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Anonymous Face
Darios Tossou
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.8 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.3 inch
$2,092
Etude pour "Avec Mona Lisa"
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$2,262
The Missing Script, Actrice fétiche
Robert Devriendt
Painting - 17.4 x 21.5 cm Painting - 6.9 x 8.5 inch
$13,571
Minnie Mello Klein Purple
Anna Kara
Sculpture - 78 x 22 x 27 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 8.7 x 10.6 inch
$8,482
Le Petit Prince revisite Basquiat
Sokar
Print - 32 x 45 x 0.5 cm Print - 12.6 x 17.7 x 0.2 inch
$396
Looking Far Away
Gabriela Sroga
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.5 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.2 inch
$4,297
Contemplation
Laurence Winram
Photography - 84.1 x 59.4 x 0.2 cm Photography - 33.1 x 23.4 x 0.1 inch
$635
Sick Bacchus, after Caravaggio (Pictures of Magazine 2)
Vik Muniz
Photography - 132 x 101.6 cm Photography - 52 x 40 inch
$37,000
Etude pour Mickey
Daniel Authouart
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,262
Des araignées dans le grenier
Michaël Brack
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$792
Continent Américain
Clara Castagné
Painting - 110 x 92 x 2.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 36.2 x 1 inch
$5,089
Chine
Clara Castagné
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 118 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 46.5 x 1 inch
$5,089
Essai sur toile blanche
Jean-Louis Mendrisse
Painting - 33 x 41 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,036
Sphere of Life, #2238, Mixed-Media Collage
Natasha Zupan
Photography - 54 x 44 x 2.5 cm Photography - 21.25 x 17.32 x 1 inch
$1,600
Every single incident weighs tons (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence)
Stefanie Schneider
Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$622
Swarovski Panther
Yves & Yulia Pires
Sculpture - 24 x 67 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 26.4 x 6.3 inch
$16,963
Floral Mind Series #16 - Limited Edition Print
Minas Halaj
Print - 102 x 91 x 0.1 cm Print - 40.2 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$565
L'éternelle fragilité
Thomas Mainardi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,470
Siréne aux serpents
Orphné Achéron
Fine Art Drawings - 40.5 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.9 x 11.6 inch
$1,301
Ecoute II
Bze Bzeland
Fine Art Drawings - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
$226
Jane, spikes, white rabbit
David Martin
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$960
La Fille du Vent / The Girl of the Wind (Study for Boreas) - 1904
John William Waterhouse
Print - 81 x 62 cm Print - 31.9 x 24.4 inch
$1,006
Calligraphing en l'air #6
Cody Choi
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1.5 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,985
Awokose (The Role Model)
Oladire Araireoluwa
Painting - 76.2 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 26 x 1 inch
$1,200
L'intimité (Suisse)
Vincent Citot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$848
Binti mrembo (beautiful girl)
Mosoti Kepha
Sculpture - 48.5 x 31 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 19.1 x 12.2 x 1 inch
$2,137
Victor Asuaje, Seria...
Victor Asuaje
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$396
While The World Decay (Fluro)
Snik
Painting - 48.7 x 102.7 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.2 x 40.4 x 0.1 inch
$4,524
Ray Charles
Philippe Gras
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,074
Goose-in-Love-with-Boy-in-Love-with-Goose ; Rumination Concerning Interspecies and Same-Sex Marriage, Erie Country fair, Hambourg, New York
Les Krims
Photography - 38.7 x 49.8 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.2 x 19.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,357
Butterflies in my head
Dasha S. Kandinsky
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$8,482
Moments before disaster II
Miss Fuck
Painting - 81 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 21.3 x 1 inch
$735
Manu Dibango au saxophone, série Jazz et Musique
Jean-Louis Manuel
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,583
Mahumbi girl with ungava hairstyle variation. Humbi. Angola
Faie Davis
Photography - 61 x 58.5 x 26 cm Photography - 24 x 23 x 10.2 inch
$975
Les dix jours de mélancolie - la fresque
Julie Ruelle
Design - 123 x 197 x 0.3 cm Design - 48.4 x 77.6 x 0.1 inch
$31,665
Recconais qu'il y a toujours une inconnue
Julie Peiffer
Photography - 62 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 24.4 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,357
Portrait
Portraits are one of the oldest genres of painting known to art, and it first appeared in ancient Egypt. For several centuries, there was a tendency to idealize features in order flatter important patrons for whom the portrait was for. Then, progressively, artists started to turn to ordinary people for their sitters, with fewer requirements limiting their choices, they were able to paint increasingly realist works.
Portraiture was influenced by the many movements of the 20th century and, rather than getting closer to reality, painters used portraits as a means to experiment with new artistic techniques and theories. Photography and sculpture followed a similar path, thus showing the incredible creativity and interpretation of artists.
Today there is an enormous variety of unusual portraits that don't aim flatter their sitters in the least but rather be expressive. Disfigured faces, surprising collages, distorted human forms and even creatures that are half-human, half-animal: there are no rules and creativity flows!