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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An Ode of False Bonds
Olamilekan Okunade
Painting - 137.2 x 137.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 54 x 54 x 1 inch
€6,007
Buddha and Blues
Koorosh Nejad
Painting - 140 x 105.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 41.7 x 1.6 inch
€2,068
Enjoying the sea breeze
Jose Luis De la Barra Bellido
Painting - 91.4 x 96.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 38 x 1 inch
€2,002
Rebel without a cause
Josh One
Painting - 147 x 98 x 4.5 cm Painting - 57.9 x 38.6 x 1.8 inch
€1,900
Three times better than usual
Nikolay Devnenski
Sculpture - 33.5 x 20 x 36 cm Sculpture - 13.2 x 7.9 x 14.2 inch
€2,900
Dans le cœur
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Painting - 73 x 54.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.5 x 1 inch
€3,800
Mecrob - Silhaya 1/8
W.A.Y Studio
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Océanie – Le Haka
Maxime Hurdequint
Sculpture - 82 x 22 x 1 cm Sculpture - 32.3 x 8.7 x 0.4 inch
€500
Injured (The Stoic Men)
Ajegbomogun Damilola
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
€3,868
La vieillesse consolant la jeunesse 1987
Tiennick Kerrevel
Print - 32 x 22 x 0.2 cm Print - 12.6 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
€590
Untitled 2
Wang Fei
Fine Art Drawings - 97 x 235 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.2 x 92.5 x 0.4 inch
€34,000
Retro ballet
Nikolai Angelov-Gary
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,750
Tiempo (Temps)
Manuel Martí Moreno
Sculpture - 107 x 52 x 60 cm Sculpture - 42.1 x 20.5 x 23.6 inch
€7,800
Imperfect Beauty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Faces
Odesola Idowu
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
€2,321
Joie - Série portrait graphique
Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Pure and Simple
Therese Lydia Joseph
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 2 inch
€1,170
Portraits de mains
Jean Robert (Ipoustéguy)
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 49 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.3 x 0.2 inch
€550
Rémanence la nature des choses
Joël Leick
Photography - 95 x 38 x 2 cm Photography - 37.4 x 15 x 0.8 inch
€700
A(A-Un)
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€600
1999 Origami Angel 2 sous cloche de verre lumineuse
Y Kumanda
Sculpture - 16 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
€950
Muhamed Ali, Chicago
Annie Leibovitz
Photography - 42.5 x 27.5 x 1 cm Photography - 16.7 x 10.8 x 0.4 inch
€9,000
ManoScape, I
Kourosh Sotoodeh
Photography - 91 x 61 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.8 x 24 x 0.2 inch
€650
Destructuration 2/8
Maxime Piccoli
Sculpture - 40 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€2,400
Parfum de Vanille
France Courpotin
Painting - 120 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
€2,750
Maeste II (Large Painting)
Tomasz Rut
Painting - 127 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 50 x 22 x 1 inch
€5,461
Lecteur sur le ventre - Série corps humain
Pauline Baste Morand
Sculpture - 8 x 20 x 10 cm Sculpture - 3.1 x 7.9 x 3.9 inch
€1,750
L'étranger - série Sculpture portrait de femme
Chantal Nottrelet
Sculpture - 39 x 10 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 3.9 x 4.7 inch
€500
No Windowsill
Maxime Cousineau Perusse
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.6 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.4 inch
€674
Golden Face
Jose Ladrón de Guevara
Painting - 85 x 68 x 0.2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 26.8 x 0.1 inch
€2,125
Bastet
Corné Akkers
Fine Art Drawings - 21.1 x 28.2 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.1 x 0.1 inch
€1,454
Downtown street scenester
Serge Pierre Callens
Painting - 57 x 76 x 0.2 cm Painting - 22.4 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
€650
Do you look for hope in other peoples eyes
Sava Harris
Painting - 90 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,585
Fumatore d'arte
Giorgio A.F. Valentini
Painting - 80 x 80 x 10 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 3.9 inch
€700
Overthink no.37
Marie-Chloé Duval
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
€1,680
1955 Joueur de BANJO Player
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 59 x 50 x 0.75 cm Painting - 23.2 x 19.7 x 0.3 inch
€5,950
Mythological composition
Spas Kirichev
Sculpture - 29 x 32 x 13 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 12.6 x 5.1 inch
€2,550
Portrait d'une jeune femme thaïlandaise
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 30 cm Photography - 23.6 x 11.8 inch
€800
Que de la bouche !
Nicolas Denigot
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
€2,400
L’adieu aux armes, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzanie
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
€600