Mark Beard Figurative Sculptures

American, b. 1956

Contemporary New York City-based artist Mark Beard has long demonstrated command in a variety of mediums — he works in oil paint, bronze, ceramics and more. Beard is known mainly for his portraits and figurative paintings, but he is prolific in figurative drawing and nude photography as well.

Beard was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1986, he began working as a set designer, and for the next decade, he created more than 20 sets in New York City, London, Frankfurt, Vienna and Cologne. As a painter and printmaker, Beard didn’t wish to confine himself to a rigid style and instead sought to explore Impressionism, Art Nouveau and other movements in a range of mediums. In order to freely move from one style to the next, Beard created several different personas, assigning a specific biography to each one.

Beard's most prominent artistic alter ego is Bruce Sargeant, whom the artist has positioned in exhibitions as an early 20th-century painter. Beard's work as Sargeant is a detailed study of the male physique. The paintings often feature sculpted athletic men engaged in physical activities like wrestling and rowing. The work is steeped in homoeroticism, and the artist’s name itself is a reference to painter John Singer Sargent — while he’s best known for his Edwardian-era portraits, John Singer Sargent also created murals and drawings of male nudes that were similarly reflective of a homoerotic sensibility.

Beard is also an accomplished landscape painter. His great-grandfather, George Beard, was a regional painter and photographer of the Rocky Mountains. Mark spent summers at his grandfather's 19th-century log cabin retreat as a child. These formative experiences are reflected in his own stunning landscape paintings.

Beard's artwork is held in many high-profile museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Today, Beard resides in the Manhattan loft that he purchased in 1994 with his partner, James Manfred. It serves as both his home and his studio. The space is filled with his oil paintings, drawings and sculptures.

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Artist: Mark Beard

Mark Beard[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Statue of an Athlete, n.d.

$19,000

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Statue of an Athlete

By Mark Beard

Located in New York, NY

This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art movement. He embodies a world that is in many ways lost to us; he...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mark Beard Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Jim RennertCommute (man), 2010

$3,000

H 2.5 in W 8 in D 3.63 in

Commute (man)

By Jim Rennert

Located in Greenwich, CT

Edition of 9 American, b. 1958 National Sculpture Society Fellow Jim Rennert was born in 1958, and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah. After ten trying years o...

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2010s Realist Mark Beard Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Vincenzo VelaTHE LAST DAYS OF NAPOLÉON BY, 1867

$44,850

H 17 in W 9 in D 15 in

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...

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19th Century Realist Mark Beard Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze

Augustus Saint-Gaudens"Jules Bastien LePage" Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bas Relief of French Painter

$18,000

H 14.25 in W 10.125 in

"Jules Bastien LePage" Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Bas Relief of French Painter

By Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Located in New York, NY

Augustus Saint-Gaudens Jules Bastien LePage Bronze 14 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in 1848 in Dublin, Ireland. His father, Bern...

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1880s Realist Mark Beard Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Frederic S. RemingtonBronco Buster - Reproduction, Unknown

$4,500

H 24 in W 21 in D 10 in

Bronco Buster - Reproduction

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

Reproduction Bronze Sculpture inscribed with the Artist's signature.

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Mark Beard Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Bruno LucchesiResting, 1979

$14,000

H 14 in W 11 in D 13 in

Resting

By Bruno Lucchesi

Located in Greenwich, CT

Ed. 2/6. Bronze sculpture by Bruno Lucchesi of a woman sitting.

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1970s Realist Mark Beard Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Jane DeDeckerEarth, midsize, 2001

$16,000

H 35 in W 18 in D 10 in

Earth, midsize

By Jane DeDecker

Located in Greenwich, CT

Sculpture of a woman representing the element of earth.

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Early 2000s Realist Mark Beard Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Jane DeDeckerBig Fish Story, 1994

$2,300

Early 2000s Academic Mark Beard Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

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