Ver Bronze Sculpture Nude Male Figure Boy
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Ver Bronze Sculpture Nude Male Figure Boy Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Bronze
Miratio Bronze Sculpture Nude Male Figure Boy
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Miratio Bronze Sculpture Nude Male Figure Boy Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Bronze
Bufo Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Male Figure
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Bufo Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Male Figure Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
$16,840
Profundus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Contemporary Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Profundus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Contemporary Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Quis Mihi Iniuriam Facet Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble In Stock I
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Sizes including stone pedestal 97 x 22 x 22 cm Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Bronze
Crepis Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Crepis Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Saltationus Casus Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Saltationus Casus Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Aestus Bronze Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Contemporary
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Aestus Bronze Sculpture Marble Stone Nude Boy Contemporary Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Fratres Bronze Sculpture Boys Brothers Male Nude Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Fratres Bronze Sculpture Boys Brothers Male Nude Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Lucifer Evangilans Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Lucifer Evangilans Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Suspensus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Suspensus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Sorbe Small Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Drinking Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Sorbe Small Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Drinking Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
David Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
David Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
$13,891
Tollit Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Contemporary Male Figure Balance Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Tollit Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Contemporary Male Figure Balance Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Ira Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Nude Boy Marble Stone Sitting
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Ira Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Nude Boy Marble Stone Sitting Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
$19,058
Cursus Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Nude Boys Male Figures Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Cursus Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Nude Boys Male Figures Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
$9,837
Gallulus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Green Patina Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Gallulus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Green Patina Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Ad Dextram Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Ad Dextram Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
$16,816
Aquarius Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Nude Male Figure Boy Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Aquarius Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Nude Male Figure Boy Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Quis Mihi Iniuriam Facet Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Quis Mihi Iniuriam Facet Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
$10,035
Eo Sine Manibus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Standing Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Eo Sine Manibus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Standing Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
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.
Marble, Bronze
$29,024
Tuemini Ergo Sum Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone In Stock
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Tuemini Ergo Sum Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone - In Stock - Height Sculpture without Stone pedestal: 78 cm Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Volo Standing Male Nude Sculpture Figure Bronze Boy
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
This sculpture is suitable for indoors and outdoors. Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen, the Netherlands) is a selftaught artist.
Bronze
Aquila Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Contemporary In Stock
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Aquila Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Contemporary In Stock - Sculpture without Stone is 57 cm high Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
$17,274
Insilit Bronze Marble Stone Nude Contemporary Sculpture Boy Jumping In Stock
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Insilit Bronze Marble Stone Nude Contemporary Sculpture Boy Jumping In Stock - Sizes of sculpture, without Stone pedestal : 40 x 32 x 22 cm Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a sel...
Marble, Bronze
Alia Mihi Mens Est Bronze Sculpture Contemporary Nude Boy Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
The deliverytime will be about 3 to 4 months. Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Carminis Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Flute Pan God - In Stock
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
The bronze is suitable for indoors and outdoors. Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen, the Netherlands) is a selftaught artist.
Bronze
Algeo Bronze Nude Male Figure Sculpture Boy Marble Stone - In Stock
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Suitable for indoors and outdoors. Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen, the Netherlands) is a selftaught artist.
Bronze
Duco Lineam Bronze Sculpture Boy Male Nude Figure Marble
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
The bronze is suitable for indoors and outdoors. Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Bronze
Luctatio Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
The deliverytime will be about 3 to 4 months. Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Finis Saltationis Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
The deliverytime will be about 3 to 4 months. Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
$15,696
Prorsum and Retrorsum Bookends Set Two Sculptures Bronze Nude Boys In Stock
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Prorsum and Retrorsum Bookends Set Two Sculptures Bronze Nude Boys In Stock Wim van der Kant, born in Kampen in 1949, is a sculptor known for his refined, realistic bronze sculptur...
Bronze
$9,775
Retrorsum Bookend Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Classic Contemporary In Stock
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Retrorsum Bookend Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Classic Contemporary In Stock Wim van der Kant, born in Kampen in 1949, is a sculptor known for his refined, realistic bronze sculptures.
Bronze
Prorsum Bookend Bronze Sculpture Classic Nude Boy Contemporary In Stock
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Prorsum Bookend Bronze Sculpture Classic Contemporary In Stock Wim van der Kant, born in Kampen in 1949, is a sculptor known for his refined, realistic bronze sculptures.
Bronze
Sold
H 25.2 in W 11.82 in
Suspensus 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture nude boy, Wim van der Kant
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
But also emotion when it comes to the expression and their attitude. The images of Wim van der Kant show boys, naked, playing, uninhibited.
Bronze
Sold
H 19.3 in W 9.06 in D 11.82 in
Respectus- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Wim van der Kant
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
But also emotion when it comes to the expression and their attitude. The images of Wim van der Kant show boys, naked, playing, uninhibited.
Bronze
Sold
H 19.69 in W 9.06 in D 18.51 in
Insilit- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of a Nude Boy Diving
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Wim van der Kant Insilit Bronze sculpture Hight bronze 50 cm with pedestal of marble (included) 60 cm Wim van der Kant's sculptures are in bronze.
