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My village, a child and a Lego
Eulogia Merle
Painting - 100 x 120 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 inch
€2,420
Contemporary portrait "Cat Country"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 55 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 21.7 x 0.7 inch
€1,990
Small Stainless Steel Bear -Alain
Irena Tone
Design - 20.5 x 13.5 x 16 cm Design - 8.1 x 5.3 x 6.3 inch
€650 €585
L'oiseau qui rêve de Mer - Miniature 1
Pauline Couble
Sculpture - 11.5 x 7.5 x 14.5 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 3 x 5.7 inch
€500
Etude
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€600
Abstract shark XXL
Ghost Art
Sculpture - 90 x 280 x 160 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 110.2 x 63 inch
€17,500
The Ballad of the Blue Fish
Karin Mikulášová
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,595
Black Sheep 16 23
Eulogia Merle
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 inch
€450
Shepherd and Head of Sheep
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 130 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
€10,074
Tête de cheval impressionniste oxyde vert
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 53 x 21 x 30.5 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 8.3 x 12 inch
€1,280
Do you see the same thing than me?
Antoine Josse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€2,600
L'envole I - préchauffage
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 93 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
€2,200
Singes Sagesse Ho My God
Miko-R
Sculpture - 60 x 30 x 15 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 11.8 x 5.9 inch
€2,200
Elf and the dancing bear
Markus Lüpertz
Sculpture - 45 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€19,000
Divina Proportia
Dirk De Keyzer
Sculpture - 58 x 12 x 8 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 4.7 x 3.1 inch
€12,450
Le Rhino danseur Fuchsia X-Treme
Xavier Wttrwulghe
Sculpture - 75 x 35 x 50 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 13.8 x 19.7 inch
€6,500
Boîte de Petri #11
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€600 €528
Rockett- God save the bear
Max ArtLouis
Sculpture - 35 x 18 x 17 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 7.1 x 6.7 inch
€1,800
Panther Rouge Yeux Alu
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 34 x 70 x 15 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 27.6 x 5.9 inch
€11,500
La toilette - Sculpture bronze
Plaf
Sculpture - 15 x 12 x 8.5 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 4.7 x 3.3 inch
€1,500
Clash of the Titans
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 30 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€720
It's not you, it's not me either
Rahma Lhoussig
Painting - 90 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€3,800
Inside David Attenborough's Pocket Watch
Victoria Horkan
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,145
Flower Brunch
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,300
Polo Party - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
€3,300
Cocoon of Comfort, The Joy Series: A Journey to Inner Happiness original artwork
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,220
Pop Flower Bulldog 2
Priscilla Vettese
Sculpture - 24 x 17.5 x 12 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 6.9 x 4.7 inch
€250
Vanité aux papillons
Philippe Pasqua
Sculpture - 22 x 48 x 48 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 18.9 x 18.9 inch
€14,000
Le Patriarche N°1
Michel Bassompierre
Sculpture - 12 x 13 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 5.1 x 4.3 inch
€3,600
Vegas pop art black fashion
Christophe Comerro
Sculpture - 41 x 30 x 45 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€1,180
Yokai
L'encredufauve
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 22.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 8.9 x 0.2 inch
€500
Everything Under The Sky (The Saved)
Faile
Print - 48 x 32 x 0.05 cm Print - 18.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€1,100
She Lay in a Meadow 1/2
Nina Narimanishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€1,100
Yellow Rabbit-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 46 x 33 x 14 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 13 x 5.5 inch
€550
Animal Painting #018-1632
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,360
Le Cantique des oiseaux, Le Hibou
Katia Kameli
Sculpture - 26 x 26 x 36 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 10.2 x 14.2 inch
€7,000
Banana Republic #3 (Oeuvre unique)
Karl Kox
Print - 75 x 70 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.5 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€750
Hypomnema 2, Wall sculpture
Ivan Castiblanco
Sculpture - 79.8 x 79.8 x 33.8 cm Sculpture - 31.4 x 31.4 x 13.3 inch
€2,399
Animal
Animals are often featured in news, sometimes in heartwarming tales of human and animal companionship and other times in heartbreaking stories of illegal trade and endangered species. Animals are even present in social sciences, especially thank to ethology (behavioural sciences of animals in their natural habitat). They have fascinated philosophers from Antiquity all the way through to today and they are even present in the medical realm, as the benefits of animal-assisted therapies have been scientifically proven.
The relationship between humans and animals is also taken into account in the politics, most notably when debating topics related to ecology, the protection of ecosystems and sustainable development. Thus, animals might be seen as a crucial indicator of humanity's concerns.
As well in these many sectors, animals are also very much present in the arts. A number of art museums have decided exhibitions to animals including the Cluny Museum in Paris and MoMA PS1 in New York. Whether simply a humble spectator in an 18th century painting or the central subject of a Courbet painting, animals are present throughout the history of art. From symbolic, to esthetic, to abstract, to animal drawings meant to simply record their appearance...all these representations have played a role in influencing artists and also how we characterise and think of individual animals.
Each civilisation has represented the animal on multiples supports (mosaics, metal, stone, bones, etc.) as seen on the Nerja cave wall paintings in Andalusia discovered in 1925. Animal iconography has had multiple purposes, varying according to the era and place. Bats, for example, are often used to represent death, fear or superstition in Western art, whereas the Chinese see them as a sign of happiness. The omnipresence of animals within cultures across the globe is probably down to the similarities between men and animal, a source of both fascination and fear.
In this selection, Artsper helps you to discover the beauty of the animal kingdom, its diversity, strength and fragility. Artists depict animals in a huge range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photographs, and drawings. Contemporary artists bring an original and poetic vision to their representations of the animals with whom we share our world.