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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Dancing in Tandem
Barbara Schaumann
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
CHF 538
La mélodie des oiseaux qui passent
Philippe Loubat
Painting - 41 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 636
Sous le regard des ancêtres!
Florence Malcombe
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
CHF 675
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
CHF 782
Cache cache sur le pont
Jean-Marc Stoeffler
Photography - 37 x 47 x 1 cm Photography - 14.6 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
CHF 244
Sans titre
Edouard Emeliyantsev
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.4 inch
CHF 636
Embrace Nature 6 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Floral, Women
Oyeleye Feranmi
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
CHF 1,283
Angel with a Sword, no. IV/VIII
Jacek Cholewa
Sculpture - 19 x 10 x 14 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 3.9 x 5.5 inch
CHF 1,467
Gaze 2 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women
Ayotunde Ayomide
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1 inch
CHF 941
La femme au chignon
Gwenaëlle Le Mée
Painting - 36 x 28 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 11 x 0.4 inch
CHF 587
A Perfect Day - 21st Century, Contemporary, Impressionism, Africa, Women, Blue
Bello Gabriel
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
CHF 2,182
Hanakotoba (Limited Edition of 50)
Ger Doornink
Print - 87 x 70 x 2 cm Print - 34.3 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 958
Sin darnos cuenta 13
Carme Pastrana
Painting - 25 x 25 x 0.5 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.2 inch
CHF 733
Fougère amazone
Aurélie Trabaud
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
CHF 1,486 CHF 1,338
Petite dame au Fourreau
Josepha
Sculpture - 40 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
CHF 11,245
Salpetrière, portrait #1
Gwendoline Hausermann
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 21.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 8.5 inch
CHF 587
Des araignées dans le grenier
Michaël Brack
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
CHF 684
Huntress
Eléonore de Moffarts
Sculpture - 48 x 65 x 30 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 25.6 x 11.8 inch
CHF 8,897
Combien tu Pez? Iron Man
Pinkhas
Sculpture - 15 x 11 x 11 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
CHF 587
Totem Portrait of Modern People
Liu Bolin
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
CHF 7,725
Tête de femme
Amedeo Modigliani
Sculpture - 54 x 11 x 14 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 4.3 x 5.5 inch
CHF 17,601
Blooming in True Self Love - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Fashion Women
Elie Hatungimana
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
CHF 1,583
Buste Rose Baccarat - Portrait singulier pâte de verre
Gilles Vadel
Sculpture - 30 x 24 x 12 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.4 x 4.7 inch
CHF 587
La petite fille et son grand pére
Muriel Deumie
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
CHF 782
Rencontre dans le jardin
Anthea Missy
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 48 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 18.9 x 0 inch
CHF 489
Orlane - série femme de dos
Fabienne Lecras
Painting - 75 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
CHF 704
Il est nécessaire que jeunesse se fasse
Sandrine Stoïanov
Painting - 61 x 42 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 16.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,173
Blackout Beauty
Mathieu Questel
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.22 x 28.74 x 1 inch
CHF 2,836
Edition sur papier Oksana 7302019625190007E N°12/50
Pola 4.0
Print - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 567
Street Jazz Band
Karine Harutyunyan
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 556
Un homme et sa femme découvrent un drôle d’oiseau
Bjørn Nørgaard
Print - 50.5 x 37.5 cm Print - 19.9 x 14.8 inch
CHF 574
Four Person in One
Hrair Gharib
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 489 CHF 440
Un dimanche à Cabourg
Maxime Frairot
Painting - 61 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
CHF 489
Héloïse et le lapin écarlate
Lucie De Syracuse
Sculpture - 34 x 19 x 19 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 7.5 x 7.5 inch
CHF 489
Healing Greenland, Chunja And Animal Friends
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
CHF 978
Schnappschuss 1706
Baurjan Aralov
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
CHF 1,173
Days Fade Away
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 81.3 x 58.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 32 x 23 x 0.2 inch
CHF 2,567
The Journey of a Lifetime
Malwina Jagora
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
CHF 3,178
Massavo the Makokean 2
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
CHF 1,711
Untitled (PEN 04)
Atom Hovhanesyan
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 40.6 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 16 x 0 inch
CHF 68,447
Colores
Rachel Perez Troncoso
Painting - 84 x 56 x 0.1 cm Painting - 33.1 x 22 x 0 inch
CHF 518 CHF 466
Onirisme - série femmes d'Asie
Brigitte Genty
Painting - 54 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 508
La cage, un nouveau monde
Sandra Chevrier
Painting - 76 x 56 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 1.2 inch
CHF 13,592
