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![Photography, Legs Silhouette (L), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199351_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Legs Silhouette (M), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199350_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Legs in the limo (4), Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193178_1_grid.jpg)
Legs in the limo (4)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 142.2 x 182.9 cm Photography - 56 x 72 inch
€24,254
![Painting, La face cachée, Sylvie Julkowski-Egard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199325_1_grid.jpg)
La face cachée
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
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Golden Shower of Hope
Parimah Avani
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 12 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 4.7 x 0.1 inch
€480
![Painting, Jasminum grandiflorum, Ksenia Milicevic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189151_1_grid.jpg)
Jasminum grandiflorum
Ksenia Milicevic
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,200 €4,680
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À contre-jour
Arnaud Ele
Photography - 118.8 x 84 x 0.1 cm Photography - 46.8 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€1,280
![Painting, Neoflora Series 8, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/375243_1_grid.jpg)
Neoflora Series 8
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 120 x 84 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch
€800
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Neoflora Series 6
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 120 x 84 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch
€800
![Painting, Neoflora Series 4, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/375231_1_grid.jpg)
Neoflora Series 4
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 120 x 84 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch
€800
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Neoflora Series 1
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 120 x 84 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch
€800
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Exploflora Series No.28
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 111.8 x 271.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 44 x 107 x 2 inch
€1,980
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Pavarti Cantatrice
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 35 x 15 x 13 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 5.9 x 5.1 inch
€1,250
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La saison des plaisirs
Ksenia Milicevic
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€5,400 €4,860
![Sculpture, The luminous schoolgirls quartet : scarlet elegy of the tragical island, Hiro Ando](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186685_1_grid.jpg)
The luminous schoolgirls quartet : scarlet elegy of the tragical island
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 58 x 53 x 18 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 20.9 x 7.1 inch
€10,000
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Tree of Destiny Painting
Artur Soletskyi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
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L'œil orangé
Arnaud Ele
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0.1 inch
€680
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L'Oiseau Damoclès (Étude)
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 45 x 28 x 3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 11 x 1.2 inch
€456
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Marilyn Rare Black Dress (1962)
Bert Stern
Photography - 48 x 33 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 x 0.4 inch
€2,490
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Portrait with Bird
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 45 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
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Hausa and Fula cultures collide
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,541
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La montée des eaux
Fabienne Cresens
Photography - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€500
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Antique games. Love story.
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,550
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La Dame au Mouton
Svetlana Maksimenko
Painting - 24 x 18 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch
€195
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Lectrice assise sur bord de livre Love
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 31 x 13 x 10 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
€2,400
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Maud - Abstrait nu N°9
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€990
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L'envol / The flight, 1917 (Mutter mit kind / Mother and child)
Egon Schiele
Print - 50 x 68 cm Print - 19.7 x 26.8 inch
€780
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Encre #1
Timothy Archer
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€850
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Emergence
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 116 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,600
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Visioni Interior
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 160 x 108 x 0.4 cm Painting - 63 x 42.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,200
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Poèmes insoumis
André Masson
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 20.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
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Poèmes insoumis
André Masson
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€1,500
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"Et la tendresse?" figuratif portrait acrylique sable sur lin 100x100cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€4,200 €3,780
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Panthère strassée
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 55 x 150 x 35 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 59.1 x 13.8 inch
€9,500
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No 81 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 84 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€2,620
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Human body
'I wanted to conquer the world. But I also desperately wanted to understand human nature, and to know what was inside our bodies. To do this, I have spent whole night dissecting bodies, against the direct orders of the Pope. Nothing disgusts me. What I am looking for, truly, in all of my work and particularly in my painting, what I have looked for all my life, is to understand the mystery that is human nature' – from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century.
At the time of writing these notes, da Vinci had already made greater understanding of the human body the primary objective of his investigations. Dissection and study were key to his development of a holistic knowledge of anatomy, which da Vinci believed was vital to the perfect rendering of the nude figures which he painted and drew.
Little by little, the traditional image of the human figure was uprooted and in its place new ways of interpreting the body developed. Contemporary artists relentlessly questioned the traditional codes of figure drawing, liberally reworking the representation of the body to create a new image that was dislocated, geometric, deformed and disfigured.
The body as an artistic subject is at once desired, fantasised, dreamt, transformed, deformed. For painters, photographers and sculptors alike the body represents a rite of passage in their artistic development. Many people say that they most appreciate the talents of an artists by way of their control over the complexity of the figure. For example, it's clear even in Matisse's later, more abstract collages that he had perfectly mastered the human form.
Representation of the body is fundamental to Western art: first and foremost because it suggests a representation of the self, and therefore affirms the artist's own existence and coexistence with the environment that surrounds them. At the beginning of art history, the only bodies represented were the gods, supernatural beings, and spirits who had taken on human form. The body, nude or clothed, is at once one of the most widely depicted and most deeply polemical subjects in Western art (think of the scandals provoked by Courbet's 'Origins of the World', or Renoir's 'Picnic on the Grass').
The body has always been the primary subject of an array of themes, and its history is rich and ancient. Initially, depiction of the body was closely linked to religion, where the Word became flesh in Genesis, but later in more secular times the arousal of the artist when faced with the body made for an equally popular theme. Latterly the notion of the body as an object of beauty was subverted by Cubism until depictions of bodies no longer bore any resemblance to reality or made any pretence of respecting the rules of proportion.
Finally, in modern art the body has taken on an abstract shape within space, becoming one with the environment. In some instances, the body has become the artist's own support, as with Klein's models. The body as an abstract concept is tangible in many different manifestations in art, even in pieces as unassuming as some of Rothko's paintings. It remains the subject of inexhaustible inspiration and eternal debate.