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Taxi Driver, June 14 (Diptych)
Celso Castro
Painting - 69.9 x 49.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.5 x 19.5 x 0.1 inch
$400
Untitled XXIX
Julieta Intergalactica
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 14.8 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.1 inch
$268
Actitudes comunicantes
Carmen González Castro
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
You look at me sadly, Nevo 1
Nevelin Ivanov
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$168
Graphic Content
Emmanuel Beyens
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,578
Island Boy per 2
Han-Jin Choi
Sculpture - 60 x 57 x 30 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 22.4 x 11.8 inch
$6,500
Portrait of Winnipeg (Life is like a box of chocolates)
Diana Thorneycroft
Photography - 61 x 76 cm Photography - 24 x 29.9 inch
$3,500
Le doux parfum de l’amour
Tristan Saint Michel
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,031
El Bosque De Los Mitos. From The Series Of Revelación,
Daniel Casique
Painting - 75 x 60 x 5.1 cm Painting - 29.52 x 23.62 x 2 inch
$2,500
Chemin Faisant "Le poirier" (1)
Bertrand Desprez
Photography - 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1 inch
$335
Up and down
Pablo Santibéñez Servat
Painting - 175.3 x 146.1 x 5.1 cm Painting - 69 x 57.5 x 2 inch
$15,000
Poésie 34
Yanne Kintgen
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 24 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,398
Couli #1, From Lullaby Series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 127 x 88.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 50 x 35 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Bardot - L'enchanteresse (1968)
Just Jaeckin
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,124
Sortie de boîte...j’appelle un taxi !!!
Lydi
Painting - 81 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,565
Tallulah Bankhead
Paloma Castello
Fine Art Drawings - 41.9 x 29.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0.1 inch
$500
Une route longue comme un miroir fertile
Théo Tobiasse
Print - 57 x 38 x 0.2 cm Print - 22.4 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$615 $553
Massavo the Makokean 2
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
$2,000
The Secrets of the Mind
Roxana Miclea
Painting - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,012
Ancient Egyptian Woman Figure
Mario Molinari
Fine Art Drawings - 34.5 x 16.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.6 x 6.4 x 0 inch
$559
Die Katzin
Matthew Rose
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 45 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 17.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,342
Cavalier avec un glaive sur canapé
Victorien Bazo
Painting - 90 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$3,578
A Lovely Date With Venus
Sahara
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,509 $845
Double standard 17. From The Series doble sStandard
James Bonachea
Fine Art Drawings - 37.8 x 24.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.9 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Henriette Northam
Grandgrandgrand
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$950
Alice Heine (1857-1925), épouse du Prince Albert 1er de Monaco, buste en marbre blanc par Fabio Stecchi (1855-1928), 1892, Carole. Palais Princier de Monaco
Julien Spiewak
Photography - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$4,360
Altar Boys
Roberto De Francisci
Painting - 140 x 145 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 57.1 x 0 inch
$1,789
Untitled
Duván López
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$671
Fluctuatio 3
Ezu Zapata Urrutiabeascoa
Sculpture - 12.5 x 14 x 4.5 cm Sculpture - 4.9 x 5.5 x 1.8 inch
$1,722
Heads Ian Cutout
Julian Opie
Sculpture - 35.8 x 33.9 x 10 cm Sculpture - 14.1 x 13.3 x 3.9 inch
$12,298
Le corps souple de la belle
Herve Malcom Thomas
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,460
Self-Portrait 20.62
Arthur Hent
Photography - 40 x 30 x 2.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1 inch
$1,677
Two Women
Paul César Helleu
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$10,621
Jake not Dinos; Dinos not Jake
Jake & Dinos Chapman
Print - 39 x 28 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.4 x 11 x 0 inch
$894
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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!