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!
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L'esprit Déchaîné (hand-painted)
tizlu
Painting - 50 x 35 x 2.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.9 inch
€1,480
Top Elite Faschions
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
€550
Édition Toujours Marilyn 50 RED
Miguel Guía
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€700
Degas Danseur de Ballet
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 44 x 16 x 20 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 6.3 x 7.9 inch
€980
Maiko in Springtime Kyoto
Takashi Murakami
Print - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€2,429
Love and Flowers - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Women
Taiwo Odejinmi
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
€2,230
Mask geometric - Geometric art
Tarek
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,300 €1,955
Le Chef-d'Oeuvre ou les Mystères de l'Horizon
René Magritte
Print - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€780
Impossible behaviour - 9
Galya Popova
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,600
Poésie
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 116 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,300 €2,116
Tired face (Black Edition)
Santicri
Sculpture - 32 x 17 x 9 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 6.7 x 3.5 inch
€590
The Wrinkles of the city, La Havana, Antonio Cruz Gordillo
JR
Print - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,900
La Cage et la trace du crayon
Sandra Chevrier
Print - 36 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 14.2 x 12 x 0 inch
€2,000
Peace Love and Anarchy 3D Canvas
Ziegler T
Painting - 40 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€600
La Mère et l'Enfant / The Mother & the Child (Edith Schiele and nephew / Edith Schiele und Neffe / Edith Schiele et son neveu) - 1915
Egon Schiele
Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch
€750
On ne choisit pas sa famille
Béatrice Terra
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,350
lueur rouge, lithographie originale
Christophe Hohler
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.05 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€660
A chercher l'impossible on trouve des merveilles
Miss.Tic
Print - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
€2,500
Sandrine Bonnaire
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€600
Head study (1585)
Guy Denning
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 8.3 inch
€650
Regard à droite
Jéko
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,200
L'homme au compartiment
Céline Dabot
Painting - 71 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 28 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€660 €594
Queen of Flowers - Format M
Clara Diebler
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€500
Orphée III semi-monumentale
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 125 x 44 x 46 cm Sculpture - 49.2 x 17.3 x 18.1 inch
€60,000
The Acrobatic Ensamble, no. I/VIII (large size)
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 63 x 21 x 16 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 8.3 x 6.3 inch
€1,900
A chaque jour suffit sa peine
Nawel Aubert
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€500
Sies Marjan
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
€728
Scarface - The World is Yours
Belart Collective
Print - 101 x 77 x 4 cm Print - 39.8 x 30.3 x 1.6 inch
€2,490
You Are the One #3
Natasha Lelenco
Painting - 55 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
Essence de la jeunesse 72
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 172 x 44 x 40 cm Sculpture - 67.7 x 17.3 x 15.7 inch
€11,760
Le Bouquet d'Amour
Nina Khemchyan
Sculpture - 49 x 49 x 49 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 19.3 x 19.3 inch
€10,500
Interwined in Rhythm
Barbara Schaumann
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
