Modern 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
Style: Modern
Color: White
Contemporary Sculptural Hand-Built Multi-Shell Matte White Ceramic Pendant Lamp
Located in Brooklyn, NY
White bowerbird family is a contemporary sculptural multi-shell hand-built ceramic pendant lamp finished in a matte white glaze with a warm glow reflecting off of a round joyful form. Each shell is individually hand formed and unique, creating a pleasant rhythm when installed in multiples. The hand-built ceramic canopy, finials and socket cover add an enjoyable character.
Component dimensions and weight:
Shell: 4-6 diameter x 12-14 h in. / 10-13 diameter x 30-36 height cm
2 lbs / 1 kg each
Custom drop length, please specify
5 in. / 12.5 cm diameter ceramic canopy
Materials:
Shells, canopies, socket covers and finials in hand-built ceramic in a warm-white matte glaze, off-white nylon-covered SVT lamp wire, brushed brass hardware, and electrical components
Light source
1 x E-12 candelabra base per shell
25W incandescent lamp included
Compatible with LED replacement lamps
Additional info:
Each lamp is individually hand-built without using a mould to create an enjoyable uniqueness and spatial balance within each form. Variations in dimensions, forms, and finishes are expected.
The story:
White Bowerbird collection is from Courtship Behavior...
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Geometric Decoration Set Ceramic, White Porcelain, Sculptural Object 'Cubism'
By Manolo Eirin
Located in Carballo, ES
Geometry set of 3 pieces made of ceramic, with high quality stoneware in the Galician town of Buño, known throughout the world for its quality in the pottery technique. The shapes in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Terracotta
Armand Petersen: "Hippopotamus", Uniq known sculpture in white mat china, C.1932
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Armand PETERSEN (1891-1969) : "Hippopotamus"
White mat enameled porcelain edited by Bing & Grundahl between 1932 and 1955
Originally planned for a 55 pieces edition, this exceptio...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Sculptural Hand-Built Double-Shell Matte White Ceramic Pendant Lamp
Located in Brooklyn, NY
White Bowerbird couple is a contemporary double-shell hand-built ceramic pendant lamp finished in a matte white glaze with a warm glow reflecting off of a round joyful form. Each shell is individually hand formed and unique, creating a pleasant rhythm when installed as a pair. The hand-built ceramic canopy, finials and socket cover add an enjoyable character.
Component dimensions:
Shell 4-6 diameter x 12-14 height in. / 10-13 diameter x 30-36 height cm; 2 lbs / 1 kg each
Custom drop length, please specify
5 in. / 12.5 cm diameter ceramic canopy
Materials:
Shells, canopies, socket covers and finials in hand-built ceramic in a warm-white matte glaze, off-white nylon-covered SVT lamp wire, brushed brass hardware, and electrical components
Light source:
1 x E-12 candelabra base per shell
25W incandescent lamp included
Compatible with LED replacement lamps
Additional info:
Each lamp is individually hand-built without using a mould to create an enjoyable uniqueness and spatial balance within each form. Variations in dimensions, forms, and finishes are expected.
The story:
White Bowerbird collection is from Courtship behaviour, a project inspired by the curious behaviour of the Satin Bowerbird, the eastern Australian birds...
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Nico Lamp, Sculptural Contemporary Hand-Built Ceramic Table Lamp in Matte White
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Nico is a hand-built sculptural ceramic table lamp that inspires the joy of working with hands through unpacking, assembling and balancing weights. The handmade ceramic globes and th...
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Aurora Pink Portal Glass Bookends, ANDREW HUGHES
Located in New York, NY
The Portal design is a simple exercise in optics and color. The Aurora color and reflective light are diffused by a surface etching on the top third of the interior of each bookend. ...
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Copper Pin Wall Decor by Zieta
By Zieta
Located in Geneve, CH
Copper pin wall decor by Zieta
Dimensions: diameter 16 cm
Material: Copper.
Finish: Polished.
Available in 10, 12, 14, and 16 cm.
