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![Photography, Vache 18, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997682_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Hayet, déesse Egyptienne, Fefe Talavera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1980675_1_grid.jpg)
Hayet, déesse Egyptienne
Fefe Talavera
Painting - 115 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
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Orange Buttefly
Elena Mardashova
Painting - 100 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$940
![Painting, Yellow Butterfly on the Rose, Elena Mardashova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1903038_1_grid.jpg)
Yellow Butterfly on the Rose
Elena Mardashova
Painting - 100 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$761
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Her best friend
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
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![Painting, Blop blop - série décor et poisson, Alain Arnouil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1632837_1_grid.jpg)
Blop blop - série décor et poisson
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$772
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Madame Butterfly Sculpture
Yunior Marino
Sculpture - 134.6 x 129.5 x 38.1 cm Sculpture - 53 x 51 x 15 inch
$12,000
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Sea Horse
Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth
Sculpture - 30 x 42 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 16.5 x 3.5 inch
$3,411
![Sculpture, Horse's Head, Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1384656_1_grid.jpg)
Horse's Head
Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth
Sculpture - 38 x 35 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15 x 13.8 x 4.7 inch
$4,217
![Print, Butterfly, James Chiew](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1279032_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 008- Série Les petits peuples de Sibérie, Jacques Langevin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1258650_1_grid.jpg)
008- Série Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,342
![Photography, 001- Les petits peuples de Sibérie, Jacques Langevin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1258521_1_grid.jpg)
001- Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,342
![Photography, Algerie-Les Touaregs_Sahara. Tassili N'Ajjer, Nadia Ferroukhi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1236942_1_grid.jpg)
Algerie-Les Touaregs_Sahara. Tassili N'Ajjer
Nadia Ferroukhi
Photography - 50 x 75 x 2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
![Sculpture, Pink turtle, Aperato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1232859_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Croc digue, Richard Texier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1177701_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Rencontre sur la Place, Adolfo Carducci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/976704_1_grid.jpg)
Rencontre sur la Place
Adolfo Carducci
Painting - 41.5 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16.3 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,606
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L’araignée blanche
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$336
![Painting, Sans titre, Vladimir Velickovic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/700857_1_grid.jpg)
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![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Mahmoodkhan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/323803_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Mahmoodkhan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/323749_1_grid.jpg)
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![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Mahmoodkhan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/323662_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Mahmoodkhan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/323650_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un après-midi au Manège, Maria Teresa Bertina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/263563_1_grid.jpg)
Un après-midi au Manège
Maria Teresa Bertina
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$7,270
![Photography, El observador, Rocio Villanueva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181091_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Pickpocket # 2, Rocio Villanueva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181086_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Natura morta con teiera, Alexander Daniloff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179149_1_grid.jpg)
Natura morta con teiera
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 35 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$436
![Painting, Durga la blanche, Artiste Ouvrier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179004_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vieille femme et son âne, Alberto Cecconi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176506_1_grid.jpg)
Vieille femme et son âne
Alberto Cecconi
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,161
![Sculpture, Chat Persan, François Galoyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174098_1_grid.jpg)
Chat Persan
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 27.5 x 52 x 14 cm Sculpture - 10.8 x 20.5 x 5.5 inch
$10,625
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![Painting, Interstice of Worlds, Tetiana Pchelnykova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149202_1_grid.jpg)
Interstice of Worlds
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$727
![Painting, The charge, Pierre-Yves Blasco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149108_1_grid.jpg)
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Sleeping beauty awakes
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 61 x 91 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,577
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Portrait of leopard
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 92 x 71 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,834
![Painting, Lord of the jungle, Pierre-Yves Blasco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149093_1_grid.jpg)
Lord of the jungle
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 76 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,913
![Painting, I'm hungry, Pierre-Yves Blasco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149090_1_grid.jpg)
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Gutta -Percha Hunter (diptych)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,219
![Painting, Imagined destinations, Palimpsest ( Palimpseste ), Taisia Korotkova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135653_1_grid.jpg)
Imagined destinations, Palimpsest ( Palimpseste )
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.2 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Awkward situation, Zianko Vasili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2130871_1_grid.jpg)
Awkward situation
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 110 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,968
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Apotheosis
Leona Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$559
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Walking in the bush
Pierre-Yves Blasco
Painting - 70 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,756
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Le Chat Noir avec le Collier Poofy
Brian Nash
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,400
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Avec le chat - Scène de vie art brut
Luco
Painting - 65 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$559
![Painting, Où il y a de la vie, il y a de l'espoir... (Origami 2023), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1943322_1_grid.jpg)
Où il y a de la vie, il y a de l'espoir... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
![Painting, L'échappée belle..., Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1943319_1_grid.jpg)
L'échappée belle...
Olivier Messas
Painting - 59 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 23.2 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
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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.