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Sculptures For Sale
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Premier Quality Shoulder Mount Taxidermy Burchell's Zebra
Located in New York, NY
Premier quality shoulder mount taxidermy Burchell's zebra, a southern subspecies of the plains zebra, from South Africa. This exquisite piece of art measures 33” x 16” x 30”, making it a rare and unique find for collectors and nature enthusiasts alike. The Burchell's zebra is named after the British explorer and naturalist William John Burchell and is also known as the bontequagga, Damaraland zebra, or Zululand zebra.
This zebra specimen boasts distinctive brown and white stripes that are particularly wide, creating a striking contrast against its coat. Moreover, each individual's stripe pattern is unique, which acts as an identifying characteristic similar to fingerprints in human beings. This shoulder mount taxidermy specimen is an excellent representation of the natural beauty and diversity of Burchell's zebra, which inhabits open savannas, woodlands, and scrublands of southeastern Africa.
This mount is not only visually appealing, but it also adds a touch of versatility to any living space. It can be easily mounted on a wall or as a table mount, making it an ideal focal point in a variety of settings. Whether it's displayed in a dinning room, office, living room or library this zebra mount...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary African Sculptures
Materials
Zebra Hide
Singularity Sculpture
By Duffy London
Located in London, GB
Singularity Sculpture sees Duffy realise the Singularity design concept in its purest form; crafting a showcase sculptural piece from the byproduct off AI generative programming – br...
Category
2010s British Modern Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Stainless Steel
Maiden with Goat by Odo Franceschi (1879-1958) bronze, Florence, Italy
Located in Prato, IT
Maiden with Goat
Florence, Early 1900s
Odo Franceschi was born in Sesto Fiorentino in 1879. A student of Emilio Zocchi, Augusto Rivalta and Urbano Lucch...
Category
Early 20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Terracotta Bust of Roman Emperor
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This terra-cotta sculpture no doubt depicts the bust of Roman Emperor or Senator in classical dress gazing over his left shoulder. This is a magnificently robust life size bust...
Category
1960s Italian Classical Roman Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Bronze Sculpture, Signed Laouse, France, circa 1900
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Bronze sculpture, signed Laouse. France, circa 1900.
Marble base.
Category
Early 1900s French Islamic Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Set of 6 White Handmade Unique Goto Murano Drinking Glasses
Located in Murano, VE
The Murano Glass Goto collection brings a piece of authentic Italian art to your dining table. Hand-blown with artistic expertise, these glasses are inspired by the traditional Venet...
Category
2010s Italian Minimalist Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Italian Gilt Bronze Flamingo Sculpture, Gabriella Crespi Style, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning flamingo sculpture in gilt bronze in the style of Gabriella Crespi. This gorgeous piece was designed in Italy in the 1960s.
The sinuous lines, the fine details and the amazing quality of the gilding make this sculpture incredibly charming.
A lovely sculpture...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Metal
Boy with drape by Augusto Murer
Located in Vicenza, VI
The sculpture in question, representing a boy with drape, is the work of Augusto Murer cast in 75 pieces, of which this is No. 58/75.
Made of bronze in 1980 and in excellent condit...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Pair of Finely Cast Asian Bronze Bird Animal Statues
Located in Sampantawong, TH
A pair of finely cast Asian bronze bird animal statues.
Age: Contemporary
Size: Height 12.5 - 14.4 C.M. / Width 7.5 C.M. / Length 17.4 - 18.4 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Southeast Asian Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Feliciano Bejar Magiscope Industrial Glass and Steel Tall Sculpture Signed
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Feliciano Bejar Magiscope industrial glass and steel tall sculpture signed. Item features rare and large form , heavy substantial round gear base, and magiscope round glass upper; si...
Category
1980s Mexican Industrial Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Theodore Gall Signed 1976 Abstract Bronze Sculpture of a Nude Figure
Located in Indianapolis, IN
A 1976 abstract bronze sculpture of a nude figure by the American artist Theodore Gall (born 1941). Signed and dated “T. Gall 76", this bronze depicts a nude figure posing contrappos...
Category
1970s American Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Figurine Bronze Female Sculpture With Floral Details.
Located in Seattle, WA
Antique Style Unsigned Sculpture of a Woman with Flower Detail. Pentina Consistent with Age.
Dimensions. 5 W ; 5 D ; 3 H
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pierre Puget french bronze Art Deco "Faun" circa 1900.
