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![Photography, Rain on Rodeo, Brendan North](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192148_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Noires Échappées, Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215606_1_grid.jpg)
Noires Échappées
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,200
![Print, David Murakami, M_ Michael Mc Macfarney](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200583_1_grid.jpg)
David Murakami
M_ Michael Mc Macfarney
Print - 125 x 60 x 0.3 cm Print - 49.2 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€8,250
![Photography, Legs in the Tall Grass, Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205980_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Rolls Royce Legs, Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205970_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, I've got the power (étude II), Patricia Dubois](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188097_1_grid.jpg)
I've got the power (étude II)
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 29 x 46 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.4 x 18.1 x 1.4 inch
€456
![Painting, La trouille au ventre, Denis Blondel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187573_1_grid.jpg)
La trouille au ventre
Denis Blondel
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,130
![Painting, Distanciation physique #1, Denis Blondel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187564_1_grid.jpg)
Distanciation physique #1
Denis Blondel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,380
![Painting, Reconfiguración del sentido, Carmen González Castro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1956072_1_grid.jpg)
Reconfiguración del sentido
Carmen González Castro
Painting - 46 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
![Painting, Silent Beauty V, Hrair Gharib](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191956_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Résiste le grand 3/8, Réjane LeChat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206994_1_grid.jpg)
Résiste le grand 3/8
Réjane LeChat
Sculpture - 61 x 54 x 11 cm Sculpture - 24 x 21.3 x 4.3 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Traite, Bolkinn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206803_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Secret Menu, Larsen Sotelo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201132_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Arc en ciel, Dominique Appia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198792_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Figure Painting # 023-2209, Les Thomas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196450_1_grid.jpg)
Figure Painting # 023-2209
Les Thomas
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€2,040
![Painting, Figure Painting # 023-2205, Les Thomas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196449_1_grid.jpg)
Figure Painting # 023-2205
Les Thomas
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€2,040
![Sculpture, Neile, Nando Kallweit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2143545_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Leur amour dura le temps d’une paire de lacets, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1631283_1_grid.jpg)
Leur amour dura le temps d’une paire de lacets
Pierre Alechinsky
Print - 49 x 57 cm Print - 19.3 x 22.4 inch
€700
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![Print, Être au milieu de sa forme, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1631277_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, On est prié de tenir les siens en liesse, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1631274_1_grid.jpg)
On est prié de tenir les siens en liesse
Pierre Alechinsky
Print - 49 x 57 cm Print - 19.3 x 22.4 inch
€700
![Print, Les yeux infatigables de la stripteaseuse, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1631271_1_grid.jpg)
Les yeux infatigables de la stripteaseuse
Pierre Alechinsky
Print - 49 x 57 cm Print - 19.3 x 22.4 inch
€700
![Print, Ma Chère… disait Sasoche, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1631268_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Le ravissant débordement de ses lèvres, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1631265_1_grid.jpg)
Le ravissant débordement de ses lèvres
Pierre Alechinsky
Print - 49 x 57 cm Print - 19.3 x 22.4 inch
€700
![Photography, Nude No. 10, Lucien Clergue](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/491002_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hotel California, Gaka Mira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206742_1_grid.jpg)
Hotel California
Gaka Mira
Painting - 85 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 33.5 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€3,200 €3,040
![Painting, Leave me alone, Gaka Mira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206738_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mujer posando, Ruth Arbiser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193795_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Synthèse du jeune torse, Miguel Guía](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114151_1_grid.jpg)
Synthèse du jeune torse
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 28 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm Sculpture - 11 x 3.3 x 3.3 inch
€820
![Painting, Silence, Isabelle Lebret](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/528530_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Series Thoughts, Ramaz Chantladze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194346_1_grid.jpg)
Series Thoughts
Ramaz Chantladze
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€6,500
![Print, Les Danseurs à la Lune - Original Etching, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/630981_1_grid.jpg)
Les Danseurs à la Lune - Original Etching
Marc Chagall
Print - 50 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 14.8 x 0 inch
