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Between rage and Softness
Sophie D'herbercourt
Painting - 162 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,829
Modèle nue
Claude Vénard
Fine Art Drawings - 98 x 61 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.6 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$16,777
In the moonlight
Kateryna Ocheredko
Painting - 90 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,500
Parfums de femme
Jean-Pierre Ceytaire
Print - 23.5 x 10 x 0.1 cm Print - 9.3 x 3.9 x 0 inch
$481 $409
Telle qu'en elle-même - série corps de femme
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 35 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
$5,452
Solitude bienveillante
Françoise Benomar
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
$2,125
Guerreras series
Laryssa Machada
Photography - 144 x 109 x 5 cm Photography - 56.7 x 42.9 x 2 inch
$9,615
Jeune garçon adossé au mur
Jules Pascin
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$951
Bilboquet (Kindergarten)
Michael Bastow
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$6,152
#32 - Voluptuousness 2 - XXL
Eric Lespinasse
Painting - 160 x 90 x 0.2 cm Painting - 63 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,342 $1,208
La cicatrice d'eau et de feu
Chrislen
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,286
Line Obsession
Delphine Diallo
Photography - 30 x 22 x 2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,076
Against the wind
Anna Kevrel
Photography - 77.2 x 52 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30.4 x 20.5 x 0.1 inch
$783
The Music Flies
Igor Tcholaria
Sculpture - 39.5 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 15.6 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$11,185
La fille au bord de l'eau
Olena Siniuhina
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$324
Catch Me If You Can
MARC LAGRANGE
Photography - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$10,625
Ocre - Sospita
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 39.5 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.6 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$336
Revealed
James Shipton
Fine Art Drawings - 154.9 x 145 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 61 x 57.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,114
Homme pensif
Isabella Kretzdorn
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 46 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,063
Lovers
Emilio Greco
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$7,270
There was always love
Adnan Dogan
Sculpture - 45 x 29 x 18 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 11.4 x 7.1 inch
$5,592
Lena et le cygne
Andrey Smirnoff
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,018 $866
Study for reclining
Jonathan Chapline
Painting - 17.8 x 12.4 x 1.87 cm Painting - 7 x 4.9 x 0.7 inch
$16,500
Femme nue à mi-corps
Léonard Foujita
Print - 46 x 32.5 x 0.5 cm Print - 18.1 x 12.8 x 0.2 inch
$3,132
The Paradox of Evolution (giclée)
Marco Grassi
Print - 150 x 186 x 10 cm Print - 59.1 x 73.2 x 3.9 inch
$18,734
Femme bleue/or - Electre
Géraldine Pontier
Sculpture - 53 x 6 x 6 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 2.4 x 2.4 inch
$1,118
Audrey Fleurot 3
Theo Haggai
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 20.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 8.1 inch
$973
O último beijo (Le dernier baiser)
Renata Andrade
Sculpture - 27 x 21 x 31 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 8.3 x 12.2 inch
$1,118
2050-69
Van de Camp & Heesterbeek
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,915
#40 - Free As A Veil
Eric Lespinasse
Photography - 72 x 128 x 2 cm Photography - 28.3 x 50.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,073
Venir la voir, voir l’avenir, la voir venir
Petites Luxures
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
$1,007
Welcome to Cabaret
Inga Makarova
Fine Art Drawings - 114 x 74 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 44.9 x 29.1 x 0 inch
$4,026
Girl in the bath
Boris Svinin
Sculpture - 75 x 38 x 30 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 15 x 11.8 inch
$110,728 $99,655
Colin Maillard
Francis Bellanger
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 28 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,566
1980 Liaisons dangereuses The dangerous affairs LOVE
Serge Stephanie
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,107
Femme verte de dos
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Print - 35 x 24.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.6 x 0.1 inch
$615
Jeune Femme Au Bouquet
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Painting - 65 x 54 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 inch
$22,369
Le bain
Olena Siniuhina
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$89
Studies for an academic drawing of the silent majority 1
Wang Kai Chen
Fine Art Drawings - 85 x 65 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.5 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$3,132
Lady in Lace
Tran Huy Hoan
Photography - 96.5 x 88.9 x 0.6 cm Photography - 38 x 35 x 0.25 inch
$4,000
Triptomatic. Death to the Hallmark Holliday
Carl Pascuzzi
Photography - 31 x 46 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12.2 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$783
Bronze omnia vincit amor
Andréa Giorgi
Sculpture - 28 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$7,829
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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!