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
Pair of Figurative Metal Man & Woman Sculptures in the Style of Giacometti
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of brutalist figurative welded string metal man & woman sculptures in the style of Giacometti, circa 1970s. The sculptures sit on distressed metal bases that are 4"W x 4"D x 4"H...
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Late 20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Brutalist Brass Bonsai Ikebana Lily Flower Sculpture by Gerd Scharrelmann 1970s
Located in Melbourne, AU
Torch-cut brass sculpture of lillies, mounted on a burlwood base, by Gerd Scharrelmann. This elegant sculpture has a delightful kinetic effect. The flowers and stems shiver, producin...
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1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
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
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
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
$1,390 Sale Price / item
20% Off
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...
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Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$780 Sale Price
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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...
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2010s French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Contemporary Figurative Wall Sculpture Vase of Male Torso by Animism Mixed Media
Located in Toronto, CA
This contemporary figurative wall-mounted sculpture by artist Animism beautifully merges art and function. Featuring a stylized male torso with strong anatomical details, the piece a...
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1980s Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
$581 Sale Price / item
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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...
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1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$190,575
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...
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1990s Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Copper
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...
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1970s Italian Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
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...
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1960s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
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...
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1960s Kenyan Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
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...
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1960s Italian Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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...
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1960s Spanish Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$770 Sale Price
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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
$335 Sale Price
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1960s Brass Flower Sculpture on Composition Base
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1960s Brass Flower Sculpture on Composition Base
Mid Century Modern
Flowers and Leaves in distressed patinated brass and metal
Composition Base
Category
1960s 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...
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Early 20th Century French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay
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
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
$696 Sale Price
39% Off
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
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
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
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
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
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
Late 20th Century Vintage Boho Original Torch Cut Steel Figurative Sculpture
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Make a bold statement with this striking vintage torch-cut steel figurative sculpture, a one-of-a-kind expression of raw artistry and industrial elegance. Standing an impressive 71 i...
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Late 20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
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 ...
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Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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
$2,400 Sale Price / set
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Modern Brutalist Metal and Ceramic Figure Sculpture Signed Viro
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A modern brutalist metal and ceramic sculpture signed Viro. This piece is in very good condition. It measures 38 inches tall, 18 inches long, and 8.5 inches wide.
Category
20th Century Unknown Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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
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
Vintage Boho Patinated Bronze Abstract Figurative Sculpture
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Unearth a compelling work of art with this striking Vintage Patinated Bronze Abstract Figurative Sculpture, a piece that powerfully merges raw expression with refined form. Crafted f...
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Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,320 Sale Price
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John Steck Desert Rose Metal and Stone Vintage Brutalist Sculpture
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Vintage 1960s metal and stone table top sculpture. “Desert Rose” by John Steck is a timeless floral arrangement of bristly pom-pom blooms emanating from a stone base. The botanical a...
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1960s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
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
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$2,100 / set
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...
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1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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...
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1970s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
$2,200 / set
Mounted Figural Bronze Sculpture by Elias Lifshitz
Located in North Miami, FL
This is an outstanding early bronze figural sculpture reminiscent of Henry Moore, executed by a lifelong sculptor Elias Lifshitz. "I am King of Creation"
Base only: 7 x 8.5, 3.5 in...
Category
1960s American Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Brutalist "Patchwork" Foot Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Brutalist style "patchwork" welded foot sculpture.
Category
1960s French Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Brutalist Acrobat Figure on Modern Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
Brutalist acrobat metal figure on modern stand.
Piece from our one of a kind collection, Le Monde.
Category
20th Century Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
"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...
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2010s South American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Sculpture by Klara Sever for Austin Productions, 1970's
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Sculpture by Klara Sever for Austin Productions, 1970's.
Category
20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
$520 Sale Price
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Vintage Tree of Life Sculpture by Emaus Talleres Monasticos
By Emaus
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful sculptural rendition of tree of life by Emaus with candle holders. This piece is created of mixed materials (metal, bronze and walnut). A tree rendition is fixed on a walnu...
Category
1960s Mexican Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
$316 Sale Price
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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Elm
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
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
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.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
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
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Emile Antoine Bourdelle “Arlequin” Bronze Sculpture Valsuani Foundry
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Antoine Bourdelle (French, 1861-1929) Bronze Sculpture
L' Arlequin.
