Modern Abstract Sculptures
MODERN STYLE
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
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Recognized Seller Listings
Tony Rosenthal Wall Sculpture "Twenty One- Two"
Located in Chicago, IL
Tony Rosenthal Wall Sculpture "Twenty-One- Two"
Painted aluminum, bolted together, Hanging brackets on the backside, to be shown 3" away from wall
Signed on backside 21-2
Tony Rosent...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
Tony Rosenthal Wall Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Tony Rosenthal Wall Sculpture, Untitled 2000c. Painted Aluminum bolted together.
Signed lower right side Tony Rosenthal
Wall mounting bracket on the backside floats 3" off the wall
...
Category
Early 2000s North American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Gufram "the End Stool Is Black" by Toiletpaper
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
The funeral look of this furniture-sculpture is tempered by the softness of the polyurethane that makes it: in perfect Gufram tradition nothing is as it seems. "THE END in BLACK" is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paint
Tony Rosenthal Standing Black and White Plus Yellow Floor Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Tony Rosenthal Standing Black and White Plus Yellow Floor Sculpture 1987
Painted aluminum on both sides, signed Tony Rosenthal on the base
Dimensions:
60" high
37" wide
8" deep
Category
1980s American Vintage Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
2 Pc. Assemblage #1 by David Haskell
Located in New York, NY
Ceramic floating bowl with green glazes. Artist signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Geometric Forms, 8" tall Circa 1900
Located in Culver City, CA
Geometric Forms, 8" tall
Italy circa 1900
Collection of (10) with taped lettering.
3”-8”h
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Modern Umberto Dattola for Dilmos Gold Leaf Sculpture Storage Light Handcrafted
Located in Milan, IT
Hanging light designed by Umberto Dattola for Dilmos, made of hardwood, covered in gold, silver or copper leaf and lacquered in different colours. One of the little houses is equippe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Modern Umberto Dattola for Dilmos Gold Leaf Standing Sculpture Handcrafted
Located in Milan, IT
Free standing sculpture with small openings made of hard wood completely covered by the designer in gold leaf; The sculpture is on sticks that represent a banch of wood sticks. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
without title
Located in London, GB
The breath of sculpture is the distinctive originality of Andrea Cascella’s work, who belonged to a generation that since World War II has re-founded and re-invented the destiny of s...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porphyry
GUFRAM Sunrise Cactus by Drocco & Mello - Paul Smith limited edition 1/169
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Gufram and Paul Smith renew their collaboration to present the SUNRISE CACTUS®, a bold new interpretation of the iconic piece originally designed by Guido Drocco and Franco Mello in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Other
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 Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Stainless Steel
Clessidra Glass Hourglass in Grey and Red by Venini
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Venini glass hourglass in grey and red. Perfect for indoor home decor or as a statement piece for any room. Limited edition of 199 pieces. Also availab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
American Artist, Abstract Sculpture, Metal, USA, 1960s
Located in High Point, NC
An abstract cast metal sculpture, produced in the US, c. 1960s.
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Contemporary American Patinated Bronze Abstract Sculpture on Marble Base
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American abstract sculpture made of patinated bronze, mounted on a square white marble base. (in the style of BRANCUSI).
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal, Bronze
Aurora Pink Portal Glass Bookends, ANDREW HUGHES
Located in New York, NY
The Portal design is a simple exercise in optics and color. The Aurora color and reflective light are diffused by a surface etching on the top third of the interior of each bookend. ...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
"Brama Totem" Ltd. Ed. Blue Glazed and Gold Leaf Sculpture by P. Girardin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Brama Totem" is a handmade sculpture, designed and produced by Canadian artist Pascale Girardin in a limited edition, made of glazed high fire stoneware with an Egyptian-blue finish and 22.5-karat gold leaf (gilding) with an urethane varnish, featuring a powder-coated aluminum structure.
DIMENSIONS:
Ø 10", H. 59.75"
Pascale Girardin said about "Brama Totem":
"The Brama Totems are playful pieces in which I bring together pre-existing forms to create something surprising and intriguing."
