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
Red-Tailed Hawk Alert
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of piece with edition number.
8/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Little Earitated
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist's signature and edition number inscribed in the the bronze base of the piece.
10/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
Georges Gardet — (1863-1939)+ Bronze cast, Panther on the lookout
Located in Gent, VOV
A fine bronze cast of a panther on the lookout, by Georges Gardet (1863-1939). An old cast with a dark brown shaded patina with some green undertones. Signed G. Gardet. Foundry Barbe...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Songbird
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist has inscribed their signature and edition number into the bronze base of the piece.
#9
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Screech Owl
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist's signature and edition number inscribed in the the bronze base of the piece.
2/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Puma Prowl
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #18/45 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Great Horned Owl
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture with an inscribed signature and edition number by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece.
2/40
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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
$18,000
Bolt from the Blue (Maquette)
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed Artist's signature and edition number on the bronze base of the piece.
40/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fox Solstice
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist's signature inscribed on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
19/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bunnies in Bloom
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist's signature and edition number inscribed in the the bronze base of the piece.
5/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Observation
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist has inscribed their signature and edition number on the bronze base of this sculpture.
16/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Swallows (Latitude Series)
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Stainless Steel sculpture with an inscribed signature and edition number by the Artist on the base of the piece.
24/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Winter Berries
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist has inscribed their signature and edition number into the bronze base of the piece.
26/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bunny Hop
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist has inscribed their signature and edition number in the bronze base of this sculpture.
23/45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Rise
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist on bronze base of sculpture with an edition number.
6/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,800
Life Size Sculpture of Male Head in Terracotta Clay "Giorgi"
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
Terracotta
"Ex Nihilo Fragment 6", Frederick Hart, Figurative Bronze Sculpture, 39X23X12 in
Located in Dallas, TX
"Ex Nihilo Fragment 6" by Frederick Hart is a figurative bronze with the edition of 55/65. Ex Nihilo Fragment No. 6, detail from the full-scale plaster for the final stone sculpture of Ex Nihilo, was commissioned as part of The Creation Sculptures at Washington National Cathedral...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
First Night Out
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed by Artist on Bronze base of the piece with signature and edition number.
39/45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Clever Clucker
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture inscribed by the artist on the bronze base with a signature and an edition number.
6/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Making Friends
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sculpture of a young girl holding a bowl for a cat.
Category
Early 2000s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Unafraid
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original sculpture signed/etched by the Artist on the base. A/P 9
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$5,000
Take a Look-See
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the sculpture with an edition number.
37/100
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Measure of a Man
By Bill Nebeker
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed/signed by the Artist on the bottom portion of the bronze piece with an edition number.
11/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rooster II
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #21/24 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,600
Bison Song
By James Moore
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Artist's signature inscribed on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
6/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$25,400
Urban Red
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #18/100. Original Bronze Sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signature inscribed on base of sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Chien Braque (Tom)
Located in Missouri, MO
Pierre Jules Mene
"Chien Braque" (Tom)
Bronze
approx. 5 x 9 x 4.25
Signed
PIERRE JULES MENE (1810-1879)
Pierre Jules Mene, (P. J. Mene), was born in Pa...
Category
1860s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Double Rainbow - Wood Base
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed signature by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
10/32
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Saint Mark
s Theater
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique terracotta sculpture of Saint Mark's Theater.
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Gone Fishin
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Etched signature by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
4/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Happy Hen (with 8 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.
17/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Sentinel
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture with an inscribed signature and edition number by the Artist on the bronze base of the piece.
29/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Two Chicks
By Kent Ullberg
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
20/100
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Built to Last
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original bronze sculpture by E.C. Wynne.
Edition #2/50.
Signed on bronze.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Ridin
to the Gate
By Bill Nebeker
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed/signed by the Artist on the bottom portion of the bronze piece with an edition number.
7/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Lovey Dovey
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the sculpture with an edition number.
7/45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Tallgrass Prairie
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #7/20 - Original bronze sculpture by Gerald Balciar.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bounty Hunter
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #10/15 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Horses Come First
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist into the base of bronze with edition number.
2/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$6,800
Design made in Italy duckboard bar cabinet in marple wood, fine details
Located in Milan, IT
The sideboard made by experienced contemporary Italian cabinetmakers is made of solid maple. Every finish is taken care of down to the smallest detail, from the duckboard on the four...
Category
2010s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Wood
The Rooster
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #3/15 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abundance
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
$10,800
Le cheval demi-sang arabe
Located in Mc Lean, VA
A nineteenth-century cast of Antoine-Louis Barye's Le cheval demi-sang arabe (no. A125-Poletti; A148-Pivar), with nice patina.
Poletti and Richarme, Barye: ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Spirita", Frederick Hart, Acrylic Sculpture, 15x14x7 in., 330/350, white
Located in Dallas, TX
"Spirita" Dimensions: 15" x 14" x 7" Medium: Clear Acrylic Resin Edition of 350 Hart wanted to sculpt light, from which forms move in and out, that defined the very delicate sense of...
Category
1980s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Acrylic Polymer
Bird of Peace
By Sandy Scott
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by Artist on bronze base of sculpture with an edition number.
1/35
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$1,900
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
Coat of Armor
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed by Artist on Bronze base of the piece with signature and edition number.
64/75
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Giver
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Bronze sculpture signed/etched by the Artist on bronze base with an edition number.
5/50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$3,600
March Madness
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original sculpture signed/etched by the Artist on the base. 20/36
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,850
Bronze and steel sculpture by David Kimball Anderson
Untitled 1
Located in White Plains, NY
'Untitled 1' by David Kimball Anderson, 2021. Bronze, steel, and paint, 18 x 8 x 8 in. This sculpture features a rounded vase cast in bronze and finished in patinas of grey. It featu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Far and Away
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/etched by artist on bronze base of sculpture with edition number.
2/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$26,000
Little Red Riding Hood Inkwell
Located in Missouri, MO
Antoine Bofill
"Little Red Riding Hood"
Bronze Inkwell
6H x 10W x 6D
Signed
Inscribed: 25 Septembre 1920
Antoine Bofill was born in Barcelona i...
Category
1920s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Under Watchful Eyes
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed with Artist's name and edition number. 7/18
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$33,000
Relentless
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original sculpture signed/etched by the Artist on the base. 12/20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$2,850
Cruising
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed by Artist on Bronze base of the piece with signature and edition number.
2/45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$11,400
Atop the Cholla
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Inscribed by Artist on Bronze base of the piece with signature and edition number.
27/45
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Strike Force
By Kent Ullberg
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Signed/inscribed by Artist on bronze base of the piece with an edition number.
10/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Balancing Act
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Edition #20/27 - Original bronze sculpture by Dan Chen.
Signed on bronze sculpture.
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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