Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
BRUTALIST STYLE
The design of brutalist furniture encompasses that which is crafted, hewn and worked by hand — an aesthetic rebuke (or, at least, a counterpoint) to furniture that is created using 21st-century materials and technology. Lately, the word “brutalist” has been adopted by the realms of furniture design and the decorative arts to refer to chairs, cabinets, tables and accessory pieces such as mirror frames and lighting that are made of rougher, deeply textured metals and other materials that are the visual and palpable antithesis of the sleek, smooth and suave.
ORIGINS OF BRUTALIST FURNITURE DESIGN
- Brutalism emerged during the mid-20th century
- Term coined by architecture critic Reyner Banham
- Originated in the United Kingdom
- Brutalist architecture gained popularity in the United States beginning in the early 1960s
- Inaugural brutalist projects include Unité d'habitation and the city of Chandigarh, India, both of which owe to influential architect Charles-Édouard “Le Corbusier” Jeanneret
- Le Corbusier’s cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, designed hundreds of chairs, tables, cabinets and lamps for Chandigarh
- Informed by the Bauhaus, constructivism, modernism and the International Style; part of mid-century modernism
- Contrasted starkly with Beaux Arts style
CHARACTERISTICS OF BRUTALIST FURNITURE DESIGN
- Use of industrial materials — tubular steel, concrete, glass, granite
- Prioritizes functionalism, minimalism and utilization of negative space
- Spare silhouettes, pronounced geometric shapes
- Stripped-down, natural look; rugged textures, modular construction
- Interiors featuring airy visual flow and reliance on neutral palettes
BRUTALIST FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
VINTAGE BRUTALIST FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The term brutalism — which derives from the French word brut, meaning “raw” — was coined by architecture critic Reyner Banham to describe an architectural style that emerged in the 1950s featuring monumental buildings, usually made of unornamented concrete, whose design was meant to project an air of strength and solidity.
Le Corbusier essentially created the brutalist style; its best-known iterations in the United States are the Whitney Museum of American Art, which was designed by Marcel Breuer, and Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building. The severe style might have been the most criticized architectural movement of the 20th century, even if it was an honest attempt to celebrate the beauty of raw material. But while the brutalist government buildings in Washington, D.C., seemingly bask in their un-beauty, brutalist interior design and decor is much more lyrical, at times taking on a whimsical, romantic quality that its exterior counterparts lack.
Paul Evans is Exhibit A for brutalist furniture design. His Sculpture Front cabinets laced with high-relief patinated steel mounts have become collector's items nonpareil, while the chairs, coffee table and dining table in his later Cityscape series and Sculpted Bronze series for Directional Furniture are perhaps the most expressive, attention-grabbing pieces in American modern design. Other exemplary brutalist designers are Silas Seandel, the idiosyncratic New York furniture designer and sculptor whose works in metal — in particular his tables — have a kind of brawny lyricism, and Curtis Jere, a nom-de-trade for the California team of Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels, the bold makers of expressive scorched and sheared copper and brass mirror frames and wall-mounted sculptures.
Brutalist furniture and sculptures remain popular with interior designers and can lend unique, eccentric, human notes to an art and design collection in any home.
Find authentic vintage brutalist chairs, coffee tables, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Brutalist
Brutalist French Steel: 72” Jean Yves Gosti Cut Steel Sculpture
Located in West Palm Beach, US
**Title: "Duality in Steel: Life-Size Brutalist Sculpture by Jean Yves Gosti"**
This striking 6-foot cut steel figurative sculpture by French artist Jean Yves Gosti embodies the ess...
Category
Early 2000s French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cut Steel
1970s Mid Century Surrealist Verdigris Bronze Sculpture, Signed and Dated
Located in Charleston, SC
Signed “Alix ‘78”, this verdigris bronze sculpture of a 3 armed man flexing his muscles? I’m not quite sure What he is, but he is so awesome! The different textures and shapes ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Theodore "Ted" Gall Figural Steel Sculpture
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Figural sculpture by artist Ted Gall in Steel, secured to black laminated wood base. Signed.
Theodore T. Gall began his career in the arts in the mid-sixti...
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Late 20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Large Bronze Bust Sculpture, Signed Hedy MIller 92'
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
High quality bronze sculpture signed Hedy Miller 92'. 1/9.
