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Delphine patine brun
Christian Candelier
Sculpture - 46 x 21 x 21 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 8.3 x 8.3 inch
€4,800
1999 Nu Jaune Oiseau Bird Nina Ricci Paris Yellow Nude
Kojiro Akagi
Painting - 116 x 89 x 1 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.4 inch
€19,500
TooLess 7482, 3D Lightbox
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 160 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 63 x 39 x 0.1 inch
€10,458
TooLess 7225, 3D Lightbox
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 154.9 x 111.8 x 10.2 cm Photography - 61 x 44 x 4 inch
€11,898
TooLess 5700, 3D Lightbox
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 144.8 x 94 x 0.3 cm Photography - 57 x 37 x 0.1 inch
€10,938
Don't Tell Mamma #10
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
€5,037
Don't Tell Mamma #7
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
€5,037
Invacuo Project #32
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 81.3 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 47 x 0.1 inch
€5,037
Invacuo Project #18
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 81.3 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 47 x 0.1 inch
€5,037
TooLess 4420. C-Print & Museum Plexiglass Sandwich
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 149.9 x 106.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 59 x 42 x 0.1 inch
€8,539
TooLess 7482 C-Print & Museum Plexiglass Sandwich
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 160 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 63 x 39 x 0.1 inch
€9,499
TooLess 4692 C-Print & Museum Plexiglass Sandwich
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 130.8 x 118.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 51.5 x 46.5 x 0.1 inch
€8,539
Nu assis et citron au temps frais
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 45 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€490
Nu debout au temps frais
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 43 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 16.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€489
Catharsis n°1
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€450
Nuit Fauve, Champagne et playlist #4
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€650
Red Lisa #13
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 46 x 38 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0 inch
€650
Broken (Kindergarten)
Michael Bastow
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 inch
€5,500
Danser avec les eaux
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 185 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 72.8 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,500
Nouvelle ère ? Heu ... Sérieusement ?
Grégory Dreyfus
Painting - 146 x 97 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 inch
€21,000
Hommage à la peinture
Jacques Coquillay
Sculpture - 43 x 22 x 14 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 8.7 x 5.5 inch
€8,000
Air du temps
Nathalie Decoster
Sculpture - 100 x 100 x 20 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 39.4 x 7.9 inch
€23,000
Les colonnes n°3
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€200
Les colonnes n°1
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€200
Variations sur béton n°5
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€225
Variations sur béton n°4
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€325
Essences pionnières
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€175
Standard bearer 8
Christos Antonaropoulos
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€13,500
Standard bearer 13
Christos Antonaropoulos
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€13,500
Sédimentation
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€200
Cherry day
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€9,000
Angel in blue
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€6,600
Waiting for the tide
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 140 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€9,000
Art Deco Nude 23-08-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored pencil on paper
Corné Akkers
Fine Art Drawings - 24.1 x 31 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.5 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
€325
N°22013 Hommes Taureaux Etude 3
Capton
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€200
N°22011 Hommes Taureaux Etude 1
Capton
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€200
Breathe in Breathe out
Lesya Rozova
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€300
Toxicity wherever you are
Alcides Calizaya
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 90 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 35.4 inch
€400
La couleur de la nuit
Mark Fontaine
Painting - 60 x 43 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.9 x 0 inch
€180
Titania et Bottom Songe d'une nuit d'été
Aimé Venel
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€7,500
Sans titre
Michel Lablais
Fine Art Drawings - 34.3 x 27.2 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.5 x 10.7 x 0.2 inch
€450
Female Figurine - Aluminum
Ohad Ben-Ayala
Sculpture - 23 x 10 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 3.9 x 3.5 inch
€1,940
Female pulse
Paraskevas Papadopoulos
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€7,319
Women
Lucien Coutaud
Fine Art Drawings - 20.5 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.1 x 10.2 x 0 inch
€380
Esculmau 105 Robe Blanc Satin
Arson
Sculpture - 102 x 32 x 17 cm Sculpture - 40.2 x 12.6 x 6.7 inch
€2,800
Human body
'I wanted to conquer the world. But I also desperately wanted to understand human nature, and to know what was inside our bodies. To do this, I have spent whole night dissecting bodies, against the direct orders of the Pope. Nothing disgusts me. What I am looking for, truly, in all of my work and particularly in my painting, what I have looked for all my life, is to understand the mystery that is human nature' – from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century.
At the time of writing these notes, da Vinci had already made greater understanding of the human body the primary objective of his investigations. Dissection and study were key to his development of a holistic knowledge of anatomy, which da Vinci believed was vital to the perfect rendering of the nude figures which he painted and drew.
Little by little, the traditional image of the human figure was uprooted and in its place new ways of interpreting the body developed. Contemporary artists relentlessly questioned the traditional codes of figure drawing, liberally reworking the representation of the body to create a new image that was dislocated, geometric, deformed and disfigured.
The body as an artistic subject is at once desired, fantasised, dreamt, transformed, deformed. For painters, photographers and sculptors alike the body represents a rite of passage in their artistic development. Many people say that they most appreciate the talents of an artists by way of their control over the complexity of the figure. For example, it's clear even in Matisse's later, more abstract collages that he had perfectly mastered the human form.
Representation of the body is fundamental to Western art: first and foremost because it suggests a representation of the self, and therefore affirms the artist's own existence and coexistence with the environment that surrounds them. At the beginning of art history, the only bodies represented were the gods, supernatural beings, and spirits who had taken on human form. The body, nude or clothed, is at once one of the most widely depicted and most deeply polemical subjects in Western art (think of the scandals provoked by Courbet's 'Origins of the World', or Renoir's 'Picnic on the Grass').
The body has always been the primary subject of an array of themes, and its history is rich and ancient. Initially, depiction of the body was closely linked to religion, where the Word became flesh in Genesis, but later in more secular times the arousal of the artist when faced with the body made for an equally popular theme. Latterly the notion of the body as an object of beauty was subverted by Cubism until depictions of bodies no longer bore any resemblance to reality or made any pretence of respecting the rules of proportion.
Finally, in modern art the body has taken on an abstract shape within space, becoming one with the environment. In some instances, the body has become the artist's own support, as with Klein's models. The body as an abstract concept is tangible in many different manifestations in art, even in pieces as unassuming as some of Rothko's paintings. It remains the subject of inexhaustible inspiration and eternal debate.