€12,000
![Print, Persephone, Reinar Foreman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195144_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, L'envol, Marc Petit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177033_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Tell Me Beautiful Untrue Things, The Connor Brothers](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200122_1_grid.jpg)
Tell Me Beautiful Untrue Things
The Connor Brothers
Print - 120 x 76 x 0.1 cm Print - 47.2 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,100
![Fine Art Drawings, Potser sí, Alexandra Sans Massó](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197942_1_grid.jpg)
Potser sí
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 39.5 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.6 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
€300
![Painting, Bianca, Walter Minus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173399_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Carlotta, Nando Kallweit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1226334_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lying man, Karl-Karol Chrobok](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210504_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Fête de la musique en jaune, Ruth Arbiser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193801_1_grid.jpg)
Fête de la musique en jaune
Ruth Arbiser
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€3,600
![Sculpture, Nu groupé grand feu rouge, Miguel Guía](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114043_1_grid.jpg)
Nu groupé grand feu rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 31.5 x 33 x 17 cm Sculpture - 12.4 x 13 x 6.7 inch
€1,390
![Painting, Symbolizing Love When Words Are Not Enough, Malwina Jagora](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205042_1_grid.jpg)
Symbolizing Love When Words Are Not Enough
Malwina Jagora
Painting - 80 x 130 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 51.2 x 0.4 inch
€3,995
![Painting, Sometimes All You Can Do is Just Giving a Hug, Malwina Jagora](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205012_1_grid.jpg)
Sometimes All You Can Do is Just Giving a Hug
Malwina Jagora
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€3,695
![Sculpture, Black & yellow Minnie, Anna Kara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195026_1_grid.jpg)
Black & yellow Minnie
Anna Kara
Sculpture - 78 x 22 x 27 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 8.7 x 10.6 inch
€7,500
![Sculpture, Minnie Mello Yellow, Anna Kara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193037_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Portrait of a Hopeful Desire, Jacqueline Schäfer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/316654_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait of a Hopeful Desire
Jacqueline Schäfer
Painting - 50 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€800
![Sculpture, Skate Board 4, George Heidweiller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206723_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, First wedding night, Anatoliy Stankulov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201403_1_grid.jpg)
First wedding night
Anatoliy Stankulov
Painting - 90 x 123 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 48.4 x 0.8 inch
€10,000
![Painting, Figure Painting # 023-2171, Les Thomas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196447_1_grid.jpg)
Figure Painting # 023-2171
Les Thomas
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
€8,145 €7,331
![Fine Art Drawings, Para Celso, Enrique Grau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191587_1_grid.jpg)
Para Celso
Enrique Grau
Fine Art Drawings - 58.4 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 18 x 0.1 inch
€2,912
![Painting, La charmeuse de serpent - Cyanotype, Aurélie Trabaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191271_1_grid.jpg)
La charmeuse de serpent - Cyanotype
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 21 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€130 €117
![Fine Art Drawings, Love story, Hildegarde Handsaeme](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189981_1_grid.jpg)
Love story
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
€520
![Painting, Le bord de mer (Réf. 139), Jérôme Mesnager](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2117718_1_grid.jpg)
Le bord de mer (Réf. 139)
Jérôme Mesnager
Painting - 55 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,350
![Photography, F0648 - The warrior, Idan Wizen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1972677_1_grid.jpg)
F0648 - The warrior
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€1,800 €1,260
![Painting, Liberté Au Coucher De Soleil (Réf. 200), Jérôme Mesnager](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1534872_1_grid.jpg)
Liberté Au Coucher De Soleil (Réf. 200)
Jérôme Mesnager
Painting - 55 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,350
![Print, Instap*rn, Otist](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198926_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Something About Temptation, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193130_1_grid.jpg)
Something About Temptation
Artur Soletskyi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
![Painting, Jump, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193126_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Darkness, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193124_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Me and my Shadows, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192337_1_grid.jpg)
Me and my Shadows
Artur Soletskyi
Painting - 109 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 42.9 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
![Painting, Pipe inspection, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192327_1_grid.jpg)
Pipe inspection
Artur Soletskyi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
