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Northern Wind
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 95 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 37.4 x 1 inch
$3,363
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In the radiance
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 95 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$3,363
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Play of light
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 57 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 22.4 x 1 inch
$3,139
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In the Shine
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 95 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$3,363
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Morning Tenderness
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 95 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$3,251
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In the radiance
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 95 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 37.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,691
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In fantasies
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 95 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 37.4 x 1 inch
$3,588
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Red Building with Trees on Violet Background
Michael Gutteridge
Painting - 48.3 x 38.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$1,309
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Kiss my chrysanthemums
Vikki Drummond
Painting - 102 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,188
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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
$6,458
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Jour de fête
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 65 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$841
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Portrait de Marguerite d'Autriche d'après Jean Hey
Joris Ghilini
Painting - 106 x 73 x 15 cm Painting - 41.7 x 28.7 x 5.9 inch
$10,538
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Federico Gonzaga
Joris Ghilini
Painting - 106 x 73 x 15 cm Painting - 41.7 x 28.7 x 5.9 inch
$10,538
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Taylor Swift at Parisian Gallery Opening
Christian Jodin
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$219
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Taylor Swift's Concert in Paris in 2024
Christian Jodin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$331
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Golden Hour’s Sun
Nazar Ivanyuk
Painting - 60 x 48 x 0.2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,233
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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
$437
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Dedicated to Modigliani 5
Olga Marciano
Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$392
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Dedicated to Modigliani 6
Olga Marciano
Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$392
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Dedicated to Modigliani 4
Olga Marciano
Painting - 24 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$392
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The illusion of peace
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,848
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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
$504
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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
$2,141
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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
$3,767
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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
$3,767
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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
$3,767
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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
$3,767
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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
$3,229
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La hija vestida de novia
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 73 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,570
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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
$1,233
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Blurring boundaries
Anna Belyaevskaya
Painting - 71 x 51 x 3 cm Painting - 28 x 20.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,579
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To bridge the differences
Anna Belyaevskaya
Painting - 61 x 49.5 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,195
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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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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
$2,090
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Konohanasakuyahime
Kusaba Kazuhisa
Painting - 38.8 x 46.2 x 2 cm Painting - 15.3 x 18.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,579
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Portrait Painting for Sale
Portraiture is one of the most important subjects in painting. The discipline has changed significantly over time and has a fascinating history.
In antiquity, portraits were exclusively reserved for gods and the most influential people in society. Paintings and statues representing the bodies of the deceased were erected to decorate tombs in Egypt. They weren't realistic but rather had a very standardized way of representing each part of the body.
In contrast to the Egyptians, painters and sculptors in Greece, who had a more in depth knowledge of the human anatomy, were more concerned about realism. Many portrait paintings from this period were done on vases and depicted gods and mythological scenes.
In the Middle Ages, most portraits paintings were commissioned and featuring the most important people of the time; they were painted into religious scenes to emphasize their piety and faith, along with their social status. Once these works of art had been painted, they were often donated to churches and monasteries.
The Renaissance marked a renewal for the arts and portrait painting was no exception. At the beginning of this period, artists were unconcerned about lifelike, realistic work. Sitters or the subjects represented were identifiable through the use of symbolic objects and the inclusion of their name.
Giotto revolutionized portraiture by imitating sculpture. He began to paint shadows, the subjects' expressions, effects of depth and began to use foreshortening. His knowledge soon began to spread.
Brunelleschi then introduced the idea of perspective in architecture, a concept which Masaccio adapted to painting. Italy became the center of portrait painting and the most important Italian families (including the Médici family) commissioned artwork by the best painters. Competition between these painters led them to innovate and led them to produce some of the greatest artworks in history. The most famous is undoubtedly the Mona Lisa by Leonardo de Vinci.
In Northern Europe during the 16th century, Flemish art was restricted by iconoclasm during the Reformation, a period during the depiction of religious figures was banned. Artists turned to courtly art which was particularly popular during the following centuries. A century earlier, Flemish art had marked a turning point with Jan Van Eyck, the inventor of oil painting (the preferred painting technique of Renaissance painters) and master of detailed realism, who influenced an entire generation of Flemish painters.
Over the following centuries, portrait painting continued to be an art form for the elite of society, but painters grew increasingly concerned about depicting realistic figures and communicating the sitter's inner world and emotions. The 20th century saw a growing trend: subjects were not painted to look beautiful (sometimes to their great dismay).
At the end of the 19th century, Impressionist painters became less reliant on sculpted models and sculpture's influence. They left their studios and painted portraits outside, “en plein air." They captured the light as they saw it and painted groups of people together rather than in in several stages.
Modern and contemporary art of the 20th century saw anything go when it came to portraits. Artists like Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin and Lucien Freud turned traditional techniques and codified rules on their heads and developed their own unique styles.
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A portrait painting is a painted artwork that depicts a person. A portrait painting usually depicts the upper body of a sitter, for example from the shoulders up.
A portrait can be created in various different art styles and forms, including sculpture, painting and drawing.
A portrait can be considered a good work of art for a variety of reasons, including its handling of light, tone and color, its likeness to the person it represents, or its expression of emotion.