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Grues du Japon parade II
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 30 x 40 x 35 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 15.7 x 13.8 inch
€9,500
Charge de l’éléphant d'Afrique
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 23 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
€9,900
Envol du cygne
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 26 x 45 x 41 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 17.7 x 16.1 inch
€10,500
Grande baleine
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 45 x 40 x 25 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 15.7 x 9.8 inch
€10,500
Grande panthere noire
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 15 x 45 x 15 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 17.7 x 5.9 inch
€7,500
Sterne qui plonge
Jean Lemonnier
Sculpture - 39 x 65 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 25.6 x 7.9 inch
€4,800
Se mettre au vert
Elodie Dengreville
Sculpture - 22 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
€600
Hecatomb of the bulls V
Roberto Matta
Print - 50 x 65 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
€2,897
Paris, Triomphe du vivant
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€150
Paris, Pont Alexandre-III
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€150
Sacred Forest I
Fernando Alday
Fine Art Drawings - 81 x 130 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.9 x 51.2 inch
€3,100
Grand Ours Polaire
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 22 x 42 x 14 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 16.5 x 5.5 inch
€8,900
Minotaure aux tétines
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
€420
Copper Panther
Steve Chaudanson
Sculpture - 102.9 x 230 x 62.5 cm Sculpture - 40.5 x 90.6 x 24.6 inch
€52,000
Young, I lived in a little little house
Micowel
Painting - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
King slayer giant
Jorn Van Hoorn
Sculpture - 40 x 50 x 90 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 19.7 x 35.4 inch
€12,500
S. Spiridione Protettore Dei Ladri
Albert Joseph Januarius Di Décarli
Painting - 19.5 x 63 x 1 cm Painting - 7.7 x 24.8 x 0.4 inch
€595
The Blue Sky Above
Christopher Rainham
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,304
Pélican au grand bec
Jean Amiel
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 5.9 inch
€2,250
The Woman with the Gulls
Alain Le Chapelier
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€780
Papillons Printanier
Christian Jodin
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€299 €210
Le poisson et l'oiseau rouge
Thierry Rouxel
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€400
L'échapée sauvage
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Princesse de la jungle
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,200
Viva la vida No.11
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 40.1 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€270
Crow and key of heaven
Dervis Akdemir
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
€485
Spirale de Fibonacci 9
Lillia Baudo
Painting - 92 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,250
Odieuse créature
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€650
Koomote three: Koi attack
Taira Akiko Hiraguri
Painting - 41 x 41 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 inch
€1,550
Un peu plus près du paradis
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€2,700
Eiko La Crécerelle
Virginie Chardon
Sculpture - 43 x 36 x 24 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 14.2 x 9.4 inch
€6,100
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.