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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L'homme du passé
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€160
The permanent warmth of a fleeting dream
Reinaldo Chavez
Painting - 19 x 19 cm Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 inch
€350
Melancholy (DIV 104)
Atom Hovhanesyan
Painting - 122 x 76 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 29.9 x 1.5 inch
€127,600
N° 952 Marguerite Yourcenar
R. Cavalié
Painting - 65 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Bound (DIV015)
Atom Hovhanesyan
Painting - 101.5 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
€145,000
Portrait d'un jeune agriculteur gersinois
Pierre Prèneron
Painting - 93.5 x 64 x 1 cm Painting - 36.8 x 25.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Die Katia
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€950
Aren't We All Hungry?
Ogunniyi Oluwatosin
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
€2,051
First Love Yourself
Ogunniyi Oluwatosin
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
€2,051
The courageous woman(Feminine Epidemic series) II
Ogunniyi Oluwatosin
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,823
Beginning, cycle We Are
Olena Smal
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,549
Photo de classe
Gwendoline Hausermann
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 37 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 14.6 inch
€650
Charles Matton
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Painting - 36 x 22 x 0.3 cm Painting - 14.2 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
€750
Madone aux yeux noirs
Lucie De Syracuse
Sculpture - 50.5 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 19.9 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
€1,900
Massavo the Makokean
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,823
Because I Believed
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,823
The Zeal of my father's house 2
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,823
Peter Max in His Studio
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
€4,500
L'empire des sens
Gérard Pamboujian
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Soliloquy Framed. Photograph intervened by the artists
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 30.5 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12 x 8 x 0.1 inch
€1,367
The First Lady
Oladire Araireoluwa
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€1,549
Paris Eiffel Tower #1 - Shoulder sitting
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€1,100
Marinella #7 Man looking
Hégémon (Hedge) Chaignon
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€850
Christ Descente de Croix par les âmes COLLECTION LUBJANA MUSEUM COLLECTION
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 213 x 273 cm Painting - 83.9 x 107.5 inch
€39,000
Obinrin (Woman)
Oladire Araireoluwa
Painting - 114.3 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,896
Portée Vents et Marées
Laurence Forbin
Painting - 61 x 46 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 1.6 inch
€1,000
El gato de Velázquez o Paseo en la eternidad
Juan Carlos Romano
Painting - 99 x 99 cm Painting - 39 x 39 inch
€4,500
My precious
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€950
Riding Together
Qing-Yan Li
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 68 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
€1,650
Girl With a Cat
Qing-Yan Li
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 68 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
€1,650
Girl Named as Lily
Qing-Yan Li
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 68 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
€1,650
Topographie Humaine II
Olivier Furter
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
La reine et l'épouse
Yoël Benharrouche
Print - 78 x 106 x 2 cm Print - 30.7 x 41.7 x 0.8 inch
€6,800