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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Mujeres en naranja
Francisco Muñoz Tejeida
Painting - 42 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€243
Bertrand avait chaud avec style
G. Carta
Painting - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€450
Personajes en fondo blanco
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
€1,432
Work in progress!
Nicolas Denigot
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 1 inch
€8,000
Feel the Blue III
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€7,500
Stop the world 1 show me how to live
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€8,500
Entre o Afeto II
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€7,500
Happy birthday dad
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 160 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€8,500
La femme aux Roses
Nicolas Denigot
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
€2,400
Être
Mathilde André
Fine Art Drawings - 69 x 46 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.2 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
€250
Sans titre
Maurice Falise
Painting - 146 x 114 x 0.2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.1 inch
€20,000 €18,000
Le poids du monde
Mathilde André
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
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Le docteur
Eric Demelis
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Série femme pantin
Mathilde André
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29.5 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.6 x 0.2 inch
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Une autre saison
Flo. M
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 46 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
€1,700
Estampe concubine pensée
Flo. M
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.2 inch
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Autoportrait- guerrière
Mathilde André
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,400 €1,260
Le bruit des hommes me rappelle que je ne suis pas seule au monde...
Barbara Lavenda
Painting - 56 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 22 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
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Pause Cigarette #2 Red Roses
Zapata
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Pause Cigarette #7 motifs chinois
Zapata
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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The white sailing boat
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Print - 75.7 x 52 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.8 x 20.5 x 0 inch
€1,880
Calligraphing en l'air #6
Cody Choi
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1.5 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,856
Masque (Version 2)
Françoise Pétrovitch
Print - 120 x 160 x 0.1 cm Print - 47.2 x 63 x 0 inch
€2,300
Dedicated to Botticelli 4
Olga Marciano
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€800
Shining Loneliness
Tetiana Shendryk
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€600
Tell me who your friends are...
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 59.9 x 49.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.6 x 1.2 inch
€610
3 in 1 Beauty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, African Women
Samson Toba
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€3,990
Harlem Dude rehausse VIII/XII
Kelu Abstract
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€650
Emotions of Crossed Fingers - Portrait of Asia Girl
Max Skoblinsky
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Madame Poisson Doré
Dirk De Keyzer
Sculpture - 108 x 77 x 53 cm Sculpture - 42.5 x 30.3 x 20.9 inch
€17,600
Taylor Swift's Violin (Taylor Swift au Violon)
Françoise Leblanc
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€800
Blonde comme tes pieds
Matthias Gaillaguet
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€800
Portrait de Leopold Zborowski (d'après)
Amedeo Modigliani
Print - 46 x 30 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.1 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€1,200
Starry Night: City Mask
Moira Bushkimani
Sculpture - 60.5 x 46 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 23.8 x 18.1 x 1 inch
€2,500
Grandma Divers IX
Alain Schroeder
Photography - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€2,500
Harmony or devastation
Anton Klepikov
Sculpture - 65 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
€1,877
Mes soeurs iraniennes
Annick Bonnet Dupeyron
Painting - 52 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 20.5 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€550
