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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Angel with a Sword, no. IV/VIII
Jacek Cholewa
Sculpture - 19 x 10 x 14 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 3.9 x 5.5 inch
€1,500 €1,350
Hanakotoba (Limited Edition of 50)
Ger Doornink
Print - 87 x 70 x 2 cm Print - 34.3 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€980
Sin darnos cuenta 13
Carme Pastrana
Painting - 25 x 25 x 0.5 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.2 inch
€750
Fougère amazone
Aurélie Trabaud
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,520
Petite dame au Fourreau
Josepha
Sculpture - 40 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
€11,500
Salpetrière, portrait #1
Gwendoline Hausermann
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 21.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 8.5 inch
€600
Ecoute II
Bze Bzeland
Fine Art Drawings - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
€200
Des araignées dans le grenier
Michaël Brack
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
€700
Huntress
Eléonore de Moffarts
Sculpture - 48 x 65 x 30 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 25.6 x 11.8 inch
€9,099
Gaze 2 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women
Ayotunde Ayomide
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
€1,001
Embrace (Nature) 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Women
Oyeleye Feranmi
Painting - 111.8 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 44 x 32 x 1 inch
€2,048
Dotted Blue
Awosola Michael Angello
Painting - 73.7 x 73.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 29 x 29 x 1 inch
€1,775
A Perfect Day - 21st Century, Contemporary, Impressionism, Africa, Women, Blue
Bello Gabriel
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,321
Totem Portrait of Modern People
Liu Bolin
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€7,900
Tête de femme
Amedeo Modigliani
Sculpture - 54 x 11 x 14 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 4.3 x 5.5 inch
€18,000
Stanza metafisica
Dr. Love
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 27 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
€90
Buste Rose Baccarat - Portrait singulier pâte de verre
Gilles Vadel
Sculpture - 30 x 24 x 12 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.4 x 4.7 inch
€600
Transformation
Victoria Kagalovska
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€10,000
La petite fille et son grand pére
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€800
Rencontre dans le jardin
Anthea Missy
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 48 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 18.9 x 0 inch
€500
Orlane - série femme de dos
Fabienne Lecras
Painting - 75 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€720
Il est nécessaire que jeunesse se fasse
Sandrine Stoïanov
Painting - 61 x 42 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 16.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Blackout Beauty
Mathieu Questel
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.22 x 28.74 x 1 inch
€2,900
Blooming in True Self Love - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Fashion Women
Elie Hatungimana
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€1,684
Edition sur papier Oksana 7302019625190007E N°12/50
Pola 4.0
Print - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€580
Street Jazz Band
Karine Harutyunyan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€592
Un homme et sa femme découvrent un drôle d’oiseau
Bjørn Nørgaard
Print - 50.5 x 37.5 cm Print - 19.9 x 14.8 inch
€587
La belle endormie
Christiane Bernais
Sculpture - 29 x 33 x 16 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 13 x 6.3 inch
€950
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
€364
Close to nothing (Pink)
Sophie Derrick
Photography - 42 x 30 x 8 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.8 x 3.1 inch
€1,480
Dedicated to Botticelli 4
Olga Marciano
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€800
Tina Turner, Paris
Bob Gruen
Photography - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.3 cm Photography - 14 x 11 x 0.5 inch
€1,775
Smile Sourire
Moon Shin
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
€25,000 €12,500
Sculpture Ethnie - Femme africaine orange rouge caramel avec bébé devant
Atelier Piquifou
Sculpture - 44 x 10 x 5 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 3.9 x 2 inch
Sold
Blossom of Beauty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Woman
Agwunwa Theophilus
Painting - 86.4 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 34 x 32 x 1 inch
€2,321
SAMOURAI Acteur de Kabuki
Utagawa Kunisada Toyokuni III
Print - 34 x 21 x 1 cm Print - 13.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
€490 €441
MY PHOTO Olympiades des Arts Paris 1991 1992
Kong Ok Sim
Print - 56 x 42 x 0.3 cm Print - 22 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
€650
1985 Pierrot
Sarah Wiame-Peclard
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,950 €975
Vendeur de bouées avec ballon de Barcelone
Rosario Heins
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€7,600
WIENER AKTIONISMUS MODIGLIANI Tribute 1970
E. Neuman
Painting - 55 x 46 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 inch
€950 €475
Nkechi and Daniel
Ife Kalejaiye
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€1,684
