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Higher Ground
Drew Doggett
Photography - 50.8 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€2,425
Mother's Grace
Drew Doggett
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€2,425
Unyielding Giant
Drew Doggett
Photography - 63.5 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 25 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€2,425
Le SIiamang /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€270
Séance de relaxation /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
€270
La traque Le Daguet rouge
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€270
Qu'est-ce qu'elle a ma gueule /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€230
Monsieur Pélican
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€230
Wally le petit koala
Christiane Bernais
Fine Art Drawings - 41.5 x 31.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.3 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
€400
Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Frere Orgin, L'Hermite (Brother Orgin, Hermit)
Salvador Dali
Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€1,200
Histoire de femmes 2
Florence Dussuyer
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€9,000
La femme aigle, Série Art animalier onirique
Jean-Louis Manuel
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Guerrière arquée
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 22 x 22 x 1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 8.7 x 0.4 inch
€950
The extinction of the species
Iván Castellón Quiroga
Painting - 80 x 60 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
€800
Giant's Dust
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 89 x 3 cm Photography - 26.4 x 35 x 1.2 inch
€3,000
Sharing Nature
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 89 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 35 x 0.8 inch
€2,998
Kim Kardashian
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€4,250
Nude elephant dust
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
1915 Nue au perroquet Nude with parrot
Eugène Druet
Photography - 43 x 54 cm Photography - 16.9 x 21.3 inch
€4,950
Série des Forêts No°5
Jean-Marc Teillon
Painting - 116 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
€2,500
Black Tulips
Cathrine Ockernahl
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€5,450
Femme au masque d'aigle blanc
Alain Quercia
Sculpture - 40 x 10 x 9 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 3.9 x 3.5 inch
€3,600
L'insouciante
Laurent Maëro
Sculpture - 250 x 150 x 50 cm Sculpture - 98.4 x 59.1 x 19.7 inch
€18,000
Enfant de la tribus Karo. Ethiopie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Primal
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Glamorous games
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,000 €3,400
Voodoo girl
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€4,000 €3,400
Silver Elephant
Jisbar
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
Wish I Could Fly (L)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
Price upon request
La Fratrie n°3b
Michel Bassompierre
Sculpture - 29 x 21 x 19 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 8.3 x 7.5 inch
Price upon request
Street Hippo
Onemizer
Painting - 92 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
La Patriarche N°3
Michel Bassompierre
Sculpture - 34.5 x 26.5 x 37 cm Sculpture - 13.6 x 10.4 x 14.6 inch
Price upon request
Le Parfum n°3
Michel Bassompierre
Sculpture - 29 x 16 x 18 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 6.3 x 7.1 inch
Price upon request
I Am Craig
Lars Beusker
Photography - 136 x 131 x 5 cm Photography - 53.5 x 51.6 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Mummy & Me
Lars Beusker
Photography - 146 x 126 x 5 cm Photography - 57.5 x 49.6 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Elephants On Earth
Lars Beusker
Photography - 116 x 186 x 5 cm Photography - 45.7 x 73.2 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Amboseli
Lars Beusker
Photography - 121 x 171 x 5 cm Photography - 47.6 x 67.3 x 2 inch
Price upon request
This Is Us
Lars Beusker
Photography - 126 x 146 x 5 cm Photography - 49.6 x 57.5 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Walk The Walk
Lars Beusker
Photography - 146 x 126 x 5 cm Photography - 57.5 x 49.6 x 2 inch
Price upon request
The King
Lars Beusker
Photography - 150 x 120 x 5 cm Photography - 59.1 x 47.2 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Garden Of Eden
Lars Beusker
Photography - 126 x 186 x 5 cm Photography - 49.6 x 73.2 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Waterhole
Lars Beusker
Photography - 126 x 146 x 5 cm Photography - 49.6 x 57.5 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Band Of Love
Lars Beusker
