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La mouette chef d'escadrille
Timothy Archer
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
€3,200
Bullfinch on a rowan branch
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 2 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.8 inch
€620
Unwanted Attention
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.3 inch
€725
Pausing on the Trail
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.3 inch
€725
Breaking The Surface
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.3 inch
€725
All the beautiful rides
Amy Bernays
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 1.5 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.6 inch
€630
Danse des flamants roses
Jean-Jacques Abieniste
Painting - 46 x 38 x 1.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.6 inch
€1,600
La quadrature du cercle
Georges Troubat
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,760
Fragole per tartaruga
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€156
Ours Polaire Lanceur
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 40 x 18 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.1 x 7.1 inch
€450
Perdre ciel et terre
Christos Kalfas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€5,000
Mastino napoletano
Angela Gomes
Sculpture - 110 x 30 x 35 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 11.8 x 13.8 inch
€8,500
La place au soleil
Jean-Pierre Lorand
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€670
Leone serie Segni Zodiacali
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
€280
Nidification et crépuscule
Timothy Archer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€3,500
Dalmatian Pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 50 x 32 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
€210
Common Kingfishers - Alcedo atthis
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€210
European Roller - Coracias garrulus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 50 x 37 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 14.6 x 0.1 inch
€210
Common crane - Grus grus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 70 x 47 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 18.5 x 0.1 inch
€270
Wolf - Canis lupus
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 32.5 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€210
Lesser Spotted Eagle - Clanga pomarina and Hooded Crow - Corvus cornix
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€210
White-tailed Eagle - Haliaeetus albicilla
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€210
Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€210
Black kite - Milvus migrans
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 32.5 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€210
European bee-eater - Merops apiaster
Bogdan Boev
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€210
Grâce de paon
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€240
The City Keeper / Le gardien de la ville
Katarina Olympia Zaraj
Painting - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€555 €500
Camouflage
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€500
Love rat (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€49
Black dog (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€49
Chronos et la lame du destin
Timothy Archer
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€5,900
Jeune Poséidon à la murène amoureuse
Timothy Archer
Painting - 125 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€5,900
Gir with Peacock
Artavazd Talalyan
Painting - 90 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Nurse and dog
Ray Smith
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0 inch
€1,100
Koi and butterflies
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
Koi fish and golden leaves
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
€5,000
Koi fish 2
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 90 x 150 x 0.3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
€5,000
Ijsbeer met jong op de kop
Evert den Hartog
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
€8,950
Dans la basse cour
Nathalie Montel
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,400
Beer met jong op rug
Evert den Hartog
Sculpture - 50 x 65 x 35 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 25.6 x 13.8 inch
€9,250
Animal farm fatal
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Painting - 55 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Bistiacephalus Heterosis 03
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Sculpture - 50 x 20 x 5 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 7.9 x 2 inch
€1,200
Songye Trophy Mask
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Sculpture - 27 x 17 x 5 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 6.7 x 2 inch
€1,200
Monkey angel (a tribute to Banksy)
Dr. Love
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€49
Diaphanous
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 99.8 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.3 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€3,818
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.