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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Alexandre Taillandier
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
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La galette tire les rois
Christian Esctal
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
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Backyard buzz (L)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€8,000
Backyard buzz (M)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€3,700
Backyard buzz (S)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
East los (XL)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 120 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
€18,000
Gabriella - Playboy (L)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€8,000
Gabriella - Playboy (XL)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 120 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
€18,000
Gabriella - Playboy (M)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€3,700
Gabriella - Playboy (S)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Choices III
Philip Letsu Komla
Painting - 140 x 110 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 1.6 inch
€15,000
Thao Mexicano (L)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€8,000
Thao Mexicano (XL)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 120 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
€18,000
Thao Mexicano (M)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€3,700
Thao Mexicano (S)
Brice Gelot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Le bruit des hommes me rappelle que je ne suis pas seule au monde...
Barbara Lavenda
Painting - 56 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 22 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
Sold
Pause Cigarette #2 Red Roses
Zapata
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Pause Cigarette #7 motifs chinois
Zapata
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Sisterhood - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Modern, Love
Daniel Owoeye
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,698
Combien tu Pez? Iron Man
Pinkhas
Sculpture - 15 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
€600 €480
Folie à Deux- Joker
Diederik Van Apple
Painting - 100 x 109 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 42.9 x 1.6 inch
€4,950
Jardim dos Sonhos, Special Limited Edition
Ritchelly Oliveira
Print - 57 x 42 x 1 cm Print - 22.4 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
€450
Cosi Fan Tutte Fleurdelise
Erte Tirtoff
Painting - 38.1 x 26.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 10.5 x 0.1 inch
€3,613
Comme un point d'acupressure (masque)
Sandrine Plante
Sculpture - 22 x 13 x 12 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 5.1 x 4.7 inch
€550
The Girl's Own Paper, 1885
Alexander Korzer-Robinson
Sculpture - 29 x 22 x 5 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 8.7 x 2 inch
€800
Covered by Forest
Svante Gullichsen
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,985
The white sailing boat
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Print - 75.7 x 52 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.8 x 20.5 x 0 inch
€1,880
Osmose - série sculpture et corps en matière
Jf Carer
Sculpture - 79 x 31 x 31 cm Sculpture - 31.1 x 12.2 x 12.2 inch
€10,500
Autoportrait 3
Jean-Michel Pradel-Fraysse
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
€10,000
Calligraphing en l'air #6
Cody Choi
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1.5 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,861
Masque (Version 2)
Françoise Pétrovitch
Print - 120 x 160 x 0.1 cm Print - 47.2 x 63 x 0 inch
€2,300
Tell me who your friends are...
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 59.9 x 49.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.6 x 1.2 inch
€595
Umbrellas 50 IV
Carlos Martin Jimenez
Painting - 49.8 x 49.8 x 4.1 cm Painting - 19.6 x 19.6 x 1.6 inch
€905
3 in 1 Beauty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, African Women
Samson Toba
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€3,887
Harlem Dude rehausse VIII/XII
Kelu Abstract
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€650
