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Style: Post-War
Burled Maple Sculpture Nude Woman with Arms Over Head and Stone
Burled Maple Sculpture Nude Woman with Arms Over Head and Stone

Burled Maple Sculpture Nude Woman with Arms Over Head and Stone

Located in Soquel, CA

Burled Maple Sculpture Nude Woman with Arms Over Head Beautiful burled walnut sculpture of a nude woman. The woman stands with her arms stretched over her head. Behind her a dark st...

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Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Stone

Yves Klein Blue Earth Sculpture IKB Pigment Plaster Cast in Plexiglas Box
Yves Klein Blue Earth Sculpture IKB Pigment Plaster Cast in Plexiglas Box

Yves Klein Blue Earth Sculpture IKB Pigment Plaster Cast in Plexiglas Box

By Yves Klein

Located in Paris, FR

Concieved in 1957, this edition started to be executed in 1988 IKB pigment and synthetic resin on plaster cast, in plexiglas, signed Rotraut Klein Moquay and numbered HC XXX/L on the base on a label affixed under the base. 300 editions numbered from “1/300” to “300/300″ 50 editions numbered from”HCI/L” à “HC L/L” H. 36 cm With the Plexiglas box: 41.5 x 29.5 x 29.5 cm Yves Klein is an influential French conceptual artist who works in a wide variety of fields. Arguably best known for his use of a very vibrant shade of blue, he began to create his monochrome series in the 1950s by developing and patenting his own signature shade known as IKB or International Klein Blue. Born April 28, 1928 in Nice, the artist founded the New Realism movement with the art critic Pierre Restany...

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1980s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Plaster, Synthetic Resin, Pigment

Vegetative Form / - Grown Art -
Vegetative Form / - Grown Art -

Vegetative Form / - Grown Art -

Located in Berlin, DE

Paul Dierkes (1907 Cloppenburg - 1968 Berlin), Vegetative Form. Mahogany, 1958. 142 x 16 x 10 cm (sculpture), 21 x 17.5 cm (base), monogrammed "PD" on the reverse. - Grown Art - ...

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1950s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Mahogany

Woman with Square Umbrella
Woman with Square Umbrella

Woman with Square Umbrella

By Alexander Calder

Located in Palm Desert, CA

A sculpture in wood depicting a woman holding an umbrella. "Woman with Square Umbrella" by Post War artist Alexander Calder is signed underneath, "Calder." "Woman with a Square Umbre...

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1920s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

David Hostetler Torso Sculpture Bronze Nude Mid Century Figurative Brown Ancient
David Hostetler Torso Sculpture Bronze Nude Mid Century Figurative Brown Ancient

David Hostetler Torso Sculpture Bronze Nude Mid Century Figurative Brown Ancient

By David Hostetler

Located in Nantucket, MA

David Hostetler created this form originally in ceramic in 1948. He used the mold in the 1980's to cast a bronze. It has a green marble base that measures 2"h x 5.5"w x 4"d. The sculptures David created at the beginning of his career in the late 1940's and 1950's were abstract and in stone and ceramic. He was inspired by Henry Moore, Archipenko, Modigliani and Ancient Greek statues...

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1980s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

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20th Century Post-War Figurative Sculptures

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Located in LOS ANGELES, CA

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Nadim KaramMiu

$15,000

H 11.82 in W 7.88 in D 1.19 in

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By Nadim Karam

Located in PARIS, FR

Nadim Karam is a Lebanese artist, architect, and urban planner known for his diverse body of work that includes sculpture, painting, installations, and urban interventions. Born in 1...

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2010s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

Materials

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Elephant

Alberto PicciniElephant

$18,595

H 16.15 in W 17.33 in D 3.94 in

Elephant

Located in PARIS, FR

Alberto Piccini is an Italian artist from Seravezza in Tuscany. His work primarily comprises of bronze and marble sculptures, which have simultaneously an appeal of bold modernity an...

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2010s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

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Split Head Expressionist Wood Bust Sculpture Reclaimed Carved Portrait Artwork
Split Head Expressionist Wood Bust Sculpture Reclaimed Carved Portrait Artwork

Split Head Expressionist Wood Bust Sculpture Reclaimed Carved Portrait Artwork

By Joan Priego

Located in FISTERRA, ES

Carved reclaimed wood bust sculpture exploring fractured identity, memory and the symbolic wound through expressive figurative portraiture. The Wound That Precedes Me (La Herida Que...

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2010s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

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Ausum Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Male Figure
Ausum Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Male Figure

Ausum Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Male Figure

By Wim van der Kant

Located in Utrecht, NL

Ausum Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Male Figure Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher at a high scho...

