Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

English, 1931-2016

Charles Richard "Dick" Smith was an English printmaker and painter. He Attended St Albans School of Art followed by post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1954-57. Smith shared a flat-cum-studio with Peter Blake in his second year at the RCA, and then again for two years after he left the college in 1957. When Terence Conran's Soup Kitchen opened on Fleet Street in the late 1950s, it featured a letter-collage mural by Smith and Blake. Michael Chow would later commission Smith to design installations for his restaurant in Los Angeles, and Chow and Conran have remained two of his biggest supporters. In 1959 he moved to New York to teach on a Harkness Fellowship, staying for two years, where he produced paintings combining the formal qualities of many of the American abstract painters which made references to American commercial culture. The artist's first solo exhibition was at the Green Gallery. As his work matured it tended to be more minimal, often painted using one colour with a second only as an accent. In trying to find ways of transposing ideas, Smith began to question the two-dimensional properties of art itself and to find ways by which a painting could express the shape of reality as he saw it. These principles he carried into his graphic work by introducing cut, folded and stapled elements into his prints; some works were multi-leaved screenprinting, and others printed onto three-dimensional fabricated metal. Smith returned to England in 1963 - specifically East Tytherton, Wiltshire where Howard Hodgkin was a neighbour - and gained critical acclaim for extending the boundaries of painting into three dimensions, creating sculptural shaped canvases with monumental presence, which literally protruded into the space of the gallery. Evocative titles such as Panatella and Revlon, and cosmetic, synthetic colours alluded to the consumer landscapes of urban America which had proved so influential. He showed at the Kasmin Gallery, a venture between Kas and the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava in New Bond Street, throughout the 60s, more-widely known as David Hockney's first gallery. Smith was invited to exhibit at the XXXV Venice Biennale as the official British artist in 1970. Smith taught with Richard Hamilton at Gateshead in 1965, where he met Mark Lancaster and Stephen Buckley, and again in 2000, becoming close to the artist and his wife, Terry. By the late 1960s Smith's ambition to produce paintings which shared a common sensibility with other media, such as film and photography, began to wane and he focused on the formal qualities of painting. First exhibited in New York in 1971, the traditional wooden supports of the canvases were replaced by aluminium rods and strings, allowing them to be hung freely in response to the surrounding architecture. Smith continued in the subsequent decades to construct site-specific works in public and private spaces often hanging from the ceilings or architectural supports. He resettled in Patchogue, New York in around 1977. Smith was awarded the CBE in 1971.

Artist: Richard Smith

Richard Smith'Arctic Hare' Contemporary Bronze Animal Sculpture of a hare. Patinated White

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'Arctic Hare' Contemporary Bronze Animal Sculpture of a hare. Patinated White

By Richard Smith

Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

'Arctic Hare' is a stunningly elegant Bronze sculpture. Richard Smith conveys so much character in such simple lines, exemplifying a truly wonderful talent. The fantastic richly deta...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Amancio González AndrésAmancio 64 Man Fish Ladron de perlas III" original bronze iron sculpture, 2016

$4,425

H 13.39 in W 12.21 in D 12.6 in

Amancio 64 Man Fish Ladron de perlas III" original bronze iron sculpture

By Amancio González Andrés

Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL

Sculpture by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ bronze. Series limited to 25 copies Fantastic piece of art representing Spanish sculpture Very popular artist in Europe and Latin Ame...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze, Iron

Mireia SerraBy Your Side 12/25 - Contemporary Figurative Bronze Iron Metal Wall Sculpture, 2025

$1,745

H 3.75 in W 16 in D 2.5 in

By Your Side 12/25 - Contemporary Figurative Bronze Iron Metal Wall Sculpture

By Mireia Serra

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Mireia Serra creates sensuous bronze and iron sculptures showing the beauty of snapshots caught in life which are full of emotions and feelings along the life journey. Her metal artw...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze, Iron

Isabelle Jeandot"Odalisque", Nude Side Lying Woman Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 2000

$7,533

H 7.88 in W 22.45 in D 5.12 in

"Odalisque", Nude Side Lying Woman Figurative Bronze Sculpture

By Isabelle Jeandot

Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

This Bronze by Isabelle Jeandot is one edition of a limited series of twelve original sculptures, and it will be delivered with the certificate of aut...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Amancio González AndrésAmancio Icaro I original bronze iron sculpture, 2010