By Pierre Puget
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
Incredible PIERRE POUGET french art nouveau "Faun" bronze circa 1900 on marble base.
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Female French Classical Bronze Diana Robing Praxiteles Audin a Marseille
By Praxiteles 1
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Fine Example of Classical Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Diana Robing after Praxiteles, an Elegant Classical Patinated French Bronze Female Standing Figure...
Category
19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Ormolu
Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1867) Sleeping Nymph
Located in London, GB
EDWARD HODGES BAILY (1788-1867)
SLEEPING NYMPH
incised signature and date E H Baily, R.A. / Sculp. London / 1840
Statuary marble.
Category
19th Century Antique Sculptures
Materials
Statuary Marble
Mid-19th Century French Bronze Entitled "Deux Chiens en Arret" by A L Barye
Located in London, GB
"Deux Chiens en Arret" by A L Barye
A dramatic mid 19th Century French bronze animalier group of a pointer and setter as they iflushing pheasants in a naturalistic undergrowth. The bronze with excellent autumnal (green, brown, and orange) patina and intricate hand chased surface detail, signed Barye. A rare bronze subject from the artist’s own atelier (workshop).
Additional information
Measures: Height: 12 cm
Width: 25 cm
Depth: 8 cm
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Circa: 1860
Materials: Bronze
Book Ref BARYE Catalogue Raisonne des Sculptures by
Michel Poletti – Alain Richarme
Page no. 150
Description
Antoine Louis Barye
“The Michelangelo of the Menagerie”
These are the words of Théophile Gautier in praise of Barye’s genius. Throughout his life Barye endeavoured to capture the fundamental nature of the animal kingdom in all its diversity, wild or tame, exotic or familiar, cruel or gentle, bringing to life the roaring, trembling, living beasts.
The son of a goldsmith, apprenticed to a steel engraver at a young age, Barye found himself making moulds for ornaments, acquiring knowledge that he would later build on to produce his exquisitely chased bronzes. When he was called up at seventeen, he joined the army’s topographic brigade where he used clay to model raised relief maps...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Cast Marble Stone "The Awakening" by Vincent Glinsky
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
8-102 cast marble stone sculpture designer by Vincent Glinsky in 1930s
Original sculpture done in 1930
Newly cast in Italy 1960s
Russian born/American artist 1895-1975.
Category
1960s European Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Statuary Marble
Bonnie Contemporary LED Large Pendant, Solid Brass or Chromed
Located in Torslanda, SE
The Bonnie range is designed around the stylized form of a Saffron flower, known around the world for its valuable beauty, fragrance and essence.
Each organic flower-like form is st...
Category
2010s Scandinavian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Nickel
Charles Korschann Art Nouveau Gilt Bronze Nude
Located in Dallas, TX
Charles Korschann Czechoslovakian
Art Nouveau Gilt-Bronze Figural Bud Vase. Cast from a model by Charles (Karl) Korschann, circa 1899, of urn form, with a handle in the form of a...
Category
1890s Czech Art Nouveau Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Gogottte
Located in London, GB
A rare Gogotte formation – a millions-of-years old naturally shaped sandstone concretion, consisting of tiny quartz fragments held together by cal...
Category
15th Century and Earlier French Antique Sculptures
Materials
Quartz
The Shining Obelisk by Davide Medri
Located in Geneve, CH
Death Re-Loaded Decorative Object by Davide Medri
Dimensions: H230 cm.
Materials: Mirror.
Davide Medri was born in Cesena on August 7th 1967 and graduated at the Academy of Fine Art...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sculptures
Materials
Mirror
Art Nouveau Statue Of Lady with Parrot By Alfred Brandel, 20th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
A very rare Hoop Dancer and Falcon in bronze, marble base and head and hands in ivory, dressed with a headband with shiny stones.
“Briand” signed (pseudonym of Marcel André Bouraine)...
Category
20th Century French Art Nouveau Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal, Bronze
Charles Raphaël Peyre Art Nouveau Gilt Bronze Maiden
Located in Dallas, TX
Charles Raphaël Peyre (French 1874-1949)
A French Art Nouveau Gilt-Bronze Figure of a Maiden
Cast by Louchet, circa 1900
Modeled in a standing pose with her hands clasped closed...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid 20th Century Porcelain Figurine of a Greyhound
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful porcelain figurine of a greyhound.
The figurine is not marked, maker unknown. Probably Italian.
