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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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
Au coeur du Minotaure
Rachel Daireaux
Painting - 30 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 2 inch
€3,000
One Night in the Paris
Karolina Kasprzak
Painting - 70 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€2,995
One side wing (giclée)
Nobuyuki Shimamura
Print - 140 x 175 x 10 cm Print - 55.1 x 68.9 x 3.9 inch
€17,515
Palme de la Victoire
Pierre Le Faguays
Sculpture - 42 x 11 x 12 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 4.3 x 4.7 inch
€3,500
1979 Sein de la belle ingénue en marbre rose Pink marble breast
Marie-Josèphe Bourron
Sculpture - 30 x 23 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.1 x 6.7 inch
€9,499
Capitoline wolf
Katarzyna Frankowska
Painting - 100 x 130 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.4 inch
€7,990
Pose 2
Nadine Defer
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€390
1979 Eva Nue Eve Nude
Serge Stephanie
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 35 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 13.8 inch
€995
Love
Gino Bonichi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 26.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 10.4 x 0.1 inch
€21,000
The caress of water (giclée)
Aurelio Rodriguez López
Print - 140 x 190 x 8 cm Print - 55.1 x 74.8 x 3.1 inch
€13,450
Nude of Woman
Gaspard Maillol
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 24.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 9.6 x 0 inch
€400
Marilyn new baby on the bed
A. Stella
Photography - 20 x 30.5 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 12 x 0.4 inch
€2,900
Translacìon 360° I
Francisco Vázquez
Photography - 51 x 77 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20.1 x 30.3 x 0.1 inch
€750
Venir la voir, voir l’avenir, la voir venir
Petites Luxures
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
€900
Nu assis
Bertrand Mogniat-Duclos
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 29 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
€90
We Need You!
tizlu
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,600
Composición en blanco y negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€517
Femme feuille
Salfo Dermé (Yabré)
Sculpture - 30 x 17 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 6.7 x 4.3 inch
€1,200
![Sculpture, La famille heureuse... "Bonheur" [ version : marron ] (Histoire de famille 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1548642_1_grid.jpg)
La famille heureuse... "Bonheur" [ version : marron ] (Histoire de famille 2021)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 34 x 30 x 8 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 11.8 x 3.1 inch
€4,200
Leaving The World Behind (Papyrus)
tizlu
Fine Art Drawings - 34 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.4 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€880 €792
Tomas Vincent Young
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 45.5 x 0.5 cm Print - 24 x 17.9 x 0.2 inch
€680
Universal dignity letterpress
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 49.53 x 38.1 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.5 x 15 x 0 inch
€500
Retrato en fondo blanco
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 210 x 220 x 1 cm Painting - 82.7 x 86.6 x 0.4 inch
€6,826
El Arcabuz Produce Monsters
Salvador Dali
Print - 23.5 x 17.2 x 0.2 cm Print - 9.3 x 6.8 x 0.1 inch
€1,200
Dalai Lama Compassion
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
Mickey Mouse Soldier
Belart Collective
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,990 €1,791
Impression rebelle (impressionnisme magique)
Miguel Guía
Painting - 100 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€9,800
![Sculpture, La Mama... "Amour" [ version : bleue ] (Histoire de famille 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1548627_1_grid.jpg)
La Mama... "Amour" [ version : bleue ] (Histoire de famille 2021)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 20 x 25 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 9.8 x 3.9 inch
€2,700 €2,430
Ménine Air et Bois Grand
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 64 x 60 x 34 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 23.6 x 13.4 inch
€8,900 €7,565
I Am Who I Choose To Be
Taiwo Odejinmi
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
€1,595
Toujours Marilyn B&W
Miguel Guía
Print - 122 x 122 x 0.3 cm Print - 48 x 48 x 0.1 inch
€7,400 €6,290
Rousse aux yeux clairs
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
Homage to Francis Bacon (study for head of Isabel Rawsthorne and George Dyer)
Takashi Murakami
Print - 50 x 100 cm Print - 19.7 x 39.4 inch
€4,750
Golden Boy Hermes Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
€266
![Sculpture, En tête à tête... "Murmure" [version : blanche] (Histoire de famille 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1547697_1_grid.jpg)
En tête à tête... "Murmure" [version : blanche] (Histoire de famille 2021)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 34 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
€2,500 €2,250
Essayer d'être plus heureux
Jazzu
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,600 €2,392
Two Halves Make A Whole Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 31 x 23 x 23 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 9.1 x 9.1 inch
€185
Femme au chapeau, aquagravure originale
Erró
Print - 89 x 45 x 1 cm Print - 35 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,400
