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!
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Yacht Day in Miami
Anna Reznikova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Bright path - Size L
Clara Diebler
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,200
Pixelated young torso White
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 42.5 x 23 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.7 x 9.1 x 5.9 inch
€7,900
France voies navigables
Clara Castagné
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 35 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
€800
Discurso indiferente
Teo Franco
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€550
Portrait with koi fishes
Ara Gasparyan
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€798
La gouvernante anglaise
ShuJie Wang
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€800
Ultimate Freedom rehaussée
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Print - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€360
The girl with the lost pearl earring
Nef
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0 inch
€1,400
Discord
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
€13,000
Happiness and Flowers
Svitlana Lazoriak
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€600
Picasso Preside la Corrida - Frejus, 1962
Lucien Clergue
Photography - 45.7 x 55.9 cm Photography - 18 x 22 inch
€11,265
S032 La Cage D'Amour
Jacques Tenenhaus
Sculpture - 96 x 45 x 34 cm Sculpture - 37.8 x 17.7 x 13.4 inch
€25,000
Don't Tell Me You Didn't Know
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€2,500
On ne choisit pas sa famille
Béatrice Terra
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Portrait d'homme au chapeau Melon
Jean Hélion
Print - 66 x 50 x 0.02 cm Print - 26 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,500
Paméla eut le tort de répéter sa phrase
Bengt Lindström
Print - 51 x 72 x 1 cm Print - 20.1 x 28.3 x 0.4 inch
€300
Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting Portfolio 4
Bert Stern
Photography - 61 x 61 cm Photography - 24 x 24 inch
€28,162
Viciuous circle
Hellen Halftermeyer
Sculpture - 55 x 41 x 41 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 16.1 x 16.1 inch
€2,200
Emo Night Angela Davis jacket
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,500 €3,150
Vin - Femme voilée - Série : Carnotzet
Moz - David Vuillermoz
Photography - 96 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 37.8 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€2,950
The Floral Paradox
Sephora Venites
Print - 114.3 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Print - 45 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€1,985 €1,787
Nobody can change our love
Hani Badawi Leo
Painting - 78 x 148 x 3 cm Painting - 30.7 x 58.3 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Déséquilibre
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 54 x 36 x 13 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 14.2 x 5.1 inch
€6,000
Virgin Plays with a Real Rubik's Cube
Quiona Ribes
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€800
