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The Bear Wants you to Stop Fighting
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
€600 €510
Aigle ou Charognard?
Christine Dumas de Rauly
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€6,000 €5,100
Tête de panthère fontaine, maquette
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 30 x 18 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.1 x 7.9 inch
€8,000
Trois guépards en course
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 21 x 43 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 16.9 x 3.9 inch
€8,000
Elephant bathing in dust pixels
The opium smoking white elephant
Painting - 40 x 30 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€800
Le coq - bronze
Mireille Bassier-Tilmont
Sculpture - 25 x 14 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 5.5 x 2 inch
€220
Miniatuur Giraffe
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 53 x 47 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 18.5 x 1.2 inch
€650
Miniatuur Struisvogel
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 53 x 47 x 4 cm Painting - 20.9 x 18.5 x 1.6 inch
€650
The hippo perch / L’hippo perchoir
Sylvie Gaudissart
Sculpture - 12.5 x 32.5 x 9 cm Sculpture - 4.9 x 12.8 x 3.5 inch
€1,950
Dans la grotte
Rodolpho Tamanini Netto
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,200
Shark Spirit (Aqua Blue Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 14 x 10 x 8 cm Design - 5.5 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
€250
Colchicum bivonae with praying mantis (Iris oratoria)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 28 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€520
Perro besa a su dueña
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 72 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Wild Lens - Tiger
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild Lens - Toro
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild Lens - KANGAROO
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Wild Lens - ELK
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Wild Lens - Dromadary
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild Lens - Horse XXIV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Wild Lens - Horse XXII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Wild Lens - Horse XIX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Wild lens - Horse XVII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Wild Lens - Horses XVI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Wild Lens - Horses XV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Wild Lens - Horses XIV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild Lens - Horses IV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild Lens - Horses X
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild Lens - Horses IX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild Lens - Horses VII
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild Lens - Horses IV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Wild lens - Elephant XXIV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,890
Wild lens - Elephant XX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,990
Gardienne de la Paix
Docteur Bergman
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
Socratis & ses 2 Papas
Docteur Bergman
Painting - 50 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€600
Red-footed Falcon
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 24.2 x 32.3 x 2 cm Painting - 9.5 x 12.7 x 0.8 inch
€860
La course (EA I/IV)
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 58 x 127 x 22 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 50 x 8.7 inch
€21,800
Joie de Vivre
Sara Ingleby-Mackenzie
Sculpture - 26 x 34 x 17 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 13.4 x 6.7 inch
€5,011
En souvenir de mon enfance, Tigrou
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
€200
En souvenir de mon enfance, Porcinet
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
€200
En souvenir de mon enfance, Bourriquet
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
€200
En souvenir de mon enfance, Winnie l'ourson
Monsieur Térez
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 17.7 inch
€200
Black dog (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€49
Contemporary portrait "Near the mineral spring"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.9 inch
€2,500
Lucia and Tika
Cristina Fontsare
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,000 €900
En sortant de la forêt
Emmanuelle Tenailleau
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
La passante
Emmanuelle Tenailleau
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Tête de léopard grognant
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 16.5 x 8 x 8 cm Sculpture - 6.5 x 3.1 x 3.1 inch
€2,800
Parachuting rat - Tribute to Banksy
Lasveguix
Painting - 55 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
€750
La vie en rose dans la forêt
Philippe Berry
Print - 68 x 44 x 0.1 cm Print - 26.8 x 17.3 x 0 inch
€150
Monkey angel (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€49
Animal
Animals are often featured in news, sometimes in heartwarming tales of human and animal companionship and other times in heartbreaking stories of illegal trade and endangered species. Animals are even present in social sciences, especially thank to ethology (behavioural sciences of animals in their natural habitat). They have fascinated philosophers from Antiquity all the way through to today and they are even present in the medical realm, as the benefits of animal-assisted therapies have been scientifically proven.
The relationship between humans and animals is also taken into account in the politics, most notably when debating topics related to ecology, the protection of ecosystems and sustainable development. Thus, animals might be seen as a crucial indicator of humanity's concerns.
As well in these many sectors, animals are also very much present in the arts. A number of art museums have decided exhibitions to animals including the Cluny Museum in Paris and MoMA PS1 in New York. Whether simply a humble spectator in an 18th century painting or the central subject of a Courbet painting, animals are present throughout the history of art. From symbolic, to esthetic, to abstract, to animal drawings meant to simply record their appearance...all these representations have played a role in influencing artists and also how we characterise and think of individual animals.
Each civilisation has represented the animal on multiples supports (mosaics, metal, stone, bones, etc.) as seen on the Nerja cave wall paintings in Andalusia discovered in 1925. Animal iconography has had multiple purposes, varying according to the era and place. Bats, for example, are often used to represent death, fear or superstition in Western art, whereas the Chinese see them as a sign of happiness. The omnipresence of animals within cultures across the globe is probably down to the similarities between men and animal, a source of both fascination and fear.
In this selection, Artsper helps you to discover the beauty of the animal kingdom, its diversity, strength and fragility. Artists depict animals in a huge range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photographs, and drawings. Contemporary artists bring an original and poetic vision to their representations of the animals with whom we share our world.