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Bedtimes
Oeno
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 144 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 56.7 x 1 inch
€6,500
The elegant life of Mr H Paris 1967
Key Hiraga
Painting - 65 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
€35,000
Photographie intervenue 'Punctum'
Mirco Marcacci
Photography - 30 x 21 x 0.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
€300
What’s Kept Inside
Maisha De la Cruz
Painting - 123 x 214 x 1 cm Painting - 48.4 x 84.3 x 0.4 inch
€8,795
Liberation
Tatjana Rusakova
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 11 x 0 inch
€300
Woman
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€800
Shijunku99 - Beauty - #002 - Cerisier du Japon
Davis Y
Photography - 20 x 20 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€150
Nirvana
Isabel Miramontes
Sculpture - 30 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
Price upon request
Self Portraits 50 years I wish, I am, I will be
Erwin Olaf
Photography - 100 x 225 x 5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 88.6 x 2 inch
Price upon request
1248
Simon Berger
Painting - 100.3 x 100.3 x 10.2 cm Painting - 39.5 x 39.5 x 4 inch
Price upon request
Stick-around-ers
Ekene Stanley Emecheta
Painting - 149.9 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
XV 77 // XV Papua New Guinea (S)
Jimmy Nelson
Photography - 74 x 62 cm Photography - 29.13 x 24.41 inch
Price upon request
Aku Sika
Caleb Kwarteng Prah
Painting - 121.9 x 86.4 x 5 cm Painting - 48 x 34 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Samburu
Valerie Ducret
Sculpture - 40 x 20 x 19 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.9 x 7.5 inch
Price upon request
Untitled
Aron Kroes
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Lamwesley_love_redflower_with_goldhair
Isaac Ato Jackson
Print - 159 x 104 x 5 cm Print - 62.6 x 40.9 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Mind Flesh
Sabine Danzé
Painting - 120 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
Price upon request
Borga Cupa, from Portrait of a city. 1 Minute Instant
Caleb Kwarteng Prah
Photography - 100 x 89 x 5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 35 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Bianca
Sophie Westerlind
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
KL - Cat collar
Laurence Nolleau
Print - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Print - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
Glance Towards the Oblivion
Fathi Hassan
Photography - 76 x 50 cm Photography - 29.9 x 19.7 inch
Price upon request
Vers l'équilibre... : Villars-sur-Ollon (CH)
Saype
Photography - 124 x 116 x 1 cm Photography - 48.8 x 45.7 x 0.4 inch
Price upon request
We Owe Our Mind #1
Eko Nugroho
Fine Art Drawings - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
Price upon request
Le cœur de ma sœur
Camille Brès
Painting - 40 x 32 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Studio 7 (Alexandre)
Marius Pons de Vincent
Painting - 110 x 90 x 5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 2 inch
Price upon request
Violet Face
Isshaq Ismail
Painting - 152 x 127 x 10 cm Painting - 59.8 x 50 x 3.9 inch
Price upon request
Sun
Mariela Garibay
Sculpture - 35 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
Price upon request
Juliette
Salvador Ginard
Painting - 139 x 128 x 3 cm Painting - 54.7 x 50.4 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
David Pez green - Bronze
Jisbar
Sculpture - 40 x 12 x 13 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 4.7 x 5.1 inch
Price upon request
Anima Angeli
Sabine Danzé
Fine Art Drawings - 95 x 80 cm Fine Art Drawings - 37.4 x 31.5 inch
Price upon request
Hercule au repos
Eugène Delacroix
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 25 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
Personajes en fondo verde
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€2,460
Retrato en fondo rojo
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 152 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€3,042
Retrato en fondo blanco
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 152 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€3,042
Retrato en fondo negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 210 x 210 x 2 cm Painting - 82.7 x 82.7 x 0.8 inch
€7,237
Cuerpo escueto en fondo blanco cuadrado
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€864
Cuerpo escueto cuadrado
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€864
The beauty of dance XIII
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Retrato en fondo amarillo
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 152 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€3,027
Retrato en fondo azul
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 152 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 59.8 x 48 x 0.8 inch
€3,027
Serie Terra Retrato en fondo oro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 120 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€1,905
Persona YB2402
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
€1,850
Personajes en fondo anaranjado
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€361
Retrato en amarillos
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 190 x 190 x 2 cm Painting - 74.8 x 74.8 x 0.8 inch
€6,510
Serie brut
Jazzu
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€560
Personaje en fondo azul
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€361
Retrato en fondo verde
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€361
Walking on the beach
Serghei Ghetiu
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,200 €1,080
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!