The figurine has a beautiful colour and very nice details in the anatomy...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
After the Antique, Grand Tour Bronze of Aristotle
Located in Montreal, QC
The philosopher in oratorical pose, with an urn of his writings at his feet.
A 19th century casting, good crisp quality on marble base.
Category
1850s Italian Classical Roman Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Bronze Sculpture By J.Berré, Resting Cow, France, 19th Century
Located in Greven, DE
Beautiful lifelike sculpture by J.Berré.
Depiction of a resting cow, nicely chiseled on a marble base.
Signed by the artist "J.Berré" on the plinth.
Category
19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Art Deco Sculpture "Alerte Nº2" by J. de Roncourt
Located in Madrid, ES
Art deco athlete sculpture in patinated metal based on a plate of Belgian marble. Spear are made on bronze.
Made in France Ca, 1930. Signed by J de R...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Metal, Bronze
Contemporary Bronze Sculpture by Bertrand Créac'h, France, 2021
Located in London, GB
"Elevation" Sculpture by Bertrand Créac'h, 2021
Bronze with black patina, cast iron with sand core, chiseled and patinated. 1/8 print, signed.
Dimensions: H 80 x 18.5 x 7 cm
This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Italian Murano Glass Bird by Licio Zanetti
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A beautiful Italian white and clear Murano glass bird sculpture by Licio Zanetti for Ultima Crystal Art. The sculpture is signed and retains the Ultima Crystal Art label (see detail ...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Bronze Sculpture Of David By Michelangelo
Located in Madrid, ES
Bronze Sculpture Of David By Michelangelo
Large patinated bronze sculpture of David by Michelangelo. Excellent condition. 1950s. Dimensions: 84x2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
After the Antique Polychromed Bronze Bust of the Prima Porta Augustus Caesar
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
After the antique polychromed bronze bust of the Prima Porta Augustus Caesar.
Italy,mid-20th century
A extraordinary, large scale, very heavy mid 20th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Small Antique Decorative Water Buffalo, Malayan, Bronze, Victorian, Circa 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique decorative water buffalo. A Malayan, bronze figure, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1900.
Distinctive stance with a nicely patinated appearance
Display...
Category
Late 19th Century Asian Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Bronze and ormolu cherub pushing a sleigh.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An enchanting 19th Century patinated bronze and gilded ormolu cherub pushing a sleigh with a butterfly mounted on the front, set on a rouge marble plinth.
Signed; S. Kinsburer.
Batc...
Category
Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Sculptures
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Vintage Phrenology Head Ornament, English, Ceramic, Decorative Bust, Circa 1970
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage Phrenology head ornament. An English, ceramic decorative bust, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970.
Appealing decora...
Category
1970s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Blue and White Cat Headrest, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
To keep her elaborate hairstyle intact while sleeping, a well-to-do Qing-dynasty woman once used this ceramic headrest as a pillow. The headrest is shaped as a crouching house cat, w...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Bronze Sculpture By Adolf Josef Pohl (1872-1930), Blacksmith, Austria
Located in Greven, DE
Beautiful bronze statue by the austrian sculptor and artist Adolf Josef Pohl (born in Vienna April 27th 1872 – July 25th 1930).
Depiction of a standing blacksmith in the typical wo...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Late Victorian Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Brass "Reserved" Button
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brass decorative object or paperweight. This brass button showcases a round face with embossed "RESERVED" on the front. It would be great as an office paperweight or decorative obje...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Vintage Brutalist Walenty Pytel Style Bird Welded Sculpture
By Walenty Pytel
Located in Charleston, SC
Vintage Brutalist sculpture in the manner of Walenty Pytel. 19-Inch Forged Steel Bird. Born in 1941 Walenty Pytel is a Polish-born contemporary artist ...
Category
1980s English Brutalist Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Iron
19th Century Bronze Statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni
Located in Esbeek, NL
This patinated bronze statue is after the original Renaissance sculpture which was executed by Andrea del Verrocchio in 1480–1488, in Italy. Exac...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Very Tall Bronze Ndebele Sculpture, Original Mid-Century Modern, 1950s
By Woka Lamps
Located in Vienna, AT
This beautiful sculpture by an unknown artist, depicting a Ndebele. Despite of occasionally mistakenly attributed to Carl Hagenauer is it undoubtedly a masterpiece. In earlier times,...
