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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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
Sometimes I Talk To My Shadow 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women
Obeka Simon
Painting - 96.5 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38 x 32 x 1 inch
€2,835
Ma clé de sol
Béa Bealaff-Girotto
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€670
Eclosion
Alexandre Monteiro (Hopare)
Sculpture - 35 x 14 x 12 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 5.5 x 4.7 inch
€10,000
Untitled sculpture
George Lilanga
Sculpture - 63 x 25 x 20 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 9.8 x 7.9 inch
€1,400
L'envole I - préchauffage
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 93 x 70 x 3.5 cm Painting - 36.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 inch
€2,200
The Breakfast of the Goddess
Vahag Hamalbashyan
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
Moment
Taiwo Samuel Olutimileyin
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€2,058
Paradis perdu 9 - série portraits de femmes
Stéphane Vereecken
Photography - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€500
Tell me something
Rechel Rodham Oppong
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Serenity's embrace
Gregory Kumah
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 1 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.4 inch
€3,100
My heart skip a bit
Ebuka Agudiegwu
Painting - 150 x 109 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 42.9 x 0.4 inch
€4,200
Roots of her heart
Edward Afadzi
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
€3,100
Mainbocher Corset. Paris. Printed later
Horst P. Horst
Photography - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
€10,976
Nguyen Hoang Viet
Philippe Cormault
Painting - 81 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
Women from Salt River
Rudolph Carl Gorman
Print - 72.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Print - 28.5 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€2,058
Queen Crowned in a Banana and Black Cat
Kim Soo Young
Painting - 20.3 x 15.2 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8 x 6 x 0 inch
€550
Silhouettes. Tarifa 1
Elena Done
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€540
Mahumbi girl with ungava hairstyle variation. Humbi. Angola
Faie Davis
Photography - 61 x 58.5 x 26 cm Photography - 24 x 23 x 10.2 inch
€892
Untitled (Reflection)
David Shrigley
Fine Art Drawings - 27.94 x 20.95 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.2 x 0.4 inch
€7,774
Butterflies in Her Hair
Armen Vahramyan
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€549
Untitled #414 (Clowns. 2003)
Cindy Sherman
Design - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Design - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,750
You lose control
Lucile Callegari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Guardian de silencio II
Maria Evseeva
Painting - 61 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€650
Fragments of a Performance
Arman Hayrapetyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,646
I drink therefore I can
The Connor Brothers
Print - 121 x 75 x 0.3 cm Print - 47.6 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
€3,900
Garçon dans les salons de l’hôtel Albergo dans le quartier chrétien Achrafieh, Beyrouth, Liban
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€800
El iluso que mira las estrellas - The deluded man who looks at stars
Alberto Letamendi
Sculpture - 14 x 7 x 5.8 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 2.75 x 2.3 inch
€3,933
Autoportrait
César Baldaccini
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15.8 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.2 x 0 inch
€2,500
Gently transformation
Trendafila Trendafilova
Painting - 30 x 24.5 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.6 x 0.8 inch
€835
Because love cannot be bombed_
Inna Sych
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Le grand départ
Benoît Montet
Painting - 59.9 x 39.9 x 2.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.1 inch
€2,187
First Love (large framed hand signed screen print)
Romero Britto
Print - 83.8 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Print - 33 x 39 x 0.1 inch
€2,287
Fase I: Empoderamiento
Manuel Mediavilla
Sculpture - 76 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 29.9 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€6,400
I believe in Pink n°2
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€800
Festival of Fire
Ofobuike Okudoh
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 49.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.5 inch
€3,000
Political Demagogy III
José Luis Cuevas
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 35.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 14 inch
€4,116
Untitled (44)
Mansour El Habre
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,738
