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African Helmet Mask Gelede from Yoruba Nigeria
Located in San Francisco, CA
Blacked wood helmet mask (Gelede), large human head surmounted by a dog eating a snake which curves
Category

20th Century Nigerian Tribal Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

THALASSO 4 - Abstract Figurative Mint Green Painting on Canvas
By Chloe York
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
biology. Chloe’s work is flat and linear and always begins with a human head and shoulders. She call's the
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"People" - Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Black White Drawing
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head, it becomes a substitute for a person or a soul. The
Category

1960s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Crayon, Ink

Speak Up
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In "Speak Up," Bright Toh employs unconventional imagery by merging the head of a cow with a human
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Speak Up
Speak Up
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Couple. Porcelain vases 2 x h 9 cm
By Ilona Romule
Located in Riga, LV
Unique vases in the shape of human heads made from the finest porcelain by Ilona Romule, leading
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Porcelain

Art Deco Silvered Bronze Bust Sculpture of a Woman / France, 1930
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
sculpture of a stylized human head, mounted on a black oval marble base. The head is tilted downward, and
Category

Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

In the Window, Ovoid Shapes Floating Through Windows
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, and in Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head
Category

1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Ablaze, Ovoid Faces Looking Through Geometrical Windows
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, and in Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head
Category

1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Up the Avenue, Geometrical Ovoid Abstract Acrylic Collage Cityscape
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, and in Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head
Category

1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Transection No. 3, Ovoid Geometrical Figural Abstract Neon Acrylic Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head, it becomes
Category

1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Rockefeller Center" - Abstract Rock, Mid-Century Acrylic Sand Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head, it becomes a
Category

1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Quadratic, Mid-Century Ovoid Figural Abstract Acrylic Collage with faces
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head, it becomes a substitute for a person or a soul. The
Category

1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Entr acte - Mid-Century Ovoids in Theatre - Geometrical Abstract Pastel
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head, it becomes
Category

1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Pastel

King Tut No. 2, Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Gouache on Paper
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
shape of a human head, it becomes a substitute for a person or a soul. The Egg/Ovoid that is devoid of
Category

1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Departing from the System, Mid-Century Geometrical Abstract Mixed Media
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, and in Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head
Category

1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

The Mayor, Mid-Century Ovoid Figural Abstract Acrylic Collage with Eye
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, and in Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head
Category

1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Caged, Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Acrylic, Black Grey
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head, it becomes
Category

1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Seeing Egg, Surreal Ovoid Figural Acrylic Painting, Cleveland School Artist
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, and in Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head
Category

1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Seeing Egg No. 2, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic painting, Figural Abstract
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head, it becomes a substitute for a person or a soul. The
Category

1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Vetriculus Egg, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic and collage painting, Figural Abstract
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
, and in Carter's depictions it is opaque or translucent; it is reminiscent of the shape of a human head
Category

1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

THE DECORATOR 42 - Abstract Figurative Painting on Canvas, Marine Purple, Blue
By Chloe York
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
biology. Chloe’s work is flat and linear and always begins with a human head and shoulders. She call's the
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Opon Igede Ifa - Divination Bowl, Yoruba People, Nigeria, Early 20th Century
By Yoruba People
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
divination bowl emulates the form of a human head. The numbers are the inventory numbers from Penn State
Category

Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Tribal Art

Materials

Wood

Midori Koi (AP) - green, rustic, baroque, face, figurative bronze wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
the bronze head-shaped form. Dunning’s inspired metal sculptures use the image of the human head as a
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Thin-lipped Armourer I: W. H. Auden poetry with Henry Moore, Yorkshire landscape
By Henry Moore
Located in New York, NY
begins: “Lay your sleeping head, my love / Human on my faithless arm; / Time and fevers burn away
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Paul Day (b. 1967) Portrait Plaster Bust of Male
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
sculptors in Britain today. His series of human heads are recognised by the reflections carved into the
Category

