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"L'offrande d'Élie" from: "La Bible", 1931-39
Marc Chagall
Print - 53 x 39 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.9 x 15.4 x 0 inch
$2,796
Portrait #1. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Portrait de Manu Dibango
Claude Vesco
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$559
Portrait de Sonny Stitt
Claude Vesco
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$559
Portrait de Chick Corea
Claude Vesco
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$559
Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin à Paris
Pascal Baril
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$671
Marguerite Duras chez elle à Paris
Pascal Baril
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$559
Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin Retrouvailles
Pascal Baril
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$671
L'Abbé Pierre en 1989
Pascal Baril
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$615
The Feeling and The Thinking
Anna Belyaevskaya
Painting - 71 x 51 x 3 cm Painting - 28 x 20.1 x 1.2 inch
$1,790
When the glass is broken/What is good wine?
Megha Joshi
Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Bec au souliers rouges
Pascal Billard
Sculpture - 87 x 40 x 23 cm Sculpture - 34.3 x 15.7 x 9.1 inch
$1,432
Passeur de fétiches
Pascal Billard
Sculpture - 46 x 40 x 27 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 15.7 x 10.6 inch
$1,555
Contemporary portrait - I'll Tell You...
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,454
Fleeing The Ruins
Kiritin Beyer
Photography - 102 x 102 x 0.1 cm Photography - 40.2 x 40.2 x 0 inch
$1,678
In the Center of the Metropolis
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,454
Contemporary portrait Contemporary portrait New Look for an Old Jacket
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,237
Jonathan anthology n°61
Larry Clark
Photography - 13 x 18 x 0.1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 7.1 x 0 inch
$336
L'Innocente intacte - Format M
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,796
Demeter - Size L
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,796
Demeter - Size XS
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$336
Alberobello Echoes - 07
Ralouka Montesi
Photography - 45 x 30 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 inch
$755
Lucky Charms are Magically Delicious
Katherine Bernhardt
Print - 80.6 x 101.6 cm Print - 31.7 x 40 inch
$4,474
Childhood Illusions
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 85 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,796
Mysterious Elegance
Mateos Sargsyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$890
Alberobello Echoes - 01
Ralouka Montesi
Photography - 45 x 30 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 inch
$755
Le grand Georges à la pipe
Robert Combas
Print - 50 x 54 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,132
Come, tell me where it hurts (diptych)
Christa David
Photography - 121.9 x 91.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 48 x 36 x 0 inch
$5,369
No44 Spirit Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$4,071
La hija vestida de novia
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,566
Posdata Admiración. From the Posdata series
Ivan Castiblanco
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 66.8 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 26.3 x 0.1 inch
$700
Posdata Contemplación. From the Posdata series
Ivan Castiblanco
Fine Art Drawings - 51.8 x 51.8 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.4 x 20.4 x 0.1 inch
$700
Posdata Apreciación. From the Posdata series
Ivan Castiblanco
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 66.8 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 26.3 x 0.1 inch
$700
Muse routine
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,237
La petite fille au ballon
Steve Maudet
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,230
Conversaciones #1
Giana De Dier
Photography - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,915
Who Are These Angels CXLI
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$1,250
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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!