Life Portrait Artists
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Montagne Sainte-Victote
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 60 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 23.6 inch
£1,244
Portrait de Margot
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 30.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 12 inch
£444
Solaire
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings - 67.5 x 53 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.6 x 20.9 x 0.4 inch
£2,222
Untitled (plants, bodies, child)
Zena Blackwell
Painting - 49.5 x 40.6 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.5 x 16 x 0 inch
£500
Nuances de gris
Valérie Zimmermann (Anna Mya Zimmer)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,177
Personnages VIII
Arancha Tejedor
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
£142
Polo à Deauville
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 34 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 13.4 inch
£533
Femme à la cigarette
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£889
On The Hill in the Valley
Alexander Levich
Painting - 130 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
£5,243
L'Oeil en Coulisse
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£5,421
Étude pour Clémentine & Café
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 77 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 30.3 x 0.4 inch
£3,644
To be at home and drink coffee
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,333
Melancholy Trees
Natia Sapanadze
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
£604 £514
And There Is Thinking Over Something
Eleonora Drumeva
Painting - 90 x 102 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 40.2 x 0.8 inch
£2,133
Les Deux Chaises longues
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
£14,042
Two Girls on the Roadside
Su Yu
Painting - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
£1,333 £1,133
Prunes bleues, Prunes jaunes
Francine Van Hove
Painting - 65 x 92 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 inch
£14,486
Deux amies
Christiane Simon-Roques
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,155
Étude pour "Malou cavalière"
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 76 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 29.9 inch
£3,644
Jane, Carol and Louise (after the bath)
Mario Sughi
Print - 50 x 66 cm Print - 19.7 x 26 inch
£844 £718
Le dompteur
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 8.9 inch
£711
Terrasse à Tunis
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 11.4 inch
£711
Promenade au bord de la Moselle
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 3.9 inch
£711
La Maison de Rabelais, Metz
Camille Hilaire
Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.5 x 4.6 inch
£711
Angel Painting - Secret Garden Story
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 85 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£1,155
Landscape painting, Impasto olive trees
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£1,066
Life Portrait Artists
The Blue Dancers (1899) by Edgar Degas can possibly be recognized as one of the greatest ever pastel drawings. Living, breathing figures captured in a moment they may have deemed a banal peek into their everyday life. To draw from life, or “figure draw," usually refers to the instructional class taught in many schools and academies of fine art. The pastel, charcoal or humble pencil thus signifies the beginnings of an artist's career. It is often regarded as the most ideal way for artists to render the human body and master its line, depth and shape necessary for the portrait, a valuable skill. However, life portraiture often captures the body in motion causing the artist to depict muscle action, direction and perspective. Though the 19th century produced Degas, it also produced the camera and the focus on artists to depict movement – to snapshot life. In Artsper's own selections, the works of life portrait artist Marc Desgrandchamps are inspired by the decomposition of the movement of Eadweard Muybridge's chronophotographic experiments. Whilst Alejandra Caballero's work is much more introspective, noting that the quieter, more subtle movements in life, such as talking on the phone or taking a bath, must also be captured.