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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Bird in Flight
Located in Washington, DC
German Romanian artist, Otto Scherer, pays homage to one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Brancusi, in his ceramic "Bird in Flight".
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Platinum

Mother Holding Baby Large Clay Sculpture Pre Columbian Style
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Mother Holding Baby, large terra-cotta and clay sculpture. Modern Pre Columbian style large sculpture edition 1/30, artist signed. Walter Bastian...
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1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Terracotta

Morris Brose "Bronze Bull" Figurative Sculptural Abstract
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Bronze Bull" is an exquisite example of Morris Brose's abstract/figurative sculpture. No soft edges on this piece and no invitation to caress, the power, strength and beauty of the bronze are front and center and create awe. "Bronze Bull" is a free-standing piece signed on the base. Morris Brose, Polish/American was born in Wyszkow, Poland. He became a sculptor and instructor of sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University and Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cranbrook was designed by architect and faculty member, Eliel Saarinen who collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames on chair and furniture design. Numerous creative artists who are alumni of Cranbrook include: Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Jack Lenor Larsen, Donald Lipski...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Large Gilt Bronze Sculptures of Leopards
Located in Rome, IT
Fantastic pair of gilt bronze leopard sculptures . The item will be well-suited to either an indoor or outdoor setting.
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Young Woman Bust Bronze Sculpture
By Kevin Berlin
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Bust Of A Young Woman Bronze sculpture signed by the artist inside the cast and dated 1988, 1st cast in London. Kevin Berlin is an international arti...
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1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Pac-Man (Blue edition) - Mini Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI Pac Man (Blue edition) Sculpture in resin Metallic Sky Blue About 10 cm (c. 3.9 in) Presented in original box Excellent condition
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

The weight of your head.…", Porcelain Cup with Sgraffito Detailing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The weight of your head…", 2019 by Alex Hodge From the series Fragments of Our Love Story Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing 4 in. x 3 in. W x 3 in. This cup is one of 48 that m...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint, Underglaze

Terracotta Happy Man Sculpture
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Large Pre Columbian style clay, terracotta sculpture Limited Edition 6/30, signed. Walter Bastianetto, was born in Venice Italy. He graduate of...
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1980s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Terracotta

Horse Rider Bronze Sculpture
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Horse Rider, Bronze sculpture on marble base, signed, edition 1/6. Heriberto Juárez (March 16, 1932 – August 26, 2008) was a self-taught Mexican sculptor, ...
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1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Tête de chèvre de profil (Goat's Head in Profile)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1952, Tête de chèvre de profil (Goat’s Head in Profile) 1952 A.R. 145, is a Madoura oblong dish of white earthenware clay with deco...
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1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic

Moses, Bronze Sculpture by George Gach 1966
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Gach, Hungarian (1909 - 1996) Title: Moses Year: 1966 Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature and date inscribed Size: 17 x 11 x 10 in. (43.18 x 27.94 x 25.4 cm)
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Group of Bronze Skeletons by David W. Dempsey
Located in Rochester, NY
Group of bronze skeleton sculptures having a passionate conversation. Very detailed. The kneeling figure has working jaw. By American sculptor David W...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Metal, Bronze

Cactus
Located in Washington, DC
This image of infinity is beautifully deceptive because although it appears to be in steel, it is a ceramic piece embellished in platinum.
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Platinum

Walking Terrier and Running Terrier: A Pair of Bookends
By Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
DESCRIPTION Bronze with brown patina 4 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 2 7/8 inches 6 x 7 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches Signed Kunst Foundry, NY PROVENANCE Private collection, New York
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Panda Spirit (Orange Edition) - Sculpture in original box with artist coa
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI Panda Spirit (Orange Edition) Sculpture in resin Metallic silver About 13 x 11 x 9 cm (c. 5 x 4 x 3.5 in) Presented in original box with certificate Excellent cond...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

Big Ibex
Located in Washington, DC
This dramatic ceramic sculpture references the horns of an ibex in an homage to native culture.
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Platinum

