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
Treehouse
By Tim Cherry
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Etched signature by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
AP/18
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Above All
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #28/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
5th Avenue Q
Located in PARIS, FR
"5th Avenue Q" by David Gerstein is a vibrant wall sculpture that captures the dynamic energy of New York City's iconic 5th Avenue. Using bold colors and layered shapes, Gerstein bri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Metal
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
$24,000
Mid Century Italian Carved Wood Monkey by Macabo
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive whimsical vintage walnut wood carving skillfully depicting a wide eyed monkey contemplating a piece of fruit. Signed Macabo Italy on the bottom.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Quarter Horse
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A life-sized fiberglass sculpture of a horse, unsigned. This specific breed of horse the sculpture is based on is called Quarter Horse. Many visitors to ...
Category
1990s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass
"Reclining Woman" Karl Bitter, Reclining Woman with Reddish Patina
Located in New York, NY
Karl Bitter
Reclining Woman, 1897
Signed: Bitter 97
Stamped: GORHAM M F G CO.
Bronze
10.25 x 10.25 x 4 inches
Initially from Vienna, Karl Bitter first studied art at the city’s Kunstgewerbeschule and the Kunstakademie before being drafted into the Austrian army. He deserted his position in the military while on leave, and departed for New York City where he would discover considerable success. Early on, he won a competition for the Astor memorial bronze gates at Trinity Church, which awarded him enough capital to open his own studio. He went on to execute sculptures of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson at the Cuyahoga Courthouse in Cleveland; he also created portraits of Jefferson for the state of Missouri and the University of Virginia. These commissions caught the attention of sculptor Richard Morris Hunt (who famously designed the façade of the Metropolitan Museum), earning Bitter the duty of producing the portrait medallions that now appear near the top of the museum’s grand face.
Notably, he presented at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and directed the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. Over his career, his artwork became more flexible – his early academy training is easily identifiable within his work, but after moving to America, conventions of Modernism became more prevalent within his sculpture. In addition to many awards, Bitter presided over the National Sculpture Society in 1906-1907, and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Design, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League, and the Art Commission, New York. His public work can be found at the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC; Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA; Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, WI; United States Naval Academy...
Category
1890s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
British Relief Bronze Portrait of Sir Henry Irving by Albert Toft
Located in London, GB
ALBERT TOFT
(1862-1949)
Relief Portrait of Sir Henry Irving
Indistinctly signed l.r.: Albert Toft
Bronze, dark brown patina, on wooden base
Diameter 24....
Category
Early 1900s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Alfreda, The Artist
s Daughter - British 1950s plaster bust by Richard Garbe
Located in London, GB
RICHARD LOUIS GARBE, RA
(1876-1957)
Alfreda, The Artist’s Daughter
Signed and dated 1956
Plaster with patinated surface on a wooden base
30 cm., 11 ¾ in. high
Provenance:
Gifted ...
Category
1950s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Hippopotamus "lace" Bronze 6/8 by Sophie Martin
Located in Pasadena, CA
Animal sculptor Sophie MARTIN creates from inert clay a whole living animal kingdom.
She freely observes the animal and captures and interprets a movement; and places it in nature and real life with a zest of fancy. Without humanizing the model, respecting the uniqueness of each one in its biodiversity. After studying three years of art history at the Ecole du Louvre, it was with her uncle and her aunt veterinarians, that her love for animals truly took shape in the clay; as with the first models animals on the examination table...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
FLORAL OUD VII
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Introducing a Series of Ceramic Memorials by Nicolaas Maathuis - an exclusive collection that represents a fusion of artistry and functionality, offering a unique variation of memori...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
FLORAL OUD IV
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Introducing a Series of Ceramic Memorials by Nicolaas Maathuis - an exclusive collection that represents a fusion of artistry and functionality, offering a unique variation of memori...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
FLORAL OUD III
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Introducing a Series of Ceramic Memorials by Nicolaas Maathuis - an exclusive collection that represents a fusion of artistry and functionality, offering a unique variation of memori...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
FLORAL OUD II
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Introducing a Series of Ceramic Memorials by Nicolaas Maathuis - an exclusive collection that represents a fusion of artistry and functionality, offering a unique variation of memori...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Cat forged crafted in black wrough iron. Unique. In and outdoor fine sculpture
By Ivan Zanoni
Located in Milan, IT
An exquisite and highly tasteful sculpture, The Cat is one of the most recent artworks by the Italian master blacksmith Ivan Zanoni who has recently been put on display at MART, Museum of Modern Art in Rovereto (the most prominent in Italy), which has dedicated a significant exhibition to him.
