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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La belle en chair - série portrait d'huitre
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,500
Portrait de jeune fille
Henri Fehr
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 27 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
€613
Flammarion. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.6 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
€988
Helping Hand, Charming Snakes and Earth Needs Us Both. Ceramic Vase sculptures
Alex Hodge
Design - 22.1 x 39.4 x 6.4 cm Design - 8.7 x 15.5 x 2.5 inch
€2,241
Beethoven (hand embellished canvas)
Steve Kaufman
Print - 57.2 x 57.2 x 2.5 cm Print - 22.5 x 22.5 x 1 inch
€1,372
Reading to my teddy bear
Sylvie Gaudissart
Sculpture - 17 x 15 x 17 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 5.9 x 6.7 inch
€2,800
La veuve
Damien Berrard
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,300
The Tree of Life
Kateryna Ocheredko
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,738
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 2e Acte
Erte Tirtoff
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 28 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 11 x 0.1 inch
€3,400
Entre Baladres
Maria Brugués I Gallego
Painting - 82 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 32.3 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
€800
Not everyone will be taken into the future
Konovalov Igor
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Le grand départ
Benoît Montet
Painting - 59.9 x 39.9 x 2.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.1 inch
€2,187
L’accordéonist
Jean Christophe Stauder
Painting - 52 x 31 x 1 cm Painting - 20.5 x 12.2 x 0.4 inch
€800
Black Girl in Origami Dress with Rooste II, Framed
Efren Isaza
Painting - 111.8 x 182.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 44 x 72 x 1 inch
€13,720
Original 73 face portrait
Eugen Dick
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 4.6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
€2,378
Fashion on the Street, Paris 1963
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€1,143
Legendes a mendrisio
Jean-Louis Mendrisse
Print - 80 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€800
01 janv. 88
Bernard Noël
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€800
Focus (Bold Face) - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman
Kehinde Mayowa
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,555
Martin Luther King (The Truth Behind a Portrait)
Yigal Ozeri
Print - 50 x 35 x 0.5 cm Print - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.2 inch
€915
Lovegun
Dani André Skogfelt
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 59 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0 inch
€1,700
Retrato de Raquel / Portrait de Raquel
Gabriel del Paso
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€550
Amigo 7
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 104.9 x 99.8 x 2 cm Painting - 41.3 x 39.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,829
Illumination - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Plant
Kehinde Oyafajo
Painting - 116.1 x 82 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 32.3 x 1 inch
€1,509
Workday Conversations
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€320
Contemporary portrait - Red Auto
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 65 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,300
Fulfilment of Motherhood
Ademola Ajayi
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
€2,149
Déshabillé II
Jean-Baptiste Dumont
Painting - 117 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 46.1 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,400
Fragile souvenir XI
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.6 inch
€1,000
Mick Jagger - Le poing - London - Derniers tirages
Pierre Terrasson
Photography - 50 x 40 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
€2,500
Les 3 O
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Sculpture - 40 x 14.5 x 14.5 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 5.7 x 5.7 inch
€2,400
Bide Your Time - 21st Century
Aladejare Ayodeji
Painting - 121.9 x 94 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 37 x 1 inch
€1,692
Las cobijadas Andalouses
Evazesir (No Rules Corp)
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
My Light Blue Dream 1
Omoyeni Arogunmati
Painting - 61 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 22 x 1 inch
€777
Stairway to heaven
Albena Vatcheva
Fine Art Drawings - 77 x 57 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.3 x 22.4 x 0 inch
€800
Europe mythologie Femme
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 130 x 93 x 4.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 36.6 x 1.8 inch
€1,520
Sisters in Yellow 3
Oluwafemi Afolabi
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€3,659
French School Portrait PS 221 L'endormie Immobile perle de bleux (Large)
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
€1,000
152 - Van Gogh
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
Portrait
John Matos Crash
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 16 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€950