Heavy bronze bust mounted on a marble base, the base measures 10 1/4'' wide by 9 1/8'' deep by 2'' tall.
Unknown subject o...
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1990s American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large 1960s Brutalist Austin Production Sculpture by Edward Schillaci
Located in Miami, FL
Large Mid-Century Modern Brutalist sculpture by Edward Schillaci for Austin Production. Signed by the artist. Dated 1962.
Features a textured image of a standing couple holding hands...
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1960s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Sculptural Table Lamp Carved on in Olive Wood France 1950
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This table lamp, is carved in the wood. The wood has this light brown color of this wood, with the old patina.
This lamp was made in Spain, circa 1950,
The wood is olive wood.
Signed Falcon Spain...
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1950s Spanish Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Khadim Diop Bronze Sculptures African Ethnic Art Statue Musician Vintage Modern
Located in London, GB
Khadim Diop, the Senegalese artist renowned for his bronze sculptures that adorn many private collections worldwide, has crafted two captivating and expressive pieces that showcase his mastery of the medium, a rare find in the market outside Africa!
The first sculpture portrays a dynamic figure playing the Djembe drum...
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2010s Senegalese Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Set of 3 Brutalist Modern Copper and Brass Patchwork Decorative Egg Sculptures
Located in Troy, MI
Grouping of three stylized copper egg sculptures circa 1990s
Patchwork copper clad eggs of graduated sizes fastened with brass rivets
Unmarked
3 - 5 inch diameter
4 - 6.25 inch hei...
Category
1990s Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper
Large Brutalist Bronze Ballerina Sculpture on Marble Base
Located in San Diego, CA
A very large Brutalist midcentury bronze ballerina sculpture on an black marble base (6.75" x 8.5"), circa 1970s. The piece is 44.5" high and has a wo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Nuragic Bronze Warrior Figurine Sculpture Sardinian Bronze Age Style Italy 1960s
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This striking bronze represents a four-armed warrior in the style of Sardinian Bronze Age figures, known as "bronzetti."
Crafted in the 1960s in Italy, the figure exudes a unique pa...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 21st Century Abstract Bronze Floral Sculpture
Located in Augusta, GA
Pair of bronze abstract floral sculpture
Hand made in the Brutalist-style by local Atlanta artist
Made with a beautiful verdigris patina
Made...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Anthropomorphic Modernist 'Makonde' Sculpture 1950s
Located in Tilburg, NL
Anthropomorphic Modernist 'Makonde' sculpture 1950s
This is a wonderful piece of modernist African art. It is a so called 'Makonde' sculpture. These unique pieces are crafted by t...
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Mid-20th Century Tanzanian Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Ebony
Harry Bertoia Bush Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"Untitled" (Bush) Sculpture by Harry Bertoia, circa 1970's made of welded bronze.
Harry Bertoia, was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, an...
Category
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ermanno Nason Christ of the Glassblowers Murano Glass and Iron Pipes Early 1970s
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Intense and passionate glass sculpture from Ermanno Nason, using his favorite glass, the acciaio gray.
This warm transparent gray color is often used by glass massiccio Sculptors, w...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Mexican Abstract Brutalist Modernist Bracelet 925 Sterling Silver Cuff, 1960s
By Jack Boyd
Located in San Diego, CA
Wonderful abstract bracelet cuff. All in sterling silver haute couture - iconic. This piece is not only a ready to wear creation but also the most dynamic piece of modern sculpture. ...
Category
1960s Mexican Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Sterling Silver
Set of 3 Metal CACTUS Contemporary BRUTALIST SCULPTURES by ESOJ France 2020
Located in PARIS, FR
A set of 3 strong and spectacular metal cactus, contemporary brutalist sculptures, unique pieces by artist ESOJ, France 2020.
Dimensions :
The higher : H 101.5 x D 23 cm / H 40 x D 9 inch
The medium : H 50 x D 17 cm / H 20 x 6.7 inch
The smaller : H 21 x D 16,5 cm / H 8.2 x 6.5 inch
These pieces allow to be presented independently, as well as together (recommended) allowing various esthetic compositions. They are made to be set up indoor as radical sculptures, as well as outdoor on a terrasse or in any garden or even wild nature to create a trouble illusion between wildness and modernity.
We represent ESOJ and organized his exhibition "Metal Spirit", November 2022, in our gallery in Paris, and this unique piece was presented during this event.
