H 98.43 in W 27.56 in D 23.63 in
Set of Extraordinary Italian Stone Statues Representing the Four Seasons
Located in Rome, IT
Four season ,monumental classically draped female figures and their distinguishing symbols on a square base. Autumn, winter, spring and summer. Timeless classical decoration for you...
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Limestone
"New England Farm, " Landscape Oil Painting
By John C. Traynor
Located in Westport, CT
This large landscape oil painting by John Traynor captures a scene in New England. Cows are visible in front of a long picket fence, with a red barn and house behind the fence and lu...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flemish 17th, Orpheus and Animals, Large Decorative Wall Old Master Painting, c. 1650
$199,705
H 57.68 in W 85.44 in
Flemish 17th, Orpheus and Animals, Large Decorative Wall Old Master Painting
Located in Greven, DE
Flemish school, 17th century Orpheus and the animals Oil on canvas, 146,5 x 217 cm Provenance: South German private collection. On an impressive, room-filling format, this painting ...
Category
17th Century Baroque Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Pharmacy Cabinet, Walnut Bookcases and Glass Doors with Sign, '800 Italy
$61,086Sale Price|20% Off
H 104.34 in W 153.55 in D 19.69 in
Antique Pharmacy Cabinet, Walnut Bookcases and Glass Doors with Sign, '800 Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Complete antique pharmacy cabinet, with 3 open bookcases on the sides, 1 bookcase with drawers and 2 original doors with glass and enameled mirror sign. Built in the mid-19th century...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Apothecary Cabinets
Materials
Glass, Walnut
Life-Size Art Deco Diana Bronze
By Hans Harry Liebmann
Located in Miami, FL
This is a rare statement piece that commands that eye. It is of museum quality will be the centerpiece of any space. Masterfully crafted details of the human form are finely rendered...
Category
1910s Art Deco Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Frances SemplePas Seul 3/9 - figurative, female, bronze, outdoor sculpture, 2021
$79,000
H 60 in W 20 in D 38 in
Pas Seul 3/9 - figurative, female, bronze, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using simplified shapes, artist Frances Semple reveals the emotive essence of movement in this bronze sculpture of a walking woman. At 60 inches high, the figure is life-size. The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Monumental Meissen Porcelain Figural Group of Mount Parnassus
$264,451
H 26.78 in W 36.23 in D 24.02 in
A Monumental Meissen Porcelain Figural Group of Mount Parnassus
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Monumental Meissen Porcelain Figural Group of Apollo and the Nine Muses on Mount Parnassus. Comprised of sixteen interlocking parts. Apollo standing holding a lyre and with Pega...
Category
Antique 19th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Frederick Hart"Ex Nihilo Figure 4", Frederick Hart, Bronze Sculpture, Figurative Man, 2002
$325,000
H 62 in W 27 in D 22 in
"Ex Nihilo Figure 4", Frederick Hart, Bronze Sculpture, Figurative Man
By Frederick Hart
Located in Dallas, TX
Don't miss this opportunity to own a piece of history! Ex Nihilo Figure 4, a full-scale plaster from the final stone sculpture of Ex Nihilo, commissioned as part of the Creation Scul...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Auguste RodinEve Bronze Sculpture, Impressionist Style, Signed, 1883, 6/24 Edition, 1883
$75,000
H 26.7 in W 15 in
Eve Bronze Sculpture, Impressionist Style, Signed, 1883, 6/24 Edition
By Auguste Rodin
Located in New York, NY
Auguste Rodin Eve 6/24 1883, Cast later 68 cm. Round Base Signed Masters Limited Foundry Edition Gruppo Mondiale Est Certificate from Master Limited Edition, Gruppo Mondiale Proven...
Category
1880s Impressionist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Madonna Enthroned with Child between angels and saints Nicholas of Tolentino, 1500s
$73,303Sale Price|20% Off
H 34.06 in W 28.15 in D 1.97 in
Madonna Enthroned with Child between angels and saints Nicholas of Tolentino
Located in Milan, IT
The painting features the enthroned Madonna and Child, two praying angels, and Saints Nicholas of Tolentino, Augustine, Luke the Evangelist, and Monica, below an elegant canopy. The ...
Category
16th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
James Muir"Caduceus", James Muir, Monumental Bronze Fountain Sculpture Allegory, Medical, 2007
$175,000
H 144 in W 108 in D 36 in
"Caduceus", James Muir, Monumental Bronze Fountain Sculpture Allegory, Medical
Located in Dallas, TX
"Caduceus", recognized as a universal medical symbol, in this bronze representation by James N. Muir has become an Angel of Healing bringing love and peace to the earth and all of it...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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A Close Look at Realist Art
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Finding the Right Figurative-sculptures for You
Figurative sculptures mix reality and imagination, with the most common muse being the human body. Animals are also inspirations for these sculptures, along with forms found in nature.
While figurative sculpture dates back over 35,000 years, the term came into popularity in the 20th century to distinguish it from abstract art. It was aligned with the Expressionist movement in that many of its artists portrayed reality but in a nonnaturalistic and emotional way. In the 1940s, Alberto Giacometti — a Swiss-born artist who was interested in African art, Cubism and Surrealism — created now-iconic representational sculptures of the human figure, and after World War II, figurative sculpture as a movement continued to flourish in Europe.
Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were some of the leading figurative artists during this period. Artists like Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan propelled the evolution of figurative sculpture into the 21st century.
Figurative sculptures can be whimsical, uncanny and beautiful. Their materials range from stone and wood to metal and delicate ceramics. Even in smaller sizes, the sculptures make bold statements. A bronze sculpture by Salvador Dalí enhances a room; a statuesque bull by Jacques Owczarek depicts strength with its broad chest while its thin legs speak of fragility. Figurative sculptures allow viewers to see what is possible when life is reimagined.
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