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Will You be There
Tinatin Bakhtadze
Painting - 235 x 235 x 3 cm Painting - 92.5 x 92.5 x 1.2 inch
£7,592 £6,454
Barack Obama and a comic who has ice cream on his head
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£829
George W. Bush gifts Jay Leno a portrait of Jay Leno
Jose Ricardo Contreras Gonzalez
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
£829
Sans titre (Trainspoting X Shoot The Bank, 2011)
JP Malot
Painting - 60 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£1,786
Brigitte Bardot
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,796
Michael Jackson
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Marilyn Monroe VI
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Scarface office
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Johan Cruijff ajax
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Marilyn Monroe III
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Conor McGregor
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Godfahter de Niro
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,456
Sons of anarchy
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Sons of anarchy
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Godfather IIII
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Godfather III
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Max verstappen
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£2,188
Godfather & Son
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£2,635
Contemporary portrait "Disco Club"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.9 inch
£2,233
Django Reinhardt
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,903
Lets go with me!..
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 120 x 90 x 2.3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.9 inch
£2,233
The heart knew the symphony
David Cow
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,340
Belated Manai Olympia Gold Award
Su Yu
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£8,128
No Heroes in Troubled Times
Su Yu
Painting - 200 x 360 x 6 cm Painting - 78.7 x 141.7 x 2.4 inch
£20,544 £17,463
No Interview at the Intersection
Su Yu
Painting - 255 x 540 x 6 cm Painting - 100.4 x 212.6 x 2.4 inch
£42,428 £36,064
Elvis meets Klimt
Daan Van Doorn
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,563
YO! Mark Karpelès. Le Baron du Bitcoin. .JPMalot 2017
JP Malot
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£2,680
Painting in frame "Seven elephants of happiness/Still life with elephants" Natalie Shiporina
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
£2,590
Instructions for Success
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,590
Bollywood Marilyn
Ilaria Ratti Salvioni
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£888
Urban mover III
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£1,152
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!