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Lou Andréas Salomé Tauss
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 35 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$359
Etude pour Raboliot
Jean Commère
Fine Art Drawings - 34 x 27 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.4 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$336
George Harrison
Mark Carpenter
Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 10 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 3 x 3.9 x 0.2 inch
$90
Femme Invisible - Je te tourne le dos
Saul
Sculpture - 40 x 30 x 16 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11.8 x 6.3 inch
$5,045
Jeune fille espagnole au foulard
Edouard Morerod
Painting - 47.5 x 34.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.7 x 13.6 x 0.2 inch
$2,439
Personnage assis " Gong Hill Frontière du Tanganyika - Kenya"
Alois Wittlin
Painting - 65 x 53.7 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.1 x 0.2 inch
$2,369
The Feast of Trimalchio
AES + F
Photography - 42 x 55.5 x 1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 21.9 x 0.4 inch
$3,363
Ladies to the pond - France painting Belle Epoque + frame
Antonio Pecorelli
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$353
Nevermore 3
Luis Enrique Toledo
Painting - 116.8 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 46 x 36 x 1 inch
$17,000
Kids playing, Is that what you wanted?
Earl of Bushwick
Print - 101 x 135 x 3 cm Print - 39.8 x 53.1 x 1.2 inch
$17,343
Karl Lagerfeld - ©Versace Home
Garotto
Design - 97 x 84 x 2 cm Design - 38.2 x 33.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,709
Kore's Head Couple
Nicola D'Antino
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 38 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 15 inch
$35,875
Prisioner of consumerism
Emil Gumiel
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 27.6 inch
$448
Fillette aux boucles rousse
Lucien-Philippe Moretti
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,311
La bougie
Henriette Barety
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$448
Everything you can imagine is real
Chris Boyle
Print - 84 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 33.1 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$370
Jeune femme hongroise avec un miroir
Gyula Kovács
Painting - 60 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,040
Femme d'Afrique du Nord
Francisque Noailly
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$3,356
THINKING ABOUT : VIRTUAL CONTEMPLATION OR NAVIGATING THE MIND’S CODE
Sumomo Kanashiwa
Painting - 140 x 123 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 48.4 x 1.2 inch
$6,727
Homme devant la fenêtre
Victor Ruzo
Painting - 85 x 54.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 33.5 x 21.5 x 0.2 inch
$2,323
Bardot 2017 - Diamond dust
Russel Young
Photography - 90 x 74 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 29.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,969
Portrait d'un notable
J.F. Meyer
Painting - 58 x 47.5 x 2 cm Painting - 22.8 x 18.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,299
Abstract portrait blue
Benjamin Carrivick
Painting - 15 x 9.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.1 inch
$212
The True North
Roldán Lauzán Eiras
Painting - 170 x 145 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 57.1 x 1.2 inch
$10,875
Le malade imaginaire de Molière
Otto II Vautier
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 52.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 20.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,903
Le vendeur de rue
Edouard Menta
Painting - 46.5 x 38.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.3 x 15.2 x 0.2 inch
$2,694
Serge Gainsbourg
Alain Robet
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 22 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 8.7 x 0 inch
$224
La marchande de poissons, Genève 1814
Alexandre Cingria
Painting - 110.2 x 78 x 1 cm Painting - 43.4 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
$4,889
Jeune fille au bord de la fenêtre
Fritz Glarner
Painting - 92 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,321
Jeune femme en costume oriental et bouquet de fleurs
Blanche Pierron
Painting - 85 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,206
Portrait du peintre Sen Shombit
Alain Bonnefoit
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.3 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.5 x 0.1 inch
$364
Two Women on the Subway, New York City
Walker Evans
Photography - 28.6 x 27.9 cm Photography - 11.25 x 11 inch
$5,000
Golden Nude Kate Moss 1993
Thiery Le Gouès
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$13,453
Sunset Whispers
Adán López Alemán
Painting - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$7,736
Louis en marinière
LN Le Pape
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$179
Blue Eyed Michael Jackson, 1999
Arno Bani
Photography - 90 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$13,453
What My Blood Remembers
Brent Godfrey
Painting - 170.2 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 67 x 55 x 2 inch
$17,500
Chromatic contenance
Daniel Gyekyi Gyan
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.8 inch
$4,200
Balloon with a Couple
Ruth Bloch
Sculpture - 93 x 35 x 15 cm Sculpture - 36.6 x 13.8 x 5.9 inch
$9,000
Juegos nunca aprehendidos
Carlos Vidal
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,070
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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!