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 22.45 in W 8.27 in D 7.09 in
Aquila- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Realistic Sculpture of a Nude Boy
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Aquila Bronze Sculpture on pedestal of marble Hight bronze 57 cm with pedestal of marble (included) 68 cm Wim van der Kant's sculptures are in bronze. Dutch artist Wim van der Kan...
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 20.87 in W 5.91 in D 5.91 in
Aestus- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of a Nude Boy with a Shell
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Aestus Bronze Sculpture Higth bronze 53 cm with pedestal of marble (included) 60 cm Wim van der Kant's sculptures are in bronze. Wim van der Kant does everything in the process its...
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 17.72 in W 11.03 in D 10.63 in
Tollit, 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of a nude boy
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
The balancing boy is perfectly stylized naked and anatomically. Wim van der Kant's sculptures are in bronze. Wim van der Kant does everything in the process itself.
Bronze
Sold
H 32.68 in W 11.82 in
Lucifer Evangilans Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Lucifer Evangilans Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 14.57 in W 11.82 in D 15.75 in
Beach Fun- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of a Playing Girl
By Romee Kanis
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Other images that Romee makes can be seen during the exhibition 'People, people ..' from November 26, 2017 until December 26, 2017 Gracefully Looking at the images of Romee Kanis I ...
Bronze
Per Se - Wim van der Kant 21st Century Contemporary Sculpture
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
The running boy is perfectly stylized naked. Wim van der Kant's sculptures are in bronze. Wim van der Kant does everything in the process itself.
Bronze
Sold
H 18.51 in W 11.82 in D 7.88 in
Cursus- 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of Two Nude Boys Playing
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Wim van der Kant's sculptures are in bronze. Wim van der Kant does everything in the process itself.
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 38.19 in W 11.82 in
Per Se Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Per Se Bronze Contemporary Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 14.97 in W 14.57 in
Fratres Bronze Sculpture Boys Brothers Male Nude Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Fratres Bronze Sculpture Boys Brothers Male Nude Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 12.21 in W 7.88 in
Bufo Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Male Figure
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Bufo Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Marble Stone Male Figure Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 17.72 in W 7.88 in
Crepis Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Crepis Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 24.81 in W 11.82 in
Suspensus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Suspensus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 14.18 in W 5.12 in
Eo Sine Manibus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Standing Marble Stone
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
Eo Sine Manibus Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Standing Marble Stone Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen) is a selftaught artist.
Marble, Bronze
Sold
H 9.45 in W 7.88 in D 4.34 in
Carminis Bronze Sculpture Nude Boy Male Figure Flute Pan God - In Stock
By Wim van der Kant
Located in Utrecht, NL
The bronze is suitable for indoors and outdoors. Wim van der Kant (1949, Kampen, the Netherlands) is a selftaught artist.
Bronze
Navagero Murano Glass Mirror
By Fratelli Tosi
Located in Milan, IT
Bold yet feminine, this exceptional mirror handcrafted by Venetian master glassmakers will be a splendid focal point in classic or eclectic decors. The indented frame in golden cryst...
Murano Glass
$2,750 / item
H 17.72 in Dm 14.97 in
Soda Blown Murano Glass High Coffee Table in Amber by Yiannis Ghikas
By Miniforms, Yiannis Ghikas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soda was born upside-down, with a puff of air. It weighs 20 kilos, and it is blown, drawn out and shaped by three master glassmakers. The result is a single volume of glass with thre...
Blown Glass
$15,075Sale Price|20% Off
H 20 in W 14.5 in
Very Rare Renaissance Old Master Oil Painting c. 1600 Oil on Panel The Madonna
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Virgin Madonna Spanish Renaissance artist, circle of El Greco (1541-1614) circa 1600 oil on wood panel, unframed panel: 20 x 14.5 inches Provenance: private collection, northern ...
Oil
$94,875
H 180 in W 160 in D 50 in
Original 18th Century Monumental Cabinet on Stand / Italian Bargueno / European
Located in Miami, FL
Important monumental cabinet on stand. The case of the cabinet is walnut, veneered with rich rib boned ebony and luxuriously decorated with turtle shell, bronze, carey. Bargueno wi...
Walnut, Glass
$13,750
H 21.75 in W 19 in D 9 in
Large Neoclassical Antique French Bronze, Education of Achilles, Francois Rude
By Francois Rude
Located in New York, NY
Large, exceptional quality bronze sculpture depicting The Education of Achilles by the Centaur Chiron, after the model by Francois Rude. Early Nineteenth Century Fine Rouge Griotte...
Bronze
$400
H 16 in W 24 in
Artem (5071), Digital Print on Photographic Paper, Photorealist, 2010+
By Sergey Vinogradov
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. This impression is printed on Hahnemuhle archival paper. Hahnemühle FineArt, Inc. ...
