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Unique (African Allure) 4
Oluwafemi Akanmu
Painting - 81.3 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 inch
€2,014
Une tresse en or
Fatoumata Diabaté
Photography - 100 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Tiékoraba Féré
Fatoumata Diabaté
Photography - 100 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Monsieur le français
Fatoumata Diabaté
Photography - 100 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Le vieux sage
Fatoumata Diabaté
Photography - 100 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
L’astronaute
Fatoumata Diabaté
Photography - 100 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Fura Seri Baba
Fatoumata Diabaté
Photography - 100 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
A quoi m’attendre
Fatoumata Diabaté
Photography - 100 x 66 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
The Lullaby Of The New Moon
Delyafruz Bagirova
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Cloth Master in blue - Monochrome
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 20.5 x 12 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.1 x 4.7 x 0.2 inch
€527
Cloth Master in brown - Monochrome
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 20.5 x 12 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.1 x 4.7 x 0.2 inch
€527
Domestic yellows III
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 26 x 12 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 4.7 x 0.2 inch
€575
Domestic yellows II
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 26 x 14 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 5.5 x 0.2 inch
€575
Domestic yellows I
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 26.5 x 16.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10.4 x 6.5 x 0.2 inch
€575
Esercizio su les fleurs de iris di mucha
Davide Ricchetti
Painting - 56 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,200
Hands, The Sugar Project
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 49 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm Photography - 19.3 x 19 x 0.2 inch
€1,438
Portrait 09, The Sugar Project
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 30.5 x 39.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 12 x 15.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,151
Portrait 07, The Sugar Project
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 30.5 x 39.9 x 0.5 cm Photography - 12 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€1,151
Portrait 02, The Sugar Project
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 30.5 x 39.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 12 x 15.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,151
Portrait 01, The Sugar Project
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 30.5 x 39.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 12 x 15.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,151
Portrait 05, The Sugar Project
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 64.8 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm Photography - 25.5 x 19 x 0.2 inch
€1,774
SteveMcQueen #2
M_ Michael Mc Macfarney
Print - 70 x 90 x 0.3 cm Print - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
From the series Ecology of soul and nature III
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
From the series Ecology of soul and nature I
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,500
Bleasure 7 (The Invented Destiny)
Ajegbomogun Damilola
Painting - 121.9 x 106.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 42 x 1 inch
€3,116
La mélodie du colibris
Yutao Ge
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€3,200
Promenade dans l'espace
Yutao Ge
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€2,100
Bleasure 6 (The Converse Man)
Ajegbomogun Damilola
Painting - 152.4 x 152.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 inch
€4,315
Urban Tumult VI
Yoann Bonneville (YBA)
Painting - 130 x 195 x 6 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 2.4 inch
€6,300
Warhol andy 1930-1987 head Marilyn Monroe
Sebastian Riemer
Photography - 90 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
€7,200
Summer in La Baule VI - Sun Bathing LA french school artist basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
€450
Summer in La Baule V - LA french school artist basel
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
€450
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément
Virginie Clement
Painting - 50 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
€500 €450
Les fleurs ne me tueront pas
Arome
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,200
12 pains azyme 7 boules de cristal
Thibault Franc
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Anniversary - Contemporary self portrait
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.9 inch
€2,500
La Jeune fille de Korodouga
Amadou Opa Bathily
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
€3,200
My grandfather visits the Egyptian Room at the British Museum
Massoud Hayoun
Painting - 91 x 101 x 5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 39.8 x 2 inch
€5,000
Tertulia
Mayra AleJandra Lifischtz
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,694
No Windowsill
Maxime Cousineau Perusse
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.6 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.4 inch
€710
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!