These objets d’art by Canadian ceramic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum, Gold Leaf
Cloud Sculpture #2205 by Chris Gustin
By Chris Gustin
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Unique, wood-fired sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Cloud Sculpture #2202 by Chris Gustin
By Chris Gustin
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Unique, wood-fired sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Glacier Vase 1, by Robbie Heidinger
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Abstract form with blue glazes & applied discs. Artist signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
X-Large Sculptural Vase #4 by Dena Zemsky
By Dena Zemsky
Located in New York, NY
Glazed ceramic. Hand built, large-scale vase. Light blue glazed interior and textured exterior. Artist-signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
X-Large Sculptural Vase #3 by Dena Zemsky
By Dena Zemsky
Located in New York, NY
Hand built, large-scale ceramic vase. Light blue glazed interior and textured exterior. Artist-signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pollinator, Vase by Robbie Heidinger
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Footed orb-shaped vase form with applied discs. Blue, brown & cream colored glazes. Artist signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Vernal Blue Porcelain Vase 1 by Robbie Heidinger
Located in New York, NY
Glazed porcelain. Footed orb-shaped vase with applied circular forms. Blue and green glazes. Artist signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Domingos Tótora "Escultura Âmago Mod.06", Brazil 21st Century
Located in Utrecht, NL
This organic sculpture by contemporary artist Domingos Tótora is a visual expression of the artist’s view of design. Tótora creates objects and sculptures where beauty is inseparable...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Domingos Tótora "Escultura Âmago Model 04", Brazil 21st Century
Located in Utrecht, NL
This organic sculpture by contemporary artist Domingos Tótora is a visual expression of the artist’s view of design. Tótora creates objects and sculptures where beauty is inseparable...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Contemporary American Abstract Wood Sculpture on Stand
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American abstract sculpture featuring a wooden desk with geometric black and gray designs, mounted on a rectangular base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Oval Bud Vase by Robbie Heidinger
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Footed oval-shaped vase with applied forms & blue glazes. Artist signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Untitled Sculpture #12, by Rosanne Sniderman
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware sculpture. Hand built & artist-signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Untitled Sculpture 10, by Rosanne Sniderman
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Hand built & artist signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
French Horn in Resin Sculpture by Arman
By Arman
Located in Montreal, QC
Fractured cast bronze French Horn, encased in resin, by Arman Armand Fernandez. Mounted on original polished bronze base. Signed "Arman." The dimensions are without the base.
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Poeme 06 Sculpture by Pascale Girardin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Permutations of forms and colour combinations, Poème is an ode to ceramics in all its dimensions.
Sculptures consisting of wheel-thrown and/or hand-formed ceramic elements to whic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
D01 Gold Sculpture by Pascale Girardin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Slip cast porcelain sculpture.
Glazed with gold coating by evaporation.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
D03 Matt Black Sculpture by Pascale Girardin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Slip cast porcelain sculpture.
Glazed with gold coating by evaporation.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Poeme 07 Sculpture by Pascale Girardin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Permutations of forms and colour combinations, Poème is an ode to ceramics in all its dimensions.
Sculptures consisting of wheel-thrown and/or hand-formed ceramic elements to whic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Poeme 04 Sculpture by Pascale Girardin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Permutations of forms and colour combinations, Poème is an ode to ceramics in all its dimensions.
Sculptures consisting of wheel-thrown and/or hand-formed ceramic elements to whic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Untitled Sculpture by Roseanne Sniderman
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware, wood fired. Untitled Sculpture by Roseanne Sniderman. Signed underneath.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Large 4 Pc. Assemblage Sculpture #4 by David Haskell
Located in New York, NY
Glazed ceramic. Assemblage sculpture with 3 organic forms balancing atop of a conical base. Black clay dripping with turquoise colored glaze. Artist - signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled Bowl #8 by Roseanne Sniderman
Located in New York, NY
Brown glazed stoneware form. Wood fired. Signed and dated underneath.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Zuperfici Sculpture by Duccio Maria Gambi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
With INCAL, the new collection launched at Duplex, Duccio Maria Gambi blurs the lines of functionality and art, expanding his research into the nature of materials.