Esoj's work is rooted in a direct link to daily life, to the visual value of consumer objects. Whether they are elements of nature or products of pop culture, he fixes them in the metal to give them a definitive appearance, a form of immortality: a box of opened chocolates will be there forever, nothing will not erase Mickey's sluggish smile, nor his middle finger; a succulent plant frozen in iron will no longer need water... A parallel world under construction, a world of avatars springing from a metallic quintessence which confronts man with himself, with matter, with progress, to the flow of time. Beyond their symbolic force, Esoj's sculptures express as much the visceral gesture of the artist in a world losing meaning, as they catalog his universe in a subjective archive.
For his first collaboration with us, Esoj looks away from his Barbie dolls, Playmobils and bags of M&Ms, to sketch a sort of return to Nature and vibrate an ancestral wisdom evident in his new series of cacti, succulents, vases and masks murals with shamanic connotations. A wisdom that he draws from his Portuguese origins, this saudade: “tension between opposites, on the one hand the feeling of a lack, on the other hand the hope and the desire to find what we lack”, embodied here by a particularly inhabited desert; where cacti are next to agaves, aloes, prickly pears, plants which are certainly ornamental but also hallucinogenic and healing, sometimes fatal; where the series of containers suggests an almost medicinal link between these inert objects, even more obvious in the wall piece inspired by Korean...
Category
2010s French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Brutalist Metal Sculpture, Torch Cut Sun Statue
Located in Decatur, GA
Large scale mid century brutalist sun sculpture. Torch cut patinated metal mounted on wood. Signed "CD".
Excellent condition - no flaws of note.
Measures: W 20" x D 20" x H 36"....
Category
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Iron
Set of 3 Metal PLANTS Contemporary BRUTALIST SCULPTURES by ESOJ France 2020
Located in PARIS, FR
A set of 3 strong and spectacular plants in pots, contemporary brutalist sculptures, unique pieces by artist ESOJ, France 2020.
These pieces allow to be presented independently, as well as together (recommended) allowing various esthetic compositions. They are made to be set up indoor as radical sculptures, as well as outdoor on a terrasse or in any garden or even wild nature to create a trouble illusion between wildness and modernity.
We represent ESOJ and organized his exhibition "Metal Spirit", November 2022, in our gallery in Paris, and this unique piece was presented during this event.
Esoj's work is rooted in a direct link to daily life, to the visual value of consumer objects. Whether they are elements of nature or products of pop culture, he fixes them in the metal to give them a definitive appearance, a form of immortality: a box of opened chocolates will be there forever, nothing will not erase Mickey's sluggish smile, nor his middle finger; a succulent plant frozen in iron will no longer need water... A parallel world under construction, a world of avatars springing from a metallic quintessence which confronts man with himself, with matter, with progress, to the flow of time. Beyond their symbolic force, Esoj's sculptures express as much the visceral gesture of the artist in a world losing meaning, as they catalog his universe in a subjective archive.
For his first collaboration with us, Esoj looks away from his Barbie dolls, Playmobils and bags of M&Ms, to sketch a sort of return to Nature and vibrate an ancestral wisdom evident in his new series of cacti, succulents, vases and masks murals with shamanic connotations. A wisdom that he draws from his Portuguese origins, this saudade: “tension between opposites, on the one hand the feeling of a lack, on the other hand the hope and the desire to find what we lack”, embodied here by a particularly inhabited desert; where cacti are next to agaves, aloes, prickly pears, plants which are certainly ornamental but also hallucinogenic and healing, sometimes fatal; where the series of containers suggests an almost medicinal link between these inert objects, even more obvious in the wall piece inspired by Korean shaman...
Category
2010s French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Tall Bronze Masai Sculptures 1960s Vintage Kenya Mother Baby Giacometti Style
Located in London, GB
Two 1960s bronze sculptures from the Maasai tribe in Kenya and Tanzania in everyday motherhood figures.
The elongated and brutalist-like effect figures evoke a Giacometti-like aest...
Category
1960s Kenyan Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Brutalist Cast Bronze Sculpture of a Stylized Female Figure after Henry Moore
By Henry Moore
Located in New York, NY
Period 1970's Brutalist sculpture depicting a stylized female figure executed in cast brass, mounted on a stepped walnut plinth base. Well crafted work, in excellent original condit...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Brutalist Bronze Unicorn Sculpture Attributed at Pal Kepenyes
By Pal Kepenyes
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1980 We offer this Brutalist Bronze Unicorn Sculpture attributed at Pal Kepenyes.