Pac-Man (Silver edition) - Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI Pac Man (Silver edition) Sculpture in resin Metallic Silver About 18 cm (c. 7 in) Presented in original box Excellent condition
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

Bronze Sculpture Relief Rhinoceros with Tree American Modernist Leonard Baskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) Fruitfulness From Permanence signed, edition 3/8 Bronze, 1967 19.5 X 16 X 1.5 inches The inspiration for this work was a Bernini sculpture Elephant Carrying Obelisk, a 17th century commission outside an ancient temple dedicated to Minerva the goddess of wisdom. It was one of several works from 1967 on a theme of continuity Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Arman, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover, Edmond...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Head Of A Warrior Large Clay Sculpture
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Head of a warrior. Modern Pre Columbian style clay, terracotta sculpture artist signed on the right bottom. Walter Bastianetto is an Italian born sculptor who moved to Mexico in the...
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1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta, Clay

Pac-Man (Red edition) - Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI Pac Man (Red edition) Sculpture in resin Metallic Red About 18 cm (c. 7 in) Presented in original box Excellent condition
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

Standing Bear (Gold Pink Edition) - Sculpture in original box with artist coa
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI StandingBear (Gold Pink) Sculpture in resin Gold Pink edition About 13 x 8 cm (c. 5.1 x 3.1 in) Presented in original box with certificate Excellent condition
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

Modern Brutalist Metal Sculpture of an Abstract Skeletal Figure in a Locker
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract brutalist metal sculpture by Houston artist Bob Fowler. The work features a skeletal figure welded in a box or locker. Firmly attached to a white and natural wood bas...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Metal

Virasat Curved, figurative bronze mantle piece
Located in New York, NY
A remarkable and unique format bronze of unique cast that could be great for a mantle or console table. In Robert Cook's book entitled “Waxing and Waning” he discusses three castings...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Stone, Bronze

Cast Bronze Organic Husk Wall Mounted Abstract Textured Sculpture Seena Donneson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an abstract Flora based hand made, cast sculpture done by Seena Donneson an acclaimed woman artist. A textured abstract bronze with deep, rich patina; The sculpture is signed with the artist initials and dated. It is unique. Seena Donneson (1924 - 2020) was an artist, sculptor and printmaker She studied at the Pratt Institute, NYC Pratt Graphic Art Center, NYC, with Michael Ponce de Leon and the Art Students League with Morris Kantor. Collections Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum of Modern Art, New York Brooklyn Museum Portland Art Museum Amon Carter Museum of American Art Select Individual Exhibitions Danville Museum of Art, Virginia; Galerie #836, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Greenville Museum of Art, North Carolina, 1987; Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY. Group Exhibitions NY Upper East Side Outdoor Sculpture exhibition, 78; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida; CAPS Travelling Exhibition; Ben Shahn Gallery, New Jersey; "The Collograph", NY State Council on the Arts/Pratt Institute. She was included in Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie at the Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974. Artists included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Leda and the Swan modernist mid century sculpture by French woman artist
Located in Norwich, GB
A unique piece: a hand modelled sculpture by French artist Jeannine Nathan (b.1924). Working in Paris, Jeannine was able to visit Picasso’s studio, and was impressed by the Master’s ...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Plaster

Me soaking up the light....", Porcelain Cup with Sgraffito Detailing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Me soaking up the light…", 2019 by Alex Hodge From the series Fragments of Our Love Story Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing 4 in. x 3 in. W x 2.75 in. This cup is one of 48 that make up the installation, “Fragments of Our Love Story.” These cups feature feminine forms which recall the Venus of Willendorf and other historical fertility...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint, Underglaze

Cast Bronze Organic Husk Wall Mounted Abstract Textured Sculpture Seena Donneson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an abstract Flora based hand made, cast sculpture done by Seena Donneson an acclaimed woman artist. A textured abstract bronze with deep, rich patina; The sculpture is signed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Samson, Bronze Sculpture by Arnold Goldstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bronze sculpture of blind Samson collapsing the temple in the ultimate act in the story of Samson and Delilah created by American artist Arnold Goldstein...
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1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Some days that’s me...", Porcelain Cup with Sgraffito Detailing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Some days that’s me…", 2019 by Alex Hodge From the series Fragments of Our Love Story Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing 4.5 in. x 3 in. W x 3 in. This cup is one of 48 that make up the installation, “Fragments of Our Love Story.” These cups feature feminine forms which recall the Venus of Willendorf and other historical fertility objects...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint, Underglaze

