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Bianca Li Les Palpitantes
Alice Laverty
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,393
Simone de Beauvoir Les Plapitantes
Alice Laverty
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,393
Charlotte Salomon Les Palpitantes
Alice Laverty
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,393
Reflections 2
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 56 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 22 x 0.2 inch
$250
Reflections 1
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 52 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 20.5 x 0.2 inch
$250
Conversation in ochre 3
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$250
Conversation in ochre 2
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
Conversation in ochre 1
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
Lost words 9
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
Lost words 8
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
Lost words 6
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
Lost words 5
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
Lost words 2
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
A conversation with a therapist 10
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$250
A conversation with a therapist 9
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$250
A conversation with a therapist 8
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 62 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 24.4 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$250
Frida Khalo Les Palpitantes
Alice Laverty
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$3,393
Colette Les Palpitantes
Alice Laverty
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$3,393
Beyonce Knowles Les Palpitantes
Alice Laverty
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$3,393
Le chemin des douaniers
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Whispers in the night: A tale of two in a wagon bar
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 27 x 22 x 1.8 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.7 inch
$848
Reste près de mon coeur
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 27 x 22 x 34 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 13.4 inch
$848
Un regard énigmatique sous un voile écarlate
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 11 x 7 x 0.8 cm Painting - 4.3 x 2.8 x 0.3 inch
$848
Le soleil sommeille sur les rues de Paris
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$848
La nuit mystérieuse jaune
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$4,524
Lisbeth Buonanno
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,714
Les apparences trompeuses
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$4,524
Ce sont nos enfants
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 73 x 113 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 44.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,958
Underground life
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,393
Route 66 l'attrape-cœurs
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 20.7 x 21 x 1.8 cm Painting - 8.1 x 8.3 x 0.7 inch
$565
Hanoï-Hong Kong by night
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,089
Sous le soleil d'Italie
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,089
Fanfare de la mer
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,393
Home style cooking
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 89 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,619
Une rencontre inattendue
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 19 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$543
Happy birthday Mr. President
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 18 x 15 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.1 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$339
Somber Portrait Painters
Sadness, melancholy and gloom have found an outlet in artists throughout history and in the depiction of figurative art. Through artists, humanity and their emotional and physical states are portrayed to be viewed and related to. The instant recognition of such a grave subject also plagues human history itself, thus carving out its own rightful spot amongst the history of art movements. In Edgar Degas' 1875 painting L'Absinthe, where viewers see a portrait of a young woman solemnly contemplating her situation, disengaged from their gaze, her surroundings, maybe even from herself.
Dark hues and colors define somber portrait painting and can highlight the cause of such sadness, whether that be the subject's emotional state or a greater rendering of the world's expanse and the human existence within it. Existential or not, the traits of somber artwork can be found in our own collection of portraits on Artsper. The portraiture work of Nicolas Fropo de Habart works the body in all its dimensions to create an absolute feeling of vastness while Antoine Stevens also depicts wandering souls in his dimmed portraiture. But given the nature of humanity, somber depictions of the figure are not entirely unexpected…