Available powder-coated in colors: beige grey,...
Category
2010s Polish Modern Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Vernal Blue Porcelain Vase 1 by Robbie Heidinger
Located in New York, NY
Glazed porcelain. Footed orb-shaped vase with applied circular forms. Blue and green glazes. Artist signed on underside.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Contemporary Monroe Floor Lamp, Textured Brass Cast and an off White Lampshade
Located in Oporto, PT
Inspiration:
Marilyn Monroe, the sexiest Pin-up of the 1950s, inspired a piece of Art & Design. The design of the Monroe Lamp captures the essence of her image and the sensuality of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Brass
Marble Female Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and substantial female nude torso white marble sculpture with dark veining, circa 20th century. Sculpture is predominately white marble with traces of dark veining as sho...
Category
20th Century European Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
Studio Job for Makkum Pottery Textural Relief White Matt Porcelain Plate
Located in North Miami, FL
This amazing limited edition porcelain textural relief plate is a piece of art and sculpture with coded messages of things, objects and symbols all ...
Category
Early 2000s Dutch Modern Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Contemporary Sculptural Hand-built Single-Shell Matte White Ceramic Pendant Lamp
Located in Brooklyn, NY
White Bowerbird single is a contemporary single-shell hand-built ceramic pendant lamp finished in a matte white glaze with a warm glow reflecting off of a round joyful form. The humorous friendly form makes a playful interior accent when installed with a single shell. The individually hand-built ceramic canopy, finials and socket cover add an enjoyable uniqueness.
Component dimensions
Shell: 4-6 diameter x 12-14 height in. / 10-13 diameter x 30-36 height cm
2 lbs / 1 kg each
Custom drop length, please specify
5 in. / 12.5 cm diameter ceramic canopy
Materials:
Shells, canopies, socket covers and finials in hand-built ceramic in a warm-white matte glaze, off-white nylon-covered SVT lamp wire, brushed brass hardware, and electrical components
Light source:
1 x E-12 candelabra base per shell
Compatible with LED replacement lamps
Additional info:
Each lamp is individually hand-built without using a mould to create an enjoyable uniqueness and spatial balance within each form. Variations in dimensions, forms, and finishes are expected.
The story:
White Bowerbird Collection is from Courtship Behavior...
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Mid Twentieth Century White Stone Bird Sculpture by Cleo Hartwig
By Cleo Hartwig
Located in Chicago, IL
This piece is signed in the mold, "C. Hartwig Sc." This signature was the highest quality assigned to the casting. The sculpture sits on a contrasting black square base.
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Small Black Plastic Rabbit Doorstopper by Stefano Giovannoni
Located in Origgio (VA), IT
Rabbit is a family of products with a strong media impact, one of Stefano Giovannoni's hat tricks, and immediately became a pop icon, a symbol of love and fertility, which brings goo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Goebel Large Ceramic Figure of a Cockerel
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine German large ceramic cockerel figure dating from around 1970. The cockerel stands on a round pedestal base with incised and molded detailing wi...
Category
1970s German Vintage Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
White Organic Ceramic Kawa Vase #15, Leather-Cast Porcelain Flower Vase
By Luft Tanaka
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A porcelain flower vase with an organic form and texture, made by casting liquid porcelain in sewn leather molds. Clear glaze applied on interior...
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Louise Nevelson Style White Found Object Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Unknown Artist, perhaps "AG" in the manner of Louise Nevelson (American, 1899 1988), a white found object sculpture, rectangular, and ...
Category
20th Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Reclaimed Wood
Mission Pendant Light by on.Entropy, in Seamless White Marble and Satin Bronze
By on entropy
Located in Athens, GR
In Mission pendant light, on.entropy mines the contemporary design potential of a classical material.
Missions consists of a seamless volume o...
