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!
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Personnage à la houppe
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 7.9 inch
€1,050
La chica del norte 4/8
Alberto Ascaso
Sculpture - 90 x 18 x 18 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 7.1 x 7.1 inch
€14,000
Golfeur à Central Park
Patricia Kleyman
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
Sold
Homme et femme, jeux
Armen Gasparian
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,600
Asian tourist in front of Gudvangen
Hans Kristian Riise
Photography - 64 x 79 x 3 cm Photography - 25.2 x 31.1 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Luke McAlister
Clément Poitrenaud
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€1,100
The New Me
Isabelle van Zeijl
Photography - 113 x 102.9 cm Photography - 44.5 x 40.5 inch
€11,265 €10,138
The Cash Machine
Otto Schade
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€900
Roitelet couronné
Jean-Pierre Ceytaire
Painting - 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,600 €1,950
Portrait of man
Pierre Emile Lelong
Painting - 29 x 27 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 10.6 x 0 inch
€480
Echo's answer
Andrea Michaelsson BTOY
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
€450
PINK TUBES : COTTON CANDY AND EPHEMERAL LOLITA SPECTRUM
Saori Nakamishi
Painting - 180 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 51.2 x 2 inch
€7,000
THINKING ABOUT : VIRTUAL CONTEMPLATION OR NAVIGATING THE MIND’S CODE
Sumomo Kanashiwa
Painting - 140 x 123 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 48.4 x 1.2 inch
€6,000
Composition I
Aaron Labin (Grigoryan)
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 35 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 13.8 inch
€350
Desperate
Lucien Coutaud
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€360
Seated Woman
Suzie Bernardeau
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 31.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 12.4 x 0 inch
€280
Kurhessisches Corps
Herbert Knotel
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.1 x 0 inch
€360
Man machine
Louis Durand
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 10.2 x 0 inch
€380
Le Soir
Louis Pons
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€6,000
Fluorine Slave portrait.
López del Espino
Painting - 160 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Slave boy breaking chains
López del Espino
Sculpture - 100 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
€6,000
Femmes et feuilles (Women and leaves)
Gabriel Schmitz
Painting - 166 x 58 x 5 cm Painting - 65.4 x 22.8 x 2 inch
€5,800
Untitled #13, Fall Off Wonderland series
Yang Du
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
€2,000
The Dancer
Maurice Van Moppes
Fine Art Drawings - 26.5 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.4 x 7.3 x 0.2 inch
€300
Essence de jeunesse
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 40 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
€1,140
Essence de la jeunesse 72
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 172 x 44 x 40 cm Sculpture - 67.7 x 17.3 x 15.7 inch
€11,760
Vian 13 - Fetishes Series
Natasha Lelenco
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,080
Vanishing Words
Karen Akhikyan
Sculpture - 46 x 18 x 16 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 7.1 x 6.3 inch
€1,549 €1,239
Hombre de la Luna
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€736
Plongeon de l'Homme Blanc
Jérôme Mesnager
Sculpture - 22 x 11 x 6 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 4.3 x 2.4 inch
€550
Ménine Air et Bois Grand
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 64 x 60 x 34 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 23.6 x 13.4 inch
€8,900
Marilyn Laughing in Black Dress
Bert Stern
Photography - 48 x 33 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 x 0.4 inch
€2,490
Loin, l'horizon
Nathalie Cubéro
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch
€1,100 €990
Une belle image du bonheur
Jazzu
Painting - 81 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€3,200
Fresh news
Karen Akhikyan
Sculpture - 34 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
€1,267 €1,014
El Revolucionario
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€984
Magic Game, no. VI/VIII
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 43 x 15 x 6 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 5.9 x 2.4 inch
€1,900
