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L'attirance
François Sauvage
Painting - 130 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,100 €990
Figure Painting # 023-2206
Les Thomas
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€2,040 €1,836
"Sitting" figuratif nu acrylique sur lin 60x60cm 2010
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,100
The Fairy Of a Moonlight
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200 €600
Abstrait nu N°11 : Hold tight
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 45 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 12 x 0 inch
€785
Dreaming Muse #1
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Les Merveilleux Nuages
Sorrel Mocchia di Coggiola
Painting - 92 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Anima reconciled
Moushegh karavartanian
Painting - 100 x 75 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.5 inch
€921 €829
Lovers - Pure love 1
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 63 x 51.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24.8 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
€760
Lovers - Pure love 2
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 63 x 51.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24.8 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
€760
Lovers - Pure love 3
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 63 x 51.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24.8 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
€760
Lovers - I am yours
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 59.9 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€842
Lovers -You are mine
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 59.9 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€842
Lovers at sunset 1
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 59.9 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€879
Lovers at sunset 2
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 59.9 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€890
Lovers at sunset 3
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 59.9 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€890
Sa Manière de Ressentir le Monde.
Amor de Agua
Painting - 120 x 300 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 118.1 x 0.1 inch
€3,000
Beyond boundaries #3
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 200 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Blue and orange relaxing figure 1
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 70.1 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€665
Blue and orange relaxing figure 2
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 70.1 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€665
Odalisque and Guitar
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 105.5 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 41.5 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
€12,400
Golden 18-07-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Corné Akkers
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€9,028
Homage to Eugène Durieu's Seated Female Nude 02-, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Corné Akkers
Painting - 100.1 x 70.1 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€7,961
Roundism - 07-08-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Corné Akkers
Painting - 100.1 x 70.1 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€7,941
Art Deco Nude - 14-08-22, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Corné Akkers
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€7,815
Petite chose # 24
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€300 €240
Miss Guided
Sorrel Mocchia di Coggiola
Painting - 60 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
I Still Wear Your Shirt
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 1 inch
€595
The Ukrainian Girl at the Morning Lake
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.9 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.75 inch
€4,030
The reader II
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 1.9 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 0.75 inch
€15,831
Violet Face
Isshaq Ismail
Painting - 91 x 75 x 5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 29.5 x 2 inch
Price upon request
"Mémoires" figuratif portrait acrylique sable sur lin 60x30cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 60 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
Sold
Sweet morning with a cup of coffee
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€380
Le chat bleu
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,150 €1,093
Structure de la folie II
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 116 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Hommage à Camille Claudel
Duytter
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€5,900
Portrait de Marguerite d'Autriche d'après Jean Hey
Joris Ghilini
Painting - 106 x 73 x 15 cm Painting - 41.7 x 28.7 x 5.9 inch
€9,375
Elegante assisse pres d'une chaise lyre
Paul César Helleu
Painting - 61 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€6,500
Azo
Alexandre Monteiro (Hopare)
Painting - 260 x 200 cm Painting - 102.4 x 78.7 inch
Price upon request
François d'Angoulême
Joris Ghilini
Painting - 106 x 73 x 15 cm Painting - 41.7 x 28.7 x 5.9 inch
€9,375
Structure de la folie
Julie Ruelle
Painting - 116 x 75 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Eve Keith Jacket 2
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,200
Baby Doll n145, H Tribute
Rachel Bergeret
Painting - 70 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€3,450
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Portrait Painting for Sale
Portraiture is one of the most important subjects in painting. The discipline has changed significantly over time and has a fascinating history.
In antiquity, portraits were exclusively reserved for gods and the most influential people in society. Paintings and statues representing the bodies of the deceased were erected to decorate tombs in Egypt. They weren't realistic but rather had a very standardized way of representing each part of the body.
In contrast to the Egyptians, painters and sculptors in Greece, who had a more in depth knowledge of the human anatomy, were more concerned about realism. Many portrait paintings from this period were done on vases and depicted gods and mythological scenes.
In the Middle Ages, most portraits paintings were commissioned and featuring the most important people of the time; they were painted into religious scenes to emphasize their piety and faith, along with their social status. Once these works of art had been painted, they were often donated to churches and monasteries.
The Renaissance marked a renewal for the arts and portrait painting was no exception. At the beginning of this period, artists were unconcerned about lifelike, realistic work. Sitters or the subjects represented were identifiable through the use of symbolic objects and the inclusion of their name.
Giotto revolutionized portraiture by imitating sculpture. He began to paint shadows, the subjects' expressions, effects of depth and began to use foreshortening. His knowledge soon began to spread.
Brunelleschi then introduced the idea of perspective in architecture, a concept which Masaccio adapted to painting. Italy became the center of portrait painting and the most important Italian families (including the Médici family) commissioned artwork by the best painters. Competition between these painters led them to innovate and led them to produce some of the greatest artworks in history. The most famous is undoubtedly the Mona Lisa by Leonardo de Vinci.
In Northern Europe during the 16th century, Flemish art was restricted by iconoclasm during the Reformation, a period during the depiction of religious figures was banned. Artists turned to courtly art which was particularly popular during the following centuries. A century earlier, Flemish art had marked a turning point with Jan Van Eyck, the inventor of oil painting (the preferred painting technique of Renaissance painters) and master of detailed realism, who influenced an entire generation of Flemish painters.
Over the following centuries, portrait painting continued to be an art form for the elite of society, but painters grew increasingly concerned about depicting realistic figures and communicating the sitter's inner world and emotions. The 20th century saw a growing trend: subjects were not painted to look beautiful (sometimes to their great dismay).
At the end of the 19th century, Impressionist painters became less reliant on sculpted models and sculpture's influence. They left their studios and painted portraits outside, “en plein air." They captured the light as they saw it and painted groups of people together rather than in in several stages.
Modern and contemporary art of the 20th century saw anything go when it came to portraits. Artists like Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin and Lucien Freud turned traditional techniques and codified rules on their heads and developed their own unique styles.
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A portrait painting is a painted artwork that depicts a person. A portrait painting usually depicts the upper body of a sitter, for example from the shoulders up.
A portrait can be created in various different art styles and forms, including sculpture, painting and drawing.
A portrait can be considered a good work of art for a variety of reasons, including its handling of light, tone and color, its likeness to the person it represents, or its expression of emotion.