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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Caleidoscopio
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 41 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
€4,300
Ballerina on a cube
Alex Radionov
Sculpture - 38 x 22 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15 x 8.7 x 7.9 inch
€5,600
Portrait of a Sojourner
Charles Osaro
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€3,110
Mujer con orgasmo
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 82 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 32.3 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
What we get in return
Adewuyi Theophilus
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,829
This is Tinuola
Adeniyi Joshua Adetayo
Painting - 101.6 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€2,341
Mood for Love
Siranush Vardanyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Crying in the Rain
Corey Kilmartin
Painting - 122 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
Faces 1 & 2 Box with original screenprint stickers
Hush
Print - 30 x 45 cm Print - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
€800
Nul ne se connait - Portrait imaginaire
Jacques Alary
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,250
Ulimi wako mkuwba una faa kuenda kuenye ma shindano
George Lilanga
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
€790
Portrait
John Matos Crash
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 16 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€950
Bather with the blue wave
Damien Bassez
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,700
Dans les champs, en fin d´après-midi.
José Saboia
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Waiting
Oniosun Victoria Erioluwa
Painting - 91.4 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,976
Divinité III (2)
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€800
Etude pour "Avec Mona Lisa"
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
€2,000
Iconic Beauty #3
Benoit Lapray
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€600
100th Anniversary Celebration Coffret # 9 - Childhood
Fabrizio La Torre
Print - 29.7 x 21 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€650
Visage Brun-Bleu
Pablo Picasso
Sculpture - 30.5 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 12 x 15 x 1 inch
€36,586
Portrait of My Barber (At The Barber Shop)
Eyitayo Alagbe
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€3,887
All is not what it seems
Jean-Luc Curabet
Painting - 180 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€7,000
La sieste - Nap in a 70's room
Léa Dedieu
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Visage blanc
Hellen Halftermeyer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,200
Navajo on My Mind
Eter Merkviladze
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 15 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
€650
Other Side 7 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Colours
Damola Ayegbayo
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,973
Pilgrimage of Hope
Artyom Manukyan
Sculpture - 34 x 34 x 3 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 13.4 x 1.2 inch
€686
Self-Portrait 24.161
Arthur Hent
Fine Art Drawings - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€1,000
Dis, quand reviendras-tu ? 3
Charlotte Skurzak
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€600
T'as eu ce que t'as eu
Petrus Von Tricht
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Peace Shall Prevail 3
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
Painting - 61 x 38.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 15 x 1 inch
€1,829
Silhouetten im Frühjahr
Nikita Kosmin
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€680
Portrait de femme
Romain SUZZONI
Painting - 55 x 46.5 x 1.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.3 x 0.6 inch
€600