Category
1950s African Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Green Tara Gilt Bronze Tibetan Statue
Located in Somis, CA
A beautiful gilt bronze statue of Tibetan Green Tara. The Goddess is seated in lalitasana on an elaborately incised double-lotus base with the pendant foot resting on a smaller lotus...
Category
20th Century Tibetan Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Alabaster Screen by Andrea Giomi
Located in Geneve, CH
Alabaster Screen by Andrea Giomi
Dimensions: D 210 x W 100 x H 190 cm
Materials: Alabaster Volterra.
Also available in another marble version.
One of a kind inspired by the Basilica...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
"Cerf Qui Marche" by A L Barye
Located in London, GB
Excellent late 19th Century French bronze figure of a walking stag with beautiful autumnal, green. black. brown and orange patination and excellent hand finished surface detail on an oval naturalistic base with integral stepped plinth, signed Barye and inscribed F Barbedienne Fondeur
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Measures: Height: 19 cm
Width: 22 cm
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Circa: 1870
Foundry: F Barbedienne
Materials: Bronze
Book Ref Barye by Michel Poletti & Alain Richarme
ABOUT
Antoine Louis Barye
“The Michelangelo of the Menagerie”
These are the words of Théophile Gautier in praise of Barye’s genius. Throughout his life Barye endeavoured to capture the fundamental nature of the animal kingdom in all its diversity, wild or tame, exotic or familiar, cruel or gentle, bringing to life the roaring, trembling, living beasts.
The son of a goldsmith, apprenticed to a steel engraver at a young age, Barye found himself making moulds for ornaments, acquiring knowledge that he would later build on to produce his exquisitely chased bronzes. When he was called up at seventeen, he joined the army’s topographic brigade where he used clay to model raised relief maps...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ovetto Metal Collection Gold Recycling and Waste Bin by Soldi Design
By Soldi Design
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This so-called world's most avant-garde trash can comes from Italy. The brand of this spaceship is called SOLDI DESIGN! It is an ecological design brand founded in 2008! With the phi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Cold-painted bronze cats sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria.
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Cold-painted bronze cats sculpture attributed to Franz Bergmann. Austria, early 20th century.
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Belle Époque Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
American Modern Abstract Brutalist TOTEM Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
American Modern abstract-Brutalist TOTEM sculpture with geometric structure, in carbon steel and bronze. The piece is reminiscent of design elements of...
Category
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Torsion in Opal White 23/01, sculptural handblown glass vessel by Emma Baker
By Emma Baker
Located in London, GB
'Torsion in Opal White 23/01' is a unique sculptural artwork by the British artist, Emma Baker.
Emma Baker has worked with glass for over ten years, initially encountering the mate...
Category
2010s British Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Ceramic green figure of Sitting boy, Giordano Tronconi, Faenza Italy, 1950s
Located in Firenze, IT
Sitting boy sculpture, green lustro glazed ceramic.
Giordano Tronconi (Faenza, 1932) Italy 1950s
A juvenile important work by Giordano Tronconi.
Signed Tronconi and numbered on t...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Very Fine Russian Antique Bronze “Resting Bear” after Nikolai Lieberich
Located in Shippensburg, PA
NIKOLAI LIEBERICH [after]
Russian, 1828-1883
A Resting Bear
Sand-cast patinated bronze with concrete core signed in Cyrillic to the underside (editeur ...
Category
19th Century European Romantic Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lalique French Art Glass Bird (Swallow) Bookend or Paperweight
By Lalique
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine French art glass bookend or paperweight.
By Lalique.
In the form of a diving swallow bird.
Etched to the base with a 'Lalique France' mark.
...
Category
20th Century French Modern Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Sculpture marble Hebe from Thorvaldsen's model
Located in Rome, IT
Sculpture marble Hebe from Thorvaldsen's model,xx century, marble
Category
1980s Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Alessio Tasca for Fusina Acrylic Prism Sculpture, 1970s
By Fusina, Alessio Tasca
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Alessio Tasca for Fusina Acrylic Prism Sculpture, 1970s.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Bust of Bacchante by Auguste Baptiste Clesinger, Rome, 1857
By Jean Auguste Baptiste Clesinger
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large bronze bust showing a beautiful young woman depicted as a Bacchante, the Greek Goddess of Wine, her head festooned with grape branches. The bust is supported by an integral bronze plinth that at the back is inscribed with the name of the sculptor, J. Clesinger Rome 1857 dating the bronze to the time when the sculptor was 33 years old.
