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![Sculpture, Le lion, Elizabeth Portnova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147188_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Primevère, Elizabeth Portnova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147187_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, La bête poétique, Elizabeth Portnova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147185_1_grid.jpg)
La bête poétique
Elizabeth Portnova
Sculpture - 48 x 33 x 25 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 13 x 9.8 inch
$2,796
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Grues du Japon parade II
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 30 x 40 x 35 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 15.7 x 13.8 inch
$10,625
![Sculpture, Charge de l’éléphant d'Afrique, Bernard Rebaudet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2029308_1_grid.jpg)
Charge de l’éléphant d'Afrique
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 23 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
$11,073
![Sculpture, Envol du cygne, Bernard Rebaudet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2029293_1_grid.jpg)
Envol du cygne
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 26 x 45 x 41 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 17.7 x 16.1 inch
$11,744
![Sculpture, Grande baleine, Bernard Rebaudet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2029287_1_grid.jpg)
Grande baleine
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 45 x 40 x 25 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 15.7 x 9.8 inch
$11,744
![Sculpture, Grande panthere noire, Bernard Rebaudet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2029263_1_grid.jpg)
Grande panthere noire
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 15 x 45 x 15 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 17.7 x 5.9 inch
$8,388
![Painting, Monkey angel (a tribute to Banksy), Dr. Love](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2015421_1_grid.jpg)
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
$56
![Painting, Laurenz, Christa Riemann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2000964_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Coq, le 10 ème, Stom500](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1999452_1_grid.jpg)
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![Sculpture, Sterne qui plonge, Jean Lemonnier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1988871_1_grid.jpg)
Sterne qui plonge
Jean Lemonnier
Sculpture - 39 x 65 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 25.6 x 7.9 inch
$5,369
![Sculpture, Pie, Jean Lemonnier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1988832_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Stories Scheherazade Certified IV, Grzegorz Sikorski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1985232_1_grid.jpg)
Stories Scheherazade Certified IV
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$213
![Painting, Florentine, Christa Riemann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1942818_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un peu plus près du paradis, Jeannette Guichard-Bunel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1936782_1_grid.jpg)
Un peu plus près du paradis
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$3,020
![Painting, Tourist Penguino, Penguino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1928286_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Miss Antarctica, Penguino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1928280_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Quack attack, Gavin O'Donoghue](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815312_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Love monkey Orange (a tribute to Banksy), Dr. Love](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1782633_1_grid.jpg)
Love monkey Orange (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$56
![Painting, Love rat (a tribute to Banksy), Dr. Love](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1765812_1_grid.jpg)
Love rat (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$56
![Painting, Monkey love (a tribute to Banksy), Dr. Love](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1759890_1_grid.jpg)
Monkey love (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$56
![Painting, Iceberg Melting, Su Yu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1722354_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Anti-Cyclone, Claude Voutat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1636800_1_grid.jpg)
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![Sculpture, Grand Singe au cigare, François Rambaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1526322_1_grid.jpg)
Grand Singe au cigare
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 80 x 45 x 70 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 17.7 x 27.6 inch
$2,461
![Painting, Sans titre, Miguel Sancho](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1517640_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Lapin hollandais, Philippe Achermann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1516365_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Birds over Horsehold, Christopher Rainham](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1495647_1_grid.jpg)
The Birds over Horsehold
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,383
![Painting, La tienta sous un ciel gris, Brigitte Rouzaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1476096_1_grid.jpg)
La tienta sous un ciel gris
Brigitte Rouzaud
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$481
![Painting, Marriage of the crowd, Mehdi Mirbagheri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1463376_1_grid.jpg)
Marriage of the crowd
Mehdi Mirbagheri
Painting - 120 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$12,303
![Sculpture, Taureau aubrac, Bernard Rebaudet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1439499_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Grand Ours Polaire, Bernard Rebaudet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1439493_1_grid.jpg)
Grand Ours Polaire
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 22 x 42 x 14 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 16.5 x 5.5 inch
$9,954
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![Painting, Girl with Dog, Antonio Feltrinelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1242732_1_grid.jpg)
Girl with Dog
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$12,303
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Le Renard, Les Mouches et le Hérisson
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$7,270
![Painting, The Blue Sky Above, Christopher Rainham](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1101726_1_grid.jpg)
The Blue Sky Above
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,516
![Photography, The Woman with the Gulls, Alain Le Chapelier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1085367_1_grid.jpg)
The Woman with the Gulls
Alain Le Chapelier
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
$872
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![Painting, Living in the Moment of Peace, Joshua Salami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181018_1_grid.jpg)
Living in the Moment of Peace
Joshua Salami
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$3,000
![Sculpture, Puppy, Jeff Koons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178701_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flying Dragon Floating Cloud, Hongda](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175247_1_grid.jpg)
Flying Dragon Floating Cloud
Hongda
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,438
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![Sculpture, Poule faisane, François Galoyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174110_1_grid.jpg)
Poule faisane
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 46 x 40 x 15.5 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 15.7 x 6.1 inch
$8,388
![Sculpture, Chouette Hulotte, François Galoyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174100_1_grid.jpg)
Chouette Hulotte
François Galoyer
Sculpture - 29 x 14 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 5.5 x 3.9 inch
$5,816
![Painting, Resilient Spirit, Olaosun Oluwapelumi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173112_1_grid.jpg)
Resilient Spirit
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$3,800 $3,420
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Imagined destinations, Night (Nuit)
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 36 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$559
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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.