Duccio Maria Gam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Incal Sculpture by Duccio Maria Gambi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Zuperfici is a collection of furniture pieces and objects that investigates the materiality of an object through its surfaces.The starting point is the plastic laminate, a very thin ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Double Spout Vase #8706 by Chris Gustin
By Chris Gustin
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Unique, wood-fired vase. A dynamic example if Gustin’s work from the late 1980’s.
Category
1980s American Vintage Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Large Scale Vessel #1504 by Chris Gustin
By Chris Gustin
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Unique wood fired piece.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
ClassiCon Usha Umbrella Stand in Steel by Eckart Muthesius
Located in New York, NY
It is a sign of a most mature culture when articles of everyday use also come to catch the aesthetic eye. Coiling upwards like a snake at a snake-charming is Eckart Muthesius‘ spiral...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Big Bud Vase #9 by Robbie Heidinger
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Green glazes, and great relief decoration. Artist signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Sculpture by Lars Erik Falk, Sweden, 1980s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Striking sculpture by Lars Erik Falk, made from composite wood and tilted at Falk’s signature 73 degrees. Painted in a distinct pattern of black and white stripes.
Lars Erik Falk (1922-1918) was one of Sweden’s foremost constructivists. He was a painter and sculptor, represented with several public...
Category
1980s Swedish Vintage Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Post-War Abstract Bronze Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Dutch Post-War Design abstract bronze sculpture with a green patinated trimmed finish of a woman with a shawl wrapped around her waist (att: William Cowenberg 1970s).
Category
20th Century Dutch Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modern Coffee Table in Wood & Glass Unique Edition
By Duffy London
Located in London, GB
A bespoke rectangular edition Abyss coffee table by Christopher Duffy for Duffy London. This is a one-off, artists-proof edition piece and the only ...
Category
2010s British Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Beech, Birch
James Bearden "Meteor Storm Screen"
Located in New York, NY
Sonic sculpture of torch-cut and polychromed steel, fused bronze, solvent dyes, and glass enamel. An elongated version of "Meteor Storm" that can serve as a screen or divider. A 2019...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Steel
James Bearden Containment Box #2
Located in New York, NY
Sculptural "Containment" box, a vessel in blackened steel, dyed bronze, and red glass enamel by American artist James Bearden. Number 2 in a series. Top lifts off revealing an abstra...
Category
2010s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Steel
Unique Painted Handmade Sculpture Dilmos Edizioni Colourful Geometric
Located in Milan, IT
Unique painted wooden sculpture, entirely handmade by the designer Monica Taverniti for Dilmos Edizioni. The geometric and futuristic shape of the object has atemporal connotations, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Hardwood, Paint
Cloud Vessel #1819 by Chris Gustin
By Chris Gustin
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Unique wood-fired vessel.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Cloud Sculpture #1912 by Chris Gustin
By Chris Gustin
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Unique, wood-fired sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Cloud Sculpture #2105 by Chris Gustin
By Chris Gustin
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Unique wood fired sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Cloud Sculpture #1913 by Chris Gustin
By Chris Gustin
Located in New York, NY
Glazed stoneware. Unique, wood-fired sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
ClassiCon Folding Screen in White by Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in New York, NY
The high-tech look that arose in the 1980s and which is still potentially current had an ingenious predecessor. Over half a century ago, Eileen Gray anticipated the cool industrial a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Ray Geary "Summer's Over, Broken Keepsake" 2018
By Ray Geary 1
Located in New York, NY
Summer's over, broken keepsake, by Ray Geary, 2018 pills cast in clear resin and broken ceramic figures
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Resin
Philip & Kelvin LaVerne Sculpture "The Runner" in Bronze 1970s 'Signed'
Located in New York, NY
One-of-a-kind sculpture, The Runner, in hand-brazed and textured bronze by Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, American 1970's (signed "Philip + Kelvin LaVerne" on ba...
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modern Shannon Clegg Dilmos Edizioni Vase Sculpture Dried Flower Colourful
Located in Milan, IT
Hand made vase created with sun dried flowers, acquired locally at the London market, city of its author. The select flowers are thus always unique: after a drying process of two months the flowers are woven together and then treated with a vegetal glue, in order to consolidate the shape.
Made by Shannon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Natural Fiber
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