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![Sculpture, Nu Homme Grand Bronze, Martín Duque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1091325_1_grid.jpg)
Nu Homme Grand Bronze
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 31.5 x 37 x 27.5 cm Sculpture - 12.4 x 14.6 x 10.8 inch
€1,490
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![Painting, Corps et Couleurs, Raslain Tariffe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197576_1_grid.jpg)
Corps et Couleurs
Raslain Tariffe
Painting - 130 x 97 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.6 inch
€6,000
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Beatrix and Erika dancing in black
Milburn-Foster
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€6,800
![Painting, Grande vieillesse, Emmanuelle Vroelant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1382511_1_grid.jpg)
Grande vieillesse
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
![Sculpture, Femme Nu Grand II, Martín Duque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/86857_1_grid.jpg)
Femme Nu Grand II
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 36.5 x 49.5 x 29 cm Sculpture - 14.4 x 19.5 x 11.4 inch
€1,490
![Painting, Sonate Sensuelle, Kristina Malashchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211991_1_grid.jpg)
Sonate Sensuelle
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 36 x 26 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 10.2 x 0 inch
€650
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Sexy Snow Fragment #1
Maxime Andriot
Painting - 90 x 58 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 22.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
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Abstraction et féminité
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 47 x 36 x 0.4 cm Painting - 18.5 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
€650
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The Princess's wedding night
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 70 x 100 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 inch
€3,500
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T'espero
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 27.8 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 10.9 x 0.1 inch
€300
![Fine Art Drawings, Cian - Airositat, Alexandra Sans Massó](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197943_1_grid.jpg)
Cian - Airositat
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 39.5 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.6 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
€300
![Fine Art Drawings, Berger I, Alexandra Sans Massó](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197941_1_grid.jpg)
Berger I
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 39.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 15.6 x 0.1 inch
€300
Human body
'I wanted to conquer the world. But I also desperately wanted to understand human nature, and to know what was inside our bodies. To do this, I have spent whole night dissecting bodies, against the direct orders of the Pope. Nothing disgusts me. What I am looking for, truly, in all of my work and particularly in my painting, what I have looked for all my life, is to understand the mystery that is human nature' – from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century.
At the time of writing these notes, da Vinci had already made greater understanding of the human body the primary objective of his investigations. Dissection and study were key to his development of a holistic knowledge of anatomy, which da Vinci believed was vital to the perfect rendering of the nude figures which he painted and drew.
Little by little, the traditional image of the human figure was uprooted and in its place new ways of interpreting the body developed. Contemporary artists relentlessly questioned the traditional codes of figure drawing, liberally reworking the representation of the body to create a new image that was dislocated, geometric, deformed and disfigured.
The body as an artistic subject is at once desired, fantasised, dreamt, transformed, deformed. For painters, photographers and sculptors alike the body represents a rite of passage in their artistic development. Many people say that they most appreciate the talents of an artists by way of their control over the complexity of the figure. For example, it's clear even in Matisse's later, more abstract collages that he had perfectly mastered the human form.
Representation of the body is fundamental to Western art: first and foremost because it suggests a representation of the self, and therefore affirms the artist's own existence and coexistence with the environment that surrounds them. At the beginning of art history, the only bodies represented were the gods, supernatural beings, and spirits who had taken on human form. The body, nude or clothed, is at once one of the most widely depicted and most deeply polemical subjects in Western art (think of the scandals provoked by Courbet's 'Origins of the World', or Renoir's 'Picnic on the Grass').
The body has always been the primary subject of an array of themes, and its history is rich and ancient. Initially, depiction of the body was closely linked to religion, where the Word became flesh in Genesis, but later in more secular times the arousal of the artist when faced with the body made for an equally popular theme. Latterly the notion of the body as an object of beauty was subverted by Cubism until depictions of bodies no longer bore any resemblance to reality or made any pretence of respecting the rules of proportion.
Finally, in modern art the body has taken on an abstract shape within space, becoming one with the environment. In some instances, the body has become the artist's own support, as with Klein's models. The body as an abstract concept is tangible in many different manifestations in art, even in pieces as unassuming as some of Rothko's paintings. It remains the subject of inexhaustible inspiration and eternal debate.