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Figurative Sculptures For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
Period: Late 18th Century
Cigar Cutter in the Shape of a Pitcher Pump, Brass, Early 20th Century
Located in Knivsta, SE
A striking and functioning cigar cutter in solid brass with a base of varnished oak. Nicely patinated. Cut cigar pieces are dispensed into the base where they easily can be removed. ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Italian Cast Stone Standing Sculpture of Roman
Located in Cypress, CA
Italian cast stone standing sculpture of a Roman dressed in classical robes leaning near a tree stump, raised on a conforming oval plinth.
First half of t...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Art Deco Bronze Sculpture Bathing Nude by Jaume Martrus Y Riera 1925 G. Bechini
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco bronze sculpture bathing nude by Jaume Martrus y Riera.
With foundry mark of G. Bechini, Barcelona.
Patinated bronze on a green marble base.
Spain 1925.
Category
1920s Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Viennese Art Deco Bronze Dancer by Josef Lorenzl, circa 1915/1920
Located in Vienna, AT
The graceful, bare dancer with short, curly hair combed back, leads, with her upper body turned to the right, her arms stretched out horizontally from the body, a dance step forward ...
Category
1910s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Art Nouveau Group 'Lady Feeding a Parrot', by E. Oehler, Meissen Germany, C 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group:
Young lady with her hair pinned up, in a white dress with embroidered borders over a flowered blouse, sitting cross-legged on an armch...
Category
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Ceramic Bust of a Maiden
Located in New York, NY
Art Nouveau ceramic portrait bust of a maiden, depicted with long flowing hair and floral wreath, stylized socle base with relief flowers. Measures: 1...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
French Art Deco Bronze Magazine Rack with Verdigris Patina
Located in Stamford, CT
Beautifully designed and very unusual cast bronze magazine of book rack showing two centaurs rearing and with arms out stretched, with subtle verdigris patina.
Whether used as a ho...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Wood Carving Sumo Wrestler, 1930-1940
Located in Rochester, NY
A Japanese wood carving of a sumo wrestler wearing the traditional "fundoshi" loin cloth garment. Perfectly aged original old rich surface color patina. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Very Large Porcelain Figure Faun with Crocodile Rosenthal Selb, Germany
Located in Vienna, AT
Admirable and very rare Art Nouveau Figurine by Rosenthal.
The faun stands frightened on a broken piece of ruins with Egyptian inscriptions, holding a panpipe in his right hand, a s...
Category
1920s German Art Nouveau Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Large Egyptian Nude Woman Bronze Sculpture of Cleopatra by Michael Mörtl
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Striking bronze sculpture of a nude Cleopatra looking at herself in wonder in a mirror. She's wearing a cobra snake head band piece and her hair in braids. She is standing on a highl...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Egyptian Revival Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Chinese Bamboo Teapot with Arched Handle, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Tea drinking has been an integral part of Chinese culture for centuries, resulting in a wide range of social customs and material traditions. In addition to tea leaves, water, and he...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bamboo
Vienna Bergmann Bronze Lamp Arab Man with Carpet made circa 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
Stunning Bronze Figurine:
Arab Man Standing in front of Carpet ( = Table Lamp)
This finest Vienna Bronze shows a sculptured Arab Man's Figurine as well as it is a Table Lamp: The Arab Warrior is clad in typical garments (= long mantle...
Category
1910s Austrian Other Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Paper Mâché Mannequin
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Mannequin between the 1930s and 1940s, is not in good condition, the head has something like a broken one, it does not stand straight.
Category
Early 20th Century Mexican Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Important Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture Tambourine Dancer by, Agathon Leonard
Located in Englewood, NJ
An Important French Art Nouveau cast gilt bronze figural sculpture by Agathon Le´onard, "Dansseuse Tambourine á Droité" (Tambourine Dancer to the Right" featuring a woman dancing and...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Italian Polychromed and Painted Egyptian style figural torcheres
Located in Cypress, CA
Impressive opposing pair of Venetian polychromed and paint decorated Egyptian style figural torcheres.
Early 20th century.
A life-size Nubian man and woman, each dressed in traditio...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Egyptian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
1920s Hand Forged Iron Spear Tribal Warrior Sculpture African Dogon
Located in Chula Vista, CA
African tribal Dogon hand forged spear & chain sculpted warrior
West Africa circa 1920s.
6.75 H x 3 W x 2.5 D
Original vintage unrestored condition.
Refer to images.
Category
1920s Congolese Tribal Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Superb French Art Deco Greyhound Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Unique and rare French Art Deco Greyhound dog, large size sculpture in ivory color, in a very good condition. Beautiful line, movements and wonderfu...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Royal Doulton Porcelain Figurine, "The Mendicant"
Located in Ferndale, MI
High glazed, finely modeled bone china with exquisite colors. One of designer, Leslie Harradine finest Royal Doulton firgurines, "The Mendicant" (1929...