Bronze Sculpture Figure with Beast American Modernist Leonard Baskin Museum Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin, American 1922-2000 Homage to the Un-American Activities Committee Bronze relief sculpture plaque This is not editioned, nor signed or numbered, on the piece but according to the catalog there was 12 or less. A number of these are in museum and university art collections and one of them was exhibited at MoMA NY. This was done to commemorate the communist witch hunts of the Mccarthy era. An important, historic piece. Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine, small edition, book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Cortege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his signed work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Ringling Museum of Art, March 1-31, 1974. Artists represented: David Aronson, Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Hyman Bloom, Fernando Botero, Paul Cadmus, Marvin Cherney, Arthur G. Dove, Philip Evergood, Adolph Gottlieb, Jonah Kinigstein, Arman, Rico Lebrun, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Abraham Rattner, Ben Shahn, Mark Tobey, Max Weber, William Zorach and others.In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover, Edmond Casarella...
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1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Hibou aux ailes déployées (Owl with spread wings), 1957
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1975, this madoura turned round dish of red earthenware clay, engobe decoration in black and knife engraving is from the edition of 200 and stamped with the 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' and 'EDITION PICASSO' pottery stamps on the back. Pablo Picasso ceramic Hibou aux ailes déployées (Owl with spread wings), 1957 A.R. 397 features a smiling owl with wings opening above its head. The owl sits on a thin branch that spans the lower length of the plate, extending the scene beyond the bounds of the ceramic. Beautiful, bushy feathers fan out. Picasso uses...
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1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic

Monumental Pair of White Marble Sculptures of Classical Figures
Located in Rome, IT
Standing figure of Julius Caesar wearing a Tunic and holding a billowing drapery with a composition marble square-section pedestal. . The other figure is of Hannibal. Provenance fro...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Polo (Wall Plaque)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Polo (Wall Plaque) Polychromed ceramic, c. 1930-1931 Signed with the artist's initials: VS recto Cowan Pottery stamp verso References And Exhibitions: Designed by the artist while working for Cowan Pottery in 1930. One of Cowan's clients, an interior designer, requested plates decorated with different outdoor activities. Others in the series included "Swimming," "Tennis," "Golf," and "The Hunt." Condition: with the usual craquelure Size: 11 1/4 inches in diameter Industrial design democratizes high style, and Mr. Schreckengost was widely considered among the most democratic industrial designers. He made, quite literally, the stuff of life — things found routinely in homes, backyards and garages in this country and around the world. He designed bicycles for Sears and everyday china for American Limoges. He designed children’s toys and pedal cars; flashlights, furniture and fans; lawn chairs, lawn mowers...
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1930s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic

Cast Bronze Organic Husk Wall Mounted Abstract Textured Sculpture Seena Donneson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an abstract Flora based hand made, cast sculpture done by Seena Donneson an acclaimed woman artist. A textured abstract bronze with deep, rich patina; The sculpture is signed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Horn Player
Located in Los Angeles, CA
SEMION RABINKOV "UNICYCLE HORN PLAYER" BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 1/9 MOLDOVAN-AMERICAN, C.1990'S 27.5 INCHES Semion was born in Chisinau, Moldova, 1954...
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1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Cast Bronze Organic Husk Wall Mounted Abstract Textured Sculpture Seena Donneson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an abstract Flora based hand made, cast sculpture done by Seena Donneson an acclaimed woman artist. A textured abstract bronze with deep, rich patina; The sculpture is signed with the artist initials and dated. It is unique. Seena Donneson (1924 - 2020) was an artist, sculptor and printmaker She studied at the Pratt Institute, NYC Pratt Graphic Art Center, NYC, with Michael Ponce de Leon and the Art Students League with Morris Kantor. Collections Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum of Modern Art, New York Brooklyn Museum Portland Art Museum Amon Carter Museum of American Art Select Individual Exhibitions Danville Museum of Art, Virginia; Galerie #836, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Greenville Museum of Art, North Carolina, 1987; Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY. Group Exhibitions NY Upper East Side Outdoor Sculpture exhibition, 78; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida; CAPS Travelling Exhibition; Ben Shahn Gallery, New Jersey; "The Collograph", NY State Council on the Arts/Pratt Institute. She was included in Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie at the Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974. Artists included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

