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![Sculpture, Sue, Nando Kallweit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1227741_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Art d'être IV, Cécile Baldewyns](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/512072_1_grid.jpg)
Art d'être IV
Cécile Baldewyns
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.04 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€800
![Sculpture, Fugues, Ferran Soriano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181641_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vertige du soir, Marie-Paskale Perrin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203746_1_grid.jpg)
Vertige du soir
Marie-Paskale Perrin
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,750
![Painting, Dentelles, Marie-Paskale Perrin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203739_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bain de fleurs, Marie-Paskale Perrin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203722_1_grid.jpg)
Bain de fleurs
Marie-Paskale Perrin
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,330
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![Sculpture, Sekitori : an crimson silent strength, Ryoko Watanabe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181109_1_grid.jpg)
Sekitori : an crimson silent strength
Ryoko Watanabe
Sculpture - 150 x 180 x 50 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 70.9 x 19.7 inch
€32,000
![Painting, Corps rêvé réel 1, Anne Procoudine-Gorsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195560_1_grid.jpg)
Corps rêvé réel 1
Anne Procoudine-Gorsky
Painting - 156 x 62 x 1.5 cm Painting - 61.4 x 24.4 x 0.6 inch
€680
![Painting, Mujer posando, Ruth Arbiser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193795_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Après le bain, Frédérique Tristant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196140_1_grid.jpg)
Après le bain
Frédérique Tristant
Painting - 80 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,300
![Painting, Series Thoughts, Ramaz Chantladze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194346_1_grid.jpg)
Series Thoughts
Ramaz Chantladze
Painting - 90 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€6,500
![Painting, Partie de campagne, Alain Vintenon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193723_1_grid.jpg)
Partie de campagne
Alain Vintenon
Painting - 123 x 124 x 4 cm Painting - 48.4 x 48.8 x 1.6 inch
€6,300
![Painting, Chicas maquillándose, Jordi Turbau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183210_1_grid.jpg)
Chicas maquillándose
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Desnudas en el sofá, Jordi Turbau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183200_1_grid.jpg)
Desnudas en el sofá
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 81 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 40 x 1.2 inch
€2,600
![Painting, Dos hermanas y una amiga, Jordi Turbau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183192_1_grid.jpg)
Dos hermanas y una amiga
Jordi Turbau
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,200
![Painting, My Fair Lady, Mikhail Baranovskiy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205744_1_grid.jpg)
My Fair Lady
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€2,000
![Print, Tell Me Beautiful Untrue Things, The Connor Brothers](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200122_1_grid.jpg)
Tell Me Beautiful Untrue Things
The Connor Brothers
Print - 120 x 76 x 0.1 cm Print - 47.2 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,100
![Painting, Le partage du Midi, Ksenia Milicevic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189125_1_grid.jpg)
Le partage du Midi
Ksenia Milicevic
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€5,400
![Print, Nude, Sergio Barletta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2125464_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Hommage à Terpsichore, Salvador Dali](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/499265_1_grid.jpg)
Hommage à Terpsichore
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 70.5 x 44 x 23 cm Sculpture - 27.8 x 17.3 x 9.1 inch
€40,980
![Painting, Sonate Sensuelle, Kristina Malashchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211991_1_grid.jpg)
Sonate Sensuelle
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 36 x 26 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 10.2 x 0 inch
€650
![Print, David Murakami, M_ Michael Mc Macfarney](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200583_1_grid.jpg)
David Murakami
M_ Michael Mc Macfarney
Print - 125 x 60 x 0.3 cm Print - 49.2 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€8,250
![Sculpture, The Modern Thinker (Le Penseur Moderne), Bruno Cantais](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198362_1_grid.jpg)
The Modern Thinker (Le Penseur Moderne)
Bruno Cantais
Sculpture - 25 x 11 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.3 x 3.9 inch
€230
![Fine Art Drawings, Love story, Hildegarde Handsaeme](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189981_1_grid.jpg)
Love story
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
€520
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![Sculpture, Synthèse du jeune torse, Miguel Guía](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114151_1_grid.jpg)
Synthèse du jeune torse
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 28 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm Sculpture - 11 x 3.3 x 3.3 inch
€820
![Sculpture, Nu Homme Grand Bronze, Martín Duque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1091325_1_grid.jpg)
Nu Homme Grand Bronze
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 31.5 x 37 x 27.5 cm Sculpture - 12.4 x 14.6 x 10.8 inch
€1,490
![Sculpture, Black & yellow Minnie, Anna Kara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195026_1_grid.jpg)
Black & yellow Minnie
Anna Kara
Sculpture - 78 x 22 x 27 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 8.7 x 10.6 inch
€7,500
![Painting, Sin cuerpo, Ruth Arbiser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194685_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fête de la musique en jaune, Ruth Arbiser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193801_1_grid.jpg)
Fête de la musique en jaune
Ruth Arbiser
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€3,600
![Painting, Week - End à Ploumanach, Samuel Perche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193734_1_grid.jpg)
Week - End à Ploumanach
Samuel Perche
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2.6 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€3,250
![Sculpture, Minnie Mello Yellow, Anna Kara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193037_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Para Celso, Enrique Grau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191587_1_grid.jpg)
