Diptych Artworks
Save your search and find it in your favorites
Saved search
Your search is accessible from the favorites tab > My favorite searches
Unsaved search
A problem occurred
Totem (2 pieces)
Themanfromthefuture Urano
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€420
Muse 1 and 2. Nude Color photographs intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 33 x 96.5 x 2.5 cm Photography - 13 x 38 x 1 inch
€3,888
Promenade au parc II Diptyque
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 65 x 184 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 72.4 x 1 inch
€2,500
Diptyque Untituled
Aurelien Grudzien
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€3,800
Back lighting, Blue and Red. Diptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 80 x 0.1 inch
€4,860
Back lighting, Black and Red. Diptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 80 x 0.1 inch
€4,860
Drive and motivation
Ivan Gette
Painting - 140 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
€14,930
Mystery theater
Valeria De Santis
Painting - 180 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€7,436
Untitled 4 (Diptych)
Michael Schmeja
Painting - 41 x 58 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 22.8 x 0.1 inch
€750
Silent Flame the Crack Sound of the Music
Hiroshi Mehata
Painting - 80 x 117 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 46.1 x 1 inch
€18,700
The Purgatory Gazes
Hiroshi Mehata
Painting - 80 x 117 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 46.1 x 1 inch
€18,700
Colorful landscape 6/22
Ilgvars Zalans
Painting - 140 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
€9,000
Us Becoming True
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€490 €245
Carnival and rising waters
Diane de Cicco
Painting - 195 x 195 x 2.5 cm Painting - 76.8 x 76.8 x 1 inch
€7,000
Monumental drift
Diane de Cicco
Painting - 204 x 308 x 3 cm Painting - 80.3 x 121.3 x 1.2 inch
€12,000
Losanges en orange-vert-violet-bleu
Claude Tousignant
Painting - 129.5 x 259.1 cm Painting - 51 x 102 inch
€300,000
Losanges en bleu-vert-rouge
Claude Tousignant
Painting - 106.7 x 213.4 cm Painting - 42 x 84 inch
€160,000
Losanges en blanc et noir
Claude Tousignant
Painting - 106.7 x 213.4 cm Painting - 42 x 84 inch
€160,000
Losanges en noir-blanc-rouge
Claude Tousignant
Painting - 86 x 172 cm Painting - 33.9 x 67.7 inch
€11,000
The colors of the joy of the season
Nadine Antoniuk
Painting - 100 x 140 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.6 inch
€2,100
El jardín De Ezra
Amanda Valle
Painting - 192 x 182 x 2.5 cm Painting - 75.6 x 71.7 x 1 inch
€12,500
Take the risk or lose the chance
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
€4,200
Les fleurs ont fané à force de vous attendre
Ada Kafel
Painting - 25 x 48 cm Painting - 9.8 x 18.9 inch
€700
Painting for the Digital Age - IV
Nils Thornander
Painting - 120 x 40 x 7.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 3 inch
€12,000
The Arrow Paradox
Nils Thornander
Painting - 160 x 80 x 7.5 cm Painting - 63 x 31.5 x 3 inch
€12,000
Printemps au parc diptyque
Agnès Tiollier
Painting - 89 x 260 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35 x 102.4 x 1 inch
€5,800
Tokyo passage IV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 90 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 35.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,790
Back lighting, Green and Yellow. Diptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 50.8 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,402
Back lighting, Red and Yellow. Diptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 50.8 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,402
Back lighting, Red and Green. Diptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 50.8 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,402
Back lighting, Blue and Green. Diptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 80 x 0.1 inch
€4,860
Back lighting, Blue and Yellow. Diptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 80 x 0.1 inch
€4,860
Back lighting, Black and Blue. Diptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 80 x 0.1 inch
€4,860
Peach blossom in spring
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 79.8 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 31.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,916
Flame Tongue in the Bat Cave
Palirina
Painting - 40 x 80 x 1.6 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€450
Passion's anatomy
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 200 x 160 x 0.3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 63 x 0.1 inch
€4,620
The sky is the limit
Maria Esmar
Painting - 100 x 300 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 118.1 x 1.6 inch
€5,500
La chute- Chapitre 102 (Diptyque)
Philippe Vercellotti
Painting - 110 x 110 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
€15,000
Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Rapswellen
Frank Suplie
Painting - 110 x 270 x 4 cm Painting - 43.3 x 106.3 x 1.6 inch
€19,600
Rügen, Kreidefelsen
Frank Suplie
Painting - 50 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€12,400
