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![Painting, Pablito, Virginia Benedicto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194043_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bearing the fruit (3) forbidden production (4), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187291_1_grid.jpg)
Bearing the fruit (3) forbidden production (4)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 140 x 142 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.9 x 0 inch
$6,442
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Essence de la jeunesse, bois
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 58 x 28 x 20 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 11 x 7.9 inch
$5,548
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Maybe (Peut-Etre)
Gerard Boersma
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$436 $393
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Lady with Watch (Femme à la Montre)
Gerard Boersma
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$436 $393
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Life on mars
Amalia Di Tecco alias Le Bomboline
Sculpture - 23 x 13 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 5.1 x 7.9 inch
$503
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Maregiata
Stefano Mazzolini
Painting - 90 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,678 $1,342
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Dedicated to Botticelli - Dittico
Olga Marciano
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$503
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Magnolia’s Coffee Together
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$190
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Readers series - Tom wolfe / Berlin taxi
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 23 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 9.1 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$895
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Readers series - Privilege and law
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$895
![Print, Readers series - Poems, Nikolaus von Wolff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203941_1_grid.jpg)
Readers series - Poems
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$895
![Print, Readers series - I ging modified, Nikolaus von Wolff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203939_1_grid.jpg)
Readers series - I ging modified
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$895
![Print, Readers series - Lord of the rings, Nikolaus von Wolff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203937_1_grid.jpg)
Readers series - Lord of the rings
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$895
![Print, Readers series - Philosophy of money, Nikolaus von Wolff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203934_1_grid.jpg)
Readers series - Philosophy of money
Nikolaus von Wolff
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$895
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L'homme assis
Xavier Albert Fiala
Painting - 60.6 x 50.6 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.9 x 19.9 x 0.2 inch
$2,110
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Fontaine de Jouvence
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 81 x 62 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 24.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,136
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La Maison sur la Plage
Michaël Brack
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
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Listen your art
Sébastien Boismoreau (BEUS)
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$3,691
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Poussières d'étoiles 05
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
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Danseuse au tutu vert
Yannick Le Bloas
Sculpture - 28.5 x 9 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.2 x 3.5 x 3.5 inch
Sold
![Painting, No title - Six of six, Susanne Butcher](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199546_1_grid.jpg)
No title - Six of six
Susanne Butcher
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
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No title - Five of six
Susanne Butcher
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
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Emotional Eruption
Seyran Gasparyan
Painting - 45 x 35 x 0.2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$360
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The portrait (after giles deacon) forbidden collage (4)
Julien Delagrange
Fine Art Drawings - 110.2 x 80.1 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 43.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$4,563
![Painting, Bearing the fruit (2) forbidden production (3), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187284_1_grid.jpg)
Bearing the fruit (2) forbidden production (3)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,758
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Ecce Homo (1) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (9)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$3,758
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The proposal (5) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (10)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$3,758
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The veil (after martin margiela) forbidden collage (5)
Julien Delagrange
Fine Art Drawings - 60.9 x 50.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 19.8 x 0 inch
$2,684
![Painting, Eclipse (1) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (13), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187246_1_grid.jpg)
Eclipse (1) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (13)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$3,758
![Painting, Metaphysical weight (3) (After pina bausch) Forbidden collage (14), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187238_1_grid.jpg)
Metaphysical weight (3) (After pina bausch) Forbidden collage (14)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$3,221
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Academie des banlieu Bleu
Hervé Di Rosa
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$224
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L'Enfer de Dante / Figure Éclatée
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,007
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Arthur le Passionné
Martine Le Bidan
Painting - 65 x 55 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,349
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A breath of wind in the hair
Elisa Bonotti
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$503
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Solid Air (Gold Leaf Edition)
Snik
Print - 101.6 x 69.2 x 1.5 cm Print - 40 x 27.2 x 0.6 inch
$2,500
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Le vieux sage
Philippe Dias
Painting - 150 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,181 $1,963
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Panthera tigris
Philippe Dias
Painting - 150 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,181 $1,963
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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!