I lost myself..., Porcelain Cup with Sgraffito Detailing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
I lost myself., 2019 by Alex Hodge From the series Fragments of Our Love Story Porcelain cup with sgraffito detailing 4 in. x 3 in. W x 2.75 in. This cup is one of 48 that make up t...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint

The Moon, Porcelain Jar Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Moon, 2022 by Alex Hodge Porcelain Jar with Sgraffito, Transfers, and underglaze Detailing 10.5 in x 4 in x 4 in This sculptural jar is the first to feature the figure in combin...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Underglaze, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint

Visage d’homme (Man’s Head), 1968-1969 A.R. 570
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Pablo Picasso Visage d’homme (Man’s Head), 1968-1969 A.R. 570 showcases the artist’s unrivaled ability to illustrate human nuance. Each aspect of the man’s face, from his furrowed brow to his side gaze is carefully illustrated. The crowding of horizontal lines on his brow and vertical lines on his nose bring a sense of tension to his face, which compounds the furrowed brow.There are only two colors on the plaque, black and red, but the semi circle of hair atop the mans head...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Earthenware

Large Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Bronze Sculpture Circus Acrobats WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Patinated cast bronze sculpture, Three Acrobats, signed mounted on black marble plinth 24.5"h x 14"w x 7"d (bronze alone) Chaim Gross (March 17, 1904 – May 5, 1991) was an American modernist sculptor and educator. Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mezhgorye, Ukraine), in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia (which was annexed into the Ukrainian USSR in 1939 and became part of newly independent Ukraine in 1991). When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest to join their older siblings Sarah and Pinkas. Gross applied to and was accepted by the art academy in Budapest and studied under the painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Austria shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1921. Gross's studies continued in the United States at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League of New York, with Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky, at the same time as Moses Soyer and Peter Blume. In 1926 Gross began teaching at The Educational Alliance, and continued teaching there for the next 50 years. Louise Nevelson was among his students at the Alliance (in 1934), during the time she was transitioning from painting to sculpture. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1929, Gross experimented with printmaking, and created an important group of 15 linocuts and lithographs of landscapes, New York City streets and parks, women in interiors, the circus, and vaudeville. The entire suite is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gross returned to the medium of printmaking in the 1960s, and produced approximately 200 works in the medium over the next two decades. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes, Judaica, balancing acrobats, cyclists, trapeze artists and mothers and children convey joyfulness, modernism, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Jewish Hasidic heritage, which teaches that only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the MoMA art school, the Art Student's League and the New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with Alexander Dobkin...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Petite tête, profil gauche (Small Head, Left Profile), A.R. 535
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1965, this terre de faïence sculpture with white slip is inscribed on the sculptural base with the atelier stamps ‘EDITION PICASSO’ and ‘MADOURA...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Faience, Slip