Ivan Zanoni has learned this rare activity from his father, Luciano, who, among other artworks, has sculpted a four-meter olive tree for Melinda and Bill Gates...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Iron
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
$18,000
Among the Stones, 48" wide, mixed media wall sculpture
Located in Loveland, CO
Among the Stones by Leo E. Osborne
Abstract Nature Wall Relief, best suited for interior placement
Carved Canada Goose and Rocks - Unique Carved Mixed...
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Scultura in marmo italiana ritratto di fanciulla religiosa del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il busto marmoreo, datato 1890, appartiene alla sua età adulta, nello specifico all’ultimo anno della sua vita, quando era molto richiesto e aveva uno studio molto prolifico a Firenz...
Category
1890s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Maki in terracotta
Located in Pasadena, CA
Nicole DORAY SOULARD.
Animal ceramic sculptures, works centered on the forward. Nature and the study of bodies are sources of inspiration for her. She produces animals from all over...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
$1,139 Sale Price
20% Off
Girafe in Terracotta
Located in Pasadena, CA
Nicole DORAY SOULARD.
Animal ceramic sculptures, works centered on the forward. Nature and the study of bodies are sources of inspiration for her. She produces animals from all over...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
$1,898 Sale Price
20% Off
Black Rock Creek, 36" wide, mixed media wall relief
Located in Loveland, CO
Black Rock Creek by Leo E. Osborne
Abstract Nature Wall Relief, Unique Carved Mixed Media (primarily wood)
20x36x6" nuthatch on wood carved to appear like g...
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Kingfisher
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Melissa Cooper.
Edition #2/20.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bird
s Eye View
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed signature by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
Open Edition
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Life Size Sculpture of Male Head in Terracotta Clay "Andrea"
Located in New York, NY
Terracotta life-size male head.
Rushton sculpts all of his busts using live models over the course of multiple sittings. While realistic and classical in character, his sculptures ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Terracotta
October Song
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed by the Artist with a signature and edition number on bronze base.
5/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
High Ridge
By Kent Ullberg
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
39/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bison Break Time
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original sculpture signed/etched by the Artist on the base. 15/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,800
Vulnerable
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #15/75 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,900
Afterlife
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition 10/33. Inscribed by the artist Natalie Diedrick on the base of bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Another Drink
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition 15/25. Original bronze sculpture by artist Greg Kelsey. Inscribed by artist at base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Wilhelm Krieger (1877-1945), bronze doe sculpture circa 1920
Located in Gent, VOV
"Wilhelm Krieger (1877-1945) The Doe Around 1920 "
The DOE. Circa 1920.
Good quality bronze model of a doe, probably cast around 1970. Animal standing, looking forward, picking up ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Liana Axinte "SUCCES SALUTE" Nude
Located in Winterswijk, NL
SUCCES SALUTE by Liana Axinte
A person is successful.
He stands naked on a stage in the world and greets the audience outside with the spotlight with flowers in his right hand.
The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Unconditional Love
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by E.C. Wynne.
Edition #26/50.
Signed on bronze.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Die Trinkende
By Victor Heinrich Seifert
Located in New York, NY
Victor Heinrich Seifert (1870 – 1953)
Die Trinkende, c. 1900
H 26.25 in. x W 8 in. x D 11.38 inch
Bronze with brown patina
Austrian artist Victor Heinrich Seifert is known for his ...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
High Point
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #12/27 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,200
Georges Gardet — (1863-1939)+ Bronze cast, Lion Devouring an Antelope
Located in Gent, VOV
Lion Devouring an Antelope
A fine bronze cast of a lion, representing the carnivore who has just killed an antelope, by Georges Gardet (1863-1939). An old cast with a dark brown sha...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
On Parade
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #3/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Quail Lamp (with 7 chicks)
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture with an inscribed signature and edition number by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece.
