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Le Lapin et son Territoire
Fabiana Peña
Painting - 130 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€950
Dermatoglifo Invadente
Vanessa Bonino
Sculpture - 88 x 66 x 48 cm Sculpture - 34.6 x 26 x 18.9 inch
€2,500
Lioness
Lenci Marino
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 36 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 14.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,200
Metamophosis. The Soul.
Ekaterina Shitova
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€500
The Horse
Esperia Gava
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€580
Catocala Burn (lightbox)
Bartek Stypka
Design - 70 x 50 x 11 cm Design - 27.6 x 19.7 x 4.3 inch
€2,000
Quantum space and donkey
Oleg Tkachenko
Painting - 29 x 41 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.4 x 16.1 x 0.2 inch
€800
Gorille Dos Argenté
Bernard Rebaudet
Sculpture - 24 x 30 x 35 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 11.8 x 13.8 inch
€7,900
Sans titre
Harald Wolff
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 51 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 20.1 x 1.2 inch
€850
Michael Kenna, Des oiseaux - Édition limitée
Michael Kenna
Print - 25.5 x 20 cm Print - 10 x 7.9 inch
€700
Sans titre
Serigne Ibrahima Dièye
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
€1,700
Raices de mis Sueños / Woodcarving Alebrije Mexican Folk Art Sculpture
Laura Michelle Fuentes Piña
Sculpture - 50 x 20 x 35 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 7.9 x 13.8 inch
€1,623
Cangrejo / Woodcarving Lacquer Mexican Folk Art
Juan Zeferino Rivera
Sculpture - 25 x 70 x 50 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 27.6 x 19.7 inch
€955
Awissa
Claudia van der Starre
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.5 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch
€3,975
Garden of Love
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Sculpture - 37 x 45 x 2 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
€490
Promenons-nous !
Loup Y-Es-Tu ? Little Chaperon
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€900
1979 Chevaux Horses
Chen Chin
Painting - 110 x 53 x 0.5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 20.9 x 0.2 inch
€7,500 €3,750
Cruella Devil and The Dalmatians
Max Pedreira
Painting - 80 x 52 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch
€1,200
Dans la brume
Clotilde Hulin-Quarez
Painting - 44 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 17.3 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
Little Owl (Athene noctua)
Ilia Boyarov
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 9.8 inch
Sold
Adam et Eve chassés du Paradis
Lionel Morateur
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€275
Toro pierre valiente 3/3
Palolo Valdes
Sculpture - 65 x 50 x 30 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 19.7 x 11.8 inch
€17,500
Wings of the Discovery
Fenqiang Liu Photography
Photography - 127 x 101.6 x 0.25 cm Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€1,150
Les gorilles de Perth
Carlos Acuña
Painting - 99 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 39 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Les chevaux de mes rêves galopent ... (métal)
Albena Vatcheva
Design - 76 x 76 x 0.16 cm Design - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
€5,000 €4,750
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
€1,280
Regards croisés, Trinidad, Cuba
Hervé FABRE
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Toro abstrait
Dominique Pouchain
Sculpture - 80 x 27 x 17 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 10.6 x 6.7 inch
€2,850
Untitled (Royal Officer 2)
Prince Obasi
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
€4,295
Volatiles
Korsé
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
The Crow
Helen Uter
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€500
Nature Morte aux Sardines
Constantin Terechkovitch
Painting - 39 x 47 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.4 x 18.5 x 0.2 inch
€1,067
La pouliche, Jasmine
Tony O Connor
Painting - 50 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
€1,850
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.