$5,500

H 27.17 in W 25.6 in D 12.21 in

Amancio Icaro I original bronze iron sculpture

By Amancio González Andrés

Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL

Sculpture by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ bronze. Series limited to 7 copies+ II PA Fantastic piece of art representing Spanish sculpture Very popular artist in Europe and Lat...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze, Iron

Isabelle Jeandot"Memory", Man Standing on a Spiral of Trees Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 2019

$13,258

H 18.12 in W 11.03 in D 7.09 in

"Memory", Man Standing on a Spiral of Trees Figurative Bronze Sculpture

By Isabelle Jeandot

Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

This figurative and Symbolism bronze Sculpture by Isabelle Jeandot depicts a spiral with the Golden Number, a plant allegory, symbolizing the emergence of our ancient memories inscri...

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2010s Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Susan SchoemakerLuminous Step: Contemporary Wood and Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 2025

$1,506

H 11.82 in W 3.94 in D 1.97 in

Luminous Step: Contemporary Wood and Bronze Figurative Sculpture

Located in BARCELONA, ES

"My work explores subtle contrasts in everyday life: the strength that resides in vulnerability and the intense presence of silence. I am fascinated by energies that often go unnotic...

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2010s Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Isabelle Jeandot"Gynaeceum" , Three Nude Embracing Women With Trees Circular Bronze Sculpture, 2018

$9,944

H 13 in W 13 in D 3.55 in

"Gynaeceum" , Three Nude Embracing Women With Trees Circular Bronze Sculpture

By Isabelle Jeandot

Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

"Gynaeceum" ("Gynécée") is a poetic bronze sculpture of three nude women being at one with Nature, by Isabelle Jeandot. The diameter of its circle bo...

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2010s Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Rezo KhasiaGeorgian Contemporary Sculpture by Rezo Khasia - Sea, 2018

$7,500

H 21.66 in W 21.66 in D 9.85 in

Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Rezo Khasia - Sea

Located in Paris, IDF

Bronze & wood sculpture Rezo Khasia is a Georgian artist born in 1947 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. The sculptures performed by him are generalized and minimalist. He Us...

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2010s Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Huang Yulong"Mockingbird" Sculpture 40.5" x 19" x 18.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong, 2020

$38,000

H 40.5 in W 19 in D 18.5 in

"Mockingbird" Sculpture 40.5" x 19" x 18.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong

By Huang Yulong

Located in Culver City, CA

"Mockingbird" Sculpture 42.5" x 19" x 18.5" inch Edition 3/8 by Huang Yulong Bronze sculpture 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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Isabelle Jeandot"Amazon", Nude Walking Woman Looking on the Side Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 2000

$9,944

H 13.78 in W 10.63 in D 7.49 in

"Amazon", Nude Walking Woman Looking on the Side Figurative Bronze Sculpture

By Isabelle Jeandot

Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

"Amazon", Nude Walking Woman Looking on the Side Figurative Bronze Sculpture. Passionate about the spirit, with her timeless and universal expression in the heart of the human condition, the artist Isabelle Jeandot...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Isabelle Jeandot"Through the Looking Glass", Man Walking on Forest Mobius Band Bronze Sculpture, 2021

$16,272

H 18.51 in W 15.75 in D 6.3 in

"Through the Looking Glass", Man Walking on Forest Mobius Band Bronze Sculpture

By Isabelle Jeandot

Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

This circular sculpture depicts a small human walking inside a three-sided polygon Möbius band made of trees. Passionate about the spirit, with her timeless and universal expression...

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2010s Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Huang Yulong"Existence" Bronze sculpture 35" x 22" x 15" inch Edition 4/8 by Huang Yulong, 2018

$31,000

H 35 in W 22 in D 15 in

"Existence" Bronze sculpture 35" x 22" x 15" inch Edition 4/8 by Huang Yulong

By Huang Yulong

Located in Culver City, CA

"Existence" Bronze sculpture 35" x 22" x 15" inch Edition 4/8 by Huang Yulong 35 2/5 × 21 7/10 × 15 in 90 × 55 × 38 cm ABOUT THE ARTIST Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Prov...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Richard Smith Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

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