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JoŸau 43 Original n°3/8
Sébastien Langloÿs
Sculpture - 4 x 4 x 7 cm Sculpture - 1.6 x 1.6 x 2.8 inch
$438
Untitled.22, From Paranoia series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 69.9 x 100.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.5 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,200
Untitled.17, From Paranoia series
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 88.9 x 127 x 0.3 cm Photography - 35 x 50 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
L'ascension du Mont Anna par la face Est
J.Léo
Photography - 90.01 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$2,805
Don't Tell Mamma #11
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$5,250
Don't Tell Mamma #8
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 88.9 x 88.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 35 x 35 x 0.1 inch
$5,250
Unione, Selfportrait
Chiara Mazzocchi
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$555
Bather
James Shipton
Fine Art Drawings - 59.4 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$229
A Feeling Called Love
Tinatin Bakhtadze
Painting - 125 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
$6,507
Different Shades of Human 2
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 160 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$6,731
Figure summary 2, 1979 DESTOCKAGE
Paolo Ambrosio
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$112
Model, 1975
Paolo Ambrosio
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$168
Reclined Nude
Antonio Feltrinelli
Painting - 100 x 170 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 66.9 x 0.4 inch
$14,585 $13,126
Nuit Fauve, Champagne et Playlist #2
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$729
Reclining Nude in Three Colours 1
Michael Alford
Painting - 50.8 x 76.2 cm Painting - 20 x 30 inch
$4,500
2023-1109 / Visages et corps expressionnistes - série rouge et noir
Marion Casters
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
2023-1116 / Visages et corps expressionnistes - série rouge et noir
Marion Casters
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
2023-1111 / Visages et corps expressionnistes - série rouge et noir
Marion Casters
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
Black beauty II
Léa Bon
Photography - 48 x 72.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18.9 x 28.59 x 0.1 inch
$6,000
Oil of sexuality
Léa Bon
Photography - 30 x 19.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.8 x 0.1 inch
$8,000
Eros und Thanatos
William Mountgoaten
Painting - 190 x 240 x 5 cm Painting - 74.8 x 94.5 x 2 inch
$11,780
La mer 24
Richard Pommier
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inch
$213
End of the Market III
Jesus Torio
Photography - 118.9 x 83.79 x 0.2 cm Photography - 46.8 x 33 x 0.1 inch
$2,468
End of the Market II
Jesus Torio
Photography - 118.9 x 83.79 x 0.2 cm Photography - 46.8 x 33 x 0.1 inch
$2,468
Model study, after Laure Albin Guillot - 25-08-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Corné Akkers
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 24.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.5 x 0.1 inch
$329
Nu de la mer
Lucien Clergue
Photography - 59.5 x 49.4 x 1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 19.4 x 0.4 inch
$6,507
Marchez sur la tête c'est très bon pour la santé
Lionel Sourisseau
Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$898
N°22018 Hommes-Taureaux XXX
Capton
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$4,375
N°22008 L’emprise Hommes - Taureaux XXVII
Capton
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$2,805
Bras croisés blanc A
Etienne Gros
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,141
La musique de Mon Âme
Mercedes Aparicio
Painting - 160 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 63 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$15,594
Jason and Robin, Camber Sands
Richard Dunkley
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 inch
$458
Rising sun, kingdom of lead
Melinda Matyas
Painting - 91 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$7,292
Don't Tell Mamma #16
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Don't Tell Mamma #15
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Don't Tell Mamma #14
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Don't Tell Mamma #13
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Don't Tell Mamma #12
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 95.3 x 64.8 x 3.8 cm Photography - 37.5 x 25.5 x 1.5 inch
$4,000
Don't Tell Mamma #9
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
Invacuo Project #28
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 81.3 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$4,900
Invacuo Project #27
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 81.3 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$4,900
Invacuo Project #25
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 81.3 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$4,900
Invacuo Project #24
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 81.3 x 119.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 47 x 0.1 inch
$4,900
Self Touches #10
Koray Erkaya
Photography - 119.4 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$4,900
Singularity - Un Anonyme Nu Dans Le Salon
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,805
Meditation in the heart of nature
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$539
The Boomer Collection - HB2969
Idan Wizen
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,805
Wrapped series untitled #33
Robert Mack
Photography - 106.7 x 71.1 x 2.5 cm Photography - 42 x 28 x 1 inch
$6,000
Do you like what you see?
Claudia Benavente
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,693
Human body
'I wanted to conquer the world. But I also desperately wanted to understand human nature, and to know what was inside our bodies. To do this, I have spent whole night dissecting bodies, against the direct orders of the Pope. Nothing disgusts me. What I am looking for, truly, in all of my work and particularly in my painting, what I have looked for all my life, is to understand the mystery that is human nature' – from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century.
At the time of writing these notes, da Vinci had already made greater understanding of the human body the primary objective of his investigations. Dissection and study were key to his development of a holistic knowledge of anatomy, which da Vinci believed was vital to the perfect rendering of the nude figures which he painted and drew.
Little by little, the traditional image of the human figure was uprooted and in its place new ways of interpreting the body developed. Contemporary artists relentlessly questioned the traditional codes of figure drawing, liberally reworking the representation of the body to create a new image that was dislocated, geometric, deformed and disfigured.
The body as an artistic subject is at once desired, fantasised, dreamt, transformed, deformed. For painters, photographers and sculptors alike the body represents a rite of passage in their artistic development. Many people say that they most appreciate the talents of an artists by way of their control over the complexity of the figure. For example, it's clear even in Matisse's later, more abstract collages that he had perfectly mastered the human form.
Representation of the body is fundamental to Western art: first and foremost because it suggests a representation of the self, and therefore affirms the artist's own existence and coexistence with the environment that surrounds them. At the beginning of art history, the only bodies represented were the gods, supernatural beings, and spirits who had taken on human form. The body, nude or clothed, is at once one of the most widely depicted and most deeply polemical subjects in Western art (think of the scandals provoked by Courbet's 'Origins of the World', or Renoir's 'Picnic on the Grass').
The body has always been the primary subject of an array of themes, and its history is rich and ancient. Initially, depiction of the body was closely linked to religion, where the Word became flesh in Genesis, but later in more secular times the arousal of the artist when faced with the body made for an equally popular theme. Latterly the notion of the body as an object of beauty was subverted by Cubism until depictions of bodies no longer bore any resemblance to reality or made any pretence of respecting the rules of proportion.
Finally, in modern art the body has taken on an abstract shape within space, becoming one with the environment. In some instances, the body has become the artist's own support, as with Klein's models. The body as an abstract concept is tangible in many different manifestations in art, even in pieces as unassuming as some of Rothko's paintings. It remains the subject of inexhaustible inspiration and eternal debate.