21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Busts

Materials

Plaster

Inside on Papers
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
head symbolizes the impact that human actions have on the natural world and the importance of taking
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Inside on Papers
Inside on Papers
$3,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
group of human-headed cockroaches can be found climbing one of the walls of the Havana Fine Arts Museum
Category

1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper

Une Silhouette Emballée (Rosalie) Contemporary Wood and Textile Art
By Jean-Robert Drouillard
Located in Montreal, Quebec
bearing the torsos of humans, their heads often, though not always, carry animal characteristics, but
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Textile

Une Silhouette Emballée: Contemporary Wood Textile Sculpture, 2010
By Jean-Robert Drouillard
Located in Montreal, Quebec
bearing the torsos of humans, their heads often, though not always, carry animal characteristics, but
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Textile

THE DECORATOR 68 - Abstract Figurative Painting on Canvas, Marine Pink, Blue
By Chloe York
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
biology. Chloe’s work is flat and linear and always begins with a human head and shoulders. She call's the
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Antique Hand-Carved Stone Sphinx Plaque
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
This antique stone plaque is a fragment from history. With the head of human, the body of a lion
Category

Antique Late 18th Century English Mounted Objects

Materials

Sandstone, Steel

Lullaby Sketches: black white drawing based on Auden poetry and Yorkshire lands
By Henry Moore
Located in New York, NY
for this project, which begins: “Lay your sleeping head, my love / Human on my faithless arm; / Time
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

15th or 16th Century Marble Gargoyle Fountain Spout from Arezzo, Italy
Located in Dallas, TX
with grotesque visages. However, the phrase has a deeper meaning, encompassing any carved head (animal
Category

Antique 16th Century Italian Renaissance Fountains

Materials

Marble

Untitled - Original Lithograph by Fritz Wotruba - 1970s
By Fritz Wotruba
Located in Roma, IT
the author of human heads and architectural elements appear. One of the constant elements of Fritz
Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Disegno del Doni; Partito in più ragionamenti, ..scoltura e pittura
Located in Middletown, NY
human head, and also gives advice on dealing with patronage. At the end Doni has appended several of his
Category

Antique 16th Century English Books

Materials

Leather, Paper

Ex Libris - Woodcut by M. Fingesten - Early 1900
By Michel Fingesten
Located in Roma, IT
are two images with the same print: A human head that comes out of an open book, one with colors that
Category

Early 20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

THALASSO 6 - Abstract Figurative Green Painting on Canvas, Marine Biomorphic
By Chloe York
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
biology. Chloe’s work is flat and linear and always begins with a human head and shoulders. She call's the
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor

Pair of Vintage Thai Bencharong Lidded Jars, 20th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
. Four Norasingh (mythical forest-dwelling semi-deity with a human head, torso, and arms but with the
Category

20th Century Thai Other Ceramics

Materials

Enamel

Egyptian Revival Bronze and Marble French Mantle Clock
By Mermod Jaccard Co.
Located in Bronx, NY
This wonderful 1920s Egyptian Revival clock is surmounted with an Assyrian style lamassau (human
Category

Early 20th Century French Egyptian Revival Mantel Clocks

Materials

Belgian Black Marble

Arcimboldo by Roland Barthes (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
text is in English. Arcimboldo has become best known for his portraits of human heads made up from
Category

Antique 16th Century Books

Materials

Paper

Antique Casted Bronze Cow Bell Made in Switzerland, ca. 1930
Located in Berghuelen, DE
features high relief motifs of farm animals, human heads and foliages. The bell comes with its original
Category

Early 20th Century Swiss Black Forest Mounted Objects

Materials

Bronze

Antique German Neo-Baroque Silver Wine Jug, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
German legends in the form of snakelike monsters with human heads. The beautiful, forked at the top
Category

Antique 1890s German Baroque Pitchers

Materials

Silver

Bronze Mortar with Inscription, Spain, 1846
Located in Madrid, ES
the Municipal Archive-Museum of Calella (with inscription, ribs and human heads as handles), a large
Category

