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The sound if flying souls
Brooke Shaden
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,691
Muhammad Ali - Heavyweight Ideals
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$841
A Mysterious Horse - A tribute to the artist Uri Reisman
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,700
Styles Change - Style Endures - Black
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 48.26 x 36.83 x 0.2 cm Print - 19 x 14.5 x 0.1 inch
$673
The faces of the world: the carpet weavers of the east
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$953
Self Portrait (SF-050)
Sam Francis
Print - 104.1 x 74.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 41 x 29.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Mélodie universelle
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,803
To live a life...
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 78 x 55 x 3 cm Painting - 30.7 x 21.7 x 1.2 inch
$561
Les yeux verts
Christiane Bernais
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.7 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$1,009
Week-end en amoureux
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,130
Universal dignity letterpress
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 49.53 x 38.1 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.5 x 15 x 0 inch
$561
Rêve de scène II
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$135
The decision II
Ricardo Fabián Bertona
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,350
Marisa French Vogue Studios 1970
Anthony Horth
Photography - 30 x 25 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Wagner
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 15.7 inch
$20,180
Jaguar du Costa Rica II, N°5/5
Catherine Clare
Print - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$280
Jaguar du Costa Rica II, N°4/5
Catherine Clare
Print - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$280
Geografia del altar 3
David Murcia
Painting - 114 x 146 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,643
Welcome visitors letterpress
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 50.8 x 40.64 x 0.2 cm Print - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$896
Rural Rugged I
Godspower Odogwu
Painting - 84.5 x 86 x 2.5 cm Painting - 33.3 x 33.9 x 1 inch
$1,906
Lennon peace and liberty (red)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$673
Dernier Regard
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$325
Les Demoiselles de Monti
Orest Hrytsak
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$11,211
Bob Marley 40th (Set of 3: Confrontation, Soul Rebel, Lively Up Yourself)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 49.53 x 41.91 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.5 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$841
La Cage où les Gens Pleurent
Sandra Chevrier
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 6.7 inch
$2,904
Le Loup de Wall Street
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,345
Rare Lichtenstein Street Art Girl
Freda People Art
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,345
Ma belle aventure
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,709
Power of to love
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$5,381
Shared vision
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,450 $1,305
Brotherhood
Abiodun Nafiu Azeez
Painting - 96.5 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 38 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,300 $1,170
Hiding in the city - Sleeping Lion
Liu Bolin
Photography - 68 x 90 cm Photography - 26.8 x 35.4 inch
$13,790
Japanese Life 06
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 25 x 120 x 3.8 cm Photography - 9.8 x 47.2 x 1.5 inch
$336
Famille Marseille
Karine Bartoli
Painting - 100 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,906
The old organ grinder and his friends
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,794
The Flamenco woman
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,345
A ballerina portrait with dark background
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$897
Dans ma veste de soie rose...
Cacou
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$953
L'envol / The flight, 1917 (Mutter mit kind / Mother and child)
Egon Schiele
Print - 50 x 68 cm Print - 19.7 x 26.8 inch
$874
I.N.T.I.M.A.C.Y States #2
Anna Levesh
Photography - 50 x 50 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 inch
$1,099
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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!