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Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 200 x 150 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
€9,000
LE PONT DE TERENEZ
Véronique Bourgeois-Noury
Painting - 162 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 63.8 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Olivier en bronze
Philippe Pasqua
Sculpture - 80 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
€25,000
Cyrano si j'étais...
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€770
Je boirai bien une bière
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€780
Costume
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.5 x 4.6 x 0 inch
€600
Jules & Jim
Lou Andréas Salomé Tauss
Painting - 55 x 38 x 1.8 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.7 inch
€410
Model
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 43 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.9 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€1,600
Lifebuoy Woman
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€920
Woman
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 24.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9.6 x 0 inch
€750
Giraffe Man
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 18.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 7.3 x 0 inch
€600
Tu trouves pas elle a grands pieds ?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€770
Portrait of Woman
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 39 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 15.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,600
Trapezist
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 23.7 x 31.8 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 12.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,100
Landscape with Figures
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€2,000
Image of Death
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.6 x 0 inch
€1,000
Papillon Mon Amour
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Photography - 120 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€1,500
Les Hespérides L'Insouciance
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Photography - 120 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€1,500
Le Souffle de la Légèreté
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Photography - 120 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€1,500
At the Zoo
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 35.5 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€700
Morandi or Molotoff
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 21.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 8.5 x 0 inch
€700
Otium
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€580
Portrait
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€480
Nude of Woman
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 22 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
€680
Figures
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 22 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
€580
Mermaid
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.1 x 0 inch
€580
Bats
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€600
Mr. Gioia
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 22 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
€600
Le soldat
Lou Andréas Salomé Tauss
Painting - 92 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,060
Coupelle de vanités
Philippe Pasqua
Sculpture - 28 x 45 x 35 cm Sculpture - 11 x 17.7 x 13.8 inch
€25,000
Vanité aux papillons rouges
Philippe Pasqua
Painting - 130 x 80 x 0.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€10,900
Somber Portrait Painters
Sadness, melancholy and gloom have found an outlet in artists throughout history and in the depiction of figurative art. Through artists, humanity and their emotional and physical states are portrayed to be viewed and related to. The instant recognition of such a grave subject also plagues human history itself, thus carving out its own rightful spot amongst the history of art movements. In Edgar Degas' 1875 painting L'Absinthe, where viewers see a portrait of a young woman solemnly contemplating her situation, disengaged from their gaze, her surroundings, maybe even from herself.
Dark hues and colors define somber portrait painting and can highlight the cause of such sadness, whether that be the subject's emotional state or a greater rendering of the world's expanse and the human existence within it. Existential or not, the traits of somber artwork can be found in our own collection of portraits on Artsper. The portraiture work of Nicolas Fropo de Habart works the body in all its dimensions to create an absolute feeling of vastness while Antoine Stevens also depicts wandering souls in his dimmed portraiture. But given the nature of humanity, somber depictions of the figure are not entirely unexpected…