Category
2010s Greek Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Brass, Black Resin Modernist Mid-Century Modern Vase, Vessel, Object Sculpture
Located in North Miami, FL
This tall vintage brass modernist vase, sculpture or vessel with a black resin center on both sides. is from the 60s. There is a raised moderni...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Jordan Mozer Off White Fiberglass Abstract Wall or Table Sculpture
By Jordan Mozer
Located in North Miami, FL
This most unusual off white fiberglass table top or wall mounted sculpture is by Jordan Mozer the designer of furniture and objects. It is from around 2012. It has protrusions of forms indifferent heights and shapes. As you turn it it changes perception of shapes. He had one time designed these for a restaurant for a huge wall sculpture...
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass
Particle Table Lamp by on.entropy, in Seamless White Marble and Bronze
By on entropy
Located in Athens, GR
In Particle table lamp, on.entropy mines the modern design potential of this classical material, by transforming the austerity of raw marble into a warm and...
Category
2010s Greek Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Freevolle Sculpture Feminine Table Lamp, Brass white raffia art silvered glass
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
FREVOLLE the feminine sculpture lamp
At the Atelier of Sabrina Landini, thanks to the Italian manufacturing, each unique item is a testament to attention to detail and the finest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Japanese Modern LAAB Impermanenza Grey Sculpture Raku Ceramic White Crakle
By LAAB Milano
Located in monza, Monza and Brianza
Impermanenza Grey
Defined by an unglazed finish and fluid, irregular aesthetic, this ceramic vase in gray and white will embellish any tabletop with its unique and sophisticated character. The singular crackles adorning the piece result from a deft application of the ancient Japanese Raku pottery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Hand Glove Mold
Located in New York, NY
Sculptural bone white porcelain hand latex glove mold.
Category
20th Century American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Vase White Bisquit Porcelain Design by Naaman Israel 1990s
By Coop Ceramic Art
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase white bisquit porcelain design by Naaman Israel 1990s. An interesting example of the upcoming design community in Israel during the 1990s. It is bas...
Category
1990s Israeli Modern Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bubble Clothes Stand in Black Aniline Structure, by Skrivo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The bubble standing clothes stand is available in black aniline wooden spheres, with a lacquered structure in white, black, silk grey, dusty grey or intense blue.
Born in Croatia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Wood
White Teddy Bear Lamp LED, Made in Italy
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
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The teddy bear, the emotional object par excellence, is reinterpreted by Stefano Giovannoni ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Contemporary Monroe Floor Lamp in Oxidized Brushed Brass and Off White Lampshade
By Bessa
Located in Oporto, PT
Inspiration:
Marilyn Monroe, the sexiest pin-up of the 1950s, inspired a piece of Art & Design. The design of the Monroe lamp captures the essence of her ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sculptures
Materials
Brass, Metal
Wendy Hendelman White Alabaster Torso Sculpture, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's White Alabaster Torso Sculpture on a black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the prim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Marble
Japanese Modern LAAB Essenza O Sculpture Raku Ceramic White Crakle
By LAAB Milano
Located in monza, Monza and Brianza
Essenza O Sculpture
Minimalist and fluid lines outline the silhouette of this sculpture, unique objet d'art deftly handcrafted of ceramic by following the ancient Japanese Raku pottery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bistable Aureo Contemporary Brass Side Table Made in Italy by LapiegaWD
By LapiegaWD
Located in Verona, IT
Bistable, A single continuous wire drawing geometries, where the rigor of the lines plays with circular shapes that embrace the the two floors at different heights intersecting in a ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Wendy Hendelman Brown Alabaster Head Sculpture, 2017
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's Brown Alabaster Head Sculpture on black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Alabaster
GUFRAM Another White Cactus Sculptural Coatrack by Drocco & Mello
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Cactus is the icon of Italian design that has revolutionized the domestic landscape. Made of flexible polyurethane this hall tree with four cantilever arms is as tall as a person and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Other
Mico, Contemporary Sculptural Hand-Built Ceramic Table Lamp in Matte White
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Nico's Cousin Mico is a contemporary hand-built sculptural ceramic table lamp that inspires the joy of working with hands through unpacking, assembling and balancing weights. The han...