Category
1980s Mexican Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
French Woman Torso in white painted clay, France 1960's, Nude
Located in Forest, BE
Torso of a nude women in white painted clay. It's a brutal textured with pattern and traces when it was made. White painted on top of the clay.
The pedestal is also available on another advertisement.
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L'étude et la représentation artistique du corps humain a été constante dans toute l'histoire de l'art, depuis la préhistoire (le Vénus de Willendorf) jusqu'à nos jours.
Une des cultures où la représentation artistique du nu a le plus proliféré a été dans la Grèce Antique...
Category
Early 20th Century French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Paco Valle Brutalist Metal Wire Sculpture Man And Woman Paul Evans Style
By Paul Evans
Located in Wayne, NJ
Very Detailed Paco Valle Brutalist Metal Wirework Wire Work Sculpture Of A Man And Woman Lovers . Would go wonderful with both Paul Evans , Cutis C. Jere an...
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
1970s Mid Century Surrealist Verdigris Bronze Sculpture, Signed and Dated
Located in Charleston, SC
Signed “Alix ‘78”, this verdigris bronze sculpture of a 3 armed man flexing his muscles? I’m not quite sure What he is, but he is so awesome! The different textures and shapes ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Brutalist Sculpture Abstracted Plant Forms on Terracotta Base
Located in New York, NY
Brutalist stylized plant form growing out of the terracotta earth base. Well done metal work reminiscent of Paul Evans, or Jere.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
4 Bronze Brutalist Figurative Head Art Sculptures, Circa 1920
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Four striking brutalist bronze sculptures of heads, incredibly well executed by a talented and likely well trained hand but are unsigned by the artis...
Category
Early 20th Century Canadian Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Swan Bronze Brutalist Statue, a Pair
Located in Plainview, NY
A unique and highly decorative pair of Brutalist style swan statues in bronze both in a takeoff position. The wings are finely. Carved displaying amazing d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cubist School Jazz Band Sculpture signed and dated Austin Productions 1964
Located in New York, NY
Stylized cast sculpture of a Jazz Band, marked Austin Productions 1964. Executed in the Brutalist style, with obvious Cubism School influence. Construct...
Category
1960s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Arik Amir Brutalist Sculpture of a Dancer
Located in Redding, CT
Arik Amir Brutalist Iron Sculpture of a Dancer, signed Arik on the base.
Arik Amir (b 1922-2008) Tel Aviv, Israel. Biography from The Isreali Museum of Jerusalem refered to him as ''...
Category
Late 20th Century Israeli Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Chess Set by Marco Celotti Circa 1970
Located in Hudson, NY
A one of a kind chess set by Italian American artist Marco Celotti. Created circa 1970, the set is quit marvelous.
Each figure is filled with detail. Even the individual pawns, each...
Category
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
Brutalist Elm Totem Sculpture by Sebastien Touret, France
Located in London, GB
Large Brutalist Elm Totem Sculpture by Sebastien Touret, France
Dimensions : H 203 x 32 x 43 cm
The term brutalism — which derives from the French w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Elm
Large Brutalist Steel and Glass Figurative Sculpture
Located in Lutz, FL
Fantastic large Mid Century Brutalist Figurative Sculpture in Steel with circular glass inserts, on a wood base. Patinated welded steel with red and yellow stained glass depicting a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Artisanal Unseen Force #68: Joel Escalona's Crafted Oak Table, Elegance & Form
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Artisanal Unseen Force #68: Joel Escalona's Crafted Oak Table, Elegance & Form
Sculptural coffee table made of solid wood with a natural water-based or carbonized finish. Due to the nature of the production process, each piece may vary in grain, texture, shape or even size.
The dimensions provided refer to the table only. The dimensions and shape of the sculpture may vary.
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About the Concept.
Unseen Force Coffee Tables and Side Tables, design by Joel Escalona for NONO
When Tables Talk Art...