Photographic Paper, Digital
$30,075Sale Price|32% Off
H 59.06 in W 70.08 in D 52.37 in
Original Sunball Chair by Gunter Ris and Ferdinand Selldorf for Rosenthal
By Rosenthal, Ris and Selldorf
Located in Little Burstead, Essex
This is a fully restored original version of this 1960's iconic classic astronaut's helmet style space age outdoor swivel chair, As you can imagine, after 60 plus years, the original...
Velvet, Fiberglass
$3,990 / item
H 15.75 in W 74.81 in D 29.14 in
Mustard Velvet Daybed with V-Shaped Beechwood Base, Model V
By Dusty Deco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DD V daybed is an exclusive daybed made by hand in Bosnia and Herzegovina by skilled craftsmen with long experience in wood and upholstery. Both frame and the characteristic V-shaped...
Fabric, Beech, Velvet
$23,636Sale Price|30% Off
H 6.3 in W 15.75 in D 5.91 in
Fossilised Skull of Prehistoric Marine Reptile the Mosasaur, 70Million Years Ago
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Upper Cretaceous, about 70-65 million years ago (Maastrichtian) Morocco The skull is reconstructed in good proportions with fossil pieces found in a phosphate mine in Morocco. I att...
Bone
Life-Size Art Deco Diana Bronze
By Hans Harry Liebmann
Located in Miami, FL
This is a rare statement piece that commands that eye. It is of museum quality will be the centerpiece of any space. Masterfully crafted details of the human form are finely rendered...
Bronze
$65,618
H 48 in W 58 in
An equestrian portrait of Field Marshal Sir John Ligonier, 1st Earl of Ligonier
By David Morier
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
David Morier (c.1705–1770 London) An equestrian portrait of Field Marshal Sir John Ligonier, 1st Earl of Ligonier (1680–1770) Oil on canvas Canvas size - 40 x 50 in Framed size - 48 ...
Oil
French 19th Century Art Scholar Statue
Located in GB
A beautifully refined bronze statue depicting an art scholar teaching two young cherubs. It has been finished with a patina for developing glossy sheen with age. Mounted on an oval b...
Bronze
$18,416Sale Price|20% Off
H 58 in W 48.5 in
Huge 1700's Florentine Old Master Oil Painting Eros Triumph over Pan Male Nudes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Triumph of Eros over Pan Florentine School, early 1700's period, unsigned oil on canvas, framed framed: 58 x 48.5 inches canvas: 50 x 40 inches Provenance: private collection, Pa...
Oil
Allegory of Abundance
Located in New York, NY
Painted in collaboration with Hendrick van Balen (Antwerp, 1575 – 1632). Provenance: Private Collection, Uruguay, since the 1930s. The eldest son of Jan Breughel the Elder, Jan the...
Copper
$7,250
H 16 in W 22 in
17th century follower of Rubens, two military men on horse back in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
17th century English/Dutch School, from the Circle of Sir Peter Paul Rubens A very interesting and well-painted 17th-century oil on canvas of two men seated on horseback in a landsc...
Canvas, Oil
$380Sale Price|24% Off
H 4 in W 5.75 in D 1 in
Fern Fossil Specimen, Extinct Neuropteris species likely, 300 million years old
Located in Warrenton, OR
Fern Fossil Specimen, Extinct Neuropteris species likely, 300 million years old. Discovered in PA. ***NOTE: Our 1stDibs store is closing in May and items will not be available therea...
Organic Material
Wim van der Kant is a self-taught artist. Next to his busy profession as a teacher at a high school, he intensively practices his profession as a sculptor. Only when his work would measure up to his own standards, he decided to present it to the rest of the world.
In 1995, he exhibited for the first time with Morren Galleries.
Van der Kant desires to sculpt young people who still stand uninhibited and curiously in life. The artist's subjects show similarities with the sculptures from Greek and Roman antiquity, where youngsters were admired for their vitality and naivety.
Find original Wim van der Kant art on 1stDibs.
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
Figurative sculptures mix reality and imagination, with the most common muse being the human body. Animals are also inspirations for these sculptures, along with forms found in nature.
While figurative sculpture dates back over 35,000 years, the term came into popularity in the 20th century to distinguish it from abstract art. It was aligned with the Expressionist movement in that many of its artists portrayed reality but in a nonnaturalistic and emotional way. In the 1940s, Alberto Giacometti — a Swiss-born artist who was interested in African art, Cubism and Surrealism — created now-iconic representational sculptures of the human figure, and after World War II, figurative sculpture as a movement continued to flourish in Europe.
Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were some of the leading figurative artists during this period. Artists like Jeff Koons and Maurizio Cattelan propelled the evolution of figurative sculpture into the 21st century.
Figurative sculptures can be whimsical, uncanny and beautiful. Their materials range from stone and wood to metal and delicate ceramics. Even in smaller sizes, the sculptures make bold statements. A bronze sculpture by Salvador Dalí enhances a room; a statuesque bull by Jacques Owczarek depicts strength with its broad chest while its thin legs speak of fragility. Figurative sculptures allow viewers to see what is possible when life is reimagined.
Browse 1stDibs for an extensive collection of figurative sculptures and find the next addition to your collection.