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![Painting, Swan Lake, Yasna Godovanik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190695_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Clarity of Mind, Nawei Wight](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210999_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Restons sauvages, L'Insecte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208533_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Terra Cota, L'Insecte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208531_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chat Perlipopette, L'Insecte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208529_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chat Pristi, L'Insecte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208528_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chat Perché, L'Insecte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208512_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chat Man, L'Insecte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208416_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, La Poule blanche (Russie), série 1991-2018, Irène Jonas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202098_1_grid.jpg)
La Poule blanche (Russie), série 1991-2018
Irène Jonas
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$1,342
![Painting, Dog in a Chair, Tinatin Chkhikvishvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199571_1_grid.jpg)
Dog in a Chair
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
![Painting, White Dog in Schönbrunn, Tinatin Chkhikvishvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199552_1_grid.jpg)
White Dog in Schönbrunn
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili
Painting - 26 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 10.2 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$895
![Painting, Golden Bull, Myths series, Tetiana Pchelnykova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197081_1_grid.jpg)
Golden Bull, Myths series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,174
![Painting, Enchanted Ride, Myths series, Tetiana Pchelnykova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197079_1_grid.jpg)
Enchanted Ride, Myths series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$951
![Painting, Bonding in Open Fields, The Happiness Series: Exploring Inner Joy series, Tetiana Pchelnykova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195802_1_grid.jpg)
Bonding in Open Fields, The Happiness Series: Exploring Inner Joy series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$951
![Sculpture, Lion griffon, Hassan Laamirat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193999_1_grid.jpg)
Lion griffon
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 225 x 235 x 240 cm Sculpture - 88.6 x 92.5 x 94.5 inch
$8,075
![Fine Art Drawings, Quand cette terrible famille arrive sur la plage, Gérald Panighi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191430_1_grid.jpg)
Quand cette terrible famille arrive sur la plage
Gérald Panighi
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Bright magical flowers and funny birds, Lilya Volskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190495_1_grid.jpg)
Bright magical flowers and funny birds
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$895
![Painting, Octopus, Antonio Presti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190388_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Legge di natura, Antonio Presti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182541_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Floral Paradise with Parrot, Sergey Miqayelyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208563_1_grid.jpg)
Floral Paradise with Parrot
Sergey Miqayelyan
Painting - 40 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
$199
![Painting, Bird Pair with White Flowers, Tamar Nazaryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207477_1_grid.jpg)
Bird Pair with White Flowers
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$300
![Painting, Evening in the Meadows, Arman Avagyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205958_1_grid.jpg)
Evening in the Meadows
Arman Avagyan
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$24,000
![Painting, Morning silance, Evgeny Chernyakovsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204113_1_grid.jpg)
Morning silance
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,600
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Gerard Sala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203240_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Gerard Sala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203233_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lion King, C215](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198701_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Trust me, Mikhail Baranovskiy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194963_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, From the series Ecology of soul and nature V, Mykola Mamchur](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193701_1_grid.jpg)
From the series Ecology of soul and nature V
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,678
![Painting, From the series Ecology of soul and nature II, Mykola Mamchur](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193695_1_grid.jpg)
From the series Ecology of soul and nature II
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Horse Riding, Irakli Chikovani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193292_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Jackson, Ralph Steadman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189144_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flatland, Rolanda Jongerius](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212430_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pink Panther, Adélaïde Leferme](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210215_1_grid.jpg)
Pink Panther
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$671 $537
![Painting, Scene 16, Andrii Davydenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202192_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Scene 3, Andrii Davydenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202191_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Le Poisson - Sculpture Raku animal marin, Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199652_1_grid.jpg)
Le Poisson - Sculpture Raku animal marin
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 17 x 40 x 12 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 15.7 x 4.7 inch
$906
![Sculpture, Queue de Baleine - Sculpture Raku animal marin, Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199650_1_grid.jpg)
Queue de Baleine - Sculpture Raku animal marin
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 34 x 24 x 14 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 9.4 x 5.5 inch
$1,118
![Sculpture, Queue de Baleine - Sculpture Raku animal marin, Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199648_1_grid.jpg)
Queue de Baleine - Sculpture Raku animal marin
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 42 x 45 x 26 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 17.7 x 10.2 inch
$1,370
![Print, Live Each Day As If It Were Your First, David Shrigley](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199466_1_grid.jpg)
Live Each Day As If It Were Your First
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 55 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 inch
$10,961
![Painting, Jellyfish coral dream, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197195_1_grid.jpg)
Jellyfish coral dream
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 60 x 43 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.9 x 1.2 inch
$979
![Painting, Vol de Perruches, Nicolaï](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214069_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vol de mouettes, Nicolaï](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213821_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lost Paradise, Nicolaï](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213782_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bi$h, Dianna Bonder](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208943_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Bakeneko, L'encredufauve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208264_1_grid.jpg)
Bakeneko
L'encredufauve
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 22.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 8.9 x 0.2 inch
$559
