Realist Sculptures
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Keeping the Ball Rolling
Located in Greenwich, CT
Life-size sculpture of a bare-footed boy balancing himself atop a ball.
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Smart Couple Sitting
By Ruth Bloch
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Ruth Bloch was born in Israel in 1951 to artist parents. Her father was a musician, while her mother worked in ceramics, Ruth's family were members of a Kibbutz called Alonim, a plac...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Truth & Beauty", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 8x12x9 in.,
Located in Dallas, TX
"Truth and Beauty" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 39/40.
Frederick Hart was an American sculptor. His is best known for his Three Soldiers statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Ex Nihiio (1983) depicting Creation scenes above the doors of the Washington National Cathedral...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Joseph Wackerle Wood Sculpture "Flora", 1920
By Joseph Wackerle
Located in Berlin, DE
An impressiv sculpture by Joseph Wackerle ( 1880-1959 ). One of a kind from 1920, Germany. Wood, carved.
Height: 59.06 in ( 150 cm ), Width: 12.6 in ( 32 cm ), Depth: 12.6 in ( 32 cm )
Category
1920s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Wood
"At Last, " Sculpture
By Bill Starke
Located in Denver, CO
Bill Starke's "At Last" is a limited edition, bronze sculpture created by Bill Starke depicting a male figure with out-stretched arms.
( 3/85 )
About the artist:
Human beings int...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Goblets XXV, Sweet wrapper art, contemporary wall sculpture, conversation art
Located in Deddington, GB
Goblets XXV is a signed original wall sculpture made from sweet wrappers by Joanne Tinker of a selection of colourful wine goblets on a black shelved frame.
Joanne Tinker wall sculpt...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Foil
Mother and child
Located in Täby, SE
Teuvo Kotilainen was born in 1925 in Rääkylä and died 2010 in Tampere. He was a finnish sculptor inspired by Jussi Mäntynen and his lynxs and he performed several himself but also or...
Category
1970s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Limited Edition Glass Goldfish Water Bag Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Inspired by popular demand, these limited-edition hyperreal goldfish cracker glass water bags are a playful nod to the carnival goldfish in plastic bags.
Created with molten glass ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glass, Blown Glass
Sifaka Lemur -original modern wildlife bronze sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Enter the enchanting world of Madagascar with "Sifaka Lemur" by the talented artist Andrzej Szymczyk, a captivating bronze sculpture that celebrates t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Murene -original modern bronze wildlife marine sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Delve into the mysterious depths of the ocean with "Murene" by the talented artist Andrzej Szymczyk, a captivating bronze sculpture that brings the hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bontana -original modern bronze wildlife marine sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Step into the underwater realm with "Bontana" by the talented Andrzej Szymczyk, a captivating bronze sculpture that celebrates the mystique of wildlif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Titan Triggerfish -original bronze marine wildlife sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Embark on an aquatic adventure with "Titan Triggerfish" by the talented artist Andrzej Szymczyk, a captivating bronze sculpture that captures the raw ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cameleon -original modern wildlife animal bronze sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Step into the world of camouflage and adaptation with "Cameleon" by the talented artist Andrzej Szymczyk, a captivating bronze sculpture that pays hom...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Zebra Shark -original modern bronze wildlife marine sculpture - contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Bronze , Limited edition of 12
Enter the realm of the ocean's gentle giants with "Zebra Shark" by the gifted artist Andrzej Szymczyk, an evocative bronze sculpture that pays homage ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mahatma Gandhi
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Lladró launched this special commemorative piece coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). The sculpture is an excellent likeness of the great ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Edward Carter Preston - Athena - 20th Century British Plaster Sculpture Figure
Located in London, GB
EDWARD CARTER PRESTON
(1885-1965)
Athena
Signed: E CARTER PRESTON
Bronzed plaster
59 cm., 23 ¼ in. high
Edward Carter Preston is best known as the designer of the bronze memorial...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Debora Lima-original figurative female dancers bronze sculpture-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Bronze , Limited edition of 8
"Debora Lima" stands as a captivating tribute to the beauty and grace of the human form, crafted by the skilled hands of artist Andrzej Szymczyk. This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Goldfish III-original wildlife fish abstract sculpture-artwork-contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Goldfish III" is a captivating sculpture crafted by the esteemed artist Andrzej Szymczyk. This original wildlife tabletop sculpture offers a unique interpretation of the iconic gold...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Climbers - Small
By Bill Starke
Located in Denver, CO
"Climbers I" is a limited edition (TBD/99) sculpture created by Bill Starke depicting a figure climbing a rope.