Antique 1840s Spanish Neoclassical Scientific Instruments

Materials

Bronze

Antique Chinese Porcelain Bencharong Bowl for the Thai Market, 18th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
-dwelling semi-deity with a human head, torso, and arms but with the hind-quarters of a lion and the tail
Category

Antique 18th Century Chinese Qing Ceramics

Materials

Porcelain

Lullaby Henry Moore portrait black white drawing woman Auden poetry illustration
By Henry Moore
Located in New York, NY
for this project, which begins: “Lay your sleeping head, my love / Human on my faithless arm; / Time
Category

Late 20th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Abstract Signed Cubist Bronze Sculpture "Cats" Chicago Bauhaus Woman Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
also exhibited figural sculptures, particularly idealized human heads and faces: Among these works are
Category

1960s Cubist Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Travertine, Bronze

"Sombra" Bronze Sculpture by Antonio Kieff Grediaga, Number 1/6
By Grediaga Kieff, Antonio Kieff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
bronze and features a unique, square-shaped head atop a strikingly detailed human form. The sculpture
Category

Vintage 1980s Spanish Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

20th Century Reclining Woman with Sphinx Sculpture Alabaster
Located in Milan, IT
, a lion's body and a human head. The figure of the odalisque is highlighted by the stepped podium on
Category

20th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Alabaster

16th Century Italy Ligurian Carved Oak and Chestnut Credenza Bambocci Sideboard
Located in Vigonza, Padua
are the Bambocci: Decorative element in human form (putto, head) carved with a strong relief or all
Category

Antique 16th Century Italian Renaissance Credenzas

Materials

Chestnut, Oak

Antique Sculpture wooden Buddha Mun from Thailand 19th century
Located in Milano, IT
distinctive geometry to its form, a divine design that defies ordinary human proportions. The head, a symbol
Category

Antique 1880s Thai Anglo-Indian Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

"Annette"
By Alberto Giacometti
Located in Milwaukee, WI
, Bror Hjorth and Balthus. Between 1936 and 1940, Giacometti concentrated his sculpting on the human head
Category

1970s Minimalist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Owl
By Ted Gall
Located in Santa Monica, CA
extensive selection of heads with a variety of human and animal masks. Inside each head an elaborate and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Owl
Owl
$3,840 Sale Price
20% Off
Obelisk 01 Clothing Stand by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
behind the bird head and human body, symbolizes the sun, and this distinctive image is the image source
Category

2010s Chinese Post-Modern Coat Racks and Stands

Materials

Stainless Steel

China 618-907 AD Tang Dynasty Pair Of Polychromate Earth Spirits Zhenmushou
Located in Miami, FL
spirits usually appear in pairs, one with a human head and the other with a lion head. Their supernatural
Category

Antique 15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antiquities

Materials

Earthenware, Pottery

Massive Pair Native Salish Carved Totems
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d Alene, ID
spread rings separately carved and attached perched on the head of a human over a seated bear figure with
Category

Late 20th Century American Native American Native American Objects

Materials

Cedar

Nude in the Woods (Large, Fine, Original Gordy)
By Robert Gordy
Located in New Orleans, LA
space in closely-keyed colors. In the early 1980s, the human head began to emerge as an important
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Archival Ink, Permanent Marker

Mud Series C
By Kenjiro Kitade
Located in New York, NY
heads and human bodies. Starting with a self-portrait and inspired by my huge Afro at that time, I
Category

Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Earthenware, Terracotta

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At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal head human for your home. A head human — often made from wood, ceramic and metal — can elevate any home. Your living room may not be complete without a head human — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Each head human bearing Mid-Century Modern, Folk Art or Modern hallmarks is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made head human over the years, but those crafted by Sunil Das, Dale Dunning and Alexandru Rădvan are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Head Human?

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