24/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Five Hummingbirds
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition 6/30. Original bronze bell sculpture by artist James Moore. Inscribed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Passive
By Lisa Gordon
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original Bronze Sculpture engraved by the Artist with a signature and edition number.
6/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,800
Barn Buddies
By Lisa Gordon
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture engraved with the Artist's signature and edition number.
4/25
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Trail Creek Brownies
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist's signature and edition number inscribed in the the bronze base of the piece.
5/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Hollyhocks
Hummers
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed by Artist on Bronze base of the piece with signature and edition number.
35/45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Papa
s Chihuahua
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by the Artist on the bronze base of the sculpture with an edition number.
23/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Maximum Capacity
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Andrea Wilkinson.
Edition #11/20.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Auguste Clesinger, 1869, +Bronze roman bull fight
Located in Gent, VOV
This captivating bronze sculpture depicts a dramatic bullfight scene, masterfully captured by the renowned artist Auguste Clesinger in 1869. The dynamic poses of the bulls and the in...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lioness standing on a sphinx - Clovis-Edmond Masson (1838-1913)
Located in Gent, VOV
A fine quality, nineteenth-century, bronze model of a ‘lioness and a sphinx’ by Clovis Edmond Masson (1838-1913). It is signed on the sphinx and has a red-brown patina with 'sandy hi...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Ex Nihilo", Frederick Hart, Acrylic Sculpture, 20x19x6 in., 53/350, white
Located in Dallas, TX
"Ex Nihilo Working Model" by Frederick Hart is an acrylic figurative sculpture part of the "Ex Nihilo" serires numbered 53/350.
“I saw Ex Nihilo (Out of Not...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic Polymer
Meadowlark
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Melissa Cooper.
Edition #8/35.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Commute (woman)
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9
American, b. 1958
National Sculpture Society Fellow
Jim Rennert was born in 1958, and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah. After ten trying years o...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Awake" by Bronze sculptor "Renzo", Larry Renzo Lewis, 58x26x16 in, 2009, Figure
Located in Dallas, TX
This masterpiece, "Awake" by Renzo was created in 2009, and intricately weaves together the essence of Symbols, Stones, Bindings, Nudity, and Masks to offer a profound reflection on ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Scottie
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by Mark Dziewior.
Edition #3/10.
Signed on base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Raven Song Bell
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze signed/etched into base by Artist. 7/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$6,300
Schnauzer Love
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed with Artist's signature on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
1/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Louis Alfred Joseph CUVELIER, Bronze + Stationary racehorse
Located in Gent, VOV
Stationary racehorse.
This exceptional bronze sculpture by Louis Alfred Joseph Cuvelier depicts a racehorse in mid-stride, captured in a moment of intense energy and motion. Cast by...
Category
19th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Sea Turtle Serenade
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition 5/30. Original bronze bell sculpture by artist James Moore. Inscribed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Life Size Sculpture of Female Head in White Terracotta Clay "Yasmina"
Located in New York, NY
Gypsum-based white terracotta life-size female head. Sculpted and kiln fired in Florence Italy, this work is now kept in Rushton's studio in central Manhattan.
Rushton sculpts all ...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Dreamcatcher
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed Artist's signature and edition number on the bronze base of the piece.
6/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rocky Ridge
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #17/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Indigo Bunting
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist has inscribed their signature and edition number into the bronze base of the piece.
14/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Realist sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Frederick Hart, Gary Alsum, SOPHIE MARTIN, and Peter Brooke. Frequently made by artists working with Metal, and Bronze and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist sculptures, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for sculptures made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $550 and tops out at $935,000, while the average work sells for $7,200.
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