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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Untittle
Elena Naushirvanova
Painting - 78 x 54 x 0.2 cm Painting - 30.7 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
€1,000 €900
Tête de femme
Verog
Fine Art Drawings - 34 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.4 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€210
Comme un roseau … par Cécile Beauregard
Michel Gourdon
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 32 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
€490
The decision II
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,413
Series Non-standard configurations
Tatiana Nega
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,100 €990
La plus belle pour aller danser
Stojan Milanov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,290
Date
Nina Tsorieva
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
€450 €405
Envy _ Ultra Violet version
Johan Chaaz
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€150
Les Jumelles aux Chapeaux
Clara Elliot
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,466
Girl, lost in her own shadow
Badriot
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 23 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
€1,000 €500
The fatigue of the conquest
Jessica Houston
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 35.6 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 x 1 inch
€1,400
Criminal Glam Boy XXL
Ruslan Minzhynskii
Sculpture - 75 x 47 x 28 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 18.5 x 11 inch
€3,500
Lady from the past
Eliana Barbosa
Photography - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Photography - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
€550
Silhouette IX
Deana Nastic
Photography - 101 x 76 x 1 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
€6,100
Sourire ensemble
La Fabrique du Sourire
Fine Art Drawings - 101 x 69 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.8 x 27.2 x 0.4 inch
€600
Per gioco per amore
Sergey Bondarev
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 75 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
€3,900
Keanu Reeves Signed Limited Edition Photograph
Markus Klinko
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€4,010
Where are your monuments?
Ariles De Tizi
Painting - 178 x 132 x 4 cm Painting - 70.1 x 52 x 1.6 inch
€60,000
Fluttering butterflies
Beatriz Sánchez
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€3,000
David Bowie "Rhythm Roulette"
Markus Klinko
Print - 101.6 x 84.6 x 2.5 cm Print - 40 x 33.3 x 1 inch
€12,487
Ricky and Amelia
Robin Schwartz
Photography - 152 x 102 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.8 x 40.2 x 0 inch
€6,500
All Quiet on the Western Front
Gunner Dongieux
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€5,425
Unique openwork portrait
Boguslaw Popowicz
Sculpture - 40 x 33 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13 x 7.1 inch
€6,499
Pecado
Coletivo Duas Marias
Photography - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€4,560
Alabama 001. The Ameriguns
Gabriele Galimberti
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
€3,300
Female bust, early 1980s
Franz Hagenauer
Design - 45 x 27 x 18 cm Design - 17.7 x 10.6 x 7.1 inch
€38,000
Couple enlacé / Couple embracing, 1901
Gustav Klimt
Print - 64 x 48 x 1 cm Print - 25.2 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
€625
Audrey Fleurot 3
Theo Haggai
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 20.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 8.1 inch
€590
Sea nymph in azure serenity
Irina Klimova
Photography - 45 x 72 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 28.3 x 0 inch
€711
The Paradox of Evolution (giclée)
Marco Grassi
Print - 150 x 186 x 10 cm Print - 59.1 x 73.2 x 3.9 inch
€20,220
Study for reclining
Jonathan Chapline
Painting - 17.8 x 12.4 x 1.87 cm Painting - 7 x 4.9 x 0.7 inch
€15,039
Métamorphoses. Quand le corps devient paysage
Alexandra de Assuncao
Print - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€80
Jeune Femme Au Bouquet
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Painting - 65 x 54 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 inch
€5,000
Untitled 13
Boshra Mustafa
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 28 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 11 x 0.6 inch
€638
Constellation de Grenades
Volodia Popov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€11,500
Le Nu au miroir (bordeaux)
Gérard Lecomte
Print - 66 x 51 x 0.2 cm Print - 26 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
€200
Anima & Animus
Alina Papazova
Sculpture - 18 x 14 x 14 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 5.5 x 5.5 inch
€560 €504
Two figures by the Sea
Martha Erlebacher
Painting - 162.6 x 132.1 x 3.8 cm Painting - 64 x 52 x 1.5 inch
€6,836
Baiadera Sculpture
Anselmo Bucci
Sculpture - 27.5 x 22 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10.8 x 8.7 x 3.9 inch
€9,000