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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Eyes of the Wild
Tigran Araqelyan
Painting - 110 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,002
Puro... alegria
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,788
Samo Jean Michel Basquiat
Eklektik
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€1,400
Mujer de Viñales
James Sparshatt
Photography - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,090
Tropicana
James Sparshatt
Photography - 67.5 x 67.5 x 2 cm Photography - 26.6 x 26.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,171
La rue, estampe originale de Di Rosa
Hervé Di Rosa
Print - 105 x 51 cm Print - 41.3 x 20.1 inch
€1,200
N°1004 Pianissimo quanto possibile.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€500
Sophia Loren Pop Style
Maria De Campos
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€3,490 €3,281
Le temps des brumes
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 300 x 250 x 3 cm Painting - 118.1 x 98.4 x 1.2 inch
€32,000
1969 Paris Orange Paris Le Barbu Man with a beard
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,950 €975
Worthy Than a Sparrow 2 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Bird, Woman
Kehinde Mayowa
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
€2,549
Divinité 16
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€800
Divinité 17
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€800
Divinité 18
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€800
Don’t fly away
Nora Ampova
Painting - 130 x 100 x 4.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.8 inch
€2,645 €2,249
Series “Between Heaven and Earth” - turquoise blue
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Jour de fête III (1)
Albane de Saint Remy
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
€791
1996 Portrait
Bernard Di Sciullo
Painting - 70 x 50 x 0.75 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.3 inch
€1,150 €575
Drowning
Sophia Dobreva – Nolita
Painting - 60 x 45 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.6 inch
€1,280 €1,152
La dama de la plaza
James Sparshatt
Photography - 35 x 35 x 1 cm Photography - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
€857
Young girl at the urne
Catherine Clare
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
€2,000
Naïade aux pivoines rouges
Catherine Clare
Painting - 62 x 62 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24.4 x 24.4 x 1 inch
€2,500
Summer Daydream
Tigran Araqelyan
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€410 €349
Simone, en clair-obscur
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 80 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€850
View to Brighter Future - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman
Agwunwa Theophilus
Painting - 86.4 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 34 x 32 x 1 inch
€2,321
Sous le chapiteau
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 28 x 25 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11 x 9.8 x 0.2 inch
€260
Rhythm and Blues
Adewuyi Theophilus
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
Sold
Boy in Wonderland 2
Samson Olatubosun
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,684
Shaded 2
Awosola Michael Angello
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,911
Shaded 3 (The light bearer)
Awosola Michael Angello
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,911
Shaded 1
Awosola Michael Angello
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,911
Endeared Without A Price 1
Awosola Michael Angello
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,911
Keeper of the City
Awosola Michael Angello
Painting - 127 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 inch
€2,275
Rendition of Days to Come
Awosola Michael Angello
Painting - 87.6 x 116.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 34.5 x 46 x 1 inch
€1,820
Gainsbourg et Jane
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Panic attack
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 24 x 18 x 0.2 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€390 €351
La course aux escargots / The snail race
Sylvie Gaudissart
Sculpture - 22 x 12 x 32 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 4.7 x 12.6 inch
€2,800
Confidence
Anna Camille
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 25 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
€560 €532
Vieux Soldat Blessé
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 58 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
€8,000
Coco Chanel, Paris
Horst P. Horst
Photography - 61 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€15,473
Le jeune prince à Venise
Dominique Andrier
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
