Forest Whitaker
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£1,466
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Retrato en fondo amarillo
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 183 x 153 x 5 cm Painting - 72 x 60.2 x 2 inch
£4,416
Retrato en fondo rojo
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 200 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 51.2 x 2 inch
£4,101
Celeste
Sara Ingleby-Mackenzie
Sculpture - 180 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 70.9 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
£6,950
Lionel joue à Bacchus dans les vignes
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.3 cm Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
£578
Juliette Gréco - Paris
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
£800
Essence de la jeunesse bois 72
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 172 x 44 x 34 cm Sculpture - 67.7 x 17.3 x 13.4 inch
£8,709
Sans titre - masque
Odin Pigelet
Sculpture - 32 x 23 x 1.5 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 9.1 x 0.6 inch
£400
Édition Toujours Marilyn 50 RED
Miguel Guía
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£622
La jeune fille à la perle
Marie KVK
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
£3,999
The Heart of Madness from Historia de Don Quichote de la Mancha
Salvador Dali
Print - 76.2 x 55.9 cm Print - 30 x 22 inch
£2,903
Les grands projets
Vincent Citot
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
£1,422
Portrait with koi fishes
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£705
Edition Impression sur Audrey (impressionnisme magique) 70
Miguel Guía
Print - 70 x 70 x 0.3 cm Print - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
£1,200
Femme à l'enfant
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 60 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
£2,222
Toujours Marilyn Edition RED
Miguel Guía
Print - 50 x 86.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 34.2 x 0.1 inch
£702
Édition Un tramway nommé Désir 50 Blue
Miguel Guía
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£622
Édition Éternelle Audrey 50 RED
Miguel Guía
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£622
The scene shifters III
Olivier Massebeuf
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 1 inch
£1,244
Velázquez Ménine Nickel
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 66 x 51 x 30 cm Sculpture - 26 x 20.1 x 11.8 inch
£1,680
"Et la tendresse?" figuratif portrait acrylique sable sur lin 100x100cm 2021
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£3,733
Vallée des roses Maroc
Pierre Schwartz
Photography - 78 x 120 cm Photography - 30.7 x 47.2 inch
£844
Space abstraction-7
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 66 x 109.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 26 x 43 x 0.1 inch
£4,147
Les dix jours de mélancolie - la fresque
Julie Ruelle
Design - 123 x 197 x 0.3 cm Design - 48.4 x 77.6 x 0.1 inch
£24,884
White heart on a white square-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Print - 53 x 78 x 0.1 cm Print - 20.9 x 30.7 x 0 inch
£258
Madame Graipo la mercière
Robert Combas
Painting - 65 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£31,105
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£1,733
Liz Pringle Refreshments in Jamaica
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£1,733
Jean Patchett for Saks Fifth Avenue
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£1,733
Seaplane At Palm Beach
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£1,733
Arrow mustard and navy
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 33.02 x 25.4 x 0.2 cm Print - 13 x 10 x 0.1 inch
£489
Magic girl, no V/VIII
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 20 x 6 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 2.4 x 3.7 inch
£1,146 £1,032
Party Girl
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 26 x 6.3 x 5 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 2.5 x 2 inch
£1,058 £952
Black earth society
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 60.96 x 91.44 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£444
L'Enfer de Dante / Angélo
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
£800 £720
Sepia Meta Graphic Lettre 8
Jean-Claude Byandb
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
£542
L’université des rêves
Etienne Quesnay
Painting - 31 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0 inch
£355
Soul Kitchen 06 / drôle de Magritte
Fabio Purino
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
£89
3 hands / Soul Kitchen 05
Fabio Purino
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
£89
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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!