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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Smoking Kahlo - M
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
Portrait féminin sans titre
C215
Sculpture - 62 x 23 x 8 cm Sculpture - 24.4 x 9.1 x 3.1 inch
€4,500
Ombre et lumière
Clément Verdière
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€3,500
The Golden Symphony
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€799
Moment of Self-Actualization - 21st Century Mixed Media with Oil, African Fabrics
Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,133
Hommage à Camille Claudel
Duytter
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€5,900
Hommage to Lichtenstein
Craig Alan
Painting - 91.5 x 91.5 x 4 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.6 inch
€16,500
Something about childhood 4
Liubou Sas
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€800
Qu'est-ce qu'on attend 1
Flo Jaouen
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,640
La Fille du Vent / The Girl of the Wind (Study for Boreas) - 1904
John William Waterhouse
Print - 81 x 62 cm Print - 31.9 x 24.4 inch
€950
Hongkong mood light
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
€750
Self portrait with between clock and bed
Gerard Boersma
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
€1,827
Wild Flowers (Edition Vieillie)
Toctoc
Print - 42 x 29.7 x 0.01 cm Print - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€550
A contre courant
Pierre Alechinsky
Painting - 31 x 22 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 8.7 x 0 inch
€10,000
Mélodie universelle
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Au grand Café de Barbizon
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Série : Portrait de couleur - tableau No 1
Wen Ming Tao
Painting - 40 x 30 x 5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 2 inch
€6,741
Abstract Guernica Collection - Tribute to Picasso
Freda People Art
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
€1,500 €1,200
Love in the Time of Forest Fires
Niki Singleton
Painting - 40.64 x 30.48 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.8 inch
€2,533
Goodbyes - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Fashion, Woman, Love, Phone
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 100.1 x 74.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.5 x 1 inch
€2,458
Les yeux dans les tiens, souris #3
Jéko
Sculpture - 68.5 x 23 x 4 cm Sculpture - 27 x 9.1 x 1.6 inch
€2,600
Rocketman - collection spéciale Grands Formats
Jean-Philippe Henric
Print - 180 x 135 x 1 cm Print - 70.9 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
€2,100
