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Max Verstappen
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,768
Spring walk
Arevik Gasparyan
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200 $1,020
Soir d'été
Christiane Simon-Roques
Painting - 89 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$2,244
Calme et le silence bronze coulé 65
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 65 x 18 x 20 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 7.1 x 7.9 inch
$5,486
La danse d'un fou et d'un roi
Timothy Archer
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$3,927
Two Figures in Sunglasses
Noah Becker
Painting - 122 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,953 $3,963
Two People in Sunglasses
Noah Becker
Painting - 122 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,953 $3,963
Two Persons in Sunglasses
Noah Becker
Painting - 122 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,953 $3,963
Two Figures with Blue Background
Noah Becker
Painting - 102 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,894
Two People with Yellow Background
Noah Becker
Painting - 102 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,894
_Princesse de la mer
Léonid Sergueiev
Painting - 68 x 48 x 3.5 cm Painting - 26.8 x 18.9 x 1.4 inch
$2,233
El pueblo que nunca tuve III
Eulogia Merle
Painting - 100 x 100 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
$2,468
Lucie au piano
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$426
The Secret of a Good Life
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$19,072
Welcome Home
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$19,072
Finders Keepers
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$7,853
Esprit de Liberté 2
Jazzu
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$337
Je vous regarde de haut
Six four two
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$673
Khokhloma (Le Garçon Doré)
Svetlana Maksimenko
Painting - 40 x 30 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$578
Collectors of Antique
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1 inch
$2,180
The girl in feather canyons
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 78 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 30.7 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$9,424
Mandy Smith
Pierre Terrasson
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,683
Impossible behaviour - 4
Galya Popova
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,795
Contemporary portrait "Photo for Memory"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,458
Contemporary portrait "The Path"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,458
Lucia Bose, Cronaca di un amore
Fabio Purino
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$841
Baby Doll n146 Hermes
Rachel Bergeret
Painting - 72 x 42 x 2 cm Painting - 28.3 x 16.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,871
Pastis 41 - série portrait onirique et surréalisme
Samuel Boudaud
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,665
Des espoirs - série portrait onirique et surréalisme
Samuel Boudaud
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,384
En attendant Charon - série portrait onirique et surréalisme
Samuel Boudaud
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,665
Inéluctable crépuscule - série portrait onirique et surréalisme
Samuel Boudaud
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,384
Restez sur sa faim - série portrait onirique et surréalisme
Samuel Boudaud
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,665
Ça mord ou c'est mort - série portrait onirique et surréalisme
Samuel Boudaud
Painting - 81 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,665
La faim est proche - série portrait onirique et surréalisme
Samuel Boudaud
Painting - 73 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,384
La vierge aux abeilles
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,683
Élizabeth Vigée le Brun au chapeau de paille
FXV
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,787
Destruction, The End of the of the Earth! Stay Calm serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 100 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,010
Avec vous
Jean-Joseph Sanfourche
Painting - 115 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,731
J’ai retrouvé ma boucle d’oreille
Pascale Taurua
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,814
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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!