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Station Sèvres-Lecourbe
Helen Uter
Painting - 116 x 89 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.6 inch
€4,000
Cloned chihuahua gold
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 30 x 35 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 13.8 x 5.9 inch
€7,000
Nietzsche forever young, w/ Turin horse in Elysium
Diana Heit
Painting - 89.9 x 89.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,950
Sonny, are the apples sweet?
Anna Bulkina
Painting - 241.3 x 304.8 x 7.6 cm Painting - 95 x 120 x 3 inch
€3,917
Bird and flower
Juffrouw Springtouw
Painting - 41 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€950
Bird in the city
Juffrouw Springtouw
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€950
Mêlée de coqs blancs
Édouard Pignon
Painting - 58 x 78 x 1 cm Painting - 22.8 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
€3,800
Steinbockfrau
Stephan Balkenhol
Sculpture - 68 x 24 x 24 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 9.4 x 9.4 inch
€28,500
In afterland (Pietro Longhi)
Lien Botha
Photography - 33 x 46 x 5 cm Photography - 13 x 18.1 x 2 inch
€1,200
In afterland (Piero di Cosimo)
Lien Botha
Photography - 33 x 46 x 5 cm Photography - 13 x 18.1 x 2 inch
€1,200
Meeting
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299 €150
Drops of Diamonds
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€6,000
Golden Ratio
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Still life with bird and kettle
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
€290 €247
Ours Pop Art Panda 45cm Co. N°4
André Gacko
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 23 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 inch
€1,080
Red Tulips and one Dog's Tear - O, If Only You Knew - Song by Tchaikovsky
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€490 €294
Les oiseaux sans Hitchcock
Zwy Milshtein
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€18,000
Le fantastique
Lee Berthille
Sculpture - 83 x 116 x 27 cm Sculpture - 32.7 x 45.7 x 10.6 inch
€3,500
Wildebeest migration
Gabrielle Pool
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€7,228
Spiritual Realm 2
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 144 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 56.7 x 22 x 0 inch
€4,352
Spiritual Realm 1
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 144 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 56.7 x 22 x 0 inch
€4,500
Visitors from Outside
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 180 x 48 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 70.9 x 18.9 x 0 inch
€4,642
Reincarnation
Shui Qiu
Fine Art Drawings - 180 x 48 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 70.9 x 18.9 x 0 inch
€4,642
Reindeer Suit
Johnathan Ball
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 inch
€2,418
Souviens-toi que le temps est un joueur avide
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€6,550
Pink Flower Dog
Joanna Glazer
Sculpture - 25 x 40 x 15 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 15.7 x 5.9 inch
€490 €294
Elevage industriel
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299
Chien Petit Tigre
Joanna Glazer
Sculpture - 25 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
€490 €294
La dernière corrida
Jean-Pierre Al Courty
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,950
Love Louve Camille (gauche, droite)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 34 x 7.5 x 9 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 3 x 3.5 inch
€7,351
Chien Chevalier
Joanna Glazer
Sculpture - 20 x 40 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
€490 €294
Through the time
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 200 x 150 x 0.4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.2 inch
€4,115
Work isn’t going anywhere
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 110 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
€3,498
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (3)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
€2,840
Déforestation - Ma table de jardin
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299
Premiers Signes
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299
L'Homme est un rat pour l'Homme
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€299
Un esquimau dans le freezer
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299
Passion's anatomy
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 200 x 160 x 0.3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 0.1 inch
€4,620
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.