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Modern Plastic White Gray Green Pink or Tree Side Table by Stefano Giovannoni
Located in Origgio (VA), IT
The rabbit tree is the table to the rabbit chair. It is a small tree on two levels. The higher branch holds a circular top with 70 cm diameter and 75 cm he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
Wendy Hendelman White Alabaster Torso Sculpture, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's White Alabaster Torso Sculpture on a black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the prim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Alabaster
Wendy Hendelman Tall White Alabaster Torso Sculpture, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's tall white Alabaster Torso sculpture on a black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the primitive and the ancient. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Alabaster
Wendy Hendelman Green Alabaster Head and Torso Sculpture, 2019
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's Green Alabaster Head and Torso Sculpture on black marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Rico, Contemporary Sculptural Hand-Built Ceramic Table Lamp in Matte White
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mico’s Cousin Rico is a contemporary hand-built sculptural ceramic table lamp that inspires the joy of working with hands through unpacking, assembling and balancing weights. The han...
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
White Plaster Table Lamp or Pendent Light, 21st Century by Mattia Biagi
By Mattia Biagi
Located in Culver City, CA
This is a new work by Mattia Biagi in plaster
Sculptural lamp can be used as a table lamp or hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Richard Hirsch Ceramic Creamy White Primal Cups with Stands, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's creamy white "Primal Cups with Stands" are raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. Hirsch creates ceramic sculptures that ex...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Set of 5 White Painted Wooden Geometric Molds
Located in South Salem, NY
Mid to Early 1900's set of 5 wooden geometric molds. Great modular accessories. 12"h x 6"w. Sphere is 7"diameter.
Category
20th Century British Modern Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Bill Mack Tranquility Sculpture Bronze with White Patina
By Bill Mack 1
Located in Stamford, CT
Bill Mack (Minnesota b. 1949) tranquility sculpture bronze with white patina, on base signed and numbered. It is an early work from 1994 and without a doubt, is one of his finest pieces ever. Mack's signature in the bronze, is guaranteed authentic, and, comes with a Gallery Letter of Authenticity.
From our Fine Arts and Americana collection, a stunning and massive alto-relief sculpture in bonded sand by American contemporary art legend Bill Mack.
For those who have followed the American Contemporary Art Movement over the last 20 years or so, Bill Mack needs no introduction. For those unfamiliar with his work, Bill Mack sculpts in what is referred to as “alto-relief,” which is a variation of bas-relief but incorporates even much greater depth and three dimensionality with portions of sculptures rendered in the “full round,” similar to Classic Greek and Roman sculpture and statuary.
Mack is known world-wide, with pieces held in the collections of former heads of state like ex-Presidents Ford, Reagan, and Clinton, famous actors and actresses like Sylvester Stallone and Elizabeth Taylor, as well as many corporate titans and heads of industry. Mack has exhibited internationally of course, with shows in Tokyo, Frankfurt, England, and France among many others. And certain pieces of his have been enshrined permanently in American landmarks such as his sculpture entitled “Lady,” which is now part of the permanent collection of the Statute of Liberty...
Category
1990s Modern Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Coral Sculpture, Vintage, Light Green Color, C 1970, Medium Size Coral, Vintage
Located in New York, NY
Decorative coral sculpture. The coral is from the 1970s and has a beautiful light colored green shade. Medium size coral sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pacific Islands Modern Sculptures
Materials
Coral
Wendy Hendelman White Marble Torso Sculpture, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American sculptor Wendy Hendelman's white marble torso sculpture on a marble base. Hendelman’s work reflects her love of the primitive and the ancient. The small scale a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Modern sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern sculptures for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage sculptures created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, lighting and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern sculptures made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original sculptures, popular names associated with this style include Mosche Bianche, Superego Editions, Europa Antiques, and Richard A. Hirsch. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for sculptures differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $19 and tops out at $6,718,000 while the average work can sell for $2,219.
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