Category
Early 20th Century English Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Italian Terracotta Classical Bust on a Wood Base
Located in Houston, TX
Antique Italian terracotta classical bust on a wood base.
Italian patinated terra cotta bust or sculpture of a classical Roman on a wood base, circa 1920, possibly a Grand Tour piece...
Category
1920s Italian Classical Roman Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Robert Aitken, A Dance, American Art Deco Patinated Bronze Sculpture circa 1920s
By Robert Aitken
Located in New York, NY
Signed ‘AITKEN’, and ‘XOROS’ (Greek: Dance) on the plinth.
Dimensions:
Height 20 inches
Width (top) 11 inches
Depth 6 inches
This remarkable in its expensiveness sculpture depicts a forest spirit – satyr, dancing and playing his reed simultaneously. With horns and horse ears, satyrs were endowed with the qualities of wild creatures with animal qualities, little thought of human prohibitions and moral standards. In addition, they were distinguished by fantastic endurance, both in battle and at the festive table. Their great passion was the passion for music, reed being one of satyrs’ main attributes.
Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949) was a noted American sculptor, born in San Francisco, California. He became a noted sculptor who spent most of his career teaching at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He has done numerous portraits, full size and bust, of well known figures, and his work is in many collections and museums including the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. For his early study, he was a painting pupil of Arthur Mathews...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Highly Unique Anthropomorphic Bronze Vide Poche, Probably Austria Circa 1900
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very intriguing and highly unusual bronze vide-poche, sculpted in the form of an anthropomorphic figure cradling a pair of dished recesses.
No visible foundry marks or makers mark...
Category
Early 20th Century European Bohemian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Austrian Sculpture "The Feather" by, Bruno Zach
By Bruno Zach
Located in Englewood, NJ
An Austrian Art Deco patinated and polychromed bronze sculpture "The Feather" by, Bruno Zack of a Native American Indian with a feather headdress riding a top a running horse. The sc...
Category
1910s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"David with His Hound, " Unique and Important Sculpture by Paul Manship, 1914
By Paul Manship
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A dignified and poignant bronze by America's greatest sculptor of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, this unique piece by Paul Manship depicts young David in ancient Israel...
Category
1910s American Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century Anya Wood African Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th century Anya wood African sculpture.
Category
Early 20th Century Tanzanian Figurative Sculptures
18th Century, French Giltwood Decorative Element
Located in Sofia, BG
18th century handmade giltwood decorative element representing a trophy of music in an entourage of flowering branches,
France, circa 1790.
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Giltwood
Rare Joe Descomps Art Deco Nude Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
Sculpted in stone, a beautiful French Art Deco nude female with floral details and fabric draping, signed Joe Descomps, dated under the base, 11-6-26, June 11, 1926.
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Pair of Louis Philippe Bronze and Marble Candelabra
Located in Essex, MA
Each with cherub holding a flowering branch, on a white cylindrical marble base with square marble plinth.
Category
1790s French Neoclassical Antique Figurative Sculptures
Antique, New and Vintage Figurative Sculptures
Figurative sculpture is a modern art form in which artists create work that is typically representative of the visible world. However, sculptures that are considered to be figurative in style can definitely be inclusive of abstract elements. A wide range of antique, new and vintage figurative sculptures has been made over the years by both well-known and emerging artists, and these pieces can prove striking and provocative as part of your home decor.
Realistic representation in visual art has a very long history. And while figurative artists, whether figurative painters or sculptors, find inspiration in humans, animals and real-life objects, good figurative sculptures can make us think differently about how the real world should look. Just as figurative paintings might include Photorealistic human likenesses, they can also include elements of Surrealism and can suggest a creative and alternative reality. Figurative sculptures aren’t always realistic impressions of our world — depictions of the human form in classical Greek sculpture, for example, might emphasize beauty and physical perfection.
There are a variety of figurative sculptures on 1stDibs created by artists working in a number of styles, including Art Deco, Art Nouveau, mid-century modern and more. A large figurative sculpture can introduce an excellent focal point in a guest bedroom, while smaller works might draw the eye to spaces such as wall shelving or a bookcase that people may otherwise overlook.
When decorating your living room, dining room, home office and study areas with figurative sculptures, don’t be afraid to choose bold colors to inject brightness into neutral spaces. Texture is another factor to consider when purchasing figurative sculptures. A highly textural work of ceramics or wood will catch the eye in a sleek modern space, whereas a smooth, flat glass sculpture can offer an often much-needed contrast in a room that already has many textures.
On 1stDibs, find antique, new or vintage figurative sculpture or other kinds of sculpture for your home decor today.
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