Para Celso
Enrique Grau
Fine Art Drawings - 58.4 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 18 x 0.1 inch
€2,904
![Sculpture, Minnie mellow pink, Anna Kara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182241_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Unitop, Jérôme Mesnager](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151368_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Erotic dream. Domination, Genia Sheyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180596_1_grid.jpg)
Erotic dream. Domination
Genia Sheyn
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,270
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![Painting, First wedding night, Anatoliy Stankulov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201403_1_grid.jpg)
First wedding night
Anatoliy Stankulov
Painting - 90 x 123 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 48.4 x 0.8 inch
€10,000
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![Painting, I've got the power (étude II), Patricia Dubois](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188097_1_grid.jpg)
I've got the power (étude II)
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 29 x 46 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.4 x 18.1 x 1.4 inch
€456 €411
![Painting, La trouille au ventre, Denis Blondel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187573_1_grid.jpg)
La trouille au ventre
Denis Blondel
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,130
![Painting, Distanciation physique #1, Denis Blondel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187564_1_grid.jpg)
Distanciation physique #1
Denis Blondel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,380
![Painting, La galette des rois, Denis Blondel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187494_1_grid.jpg)
La galette des rois
Denis Blondel
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
![Painting, Barbaque #4, Denis Blondel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187480_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blues Corner #4, Denis Blondel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187466_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Blues Corner #3, Denis Blondel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187424_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Reconfiguración del sentido, Carmen González Castro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1956072_1_grid.jpg)
Reconfiguración del sentido
Carmen González Castro
Painting - 46 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
![Sculpture, Carlotta, Nando Kallweit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1226334_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Something About Temptation, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193130_1_grid.jpg)
Something About Temptation
Artur Soletskyi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
![Painting, Jump, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193126_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Darkness, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193124_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Me and my Shadows, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192337_1_grid.jpg)
Me and my Shadows
Artur Soletskyi
Painting - 109 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 42.9 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
![Painting, Pipe inspection, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192327_1_grid.jpg)
Pipe inspection
Artur Soletskyi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
![Painting, Meeting, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192326_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Start.Star, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192140_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Run/Star, Artur Soletskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192076_1_grid.jpg)
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![Fine Art Drawings, Impossible behaviour - 12, Galya Popova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181270_1_grid.jpg)
Impossible behaviour - 12
Galya Popova
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 60 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,600
![Sculpture, Nu groupé grand feu rouge, Miguel Guía](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114043_1_grid.jpg)
Nu groupé grand feu rouge
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 31.5 x 33 x 17 cm Sculpture - 12.4 x 13 x 6.7 inch
€1,390
![Sculpture, Femme Nu Grand II, Martín Duque](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/86857_1_grid.jpg)
Femme Nu Grand II
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 36.5 x 49.5 x 29 cm Sculpture - 14.4 x 19.5 x 11.4 inch
€1,490
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![Sculpture, Pas de deux, Bernard Rives](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182435_1_grid.jpg)
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Fertility of Chaos
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
€2,720
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De la Serie Las Piadosas
Enriqueta Aguiló
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,650
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Minnie Mello Klein Gold
Anna Kara
Sculpture - 78 x 22 x 27 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 8.7 x 10.6 inch
€7,500
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![Painting, Toute une vie, Emmanuelle Vroelant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1662057_1_grid.jpg)
Toute une vie
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
![Print, Les Danseurs à la Lune - Original Etching, Marc Chagall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/630981_1_grid.jpg)
Les Danseurs à la Lune - Original Etching
Marc Chagall
Print - 50 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 14.8 x 0 inch
€12,000
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Tribute to Astarte and Her Spirit of Tenacity
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 62.2 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm Sculpture - 24.5 x 11 x 11 inch
€3,871
![Sculpture, Reimagining the Divine as You, Alex Hodge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/542152_1_grid.jpg)
Reimagining the Divine as You
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 91.4 x 50.8 x 20.3 cm Sculpture - 36 x 20 x 8 inch
€4,355
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Portrait of a Hopeful Desire
Jacqueline Schäfer
Painting - 50 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€800
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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.