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!
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Gainsbourg et Jane
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,000
Panic attack
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 24 x 18 x 0.2 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
€390 €351
Confidence
Anna Camille
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 25 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
€560 €532
Michel Desjoyeaux
Christophe Paucelier
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€770
Vieux Soldat Blessé
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 58 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
€8,000
Le jeune prince à Venise
Dominique Andrier
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
Waiting for the rain in Wamba
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,911
Portrait of An Introvert - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Food, Children
Olaosun Oluwapelumi
Painting - 91.4 x 119.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 47 x 1 inch
€2,594
Lady Mariposa
Mariana Gumeniuc
Painting - 91 x 71 x 1.5 cm Painting - 35.8 x 28 x 0.6 inch
€2,343 €1,991
Afar woman of Assaita
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,695
Chérubin Enfant au corail 1991 Cherub Child and Coral
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 28 x 19 x 0.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.5 x 0.2 inch
€990 €693
Le vieux soldat
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 55 x 29 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 11.4 x 7.9 inch
€8,200
Art urbain partagé
Muriel Deumie
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
€2,000
Charming Oddities
Anahit Mirijanyan
Painting - 80 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€455
1963 THE KISS Paris Tour Eiffel
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 57.75 x 48 x 0.5 cm Painting - 22.7 x 18.9 x 0.2 inch
€3,450 €1,725
1962 Parisiennes Confidences Parisians
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€4,950 €2,475
Girl in butterflies
Fred Meurice
Sculpture - 110 x 110 x 3 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
€4,369 €4,151
The King of Pop: A Surreal Tribute
Artush Voskanyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€9,102 €7,282
Duality
Alexandre de Poplavsky
Painting - 160 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 63 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
€28,000
Le temps des cerises 2/8
Alberto Ascaso
Sculpture - 52 x 21 x 12 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 8.3 x 4.7 inch
€5,500
Sotigui Kouyaté
Bernard Pras
Photography - 106 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 41.7 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,000
Like Basquiat in the Midst
Adewuyi Theophilus
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
Sold
Agbeke Spotted Again
Adewuyi Theophilus
Painting - 124.5 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 49 x 36 x 1 inch
Sold
Autoportrait aviaire
Hatem Akrout
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
Reciprocity
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
€950
Reciprocity2
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
At the edge of the Jade Sea
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,171 €1,054
1987 La femme et le pantin The woman and the Puppet
Bernard Di Sciullo
Painting - 110 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€3,500 €1,750
Félix VALLOTTON (1865-1925) Joueur de Guitare Guitar player
Eugène Druet
Photography - 54 x 43 x 0.5 cm Photography - 21.3 x 16.9 x 0.2 inch
€946 €473
Félix VALLOTTON (1865-1925) Lecture Reading
Eugène Druet
Photography - 43 x 54 x 0.5 cm Photography - 16.9 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
€1,450 €725
1915 BRIGITTE au foulard
Eugène Druet
Photography - 54 x 43 cm Photography - 21.3 x 16.9 inch
€1,450 €725
Fontaine de Jouvence III
Patricia Dubois
Painting - 113 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 44.5 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
€3,644 €3,280
Shadows in Motion
Harutyun Aghajanyan
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€255
Woman of the Earth
Gillian Brett
Sculpture - 34 x 22 x 34 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 8.7 x 13.4 inch
€1,849
