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Girl Crying II
Jochen Cerny
Photography - 100 x 121 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 47.6 x 1.2 inch
€3,500
2153
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 89.9 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
€2,323
1060, From The series One
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 104.9 x 86.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 41.3 x 34 x 0.1 inch
€2,527
1892, From The series One
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 104.9 x 86.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 41.3 x 34 x 0.1 inch
€2,527
Le temps passe, tu l'espionnes
Clement Garnung
Painting - 130 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
€3,200
A Lad Insane
Karen Lesley Chappelow
Painting - 101 x 88 x 2 cm Painting - 39.8 x 34.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,338
Want my apple too?
Claudia Benavente
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€2,400
Teoría de interferencia
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 94 x 177.8 x 0.5 cm Painting - 37 x 70 x 0.2 inch
€3,888
Days fade away
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 177.8 x 124.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 70 x 49 x 0.2 inch
€3,888
The begining of the end
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 130 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 2 inch
€7,800
2001 Prophète sur fond violet Prophet COLLECTION LUBJANA MUSEUM, SLOVENIA
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 217 x 187 x 1 cm Painting - 85.4 x 73.6 x 0.4 inch
€19,500 €9,750
Puro... Alegría #VI- Neo Platinum
Sparshatt Dalzell
Painting - 76 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
€4,273
Puro... Alegría #VIII- Neo Platinum
Sparshatt Dalzell
Painting - 76 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
€4,273
Graciela #VII- Neo Platinum (1) (1)
Sparshatt Dalzell
Painting - 76 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
€4,273
Puro...Alegría #IV - Neo Platinum
Sparshatt Dalzell
Painting - 76 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
€4,273
Midnight. From La Música Nocturna Series
Sergio Bazan
Painting - 160 x 160 x 0.3 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.1 inch
€2,916
Le Rouge & le Noir
Agnès Robin
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€2,520
GUERRE, prisonnier du camp de concentration WAR, concentration camp prisonner
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 90 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€4,995
1966 White Paris Blanc Bistro Le Joueur de dés Bistro Dice player
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.75 x 52.75 cm Painting - 14.9 x 20.8 inch
€2,950
Oaxaca – Un Ruban Autour D’une Bombe
SoRi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 7 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 2.8 inch
€3,000
1959 Père enfant Father child
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 140 x 98 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 38.6 x 0.4 inch
€4,600
PARIS ORANGE PARIS Parisienne aux faux cils 1958 Parisian with false eyelashes
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 65 x 48 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.9 x 0.2 inch
€4,950
1963 THE KISS Paris Tour Eiffel
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 57.75 x 48 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22.7 x 18.9 x 0.2 inch
€3,450
1962 Parisiennes Confidences Parisians
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€4,950
Muse au téléphone monumental 1972 Mathausen
Florian Hunger-Pegof
Photography - 100 x 120 x 0.75 cm Photography - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.3 inch
€4,900
Lumumba #7
Modou Dieng Yacine
Photography - 103.5 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 40.7 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€7,500
Lumumba #2
Modou Dieng Yacine
Photography - 103.5 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 40.7 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€7,500
Lumumba #6
Modou Dieng Yacine
Photography - 103.5 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 40.7 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€7,500
Lumumba #4
Modou Dieng Yacine
Photography - 103.5 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 40.7 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€7,500
Van Gogh au tournesol
Elia Pagliarino
Painting - 116 x 89 x 1 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.4 inch
€3,800 €3,420
The permanent warmth of a fleeting dream
Reinaldo Chavez
Painting - 19 x 19 cm Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 inch
€350
Blah, blah, blah, Beatrice!
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen
Painting - 59 x 49 x 4 cm Painting - 23.2 x 19.3 x 1.6 inch
€2,503
Lost while hatching #4
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen
Painting - 49 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,503
Lost while hatching #2
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen
Painting - 49 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,503
Portrait
Portraits are one of the oldest genres of painting known to art, and it first appeared in ancient Egypt. For several centuries, there was a tendency to idealize features in order flatter important patrons for whom the portrait was for. Then, progressively, artists started to turn to ordinary people for their sitters, with fewer requirements limiting their choices, they were able to paint increasingly realist works.
Portraiture was influenced by the many movements of the 20th century and, rather than getting closer to reality, painters used portraits as a means to experiment with new artistic techniques and theories. Photography and sculpture followed a similar path, thus showing the incredible creativity and interpretation of artists.
Today there is an enormous variety of unusual portraits that don't aim flatter their sitters in the least but rather be expressive. Disfigured faces, surprising collages, distorted human forms and even creatures that are half-human, half-animal: there are no rules and creativity flows!