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2010s Mexican Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood
Mother and Child Bronze by José Mariano Pagés Sculpture
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Exceptional bronze sculpture signed "Page´s '69". Sculpture has a very rich patina to the heavily articulated bronze surface and is seated on a marble base. Excellent modernist examp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Argentine Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Gladiator and Jester, Brutalist Sculptures in Mixed Metal, 1966-1967
By B. O'Byrne
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Superlative examples of welded, Brutalist sculptures from the 1960s, this pairing of Gladiator and "King's Clown" were executed in steel, brass and slate by B. O'Byrne. The sculptor ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Macabre Surreal Brutalist Steel Step Sculpture
Located in Garnerville, NY
Torch cut steel and mixed metals Surrealist sculpture of a headless seated figure. Haunting and thought provoking piece dating from the late 1960s-the early 1970s. Unsigned.
The ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Cut Steel, Wire
Midcentury Torch Cut Metal Abstract Brutalist Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Midcentury torch cut metal abstract Brutalist sculpture.
Beautifully executed Mid-Century Modern Brutalist torch cut mixed metal abstract sculpture.
...
Category
1960s Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper
Brutalist "Patchwork" Foot Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Brutalist style "patchwork" welded foot sculpture.
Category
1960s French Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Oak Artistry Unseen Force #70: Joel Escalona's Coffee Table, Sculpture Blend
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Oak Artistry Unseen Force #70: Joel Escalona's Coffee Table, Sculpture Blend
Sculptural coffee table made of solid wood with a natural water-based or carbonized finish. Due to the ...
Category
2010s Mexican Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood
Vintage Curtis Jere Style Brutalist Lily Flower Sculpture.
Located in Seattle, WA
Vintage Brass Stone Flower Sculpture. Mid Century Brutalist Style , no Makers Mark. Beautiful Rainbow Petina, wooden Base. Vintage Condition Con...
Category
1970s Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Brutalist Steel Sculpture of “Amphetrite” by Dale Edwards
By Dale Edwards
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Welded steel sculpture of “Amphetrite” goddess of the ocean. By American sculptor Dale Edwards.
Signed Dale and dated 74 (see detail photos).
In origi...
Category
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
"Femur" Contemporary Decorative Golden Object in Cast Brass by Estudio Orth
By Estúdio Orth
Located in Sao Paulo, BR
Contemporary decorative object, in cast brass.
Produced in São Paulo, Brazil.
This golden decorative object was meticulously handmade by master artisans one delicate piece at a time...
Category
2010s South American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Brutalist French Steel: 72” Jean Yves Gosti Cut Steel Sculpture
Located in West Palm Beach, US
**Title: "Duality in Steel: Life-Size Brutalist Sculpture by Jean Yves Gosti"**
This striking 6-foot cut steel figurative sculpture by French artist Jean Yves Gosti embodies the ess...
Category
Early 2000s French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cut Steel
1960s Bronze / Brass Art Statue Made and Signed by Thure Thörn, Sweden
By Thure Thorn
Located in Silvolde, Gelderland
Extremely beautiful and decorative master piece of brass art made by the famous Swedish artist Thure Thörn of a sitting woman with great patina true the years.
Only seven are made an...
Category
1960s Swedish Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Carved Monumental Hand Sculpture Enameled Black 1960's
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Monumental scale self supporting sculpture of a modern representation of a hand.
Painted in numerous coats of black enamel with signs of erosion and age, this piece spent a good dea...
Category
1960s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Enamel
Italian crucifix Brutalist Sculpture from the 1960s
Located in bari, IT
Italian brass brutalist sculpture from the 1960s depicting a stylized crucifix.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Emile Antoine Bourdelle Enfan
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Antoine Bourdelle (French, 1861-1929) Bronze Sculpture
Bronze brutalist bust titled Enfant Riant (Laughing Child) Most probably modeled by his daughter; Rhodia. Bourdelle was...
Category
1910s French Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Large Brutalist Cast Iron & Wood Crucifix / Cross
Located in San Diego, CA
Large brutalist cast iron & wood crucifix / cross from Italy, circa 1970s. This is a beautiful linear piece in great condition measuring 10"W x 3"D...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Small Bronze Figurative Abstract Sculpture
Located in Norwalk, CT
This small charming abstract bronze figure stands on its own with a curious look on its face. This piece would make a great desk accessory or a ...
