Modern Figurative 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Modern
Earthenware Sculpture by Lennart Olausson
By Lennart Olausson
Located in Stockholm, SE
Soulful earthenware sculpture of a face by Lennart Olausson. Glazed turquoise with a slight shimmer.
Lennart Olausson (born 1944) is a Swedish artist, educated at Konstfack 1961-1...
Category
Early 2000s Swedish Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
20th Century Bronze Sculpture of Nude Woman
Located in Roma, IT
Bronze sculpture.
Category
20th Century European Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ceramic Sculpture by Agostino Ferrari, Unique Piece, Italy
By Agostino Ferrari
Located in Milan, Italy
Ceramic sculpture created by Agostino Ferrari. Unique piece. Signed and numbered.
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Fountain in Bronze. "Crying Boy" 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
The figure has a great expressiveness, the child's face reflects panic and anguish, and is in foreshortening as if wanting to move away from the animal. The piece is held on a circul...
Category
20th Century European Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Contemporary Ceramic Figural Lifesize Female Sculpture by Dora Várkonyi
Located in Salzburg, AT
zeitlosnah (“timeless and close”)
This series of lifesize female sculptures exuding a static aura of self-containment was created in
2013-2014.
Height: 182 cm.
The sculptures sho...
Category
2010s German Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Ceramic
Woman and Architecture or the Architecture by Joseph Csaky, 1926
By Joseph Csaky
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture in bronze with black patina
Signed and numbered 3/8. Stamped with the foundry stamp Blanchet and marked AC (Atelier Csaky)
The model from 1926, the present cast is a Post...
Category
1920s French Vintage Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Odysseus, a unique black hand-blown glass sculpture by Cathryn Shilling
Located in London, GB
Odysseus, is a unique black glass sculpture by the British artist Cathryn Shilling. A handblown and free-form shaped glass sculpture with 'glass fabric' decoration worked onto the glass body while hot. A spectacular fusion of blown and kiln formed glass techniques incorporating Cathryn Shilling's signature woven glass. With her Cloaked Collection, Shilling takes mythical tragic figures as her inspiration. This piece is based on Odysseus.
Cathryn Shilling began her arts career as a graphic designer but went on to study glass after moving to Connecticut with her family. On returning to the UK she studied kiln-formed glass at Kensington and Chelsea College and blown glass with Peter Layton at the London Glassblowing Workshop. She set up studio in London in 2007 from where she has gone on to create a huge body and variety of work.
Shilling experiments with colour and technique to produce beautiful one off sculptures. Her innovative pieces push the glass beyond our usual comfort zones. With some sculptures, glass rods are woven together like fabric, mimicking the flexibility and movement of cloth. The apparent frailty of the glass is balanced by the strong dynamic forms, differing levels of light picking out layers of colour. With other works, bubbles are trapped in swathes of watery hues. Her colour palette and choice of forms are very much informed by the various natural states in which water is found: icebergs, waterfalls and whirlpools for example.
Shilling’s work has been collected and widely exhibited internationally including: Ireland Glass Biennale 2019 at Dublin Castle The 3rd Session of China·Hejian Craft Glass Design & Creation Exhibition and Competition, Ming Shangde Glass Museum, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, China 2019 TACTILE at Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium New Aquisitions 2017 at Glasmuseum Lette, Coesfield, Germany Peter Bremers...
Category
2010s British Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Lauro Malusi Table Lamp and Sculpture Olive Tree
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Table lamp and sculpture belonging to the famous Italian cellist.
Measures in cm: Statue cm 40 Lamp cm 82 Basis cm 18 x 18
Notes
Giovanni Lauro Malusi was born in Cervia on Ju...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Olive
Contemporary Modern Metal Sculpture ''The Last Warrior''
Located in Markington, GB
Simplistic Mid-Century Modern metal sculpture ''The Last Warrior.''
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Roger & Kane Ceramic Sculpture by Matteo Cibic for Superego Editions, Italy
Located in Milan, Italy
Ceramic piggy bank designed by Matteo Cibic and produced by Superego Editions.
