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Red Lisa #14
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 46 x 38 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0 inch
€650
Les enfants flippants II
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 55 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€750
Brou de Ténèbres I
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
L'île aux dames
Clara Delaporte
Photography - 31 x 21 x 2 cm Photography - 12.2 x 8.3 x 0.8 inch
€300
Elle II
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 75 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
€380
Aluminum figurine of a woman
Ohad Ben-Ayala
Sculpture - 29 x 7 x 6 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 2.8 x 2.4 inch
€1,800
Aile de poulet beige
Bernard Duca
Sculpture - 60 x 45 x 15 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 17.7 x 5.9 inch
€9,600
Entrelacs & Miroirs II
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 42 x 55 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
€750
Magic Moments
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,100
Attitude féminin
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
€480
Déesse de Paris N1
Valentin Savtcheko
Painting - 54 x 72.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.5 x 1 inch
€1,800
Portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
Belisama Golden Dawn
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 53 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
€21,000
Chemise
Maciej Woltman
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
€1,300
Pauline mise en abyme
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€3,000
Nude Art II-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€500
Apparition chambre bleue
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 130 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.4 inch
€3,000
June, nude
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€3,000
Contemplation (Bronze No. 1 of 10)
Joyce Fournier
Sculpture - 25.4 x 11.4 x 8.9 cm Sculpture - 10 x 4.5 x 3.5 inch
€2,128
Mystique Torso - (Bronze No. 2 of 10)
Joyce Fournier
Sculpture - 23.5 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm Sculpture - 9.25 x 4.5 x 4.5 inch
€2,128
Model in the studio
Dima Filatov
Painting - 73 x 121 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 47.6 x 0.2 inch
€580
Cascade noire
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
Le dos de Juliette
Clara Delaporte
Photography - 31 x 21 x 2 cm Photography - 12.2 x 8.3 x 0.8 inch
€300
Erotic # 1
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€300
Erotic # 3
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€250
Rêves
Thalia Dalecky
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€340
Brou de ténèbres II
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
Women`s altar
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 127 x 108 x 0.7 cm Painting - 50 x 42.5 x 0.3 inch
€4,400
Do you smoke after ? #1
Charly Desoubry
Photography - 100 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
€950
Le Martyr
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€750
Entrelacs & Miroirs I
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 42 x 55 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
€750
Double portrait-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Là 2 (version résine)
Véronique Vigneron
Sculpture - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
€1,200
Là (version résine)
Véronique Vigneron
Sculpture - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
€1,200
Disinvoltura Viola
Tiziano Sculpteur
Sculpture - 54 x 20 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 7.9 x 3.9 inch
€1,900
Nude Art III-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€500
Cold ceramic composition
Stavri Kalinov
Painting - 120 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
€9,000
Female nude: Free
Oswin Gesselli
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€7,500
Pavarti Virvoltant
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 32 x 24 x 10 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 9.4 x 3.9 inch
€3,000
Endormie
Thalia Dalecky
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€320
Succombe ! #2
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€750
Succombe ! #1
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€750
Les demoiselles dansent
Patmoli
Painting - 200 x 210 x 0.3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 82.7 x 0.1 inch
€5,600
N° 263 La confusions des traits du temps.
R. Cavalié
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 28 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11 x 0.1 inch
€500
N° 441 Camouflage
R. Cavalié
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 48 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
€550
N° 558 Le rêve.
R. Cavalié
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 49 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 19.3 x 0.1 inch
€500
Divas de Jazz #3
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€890
Lumière 12-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 102 x 67 x 0.6 cm Painting - 40.2 x 26.4 x 0.2 inch
€5,000
Lumière 8-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 110 x 70 x 0.6 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€5,000
Sofi du cabaret
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Depth of the emerald ocean
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,780
N° 983 Les chants de Maldoror.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2.4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.9 inch
€600
Écho de lumière 1-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 40 x 34 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 13.4 x 0.1 inch
€450
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.