Category
20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
21st Century Abstract Bronze Floral Sculpture
Located in Augusta, GA
Bronze abstract floral sculpture
Hand made in the Brutalist-style by local Atlanta artist
Made with a beautiful verdigris patina
Made in the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Cast Aluminum Brutalist Sculpture by Dcalvi
By DCalvi
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Diana Calvillo artist, beautiful cast aluminum Brutalist sculpture, apparently it is a facade like the ones that were left after some bombing of the...
Category
1960s Mexican Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
A Metal CACTUS Contemporary SCULPTURE BRUTALIST Unique PIECE by ESOJ France 2020
Located in PARIS, FR
A strong and spectacular metal cactus, contemporary brutalist sculpture, unique piece by artist ESOJ, France 2020.
We represent ESOJ and organized his exhibition "Metal Spirit", November 2022, in our gallery in Paris, and this unique piece was presented during this event.
Esoj's work is rooted in a direct link to daily life, to the visual value of consumer objects. Whether they are elements of nature or products of pop culture, he fixes them in the metal to give them a definitive appearance, a form of immortality: a box of opened chocolates will be there forever, nothing will not erase Mickey's sluggish smile, nor his middle finger; a succulent plant frozen in iron will no longer need water... A parallel world under construction, a world of avatars springing from a metallic quintessence which confronts man with himself, with matter, with progress, to the flow of time. Beyond their symbolic force, Esoj's sculptures express as much the visceral gesture of the artist in a world losing meaning, as they catalog his universe in a subjective archive.
For his first collaboration with us, Esoj looks away from his Barbie dolls, Playmobils and bags of M&Ms, to sketch a sort of return to Nature and vibrate an ancestral wisdom evident in his new series of cacti, succulents, vases and masks murals with shamanic connotations. A wisdom that he draws from his Portuguese origins, this saudade: “tension between opposites, on the one hand the feeling of a lack, on the other hand the hope and the desire to find what we lack”, embodied here by a particularly inhabited desert; where cacti are next to agaves, aloes, prickly pears, plants which are certainly ornamental but also hallucinogenic and healing, sometimes fatal; where the series of containers suggests an almost medicinal link between these inert objects, even more obvious in the wall piece inspired by Korean shaman...
Category
2010s French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pal Kepenyes Brutalist Bronze Couple Sculpture
By Pal Kepenyes
Located in Mexico City, MX
A small Brutalist bronze by Hungarian-born artist Pal Kepenyes. The cast bronze sculpture features a couple in 2 sides. The front size is a high relief and the back shows the same im...
Category
1970s Mexican Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modernist Neo Sumerian style Bronze Sculpture of a Centaur, 20th Century
Located in View Park, CA
A rare and valuable modernist sculpture of a centaur, 20th century. Hand carved out of solid bronze with felted base. D’après Picasso with clear influence from Giacometti and Henry M...
Category
Mid-20th Century Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
BIJAN Metal Sculpture Dog with Birds Pursuit Copper and Brass on Stone Base
By Bijan
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage BIJAN Metal Sculpture Dog with Birds Pursuit Copper and Brass on Stone Base.
Mid Century Modern Bijan metal sculpture circa 1960 1970s.
T...
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Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal, Brass, Bronze, Copper
Cast Bronze Skull Sculpture by J. Dale M'Hall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cast bronze skull sculpture by American sculptor J. Dale M'Hall.
James began sculpting in the 1960's and has worked with a variety of different media throughout his career but bronze sculpting...
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Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sculpture by Klara Sever for Austin Productions, 1970's
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Sculpture by Klara Sever for Austin Productions, 1970's.
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20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Swiss clock vanity
Located in Grenoble, FR
Vanity made of lead and old clockwork elements in homage to Dali and his melted clock
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Early 2000s Swiss Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Lead
Brutalist Verdigris Bronze Sculpture by Artist John Barandon
Located in Memphis, TN
Bronze Brutalist female form sculpture by John Barandon in a heavy patinated verdigris finish.
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21st Century and Contemporary Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Curtis Jere Dancer Brass Sculpture
By Curtis Jeré
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Curtis Jere dancer brass table sculpture. This is a very dynamic sculpture from artist Curtis Jere. It showcases a dancer that can be spun to face diff...
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Late 20th Century North American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Brutalist Cast Iron Fish Sculpture - Mid-Century Aquarium-Inspired Design 1977
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This striking Brutalist cast iron fish sculpture captures the essence of mid-century design with its raw, textured finish and bold aesthetic.
Fea...
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1970s Swedish Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Brutalist figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
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