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Cuban Master Florencio Gelabert Sculpture Large Wood Carving Bust Man Portrait
Cuban Master Florencio Gelabert Sculpture Large Wood Carving Bust Man Portrait

Cuban Master Florencio Gelabert Sculpture Large Wood Carving Bust Man Portrait

Located in Surfside, FL

Florencio Gelabert Y Perez (Cuban, 1904-1995) Hand carved, signed; 1979 Materials: Cuban wood (mahogany?) Dimensions 23 X 4 X 4 inches Label affixed to underside: National Registry of Cultural Assets of the Republic of Cuba Ministry of Culture. Provenance: Art Master Collection, Miami, Florida. Florencio Gelabert, with a style reminiscent of Art Deco and Art Nouveau in a Latin American Expressionist stylization. Carved wood sculpture. Depicts a modernist stylized form of a man in a streamline moderne style. José Florencio Gelabert Pérez (Caibarien, 1904 - Havana, 1995) Cuban musician, sculptor, draftsman and teacher. He graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts in 1934. He received numerous awards, mentions and recognitions in Fine Arts Halls and Circles. His works are in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Florencio Gelabert is a renowned sculptor, who made more than twenty solo exhibitions beginning in 1929, several in the National Museum of Fine Arts, and participated in more than thirty collectives in Cuba, Spain and Brazil, the latter in the Sao Paulo Biennial. he traveled from Caibarién to Santa Clara in 1928 to audition to enter the famous San Alejandro Fine Arts School in Havana. He obtained one of the five vacancies. Already in the Cuban capital, he combined fine arts and music. When he graduated, he became a professor in San Alejandro and the academy’s principal in 1960. With a calling common to wood sculptors –which began with his primary school carving carpentry classes and the active life of his home town’s shipyards, his chisels and gouges feverishly turned mahogany, “ácana” and ebony into female heads with black African features dating back to 1930. In 1938 he used his savings to explore Europe: France (Paris, Marseilles), Italy (Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice), Belgium (Malina). His encounter with the works by Aristide Maillol, Auguste Rodin, Ossip Zadkine, Constantin Brancusi and even with Wifredo Lam, who was also born in another Cuban coastal area, Sagua la Grande, and his encounter with the nude marble David sculpture...

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1970s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

Materials

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20th Century Plaster French Art Deco Style Sailor Sculpture, 1940s
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20th Century Plaster French Art Deco Style Sailor Sculpture, 1940s

Located in Vicoforte, IT

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By Yves Klein

Located in Paris, FR

Yves Klein, Dying Slave after Michelangelo IKB blue resin in plexiglas, signed Rotraut Klein Moquay and numbered 224/300 on the base on a label. 300 editions numbered from “1/300” to...

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1990s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

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Archaic Head / - Shaped Originality -
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Archaic Head / - Shaped Originality -

Located in Berlin, DE

Paul Dierkes (1907 Cloppenburg - 1968 Berlin), Archaic Head. Limestone, 1952. 15 x 9 x 12 cm (without plinth), 19 x 10 x 11 cm (with plinth), monogrammed "PD" on the reverse. - S...

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Arman Cintra Violin Tribute to Yves Klein IKB Blue on Wood Violin
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Located in Paris, FR

Arman 1996 Cut of violin, wood, and blue pigment in a Plexiglas box Edition of 90 from I/XC to XC/XC + 9 AP from EA I/IX to EA IX/IX Signed and numbered in the Plexiglas Recorded at...

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1990s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

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Arman Cintra Violin Tribute to Yves Klein IKB Blue on Wood Violin
Arman Cintra Violin Tribute to Yves Klein IKB Blue on Wood Violin

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Located in Paris, FR

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Located in Paris, FR

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Yves Klein Venus of Alexandria IKB Painted Aphrodite Bust
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Located in Paris, FR

Yves Klein, Venus of Alexandria Executed by Yves Klein in 1962, IKB blue painted plaster in plexiglas, signed Rotraut Klein Moquay and numbered XXX/300 on the base on a label. 300 ed...

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Yves Klein Dying Slave After Michelangelo IKB Sculpture Bright Klein Blue
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Yves Klein Blue Earth Sculpture IKB Pigment Plaster Cast in Plexiglas Box
Yves Klein Blue Earth Sculpture IKB Pigment Plaster Cast in Plexiglas Box

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Located in Paris, FR

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Solstice 2/50 - An elegant dancing female form
Solstice 2/50 - An elegant dancing female form

Solstice 2/50 - An elegant dancing female form

By Jeremy Guy

Located in Bloomfield, ON

Smooth surfaced, black granite has been engineered into an elegant and classic depiction of a female figure by Jeremy Guy. The formalist play of positive and negative space reveals a...

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2010s Post-War Figurative Sculptures

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Post-war figurative sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Post-War figurative 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 figurative sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Pablo Picasso, Bruno Innocenti, Yves Klein, and Arman. Frequently made by artists working with Ceramic, and Earthenware and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Post-War figurative sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative 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 $2,994 and tops out at $250,000, while the average work sells for $33,396.