Limited edition of 50 pieces.
Signed and numbered.
Biography
Matteo Cibic was born in Parma, Italy, ...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Abstract Rider, 20th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Small bronze sculpture of a rider on his horse in an abstract and soft design. The surface of the rider is structured with concave indentations; the horse is marked with horizontal l...
Category
20th Century European Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Olympian" Unique Steel Mesh Structure
By David Begbie
Located in London, GB
Born in Edinburgh, David Begbie studied at the capital`s art school from which he emerged with a unique sculptural technique and the beginnings of a new visual language using steel-m...
Category
Late 20th Century European Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Jim Ritchie "Femme Debout" 5/8 Gilt Bronze Sculpture, 1990s
Located in STRASBOURG, FR
Gilt bronze sculpture of a standing woman in the figurative cubist style by Jim Ritchie circa 1990 in Vence, France, edition 5 of 8.
In great structural condition, has no damage, h...
Category
1990s French Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hand Blown Glass Bonsai Sculpture 2023#07 by Simone Crestani
Located in Venezia, IT
Hand Blown Glass Bonsai Sculpture 2023#07 by Simone Crestani
Hand-blown glass sculpture representing a bonsai tree.
Artist: Simone Crestani
Material: Borosilicate glass
Technique: ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Hand Blown Glass Bonsai Sculpture 2023#06 by Simone Crestani
Located in Venezia, IT
Hand Blown Glass Bonsai Sculpture 2023#06 by Simone Crestani
Hand-blown glass sculpture representing a bonsai tree.
Artist: Simone Crestani
Material: Borosilicate glass
Technique: ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Hand Blown Glass Bonsai Sculpture 2023#08 by Simone Crestani
Located in Venezia, IT
Hand Blown Glass Bonsai Sculpture 2023#08 by Simone Crestani
Hand-blown glass sculpture representing a bonsai tree.
Artist: Simone Crestani
Material: Borosilicate glass
Technique: ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Hand Blown Glass Bonsai Sculpture 2023#04 by Simone Crestani
Located in Venezia, IT
Hand Blown Glass Bonsai Sculpture 2023#04 by Simone Crestani
Hand-blown glass sculpture representing a bonsai tree.
Artist: Simone Crestani
Material: Borosilicate glass
Technique: ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Shell Sculpture and Planter in Cast Iron and Porcelain.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Shell sculpture and planter in cast iron and porcelain.
Sculpture composed of a cast iron planter decorated with shells and a porcelain figure, 20th century.
h: 41cm, l: 45cm, p: 20cm
Category
20th Century French Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Sculpture and Child Bust in Painted Plaster, 20th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
shell sculpture and Child bust in painted plaster, 20th century.
Shell sculpture and painted plaster bust of a child on a crystal bowl, 20th c...
Category
20th Century French Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Porcelain
Italian modern white wooden skyscraper pedestals or display stands, 2000s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern white wooden skyscraper pedestals or display stands produced in the 2000s.
Pair of exhibitors or pedestals, with mdf structure, in the shape of a skyscraper, with a sq...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Riccardo Scarpa : "Le Couple", Plâtre Originale/ Original Plaster, 1975
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Riccardo Scarpa (1905-1999) : "Le couple" / "The couple"
Grande sculpture cubisante à la silhouette épurée représentant un couple enlacé, les mains jointes / Tall cubist sculpture...
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Diego Cabezas Sculpture, circa 2021, Spain
Located in Girona, Spain
Diego Cabezas sculpture.
Very decorative.
Signed.
Circa 2021, Spain.
Very good condition.
Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that a...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Andrea Dogterom Ceramic Sculpture Women in Stripes
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Beautiful sculpture of a woman in stripes made by the Dutch artist Andrea Dogterom (1949).
Sculptor and Stolwijkse Andrea Dogterom, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotter...
