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!
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Festival of Fire
Ofobuike Okudoh
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 49.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.5 inch
CHF 2,934
RESTEZ CHEZ VOUS
Jean-Paul Bocaj
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 538
Political Demagogy III
José Luis Cuevas
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 35.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14 inch
CHF 3,850
Queen's Gambit
Sofia Panoramenko
Painting - 62 x 83 x 1.5 cm Painting - 24.4 x 32.7 x 0.6 inch
CHF 675
Portrait of Jean Basquiat
Gbemileke Blessing Adegboro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
CHF 1,283
Untitled (44)
Mansour El Habre
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
CHF 1,626
Himba mother and child
Faie Davis
Photography - 113.6 x 81.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 44.7 x 32.1 x 0.1 inch
CHF 1,467
MIYUKI 5 : MISTY PURPLE WHISPERS AND KAWAII TEMPTATION
Aya Toshikawa
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
CHF 2,053
A little bird told me
Plamen Ovcharov
Painting - 57 x 73.5 x 2 cm Painting - 22.4 x 28.9 x 0.8 inch
CHF 567
Nature
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
CHF 645
Hexa Lovely Frida
Priscilla Vettese
Print - 43 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Print - 16.9 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
CHF 88
Face and Phases - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, African Women
Samson Toba
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
CHF 3,294
The effect of propaganda
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
CHF 2,445
A fleur de peau #04
Malo
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
CHF 5,476
Lovers COCTEAU et Jean MARAIS Les Amants
Jean Marais
Print - 60 x 45 cm Print - 23.6 x 17.7 inch
CHF 733
Al Despertar - Upon Awakening
Peperina Magenta
Print - 90.2 x 59.7 x 1.3 cm Print - 35.5 x 23.5 x 0.5 inch
CHF 4,021
Matka Bozia, The Purification of Our Lady
Marcelina Amelia
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 5,867
It rains from the Sky
Deok-Sik Hyun
Painting - 51 x 36 x 5 cm Painting - 20.1 x 14.2 x 2 inch
CHF 782
Once Given a White Rose 2
Agbalaya Abdulahi Opeyemi
Painting - 33 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13 x 10 x 1 inch
CHF 556
Child & Child on Armchair
Antonio Mellone
Painting - 55 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
CHF 538
Untitled 3
Modou Dieng Yacine
Painting - 198.1 x 121.9 x 3 cm Painting - 78 x 48 x 1.2 inch
CHF 18,579
Lady with a hand fan
Anatoly Metlan
Painting - 91 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 1 inch
CHF 5,818
Sans titre
Menachem Gueffen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 28 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11 x 0.4 inch
CHF 567
Famille Malienne
Claudine Loquen
Painting - 55 x 46 x 3 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
CHF 782
The Ladder of Jacob
Edward Ben Avram
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,053
Hold Up
Jean-Charles De Castelbajac
Design - 26.5 x 26.5 x 2 cm Design - 10.4 x 10.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,946
First Love (large framed hand signed screen print)
Romero Britto
Print - 83.8 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Print - 33 x 39 x 0.1 inch
CHF 1,604
My Light Blue Dream 1
Omoyeni Arogunmati
Painting - 61 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 22 x 1 inch
CHF 727
Woman of Integrity
Taiwo Oguntola
Painting - 58.4 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23 x 20 x 1 inch
CHF 1,369
PapierBulle/Thai Boxing
Christophe Ruiz
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
CHF 880
Laure retour de match
Bertrand De Cointet
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 704
The Tourist
Daniel Sueiras Fanjul
Painting - 80 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 2 inch
CHF 4,694
No Valid Name #1
Natasha Lelenco
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 5 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 2 inch
CHF 1,173
In the silence
Roman Rembovsky
Painting - 119.9 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 10,282
The paranoid likes to make people paranoid
Gérald Panighi
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 27.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 10.8 x 0.1 inch
CHF 782
