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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Qu'est ce qu'on attend 6
Flo Jaouen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
Qu'est ce qu'on attend 3
Flo Jaouen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
Qu'est ce qu'on attend 2
Flo Jaouen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
La vieja guajira
James Sparshatt
Photography - 35 x 35 x 1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
€734
Fours traditionnel à bois pour le porcelaine
Feng Hatat
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€500
Raconte moi toutes tes histoires, en ramassant du bois flotté
Jéko
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€2,600 €2,340
N° 1007 Bruscamente con bravura.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 54 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€800
Goal getter
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 114.3 x 111.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 44 x 1 inch
€2,549
Simones
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Sculpture - 60 x 24 x 24 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 9.4 x 9.4 inch
€900 €855
Mémoire de JingDeZhen
Feng Hatat
Photography - 32 x 48 x 1 cm Photography - 12.6 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
€500
Restaurateur de porcelaine
Feng Hatat
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€600
Atelier de porcelaine II
Feng Hatat
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€600
Atelier de porcelaine I
Feng Hatat
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€600
Eyes of the Wild
Tigran Araqelyan
Painting - 110 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,002
Puro... alegria
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,788
Samo Jean Michel Basquiat
Eklektik
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,400
Mujer de Viñales
James Sparshatt
Photography - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,090
Tropicana
James Sparshatt
Photography - 67.5 x 67.5 x 2 cm Photography - 26.6 x 26.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,171
La rue, estampe originale de Di Rosa
Hervé Di Rosa
Print - 105 x 51 cm Print - 41.3 x 20.1 inch
€1,200
Gorilla with Butterfly
Hani Badawi Leo
Painting - 148 x 98 x 3 cm Painting - 58.3 x 38.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,200 €1,760
N°1004 Pianissimo quanto possibile.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
Sophia Loren Pop Style
Maria De Campos
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€3,490 €3,281
Dancing with the wind
Hani Badawi Leo
Painting - 98 x 148 x 3 cm Painting - 38.6 x 58.3 x 1.2 inch
€2,800 €2,240
Le temps des brumes
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 300 x 250 x 3 cm Painting - 118.1 x 98.4 x 1.2 inch
€32,000
1969 Paris Orange Paris Le Barbu Man with a beard
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,950 €975
Worthy Than a Sparrow 2 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Bird, Woman
Kehinde Mayowa
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,549
Divinité 16
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€800
Divinité 17
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€800
Divinité 18
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€800
Don’t fly away
Nora Ampova
Painting - 130 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
€2,645 €2,249
Series “Between Heaven and Earth” - turquoise blue
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Joy Within (Yellow Rose)
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 1 inch
€2,731
Aquarelle graphique 1
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 46 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
€800
Aquarelle graphique 5
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 36 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
€800
Jour de fête III (1)
Albane de Saint Remy
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
€791
1996 Portrait
Bernard Di Sciullo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.75 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.3 inch
€1,150 €575
Drowning
Sophia Dobreva – Nolita
Painting - 60 x 45 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,280 €1,152
La dama de la plaza
James Sparshatt
Photography - 35 x 35 x 1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
€857
Young girl at the urne
Catherine Clare
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
€2,000
Naïade aux pivoines rouges
Catherine Clare
Painting - 62 x 62 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24.4 x 24.4 x 1 inch
€2,500
Summer Daydream
Tigran Araqelyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€410 €349
Tuareg vision of intensity
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,911
Simone, en clair-obscur
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€850