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The pink Tara
Munkhbolor Ganbold
Painting - 168 x 109 x 1 cm Painting - 66.1 x 42.9 x 0.4 inch
$12,285
Meanwhile in Paris
Michael Bastow
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 144 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 56.7 inch
$6,170
La lutte
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$729
The Artist
Andreas Sundgren
Photography - 140 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$3,402
Nu de dos
Frédérique Maillart
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$449
Metaphysical Body Landscape #16
Anna Laza
Photography - 32 x 30 cm Photography - 12.6 x 11.8 inch
$494
Two Friends Walking on the Beach
Anthony Roaland
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 64 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 25.2 x 0 inch
$449
L'élégance désabusée
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$1,066
Please blow my mind away
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$954
Mirrorscope 33
Maribelle Saad
Fine Art Drawings - 20.4 x 13 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8 x 5.1 x 0.2 inch
$240
Sans titre
Alexandre Saint-Loup
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,726
Processus Léa 17
Yannick Bouillault
Sculpture - 46 x 40 x 37 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 15.7 x 14.6 inch
$2,132
Natural o artificial, tú decides
Maite Albors
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$9,761
Golden lady black
Sylvie Bourely
Sculpture - 51 x 16 x 12 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 6.3 x 4.7 inch
$6,058
Delphine patine bleue
Christian Candelier
Sculpture - 46 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
$5,385
Model summary, 1980
Paolo Ambrosio
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$164
Les enveloppes - image 5/13
Sarah Salazar
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$463
N° 1136 Covid 19 (8) Trop long ce confinement !
R. Cavalié
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2.4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.9 inch
$875
Entrelacs & Miroirs II
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 42 x 55 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$841
Magic Moments
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,234
Portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,609
Erotic # 3
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$280
Entrelacs & Miroirs I
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 42 x 55 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$841
G4
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$353
Fascinante Caro
Yannick Bouillault
Sculpture - 75 x 41 x 2 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$426
Elle Classic pose
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$258
Je suis parce que nous sommes
Claude Justamon
Sculpture - 80 x 57 x 34 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 22.4 x 13.4 inch
Price upon request
Absolu
Claude Justamon
Sculpture - 80 x 74 x 45 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 29.1 x 17.7 inch
Price upon request
New York city ballet, paper interactions 13, 2014
JR
Print - 100 x 70 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
Sold
Neoflora Series 5
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 120 x 84 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch
Sold
L'homme est en mère
Hélène Legrand
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,039
Poussières d'étoiles 04
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$841
Poussières d'étoiles 02
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$785
Poussières d'étoiles 03
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 116 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,234
Poussières d'étoiles 01
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$819
Dissolution I
Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury
Painting - 122 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,526
Heart Of Fire (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 101.6 x 172.7 cm Photography - 40 x 68 inch
$36,000
Glorious Danger (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
$36,000
Rejoins-moi et contemplons
Cécile Thonus
Sculpture - 45.8 x 24.5 x 22 cm Sculpture - 18 x 9.6 x 8.7 inch
Sold
Journal D'Un Graveur - Vol. 2 Plate 15
Joan Miró
Print - 57 x 45.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 22.4 x 17.9 x 0.1 inch
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Femme en Marche 2
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 39 x 7 x 9 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 2.8 x 3.5 inch
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Golden Flowers Fine Art print
Julien Colombier
Print - 160 x 110 x 1 cm Print - 63 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
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Woman with evening dress
Ana Garcia
Painting - 60 x 80 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
Sold
Train de nuit #14
Philippe Saucourt
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Hips with Tassels
Hans Feurer
Photography - 57.8 x 48.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 22.75 x 19.25 x 0.1 inch
Sold
Femme en Marche 2 | Exemplaire 3/8
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 38 x 7 x 9 cm Sculpture - 15 x 2.8 x 3.5 inch
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Human body
'I wanted to conquer the world. But I also desperately wanted to understand human nature, and to know what was inside our bodies. To do this, I have spent whole night dissecting bodies, against the direct orders of the Pope. Nothing disgusts me. What I am looking for, truly, in all of my work and particularly in my painting, what I have looked for all my life, is to understand the mystery that is human nature' – from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century.
At the time of writing these notes, da Vinci had already made greater understanding of the human body the primary objective of his investigations. Dissection and study were key to his development of a holistic knowledge of anatomy, which da Vinci believed was vital to the perfect rendering of the nude figures which he painted and drew.
Little by little, the traditional image of the human figure was uprooted and in its place new ways of interpreting the body developed. Contemporary artists relentlessly questioned the traditional codes of figure drawing, liberally reworking the representation of the body to create a new image that was dislocated, geometric, deformed and disfigured.
The body as an artistic subject is at once desired, fantasised, dreamt, transformed, deformed. For painters, photographers and sculptors alike the body represents a rite of passage in their artistic development. Many people say that they most appreciate the talents of an artists by way of their control over the complexity of the figure. For example, it's clear even in Matisse's later, more abstract collages that he had perfectly mastered the human form.
Representation of the body is fundamental to Western art: first and foremost because it suggests a representation of the self, and therefore affirms the artist's own existence and coexistence with the environment that surrounds them. At the beginning of art history, the only bodies represented were the gods, supernatural beings, and spirits who had taken on human form. The body, nude or clothed, is at once one of the most widely depicted and most deeply polemical subjects in Western art (think of the scandals provoked by Courbet's 'Origins of the World', or Renoir's 'Picnic on the Grass').
The body has always been the primary subject of an array of themes, and its history is rich and ancient. Initially, depiction of the body was closely linked to religion, where the Word became flesh in Genesis, but later in more secular times the arousal of the artist when faced with the body made for an equally popular theme. Latterly the notion of the body as an object of beauty was subverted by Cubism until depictions of bodies no longer bore any resemblance to reality or made any pretence of respecting the rules of proportion.
Finally, in modern art the body has taken on an abstract shape within space, becoming one with the environment. In some instances, the body has become the artist's own support, as with Klein's models. The body as an abstract concept is tangible in many different manifestations in art, even in pieces as unassuming as some of Rothko's paintings. It remains the subject of inexhaustible inspiration and eternal debate.