Ramp Figure, Bronze Sculpture, Black color by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K.S. Radhakrishnan - Ramp Figure Bronze Sculpture H 12.75 x W 7 x D 6 inches K.S. Radhakrishnan working with Musui & Maiya, Musui potraits has a hand Rickshaw puller as is still prevalent in few parts of Bengal. The bronze figures are elfin, mischievous, airy, acrobatic, and archaic, delicately balancing on one hand or leg. He renders a sensuous quality to his works by deploying extraordinary body movements of his figures. Radhakrishnan is a distinctive and appealing presence on the modern Indian sculpture scene. He says: “For me bronze works best because it is strong, and brings out the character of my sculptures. Although it takes time, the process also becomes a part of my art form.” Style : K.S Radhakrishnan is one of the most notable among the new generation of sculptors. Like many of his contempories he is a figurative sculptor, but his preference for modelling and bronze casting sets him apart from the rest of them. Recharging age old sculptural processes with a new sensibility, thus is the singular challenge he brings to modern Indian sculpture. And this makes him a modernist - who approaches his work with discernible ambition and considerable aplomb while steering clear of brinkmanship. Radhakrishnan's works often drawn from the emotions and myths of the Hindu gods, such as Shiva, Kali and Radha. His sculptures are often larger than life-sized; placed in the outdoors, they evoke a superhuman atmosphere. Over the years, Radhakrishnan has experienced with alternate sculpting mediums, working in molten bronze, beeswax and Plaster of Paris.The physical process of working with the materials becomes a performance in itself. The sculpture is the product of a tactile engagement with his medium. With celebration of sensuality as one of its running themes, his works is at once both intimate and universal in its appeal. A personal commemorative sculpture, with a scale and presence that holds well in natural settings, his work has found permanent home in a number of public collections all over the world. About the Artist and his work : Born : Born 1956, Kerala. Education : 1979 : B.F.A. in Sculpture, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal 1981 : M.F.A. in Sculpture, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal. Solo exhibitions : 2006 : ’Freehold’ at Museum Gallery, Mumbai ‘Freehold’ at Artalive Gallery, New Delhi 2005 : ’The Ramp’ at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai ‘Unbearable Lightness of being’ at India International Centre, New Delhi 2004 : ’The Ramp’ at Sridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi ‘The Ramp’ at Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Vadodara 2000 : ’Musui Maiya’ sponsored by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1998 : ’Song of the Road’ – sponsored by International Travel House, ITC, New Delhi ‘Portal’ – Apeejay Lawns, Calcutta, sponsored by Apeejay Surendra, Group, Calcutta 1993 : Centre des Bonds de Marne, LePerreux-Bry sur-Marne, Paris, France. 1987 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. Participated Exhibitions : 2007 : ’Darpan’ an exhibition sponsored by Nvya Gallery, New Delhi Travel to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia – sponsored by Nvya Gallery. 2006 : Travel to U.S.A, sponsored by Arts India, New York Travel to Russia, sponsored by Art Resource Trust, Mumbai Travel to Morocco, sponsored by Popular Prakashan, Mumbai. 2005 : Travel to Istanbul, Turkey to attend artists workshop Travel to China (Silk Route) sponsored by Uttarayan, Baroda Travel to South Africa organised by Gallery Navya, New Delhi. 2003 : Travel to Cairo and other cities in Egypt to attend an artists workshop Travel to France and Italy sponsored by TMI Foundation France Exhibition titled ‘Can’ curated by Johny M.L Exhibition ‘Only connect’ at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Exhibition ‘Nayika’ by Ganesha Art...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Ramp Figure, Bronze Sculpture, Black color by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K.S. Radhakrishnan - Ramp Figure Bronze Sculpture H 12.25 x W 8 x D 6.5 inches K.S. Radhakrishnan working with Musui & Maiya, Musui potraits has a hand Rickshaw puller as is still prevalent in few parts of Bengal. The bronze figures are elfin, mischievous, airy, acrobatic, and archaic, delicately balancing on one hand or leg. He renders a sensuous quality to his works by deploying extraordinary body movements of his figures. Radhakrishnan is a distinctive and appealing presence on the modern Indian sculpture scene. He says: “For me bronze works best because it is strong, and brings out the character of my sculptures. Although it takes time, the process also becomes a part of my art form.” Style : K.S Radhakrishnan is one of the most notable among the new generation of sculptors. Like many of his contempories he is a figurative sculptor, but his preference for modelling and bronze casting sets him apart from the rest of them. Recharging age old sculptural processes with a new sensibility, thus is the singular challenge he brings to modern Indian sculpture. And this makes him a modernist - who approaches his work with discernible ambition and considerable aplomb while steering clear of brinkmanship. Radhakrishnan's works often drawn from the emotions and myths of the Hindu gods, such as Shiva, Kali and Radha. His sculptures are often larger than life-sized; placed in the outdoors, they evoke a superhuman atmosphere. Over the years, Radhakrishnan has experienced with alternate sculpting mediums, working in molten bronze, beeswax and Plaster of Paris.The physical process of working with the materials becomes a performance in itself. The sculpture is the product of a tactile engagement with his medium. With celebration of sensuality as one of its running themes, his works is at once both intimate and universal in its appeal. A personal commemorative sculpture, with a scale and presence that holds well in natural settings, his work has found permanent home in a number of public collections all over the world. About the Artist and his work : Born : Born 1956, Kerala. Education : 1979 : B.F.A. in Sculpture, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal 1981 : M.F.A. in Sculpture, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal. Solo exhibitions : 2006 : ’Freehold’ at Museum Gallery, Mumbai ‘Freehold’ at Artalive Gallery, New Delhi 2005 : ’The Ramp’ at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai ‘Unbearable Lightness of being’ at India International Centre, New Delhi 2004 : ’The Ramp’ at Sridharani Art Gallery, New Delhi ‘The Ramp’ at Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Vadodara 2000 : ’Musui Maiya’ sponsored by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi 1998 : ’Song of the Road’ – sponsored by International Travel House, ITC, New Delhi ‘Portal’ – Apeejay Lawns, Calcutta, sponsored by Apeejay Surendra, Group, Calcutta 1993 : Centre des Bonds de Marne, LePerreux-Bry sur-Marne, Paris, France. 1987 : Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. Participated Exhibitions : 2007 : ’Darpan’ an exhibition sponsored by Nvya Gallery, New Delhi Travel to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia – sponsored by Nvya Gallery. 2006 : Travel to U.S.A, sponsored by Arts India, New York Travel to Russia, sponsored by Art Resource Trust, Mumbai Travel to Morocco, sponsored by Popular Prakashan, Mumbai. 2005 : Travel to Istanbul, Turkey to attend artists workshop Travel to China (Silk Route) sponsored by Uttarayan, Baroda Travel to South Africa organised by Gallery Navya, New Delhi. 2003 : Travel to Cairo and other cities in Egypt to attend an artists workshop Travel to France and Italy sponsored by TMI Foundation France Exhibition titled ‘Can’ curated by Johny M.L Exhibition ‘Only connect’ at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Exhibition ‘Nayika’ by Ganesha Art...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Jean-Marc Spirit (Orange edition) - Sculpture in original box with artist coa
Located in Paris, FR
Richard ORLINSKI Jean-Marc Spirit (Orange edition) Sculpture in resin Orange edition About 13 x 11 x 14.5 cm (c. 5.1 x 4.3 x 5.5 in) Presented in original box with certificate Exc...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Resin

