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Untitled #13, Fall Off Wonderland series
Yang Du
Photography - 80 x 60 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$2,242
La force du silence
Edward Vandaele
Sculpture - 160 x 60 x 50 cm Sculpture - 63 x 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$9,641
A bird without a song
Haude Bernabé
Sculpture - 102 x 65 x 72 cm Sculpture - 40.2 x 25.6 x 28.3 inch
$10,987
Ballon bouche bée vert italien
Mauro Corda
Sculpture - 220 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 86.6 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$5,045
Encre I
Maylis Bourdet
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 47 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
$628
De l'ombre à la lumière
Gor bedrossian
Painting - 97 x 78 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 30.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,682
Michael Jackson VI
David Nutter
Photography - 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 24 x 2 inch
$2,550
Occupied space
Basel Dahman
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$40,000
Was für ein Glück (Gestern)
Paul Thierry
Print - 100 x 50 x 8 cm Print - 39.4 x 19.7 x 3.1 inch
$2,563
Shoulder to shoulder
Lori Stanford
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 2.2 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.9 inch
$3,531
Women
Fausto delle Chiaie
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 59.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 23.5 x 0.1 inch
$561
El gato de Velázquez o Paseo en la eternidad
Juan Carlos Romano
Painting - 99 x 99 cm Painting - 39 x 39 inch
$5,045
Female Portrait
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 202 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 79.5 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$13,453
Fusion autoportrait
Toby Mulligan
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$1,682
La danseuse au tutu rose
Charles De Ziegler
Painting - 80 x 63.5 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25 x 0.8 inch
$1,394
Portraits de mains
Jean Robert (Ipoustéguy)
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 49 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.3 x 0.2 inch
$617
n°1491 - Twins - Les Jumeaux
Amin Malekian
Sculpture - 30 x 10 x 6 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 3.9 x 2.4 inch
$561
Photographie de John Steinbeck
Roy Schatt
Photography - 24 x 23 x 1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
$774
Tambourinades
Gérard Traquandi
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 11.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 4.5 inch
$504
No Regrets (Narcisse)
Vanessa Dakinsky
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,016
Le faiseur de rosée
Philippe Loubat
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,233
N° 1388 - Skull Roman
Rodrigue Grego
Sculpture - 8 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm Sculpture - 3.1 x 2.2 x 1.8 inch
$561
Portrait de Melle Bachelard
Jules Gaillepand
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 32 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 12.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,045
Portrait de l'actrice Eleonora Duse
Louis Rheiner
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 46.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 18.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,277
Why are we so alone even in company?
Marc Bodie
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$729
Agnès Varda - Les plages d'Agnès
Jean-Loup Gautreau
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$336
0 Dark Thirty
Agnès de la Roncière
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,130
Portrait d'enfant portant une carafe
Janebé Weber
Painting - 65.5 x 50.5 x 3 cm Painting - 25.8 x 19.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,394
Awissa
Claudia van der Starre
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.5 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
$4,456
Obehi (Hand of God)
Barnabas Macauley
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$4,200 $3,780
Nwanne la Nwanne (Sisters)
Franklin Ndibam
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$4,504
L'homme debout Astolfo
Vito Imburgia
Sculpture - 37 x 10 x 8 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
$1,682
Uomo con bastone e cappello
Mario Poggiali
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$561
La noire idole
Patrick Strajnic
Photography - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,065
Jeune femme allongée sur le sofa
Maurice Barraud
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 18.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 7.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,045
Vieille homme à la pipe
Alberto Cecconi
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,150
Berger des Alpes et sa pipe
G. Baur
Painting - 39.5 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.6 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,045
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!