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Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 15 x 10 x 0.1 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0 inch
€300
Somber Portrait Painters
Sadness, melancholy and gloom have found an outlet in artists throughout history and in the depiction of figurative art. Through artists, humanity and their emotional and physical states are portrayed to be viewed and related to. The instant recognition of such a grave subject also plagues human history itself, thus carving out its own rightful spot amongst the history of art movements. In Edgar Degas' 1875 painting L'Absinthe, where viewers see a portrait of a young woman solemnly contemplating her situation, disengaged from their gaze, her surroundings, maybe even from herself.
Dark hues and colors define somber portrait painting and can highlight the cause of such sadness, whether that be the subject's emotional state or a greater rendering of the world's expanse and the human existence within it. Existential or not, the traits of somber artwork can be found in our own collection of portraits on Artsper. The portraiture work of Nicolas Fropo de Habart works the body in all its dimensions to create an absolute feeling of vastness while Antoine Stevens also depicts wandering souls in his dimmed portraiture. But given the nature of humanity, somber depictions of the figure are not entirely unexpected…
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Ma Joconde (Mona Lisa)
Marie-Ange Daudé
Painting - 100 x 100 x 6 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2.4 inch
€4,400
La nuit mystérieuse jaune
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Fanfare de la mer
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Home style cooking
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 89 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
€3,200
Conflict
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
€400
Tancament XXVII. Túnica
Teresa Riba
Sculpture - 49 x 13 x 10 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
€3,600
Portrait of Woman
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 39 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 15.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,600
Portrait
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 32.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 12.8 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
Portrait of Woman
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.8 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€2,200
Landscape with Figures
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€2,000
Three Horsemen
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 28.8 x 20.8 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.3 x 8.2 x 0 inch
€480
Kid
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€12,900
Simone Veil
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€12,900
Smoking Man
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.2 x 0 inch
€380
Le printemps dans l'air
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,300
Une rencontre inattendue
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 19 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 7.5 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
€480
At School
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 25 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
€490
The Figure
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0.1 inch
€490
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Personnage au discours fumeux
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 24 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 9.4 inch
€1,250
