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Aquarium Dolphin
Adina Apostu
Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$662
Santa María (Baño)
Paola Dávila
Photography - 22.9 x 20.3 x 2.5 cm Photography - 9 x 8 x 1 inch
$1,200
Après le Bain
Florence Tedeschi
Painting - 81 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,037
Femme nue allongée de dos
Alice Rymowicz
Painting - 48 x 68 x 0.3 cm Painting - 18.9 x 26.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,540
Sous la douche
Herve Malcom Thomas
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,094
Deux bouches femmes
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 28 x 42 x 1 cm Photography - 11 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$792
Saltan Maroc
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 45 x 38 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$792
Nuque homme
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$792
Buste Homme Aluminium 2
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 70 x 40 x 24 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 15.7 x 9.4 inch
$543
Pantomime
Marie-Madeleine Gautier
Sculpture - 61 x 24 x 36 cm Sculpture - 24 x 9.4 x 14.2 inch
$14,485
Femmes qui lisent sont dangereuses
Marie-Madeleine Gautier
Sculpture - 84 x 46 x 41 cm Sculpture - 33.1 x 18.1 x 16.1 inch
$25,462
Femme assise sur socle
Marie-Madeleine Gautier
Sculpture - 30 x 8 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 3.1 x 4.3 inch
$6,563
Untitled TV I
Rodrigo Etem
Photography - 55.9 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 22 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Méditation - série corps de femme nu
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 22 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$2,688
Réflexion - série corps de femme nu
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 26 x 15 x 25 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 5.9 x 9.8 inch
$3,536
Affliction - série corps de femme nu
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 22 x 18 x 21 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 7.1 x 8.3 inch
$5,092
I'm never going to look back
Haydee Torres
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.3 inch
$715
La Maculée conception (Madone barbelée)
Yves Hayat
Print - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Print - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$8,487
Les trois demoiselles
Robert Koumassadouno
Painting - 110 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,415 $1,273
Abstract nude 8-23
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$566
Abstract nude 8-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$566
No55 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 96 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 37.8 x 0 inch
$2,965
Secret d'alcove
Jean-Pierre Fleury
Photography - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,301
No45 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,965
Ondine série corps de femme
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 11 x 48 x 21 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 18.9 x 8.3 inch
$4,481
Désinvolte série corps de femme
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 44 x 19 x 29 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 7.5 x 11.4 inch
$5,205
La conquérante série corps de femme
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 33 x 45 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13 x 17.7 x 7.9 inch
$5,092
Repos série corps d'homme
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 21 x 14 x 17 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 5.5 x 6.7 inch
$2,603
Petite affirmation série corps de femme
Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 23 x 19 x 15 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 7.5 x 5.9 inch
$2,603
Femme coréenne s'habillant
Sounya Whang
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,098
la légèreté
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,965
No47 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 96 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 37.8 x 0 inch
$2,965
l' amie
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,965
No31 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,965
WetWay
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,965
Hills
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,965
La tête
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 96 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 37.8 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,965
Fesse homme
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 36 x 53 x 1 cm Photography - 14.2 x 20.9 x 0.4 inch
$792
Femme allongée
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 24 x 36 x 1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$792
ARIKA5 : VERDANT TEMPTATION IN KAWAII WHISPERS
Aya Toshikawa
Painting - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$1,924
Belle endormie 2024
Sylvie Bourely
Sculpture - 12 x 50 x 19 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 19.7 x 7.5 inch
$1,697
Interrogation
Charles Bayonne
Photography - 70 x 100 x 5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,641
Human body
'I wanted to conquer the world. But I also desperately wanted to understand human nature, and to know what was inside our bodies. To do this, I have spent whole night dissecting bodies, against the direct orders of the Pope. Nothing disgusts me. What I am looking for, truly, in all of my work and particularly in my painting, what I have looked for all my life, is to understand the mystery that is human nature' – from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century.
At the time of writing these notes, da Vinci had already made greater understanding of the human body the primary objective of his investigations. Dissection and study were key to his development of a holistic knowledge of anatomy, which da Vinci believed was vital to the perfect rendering of the nude figures which he painted and drew.
Little by little, the traditional image of the human figure was uprooted and in its place new ways of interpreting the body developed. Contemporary artists relentlessly questioned the traditional codes of figure drawing, liberally reworking the representation of the body to create a new image that was dislocated, geometric, deformed and disfigured.
The body as an artistic subject is at once desired, fantasised, dreamt, transformed, deformed. For painters, photographers and sculptors alike the body represents a rite of passage in their artistic development. Many people say that they most appreciate the talents of an artists by way of their control over the complexity of the figure. For example, it's clear even in Matisse's later, more abstract collages that he had perfectly mastered the human form.
Representation of the body is fundamental to Western art: first and foremost because it suggests a representation of the self, and therefore affirms the artist's own existence and coexistence with the environment that surrounds them. At the beginning of art history, the only bodies represented were the gods, supernatural beings, and spirits who had taken on human form. The body, nude or clothed, is at once one of the most widely depicted and most deeply polemical subjects in Western art (think of the scandals provoked by Courbet's 'Origins of the World', or Renoir's 'Picnic on the Grass').
The body has always been the primary subject of an array of themes, and its history is rich and ancient. Initially, depiction of the body was closely linked to religion, where the Word became flesh in Genesis, but later in more secular times the arousal of the artist when faced with the body made for an equally popular theme. Latterly the notion of the body as an object of beauty was subverted by Cubism until depictions of bodies no longer bore any resemblance to reality or made any pretence of respecting the rules of proportion.
Finally, in modern art the body has taken on an abstract shape within space, becoming one with the environment. In some instances, the body has become the artist's own support, as with Klein's models. The body as an abstract concept is tangible in many different manifestations in art, even in pieces as unassuming as some of Rothko's paintings. It remains the subject of inexhaustible inspiration and eternal debate.