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Battre la campagne
Aurélie Salvaing
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,966
Academia (half life)
Paige Bradley
Sculpture - 147.3 x 55.9 x 106.7 cm Sculpture - 58 x 22 x 42 inch
$26,000
Belmondo / Paris Match (1)
Gragnon François
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,247
Salvador Dali / Paris Match
Patrice Habans
Photography - 52 x 78 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.5 x 30.7 x 0 inch
$1,798
L'amoureuse
Koffi Mounou Désiré
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,495
Personaggio dell'immaginario
Arturo Carmassi
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$146
Family 1 (#146) BVE
Boaz Vaadia
Sculpture - 50.8 x 53.3 x 38.1 cm Sculpture - 20 x 21 x 15 inch
$56,000
Je ne sais pas ce que je veux
Christopher Dombres
Print - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$56
Lis Lève toi et Marche
Olivier Rebecq
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$652
Ombrellino (Umbrella)
Massimo Campigli
Painting - 115 x 125 x 0.6 cm Painting - 45.3 x 49.2 x 0.2 inch
$87,646
My granny Polli
Zurab Kurchishvili
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,186
"Monster Book For Girls" - Hand Finished Limited Edition (Large Format)
Gavin Mitchell
Print - 140 x 94 x 0.1 cm Print - 55.1 x 37 x 0 inch
$2,809
Via Lattea
Amalia Di Tecco alias Le Bomboline
Sculpture - 23 x 13 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 5.1 x 7.9 inch
$427
The kharoub's seller
Miguel Angel Sanchez
Photography - 100 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$787
Dis, quand reviendras-tu ? 3
Charlotte Skurzak
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$674
Commission for Melissa 50 lance
Marilyn Kalish
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$315
Dietrich / Paris Match
Paul Slade
Photography - 80 x 53 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 20.9 x 0 inch
$1,798
The Beatles / Paris Match
André Lefebvre
Photography - 53 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.9 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,247
Bardot - Caron / Paris Match
Michou Simon
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$2,023
Guerre d'Algérie, 1962
Maurice Jarnoux
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$674
Kelly, Aumont / Paris Match
Jack Garofalo & Michou Simon
Photography - 55 x 55 x 0.1 cm Photography - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$1,798
Modella, 1975
Paolo Ambrosio
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$131
She Learned To Have Faith In Her Abilities
Grady Tomlinson Zeeman
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.1 inch
$2,472
L'Anachorète aviateur
Bertrand Bataille
Painting - 93 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,158
Les chaussures bleues
Eric Crémer
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Ecologia Profonda, Selfportrait
Chiara Mazzocchi
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$556
Miss burlesque star
Artemisia Fine Art
Painting - 79.8 x 79.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 31.4 x 2 inch
$4,100
The frozen few 5546
Götz Göppert
Photography - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$758
Andy Warhol in the Stone Age
Kurotory
Print - 80 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,112
Fleur Bleu (Blue flower)
Juliette Lemontey
Painting - 162.6 x 114.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 64 x 45 x 2 inch
$9,000
L'Infante Marie Marguerite
Jules Milhau
Painting - 200 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$17,979
Madame Dutilleul
Eric Valat
Sculpture - 140 x 115 x 60 cm Sculpture - 55.1 x 45.3 x 23.6 inch
$28,092
Charito Zarate Torino
Ryan Arbilo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$899
Immediate Family
Dang Xuan Hoa
Painting - 67.3 x 149.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 26.5 x 59 x 2 inch
$39,000
Once Upon a Time 25
Georges Bassil
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 75 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 29.5 inch
$3,300
Héraclès (portrait)
Jérôme Bouscarat
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$485
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient
Ruby Bat Arnon
Painting - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$11,237
Baumwärts
Neeharika Donau Hossain
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,112
2023-1129 / Visages et corps expressionnistes - série rouge et noire
Marion Casters
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$169
Danser sur l'écume- Portrait de femme
Glad_is_murmuring
Painting - 29 x 29 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.4 inch
$225
Qeeth 25 (céramique)
Antoine Marquis
Sculpture - 13.5 x 9 x 2 cm Sculpture - 5.3 x 3.5 x 0.8 inch
$899
Nurse in love (sérigraphie)
Regine Kolle
Print - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,686
Royal Legacy Original Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Gardani
Painting - 85.1 x 69.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 33.5 x 27.5 x 1.5 inch
$4,000
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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!