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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Princesse Indienne
Liubov Juravliova
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
€450
Faceless figure - Blind insight
Robert Jaso
Photography - 55 x 42 cm Photography - 21.7 x 16.5 inch
€3,300
Robe jaune 1 ref BDNW11665
Atelier Vionnet
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 inch
€320
Fançy a drink ? - ça vous dirait de prendre un verre ?
Frank Eric Zeidler
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€220
The frozen few 5546
Götz Göppert
Photography - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€675
L'impératrice - la maison de Dieu.x
Lili Chomat
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€300
Troprotégé parmé parant
Maurice Falise
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€485
Art stories: Campbells
Nicolas Pichon
Sculpture - 160 x 15 x 5 cm Sculpture - 63 x 5.9 x 2 inch
€1,500
Woman playing cards
Susana Mata
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.03 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€600
Fluorine Slave portrait.
López del Espino
Painting - 160 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 63 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Slave boy breaking chains
López del Espino
Sculpture - 100 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
€6,000
Lauren Bacall Lights Humphrey Bogart's Cigarette
Bob Stanley
Print - 57.2 x 43.2 cm Print - 22.5 x 17 inch
€1,391
Dutch girl with a doll
Franz Hagenauer
Sculpture - 14 x 7 x 5.2 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 2.8 x 2 inch
€1,600
Balloon with a Couple
Ruth Bloch
Sculpture - 93 x 35 x 15 cm Sculpture - 36.6 x 13.8 x 5.9 inch
€8,347
Tennis player
Werkstätte Hagenauer
Sculpture - 28 x 27 x 8 cm Sculpture - 11 x 10.6 x 3.1 inch
€4,500
Sans titre
Maurice Falise
Painting - 146 x 114 x 0.2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.1 inch
€20,000 €18,000
The elegant life of Mr H Paris 1967
Key Hiraga
Painting - 65 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
€35,000
Anna patiently
Stàn Bert Singer
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0 inch
€5,400
David Pez green - Bronze
Jisbar
Sculpture - 40 x 12 x 13 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 4.7 x 5.1 inch
Price upon request
Touching The Surface (Complete Series)
tizlu
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 23 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.1 x 0 inch
€3,400 €3,060
Retrato
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 150 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,486 €1,989
Menina cubiste agitant
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 18.8 x 16 x 10.5 cm Sculpture - 7.4 x 6.3 x 4.1 inch
€580
Ménine air et métal avec patine rose pâle
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 40 x 21 x 37 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 8.3 x 14.6 inch
€1,580
Mujer Huichol
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 164 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 64.6 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
€2,760 €2,208
Cuerpo escueto cuadrado
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€864 €735
Mosaico en Ocres
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,465 €2,096
Muhammad Ali - Heavyweight Ideals
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
€750
Retrato en fondo amarillo
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 183 x 153 x 5 cm Painting - 72 x 60.2 x 2 inch
€4,969
The Fragile Balance
Karen Akhikyan
Sculpture - 49 x 24 x 11 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 9.4 x 4.3 inch
€1,948
Red Mustang Steve
Fabien Novarino
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€1,900
Retrato en fondo rojo
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 200 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 78.7 x 51.2 x 2 inch
€4,615
La violoniste au chapeau
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Édition Toujours Marilyn 30
Miguel Guía
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€320
Édition Éternelle Audrey 30
Miguel Guía
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€320
Édition Un tramway nommé Désir 30
Miguel Guía
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.3 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€320
