Nicola Hicks, Grey, 2012. Bronze cast from plaster and straw, every texture preserved. Championed by Elisabeth Frink, collected by Tate.
#sculpture #NicolaHicks #sculptor
Maria Martins, Canto da Noite (Night Chant), 1968. Her final sculpture—gold bronze serpents flowing through Brasília gardens. Title from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, fevered night songs she read devotedly.
#sculpture #MariaMartins
Kehinde Wiley, Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, 2022. Bronze from the Archaeology of Silence series. Dreadlocks braided against stone, classical myth in contemporary form. @deyoungmuseum
#sculpture #KehindeWiley #sculptor
Barbara Hepworth, marble group, early 1950s. Light dances around and through translucent stone carved thin enough to glow. One figure rough like standing stones, the other polished smooth with a pierced opening.
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
Camille Claudel, La Petite Châtelaine, 1892. Made at Château de l’Islette while with Rodin. Her marble version, head hollowed to trap light, hair carved like lace, was a technical challenge proving her independence from her mentor.
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with Colour and Strings, 1939/1961. Bronze cast from 1939 plaster, turquoise interior against warm patina. Strings radiating like tension between herself and the Cornish sea.
#sculpture #BarbaraHepworth
Camille Claudel, La Petite Châtelaine, 1892. Made at Château de l’Islette while with Rodin. Her marble version, head hollowed to trap light, hair carved like lace, was a technical challenge proving her independence from her mentor.
#sculpture #CamilleClaudel
Maria Martins, Canto da Noite (Night Chant), 1968. Her final sculpture—gold bronze serpents flowing through Brasília gardens. Title from Nietzsche's Zarathustra, fevered night songs she read devotedly.
#sculpture #MariaMartins
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina, 1621-1622. Carrara marble; Pluto's fingers pressing into yielding flesh. Striking.
#sculpture #Bernini #BaroqueSculpture
Bruno Catalano, Les Voyageurs, 2013. Bronze traveler with missing torso, suitcase the only anchor between departure and arrival. Ten figures installed at Marseille port for European Capital of Culture.
#sculpture #sculptor
Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1983. Mahogany carved for tenderness, a Black woman sculptor honoring Black motherhood.
#sculpture #ElizabethCatlett
Pablo Atchugarry, Untitled, 1999. Carrara marble folded like fabric, carved for translucency. @hollistaggart.bsky.social
#sculpture #CarraraMarble
Marcello (Adèle d’Affry), Chef abyssin, c. 1870. Swiss sculptor working in Paris under a male pseudonym. Marble bust with bronze clasp and lapis lazuli, One of only seven women with work at the Musée du Luxembourg in the 19th century.
#sculpture #Marcello #19thcentury
Rebecca Warren, The Models (b.) and The Models (a.), 2025. Hand-painted bronze on shared plinth. Turner Prize nominee working the surface until permanence holds the marks of making.
@tate.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor
Bruno Catalano, Les Voyageurs, 2013. Bronze traveler with missing torso, suitcase the only anchor between departure and arrival. Ten figures installed at Marseille port for European Capital of Culture.
#sculpture #sculptor
Belvedere Torso, Apollonius of Athens, 1st century BC. Fragment of heroic marble that Michelangelo refused to restore—the incomplete form already perfect. Seated power that shaped Renaissance and modern sculpture.
#sculpture #sculptor
Farnese Hercules, Roman copy after Lysippus, c. 216 AD. Exhausted hands gripping the apples of the Hesperides behind his back: the hero’s labor complete, strength to weariness.
Monumental marble that shaped outdoor sculpture for centuries.
@seattleartmuseum.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor
Giacomo Manzù, Bust of a Woman, 1952. Bronze portrait of Signora Lampugnani, first version won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the 1948 Venice Biennale.
#sculpture #sculptor #GiacomoManzù #ItalianModernism
Gislebertus, Last Judgment, c. 1120-1135. Limestone tympanum where souls are weighed and damned contort in terror.
Plastered over in 1766, rediscovered in 1837—salvation through disdain. Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun.
#sculpture #sculptor #Romanesque
Arnaldo Pomodoro, Sphere No. 6 (Sphere within a Sphere), 1963-1965.
Polished bronze sphere fractured to reveal intricate mechanical interiors.
#sculpture #sculptor #ArnaldoPomodoro
Helen Clarke, Twelve Roots, 2023. Bronze. Upturned roots arranged like a henge, marking time through agrarian cycles.
Winner of Chanel Next Prize commission, RCA Sculpture MA 2023.
#sculpture #HelenClarke #bronze
Staying with Charles Despiau: Madame Stone, 1926-27. Bronze portrait bust capturing the refined features and inner calm that defined Despiau’s intimate classicism.
Bequest of Chester Dale to @metmuseum.org
#sculpture #sculptor #CharlesDespiau #FrenchModernism
Phoenician carved shell (Tridacna), 700-600 BC. A woman’s head carved from the umbo, the windblown shell becoming her cloak.
@britishmuseum.bsky.social
#sculpture #Phoenician #AncientArt
Charles Despiau, Assia, 1938. Life-size bronze standing nude, worked in secret for four years before unveiling at the 1937 Paris Exposition. Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim to @moma.bsky.social
#sculpture #sculptor #CharlesDespiau #FrenchModernism
Giacomo Manzù, Bust of a Woman, 1952. Bronze portrait of Signora Lampugnani, first version won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the 1948 Venice Biennale.
#sculpture #sculptor #GiacomoManzù #ItalianModernism
Tony Cragg, In No Time (wood, 2018) and Versus (bronze, 2023). Stratified layers and arrested motion. Magnificent.
#sculpture #sculptor #TonyCragg #ContemporarySculpture
Aron Demetz, Untitled, 2009. Wood and spruce resin gathered from South Tyrol forests, carved by 500-year-old Val Gardena technique. Exhibited Italian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale.
#sculpture #VeniceBiennale
Marc Quinn, Siren, 2008. Solid 18-carat gold, Kate Moss as knotted Venus for our image-obsessed age, unveiled at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social during the financial crisis.
#sculpture #sculptor #MarcQuinn #KateMoss
Helen Clarke, Twelve Roots, 2023. Bronze. Upturned roots arranged like a henge, marking time through agrarian cycles.
Winner of Chanel Next Prize commission, RCA Sculpture MA 2023.
#sculpture #HelenClarke #bronze
Giuseppe Penone, *Sculture di linfa*, 2005-2007. Carrara marble walls, leather holding bark's memory, resin flowing through carved wood.| @gagosiangallery.bsky.social
#sculpture #GiuseppePenone #ArtePovera
