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Farmhouse with Chickens
Michael Hill
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,468
Panthére en métal recyclé
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 90 x 40 x 180 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 15.7 x 70.9 inch
€5,150
The Game of War and Peace: A Chess Match
Grace Diehl
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.7 inch
€979
My French Bulldog likes Campbell's soup
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€900
1026 Pomacanthus maculosus
Patrick Chevailler
Print - 75 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€400
Crocodile : rêve reptilien
Angelo Pioppo
Fine Art Drawings - 40.3 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€680
The musician and the bird
Liana Asatryan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€716 €609
Shark Spirit (Aqua Blue Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 14 x 10 x 8 cm Design - 5.5 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
€250
Franclisa
Gbemileke Blessing Adegboro
Painting - 91.9 x 91.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 1 inch
€1,718
P-omme (Paix - Homme)
Youngmi Kim
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
€1,800
Cloned Dachshund with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 39 x 67 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 26.4 x 7.9 inch
€7,000
Kong spirit (Pink Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 13 x 10 x 5 cm Design - 5.1 x 3.9 x 2 inch
€400
La couleur éclatante dans la lumière
Youngmi Kim
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Un air de printemps
Jean-Pierre Lorand
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Hippopotamus
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 43 x 70 x 25 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 27.6 x 9.8 inch
€16,418
Coral Sea Conservation Diving Adventure
Anthony Horth
Photography - 24 x 38 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 15 x 0 inch
€935
Cloned Bulldog with pet bottle
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 47 x 50 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.5 x 19.7 x 7.9 inch
€6,500
Column of dogs
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 100 x 55 x 60 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 21.7 x 23.6 inch
€32,000
Louise at the zoo, version 2
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 28 x 46 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11 x 18.1 x 6.7 inch
€5,800
Sans titre
Pinchas (Maryan) Burstein
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 10.6 x 0 inch
€1,500
Sans titre
Pinchas (Maryan) Burstein
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 10.6 x 0 inch
€1,500
Verónica
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€6,100
Toro de nimes
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
€9,600
Native Ambience II
Innocent Chikezie
Painting - 122 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.2 inch
€2,400
Dragon Spirit (Red Edition)
Richard Orlinski
Design - 10 x 23 x 9 cm Design - 3.9 x 9.1 x 3.5 inch
€480
Malanka / Le jour de Malanka
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 50 x 30 x 23 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 11.8 x 9.1 inch
€6,800
Red cloned poudel
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 102 x 50 x 50 cm Sculpture - 40.2 x 19.7 x 19.7 inch
€1,800
Balancing on the ice floe
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 78 x 24 x 19 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 9.4 x 7.5 inch
€7,200
Elephant jump !
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 69 x 44 x 40 cm Sculpture - 27.2 x 17.3 x 15.7 inch
€9,500
Surfing in the falklands
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 53 x 41 x 23 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 16.1 x 9.1 inch
€5,900
En Forêt de Hez - Laie et Marcassins
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 25 x 34 x 26 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 13.4 x 10.2 inch
€11,500
Big horn to horn
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 92 x 74 x 48 cm Sculpture - 36.2 x 29.1 x 18.9 inch
€32,000
Ma chatte est possessive !
Béatrice Terra
Painting - 92 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Collection BUTTERFY N°1249
Patrick Salamone
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
€2,450
And then she became an artist
Katrina Avotina
Painting - 40.9 x 51.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 16.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch
€750
Colonne de lionceaux
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 184 x 69 x 39 cm Sculpture - 72.4 x 27.2 x 15.4 inch
€54,000
De Bosse en Bosse
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 59 x 68 x 21 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 26.8 x 8.3 inch
€8,500
Bear in Kamchatka
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 49 x 20.5 x 18 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 8.1 x 7.1 inch
€5,900
Bear juggling fish
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 75 x 28 x 23 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 11 x 9.1 inch
€5,500
Drum Shaman Bear
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 48 x 32 x 24 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 12.6 x 9.4 inch
€5,200
Elephant in the garden
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 77 x 74 x 45 cm Sculpture - 30.3 x 29.1 x 17.7 inch
€16,000
From one Trunk to the Other
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 58 x 36 x 17 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 14.2 x 6.7 inch
€5,800
Two Bee Eaters on the Ground
Dondi Schwartz
Painting - 70 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,300
Colonializm Abstract
Dondi Schwartz
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€850
Wild kong rouge flamme
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 30 x 24 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 9.4 x 4.3 inch
€5,000
Monkey with Banana 2
Harita Asumani
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
€1,700
Les 4 cavaliers de l’apocalypse
Yohan Storti
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€300
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.