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Petit faucon
Madeleine Van der Knoop
Sculpture - 27 x 46 x 27 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 18.1 x 10.6 inch
€3,900
Der Schauspieler / L'acteur
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
€650
Mr Chat orange
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 100 x 50 x 6 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 19.7 x 2.4 inch
€4,500
Nature Frame
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€950
Wings of Life
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 66.04 x 99.06 x 0.25 cm Photography - 26 x 39 x 0.1 inch
€800
Les méduses de Manhattan
Carlos Acuña
Painting - 98 x 125 x 2 cm Painting - 38.6 x 49.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Le Petit Prince et le serpent
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Print - 50 x 40 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
€250
Stories Scheherazade Certified IV
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€190
Paris, Louvre Passage Richelieu
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€180
Bird
Martin Bradley
Fine Art Drawings - 75 x 57 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 22.4 x 0.1 inch
€3,200
Piaf caméléon, collection Toulouse
Valerie Marty
Sculpture - 18 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
€290
Carlin
Jean-Michel Pradel-Fraysse
Sculpture - 35 x 49 x 25 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 19.3 x 9.8 inch
€9,500
A King in his forest 03, Yvelines
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€500
An air of pink 03, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
€500
Seagull in White Sky - limited edition of 10
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
€899
L'étalon Coral
Frédéric Schmied
Fine Art Drawings - 48.8 x 42.3 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.2 x 16.7 x 0.1 inch
€960
Cheval
Frédéric Schmied
Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 33 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.9 x 13 x 0.1 inch
€800
Bataille
Frédéric Schmied
Fine Art Drawings - 42.2 x 25.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.6 x 10.1 x 0.1 inch
€853
Guspirus in the green
Vanessa Linares
Painting - 90 x 116 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 45.7 x 1.4 inch
€1,320
Monkey trouble
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€4,250
Fragment orang-outan
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 52 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
€16,000
Fragment de Panthère noire
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 45 x 20 x 33 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 7.9 x 13 inch
€13,500
Poisson Globe
Florence Jacquesson
Sculpture - 36 x 20 x 30 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 7.9 x 11.8 inch
€9,300
Disparition du lion
Sophie Larroche
Sculpture - 44 x 27 x 13 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 10.6 x 5.1 inch
€3,900
Pale clouded yellow (Colias hyale)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€390
Bright eyed ringlet (Erebia oeme)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€330
Large ringlet (Erebia euryale)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€330
Bulgarian ringlet (Erebia orientalis)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€330
Arran brown (Erebia ligea)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€330
Marsh fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€350
Smoke on the water
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€1,360
Un soir ... le minotaure
Clara Crespin
Painting - 162 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
€4,700
Not a balloon dog
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,500
Animal
Animals are often featured in news, sometimes in heartwarming tales of human and animal companionship and other times in heartbreaking stories of illegal trade and endangered species. Animals are even present in social sciences, especially thank to ethology (behavioural sciences of animals in their natural habitat). They have fascinated philosophers from Antiquity all the way through to today and they are even present in the medical realm, as the benefits of animal-assisted therapies have been scientifically proven.
The relationship between humans and animals is also taken into account in the politics, most notably when debating topics related to ecology, the protection of ecosystems and sustainable development. Thus, animals might be seen as a crucial indicator of humanity's concerns.
As well in these many sectors, animals are also very much present in the arts. A number of art museums have decided exhibitions to animals including the Cluny Museum in Paris and MoMA PS1 in New York. Whether simply a humble spectator in an 18th century painting or the central subject of a Courbet painting, animals are present throughout the history of art. From symbolic, to esthetic, to abstract, to animal drawings meant to simply record their appearance...all these representations have played a role in influencing artists and also how we characterise and think of individual animals.
Each civilisation has represented the animal on multiples supports (mosaics, metal, stone, bones, etc.) as seen on the Nerja cave wall paintings in Andalusia discovered in 1925. Animal iconography has had multiple purposes, varying according to the era and place. Bats, for example, are often used to represent death, fear or superstition in Western art, whereas the Chinese see them as a sign of happiness. The omnipresence of animals within cultures across the globe is probably down to the similarities between men and animal, a source of both fascination and fear.
In this selection, Artsper helps you to discover the beauty of the animal kingdom, its diversity, strength and fragility. Artists depict animals in a huge range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photographs, and drawings. Contemporary artists bring an original and poetic vision to their representations of the animals with whom we share our world.