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Painting - 122 x 122 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$3,042
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$4,082
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$8,388
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Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,118
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Print - 50 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 14.8 x 0 inch
$13,422
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$4,000
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Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 91.4 x 50.8 x 20.3 cm Sculpture - 36 x 20 x 8 inch
$4,500
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Portrait of a Hopeful Desire
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Painting - 50 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$895
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Three Graces
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Photography - 90 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,650
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Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 21 x 24 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8.3 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$145
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Origin of the World
Niki Singleton
Painting - 30.48 x 40.64 x 2 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 0.8 inch
$2,142
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No40 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 91 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$1,650
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Passionate
Dan Holmqvist
Photography - 100 x 95 x 0.2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 37.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,317
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Les voyageurs de la Terre
Yvan Genest
Painting - 76.2 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,100
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Raslain Tariffe
Painting - 130 x 97 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.6 inch
$6,711
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Hommage à Terpsichore
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 70.5 x 44 x 23 cm Sculpture - 27.8 x 17.3 x 9.1 inch
$45,835
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Isidora with umbrella - small
Stavri Kalinov
Sculpture - 14.5 x 6 x 1 cm Sculpture - 5.7 x 2.4 x 0.4 inch
$615
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Isidora with coat - small
Stavri Kalinov
Sculpture - 14.5 x 9 x 1 cm Sculpture - 5.7 x 3.5 x 0.4 inch
$615
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The Princess's wedding night
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 70 x 100 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 inch
$3,915
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F0648 - The warrior
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,013
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Beatrix and Erika dancing in black
Milburn-Foster
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,606
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Antique melodrama
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,622
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Figure
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,572 $2,315
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I'm not afraid anymore
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,767
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T'espero
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 27.8 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 10.9 x 0.1 inch
$336
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Cian - Airositat
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 39.5 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.6 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$336
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Berger I
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 39.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 15.6 x 0.1 inch
$336
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Berger II
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 39.5 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.6 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$336
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Berger III
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 39.5 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.6 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$336
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Magenta - Vagueries
Alexandra Sans Massó
Fine Art Drawings - 39.5 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.6 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$336
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Abstraction et féminité
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 47 x 36 x 0.4 cm Painting - 18.5 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
$727
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Marie-Josée Roy
Sculpture - 101.6 x 55.9 x 55.9 cm Sculpture - 40 x 22 x 22 inch
$2,700
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Pierre Alechinsky
Print - 49 x 57 cm Print - 19.3 x 22.4 inch
$783
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On est prié de tenir les siens en liesse
Pierre Alechinsky
Print - 49 x 57 cm Print - 19.3 x 22.4 inch
$783
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Les yeux infatigables de la stripteaseuse
Pierre Alechinsky
Print - 49 x 57 cm Print - 19.3 x 22.4 inch
$783
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Pierre Alechinsky
Print - 49 x 57 cm Print - 19.3 x 22.4 inch
$783
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Beatrix and Zsuzsa Dancing
Milburn-Foster
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,606
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No16 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91.4 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 36 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$1,661
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No43 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 91 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$1,650
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Torsion - Nu
Frédérique Maillart
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$447
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Dos féminin
Frédérique Maillart
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$537
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The light and You
Samiran Boruah
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
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Figure Forgée 137
Philippe Olive
Sculpture - 137 x 20 x 30 cm Sculpture - 53.9 x 7.9 x 11.8 inch
$1,342
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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.