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Interior with a bridge and cat
Francois Ledan
Print - 83.8 x 68.6 x 2.5 cm Print - 33 x 27 x 1 inch
€1,161
Le teckel et la tortue
Claudio Locatelli
Sculpture - 15.5 x 10 x 15 cm Sculpture - 6.1 x 3.9 x 5.9 inch
€2,900
American Goldfinch
Kevin Frank
Painting - 30.48 x 22.86 x 3.81 cm Painting - 12 x 9 x 1.5 inch
€1,887
Miss burlesque star
Artemisia Fine Art
Painting - 79.8 x 79.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 31.4 x 2 inch
€3,965
Goldenefruchtwerfer (goldenfruitthrower)
Edgar Tezak-Neogy
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€2,000
Jose Maria Manzanares (padre)
Wai Ming Lung
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
€950
2023-1129 / Visages et corps expressionnistes - série rouge et noire
Marion Casters
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€150
223 Butterfly Spinpainting with Diamond Dust
Punk Me Tender
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
€11,000
When Mrs. Jenkins saw how good Jimmy could do it, she picked him as the judge for Miss Dog America
Donald Roller Wilson
Print - 76.2 x 51.4 cm Print - 30 x 20.25 inch
€4,352
Coccinelle Ladybird Bouteilles bottles
Gilles Le Corre
Painting - 74 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 29.1 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,950
1986 Rhinocéros
Christophe Curien
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 inch
€995 €498
Bust of a Horse
Domenico Mazzone
Sculpture - 20 x 37 x 12 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 14.6 x 4.7 inch
€7,600
Ours au poisson
Jean-Michel Chesné
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
€850
Elephant Louis Vuitton Blue and Orange
Art Kristin
Sculpture - 23 x 26 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 10.2 x 4.3 inch
€1,200 €1,080
Orques, Archipel Crozet / Paris Match
Benoît Gysembergh
Photography - 52 x 78 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.5 x 30.7 x 0 inch
€1,600
Le monde des chamanes ocre
Yves Cass
Painting - 74 x 57 x 1 cm Painting - 29.1 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
€950
Quinze
Emeline Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€3,500 €2,975
Deer (Sculpture Using Found Objects)
John Petrey
Sculpture - 210.8 x 68.6 x 55.9 cm Sculpture - 83 x 27 x 22 inch
€55,709
Crabe de vase (Eurytium limosum)
Teuthis
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,300
Grand perroquet noir au cirque
Brigite Oury
Painting - 88 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 34.6 x 25.6 x 0 inch
€950
Perruche soleil
Twane
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€600
Cluster in Morpho (Small)
Daniel Byrne
Sculpture - 54 x 54 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 21.3 x 3.9 inch
€4,124
Etude from the series 191
Anastasiia Kolibaba
Painting - 27 x 52 x 1 cm Painting - 10.6 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch
€484
Carriage of Travertine
Giuseppe Raggio
Painting - 80 x 130 x 0.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 51.2 x 0 inch
€80,000
La Caimana
Amanda Mijangos
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 10.6 x 0 inch
€550
El Descanso del Narrador
Armando Fonseca
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 65 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
€650
Sergei Sviatchenko - Capacity For Conjuring Illusion 8
Sergei Sviatchenko
Photography - 36 x 26 cm Photography - 14.2 x 10.2 inch
€3,000
Rossinhòu rossinholet
Chiara Scarpone
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€950
Tigre chassant
José-Maria David
Sculpture - 48.5 x 60 x 22 cm Sculpture - 19.1 x 23.6 x 8.7 inch
€17,000
Reading Together Sky & Misty SIII
Petra Dorst
Sculpture - 38 x 24 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.4 x 7.9 inch
€3,950
Le Travail à la Longe
Georges Carrey
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
€300
Carreta Herencia de mi Tierra
Manuel Cruz Prudencio
Sculpture - 33 x 48 x 28 cm Sculpture - 13 x 18.9 x 11 inch
€2,418
Back to black Patriotic mess 2
Juan Cordero
Print - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€600
DIP (white series)
Federico Alibrio
Sculpture - 25 x 33 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 13 x 3.9 inch
€200
Cucumber horse and aubergine cow
Atsushi Kaga
Sculpture - 15 x 20 x 5 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 7.9 x 2 inch
€8,500
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.