"Climbers I" is currently on order and can take 5-6 weeks to be read...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
Seahorse Couple (verdigris)-original wildlife marine sculpture-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Bronze , Limited edition of 8
In the mesmerizing depths of Andrzej Szymczyk's imagination swims the "Seahorse Couple," a captivating tableau that celebrates the timeless bond of lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Siamese Fighter Fish-original bronze wildlife sculpture-artwork-contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
Andrzej Szymczyk
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pole Dancer-original nude figurative bronze sculpture-artwork-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
Andrzej Szymczyk's "Pole Dancer" stands as a mesmerizing testament to the beauty and athleticism of the human form, captured within the enduring medium of bronze. This original figur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Climbers - Large
By Bill Starke
Located in Denver, CO
"Climbers I" is a limited edition (TBD/75) sculpture created by Bill Starke depicting a figure climbing a rope.
"Climbers I" has 1 in stock. Quantities over 1 will take 5-6 weeks t...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
"Catch of the Day " Sculpture
By Bill Starke
Located in Denver, CO
Bill Starke's "The Seeker" is a limited edition (AP 3/6), bronze sculpture created by Bill Starke depicting a contemplative male figure holding a rope with 3 climbers ascending to th...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
"The Seeker, " Sculpture
By Bill Starke
Located in Denver, CO
Bill Starke's "The Seeker" is a limited edition (#3/50), bronze sculpture created by Bill Starke depicting a male figure peering beneath him through a small opening.
About the art...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Metal
Bollel Child and conch shell. Original multiple bronze sculpture
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
BOLLEL. Child and conch shell. Original multiple bronze sculpture
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Daydreamer (White)-original realism wildlife sculpture-painting-artwork-Art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Daydreamer (White)" by Henk Jan Sanderman invites viewers into a world of serenity and contemplation, where imagination takes flight and dreams are born. This captivating artwork seamlessly merges sculpture and painting, featuring porcelain and bronze sculptures delicately integrated onto a triptych canvas.
At the center of the composition lies a realistic painted porcelain panda bear, its tranquil presence exuding a sense of peace and tranquility. Against a backdrop of pristine white and black, the panda bear reclines gracefully on a vibrant red string, which is gently tethered to two bronze bamboo sticks spanning the triptych canvases...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"The Farewell Kiss"
By Evgeny Lanceray
Located in Southampton, NY
This is a beautiful original bronze casting by the foremost Russian sculptor of his day Evgeny Lanceray. Artist signed on the base in Cyrillic (image 5) and is also inscribed on the ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
African Boy
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful ca. 1970s sculpture depicting African boy. Carved and stained hardwood. Some splits in wood consistent with age, not damage. Signed indistinctly on back of platform.
Category
1970s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Wood
When Pigs Fly (Black-triptych)-original realism wildlife sculpture-contemporary
Located in London, Chelsea
Henk Jan Sanderman's "When Pigs Fly (Black, Triptych)" presents a captivating exploration of whimsy and impossibility. This original artwork seamlessly combines sculpture and painting, with porcelain and bronze sculptures gracefully integrated onto a triptych canvas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
When Pigs Fly (White)-original realism wildlife sculpture-contemporary Artwork
Located in London, Chelsea
Henk Jan Sanderman's "When Pigs Fly (White, Triptych)" offers a whimsical exploration of possibility and imagination. This original artwork seamlessly integrates sculpture and painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Promise of the Prairie, 36"high Bronze Sculpture
Located in Loveland, CO
George Wayne Lundeen (American, born 1948) NSS
“Promise of the Prairie”
Museum Quality Cast Bronze, Limited edition of 21, signed and marked, G.W. Lundeen ©1983 20/21 on the top/back...