![Painting, United_(part 3), Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207933_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, United_(part 2), Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207932_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, United, Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207931_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sunrise, Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207832_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dreams, Les Panchyshyn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207806_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Kumacchi wanted to be someone else - Kiss, Atsushi Kaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207525_1_grid.jpg)
Kumacchi wanted to be someone else - Kiss
Atsushi Kaga
Print - 29.7 x 21 cm Print - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
$2,796
![Print, Michael Jackson's skull with monkeys, Atsushi Kaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207515_1_grid.jpg)
Michael Jackson's skull with monkeys
Atsushi Kaga
Print - 21 x 29.7 cm Print - 8.3 x 11.7 inch
$3,132
![Painting, Amore, Lise Vurpillot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214266_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Aviary nymphenburg, Gabriele Breu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212515_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'oiseau rouge - série animaux, Marie-Claude Quignon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211485_1_grid.jpg)
L'oiseau rouge - série animaux
Marie-Claude Quignon
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$280
![Sculpture, Hypomnema 3, Wall sculpture, Ivan Castiblanco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211369_1_grid.jpg)
Hypomnema 3, Wall sculpture
Ivan Castiblanco
Sculpture - 74.9 x 74.9 x 33.8 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 29.5 x 13.3 inch
$2,500
![Sculpture, Hypomnema 1, Wall sculpture, Ivan Castiblanco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211367_1_grid.jpg)
Hypomnema 1, Wall sculpture
Ivan Castiblanco
Sculpture - 79.8 x 79.8 x 33.8 cm Sculpture - 31.4 x 31.4 x 13.3 inch
$2,500
![Photography, Python Birkin, Tyler Shields](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205972_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rose Octobre, Christiane Guerry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199796_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, I will retrieve your phone, David Shrigley](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199409_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, I will retrieve your phone... (Dolphin), David Shrigley](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198530_1_grid.jpg)
I will retrieve your phone... (Dolphin)
David Shrigley
Print - 75 x 55 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 inch
$5,033
![Painting, From the window, Susana Mata](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197965_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, M.Chat Golden, M.Chat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193019_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, La Signora, Keng Wai Lee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186718_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Butterfly #1, Luke Newton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211272_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Butterflies #6, Luke Newton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211271_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Skull monkey happy, PyB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209920_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Colourful Birds, Paul Akiiki](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202494_1_grid.jpg)
Colourful Birds
Paul Akiiki
Painting - 77.5 x 117.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 30.5 x 46.3 x 0.3 inch
$4,000
![Painting, Le vieux sage, Philippe Dias](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187546_1_grid.jpg)
Le vieux sage
Philippe Dias
Painting - 150 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,181 $1,963
![Painting, Panthera tigris, Philippe Dias](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187545_1_grid.jpg)
Panthera tigris
Philippe Dias
Painting - 150 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,181 $1,963
![Photography, Dreamland, Drew Doggett](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2101656_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le lapin blanc, Albena Vatcheva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212235_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Surfeurs, Seb Paul Michel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211865_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Black Doggy, Tamar Nazaryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208415_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Aus der Serie: Buddhas Lächeln: Eine Ode an die Schönheit Thailands (6), The opium smoking white elephant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205931_1_grid.jpg)
Aus der Serie: Buddhas Lächeln: Eine Ode an die Schönheit Thailands (6)
The opium smoking white elephant
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$447
![Print, Aus der Serie: Buddhas Lächeln: Eine Ode an die Schönheit Thailands (5), The opium smoking white elephant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205930_1_grid.jpg)
Aus der Serie: Buddhas Lächeln: Eine Ode an die Schönheit Thailands (5)
The opium smoking white elephant
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$447
![Sculpture, Vanité, Philippe Pasqua](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198863_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chat allongé, C215](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198700_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Path Among the Rocky, Hrach Baghdasaryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198650_1_grid.jpg)
Path Among the Rocky
Hrach Baghdasaryan
Painting - 60 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$890
![Painting, Spring flight, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198571_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Dancing jellyfish, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197206_1_grid.jpg)
Dancing jellyfish
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 60 x 42 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,957
![Painting, Animal Painting #012-0687, Les Thomas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196443_1_grid.jpg)
Animal Painting #012-0687
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,521
![Painting, Animal Painting #019-1760, Les Thomas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196442_1_grid.jpg)
Animal Painting #019-1760
Les Thomas
Painting - 31 x 31 x 4 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,521
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Animal
Animals are often featured in news, sometimes in heartwarming tales of human and animal companionship and other times in heartbreaking stories of illegal trade and endangered species. Animals are even present in social sciences, especially thank to ethology (behavioural sciences of animals in their natural habitat). They have fascinated philosophers from Antiquity all the way through to today and they are even present in the medical realm, as the benefits of animal-assisted therapies have been scientifically proven.
The relationship between humans and animals is also taken into account in the politics, most notably when debating topics related to ecology, the protection of ecosystems and sustainable development. Thus, animals might be seen as a crucial indicator of humanity's concerns.
As well in these many sectors, animals are also very much present in the arts. A number of art museums have decided exhibitions to animals including the Cluny Museum in Paris and MoMA PS1 in New York. Whether simply a humble spectator in an 18th century painting or the central subject of a Courbet painting, animals are present throughout the history of art. From symbolic, to esthetic, to abstract, to animal drawings meant to simply record their appearance...all these representations have played a role in influencing artists and also how we characterise and think of individual animals.
Each civilisation has represented the animal on multiples supports (mosaics, metal, stone, bones, etc.) as seen on the Nerja cave wall paintings in Andalusia discovered in 1925. Animal iconography has had multiple purposes, varying according to the era and place. Bats, for example, are often used to represent death, fear or superstition in Western art, whereas the Chinese see them as a sign of happiness. The omnipresence of animals within cultures across the globe is probably down to the similarities between men and animal, a source of both fascination and fear.
In this selection, Artsper helps you to discover the beauty of the animal kingdom, its diversity, strength and fragility. Artists depict animals in a huge range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photographs, and drawings. Contemporary artists bring an original and poetic vision to their representations of the animals with whom we share our world.