Sweet forest D
Karenina Fabrizzi
Painting - 160 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 63 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
€3,680
I find myself in the reflection of masculinity
Malwina Jagora
Painting - 100 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€8,295
L'éveil. Diptych
Diana Malivani
Painting - 150 x 240 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 94.5 x 1.6 inch
€26,500
Diptyque murale
Raphael Scorbiac
Sculpture - 40 x 160 x 3 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 63 x 1.2 inch
€9,500
Diptyque aux arbres
Raphael Scorbiac
Sculpture - 110 x 100 x 25 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 39.4 x 9.8 inch
€8,500
Au delà du réel
Frédéric Batard
Painting - 100 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
€3,960
Earth's Vibration
Pepe Hidalgo
Painting - 81.5 x 239 x 4 cm Painting - 32.1 x 94.1 x 1.6 inch
€9,680
Day-for-Night
Rémy Badan
Photography - 100 x 190 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 74.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,500
Series "Les sacrés" Sacré moment - silence sacré
Anthony Godet
Photography - 120 x 75 cm Photography - 47.2 x 29.5 inch
€2,200
Diptych Artworks
Think that triptychs and diptychs are only religious artworks? Not at all! Two-piece artworks can be made in all kinds of media such as painting, drawing or photography. In modern and contemporary art, some works are imagined and arranged in two parts. Artists also create optical illusions which imitate diptychs by splitting the painting in two. Thanks to these two part artworks, these works of art will bring depth and volume to your interior. Since Andy Warhol's famous 'Marilyn Diptych', duo works have never been out of fashion
A diptych ("di" meaning two and "ptyche" meaning fold in Greek) is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Diptychs are usually 2D works composed of 2 pieces. They are completed in a variety of media including painting, photography and drawing, and also represent all types of subject matter including, portraits, landscapes and abstract art.
Diptychs have been a popular art form amongst artists for centuries. Generally there is a link between the panels, where subjects often engage with or look at each other from the two sections. Alternatively, it could depict a single work that is continued across the two parts. This means the diptych could provide two alternative viewpoints of a single scene, or share the same color and composition but show two different themes. In art history, the diptych was used to present certain scenarios. These were often scenes of marriage (husband and wife on different panels), life and death or wealth and poverty.
In modern and contemporary art, some works are imagined and arranged in two. Artists also create “trompes l'oeil" (literally means “deceive the eye") which are optical illusions that imitate diptychs by splitting the painting in two. This can be as simple as applying a straight line through the centre of the work. In Late Antiquity, "consular diptychs" were made to mark an individual's election as Roman consul. These were created in wood, ivory or metal.
The diptych was additionally used in early Christian literature to tell stories of saints, Christ and the Virgin Mary. The form facilitated the transportation of these stories, since it could be closed like a book to preserve its interior.
Diptychs were additionally present in classical and modern art (of the 20th century). However, very few old pieces of this art form survived, and those that did are kept in the most renowned museums worldwide.
In 1935, King Richard II commissioned the Wilton Diptych, a small portable diptych and extremely rare Medieval religious painting from England. It is now in the National Gallery in London. Measuring 53 x 37 cm, the Baltic oak panels depict a kneeling Richard II on one panel, praying to the Virgin Mary on the other.
The Louvre has the Diptych of Jean Carondelet in its possession, which was created by Jean Gossaert in 1517. The diptych is a work of private devotion, yet underlines the Flemish painter's talent for portraiture. Jean Carondelet is shown praying towards the right panel where an image of the Virgin Mary is also painted. However, unlike the Wilton Diptych, this is actually a double diptych as the back of the piece is painted with a coat of arms and a skull (vanitas).
Alternatively, one of the most famous diptychs only dates back to 1962, and was completed by Pop art master, Andy Warhol. His famous “Marilyn Diptych" shows two serigraphs: one in color and one in black and white. According to the Tate, this “evokes [Marilyn Monroe's] ubiquitous presence in the media. The contrast of vivid colour with black and white, and the effect of fading in the right panel are suggestive of the star's mortality."
Discover the art of the diptych in all its forms with this unique selection from Artsper! Uncover the abstract painting of Tommaso Fattovich, the quirky messages of Agnès Thurnauer, the vibrant compositions of Novi Lim, the enchanting colors of Ron Halfant, the maritime views of Ana Hefco or the meditative photographs of Serge Hamad.