Bronze Modernist Sculpture Portrait, Leo Stein by Minna Harkavy WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Minna Rothenberg Harkavy (1895-1987) Estonian-American This is not signed bronze portrait bust Provenance: Estate of the artist by descent Minna Harkavy (1887 – 1987) (birth occasionally listed as 1895) was a Jewish American sculptor born in Estonia to Yoel and Hannah Rothenberg and immigrated to the United States around 1900. She studied at the Art Students League, at Hunter College and in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle. Harkavy was a WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief piece, Industry and Landscape of Winchendon for the post office in Winchendon, Massachusetts. She was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild and showed a work, My Children are Desolate Because the Enemy Prevailed in the Second Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Negro Head in the 1940-1941 and Woman in Thought in 1941. Harkavy was an early feminist, a founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists. Politically she was known as a leftist and anti-fascist with a strong social consciousness. In 1931 she exhibited a bust of Hall Johnson in the Museum of Western Art in Moscow and the work was purchased for the Pushkin Museum there. Abraham, Walkowitz sat for a portrait by her. In 1932 she represented the John Reed Club at an anti-war conference in Amsterdam. A bust of Italian- American anti-fascist (and her lover) Carlo Tresca who was assassinated in New York in 1943 was installed in his birthplace of Sulmona, Italy. She showed at Associated American Artists gallery, along with Max Weber, Waldo Peirce...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