Category
1990s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Ground Zero" Bronze German Shepherd Dog Searching for Survivors
Located in Brookville, NY
This sculptor is not only an artist, but a vetrinarian. She knows anatomy as well as she knows breeds and behaviors.. This beautiful bronze depicts a German Shepherd Dog searching ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Daydreamer (Black)-original realism wildlife sculpture-artwork-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Daydreamer (Black)" by Henk Jan Sanderman invites viewers into a serene and contemplative world where reality and imagination intertwine. This captivating artwork seamlessly merges sculpture and painting, featuring porcelain and bronze sculptures elegantly integrated onto a triptych canvas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ceramic Wall Sculpture of Crow #16
By Karla Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cv upon request
Karla Walter is an American artist who explores similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of individuals in our society.
Karla Walter went to ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Ceramic Wall Sculpture of Crow #8
By Karla Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cv upon request
Karla Walter is an American artist who explores similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of individuals in our society.
Karla Walter went to ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Portrait of a Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Francisco Vazquez Diaz, known as Compostela (1898-1988). Portrait of a Man, 1949. Carved mahogany, measuring 18.75 inches h, 8.5 inches w, 11 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany
Ceramic, Swarovski Crystals, Wall Sculpture of Crow Head
By Karla Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cv upon request
Karla Walter is an American artist who explores similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of individuals in our society.
Karla Walter went to ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Ceramic Wall Sculpture of Crow #15
By Karla Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cv upon request
Karla Walter is an American artist who explores similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of individuals in our society.
Karla Walter went to ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
TURTLE TRAIN
Located in Tallahassee, FL
Life size child on life size tortoise. Combination of young child's imagination and reality.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Guidance
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Bronze, Stainless Steel
Hidden Layers
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel, Bronze
Altered Perspective
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Dance of Balance
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Tidal Balance
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Natural Plane
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
In the Currents
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Continuum
By Ben Young
Located in New York, NY
Ben Young’s sculpture fluidly blends glass, concrete, bronze, steel, and light to depict romantic and pensive imagery highlighting the fragility of our climate and its most precious resource – water. Born in Australia and raised in New Zealand, Young is an avid surfer and environmentalist, inspired by a lifetime on and around oceans, bays, and reefs, with an intimate understanding of the challenges our precious ecosystems face.
Young’s thought-provoking sculpture shows great range, portraying the beauty and solitude of life on the ocean, haunting depths of the deep sea, and stunning and relaxing upside of island life. Water is many things to many people, which Young encapsulates brilliantly in his work, encompassing themes of sustainability throughout.
Using concrete to create mountains, crevasses, sand bars, and cliffs, Young’s innovative use of materials is transportative. With hand-carved glass as his guiding medium, Young amplifies light and its relationship with water – our most sacred element – to create a glowing unity that people from around the world connect with on a personal level, whether they are beachside or in the Desert.
Ben Young’s exhibition Delicate Space at Chesterfield Gallery...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Antique: Mare Playing with a Terrier Dog (Good Companions) P. J. Mene 1860
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Bronze: Mare in the Stable Playing with a Dog (Good Companions)
Jument à l'écurie jouant avec un chien
Pierre-Jules Mene (French, 1810-1879)
Bronze
19 x 10 inches
One of Mene's most beloved bronze, well-loved early example with beautiful rich patina. A sensitive portrait of a horse nuzzling his companion while the terrier is giving kisses to the horse’s nose.
