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Warlawurru Jukurrpa (Wedge-tailed Eagle Dreaming) / Wakurlpa & Yuwarli
Terry Jakamarra Long
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€240
Dynaste Hercule
Edouard Martinet
Sculpture - 22 x 60 x 20 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 23.6 x 7.9 inch
€12,800
Les yeux verts
Christiane Bernais
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.7 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
€900
Bado Mecambo
François Vandenberghe
Sculpture - 60 x 37 x 52 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 14.6 x 20.5 inch
€23,500
Still Life with a Green Bug
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
€2,139
Le tigre blanc et les nenuphars rouges
Camille Poli
Print - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€90
Tauromachie
Lydie Arickx
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
€2,200
Into the wild
Thierry Van Quickenborne
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€4,500
Papillon
Francis Picabia
Painting - 14 x 18.3 x 1 cm Painting - 5.5 x 7.2 x 0.4 inch
€35,000 €31,500
Hollywood, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Melissa Mason
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 1 inch
€2,041
Untitled (Bull)
Oscar Dominguez
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 27.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 10.8 x 0.4 inch
€19,000
Des éleveurs d´oiseaux
Ivonaldo Veloso de Melo
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€7,500
Petit Léopard sur le rocher
Patrick Villas
Sculpture - 29 x 23 x 16 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 9.1 x 6.3 inch
€6,000
Bullfighter and bull
Pere Creixams
Painting - 45 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
Goodmorning
Custom de Biest
Photography - 160 x 100 x 4 cm Photography - 63 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,950
Eléphant Hermès
Dominique Kleiner
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€600
Black and gold panther
Shan Project
Sculpture - 120 x 80 x 70 cm Sculpture - 47.2 x 31.5 x 27.6 inch
€12,000 €10,200
The walking cheetah
Marie Ackers
Sculpture - 46 x 100 x 35 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 39.4 x 13.8 inch
€19,000
La souris va pour la nuit
Giuseppe Fortunato
Print - 60 x 43 x 1 cm Print - 23.6 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
€280
Dardo I green
Javier de la Rosa
Sculpture - 150 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€1,587
A Falcaroo Named Knievel
Brett Crawford
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 2.54 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 inch
€72,904
Cloned Griffon Bruxellois with Pet Bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 7.1 inch
€1,400
Pie bleue de l'Himalaya
Catherine Clare
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€800 €720
Avoir les dents longues, la vie en rose !?
Manchot
Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
€500
Nature morte au faisan
Raymond Guerrier
Painting - 100 x 78 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 30.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,300
Maci (Teddy Bear)
Szabolcs Bozó
Painting - 40.64 x 38.1 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€53,463
Insecte de feu / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 50 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
Sans titre (Grenouille/maison/cloche)
Daniel Nadaud
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 74 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 29.1 x 0.1 inch
€400
Jongetje met hond (Little boy with dog)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 20 x 8 x 11 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.1 x 4.3 inch
€875
Aurum 6
Marco Araldi & Keng Wai Lee
Painting - 42.5 x 32.5 x 4 cm Painting - 16.7 x 12.8 x 1.6 inch
€1,099
Quand les mystères sont très malins
Yves Brayer
Print - 22.5 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 8.9 x 12 x 0 inch
€850
Promenade Matinale
Valérie Zimmermann (Anna Mya Zimmer)
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,390
My lucky Rabbit !
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€90
Being is love / 431
Christine Zanella
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€980
Il était une fois dans l'ouest - série Bande dessinée
Philippe Maillebuau
Painting - 65 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
Triunfo de la castidad
Armen Gasparian
Painting - 90 x 120 cm Painting - 35.4 x 47.2 inch
€10,406 €9,366
Animal
Animals are often featured in news, sometimes in heartwarming tales of human and animal companionship and other times in heartbreaking stories of illegal trade and endangered species. Animals are even present in social sciences, especially thank to ethology (behavioural sciences of animals in their natural habitat). They have fascinated philosophers from Antiquity all the way through to today and they are even present in the medical realm, as the benefits of animal-assisted therapies have been scientifically proven.
The relationship between humans and animals is also taken into account in the politics, most notably when debating topics related to ecology, the protection of ecosystems and sustainable development. Thus, animals might be seen as a crucial indicator of humanity's concerns.
As well in these many sectors, animals are also very much present in the arts. A number of art museums have decided exhibitions to animals including the Cluny Museum in Paris and MoMA PS1 in New York. Whether simply a humble spectator in an 18th century painting or the central subject of a Courbet painting, animals are present throughout the history of art. From symbolic, to esthetic, to abstract, to animal drawings meant to simply record their appearance...all these representations have played a role in influencing artists and also how we characterise and think of individual animals.
Each civilisation has represented the animal on multiples supports (mosaics, metal, stone, bones, etc.) as seen on the Nerja cave wall paintings in Andalusia discovered in 1925. Animal iconography has had multiple purposes, varying according to the era and place. Bats, for example, are often used to represent death, fear or superstition in Western art, whereas the Chinese see them as a sign of happiness. The omnipresence of animals within cultures across the globe is probably down to the similarities between men and animal, a source of both fascination and fear.
In this selection, Artsper helps you to discover the beauty of the animal kingdom, its diversity, strength and fragility. Artists depict animals in a huge range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photographs, and drawings. Contemporary artists bring an original and poetic vision to their representations of the animals with whom we share our world.