Photography - 116 x 181 x 5 cm Photography - 45.7 x 71.3 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Ba Jun Tu
Lars Beusker
Photography - 126 x 176 x 5 cm Photography - 49.6 x 69.3 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Game of Thrones
Lars Beusker
Photography - 106 x 186 x 5 cm Photography - 41.7 x 73.2 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Mondays
Lars Beusker
Photography - 126 x 166 x 5 cm Photography - 49.6 x 65.4 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Shere Khan
Lars Beusker
Photography - 136 x 126 x 5 cm Photography - 53.5 x 49.6 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Le vieux sage
Olivier Bertrand
Sculpture - 70 x 40 x 40 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
Price upon request
Clash of the Titans
Shahen Aleksandryan
Painting - 30 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
Sold
Wild kong, rouge Orlinski
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 23 x 12 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.1 x 4.7 inch
Sold
Dreaming on the Bookshef
Alexandr Klemens
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
Sold
2020/11 (GA45)
Guillaume Allemand
Sculpture - 43 x 43 x 3 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 16.9 x 1.2 inch
Sold
2018/02 3 (GA42)
Guillaume Allemand
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
Sold
2020/05 2 (GA41)
Guillaume Allemand
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
Sold
Wild animals
Wild animals, because of their impertinent beauty, have fascinated humans since the beginning of times. This is not surprising given how closely our evolution is linked to that of other species. If domestic animals have been represented many times in art, wild animals also inhabit artworks. Symbols of power and brutality, or fantasized images of distant lands, the subjects of the animal realm are an endless source of inspiration for artists.
In rock art already, humans painted the fauna that surrounded them. However, it was in Antiquity, from Egypt to Greece, that wild animals began to be represented for a specific purpose. Indeed, the animal figure, sacralised and feared, systematically referred to religions and myths. The Egyptian pantheon and its representations were populated by men with animal heads, and many Greek vases were decorated with the effigy of the Hydra or the Minotaur.
With the advent of Christianity, followed by humanism, animals began to be portrayed as submissive and dominated by man. This symbolism was essential for religious messages. The Middle Ages were particularly fascinated by the figure of the unicorn, a poetic and mythical animal. Gradually, however, the representation became more naturalistic, as Renaissance artists attempted to represent nature as realistically as possible, particularly in drawings and engravings. Wild animals were also omnipresent in hunting and war scenes. Some even played with the limit between realism and imagination,for instance Bosh in his 'Garden of Delights'.
One of the most recurring figure of wildlife in art is undoubtedly the lion. In Baroque art in particular, obsessed with exotic animals, the theme of the savannah came up regularly. European colonial enterprises, and the stories of those who returned from the four corners of the world made artists' imaginations bubble. A master in this field, Rubens painted exotic and grandiose hunting scenes, featuring tigers, hippos or crocodiles...
This Orientalist trend made a comeback in the 19th century, with Delacroix distinguished himself in the representation of wild animals, especially tigers. Later on, symbolists such as Gauguin found in the painting of wild animals a way to express their own vision of reality by creating colourful and fantasized worlds. This paved the way for naive art, the most illustrious representative of which was Henri Rousseau, who used an illustrated book on wild animals found at the Galeries Lafayette to populate his paintings with exotic animals that invited escape.
Contemporary art also draws inspiration from the bestiary very regularly. One can think of National Geographic's famous photographs, now on display in museums all around the world. From a more experimental perspective, there is the example of Chinese artist Chang Lei, who had fun representing a wide variety of wildlife in her piece 'Animal Farm'. Jeff Koons, most famous for his Balloon Dogs, also made the monkey his trademark. However, at a time when the issue of animal ethics is increasingly present, our relationship with animals is at the heart of moral concerns. Contemporary art is often criticised for its use of dead animals or for suspected abuse. Damien Hirst, in particular, created controversy by exhibiting sculptures presenting dead animals floating in blue formol.
But none of that on Artsper, where wildlife is celebrated, as you will be able to see in our selection!