Cast by Mene’s own foundry and is very well detailed with a medium brown patina.
Pierre-Jules Mêne (1810-1879) was one of the most successful and prolific animalier sculptors of the 19th century, known for his naturalistic representation of animals.
Mêne received no formal education in sculpture but was taught to draw and model by his father and later began casting his own sculptures. He was largely self-taught, possessing a keen observation of nature that enabled him to capture the essence of his animal subjects with remarkable accuracy and vivacity.
His work debuted at the Paris Salon in 1838, and from that point onwards, he exhibited his sculptures regularly. Mêne specialized in small-scale domestic animals, his subjects often including horses, dogs, bulls, and sheep. Interestingly, almost no big game are found in Mêne's ouevre.
Beginning in 1837 as orders started coming in, Mêne worked as Antoine-Louis Barye before him, opening his own foundry where he personally oversaw the manufacture and production of his art. The work produced there bears the hallmark of extraordinary attention to detail and thoughtfulness shown in every element of presentation and assembly. His mastery in the technical aspects of casting bronze without relying on professional founders for the completion of his models gave him a significant advantage in producing his pieces with fine detail and at a lower cost. This operation was expanded in 1852 to handle the casting of models for his new son-in-law, Auguste Cain.
Mêne’s sculptures...
Category
1860s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"On the Wings of an Eagle", Chester Fields, Bronze and Steel Sculpture, 54x40x24
By Chester Fields
Located in Dallas, TX
"On the Wings of an Eagle by Chester Fields is one of his most popular sculptures. This is number 26 of 75 made. It is made with the following:
Bronze Casting
Deluxe Patina
Gold Beak...
Category
1990s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Stainless Steel
Defi a Newton
By Arman
Located in Palm Beach, FL
ARMAN 1928 - 2005
Bronze sculpture, 2004
Polished bronze with black patina, 2004, stamped with foundry stamp and numbered, published by Venturi Arte, Bologna
Signed and numbered...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Antique Dog: Bulldog Playing with a Mouse- Henri Émile Adrien Trodoux ca. 1870s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Bronze Dog
Bulldog Playing with a Mouse on Sheaves of Wheat
Henri Émile Adrien Trodoux (1815-1881)
6 1/8 x 3 7/5 inches
Signed on the terrace
Henri Émile Adrien Trodoux (Fre...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ruth. 1902. Сast iron, h 61 cm; w 27 cm molder Kuznetsov, factory KASLI
Located in Riga, LV
Ruth. 1902. Сast iron, h 61 cm; w 27 cm molder Kuznetsov, factory KASLI
Author - Friedrich GOLDSCHEIDER (1845-1897)
Category
Early 1900s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Venus
Located in Sempach, LU
In this work, the author turned to classical mythology and created the image of the goddess Venus. Goddesses of youth, beauty and love. He created the classical female torso on a mar...
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Marathon
Located in Dallas, TX
"Marathon" by artist David Everett is polychromed mahogany, and measures 17 1/4 x 23 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. It is signed "© D EVERETT 2023". A jackrabbit and cactus are depicted.
David...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Mahogany
Morning
Located in Sempach, LU
The author admires the beauty of the female body. Her movement - smooth, graceful and beautiful. The moment of awakening is very sensual. The girl stretches, revealing the beauty of her young body. Realistic manner shows her original beauty. Sculpture shapes create a play of light and shadow, curves, polished and brushed metal. The work is made of bronze- polish and patina.
This sculpture was created in the early period of Alex Radionov...
Category
1990s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Model Girl
Located in Sempach, LU
Classic female torso inspired by examples of high Greek sculpture. Sculptor explores the lines and shapes of the female body, embodied the diversity, slightly changed the poses.
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Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Girl at Waterfall
Located in Sempach, LU
"This is one of my earliest sculptures. I depicted a naked girl at the waterfall. She bathes under jets of water. The fabric of clothing hugs her body and lies down to her feet. The ...
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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