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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Sometimes I Talk To My Shadow 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women
Obeka Simon
Painting - 96.5 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38 x 32 x 1 inch
€2,875
Ma clé de sol
Béa Bealaff-Girotto
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€670
Eclosion
Alexandre Monteiro (Hopare)
Sculpture - 35 x 14 x 12 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 5.5 x 4.7 inch
€10,000
Untitled sculpture
George Lilanga
Sculpture - 63 x 25 x 20 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 9.8 x 7.9 inch
€1,400
Moment
Taiwo Samuel Olutimileyin
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€2,087
Paradis perdu 9 - série portraits de femmes
Stéphane Vereecken
Photography - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€500
Serenity's embrace
Gregory Kumah
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 1 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.4 inch
€3,100
Roots of her heart
Edward Afadzi
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€3,100
Mainbocher Corset. Paris. Printed later
Horst P. Horst
Photography - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
€11,129
L'envole I - préchauffage
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 93 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
€2,200 €1,980
The Breakfast of the Goddess
Vahag Hamalbashyan
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
Nguyen Hoang Viet
Philippe Cormault
Painting - 81 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
Women from Salt River
Rudolph Carl Gorman
Print - 72.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 28.5 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€2,087
Portrait of Francis Picabia
Man Ray
Photography - 27 x 21 x 0.2 cm Photography - 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€32,000
Queen Crowned in a Banana and Black Cat
Kim Soo Young
Painting - 20.3 x 15.2 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8 x 6 x 0 inch
€550
Because love cannot be bombed_
Inna Sych
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Silhouettes. Tarifa 1
Elena Done
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€547
Mahumbi girl with ungava hairstyle variation. Humbi. Angola
Faie Davis
Photography - 61 x 58.5 x 26 cm Photography - 24 x 23 x 10.2 inch
€904
Butterflies in Her Hair
Armen Vahramyan
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€556
Untitled #414 (Clowns. 2003)
Cindy Sherman
Design - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Design - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,750
You lose control
Lucile Callegari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Guardian de silencio II
Maria Evseeva
Painting - 61 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€650
Fragments of a Performance
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,669
I drink therefore I can
The Connor Brothers
Print - 121 x 75 x 0.3 cm Print - 47.6 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
€3,900
Garçon dans les salons de l’hôtel Albergo dans le quartier chrétien Achrafieh, Beyrouth, Liban
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€800
Autoportrait
César Baldaccini
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15.8 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.2 x 0 inch
€2,500
Gently transformation
Trendafila Trendafilova
Painting - 30 x 24.5 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.6 x 0.8 inch
€835
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
€2,217
El iluso que mira las estrellas - The deluded man who looks at stars
Alberto Letamendi
Sculpture - 14 x 7 x 5.8 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 2.75 x 2.3 inch
€3,988
Gorilla and Hummingbird
Hani Badawi Leo
Print - 85 x 120 x 3 cm Print - 33.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€700 €630
Untitled (Reflection)
David Shrigley
Fine Art Drawings - 27.94 x 20.95 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.2 x 0.4 inch
€7,883
First Love (large framed hand signed screen print)
Romero Britto
Print - 83.8 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Print - 33 x 39 x 0.1 inch
€2,319
Fase I: Empoderamiento
Manuel Mediavilla
Sculpture - 76 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 29.9 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€6,400
Festival of Fire
Ofobuike Okudoh
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 49.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.5 inch
€3,000
Political Demagogy III
José Luis Cuevas
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 35.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14 inch
€4,173
Untitled (44)
Mansour El Habre
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,762
