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Contemporary portrait "Don't Tell Me what to Do"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 70 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.7 inch
€2,200
Egg girls on a bicycle
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,420
French School Blue Kurt Cobain
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
€1,700
Portrait Continental Elvis - French school
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
€1,800
French School PS 237 Still Storm Pop
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
€1,700
Beginning - cubism, geometry figurative
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,500 €2,250
PS 122 Living Yugen - French school Portrait
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
€1,600
Red woman, abstract women body (1)
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€3,500 €3,150
Red woman, abstract women body
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€3,500 €3,150
Series “Between Heaven and Earth” - turquoise blue
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,000 €2,700
Lady in blue
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 110 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 43.3 x 1.6 inch
€3,500 €3,150
Portrait PS 158 La lionne a les yx verts French School
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
French School - PS 19 Frida Kahlo
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,100
Portrait PS 230 Starwoman Queen AC DC - French school oil painting 21th - Basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
€1,100
French School - Portrait PS 173 La Princesse Nordestina
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.4 inch
€1,100
The Vernissage
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 95 x 75 x 2.2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 29.5 x 0.9 inch
€2,500
Joyeux musiciens
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Portrait of Ligabue
Sergio Barletta
Painting - 72 x 51 x 0.2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
€700
Parfum glace
Danielle Dumestre dit kakou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,460
Au Feminin VI
Danielle Dumestre dit kakou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,460
Charme
Danielle Dumestre dit kakou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,460
Sérénité
Danielle Dumestre dit kakou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,460
Pensive
Danielle Dumestre dit kakou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,460
Naturelle
Danielle Dumestre dit kakou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,460
Déterminée
Danielle Dumestre dit kakou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,460
Au Feminin IV
Danielle Dumestre dit kakou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,460
Portrait PS 228 A La plage (Large)
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
€2,000
Will You be There
Tinatin Bakhtadze
Painting - 235 x 235 x 3 cm Painting - 92.5 x 92.5 x 1.2 inch
€8,500
Profil avec main au visage
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
€2,500 €2,000
Musing
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 106.7 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 42 x 30 x 1 inch
€2,399
Portrait Thom Yorke
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,727
Portrait black Elvis
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,727
Mujer histerica
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 82 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Mujer sonrienteon rulos
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 82 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Mujer sonriente
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 82 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Mujer con dudas
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 82 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Michel Houellebecq
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€750
Les Cyclistes Déjeunent
Christian Jodin
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€495
La petite fille aux allumettes
Théo Tobiasse
Painting - 51 x 68 x 5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 26.8 x 2 inch
€35,000
Christmas tree
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 150 x 106 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 41.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,900
Monsieur Smoking Flowers
Baptiste Laurent
Painting - 109 x 86 x 0.3 cm Painting - 42.9 x 33.9 x 0.1 inch
€1,950
famille intérieur jaune
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 35 x 27 x 3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 1.2 inch
€300 €240
Tête noire, masque rose
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€450 €360
Homme dans fauteuil et enfant
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 130 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 1.2 inch
€3,000 €2,400
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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.