The sculptor whose full name was Jean Auguste Baptiste Clesinger was born in 1813 in Besancon in Southern France. His father, Georges-Philippe, was a sculptor and trained Auguste in art. Auguste first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1843 with a bust of Vicomte Jules de Vaidahon. At the 1847 Salon, he created a sensation with his Woman bitten by a serpent, produced from life-casts from his model Apollonie Sabartier who was a notorious Parisian and the mistress of many perhaps even of Clesinger himself. Later he also produced this bust of her as Bacchante.
In private life, the sculptor was awarded one of France’s highest honour, the knight’s cross...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Romantic Antique Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Grande Asino in Ceramica Turchese Policroma con Ceste Porta Uova Perugia 1950
Located in Milan, IT
Grande Asino in Ceramica con Gerle Porta Uova Perugia 1950 utilizzato dall’industria dolciaria per le confezioni di lusso delle uova di Pasqua. Il ciuco è in perfetto stato a prescin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage postmodern lucite sculpture, late 20th century
Located in View Park, CA
A tall abstract sculpture in lucite or acrylic, circa late 20th century. Tones of swimming pool blue, fuchsia, and ice pink. Slight scuffs along base as well as a small chip to top o...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Post-Modern Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Björn Selder Patinated Bronze Sculpture, Sweden 1970s
By Björn Selder
Located in Utrecht, NL
Characteristic for Swedish artist, Björn Selder, are powerful, expressive sculptures, such as this piece, in heavy materials like bronze, iron, and stone....
Category
1970s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Polished Agate Cathedral with a Tangerine Crystal Point
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Polished agate cathedral with a tangerine crystal point.
Agate is characterized by its fineness of grain and brightness of color. These slabs are clas...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Organic Modern Antique Sculptures
Materials
Agate, Rock Crystal, Quartz
Callipygian Venus - Italian, 19th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Callipygian Venus
19th Century
Italian (Naples or Rome)
White marble
After the Antique: Naples Archaeological Museum (IT)
Roman version of a Hellenistic 3rd Century B.C. model
Height: 62 cm
Width: 22 cm
H 24 1/2 x W 8 2/3 inch
The Callipygian Venus, also known as the Aphrodite Kallipygos or the Callipygian Venus, all literally meaning “Venus of the beautiful buttocks”, is an Ancient Roman marble statue...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Antique, New and Vintage Sculptures
Styling your home with vintage, new and antique sculptures means adding a touch that can meaningfully transform the space. By introducing a sculptural work as a decorative finish to any interior, you’re making a statement, whether you tend toward the dramatic or prefer to keep things casual with modest, understated art.
A single, one-of-a-kind three-dimensional figurative sculpture mounted on your dining room wall is a guaranteed conversation piece, while a trio of abstract works arranged on your living room bookshelves can add spontaneity to the collection of first-edition novels or artist monographs you’re displaying as well as draw attention to them. Figurative sculptures are representational works that portray a specific person, animal or object. And while decorating with busts, which are sculpted or cast figurative works, hasn’t exactly topped the list of design trends every year, busts are back. According to designer Timothy Corrigan, “They give humanity in a way that a more abstract sculpture can’t give.” Abstract sculptures, on the other hand, are not meant to show something specific. Instead, they invoke a mood or scene without directly stating what they are portraying.
Busts made of stone or metal may not seem like a good fit for your existing decor. Fortunately, there are many ways for a seemingly incongruous piece to fit in with the rest of your room’s theme. You can embrace a dramatic piece by making it the focal point of the room, or you can choose to incorporate several elements made out of the same material to create harmony in your space. If an antique or more dramatic piece doesn’t feel like you, why not opt for works comprising plastic, fiberglass or other more modern materials?
When incorporating sculpture into the design of your home — be it the playful work of auction hero and multimedia visionary KAWS, contemporary fiber art from Connecticut dealer browngrotta arts or still-life sculpture on a budget — consider proper lighting, which can bring out the distinctive aspects of your piece that deserve attention. And make sure you know how the size and form of the sculpture will affect your space in whole. If you choose a sculpture with dramatic design elements, such as sharp angles or bright colors, for example, try to better integrate this new addition by echoing those elements in the rest of your room’s design.
Get started on decorating with sculpture now — find figurative sculptures, animal sculptures and more on 1stDibs today.
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