Conceived in 1905 and cast around 1954
A rare museum quality impressionist - Brutalist interpretation of a harlequin swordsman in bronze with black/brown patina.
Bears the cast signature E. A. BOURDELLE top of the base, © by Bourdelle along one side.
Foundry seal of A. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE. On corner.
Measures 16 x 16.5 x 5 inches.
Very good condition throughout, no damage, repair or heavy wear. Scratches and wear to patina throughout commensurate of material age and use.
Provenance: The estate of Morton and Estelle Sosland.In Kansas City, the Sosland family name is synonymous with both giving, and the arts. Of their many contributions to the community, 'The Soslands gave one of the nation's finest private collections of American Indian art to the Nelson-Atkins' museum. The content of this auction bears testament to their keen eye and varied interests.
In September 1893 Bourdelle joined the studio of Auguste Rodin. His collaboration with Rodin lasted fifteen years. In 1895, he received his first official commission, a war monument for the city of Montauban. His proposed plans, different from traditional monuments, created a scandal. Rodin intervened on his behalf, and the monument was finally erected in 1902.
In 1900, Bourdelle demonstrated his independence from Rodin's style with a bust of Apollo. In the same year, Bourdelle, Rodin and the sculptor Desbois opened a free school of sculpture, the Institut Rodin-Debois-Bourdelle. One of the students was Henri Matisse, who later produced some remarkable sculpture, but the school did not last long.
Bourdelle in his studio sketching Grace Christie
In 1905, Bourdelle had his first personal exhibition, in the gallery of the foundry-owner Hébrand. With the support of Hébrand and the material assistance of his foundry, Bourdelle was able to make larger works and earn greater recognition. His father died in 1906, and Bourdelle changed his first name to simply Antoine, after his father. He married his second wife, Cléopatre Sevastos (1892-1972), who was of Greek origin. She and their daughter, Rhodia, became a frequent inspiration for his works.[6]
In 1908, Bourdelle left the studio of Rodin and set out on his own. In 1909 he exhibited a new work, Hercules the Archer at the annual Salon of the Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He began to teach at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where his students included Giacometti, Isaac Frenkel and Adaline Kent...
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1940s French Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$12,480 Sale Price
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Mid-Century Figurative Brutalist Bronze Sculpture
Located in Pasadena, CA
Modern Figurative Brutalist bronze sculpture of a robust man in motion, with a bucket in its hand.
The statue rests on its original base in variegated white or gray marble
There is n...
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Mid-20th Century French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
$90 Sale Price
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Vintage Boho Abstract Figurative Sculpture of Woman After Giacometti
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Channel the powerful, existential spirit of Alberto Giacometti with this magnificent vintage floor sculpture. This monumental piece features a ...
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Late 20th Century American Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
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Metal
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...
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2010s French Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
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Metal
Large Signed Bronze Sculpture of a Little Girl by Sergio Unia
Located in Redding, CT
Large Signed Bronze Sculpture of a Little Girl. By Sculptor Serigo Unia. Heavy, solid piece. Brutalist in style. Animated and cartoonish in style. Reminiscent of a character from Cha...
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Mid-20th Century Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
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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
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Iron
A Zoomorphic BRUTALIST Ritual SCULPTURE Unique PIECE from LA BORNE France 1980
Located in PARIS, FR
An exceptional, spectacular and "mystical" phantasmagorical sculpture, inspired by nature and the wild, mineral or organic and animal or even... shamanic! in 3 nested parts, Zoomorph...
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1980s French Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
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Ceramic
Brutalist Highwire Tightrope Walker Sculpture
Located in Garnerville, NY
Brutalist period highwire artist in black patinated steel. The aerialist artist comes in two piece with the base and the actual sculpture that fits into the shoe on the base. The art...
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1970s Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
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Steel, Iron
$3,080 Sale Price
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French 1940's Terra Cotta Sculpture of a Woman
By Rene Romage
Located in San Francisco, CA
An important French 1940's terra cotta sculpture of a seated nude woman; with head turned to the right above a voluptuous torso; Signed "Rene Romage, 1942" (alias - Rene Baumer)
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1940s French Vintage Brutalist Figurative Sculptures
$6,800 Sale Price
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