Category
Early 2000s Dutch Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Peter Calaboyias, Sirens, cast aluminum, 1994
Located in Greding, DE
Life-size Sculpture, the "Sirens", cast in aluminum by Peter Calaboyias (b. 1940 Greece). Calaboyias is known for his monumental installations and liv...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Aluminum
KAWS Companion 2007 XXL
By KAWS
Located in Weesp, NL
Kaws Companion XXL painted cast vinyl. Stamped : MEDICOM TOY 2007 © KAWS ..07.
Companion is in perfect condition. We will ship this beauty insured in a custom made wooden crate.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Copy of a Stone Head by Amedeo Modigliani 20th Century Philippe Delenseigne
Located in Madrid, ES
Copy of a stone head by Amedeo Modigliani 20th century Philippe Delenseigne
True "certified" Livorno copy, inspired by the works of Amedeo Modigliani (Livorno 1884 - Paris 1920).
Made by the French sculptor "Philippe Delenseigne"
Material: golden Maremma stone.
Measures: Height 70 cm
Width 20 cm
Depth 22 cm
Weight 64 kg
Artist / designer / architect Amedeo Modigliani (Livorno 1884 - Paris 1920)
Statue base...
Category
20th Century French Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
21st Century Unique Sculpture Coexistence Laocoön by Park Seungwan
By Seungwan Park
Located in Paris, FR
21st Century unique Sculpture Coexistence Laocoön by Park Seungwan
Realized by the artist Park Seungwan in 2018.
White and beige marble
Laser and traditional techniques
Measure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Murano Hand Made Art Glass LTD Unique Piece " Artist tribute "
Located in Venice, VE
Our aim is the emotion, through glass, lighten by the spirit of art.
1295 Murano is a furnace, a design lab and an interior point of view
regarding to the most exclusive producti...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Giuman, Memento Mori Trittico Evolution, Murano Glass Lost Wax Cast, 2010
By Giorgio Giuman
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Interesting glass interpretation from Giuman. The Murano artist who refined the lost wax casting in glass.
Very fine work. Artist Giuorgio Giuman was able to do the casting without ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass, Art Glass
Pino Signoretto, Livio de Marchi Design Pauly, Boot in Chalcedony Opaline Murano
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Directly from the Pauly's art vignette in San Marco square.
Pauly exhibit of Signoretto translation of De Marchi was in Saint Mark’s square in Venice, April 2000.
While photogra...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass, Art Glass
Pino Signoretto, Livio de Marchi Design for Pauly, Limited Edition 1/9 Signed
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Directly from the Pauly's art vignette in San Marco square.
Pauly exhibit of Signoretto translation of De Marchi was in Saint Mark’s square in Venice, April 2000.
This is a Livi...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century Filippo Feroldi Medium Vase Murano Glass Various Colors
Located in Brembate di Sopra (BG), IT
21st century Filippo Feroldi ZUCCA medium vase murano glass various colors.
Designed by Filippo Feroldi, the Zucche set came from the desire to create a vase that can exist as an ob...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
21st Century Filippo Feroldi Small Vase Murano Glass Various Colors
Located in Brembate di Sopra (BG), IT
21st century Filippo Feroldi Zucchino small vase Murano glass various colors.
Designed by Filippo Feroldi, the Zucche set came from the desire to create a vase that can exist as an ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
21st Century Filippo Feroldi Large Vase Murano Glass Various Colors
Located in Brembate di Sopra (BG), IT
21st century Filippo Feroldi Zuccone large vase Murano glass various colors.
Designed by Filippo Feroldi, the Zucche set came from the desire to create a vase that can exist as an o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Golfer Wood Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Wood sculpture representing a Golfer, beautiful movement and wood.
Unknown signed artist.
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Palisander
Giacometti inspired Bronze Statue by German Artist Uta Falter- Baumgarten
Located in Jesteburg, DE
Giacometti inspired bronze by German artist Uta Falter- Baumgarten (*1921)- great visual impact.
Category
Late 20th Century German Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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