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![Sculpture, Belle endormie 2024, Sylvie Bourely](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172585_1_grid.jpg)
Belle endormie 2024
Sylvie Bourely
Sculpture - 12 x 50 x 19 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 19.7 x 7.5 inch
€1,500
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Interrogation
Charles Bayonne
Photography - 70 x 100 x 5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€1,450
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Sans titre (Un jour, une photo)
Aline Part
Photography - 67 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€500
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La petite tresse
Jacques Coquillay
Sculpture - 22 x 15.5 x 12 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 6.1 x 4.7 inch
€3,600
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De chlore et de rosé
Christopher Barraja
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
€1,200
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1984 Hommage a Schiele Tribute 2
Simão Da Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€1,750 €875
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Lovers 10 Amoureux
Simão Da Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€1,750
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Lovers 7 Amoureux
Simão Da Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€950
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Lovers 6 Amoureux
Simão Da Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€1,750
![Fine Art Drawings, NUDE Lovers 3, Simão Da Silva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1206150_1_grid.jpg)
NUDE Lovers 3
Simão Da Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€950
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NUDE Lovers 2
Simão Da Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€900
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Broken Myth (Diptych)
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€4,851
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Danza de Fortuna Tres. From the series "Danza de Fortuna"
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€2,156
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Danza de fortuna. From the series, Danza de fortuna
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€2,156
![Fine Art Drawings, 1952 Paris Muse aux seins nus, Kam Zin Choon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1031202_1_grid.jpg)
1952 Paris Muse aux seins nus
Kam Zin Choon
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 46 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 18.1 x 0.2 inch
€950
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The Cyclops
Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 23 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 9.1 x 0 inch
€250
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Buste Homme Aluminium 2
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 70 x 40 x 24 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 15.7 x 9.4 inch
€480
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Nu II
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€890
![Fine Art Drawings, Nu III, Mirco Marcacci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149941_1_grid.jpg)
Nu III
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€890
![Fine Art Drawings, Nu IV, Mirco Marcacci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149940_1_grid.jpg)
Nu IV
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€890
![Fine Art Drawings, Nu V, Mirco Marcacci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149939_1_grid.jpg)
Nu V
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€890
![Fine Art Drawings, Nu VI, Mirco Marcacci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149938_1_grid.jpg)
Nu VI
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€890
![Fine Art Drawings, Nu VII, Mirco Marcacci](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149937_1_grid.jpg)
Nu VII
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€890
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Une reconquête moderne de l’espace classique I.
Valerio Adami
Print - 40 x 30 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€250
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A look through the worlds
Tsanko Tsankoff
Painting - 100 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,600
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The Barefoot Dance
Tsanko Tsankoff
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,650
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Friends of the sea - August
Tsanko Tsankoff
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,800
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Breathe in Breathe out
Lesya Rozova
Photography - 90 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€675
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NUDE ONLY FOR YOU 2
Oswin Gesselli
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,950
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Gone with the Wind
Lesya Rozova
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€675
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Good company
Jessica Renault jrbrush
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€800
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Beyond boundaries #3
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 200 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
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Sisters in the garden, Gardens of Resilience series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
€650
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Rebirth: Symbols of Motherhood "Being"
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
€650
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Union: Woman and Swan
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
€650
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Ceramic figurative sculpture Candle Flame
Sve Gri
Sculpture - 22 x 14 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 5.5 x 3.9 inch
€720
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Extraction n°2
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€2,900
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La signora - The shades of gray version
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Painting - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
€850
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.