“Mother and Children”
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid century modern original terracotta sculpture by the Hungarian artist, Anna Berkovits of a young woman with her two children. Circa 1955. Signed in the inside of the base. Condition is excellent. Parts of the sculpture have been deliberately not been glazed by the artist. Her work rarely becomes available. Provenance: Sarasota, Florida estate. Anna Berkovits was born in Hungary in 1911 and lived and worked in Budapest. She trained under the art teacher Almos Jaschik in Budapest. Later she was trained in ceramics by the artist Gador Istvan...
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1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Terracotta

Gold Reindeer, Bronze Sculpture by Mattakitkosol Somchai
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mattakitkosol Somchai Title: Gold Reindeer Year: Circa 1970 Medium: Bronze Sculpture mounted on Marble Base Size: 10.5 x 15.5 x 4 in. (26.67 x...
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1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Mid Century Nude Male Acephale Sculpture in Bronze
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century bronze figure of a man presented on an iron 'tige' and marble base. The sculpture is not signed but was purchased from Nice, France, in the 1970s as a work b...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Marble, Bronze, Iron

Cast Bronze Organic Husk Wall Mounted Abstract Textured Sculpture Seena Donneson
Located in Surfside, FL
This is an abstract Flora based hand made, cast sculpture done by Seena Donneson an acclaimed woman artist. A textured abstract bronze with deep, rich patina; The sculpture is signed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Seated Woman With Child Terra-Cotta Sculpture
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Seated Mother And Child, Modern Pre Columbian style large sculpture edition 1/30, artist signed. Walter Bastianetto is an Italian born sculptor who moved to Mexico in the 1970s an...
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1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Terracotta, Oil

Job is a Woman, Portrait, Carved Porcelain Wall Sculpture.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Job is a Woman, 2022 by Alex Hodge Ceramic Plate with Sgraffito and Underglaze Detailing 8 in x 8 in x 2.5 in This wall piece centers on the narrative of Job, with the woman being a...
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2010s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint, Underglaze

Helen Shirk Sculpture Hand Crafted Studio Vessel, Copper Patina, Colored Pencils
Located in Surfside, FL
Title: Red Pod, CV110V, San Diego, 1997 Fabricated, hammered copper, colored pencils, patina. This is not signed. It bears a label on the interior and the artist has kindly confirmed the attribution to me. Helen Shirk...
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1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Copper

Updo Avalokitesvara in Meditation
Located in Xia Men, 35
This sculpture presents an image of updo Avalokitesvara sitting in the auspicious semi-lotus posture with the hands in the meditation mudra. Wearing a concise crown, the exquisite Av...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Monumental Marble Italian Rationalist Figurative Nude Sculptures
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athlete of Discobolo and the Hercules figure with a lion pelt, on a cylindrical base...
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1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

La Danse
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A ceramic work by Pablo Picasso. “La Danse” is a modern figurative ceramic, white eathenware ceramic plate, partially engraved, with colored engobe and glaze ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Ceramic

"Pioneer Family" WPA American Modernism Plaster Maquette Realism 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Pioneer Family," 23 1/2 x 16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inPlaster. c. 1927. Unsigned. Realism The Smithsonian has a cast of this sculpture in its collection. Pictured on the cover of “The Sculpt...
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1920s Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Plaster

Modern White Porcelain Sakyamuni in Meditation, 2017
Located in Xia Men, 35
Sakyamuni, originally Siddhartha Gotama, is the founder of Buddhism and known as the Buddha, namely the awakened one, in later ages. This sculpture of Sakyamuni is sitting peacefully...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

Standing Ksitigarbha
Located in Xia Men, 35
For several times, Ksitigarbha saved his mother who was suffering in hell in his prelife. For ages, Ksitigarbha has vowed to save all sinful and suffering mortal beings, especially t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Porcelain

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