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Combien tu Pez? Harry Potter (1)
Pinkhas
Sculpture - 15 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
$673
Le vieux Korodouga 1
Amadou Opa Bathily
Painting - 118 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 46.5 x 51.2 x 2 inch
$4,263
Sumatrae
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,310
L'aquarium (7 Exemplaires Relief Artwork) Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 4 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,682
Confidence
Anna Camille
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 25 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$628
Femme au turban jaune
E. Rosselli
Painting - 55.4 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.8 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,574
Mr. A & Miss A (Uncut Love Edition)
André Saraiva
Print - 99.06 x 68.58 x 0.2 cm Print - 39 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,907
Joséphine Baker
Olivier Ansel (la Guêpe)
Sculpture - 52 x 28 x 17 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 11 x 6.7 inch
$954
L'art de la joie
Clémence Wach
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 35 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,122
Les improbables
Isabelle Peirone
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$2,244
Observers
Nicholas Robertson
Painting - 51.1 x 40.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
$1,093
Jeune femme au châle et panier de fleures
L. Rubia
Painting - 44 x 33.5 x 1 cm Painting - 17.3 x 13.2 x 0.4 inch
$1,448
No title
Philippe Pasqua
Photography - 170 x 140 x 0.5 cm Photography - 66.9 x 55.1 x 0.2 inch
$15,707
The mood of the night
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
New Eva 59fifty
Anne Juliette Deschamps
Sculpture - 46 x 30 x 24 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 11.8 x 9.4 inch
$5,834
Jane
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 48 x 9 x 10 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 3.5 x 3.9 inch
$606 $545
Étude pour Les Deux Chaises longues
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$3,702
L'addition
Nathan Chantob
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,693
Seated Girl
Suzie Bernardeau
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.6 x 0 inch
$449 $359
Lei Non mi Lascia Mai
Elisa Gambalonga
Photography - 90 x 90 x 1.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,076
Keith Dog
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,709
Transition - visage II
Samuel Yal
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 3.1 inch
$2,019
Aria (Newind)
Gianluca Fascetto
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,458 $1,313
Les bottes de sept lieux
Béa Bealaff-Girotto
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$752
Sans titre - profil d'homme
Hashtag Jeff (D-Philippot)
Painting - 120 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,244
So little roads have been traveled, so many mistakes have been made
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,571 $1,257
Peace and Tranquility 2
Joshua Salami
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,799
Lam, marrons striés
Baptiste Laurent
Sculpture - 25 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$898
Atomic Heart Mother
Gediminas Endriekus
Sculpture - 34 x 34 x 16 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 13.4 x 6.3 inch
$21,316
Jake not Dinos; Dinos not Jake
Jake & Dinos Chapman
Print - 39 x 28 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.4 x 11 x 0 inch
$898
Silence of being
Mayra AleJandra Lifischtz
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,200
From Somewhere Deep Inside
Aba Linus
Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31 x 31 x 1 inch
$2,499
Agbeke Spotted Again
Adewuyi Theophilus
Painting - 124.5 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 49 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,299
Upper Glasses Royal Ascot
Arthur Steel
Photography - 48 x 61 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$2,047
Egg girls on a bicycle
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,593
Memories of summer
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,468
Hangar backstage
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$280
Self-portrait on fruit
Julien Delagrange
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$2,019
Chrissie Hynde, Paris
Pierre Terrasson
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,683
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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!